Vicktor Frankensteins Changes

Victor Frankenstein changes increasingly through out the story. In the begining he is so obsessed in his work that it comes to a point that he cuts off from the people of the outside world. When his friend comes to visit him, its not because he wants a friendly chat, but because he is worried about him because he looks as if he isnt doing so well. Then, after the creation is created he becomes paraniod though he does have a good reason. His invention has became fed up with the reactons that it receives when people look at his face. Frankenstein fears that the creation will come after him, and teh creations does. In teh end Frankenstein is fearless. He finally breaks whe the creation kills Elizabeth. Frankenstein goes after his creation. He may have been foolish in the begining but he tries to right his wrong in the end.

Would I create life like Frankenstein?

No I would not create life such as Frankenstein did because even though the life I created could be a good being, the people in the world might not view the body as such. Frankenstein's creation was viewed as a monster because the creation looked scary and was not like everybody else. I could not put my self through the grief of creating something only to have that dream destroyed. Even though I would know that my creation was a wonderful being not everybody shares the same beliefs.

To create life and have that creation being treated as if it was dirt on the floor or some hideous monster would not allow me to live in peace. Because of me some helpless creature is being abused and misunderstood. To do that would make me the monster.

If I was to create life though there would be many choices to make. The first one I would make would be to gradually introduce my creation to society. By doing this people would know what to expect and the creation would be use to the site of other beings. The other choice that I would make would be to teach my being the ways of life in the world today.

Although creating life would be such a great achievement for me I don't think that the creation would like that and my being might start to resent me that I created the being is  for my own personal gain. I could not put anything through that pain of feeling that the only purpose he fills is that it is some trophy to be put on the shelf to be seen to those who come through.  

My thoughts of Frankenstein

I have never read Frankenstein although I have considered after watched the movie. From what I have heard about the book a scientist came up with the idea to create life and achieved his goal. The body that inhabited the life he created was not accepted in the world in which the docter lived and soon the "monster" was destroyed because it was different. Dr. Frankenstein was in a position where he wanted to protect his creation but he could not.

When I found out that a woman at the age of nineteen wrote this story I though go women defying the rules before rule defying was cool. My second thought was that she had to get in touch with her inner man to be able to write the book from a mans prospective and him not sound like a girly man. Shelly did her part very well and I dont thing any body else would be able to capture the readers attention quiete like she does.

Man creating life is something that I believe can be done with today's technology, but I do not think they have the right to. If somebody does what will they expect people's reactions to be when they meet the person. Will the reactions mirror those that were in the book with the sharpened pitched forks and the torches or will the reactions be accepting. Today's people might be able to accept somethings but we are still discriminating others based on their look, languages, and religions. I do not thing that people would be able to handle some life that was created.

Theme Word of 2012

Normal- common, usual, everyday...accepted.

Normal is that word people use to explain something that is commonly repeated. For many people normal is different because they view things differently. I chose normal because I feel that life is based to heavily on what people believe the meaning is and assume that what ever they believe is the same for everyone else. Normal is a variety in people, religions, character, and output in life.

For example, my family. The supposed estamid number of kids is two maybe three, for generations my family has had six or seven kids. Always there are more boys than girls and so the pattern continues and for years to come there will always be more brothers than sisters in my family.

My Antonia

 Willa Cather in her novel My Antonia offers her view of life during the pioneer time. In this story Willa writes in the perspective of Jim Burden, a boy who lost his parents and was sent to live with his grandparents, and you see how he views the events that happen but if the book was from Antonia point of view I think you would see how she survived those years before the meeting of her and Jim. It would tell of what she did in the times when we only knew what Jim was doing. Cather was very effective at narrating the story from a man's point of view because she knows how she wants him to portrayed. Jim sound like a man has wrote it with a hint of a famine touch. I think Jim changed the title to My Antonia because  no matter what happens between them or no matter how far the distance they have between them he will always see her as his Antonia. Willa Cather has captured the time period that she writes about with the ability to show the hardship that the settlers went through.

The Effects of Setting

Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing.

"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."

"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."

"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.

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The effects the land has on the characters is that they see the land as a person and how the appearance changes with the changes of the days. The land changes the characters by showing them that is like objects they have seen in many ways but is also very different in the way that it is the same. The changes show them what they are feeling about the way the day is happening.

The fields around my house have a effect on me by the fact that the tall grass and open spaces on a nice windy summer day is where is spent my childhood and to me the grass is like a ocean as every single piece of grass sways with the wind. Someday's the grass is a calm sea with the sun shining and the clouds giving off just enough shade that someone does not get sunburned and other day's the ocean is a mad frenzy going back and forth with such strength that the swishing hurts as it hits you.

Speak

Welcome to Merryweather High.That is the first thing I saw when I opened the book. Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak captivates me in ways that are beyond belief. I think the book it'self "speaks" the main idea of what I got out of it.

The summer is suppose to be the time for fun and carefree behavior but what happens when somebody takes that carefree behavior over the line. Melinda Sordino went to a party one person by the end of the night was someone completely different. So when school starts and everybody hates her what is she suppose to do? She cant tell her friend because she doesn't have those any more. She won't tell her parents because they would just pass it off as if it was her own fault. Melinda is scared, scarred, and lonely. Then she meets the new girl and try's to make it work. She does all the things you are suppose to do with friends; going over to each others house, eating together at lunch, talking to each other. Heather is more about the future than the now and she is trying to join all the clubs and be friends with all the right people. Soon she is leaving Melinda behind because she has a "reputation". Mr. Freeman is the art teacher and he believes that everybody has a story to tell through art. When Melinda draws for trees he won't let her change it. As she try's to keep her secret her tree's stay dead, not going any where. As I was reading this book my mind kept going back to a song I heard before. Like the book there is a girl who was heart by a guy and he broke her. The song goes on to tell of the other girls he hurt the same way as her. In the song she tell's of him "collecting his jar of hearts" and in the book when Ivy show Melinda the list she added IT's name to it goes on to say thing about the way he was a bad person and should be stayed away from and showed that he has hurt others in the past. Laurie's style of writing affected me in the sense that I wanted to know who did what to her and make them pay. What  could IT have done to her to make her call the cops that night?

Speak is a great book for people who like to see good thing happen to people who deserve it and for the right thing to happen to the people who cause bad thing on the people that are to weak to defend themselves at the time.