in class.....

I'm sorry Mrs. West but I don't know what my second post should be about so it's going to be about class. So far class has been different. I say different because we r usually reading a book, or watching a movie, but now we are learning about plagiarism. Unfortunately, I find this subject to be rather boring, because it is so tedious about how I phrase things. I also think that there are too many rules for it, and not enough flexibility. It seems like the consequences for plagiarism are deadly, and most of the time, we don't even mean to plagiarize, but rather accidentally do it because we don't know the rules!

HITCHHIKERS GUIDE

I'm reading the hitchhikers guide to the universe, as many of you know, and so far it is decent. I'm starting to understand it, because it is fairly confusing with all of the hypothetical space talk and ideas. Also it twists and turns through characters and that can get very confusing because I forget who is talking to who. The writing is also very diverse with it's word choice, I don't think I've read a book with such odd words, especially when they are made up for space traveling. I don't really know how it will get moving but I hope it does soon, because it's getting kind of old.

On The Waterfront

This movie was unfortunately dissapointing. Although I appreciated it much more than the original movie, I couldn't get by the fact that the characters all couldn't act very well. Most of the acting, besides the priest, was poor and inadequately done. When a character was supposed to be sad they would start laughing and smiling a bit. Otherwise, I thought the plot was phenomenal, and for a school movie, it was pretty action-packed. Overall I liked it better than the previous one, but not by that much because of the poor acting that I saw.

The More Than Complete Hitchhikers Guide

The book I'm reading is called The More Than Complete Hitchhikers Guide. It has 610 pages and was written by Douglas Adams. So far I'm at the early beginning of the book. It's somewhat interesting, but setting itself up for a good plot. As for the writing, it's pretty good. A lot of word choice, but it isn't really that strong or good of writing. I hope that the book gets stronger, which it looks like it will, but I don't know how it will set up, which is exciting.

All My Sons

To be quite honest this book/play wasn't my favorite piece of literature although it did bring up some very important themes. Most of the themes are shown through the characters individually. For example the theme to always put your family first is shown through Joe Keller, and how he allowed plenty of flawed warheads get attached to planes which resulted in 21 men dieing, just so he could provide for his family. The theme of to get what you want is shown in Chris Keller in multiple ways. First of all his unrealistic idealism that says that you can always be better, and that you are obligated to achieve all that you can. Secondly through his need to marry Ann. He wants to marry her so badly that he is willing to throw away his entire relationship with his family, and he is willing to give away the family business. Most of the characters were also very bland to me. Kate, Lydia, Sue, Frank, and Jim are very boring and don't add anything to the play in my opinion. There is no need for them to be there in my mind, and they all show no real strong emotions ,except for Kate, during the entire play. Additionally, I don't like George because he has two different personalities. He comes into the play screaming and fighting and acting like a lunatic while talking with Chris and Ann, and when Joe Keller comes out he turns into a scared and confused man. That made little sense to me. Quite simply the whole play was unrealistic, because there is no way that all of these events could happen in one day, and I am not exactly rooting for it to win any awards.

ALL MY SONS