Main message in 1984

I think the main message in 1984 is a warning of what we as people and society can become. It shows how society could take over. That it influences is and that we could slowly be losing our of freedom and thoughts. "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." We our becoming ignorant to what our society is turning us into. You could really say that while we have freedom in our country we are prisoners to ours society. "Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." I think this quote is about waking up and being aware of what we are becoming or can become. "Power is not a means; it is an end." People need to be aware of what we are becoming to have change.

Julia in 1984

Julia is a protagonist in the story. I think that Julia is a round character. She has contradicting views and opinions against the Party. Also, in the beginning she has a rebellious sexual relationship with Winston. I think over the time that she has spent with Winston she has developed feelings for him. This makes her a dynamic character. "The woman with the black hair who works in the ministry of truth in the fiction department." I like that sentence because it's just his first impression of her but really there is so much more to her her.

Deconstructing an ad

This ad is from Women's Health magazine. Women's Health owns and paid for the making and ads of this magazine. In order to make a profit off people who want to be healthy or enjoy health and excerise. The target audience for this magazine are both for people who are out of shape and for people who are. The target for them could be seen as this is how you get into shape. We are the magazine that get you looking like this woman on the cover. The model on the cover of the magazine has a perfectly toned body and is wearing a bakini. Clues of this are words on the cover like "New Year New You" "A fast and easy plan to drop pounds and beat stress" "Look five years younger in 5 minutes." This ad is selling you this beautiful, young, toned body secrets that are easy and quick. It is hinting at we are the magazine that can give you this for not that much work. What's not being told is that it's the models job to work hard to have a body like that, it's not something that is achieved in 5 minutes. Also it isn't being told that this model is most likely photoshopped to fit more of a targeted image of beautiful and sexy. This ad disempowers any woman who doesn't have this figure. It is saying this is what sexy looks like and if you don't have this you aren't sexy.

1984

When George Orwell was writing 1984 World War 2 was going on. We learned in class that the World Wars were devastating to people, they truly thought this was going to be how the world would end. I don't know how the second World War couldn't have been an influence on George Orwell. This book is talks about how the future will be a place where there is basically no freedom. A place where every move you make you are watched. I think that this book could be how George Orwell thought the war was going to affect the world. During WW2 there were some major leaders, for example Hitler. George Orwell could have taken a leader like Hitler as inspiration for the character Big Brother. Maybe he thought Hitler would win the war and this is how the world would be from it.

Much Ado About Nothing

I think that there are multiple themes in Much Ado About Nothing. One of the first themes that comes to mind is deception and manipulation. Throughout the book you see people overhearing conversations and manipulating or deceiving people about the information that came from the conversations. An example of this is when Benedick and Beatrice overhear that the other one is in love with each other. Then is manipulated by people around them to believe it. I also saw the theme of honor of the ones you love. I saw this theme when Beatrice continuously tries to defend Hero after the wedding scandal. Also Hero's father reacting to the scandal.

Following the thought

"Claudio: That I love her, I feel.

Pedro: That she is worthy, I know 

Benedick: That I neither feel how she should be loved, nor how she should be worthy, is the opinion that fire cannot melt out of me. I will die in it at the stake." 

The thoughts that I am following are Claudio's and Benedick's. Claudio's thought is that he is in love with the character Hero. Before and after this line Claudio is saying how beautiful she is and he wants to marry her. "In mine eye she is the sweetest lady I have ever looked on." 

Benedick thinks this is a horrible thought. He is opposed to marriage and he thinks Hero is ugly. Benedick is very passionate about how much he hates Hero. He says he would rather die on a stake than marry her.  

This is what the passage would say if it was in modern English; 

Claudio: I love her. 

Pedro: I think she is good enough. 

Benedick: Are you kidding me? I don't think she is good enough for you at all! I don't see how anyone could love her. Nothing is gonna change my mind about this, I would rather be staked through the heart or burn to death than love her. 

All The Light We Cannot See

All The Light We Cannot See has been my favorite book we have ever read in ELA. My favorite part of the book was the imagery. The way the author uses basically every sense (sight, taste, touch.., etc) was beautiful. I loved it so much I am writing an essay on imagery for my response project. Some examples of the imagery in the book are "Bees are silver; pigeons are ginger snd auburn and occasionally golden. The huge cypress trees she and her father pass on their morning walk and shimmering kaleidoscopes, each a needle a polygon of light." "Out of loudspeakers all around Zollverein, the staccato voice of the Reich grows like some imperturbable tree; its subjects lean toward its branches as if toward the lips of God. And when God stops whispering, they become desperate for someone who can put things right." "We are mice he thinks, and the sky swills with hawks." "The eggs taste like clouds. Like spun gold." "Seconds later, she is eating wedges of wet sunlight." I strongly recommend this book.