Literature Analysis: Catcher in the Rye

Collaboration with Lindsey!  

Look at her blog for the even #'s!!!

MY TEAM

I am looking to my table for the most guidance on my project (Allyson, Melissa, Miki, & Rebecca).  Kendall will also be joining our project on body image so she will be another team mate.  They all are really positive people and present different points of view that will help in this process.
Some inspiration:
How the Media Failed Women in 2013
The Never Ending Pursuit
Cameron Russell TED TALK

LAUNCH

Well... I have been thinking a lot about my project on positive body image and just positivity in general.    I am collaborating with Rebecca on this project and we have already started on it actually...  But our project is semi-secretive and I don't really want to give away anything because we are looking to take up a whole class period...
Although this was my topic last year, I look to expand on the subject enough to fill the class period, and with Rebecca's help, I think we can do an amazing job.  I will hold more in depth interviews with a wider variety of people with Rebecca.  We will look up statistics on this topic as well as possibly contacting people of help.  Youtube holds some inspirational speeches we will take from and adapt to much like the Calvin Terrell activities Rebecca participated in.  We will also find ways that we can make a difference in our own community.
Our presentation will involve some videos we made, activities with the class, and most likely a power point with pictures.
This topic means a lot to me because I think everyone struggles with this and deserves to be able to call themselves beautiful.  I personally have been bullied about this my entire life and I understand how hard this topic is.  Nobody really wants to put it out there and say they struggle with positive body image but I want to talk about it and if it helps just one person then I would say it was worth it.

I JURY

I went through and read a lot of great essays.  I feel like we should take this as a learning experience and rewrite all of our essays when we finish the novel as a class in order to add to them fully.  Then we can repeat the process and build upon our writing.  Here are all the comments I made too!...

BRAVE NEW ESSAY

This is a prompt I found from Allyson!  I thought that I could write the best essay off of this prompt.

Here is one of the AP essay topics from 2012 that could apply to the first few chapters ofBrave New World:

"And after all, our surroundings influence our lives and characters as much as fate, destiny, or any supernatural agency."

- Pauline Hopkins, Contending Forces

Choose a novel or play in which cultural, physical, or geographical surroundings shape psychological or moral traits in a character. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how surroundings affect this character and illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole.  Do not merely summarize the plot.

A Little Motivation

I AM HERE

I have really hit a wall this semester.... Well mentally that is.  I haven't felt as peppy as I have normally and it could be due to some things in my personal life where I am just drained as it is.  For the most part, I am keeping up my work and then some on my senior project.  I really am passionate about positive body image/ attitudes/ lifestyles.  I am very excited to start putting everything together!  I still love to read and am making sure, above all, I keep up in my reading.  I will try to step up my game in this class as well as other endeavors I have and my art class, which I am falling behind in due to lack of inspiration as well.  I hope to gain inspiration sooner than later.

WELCOME TO THE INTERDISCIPLINARITY

For my project on positive outlooks on body image and life, I have to look into a wide variety of subjects.  I will see psychological studies on how people perceive advertisements in the media as well as disorders that can come along with that.  I also will have to look back through history to see how our ads have changed or how they have stayed the same in order to become more effective.  History will also give me a look at how society has changed in response to advertisements.  Geographic location also plays a role in what "beauty is."  An American's view of beauty is most likely different from someone in China or Africa.  In order to see the changes, I will have to also understand digital media and 3D design in order to see what makes a specific body or ad more appealing.  Photoshop plays a major role in our society now so I will also look at that to see how we have a false pretense of beauty.

Resources For My Project

Facts and statistics from:

•  University of Washington
• Health and Wellness
• About Face

HAFTA/WANA

The differences between my life before and during college range differently.  Once you get out of high school you are automatically assumed that you need to know what you are going to do for the rest of your life... but lets be realistic.  Nobody truly knows when they are a senior in high school.  Once you are out of high school however, people think you have your life together if you are going to school. You are respected so much more out of high school just based upon the sheer phrase "I am a college student." vs.  "I am a high school student."
My friends will change because most of them aren't staying in the area and I am going to have to venture out of my comfort zone to hang out with new people compared to the set group I have now.

The Nose

1.  Ivan Yakovlevich is a barber.
2.  Ivan finds a nose in a loaf of bread.
3.  His wife thinks he is a murderer who cut off a man's nose.
4.  Ivan sets out to "lose" the nose.
5.  Ivan becomes happy when he throws the nose into the river because he feels like he got away with whatever he could have possibly done.  He doesn't even know what he did but he feels like the guilt of whatever it may be has been washed away.
6.  The nose belongs to Kovaloff, a major.  He had to advertise for his lost nose in order to get it back.

Lit Terms 5

Parallelism: when a writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length

“King Alfred tried to make the law clear, precise, and equitable.”

Parody: imitates the serious manner and characteristic features of a particular literary work in order to make fun of those with the same features, a spoof

A caricature is parody of someone’s appearance.

Pathos: the writer or speaker’s attempt to inspire an emotional reaction in an audience, usually a deep feeling of suffering, but sometimes joy, pride, anger, humor, patriotism, or any of a dozen other emotions.

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honorable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal. – Harper Lee (TKM)

Pedantry: attention to details?

Personification: abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions

“Sylvan historian (an urn) who canst thus express/ A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme.” –Keat

Plot: the structure and relationship of actions and events of work of fiction

The plot is what makes the story of a piece interesting, without it, it would be like Waiting For Godot.

Poignant: affecting or moving the emotions?

point of view: a position from which something is observed or considered

My point of view differs from another person’s because I grew up differently.

Postmodernism: interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually… trauma with WWII

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

Prose: the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse

Any novel that doesn’t contain poetry is written in prose.

Protagonist: leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work

Holden is the protagonist of Catcher in the Rye.

Pun: humorous use of a word of phrase so as to emphasize of suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words

If you don’t pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.

Purpose: intended or desired result

The purpose of writing lies within the author’s intentions.

Realism: a manner or treating subject matter that presents a careful description of everyday life, usually of the lower and middle classes… reflects life as it is.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered realism.

Refrain: a line or set of lines at the end of a stanza or section of a longer poem or song—these lines repeat at regular intervals in other stanzas or sections of the same work

“Nevermore” in Poe’s “The Raven”

requiem: ?

Resolution: the outcome or result of a complex situation or sequence of events, at the final stages of the plot

The resolution of Kite Runner is when Amir finally connects with Sorhab.

Restatement:

Rhetoric: the art of persuasive argument through writing or speech

Rhetoric is used in speeches to make them more powerful.

rhetorical question: a question which has an obvious answer which you don’t need to state or answer

Looking at your test scores, did you guys even study?

rising action: the stage before the climax, when tensions are rising and the plot thickens

The rising action is the build up before the climax.

Romanticism: artistic philosophy 1800-1830, rejected the philosophy of the Enlightenment and emphasizes the unique nature of the individual, emotion, and natural passions

John Keats is a major romanticism poet.

Satire: an attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor or a critique of what the author sees as dangerous religious, political, moral, or social standards.

South Park satires everything in the world.

Scansion: the act of scanning a poem to determine its meter.

Students use scansion by breaking down it’s lines.

Setting: the time, place, and circumstances of a story

The setting of Great Gatsby is in New York in the 1920s.