ENG (02/27/08) Post B
The Book of Lost Things...
...by John Connolly
Dear Rose,
Congratulations, for having your first child, and I hope for your happiness in your marriage. It must have been hard for you to live with David, who still can't forget her mom, and tries to do things that would hurt your heart. I don't know what to say, especially I've never been a mom before (laugh). But then I would like to say, from the point of a child like David, that what adults think are wron most of the time, especially about children. As I grow up, I try to remember as many things as possible about me and my childhood, so that when I become an adult I would be able to think and understand other childrens' mind too.
David lost his mother and there is no one for him. His father, who calls himself a busy man, never really tries to listen to him, or understand what is going on in his son's mind. One of ways which he shows his indifference for David is the marriage, Rose. The marriage with you, and the appearance of a new brother, Georgie, are a lot for David, who just lost his mother and probably needs more time than that. That was something that all of us should keep in mind that we are too underestimating the emotional depth of children. That sometimes feel few times more than what we feel... probably hurt more too.
I've once hurt myself too, when I was younger than now, and I couldn't express my feelings to anyone because few of many people never understood me. Few of many. It doesn't take much people to set a standard in one child's mind. They are that young and inexperienced that when they experiece sadness, they'll never do such thing to make them sad again. David, whom I believe had been hurt by his father, and presence of you, Rose, is now closing his gate of mind.
When he cries, he will cry no more out loud. He will do it only in his world. There is nothing Rose, for you to fix this situation. Maybe listen to him more. I think when you talked about your Uncle, who dissapeared in a young age, was actaully good talk with David. David will open his mind hopefully, and you too, Rose, will be able to know children more through dealing with David.
Tina
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
ENG (02/27/08) Post A
ENG (02/27/08) Post A
The Book of Lost Things...
...by John Connolly
Posting A
2 vacabulary words:
squadrons (p.45):
-noun.
A naval unit consisting of two or more divisions of a fleet.
An armored cavalry unit subordinate to a regiment and consisting of two or more troops.
A cavalry or armored unit of a European army, corresponding to a company.
A basic tactical air force unit, subordinate to a group and consisting of two or more flights.
A multitude or horde: "Squadrons of flies like particles of dust danced up and down" (T.E. Lawrence).
bicker (p.47):
–verb (used without object)
1.to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
2.to run rapidly; move quickly; rush; hurry: a stream bickering down the valley.
3.to flicker; glitter: The sun bickered through the trees. –noun
4.an angry, petty dispute or quarrel; contention.
3 examples of figurative langues
Simle: It looked like an empty swimming pool, with a set of four stone steps leadin gdown to a rectangel of gren, bordered by a flagstoned pathway. (p.36)
Irony: My grandfather tried to take his books away, his nightmares were so bad, but Jonathan ahted being without them, so my grandfather would always relent in the end and return them to him. (p.41)
Personification: And there, in the darkness, he had played with them, in his way. (p.45)
Quotation
"That night, David lay in his bed and watched the moonlight streamin gthrough the window. THe skies were clear, and teh moon was very bright. After a time, his eyes closed, and he dreamed of wolves and little girls and an old king in a ruined castle, fast asleep on his throne." (p.46)
Explanation
Still reminding that David's child-mind hasn't left him yet, telling that he is yet a person with a grand imagination with his hope and dreams still alive in his heart. This description, which I thought is so pretty, is singing and chanting the childhood.
Theme
Imagination. When does it come to you? If you closely think, it is when you are desperate, sad, and hopeless. Weird, but true. All of us tend to think and dream of something, whether it is a wish to explore our future or another world, to get a feeling of escape and freedom. It is true for David, too, who seeks liberation from book to imagine himself to be in a kingdom or a country where there would be no worries and sadness.
The Book of Lost Things...
...by John Connolly
Posting A
2 vacabulary words:
squadrons (p.45):
-noun.
A naval unit consisting of two or more divisions of a fleet.
An armored cavalry unit subordinate to a regiment and consisting of two or more troops.
A cavalry or armored unit of a European army, corresponding to a company.
A basic tactical air force unit, subordinate to a group and consisting of two or more flights.
A multitude or horde: "Squadrons of flies like particles of dust danced up and down" (T.E. Lawrence).
bicker (p.47):
–verb (used without object)
1.to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
2.to run rapidly; move quickly; rush; hurry: a stream bickering down the valley.
3.to flicker; glitter: The sun bickered through the trees. –noun
4.an angry, petty dispute or quarrel; contention.
3 examples of figurative langues
Simle: It looked like an empty swimming pool, with a set of four stone steps leadin gdown to a rectangel of gren, bordered by a flagstoned pathway. (p.36)
Irony: My grandfather tried to take his books away, his nightmares were so bad, but Jonathan ahted being without them, so my grandfather would always relent in the end and return them to him. (p.41)
Personification: And there, in the darkness, he had played with them, in his way. (p.45)
Quotation
"That night, David lay in his bed and watched the moonlight streamin gthrough the window. THe skies were clear, and teh moon was very bright. After a time, his eyes closed, and he dreamed of wolves and little girls and an old king in a ruined castle, fast asleep on his throne." (p.46)
Explanation
Still reminding that David's child-mind hasn't left him yet, telling that he is yet a person with a grand imagination with his hope and dreams still alive in his heart. This description, which I thought is so pretty, is singing and chanting the childhood.
Theme
Imagination. When does it come to you? If you closely think, it is when you are desperate, sad, and hopeless. Weird, but true. All of us tend to think and dream of something, whether it is a wish to explore our future or another world, to get a feeling of escape and freedom. It is true for David, too, who seeks liberation from book to imagine himself to be in a kingdom or a country where there would be no worries and sadness.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
ENG (02/20/08) Post B
The Book Of Lost Things
By John Connolly
Post B
Dear David,
David. Please let your emotions out. When you keep your emotions inside it will start to be rotten and it will be molded eventually. I know your feelings. Feeling of anger and depressions from your mother's death, hatred and awkwardness from your dad having a new woman, Rose, and feeling of unreadiness and unstableness from having a newborn brother, actually half-brother born from Rose. These will kill you if you keep them inside and don't let them be expressed in some healthier ways. I know you had "attacks," and you have fainted after you have talked to your psychomatrit. You have also cried for what you weren't sure. Because you believe that no one can care for you for they wouldn't understand your feelins, you are keeping and hiding yourself from the others. I'm very sorry for what you've been through. I want to share more of myself with you. I think you are at one of the most important turning points in your life. I want you to pass them through easily without any hard or confusing moments with troubling emotions that might lead you to a unwished future.
I love fairy tales, too, like you David. But they are just stories, manmade, to make kids to be happy and joyful. It is the celebration for infinite creativeness of humans especially when they are at the childhood, and I had once time in my life that I loved to read them every single moment. As you get older, though, you leave them behind. You find more stuffs that are more related to the real world. I know that you don't want to face the reality, and I hope that you don't face them now. But then, you know, don't take it cowardly. Be a man, and face the truth. Your loving mother is gone, to the place that you can never ever reach before your death, and you are becoming an adult. Know how to control your emotions, and talk and trust people around you. They will open the doors for you, find the pathways, and lighten your ways until you learn to take a step for your long journey.
Tina Jung
By John Connolly
Post B
Dear David,
David. Please let your emotions out. When you keep your emotions inside it will start to be rotten and it will be molded eventually. I know your feelings. Feeling of anger and depressions from your mother's death, hatred and awkwardness from your dad having a new woman, Rose, and feeling of unreadiness and unstableness from having a newborn brother, actually half-brother born from Rose. These will kill you if you keep them inside and don't let them be expressed in some healthier ways. I know you had "attacks," and you have fainted after you have talked to your psychomatrit. You have also cried for what you weren't sure. Because you believe that no one can care for you for they wouldn't understand your feelins, you are keeping and hiding yourself from the others. I'm very sorry for what you've been through. I want to share more of myself with you. I think you are at one of the most important turning points in your life. I want you to pass them through easily without any hard or confusing moments with troubling emotions that might lead you to a unwished future.
I love fairy tales, too, like you David. But they are just stories, manmade, to make kids to be happy and joyful. It is the celebration for infinite creativeness of humans especially when they are at the childhood, and I had once time in my life that I loved to read them every single moment. As you get older, though, you leave them behind. You find more stuffs that are more related to the real world. I know that you don't want to face the reality, and I hope that you don't face them now. But then, you know, don't take it cowardly. Be a man, and face the truth. Your loving mother is gone, to the place that you can never ever reach before your death, and you are becoming an adult. Know how to control your emotions, and talk and trust people around you. They will open the doors for you, find the pathways, and lighten your ways until you learn to take a step for your long journey.
Tina Jung
ENG (02/20/08) Post A
The Book of Lost Things
by John Connolly
Posting A
2 vacabulary words:
1. relegation (-relegate) (p.32): –verb (used with object), -gat·ed, -gat·ing.
to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
to consign or commit (a matter, task, etc.), as to a person: He relegates the less pleasant tasks to his assistant.
to assign or refer (something) to a particular class or kind.
to send into exile; banish.
2. chasm (p.33): –noun
a yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth's surface; gorge.
a breach or wide fissure in a wall or other structure.
a marked interruption of continuity; gap: a chasm in time.
a sundering breach in relations, as a divergence of opinions, beliefs, etc., between persons or groups.
3 examples of figurative langues
1. irony: "In one story, a princess was forced to dance all night and sleep all day by the actions of a sorcerer, but instead of being rescued by the intervention of a prince or a clever servant, the princess died, only for her ghost to return and torment the sorcerer to such a degree that he threw himself into a chasm in the earth and was burned to death in its fires." (p.33)
-it is one ironic story that David introduces.
2. imagery: "The great sweeps of ivy that covered the house, front and back, had broken through the walls over the decades, so that tendrils crept from the upper corners of David's room, or bound themselves to the underside of the windowsill" (p.34)
-David describes Rose's house; it is never warm, and David never liked her and her house.
3. personification: "Dr. Moberley asked David, in the v-e-r-y s-l-o-w way that some of his books spoke, why the slates were so important." (p.19)
-David thinks that the books at Dr. Moberley's office are talking to him very slowly.
Quotation
"David didn't care much for church. He was still angry at God for what had ahppened to his mother, and for bringing Rose and Georgie into his life." (p. 29)
Explanation
David's anger and depression toward his mother's death was too serious to be taken lightly but it seems nobody actually recognizes his emotions. Without any of his feelings led out peacefully or healthfully, he starts to put himself at rage. He means hatred to hate everything; his father, Rose, the step-mother, and even himself.
Theme
If you hide your emotions, nobody recognizes, and you will eventually die out slowly. Without anyone noticing his seriousness of his emotions of rage and depression, David is starting to dying out. It is expressed that when one is deeply concentrated for one's worries, then the others might not be careful noticing his/her inside. It is impossible, however, when one is angry and that s/he is able to bring out his/her emotions.
by John Connolly
Posting A
2 vacabulary words:
1. relegation (-relegate) (p.32): –verb (used with object), -gat·ed, -gat·ing.
to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
to consign or commit (a matter, task, etc.), as to a person: He relegates the less pleasant tasks to his assistant.
to assign or refer (something) to a particular class or kind.
to send into exile; banish.
2. chasm (p.33): –noun
a yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth's surface; gorge.
a breach or wide fissure in a wall or other structure.
a marked interruption of continuity; gap: a chasm in time.
a sundering breach in relations, as a divergence of opinions, beliefs, etc., between persons or groups.
3 examples of figurative langues
1. irony: "In one story, a princess was forced to dance all night and sleep all day by the actions of a sorcerer, but instead of being rescued by the intervention of a prince or a clever servant, the princess died, only for her ghost to return and torment the sorcerer to such a degree that he threw himself into a chasm in the earth and was burned to death in its fires." (p.33)
-it is one ironic story that David introduces.
2. imagery: "The great sweeps of ivy that covered the house, front and back, had broken through the walls over the decades, so that tendrils crept from the upper corners of David's room, or bound themselves to the underside of the windowsill" (p.34)
-David describes Rose's house; it is never warm, and David never liked her and her house.
3. personification: "Dr. Moberley asked David, in the v-e-r-y s-l-o-w way that some of his books spoke, why the slates were so important." (p.19)
-David thinks that the books at Dr. Moberley's office are talking to him very slowly.
Quotation
"David didn't care much for church. He was still angry at God for what had ahppened to his mother, and for bringing Rose and Georgie into his life." (p. 29)
Explanation
David's anger and depression toward his mother's death was too serious to be taken lightly but it seems nobody actually recognizes his emotions. Without any of his feelings led out peacefully or healthfully, he starts to put himself at rage. He means hatred to hate everything; his father, Rose, the step-mother, and even himself.
Theme
If you hide your emotions, nobody recognizes, and you will eventually die out slowly. Without anyone noticing his seriousness of his emotions of rage and depression, David is starting to dying out. It is expressed that when one is deeply concentrated for one's worries, then the others might not be careful noticing his/her inside. It is impossible, however, when one is angry and that s/he is able to bring out his/her emotions.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
ENG (02/13/08) Posting B
The Book of Lost Things
by John Connolly
Posting B
Dear David,
Don't be depressed, or worried about your present. Eventually you will become an adult and know how to support your own emotions. For now, leave it to surroundings and to the air. I am very sorry about your mother's death, and I understand how hard that can be for you to handle.
Last year, my mother suffered for having a bad health because she had a stomach cancer. It was very close to the last stage, but fortunately she was able to feel it before it was too late. Whoa, it was close. And, after she went to Korea for surgery. She came back after about five months and my brother, sister, and I had to do all the works for ourselves when she was gone.
It was a tough work. The school was still going even while there was a shock in our family, and despite the fact that we had no mind to go to school it was defnite that mother wanted us to go to the school even though she was away. So following her words and wishes, we had to stay in US and go to schools waiting for her to comeback healthly. I was pretty much depressed for what I've seen, heard, and experienced. I was afraid to loose her, too. I think that was when I started to write the diaries. I bought a small journal book in a bookstore and started to write my emotions down on the papers. I got to know my feelings and emotions better and was able to controll my fear and anger as well.
So I recommend the same for you. I know that situation is different. I still have my mom, thankfully, and you... poor you... are not. Just don't loose yourself. Even though I have pretty much lost confidence and hope and self-esteem in my self as I was experiencing it, I have known and learned how others are important to their lovers as well. I don't know how you will figure you figure out, but I hope that we both are able to find light in our future.
Tina Jung
by John Connolly
Posting B
Dear David,
Don't be depressed, or worried about your present. Eventually you will become an adult and know how to support your own emotions. For now, leave it to surroundings and to the air. I am very sorry about your mother's death, and I understand how hard that can be for you to handle.
Last year, my mother suffered for having a bad health because she had a stomach cancer. It was very close to the last stage, but fortunately she was able to feel it before it was too late. Whoa, it was close. And, after she went to Korea for surgery. She came back after about five months and my brother, sister, and I had to do all the works for ourselves when she was gone.
It was a tough work. The school was still going even while there was a shock in our family, and despite the fact that we had no mind to go to school it was defnite that mother wanted us to go to the school even though she was away. So following her words and wishes, we had to stay in US and go to schools waiting for her to comeback healthly. I was pretty much depressed for what I've seen, heard, and experienced. I was afraid to loose her, too. I think that was when I started to write the diaries. I bought a small journal book in a bookstore and started to write my emotions down on the papers. I got to know my feelings and emotions better and was able to controll my fear and anger as well.
So I recommend the same for you. I know that situation is different. I still have my mom, thankfully, and you... poor you... are not. Just don't loose yourself. Even though I have pretty much lost confidence and hope and self-esteem in my self as I was experiencing it, I have known and learned how others are important to their lovers as well. I don't know how you will figure you figure out, but I hope that we both are able to find light in our future.
Tina Jung
ENG (02/13/08) Posting A
The Book of Lost Things
by John Connolly
Posting A
2 vacabulary words:
1. immersing (immerse) (p.4): –verb (used with object),
to plunge into or place under a liquid; dip; sink.
to involve deeply; absorb: She is totally immersed in her law practice.
to baptize by immersion.
to embed; bury.
2. crumpets (p.11): –noun
A small flat round of bread, baked on a griddle and usually served toasted.
3 examples of figurative langues
1. simile: "They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song ladi out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being." (p.3)
-it describes the stories and how they come alive.
2. ironic: "If he bumped his head against something, eh would bump it a second time to keep the numbers even, and sometimes he would ahve to do it again and again because his head seemed to bounce against the wall, ruining his count," (p.2)
-he is acting best as possible, to prevent his mom from dying, although his plans are pretty weird, in a sense that it isn't related at all; all it does it hurting him more.
3. personification: "Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling." (p.3)
-David tells that the stories are coming true as if it has lives in them.
Quotation
"he had, in truth, been losing her for a very lon time. The disease that was killing her was a creepi, cowardly thing, a sickness that ate away a her from the inside, slowly consuming the light within, so that her eyes grew a little less bright with each passing day, and her skin a little more pale." (p. 1)
Explanation
this sentences offers the descriptions of David's dying mother. This significantly affects David later, as soon as he figures out that he is alone and that he won't be able to see his mother again, ever.
Theme
Nothing lasts forever, not enough, not long to have even the memory of the dead ones. What is the life? Do we really have a choice? Or is it that we follow whatever pathways that we already have assigned? Sometimes we tend to follow the offroutes, but who knows if it has been predestined? As if we were compelled, we follow what others had comanded us to follow, but eventually what is left is for me, and it is nothing like others, but it is the responsibility that I have to carry until the last of my life...
by John Connolly
Posting A
2 vacabulary words:
1. immersing (immerse) (p.4): –verb (used with object),
to plunge into or place under a liquid; dip; sink.
to involve deeply; absorb: She is totally immersed in her law practice.
to baptize by immersion.
to embed; bury.
2. crumpets (p.11): –noun
A small flat round of bread, baked on a griddle and usually served toasted.
3 examples of figurative langues
1. simile: "They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song ladi out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being." (p.3)
-it describes the stories and how they come alive.
2. ironic: "If he bumped his head against something, eh would bump it a second time to keep the numbers even, and sometimes he would ahve to do it again and again because his head seemed to bounce against the wall, ruining his count," (p.2)
-he is acting best as possible, to prevent his mom from dying, although his plans are pretty weird, in a sense that it isn't related at all; all it does it hurting him more.
3. personification: "Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling." (p.3)
-David tells that the stories are coming true as if it has lives in them.
Quotation
"he had, in truth, been losing her for a very lon time. The disease that was killing her was a creepi, cowardly thing, a sickness that ate away a her from the inside, slowly consuming the light within, so that her eyes grew a little less bright with each passing day, and her skin a little more pale." (p. 1)
Explanation
this sentences offers the descriptions of David's dying mother. This significantly affects David later, as soon as he figures out that he is alone and that he won't be able to see his mother again, ever.
Theme
Nothing lasts forever, not enough, not long to have even the memory of the dead ones. What is the life? Do we really have a choice? Or is it that we follow whatever pathways that we already have assigned? Sometimes we tend to follow the offroutes, but who knows if it has been predestined? As if we were compelled, we follow what others had comanded us to follow, but eventually what is left is for me, and it is nothing like others, but it is the responsibility that I have to carry until the last of my life...
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Poseidon/ The Death Note Theme
Soundtrack to the Days of Their Lives
Poseidon/ The Death Note Theme (artist unknown)
Poseidon is the God of the sea who, in Odyssey, punishes Odysseus for ten years at the sea after the Trojan War which has also lasted ten years. He gets mad at Odysseus because he pokes the eye of the Cyclop, the son of Poseidon, and blinds him. Even though it was Cyclop who threatened the lives of Odysseus and his men, when Poseidon hears from his blinded son, he trembles in anger and revenges. This is one example that shows the characteristics of Greek gods; they have the figures that are no different than humans in both physical and emotional ways. It is interesting how Greeks have described their gods as no more than humans themselves with an exception of possessing a stronger natural power.
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I picked the Death Note Theme from the Japanese animation Death Note. In this animation, the destiny of society and its future changes dramatically when a special notebook called Death Note falls from another world to the humans' hands. If the notebook keeper knows the name and the face of the another person, then he has potential to kill that person just by writing the victim's name on the notebook. Without any additional description of death, the victim dies in forty seconds by heart attack after his name is written on the page. When this almighty power is given to a person, he becomes the God of the world which is now his world. This situation, where one human has a stronger power than the another, reminds me of the Poseidon and Odysseus of the Greek mythology; Odysseus suffers at the sea without any hope to find his pathway to his homeland while Poseidon controls Odysseus' life over by keeping him at the sea for a decade.
The song hears as if it's the end of the world; more specifically, end of Odysseus' world. It gradually builds up the mood of rage and uncertainty at the sea, while it illustrates the increasing power of Poseidon possessing over the life of Odysseus. As the repeated melody brings up its volume and creates an illustration for waves and thunderstorm, which Odysseus likely experiences, it gets very exciting. The darkness and the excitement melds and further develops the setting for the deep-blue-sea.
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