Realism

Jasmine Mapp
03/26/09
1st period

Realism

This story was about a woman who just find out her husband had died. But instead of her being sad that he died she was happy. Then all of a sudden she sees someone coming into the house and when she finds out that it’s her husband she dies of a heart attack because she was so disappointed. I think what the writer is trying to solve is women’s right because back then they were not equal to men so of course she would be happy that she could live on her own without caring for someone else.
The reason why I think that is because of this text… “When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.” It sounded to me like she was happy that he was finally gone.
In the story the battle with Mr. Covey I think that writer was trying to get people to see that slavery is not a good thing for African Americans. The African Americans have been beat down to their lowest points only for someone to come along and beat them lower. The reason why I think that is because of this text…” We were worked in all weathers. It was never too hot or too cold; it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow too hard for us to work in the field. Work, work, work was scarcely more the order of the day than of the night. The longest days were too short for him, and the shortest nights too long for him.”
I think that the movie “Set it off” is a good example of realism. The reason why I think that is because the story is about four friends who don’t really have enough money to survive and the all have their said story about their childhood that holds them down from the future. Then one day they decide to rob a bank but before they do they make a plan how to get the money. While doing so everyone dies but one, and the one who doesn’t die moves to Mexico where the police can not get her.
I think is a good example because it tells you that life isn’t always good and lovely. That’s just a sugar coat that people but over the real world to shield people from the truth. It just lets you know that not everyone is born with a silver spoon.

The Dark Romanticism

Jasmine Mapp
03/26/09
1st period

Dark romanticism

I think that I fall under the category of dark romantics. The reason why I think that is because I seriously don’t think that everyone is 100% good just for the fact that there are so many people in Jail and prison for doing something wrong. I also believe in original sin. The reason for that is because the things we go thru today we probably wouldn’t if it hadn’t had been for Adam and Eve. I mean everyone is not evil but everyone is not good either.
In the story the Masque of Red Death I couldn’t really follow because of the words that I didn’t really know, other than that I got it very well. The story was about a Prince who had hung a few people, I don’t know why though, and afterwards he celebrated with a lot of people in his castle. He hired dancers, music, and etc. He had seven rooms. Each of different colors but one was a scary black color that most people were scared to even set foot in. The black room had a clock that mad a scary sound every hour that stopped everyone in their tracks for a couple of seconds or more.
All of a sudden a man with a red cloche came into the room and everyone gave him attention instead of the prince so the prince got mad and told his people to get him and hang him. But the people were too scared to get him so he did it his self. The man in the cloche walked in every room as the prince followed him with his sword. Then all of a sudden the man turned around and when he did the prince dropped his sword so the man killed him with it. Then one by one the man in the red cloche killed everyone in the castle.
In this story there is a lot that makes you realize that the transcends were wrong about everyone being 100% good. The man in this story was certainly not good at all.

I never really thought that I would like a poem as much as I liked this one. I mean I didn’t really get it at first but once it was explained to me it became clear. In each stanza it became more exciting. It was like it got more intense as he wrote. It seemed like that really happened to him.
I think that this poem is anti-transcendental because the transcendentalists felt that people’s intuition was always right because God was the one telling them that, but that was so different from what the dark romanticisms thought. They thought that everyone’s intuition was their own because sometimes it could lead to the wrong thing or it could make you do bad things. It seems like Transcendentalists wanted to see the good in all people, but the dark romanticist wanted them to see that not everyone was good but some are.

The Transcendentalists

Jasmine Mapp

03/26/09

1st period

The Transcendentalists

In the story Nature I think that the man who was writing the story was talking about how man and the earth work together. I think that they think that work is the only way to keep the world turning. In the story Self-Reliance the person who is talking in the story is talking about how work is a way that boys grow up to be men. I think that they wanted people to know that working is a way to manhood. And last but not least in the story Resistance to civil government they were saying how the government is not all that great. I real don’t know what that has to do with transcendentalists, but oh well.

I think that the wilderness video was a great example of transcendental philosophy because I think that the man that went to the wilderness believed that it was better to do your own work then to let people do it for him. He spent time with the animals, he built his own cabin, and he also hunted for his food. It seemed to me like he wanted to be one with nature and he it seemed like he did a good job doing so.
He made a document on everything that he did in the wilderness. I’m surprised he didn’t get hurt doing any of the things that he did. I know that If I did that I would probably get hurt the first day.

American Romanticisim

Jasmine Mapp
02-26-09
1st period

American romanticism

In the story of Rip Van Winkle I found that the part about him falling asleep after he became drunk and not waking up for 20 years was the romantic part of the story.
In the Poem Thanatopis I think that this poem was talking to someone and telling them that you should be afraid to die and that is a natural thing. I also think they are saying that you should be afraid to die .The part when Mother Nature was saying that when you die, you die the same as kings, queens, good people was the romantic part of the story.
The image that stands out for me is the one when the man is ringing the bell. Only because I couldn’t really get it at first but when I got finished reading it became very clear to me. The Ropewalk is a good example of romanticism because this man is working at a ropewalk and he is imagining all the people who use the rope that he makes so that he can keep from being bored.
The reason why the painting is considered romanticism is because many people back then when romanticism first started lived in big cities and they really didn’t know what the country looked like so this painting was a way to imagine what the country looked like.

The reason why I picked the image at the top of the assignment is because I have never been to the mountains before so helps me imagine what it looks like. And thats just like romanticism, it makes you imagine things. It makes you look at plain old everyday thing and make them so beautiful.

The Coldest Winter Ever

Jasmine Mapp

03/26/09

1st period

The coldest Winter Ever

Right now i am reading a book called the coldest winter ever. This book is about a young girl named Winter Santiaga who has lived her whole life in Brooklyn as the duaghter of Mr. Santiaga the most wealthy drug dealer in brooklyn. She was spoiled all her life and had three little sisters named Porsha, Mersaudes, and Lexis. while in Brooklyn she fell in love with one of her fathers workers named Midnight. It was something about him that she loved so much but he wouldnt give her the time of day and that made her mad seeing as to she could have any man she wanted in Brooklyn. When her father made enough money Winters family moved to Long Island in near the Hamptons to get away from the dangers of Brooklyn. Winter didnt like it up there so she did everything in her power to get back to her thrown as the Queen of Brooklyn. One the morning of her mothers birthday she heard her mother screaming at her father and this was very weird because normally her mother didnt raise her voice because she sad that you should always let a man think that he was in charge and not the other way around, but in this case she wanted that new car for her birthday. So they went out to get it and while they were out her mother got shot in the face. She didnt die but she stayed at home for a very long time. But to make a long story short, her father got caught, they lost the house, her mother stared doing drugs, her little sisters are in adption home, and she is living with a women who helps teenagers get their lives back on track but she doesnt want anyones help if she cant do it on her own.