...I hear someone behind me as I walk home from cheerleading practice. Oh man, it’s so late. It’s fine, it’s fine, I’m just being paranoid. I'm I being paranoid if I turn around and acknowledge I’m scared that those footsteps might belong to a mugger? I suppose it’s fine if he’s white, because if I turn around and he’s black. I’ll sneak a quick peek. Oh God. It’s a black guy. Ever since my old school integrated with black students from a nearby school, there have been black people walking around everywhere. Even my boyfriend Gerry Bertier has been hanging around them ever since they went on football boot camp, or whatever they call it. I don't know why he would ever consider hanging out with them willingly. Maybe their threatening him, yeah...
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...Parrot In The Oven by Victor Martinez, Manny Hernandez wants to gain more respect from the people around him. His father is really abusive, his mother scrubs houses like nothing, and his brother Bernardo can’t keep a job. Manny believes the only way to gain respect is to be in a gang, but is unsure about joining one. Martinez uses internal monologue, dialog, and action to let us know what each of the characters development is. Victor Martinez helps guide us through Manny’s character development by the use of interior monologue. One way Victor Martinez uses internal monologue to help us know who Manny is as a character is when he states Manny’s imagination on purchasing a baseball glove and being part of the baseball team, but most important to have respect from his peers. “I...
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...states of mind in two or three works of fiction you have studied. Introduction: Throughout both novels, The God Small Things by Arundhati Roy and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, characters often lack rational thought and, speak in Most authors have distinct styles, and in both novels, Roy and Faulkner embed a deeper meaning within them with the use of a subtle and discreet narrative manner, such as stream of consciousness and interior monologues. This is particularly true in As I Lay Dying, a novel of a dysfunctional and unstable family told through fragmented chapters. Each character reveals their perspective in different chapters, but the perspectives are true to life in that they all reveal information about the Bundren family and their struggles to exist. Although stream of consciousness proves to be prevalent in the progression of the plots, a series of flashbacks and flashforwards unfold the secrets of these characters' unhappiness. Through the use of literary devices such as stream of consciousness, interior monologue and analepsis and prolepsis, Roy and Faulkner allow for the flow of impressions coming through a character’s mind to be represented on the surface. Outline: I. Stream of Consciousness A. As I Lay Dying 1. Faulkner imitates the way the human brain works; the progression of thoughts passing through the mind as they occur represents a selective omniscience a. I am I and you are you and I know it and you dont know it and you could...
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...Heights are more than just the Gavin Cato case of Yankel Rosenbaum’s murder. Anna Deveare Smith’s method of finding the truth in peoples stories lies in their syntax. The stutters and the “um’s” give the audience a better understanding of the character because in those stammers and pauses we, even for a moment, see some truth. Although it may help us understand where people are coming from, we still have no definite answer for why things ended up the way they did in Crown Heights. For example, in the monologue titled, Static, a Jewish woman says, “ I saw a little boy in the neighborhood, who I didn’t know and who didn’t know me—not Jewish, he was black and he wasn’t wearing a yarmulke because you can’t—“. The pauses in this particular monologue tell me that this woman is trying to watch what she says. In the times of hatred between Blacks and the Jewish, she did not want to slip up and so we often see her pausing to collect her thoughts or refer back to her story. This monologue does not necessarily help me reflect the truth about the riots in Crown Heights directly but I can not a clear example of stereotyping. The Blacks and the Jewish constantly have pre-determined judgments of the opposing race and we see this often throughout...
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...have any obvious roots, they borrowed very much from the immigrants and, in time, the wilderness of the ancient world has gone. Since the American writers didn’t have any settled tradition, they started to explore within the human soul and mind, which came to invent new style. While the English writers explore the raising of a poor man on the economic and social scale, the American ones reveal the absence of the tradition. This is the case of writers like Richard Wright, or Sarah O. Jewett who deeply analyzed the characters’ reaction in a critical period of their life. For instance, in “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”, Wright presents the coming to age of a young black boy. As we all know, Wright is a black writer, so we could say that this coming of age of this particular black boy might signify the author’s way to his maturity, even though if not in the same context or by the same means. His main character, Dave, is an angry teenager, who wants to become a man. He thinks that a gun would make him powerful and he makes all sorts of strategies to accomplish his dream: to buy a gun so that he could get the others’ respect. Some would say that he finally manages to become a...
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...Rough-Draft Monologue: Extension of ‘An Odious Damned Lie. 4 minute monologue: She did it. She wrapped her arms around my throat and gave it all she had. Her arms were so fragile but sturdy. Strangling me. She was just strangling me. Taking the life out of me. After all this time, my constant provoking got underneath her skin. I’m actually surprised the roles switched. Attacked, to attacker. *slow and steady* Loris wasn’t the victim. Who would have thought the little nuisance would do it? She finally got the courage to stand up for herself. It’s about time; Of course it didn’t last long. She couldn’t have expected it to either. At least I hope she wouldn’t under estimate me like that. It’s one thing to underestimate me, it’s another to challenge me. I don’t understand, why does she always do this to herself? She makes it hard on her own. I mean, she’s kidding, right? *said in laughter* this girl needs to learn and who better to teach her than her mother? I would have figured she would know by now. Don’t push my limits. She’s felt the effect of that. Couldn’t she have been a simpler child? She had to get involved. Involved with the drama. With the boys. With the uselessness. What good does she really think would come from her immature games? They aren’t going to do anything for her. They aren’t going to get her anywhere. I could see her shifty eyes as soon as I sat down on the bed. She was trying. I could tell she was trying hard. But for what? Approval? You can’t...
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...audio like classical music, a pop song, dialogue, and a monologue/story. The experiment done by Daniella Blazevic included different types of audio such as a conversation, heavy metal music, a ‘favorite pop song’ and no music as a control group. She created two versions of a word search and timed how long the individuals took to complete the wordsearch. The most distracting audio was the conversation and the least distracting audio was no audio at all.6 Based off of the research we have done on experiments similar to our experiment, we hypothesize that the dialogue will have the biggest negative effect on an individual’s concentration, and no audio will have the least effect on a person’s level of concentration. To test the effect of different types of audio on the concentration of people, we will be needing a speaker, 20 human test subjects, two versions of a ten - worded word search, four stopwatches, different types of audio, pencils and erasers. We will be using 20 subjects (ten boys and ten girls) from the ages of 15-16. Our experiment will also be needing two ten-worded word searches and will have two trials. Because we’re conducting two trials, we will be making two different word searches. We will have the same set of words for each word search but they will be placed differently. Other items that will be used are stopwatches, a speaker from the brand PEAQ and different types of audio. We will have a monologue/story, dialogue, a pop song and classical music. The pop...
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...A Taboo Way of Gaining Sexual Freedom Lucenda Honore Student Number: 3726126 SOP4774 Fall 2015 The Vagina Monologues is a series of monologues written by Eve Ensler. Eve Ensler went around and interviewed/ talked to countless women about a more untalked about topic, their vaginas. She heard interesting stories, funny stories, sad stories and more about vaginas. She then encompassed them into monologues that have been performed around the world bringing awareness to women about their sexuality, pain, happiness and own bodies. This book is used by feminist to promote self love but is also controversial to many feminist who feel as though the book reduces women to just what is between their legs. One such monoloque to bring about...
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...between texts, selecting and evaluating relevant material * Introduction: keep this brief and concise! * Avoid any description of what happens and cut straight to how the themes are treated similarly in the poems and where the writers’ treatments part company. | POINTLiterary Conceits are features of both poems, through which Duffy and Armitage convey the mental state of their characters | HAVISHAM QUOTATIONS“Havisham” | Both poems begin with and frequently employ strong plosives._____________________________________________For the development: * include that Havisham is an interior monologue; * how do the plosives express her state of mind? * In Havisham, the opening plosive occurs within an oxymoron. What does this combination of stylistic features emphasise? * What is the impact of the plosives throughout Kid? * It is an exterior monologue; there is a specific interlocutor, the father-figure; what impact does the speaker intend to make on the person listening to him.KID QUOTATIONS | HAVISHAM...
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...Throughout the story, Manny faces many conflicts, including a dysfunctional family, an abusive father, and racial segregation in his school and community. However, even in times of hardship, Manny perseveres, separating him from his family and peers through his considerate way of speaking in addition to his original point of view, and love for learning. Overall, the story provides vivid description of what it might be like to be living in a poor Mexican family surviving the great challenges of life that they may face. The Parrot in the Oven is laced cover to cover with strong examples of Manny being a compassionate individual rooted in Victor Martinez’s use of internal monologue and action to bloom a gentle human being from the dead soil of poverty. Victor Martinez uses the literary device of internal monologue to present to the reader that Manny is thoughtful. For example, after Manny’s father comes home from Rico’s, a bar, in a state of a blackout and sure to make hazy decisions, he reads a note that Manny’s mom left saying that she was going to get her hair done. However, his dad misinterprets the note for being one of abandonment and gets his rifle, with the serial number scratched from the side, and goes out to try to shoot his wife. Dad ends up having to go to jail for the possession of an illegal firearm, although he faced no punishment for domestic violence because the police didn’t actually witness anything. In Manny’s household, situations like these are unusually...
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...‘If’ and ‘Vitai Lampada’ Essay The poem “If-“ is about making possibilities into realities. A good example of this is a boy turning into a man, with the father making a guide to success. "If-" contains a multitude of characteristics deemed essential to the ideal man. They almost all express stoicism and reserve – the classic British "stiff upper lip." It is a didactic poem in the form of a dramatic monologue from the father. The three main ideas behind the poem defining a man are: Patience, Determination and risk-taking. The poem was written in 1895 by Rudyard Kipling, the same time as the Jameson Raid happened in South Africa against Paul Kruger’s Transvaal republic. He states in his 1937 autobiography that this war was the main drive behind writing this poem. We can infer from this that the poem was written as a form of hope after the British failed they’re raid against the Boers. The first theme I will be discussing is patience. The father provides didactic advice to his son to encourage him to remain patient: “If you can keep your head when all about you/Are losing theirs and blaming it on you” Kipling uses the second person pronoun to direct his monologue to the audience in question, his son. The poet asks us to patiently wait for our efforts to reach fruition because all good things take time: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too...
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...7 October 2015 Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3,1847 and died on April 2,1922. He is the guy who we all have to thank for inventing the telephone, without him how could we communicate? In 1866 Bell experimented on the thought of how to produce vowel sounds. He came up with the thought of combing the note of electrically driven forks, which gave him the idea of telegraphing speech. Bell with the lack of electric knowledge, ask for help from a local electrical shop owner named Thomas A. Watson. After many months of working together the two finally accomplished something. On June 2,1875 Watson heard a sound coming from over Bell’s end of the wire, with some tinkering the device transmitted Bell’s voice to Watson. Bell soon begins to write a patent for his first telephone. Besides trying to complete the telephone, Bell was trying to help out the deaf children. He opened a school in Boston to train teachers to teach and tutor the deaf. He was also the professor of vocal physiology at Boston University. Alexander did many lectures and tutoring at this time, helping many deaf students. Bells health was not doing so well in 1875 because of the long nights, this led him to return to his parent’s house in Canada to recuperate. In 1875 after many years of working endless nights and with the financial help of George Sander and Mabel Hubbard, the two finish the telephone and Bell soon got a patent for the telephone in 1876. Sigmund Freud was born on May 6,1856...
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...Life of Pi by Yann Martel is a story about a young Indian boy who finds himself alone in a lifeboat after his ship sinks - his only companions are a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Throughout his journey, the protagonist, Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. The book was published in 2001 and was adapted by Ang Lee for the big screen in 2012, winning four awards from eleven nominations, including Best Director. Unlike several book-to-film adaptations, Life of Pi did not disappoint its many fans. Instead of losing fans and falling victim to critics, it gained more fans. This was largely due to how they handled the original material. The book is well know and well loved for the inner struggle and triumph of Pi, whose main goal is simply to survive, while his secondary goal is to spiritually come to terms with what has happened. What is most surprising, though, is that the screenplay is only 75 pages compared to the 400 plus pages of the book. As a general rule of thumb, one page in a screenplay equals one minute on the screen. However, due to the stunning cinematography and the computer graphics, the movie is 127 minutes long. These visuals replace the inner monologues that the book uses to show the changes in Pi. Excluding the monologues was the biggest risk David Magee, the screenwriter, took when he adapted the book. The book focuses...
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...quality, noted by its use of subtlety and skill of realistic depiction of certain elements of personality that are irrefutably universal, and consequently human, betrays a prose that is characteristically, and uniquely, Baldwin. Such being the case, we find in David, a protagonist who is simultaneously intriguing and reprehensible; the consequence of which is an engaging narrative of self-discovery. This curious dichotomy of emotions that David’s character evokes within the reader may be telling of a deeper correlation; a contention best supported by conclusions drawn from the analysis of a scene in which David describes the night during which he first meets Giovanni. By way of his own inner monologue, David reveals to the reader his acutely emotional reaction to the overtly feminine bar-boy he meets: “People said that he was very nice, but I confess that...
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...made some life-long friends. The instructor, Ms. Kiera, would often ask me and a boy named Ryan if we wanted extra lessons, she taught us accents and how to sing. It made me feel special, like I was actually good at something. Thanks to her, I was able to go as far as I have today. I was 9 when the letter came; my mother and I were eating spaghetti when my dad came in the mail. He stopped; looking confused, on a thin white envelope with an intricate design on the top, and then handed it to me. I looked at the name it was addressed to, shocked to see “Nova Kelsey” scribbled on the front. Carefully I flipped it over, opened it, and anxiously read it. I cannot fathom why I was so nervous, as I didn’t know what it was at the time. As my eyes danced over the neatly written letter, excitement began to bubble inside of me. I had been asked to audition for a competitive performing arts group. I jumped up as high as possible and ran around the house trying to dispose all the energy of my body. My parents were both very happy, but reminded me that auditioning was only the first stage. As soon as the initial high wore off, a sense of dread rushed through me. I was insanely nervous and had no faith that I would make it in, to the point where I didn’t even want to try. The next day at drama I brought the letter to Ms. Kiera, she convinced me I had a shot and that she would work with me to perfect my monologues and dance. I spent every free second memorizing the scene, and would go over dance...
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