close reading 3

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/11/05/my-prediction-obama-will-and-should-win-on-election-day/

This article is definitely taking the side that Obama should win. There are lots of details about how Obama the statistics say he will like how "The electoral vote margin will likely be 281 for Obama and 257 for Romney." The author of the article has a tone that suggests he also wants Obama to win. Not only does he try to get most readers to like Obama he gives plenty of reasons why we should not like Romney. By giving us the imaged that Romney had no “strength of character.” 

Prompt

1971. The significance of a title such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is so easy to discover. However, in other works (for example, Measure for Measure) the full significance of the title becomes apparent to the reader only gradually. Choose two works and show how the significance of their respective titles is developed through the authors' use of devices such as contrast, repetition, allusion, and point of view.

The Hunger Games by  Collins has a title that hints at the main plot of the whole book. The title also includes a major theme in the book that is referred to often.

One of the plot points the title is the hunger games which Katniss is sent to in place of her sister. the Hunger games is a game set up by president Snow. The title also brings out another aspect of the hunger games. The games are called the hunger games but you see that the games are more of a game then just staying alive. We see this when Katniss tricks the game maker into letting both her and Peeta be the winners. She does by having her and Peeta almost eat berries that will kill them.

The title also has significance in a common theme, hunger. Throughout all the districts this is a theme when we see that there is never enough food to go around. Also there is a deprivation of food because it is all being sent to the capital and the people in the capital are all fat and have access to as much food as they want. The significance is also shown when we see that Katniss' father has died and she is forced to break the law to make sure her family doesn't die from starvation.

response to course material #3

So far in class we have watched the Death of a Salesman and I think I liked watching the movie better then reading through the book because it gave me a visual that i can fall back on. The overall book though is a little confusing and I'm not sure that if in the end Willy kills himself on purpose. He talks about being more useful dead then alive so he might be talking about his insurance and how if he died the family would get the money. But in the end he seemed so excited that they were all going to be successful and he was talking about going down to Boston so then maybe he didn't kill himself on purpose? But over all the whole thing was really confusing to me I'm going to have to read it a few more times to be sure about anything in the book. When mrs. Holmes first talked about reading books more then once i thought 'you've got to be kidding' but now I get that its actually really helpful and so far the things we have read in class I don't mind reading again.

Going over other peoples Blogs is kind of fun. II enjoy reading other peoples opinions about whats going on in class. And its nice to know someone is reading my blog and I'm not just doing it for the grade. But it can be a little embarrassing to have a classmate point out your mistakes and critique you though it is helpful.

We also did an in class writing thing. And that was... well an experience. Its hard to say were I stand as far as if I'm ready for that but i think i did okay. And the Century Quilt was not as hard to decipher as I thought it would be. But I think that with more practice and a LOT of help I might be about to do what Mrs. Holmes say we should be able to do.

Emily Mackson