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This was much more work then I thought it would be, and what you said it would be.  It was not a simple google search.  You lied, and I don't appreciate it!!! JKJK but it was hard...

So the link that I found was from this girl name Anna who is really into world war II so she and her book club had a world war II challenge.  She was suppose to read another book, but instead picked this up.  After reading Maus she picked up the second edition, and found a whole new prospective about it.  She goes on and says, "I must say that I thought I’d already read my share of World War II literature this year, but I can safely say that Maus is an epic piece in Holocaust literature, a must-read for anyone who’s interested in reading about the Holocaust.  I thought that having read several Holocaust-themed books this year would steel me for the impact of Maus, but I highly doubt anyone can read this book without being stirred. The starkly drawn figures in thick inky strokes are arresting in their simplicity, and the candidness of the tone used throughout the books only underscore the threads of emotion palpable beneath the surface."  Even though she had a great knowledge of the war the things that were written in Maus gave her a better insight of it.  For example the gas chambers, she knew of them but was not aware of what it was really used for.  She continues on in her analysis about the use of animals and the impact it was for him to draw them like that.  Furthermore she goes on about how the book is a good timeline for those who do not know what happened in the holocaust and for those who do remember and keep in mind what happened during that time.  And how the use of black and white and making it into a comic gives you a better visual of what happened and you can sense the powerful force that was meant to be in the book. If that makes sense because to me it does.

So yep that is my link, probably not the best link but oh well it helps.

See the Cat... See the Cradle...

I think this book is interesting-ish a lot more easier to read then BNW hmm I wonder why is there so many pages that pretty much equal to all the chapters.  You can tell there is a lot of postmodernist ideas in it.  To get started  postmodernism is of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes; largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality.  In the beginning of the book it already tells us that "nothing in this book is true".  By stating that first we can already tell that postmodern ideas will be generated through this, because in a modern society everything that is stated would have to be structure in an original way such as reality and truth.  Furthermore when Newt continues on and says "See the cat?  See the cradle?"  This proves in Cat's Cradle the game that there really is nothing because you really don't see a cat or a cradle, leading them to believe that there really is no truth to anything in there society.  Which leads into the character Jonah who "was a Christian then" (1) making Christianity the center or grand narrative, however he continues on "I am a Bokonoist now.  I would have been a Bokonist then, if there had been anyone to teach me the bittersweet lies of Bokonon" (2).  Bokonon is now considered his "center" without really "discovering what they are doing".  Postmodernism is present once again through this because their religion does not really have an actual purpose they're rules that are stated everyday to keep the people going without really knowing what is to be done.  If that makes sense.  All in all there are a lot of other places in the book that we can use to show there is postmoderism in it.

Break from BNW essay!!!

The Joy of waiting Last Minute

This is so lame, we just got done with the book give us a break and we are going to start reading a new one too.  So many ideas  I am not sure which one I want to talk about....
Well I think after talking about this in class I got a better sense of what we are doing.  However, when I got home I totally went blank. So I think I am going to use  Sir Ken Robinson  video and how everything is structure to prove that a "better world" is not very satisfying.  Also that being grouped together due to the fact that the only thing they have in common is the age to prove that they are stoping there growth on learning and there way of thinking.  Whick will lead into using an example from the text with the whole class rank and stuff.  Furthermore I will be using Frederick Winslow Taylor as more other source for the perfect work enviorment, and the perfect person to do so. 
I also wanted to do something with reality and the whole soma thing where they only use to get out of reality and live in their "fairytale" world.  Using the postmodernism article and how those two incorporate with each other.  But like I said I am still thinking of what I really want to do with this wonderful great essay that we will be writing about and then commenting and revising it yay us.

Totally Forgot we had to do one of these this week!!!

There are several parallels that were drawn between the video and Brave New World.  One that caught my attention was when they were talking about was that street kids and working class kids were incapable of learning how to read and write.  This leads on to Brave New World and the classes they are born into "... Delta Children wear khaki... and Epsilons are still the worse.  They're too stupid to be able to read or write" (27).  This goes to show that not only does the 19th century frown upon the lower class, but in Brave New World where you are "put into" determines on how people look at you and treat you.  Furthermore it leads on into education and it being modeled on the interest of industrialization and children being "batched" by age groups rather then individual knowledge.  Just like the book babies that are born within the same tube is batched together linking that the only they have in common is age.  Where as one can be more academically smarter then another, and the only reason they are in this certain category is because them were told they will be getting a high education and a better job.  However just like the video said that having a degree now and days means nothing and in Brave New World they are already destined to be a "Gamma, Delta, Beta, and Epsilon" which gives them a reason to not further there education.

Also the other thing that stuck out to me was anaesthetic which shut your senses off, deadened yourself to what is happening, it is similar to soma where it " gave [the] perfect [holiday] and, if the morning after was disagreeable, it was so, not intrinsically, but only by comparison with the joys of the holiday" (154).  Both of these gave you the will to shut down when ever life was getting hard and you need an escape.

Brave New World

Alrighty so I now understand what you guys were talking about in class, about the whole going back and fourth thing and it being confusing. They better have a good reason to do that!  Also my opinion on this society is that they are beyond corrupt and EASY that's the nicest way I can put it. Anyway I shall start my blog.

In Chapter 3 from the book family, monogamy, impulse, feeling and desire are all useless traits and people to them.  When giving the children a tour of the factory Mr. Mond ask them if the ever, "been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fulfilment?" (45) one boy speaks up about having to wait on a girl and felt "horrible" Mond then goes on how the "ancestors were so stupid and short-sighted... when the first reformers came... to [offer] to deliver them from [these] horrible emotions... they wouldn't have anything to do with them" (45).  He gives them the impression that feelings or desire are useless and that having these emotions are a waste of energy. He continues with giving them the idea that a home and a mother is a bad thing with "no air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells" (37).  He creates the image where home is not a safe place and a mothers affection was "dangerous, insane, obscene relationship" (37).

Then it goes on to a scene with Fanny and Lenina where he gives off the impession that being stuck with one person to long is a bad form to go on and on like [that] with one man" (41), and that the D.H.C would object to anything being long term.  This just proves even more that relationships are corrupt and being held down or having a home is more dangerous then wondering the streets.

Well there you go done before 11 CRAZY!!