Post for 5/18

Describe the climax (turning point) of your novel. What is the main conflict? Does the protagonist win in this conflict or does s/he lose?

         In the climax of Enders Game, Ender, the protagonist is fighting a war against the buggers, (alien species who attacked earth) unknowingly. Ender thinks that he is taking his last exam at comanders school, but in fact he is commanding real platoons to execute real maneuvers against the buggers. It was Enders hardest battle against the "computer" untill he finds out that he was actually commanding real ships and that he wiped out a whole species to prevent his own species from being obliterated. Ender is rewarded for wining the last battle against the buggers with medals and promotions, he also gets a planet named after him and becomes the leader of a planet that the people of earth "commandeered" from the buggers before the last war. This was neer the end of the book so it makes sence that ender won the last bugger battle. 

Relashionship between Antonio and Bassonio

3) Analyze the relationship between Bassanio and Antonio. What is going on between them? What is the nature of their feelings toward one another? Please provide quote(s) from the text to support your position as well as its Kindle location(s).
      To be perfectly candid I belive that bassanio and Antonio have quite the complex relationship ship going on, I think it's a bit of a soap opera affair. Antonio is the rich man that seems to have his life figured out, he is a well established merchant that has got it all going on. On the other hand Bassanio is a young broke indebted man that just wants to find the person that can benefit his life and make it the best that it can be at any given moment.  So at this point in young ambitious Bassanio's life this person has been Antonio, Antonio has been Basanio's "sugar daddy" so to speak this is shown in the beginning of the play.

        "BASSANIO:

        To you, Antonio,

         I owe the most, in money and in love;

         And from your love I have a warranty

         To unburden all my plots and purposes 

         How to get clear of all the debts I owe." (Loc. 2445)

       This quote near the beginning of the play Shakespeare shows that Bassanio seems kind of manipulative and that the it is not the first time he has borrowed money from Antonio, to which Antonio responds:

        ANTONIO:

        I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it;

        And if it stand, as you yourself still do,

• Within the eye of honour, be assur'd

  My purse, my person, my extremest means,

  Lie all unlock'd to your occasions. (Loc. 2445)

  
  

         I think that this quote shows that Bassanio is taking advantage of Antonio, and how Antonio feels about him. This quote shows that Antonio has feelings for Bassanio, but bassanio does not seem to have the same feelings for him because the reason that bassanio wants the money is to woo Porsha. In conclusion I think that Bassanio is just taking advantage of what Antonio is willing to do for him, I think that Bassanio took it too far when he took out the loan with Antonio's credit, because the feelings that Antonio has are not mutual and i have a feeling Bassanio is not going to pay off the debt and Shylock is going to take a pund of poor oblivious Antonio's flesh and Antonio might very well die from loosing a pund of flesh. 

Is Shakespeare Relevent?

Is Shakespeare's work still relevant to us today (is it still relevant for us to study Shakespeare)? If so, how is it relevant? If not, why is it not relevant?

I think that Shakespeare's work is still verry relevant, especially for us to study. It is important for many reasons, for one as Mr. Johnathan pointed out and as I'm sure many people have noticed it is referenced all over the place and if you have studied it you can understand references sometimes there are little jokes in things that you only understand if you have studied the material. It is also important because we can use Shakespeare's writings to learn more about the English language of hs time, and we can see where some of the words we use today came from. In the video they told us about some of the words that Shakespeare made up, and alot of them are still used today (eyeball, alligator, and assassination). Some may argue that we could just use no fear Shakespeare, but in doing this you can loose some of the things that are most important about Shakespeare's works, and things that he is trying to say are lost in the translation, so to speak. So in conclusion I think that studying Shakespeare is extremely relevant and important. 

Mood Space Response

Orange room:
      The orange room was very dark the walls were draped with blue sheets that made the room look darker and smaller. All of the lights were off and there was only one candle burning this made the room look cold and lonely. This room seemed to evoke the mood of depression and there was sad music playing that seemed to further the depression mood.

Design space:
       I'm not really sure of the mod that this space evoked but I think that it was showing crazy. Isabella was wearing the hat of the jester and she was laughing as she told the story about a gardener who died in the space. It was crazy there was all kinds of stuff going on there were three different things going on and I was kind of lost, so I think that it was tring to relay crazyness and chaos.

Green room:
       Julian was jumping all over the place and I think that he was showing happiness and excitement. There was candy that he gave to people, the lights were on and bright and he had smoky faces. He was jumping around while he was playing the "happy and youknow it" song.

Journal TFA 3 12/1

Question one: what is going on it this passage?
      The passage (1129-1234) is mainly about three characters: Ezinma, Ekwefi, and Chielo. Ezinma is the daughter of Ekwefi, and Chielo is the priestess of their clan. In this passage Chielo is doing her usual thing where she communicates with Agbala (one of the gods), she says that Agbala wants to see/meet Ezinma, so she leaves with her and goes off into the hills, chanting away. Ekwefi starts to worry about her daughter and so she runs to catch up with Chielo, but she stays behind them and follows them for a ver long time they go to the furthest village in the clan and then turn arround and walk back in the detection of home, but they stop at a cave and go in, Ekwefi is afraid to go in but she waits out side because she is afraid for her daughter, she waits for a really long time then Okonkwo comes and tells Ekwefi to go home and rest and he will stay and wait.

Question two:  Discuss Chielo's role in the community and also what do you think she is doing with Ezinma?
      Chielos role in the community is mainly the role as the priestess for Agbala, she is respected, honored, and valued. I think that she is taking Ezinma with her to see Agbala because Agbala asked to see her and that is not something that is unusual it seems, no one seems to think it is odd when she asks to take Ezinma with her. However that seems to an illogical assumption because Ekwefi seems to get really nervous, but I don't know if that is just because she has never had that happen to her before of if it was that maybe because Ezinma was sick, I guess I don't really know what Chielo was doing with Ezinma but I put what I think it might have been above. 

I chose a painting called "our lady of the angels". This painting evokes a mood of lightness and brightness. They use alot of light colors, creams, pinks, and yellows that make up the clowds. Then there's the halo around the Madonna and child the gold pigment that makes up the gold seems to radiate around the heads of the two. They are both surrounded by angels. This painting invokes a mood of happiness for me. Baby Jesus in the paing has his arms outstretched as if to embrace the people who are viewing the painting.

Vocabulary for 20/11

"Why heed long bleeding Cuba,"- line 3, Black Mans Burden
"Your new-caught sullen peoples," - lone 7, White Mans Burden
"In patience to abide," - line 10, White Mans Burden
"No tawdry rule of kings" - line 26, White Mans Burden
"Te lightly preferred laurel" - line 51, White Mans Burden
Heed: to nottice and pay attention to
Sullen: not happy mood, depressed, sad, sulky gloomy
Abide: to obey
Tawdry: fashion jewelry
Laurel: shrubbery with dark green foliage