poem

To be honest, my favorite part in this class was about ‘Poem’.
So, I write one.

Reconsider

It is tough
A College life
Didn’t feel safe
Rather felt rough

I am
Slipping in the rain
Sinking in the drain
Thinking I’m insane

I feel like
Bike out of gear
Cat out of fear
Dog out of ear

But I make
Out of a cave
Thoughts out of brain
Best out of year


Hope it makes sense. I thought about this long time ago, around very beginning of the class but didn’t put it together until today.
And I am happy normal boy with a lot of friends. So don’t worry.

Epiphany

In the Story, Eveline is a young teenage girl who falls in love with guy named Frank. However, she is taking responsibility of other siblings because her mother passed away. So, she is like mother in her family.
She has a great dilemma which is staying with her family, keep taking motherly role for siblings, and live as she is. Or she can run away with her lover Frank so that she will have new life. Through out the whole story, she is most likely thinking about running away and has a new life. But her epiphany strikes her.
Her Epiphany was, even if she ran away with Frank. She will not be happy as she is now. And because she found out the fact that she can’t run away with Frank, she got stressed out. However, it kind of seems like she is forced to stay with her family, but she stayed because of her epiphany.

optional blog

I choose Bianca for analyzing one of the characters in Taming of the Shrew. Like Baptista, also Bianca is a flat and static character. sHe doesn’t really chang over time or have huge impact on the story line. However, because of Bianca, Katharina gets to married with Petruchio since Baptista was paying a lot of money for Petruchio. I think her name symbolizes typical cute pretty girl. It sounds like it. However, even thou she seems really passive; she also has active site when she was kind of deciding secretly with three guys for marriage. At this time, rather than follow her fathers will, she was actually secretly dating with him. However, in here I think Shakespeare criticizing marriage culture in his society (getting married with out love but forced by parents) by Bianca.

stage setting

time line of the play:
marriage of petruchio and katharina

stage setting:
since there were no curtain or special effects back then, keep the stage clear and vague for
lot of situations.

as scene starts
calm music starts too

In the back(inner part, not off of stage) of stage many people are just chatting and talking each other. No one really say something out loud. Most of them wearing fine clothing
Baptista and Katharina stands on outer part. They speak their dialogues out loud so that audience can clearly hear rather than murmuring sound of the crowd.

new music, louder, little bit cacophonic, and restless
petruchio enters, crowd surprised, making louder noises. And petrushio goes toward outter stage. he dressed in worst clothing of all people. However, since it is a stage play, two people acting as horse(like puppets).
Katahrina and Baptista surprised.
They talk louder than crowds.

However, they getting married.
crowd chanting
new music, bit slower and more calm.

lights off, everyone move out as quickly as they can.

and new stage starts.

Taming of the shrew homework

I choose Baptista for analyzing one of the characters in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Baptista is a flat and static character. He doesn’t really changed or have huge impact on the story. However, he is the father of the two main female characters and he made story go forward (another word, he made story flows) by setting the rule that Katharina must get married before Bianca. He doesn’t really have any secrets or doesn’t provide any information that other characters may not know. However, he is rich.
His name is significant because I think he symbolizes old conservative church at Shakespeare time. Well, I think also Shakespeare wants to slightly criticize church through Baptista. He is conservative in a way that makes Katharina get married before Bianca. And also he tried to convince other people to marry Katharina by money other than try to change Katharina’s behavior. And I think this is related to church selling indulgence to heaven for money rather than truly work on religion like what church suppose to do.

Sympathy for Gregor....? WHY ?

When I First read the story, I thought Kafka was too mean to Gregor. And actually I felt sorry for Gregor. I had a lot of sympathy until I really read and started to think about the novel and trying to find Kafka's hidden message or something. After reading Metamorphosis more carefully and after actually thinking about what I just read, I got to the point that I don't have to fell sorry about Gregor. this tragic ending occurred because Gregor asked for it. In my opinion, Gregor symbolizes the people with extreme individualism. Gregor didn't even communicate with his family. Always locks the door when he is in his room, not even house. And I think Gregor's metamorphosis from human being to bug symbolizes how extreme individualist (Gregor) lost very primitive ability of human being which is communication and socializing so that Gregor is not even human being any more. After I got this thought and conclusion in my mind, I lost sympathy for Gregor and I think he was asking for his death. At least at the last moment he regretted how he acted to his family. Well... in that part, it was a very little, very very little bit of a sad moment.

"Not" just a story about a person turned into HUGE big.

For this entry, mine is about how Metamorphosis is not just a simple novel, story about man turning into huge bug. It is so complex and well written novel that has so much to study about and therefore it has been analyzed for almost hundred years.

Kafka’s Die Verwandlung, or The Metamorphosis, has sparked much critical interest during the past century because it is indefinable, complex and undeniably unique.
First Considered that metamophosis as simple story. nothing much to think about.
But Kafka's The Metamorphosis strikes me and I say this not only because the adult life into which you are entering will inevitably have its kafkaesque moments. Rather, with its exploration of identity, of belonging and exclusion, of tolerance and intolerance, The Metamorphosis raises many questions for people
Yet, the supernatural occurrences of the story are not uncommon in fiction. Tales of magical forces and unexplainable phenomena permeate the literary tradition of every culture, and Kafka continues and contributes to that practice. His unique combination of magic and mundanity seems to be responsible for the awe-filled reactions that the story inspires, for we are familiar with magical tales themselves.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is Packed with symbolism, allusions and analogies The Metamorphosis has been interpreted in numerous ways. Although many interpretations of the story exist, as the title implies, the main theme of the story is that of a change and transformation: the transformation of the protagonist, his sister, his dad, his whole family structure and their attitudes toward him. However, Gregor and his family are not alone in their transformation - Gregor’s room changes as well. The changes in Gregor’s room echo his physical and mental deterioration because the room is analogous to Gregor’s state of being.
Important to see Kafka in context of the artistic and intellectual ferment going on around him
-Metamorphosis uses this idea to a certain extent.Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)PsychoanalysisOedipus ComplexUnconsciousDreamsFreud provided a method for expressing the “interior”
This may explain why something about The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is one of the most analyzed literary pieces of the 20th century.