Beauty and Youth

BEAUTY AND YOUTH 

1.- How are young people nowadays?
2.- What are the benefits of drinking and smoking? There have no benefits
3.-What is beauty and youth
4.- Do we really now what beauty is?


Picture and information link
http://manu.org.nz/2012/04/22/youth-health-package-just-scratches-surface/

The picture of Dorian Gray, first chapter mind map

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine.The main theme of the novel is aestheticism and duplicity (mainly a double life) This is the first chapter of the novel were the main plot is the interactions between Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton and a short story of basil when he first met Dorian Grey.

This is the link for the first chapter mind map:
In the mind map are the following themes 
"all art is quite useless" 
The personality traits of the character in the first chapter (Dorian Grey, Lord Henry and Basil Hallward).
Oscar Wilde
The aesthetic movement 
The Victorian times 

Link:
http://www.mindmeister.com/418062835/the-picture-of-dorian-gray

The novel link
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/oscar-wilde/dorian-gray.pdf

Bibliography  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray#Themes
http://www.shmoop.com/picture-dorian-gray/basil-hallward.html
http://courses.wcupa.edu/fletcher/britlitweb/cklinb.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_literature#The_style_of_the_Victorian_novel
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Art_for_art's_sake
http://www.cranleighdfas.org/rev1101.htm

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

http://jeremy-mackay.blogspot.com/2013/11/letter-from-gyurka-to-his-father.html

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