Presentations.

On friday I was really impressed by the Antigone presentation. It was cool that it was the exact same story but with a modern twist. It made it extremely funny. I mean they hit it dead on by calling Creon a pimp and Ismane as a whinny little girl. This was a valuable play because they made it so every character was really easily able to be grasped. It put it in a perceptive that really anyone would understand. I kind of wonder why they don't do plays like this for kids that would never be willing to read something classic like Antigone. I think that i would make it so they would get into classic literature. I don't think that classic literature is dyeing its just transforming into new trends of characters. The plot never really changes just the outfit and names. I feel as though if this idea could be related to every kid that they wouldn't be so unwilling to read. IN fact they would realize that every TV show on is just a retelling of book, and books may become more popular.

My Sincere Apology

Alright, this blog is written to defend my self from certain persons so if it offends anyone I'm sorry just look at your fellow class mates blogs. I was bashed on by one of my fellow class mate in their blog for being "obnoxious, loud, and unintelligent" during my presentation. Then he went off to say that I'm not smart at all I'm just good at yelling at people, and that is why my point is heard rather than others. Although the second part may be true, there was a reason for my unintelligence. If I was not loud and obnoxious our debate would have probably not gotten anywhere, it would have been another group reading from note cards and having a completely pre planned speech which is okay, but would have it really been interesting to the class. By polarizing the class against a common enemy (myself) it allowed it so many much deeper thought and ideas where able to escape from the brains of my cohorts, even if it was to make me look dumb. Sometimes a lot more intelligent conversation is done by acting a foul and letting the rest of the world have an attack on you, rather than just reading from some pre planned note card and trying to act smart. So I am sorry that if i offended anyone by not letting them defeat Tim Ronan (he was too loud I couldn't talk over him.) I just decided that it was worth the sacrifice so we could have a smooth presentation what involved the entire class.

Paragraph 1 draft 1

This will be changed son but this is my first draft to my first paragraph.

   Since the beginning of humanity the question of death has tormented our species. Death is an idea that resounds across all age groups and ethnicities, so when a marketing genius decided to manipulate concept it was extremely easy for them to gain large amount of power and wealth. From this our entire civilization was formed; from the most mighty pope, to the poorest beggar, everyone was put into their place depending upon how well they, or their lineage could manipulate the concept of life after death. This order had been established for centuries when Dostoevsky started writing his classic novel the Brothers Karamazov. This idea of God, and how well people can conform to it, is shown as one of the principle of foundations of the novel, although it is never really given a stance. Instead Dostoevsky created characters with personalities of their own that would take each side of the argument, allowing the reader to decide with no implications from Dostoevsky himself. One of the principle characters for this foundational part of the book is Ivan Karamazov. During book 5 of the Brothers Karamazov “Con and Contra” Ivan makes argument that he can’t ACCEPT   the world that god has created.  Although he believes that God exists, he thinks that the fundamental bases of the church and humanity is flawed. Although Ivan makes valid arguments, they were only created in the hope that he could justify his own life. Ivan makes this magnificent argument against god not to in some way save humanity but rather because he is a Karamazov. Through a traumatic childhood, and a Karamazovian  curse Ivan has to justify why we thinks and acts the way he is, for this reason Ivan wrote the Grand inquisitor and made a stunning argument against god. 

No book is boring only people are

This blog is being written so i can revive some idea that I had about this subject from earlier in the semester. My group is doing its project on this topic so I figured I might as well think about it before we end up meeting. 

Really I'm not sure if a agree with this statement some books are just really poorly written and I feel as though that is a barrier that really effects the ability for a book to be enjoyed. I was thinking about it this weekend and being intelligence is just how well one being can convey a message to another being so if the message cannot be conveyed than really the book is of a low level of intelligence that really is not worth anyone time and really is a boring book. Rather if a book is written well which most published pieces of literature are than that said book is really probably not boring just the people that read and hate it are. 

The reason that some books are seen as being boring or stupid or suck is because often times the reader don't relate to the subject matter. This is not the fault of the authors its just that people are to lazy to really allow themselves to fall into a topic that is unfamiliar to them. This makes it so the book is alien and therefor stupid. I can think of a perfect example of this from my own life. I was given an assignment to read the secret life of bee's when i was in 9Th grade, from here on out this book resonates with the worst book ever written to me. It's not because there was anything wrong with me, but instead the book was just written  on a level that I didn't comprehend or didn't' want to try to comprehend. I mean when the girl had her period I did what any 15 year old would do, and say "this is sick man, I don't want to read this garbage." Really though this and a few other scenes are crucial to the point of the coming of age novel. 

Not only are people to lazy to try and understand what is being written, but lately our society has been lacking imagination and that is also another huge burden to the enjoyment of novels. Ever since the creation of the radio it has been easier and easier for ones imagination to be sucked out and replaced by images and sound of the imagination of another. This has really hindered the enjoyment of books. What the point of reading a story if you can't be a part of the story. For a novel to be enjoyed one has to become completely engrossed in that said novel and lately we have not been able to do that because of many different outside influences, that distract us from the majesty that is a book. I have to go and eat but my one other big argument is about people just being flat out lazy and that they would rather have their brains dead than exercise them. 

Creon Vs Antigone

In the play Antigone, it is often seen as Antigone being the hero while Creon is often shown to be a villain. This is probably because Antigone is more commonly seen as the protagonist, why is this though.  She is the main character of the play, but really is she justified. Are her actions wholly intended to bury her dead brother or are they about something more. Rather than Antigone following the rules of the world she thinks that she can play by her own rules. She thinks that that she will be able to do what she want to do unchecked, she buries her brother not so she can save his soul but rather to test the power of the new governmental regime. This is often overlooked in Antigone, but Creon is a new king, that just got out of one war with one of Antigone's brothers. If she were to some how challenge the authority of the new king she could have caused turbulence with in the community. This would have caused another uprising maybe forcing Creon out of power. Although Antigone is a woman in a power vacuum really anything can happen it would have been possible for her to take a spot on the throne. The reason that this is true is because she could have come up with another way to save her brothers soul. Instead she was too bull headed and decided to take matters into her own hands. Antigone wasn't even bold enough to take her punishment after it was dealt. This shows that she honestly didn't ever think that she was going to be punished, proving that she thought that the new king was weak. Antigone thought that there was a chance that she could over throw Creon and when she failed it was shown to the world as civil disobedience  instead of an act of war upon her own country. She is not justified in her actions because all that she was really trying to do was over throw Creon who was justifiably in a place of power. 

Old News Sonnet

Although sonnets are really old news and we're on to bigger and better things, I have to tell this story because I couldn't actually believe it myself. So firstly I got in a huge fight with my girlfriend the other day... So big that I thought that we were probably going to break up over it. I was supper upset and anxious and I didn't really know what to do so I sat down and wrote, but instead of writing a journal entry all that I could think about was rhyming so I decided to write a sonnet. I wasn't sure, but in the end it actually made me feel way better. I can't really believe that it worked. I mean I was super skeptical about it in the first place but I liked doing it, and it calmed me down a ton. More so than doing that though it made it so my girlfriend wasn't mad at me anymore. This was honestly one of the coolest things that has ever happened and I will remember it for the rest of my life. Instead of even trying to talk it out with her I just gave her the sonnet and didn't say anything. After she read it everything just seemed to be okay. I don't really know what happened but I guess that it just some how made her realize that it isn't worth fighting about anything. What I'm really trying to get at is that even if you write a sonnet for your personal well being (not being stressed out), give it to the person that you are writing about. I think that they will, every time be touched in some way that you actually wrote, a sonnet (not a poem) about them. Not very many people get hand written personal sonnets in their lives, so if you give one to some one they won't stay mad at you I guarantee it. Plus the sonnet helps you get past the hard part in your life.

The brothers K

Right now I am rereading book 5 to try and come up with an idea for my paper. I think that what I want to write about is that although Alexi is suppose to be the idealistic spiritual begin this should title should actually be given to his brother Ivan. The reason that i think this is because Ivan is not worried about the inner workings of god but rather the sufferings of man. I know that it is supposedly more idealistic to give up ones life for doing goods work but it seems as though Alexi has not ever really thought about why he is doing it. Ivan seems to be doing something that he feels as though can change the persecutive of man kind where Alexi is just following duty. How is it idealistic to blindly follow anything. Ivan makes the point about the little girl in the out house and this is what I feel like stings a cord that create a paper on. Rather than talking about the little boy getting ripped apart by dogs the little girl is a more powerful image because she lives afterwards, and that is the beginning of her fait to just become another human that is going to do evil in the world. During this conversation Alexi can barely deal with the ideas that are being brought up, he can barely talk and a feel as though this isin vocative of another human that is willing to allow suffering to happen in exchange for happiness. Which Ivan also brings up. Really I think that the thesis of my paper is going to be that Ivan instead of Alexi should be the ideal character not because he is not confrontational, but instead because he is willing to be confrontational to try and understand the problems in the world.