June 7, 2011

Lord of The Flies Comparative Analysis

The Book Lord of the Flies by William Golding differs from the movie by Harry Hook in three different ways one of the ways the book differs from the movie is how in the beginning of the book, all of the kids were alone and through out the days they started meeting each other, but in the movie they were already all together and came from the same school. Another way it differs is by how in the book the kids were british and in the movie american. The third way is how in the book Jack is a little more positive than in the movie, he starts to tell the kids that they wont ever be rescued, in the book he doesn't do that.

In the beginning of the book Ralph and Piggy were the first ones to meet, then came Jack and the quire. They were all from different school so they didn't know each other and what they dared to do. for example, in the book when they met roger, they had no idea how aggressive he was, he was always so quiet and then he is killing pigs and people. The kids never imagine Roger killing Piggy and turning so savage.
In the movie, they already knew each other because they came from the same school, so they know what the other kid can do, and knows how he is more like.

In the book we are told that the kids are british, and in the movie they are american. It makes a difference because being british they would be more respectful, or arrogant and maybe would take things more personally, they wouldn't be as savage as an american who has no limits, and they kids would understand each another a bit more.

Another thing that makes the movie differ from the book is by how in the book, jack has more hope than he does in the movie, i think this also has to do with being british and american. In the movie, Jack is constantly saying they wont ever be rescued, there is no hope for them. Its important because when the kids hear that there is no hope then they have the idea in their minds that they are going to die and all that, so they start to do some things they wouldn't ever imagine their selves doing, just so they can survive a little bit longer.

These were three ways how the movie differed from the book, in good and bad, turns out that in the movie they had more reasons to be savage than they had in the book, they knew each other already , and the kids were American unlike in the book they were british.

April 28, 2011

You Can't Have it all

but you can have a house in the east coast
with a parking lot filled up with bicycles, scooters and skates, like if it where the Rally Store.
You can have a sixteen year old brother everyday asking for money if your parents dont have any.
You can have a garden filled with orange, pink,white, purple and green flowers, looking like heaven you see in the movies.
you can have a bathroom filled with your mothers makeup.
you can have a teacher that pushes her classroom, like horses being whipped to race.
you can have the feeling of satisfactory,
but what you cant have and shouldn't feel is regret.
you can have the wrong things that happen in life be a lesson.

Lord of The Flies CH.10 Tanka

Weird noises at night.
Jack hunters invade the place.
Ralph beaten up harsh,
Piggy's glasses were stolen.
Now, there is no where to be safe.

April 25, 2011

Mt. Rushmore Rock- Benjamin Moore AC-39















she wakes up at six hoping,
to get out of this place.
hoping all of her years of
hard work and discipline pay off at the real world.

She who dreamed of romance ,
of partying.
having a perfect boyfriend and
the perfect clique,
got stuck in military camp.

She who has one week
to get ready for the time of her life.
prom,
military prom.

to be who you really are
and do
what you really do.

she walks through the streets of California
wearing Juicy Couture sunglasses
hermes handbag.
feeling like her old self again.

and there she is,
carrying a north hampton beige color bag
with her dream dress.
it will be the night of her life.

April 24, 2011

Poetry Notebook




Music
Selected by Maria Fernanda Cuellar

Description
This notebook contains poems about music, how people feel and how they express through out music. I did not just used these poems for this notebook because they were related to the theme. When I read these poems, most of them reminded me of moments that have happened in my life and moments i have witnesses.

Synopsis
Heavily influenced by poets like: Sonia Sanchez, Robert Creely, Carl Sandburg and more...


Poetry

Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness by John Donne
Ballad by Sonia Sanchez
Latin & Soul by Victor Hernandez Cruz
Water Music by Robert Creely
A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barett Browning
Piano by D. H. Lawrance
A Book Of Music by Jack Spicer

April 14, 2011

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen


Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Publisher: Turtle Bay Books

Where I got it: from Mrs. Meadows memoir basquet

Once sentence summary: Kaysen is talking about when she was 18-years-old her experience of being in a psychiatric hospital; how she ran away from home and attempted suicide, she went to a doctor and told her she was going to stay in McLean(hospital) for a few weeks and stayed there for two years, many patients did not want to leave the safety of the hospital.

First Sentence: People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well.

First chapter review: they are talking about how she is in a hospital and about her roommates and all of her friends and many of their problems. then about how people slip into a parallel universe, like: world of insane, the criminals, the cripples, the dying, and the dead as well.

Verdict: i think this was some amazing book, it was easy to read and it was long but short at the same time. i enjoyed reading it.

Cover Comments: The cover is divided into two; a blue and a white side, but they both are the same picture of a girl. i think it means like what they said at the first chapter about the parallel sides, like the good and bad also.

April 11, 2011

We Need a Meeting

We need a meeting.
not for fun.
not for laughing.
nor falling of the log.

For cleverness,
Not for these things,
but to put things straight.

"We dont work"
said Ralph
"Because we are scared"
said Piggy
"Shut up, i am not scared"

ive gone through all the island.
i have seen no beast.
there is no beast.

have you seen a beast littleun?
"in my dreams"
is there a beast littleun?
it comes out of the water.

it eats pigs...

March 29, 2011

Were I'm From

I'm from sneakers, from nikes and Ed hardy

i am from creamy colored house, full wit orange flowers, deep green trees, and colored bicycles.

i am from "every saturday night church" and big feet, from ricardo and cuellar and mondragon.


i am form the crazy dancing and bad inventions

from "don't come crying after" and

"te conozco bacalao aunque vengas disfrasao"


i am from sunny, rainy, cloudy tropical panama, seafood and sancocho.

from killing lizards in my bathroom with shampoo and deodorant next to my brother.

March 15, 2011

Japan Earthquake WW story

It all happen during after school hours at 2:46 in the afternoon. I was walking with my best friend Natsuki; we were heading up to the movie theater to watch “Hana Yori Dango Final.” I was bantering her about how much she loved Niyisoko in that movie. She said he was a hot papa (which he totally isn’t.) she said I was to fastidious when she talked to me, but I mean, that’s what friends do… they hear you out even if you are not that audible! A few minutes had passed, and we were three blocks away from the movie theater until suddenly we feel everything shaking, everything was fitful, the sky not so azure anymore, it was turning colorless, and the shaking wouldn’t decelerate. “Earthquake!!!!!” I screamed. We found ourselves grappling on to a mailbox stand for 30 minutes. When it all ended I took my cell phone, I didn’t expect it to have any signal but surprisingly it did have, I called my mom to see if everyone was ok, everyone was, I told her I would ran back home that I would be there in 10 min.

“I am so sorry Natsuki, just in case I want you to know that you will always be my best friend” I told her before I ran away.

I arrived home and find all of the family sitting on the living rooms sofa—a capacious sofa. My mom said it would facilitate our thinking to not be worrying if someone’s missing. It was a crucial moment in which we all had to stay together.

Suddenly we hear these loud sirens outside the house, I think it was that the president of Japan had sent a copious of adept deploys to see if there were any people injured.

March 3, 2011

House on Mango Street

The memoir I read was “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros. The significance of the title is that, Esperanza, the main character of the book, is always moving from place to place, and her dad is always telling her that one day they will live in a beautiful house forever. But now she is living in a red, ugly house on Mango Street. She is even embarrassed of pointing to that red house and say “its mine.”

Every chapter of this memoir is organized in vignettes; the chapters may be short but every single one of them has significance to how each memory or event affected her life. It can serve as a metaphor for everything in her life.

There were many vignettes in were the memoirist came to realize many things. For example: one of the vignettes that called “Red Clowns”. In this memory she is in a park, waiting for her friend Sally and out of nowhere this man gets near her and rapes her. She begins to get mad at Sally because she didn’t come to help Esperanza in her time of need. Especially since Esperanza came to the carnival because of Sally even though she didn’t want to

I really liked this book; I thought it was a great memoir, I thought it was well written, and how she did the metaphors for such simple things as… “Hairs” hairs describe the personality of a person.

Lines I loved:
“Someday I will have a best friend all my own. One I can tell my secrets to. One who will understand my jokes with ought me having to explain them. Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor”
pg. 9

February 22, 2011

I Believe that...

I believe in screaming as loud as you can

I believe that the color of the nail polish on your toenail describes who you are

I believe that falling down is a great medicine

I believe in laughing, as much as you can is one of the best things in life

I believe that standing up to people changes you

I believe that climbing trees is the fun thing in a day out

I believe that a soon as you finish a book there is a lesson learned

I believe that bird poop is bad luck

I believe that every kid should live their childhood in a good pair of shoes

January 31, 2011

Will my High School years be a calamity? (btw. i am not afraid of high school, its just a made up story)


I was walking myself to school, first day as a freshman. Thinking meticulously about how it was going to be, would i be a loser? a nerd? would i be popular? would everyone lionize me? or would everyone treat me like trash? just like that Kate girl in my other school, who assimilated everyone and made them go against me. ugh hate that chick. Now, would my high school years be a calamity?

I get to my new school, there are bunch of tables with lots of people surrounding them. Everyone in their own clique, goths,football jocks, cheerleaders,quires group, science geeks, student council, the popular kids. i stare at each one of them trying to figure out where i could fit in.

i feel someone touching my arm, its a girl, a cheerleader! cheerleaders are cool, right?

she asked me if i wanted to go sit down with her. i followed. her posy were having an argument of who was the coolest in "gLee" they were all in dissension. i knew right then, i don't belong here.




ps. Puck is the coolest.

January 27, 2011

Back in the 40's

Back in the 40's where my grandpa Jack used to live, my family told me that he worked with the government, and there was this guy named Richard Bong who supposedly no one liked him because he would always make an anarchy in the moments where they least needed confusion. It would always be a calamity when the government join for there special meetings. Richard had always a dissension from what the other people said. My family told me that my grandpa would always see him conspire with this woman, it was bizarre. No one ever seem to apprehend what he was saying.

So this one day my G. Jack was in the meetings and he was sweltering and so he decided to go to the bathroom, while he was passing by the bathroom was Bong's office. there h was, with the mysterious lady and so he got closer to the door to meticulously hear what they were talking about.

He heard that they were going to get the President of the United States and kill him so that Bong would be the president and then he would take over the whole entire world.

While jack was listening he got so surprised he elapsed a little sound. Bong and the woman came right out to see who was there listening. they catched Jack and shackled him to a chair. Bong and the lady started to interrogate him to see how much he had heard. Bong was imminent to shoot him but then decided that he could be a good help. he asked jack if he would get in the planning, but he was not going to kneel and lionize him to stay in the plan. he told him that if he didn't join then Bong would arraign him for listening to very important private conversations. Jack went to court, Bong got arrested, no one got killed.