Knowing Imre Kertesz

1.- The monument looked like a maze metaphorically speaking it looked like a cage, just us the concentration camps, it represented the loss of freedom, being trapped. The walls represented de desperation and how far people where from freedom.

2.- He said that preferred to live in the country that once tried to take his life instead of living in his own country.

3.-Before, everything anti-Semites wanted was an Auschwitz and later on when everything ended and after Auschwitz anti-Semites wanted a new Auschwitz 

4.-This makes us more richer, because we have different points of view about what happened,and also gives us the opportunity  to learn from our past, from our mistakes, and build a future avoiding this mistakes.

5.-"I continued to worry our souls, and now it knocks from inside the cabinet where we thought we had locked it up” what the author wanted to say with this metaphor is that when people read this book they start to live and feel all the things they though that were in the past, this also makes them reflect about all the thing that happened and that cannot happen again.

answer the questions

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What language (specific words) did your classmate use to appeal the audience  If there is no language appealing the audience, suggest some words.

He used affective words such as dear and miss but he also used words to describe his fear and the things he was passing through, he used the words horrible, nightmare, and he used the word "break free from this chains" he used this to make us think how rough was to be in the camps.

How moving is the letter? Do you think your classmate`s style is effective?

I think this letter was moving, because he told his father he missed him, and that he missed his home. He also talked about the things he lived and through the word make the reader see the painful and fatelessness things he was passing through. The only thing that this letter need to improve is that he described a lot but did not talked much about his father.

Gyurka's mind

1. What does this tell us about how Gyuri´s mind works?

Gyurka didnt know what was happening aroud ,him his mind worked in an innocent way, he also saw things in a positive way.

2. What do most 13-year-old children choose to describe? and why? what do they see? 

Most of The 13 year old children talk about games and music , maybe things they've done during the day, they talk about things that are relvant in their every day.

3. What part does language play in the way Gyuri selects his perceptions?

The way he describes  and talks about the things he saw make us think that he saw things in a positive an innocent way.

4. Based on the whole novel and considering the story´s narration view, how reliable is this passage in relation to the rest of the story?

This passage is not very reliable because gyurka has not lived all the things that happened at that time. So he still sees things in a child perspective positive and in a innocent way.

The curious incident

In the text a curious incident we can se a child called Christopher and he stands in to different places were he notices that every thing changes, we can see that Christopher's mind works depending on his point of view about things, his mind works in the same way all people's mind work. We think depending in our points of view every ,one has a point of view that is different from everyone else, all depends in our culture and in our knowledge about things. We can also see that Christopher has a very critical and analytic view about the things around him "But most people are lazy. They never look at everything" . For example from the two different spots he made two different descriptions about the same place.

First place

1. I am standing in a field that is full of grass. 

2. There are some cows in the fields

3. It is sunny with a few clouds.

4. There are some flowers in the grass. 

Second place 

1. There are 19 cows in the field, 15 of which are black and white and 4 of which are brown and white.

2. There is a village in the distance which has 31 visible houses and a church with a square tower and not a spire.

3. There are ridges in the field which means that in medieval times it was what is called a ridge and furrow field and people who lived in the village would have a ridge each to do farming on.

4. There is an old plastic bag from Asda in the hedge, and a squashed Coca-Cola can with a snail on, and a long piece of orange string. 

fatelessness book trailer

Link to trailer

http://youtu.be/05rCtEJgVls

Gyurkas father letter

Dear son:

I dont know if you'll get this letter but I'm writing it anyway, my greatest desire is that I could see you and you mother again, I would like us to be a family again, enjoy your mother's delicious carrot soup,  that I could teach you all the things a man must know but I trust you will be a great.
The other reason I sent this letter is that I wanted to talk about the things that happens here ,its a place where we are forced to work until your body cant move, and they make us starv and give us very poor racions of food, so please dont let anyone take you here, I hope you and your mother are ok without me, please take care of your mother and be careful.

Your faithfully father


  

Fatelessness :language analysis

(Pages 90,91)
What is the main theme explored here?
Innocence

Explain:
1.-I saw no sing of movement , of life near them.
2.-I could see they were already set to recive us happily explaining everythingto us. "here too a prisoner was again of assistence ".
3.-I could not help noticing .Here too wore a striped outfit like other prisoners.

(Pages 180,181,182,183,184,185)
What is the main theme explored here ?
Fatelessness

Explain:
1.-An actor doing Satan on stage.
2.-A habit of stripping the blankets most frecuently of those whom the end seemd predictable.
3.-Still, the bigest surprise of all was the consternation , then horror of feeling a sudden tickling sensation on my hip.
4.-Lifting the paper bandage, seeing they were now on my open flesh there,feeding on my wound.
5.-I have to admit that never before had i sensed a more hopeless struggle.
6.-Lead us to abandon yet one more last chance in our favor, assuming there is way ,naturally.
7.-I had precise cognizance of everything about it, it was just that i myself somehow no longer inhabited.
8.-Torments of inviability.
9.-My sense of revolution very nearly passed .
10.-Invariably Gresky.  

(Pages 138,139)
What is the main theme explored here ?
Racisim

Explain:
1.-Bandi Citrom promptly warned me away from them "you lose any will to live just looking at them".
2.-I became a non person.

Time travel

When I arrived to Maycomb  I saw lots of farms and animals.On my first day there I decided to walk the city because I wanted to see everything that this town could shown me and I was right I saw huge and beautiful houses but lots of them had porches with tuscan columns,people spent most of the day sitting there because it was to hot to stand in the street.Later on I felt I was dying  because of temperature it was like 40ºc so I went for a cold drink at a grocery store and saw an amazing car , it was a Rolls Royce phantom II, the owner of the store told me it belonged to a rich  business  man, who owned cotton fields.Then I asked where could I stay and he told me that at the end of the street I could find a place to stay.It was a huge house with a gable front and wing family with a shed roof .

In my second day I wanted to  become aquatinted with the river so I asked for directions until i got there I spent half my day there until a man came to me and ask me if I was from the town when I answered,he noticed I was not from here, then he introduced himself , he was the rolls royce owner , then he invited me to he's house to meet his family.He lived in a I-house and huge gardens , I met his family they were very kind and polite his wife was using a blue dress and he's kids were using overalls   because they were playing .Later he  drove me to the place were I was staying. People here used formal clothes men wear suits an women used very elegant dresses 

That was my trip to Maycomb an old but awesome town that had very polite and pleasant  and kind people ,this place has lots of architecture and very amazing places if you want to travel I recommend Maycomb.

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Animal Farm

1.- "Now comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short."

2.-"We are born, we are given just so much food as we will keep the breath in our bodies, and those who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty"

He wants his community to realize in the situation they are living, that they can eat what humans give to them , that they are being exploited,and that they don't mean anything to man "the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty".

3.-"No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old."

4.-"No animal in England is free"

With this he wants animals to know they are not free, and they are prisoners in the farm. 

5.-"The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth"

what he wants to do is to produce a feeling of anger in the animals for they could recover what is theirs and notice they have been salves and not free animal as it should be.

6.-"But is the simply part of the order of nature? is it because this land of ours is so poor that it cannot afford a decent life to those who do well upon it? No comrades, a thousand times no! The soil of England is fertile, its climate is good, it is capable of affording food in ambulance to an enormously greater number of animals that now inhabit it. "

7.-"This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep, and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining. Why then do we continue on this miserable condition? "

8.-"Man is the only real enemy we have"

9.-"Remove man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever"

10.-"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not 
give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he 
cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. "

With this phrase ,he says that man is gaining every thing animals produce but they don't give nothing back,what he wants is  animals could realize what the man is doing ,that man is using them.

11.-"Yet he is a lord of all the animals""He sets them to work"

12.-"he gives them back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving"

13.-"and the rest he keeps for himself".

14.-"You cows that i see before me, how many thousands of gallons of milk have you given to during the year? And what has happened to that milk which should have been breeding up sturdy calves? Every drop has gone down the throats of our enemy."

15.-"and you hens how many eggs have you laid in the last year and how many of those eggs have hatched into chickens?"

 He wants animals to know what is happening in the farm, that some of them are killed before they are born, he wants to show how cruel humans are and what could happen if they don't take action .

16.-"The rest have all gone to the mark to bring in money for Jones and his men"

17.-"and you clover, where are those four foals you bore, who should have been support and pleasure of them again"

18.-"nearly the whole of the produce of labor is stolen from us by humans beings. There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems."

19.-Such is the 
natural life of a pig. But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end.

20.-To that horror we all 
must come--cows, pigs, hens, sheep, everyone. Even the horses and the dogs 
have no better fate. 


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Reading activity

Reading activity

1.- I think the note taker is not wrong but he is not right neither  , because her way of speaking makes the other people think she is from the "gutter", but that does not determine her position in the society. There are other factors that determine this, like her birthplace or her familie's financial situation, the time where she was because in that time women did not a lot of opportunities to work .

2.- I think his proposition is impossible because it will only change the way she speaks not her nature and just because se speaks in a more sophisticated way it will not transform her into a duchess.This plan  totally ignores her identity because everybody has their own way to talk but it is a generous offer because this change of speech will help her to get a better job.   

Medical language

My personality My identity

My identity and personality

cheerful: I see this videos because i like to laugh a lot and be happy all the time as i said Im cheerful .

 

Sports:

I like sports because it takes put of the house and do things in the outdoors , breath some fresh air, play with your brothers or friends.

 Music:

Music is a huge part of because it relaxes me and makes me  have a good time singing with my 2 brothers ,when we go on a trip or cooking in the house with my mom.I like many types of music but one of my favorites is the music played by the music band "simply red"



Videogames: Videogames are my second favorite thing , because I get a lot of fun playing this games , and distracts me from what I do during the day.

Food: Finally my favorite thing to do is food, because of all the flavors, the food I like the most is the food I cook or my mom cooks and as every kid hamburgers .

Modern family 

The many mispronunciations of Gloria

(Sofia Vergara)

How did you feel when listening to Gloria’s accent?


I felt that she was a woman that has a lot of problems to communicate with others. She comes from a spanish speaking country ,so she mixes this new language (English) and her colombian spanish into a spanglish .

Is this variation of language identifying a particular community for good or bad ?


This variation of language represents people coming from other countries that move into the United States and identifies them in a good and in a bad way , because it show that they still have their accent, but it also shows that its a lot harder for them to communicate.

Is this an inferior variation of the English language?


I think so because its a lot harder to communicate with others ,but it also has a lot of words that english doesn't have.

Do you usually judge people’s accents?


No because its their way to talk and everybody has their own way ,so why judge them and if you don't understand you can always ask them to repeat what they said.