lit analysis "Call of the Wild

GENERAL
1. Brief summary:
This is a story of a dog that gets taken from his home and put to work on a sled dog team. He goes through a few owners, becomes stronger and stronger, then an owner he actually liked and respected gets killed by natives, so he kills all the natives and ascends into a more legendary status.

2. Theme:
One of the themes of this novel is that humanity is frail and subject to fall. It can also be said that the government can control the masses through a combination of drugging and brainwashing. Also, it displays how beautiful chaos is and how if we try to control every aspect of our humanity we will lose it.

3. Tone:
The tone of the novel tends to be trying for shock value. Huxley describes second grade aged children experimenting sexually, and then goes on to have characters react to it as if it is not an unusual thing. It is, in fact, expected. Also, many things, including the title of the book are references to Shakespeare

CHARACTERIZATION

1. Direct/Indirect
The author uses direct characterization to tell the reader that Buck was 140 pounds, and the son of a Scotch Shepherd and a St. Bernard and other trivial information like that, but later, the author uses indirect characterization to show the changes Buck goes through. He also uses indirect to describe Buck's love for John.

2. Syntax/Diction
Most of the time, when discussing characters, the author seems much more excited. The environment is kind of dull to read about in this book.

3.Static/Dynamic
The protagonist is dynamic and round. He changes throughout the story by becoming more savage and brave. He is round in that he is wild and kills people as well as brave and courageous and strong.

4. After reading do you feel like you me a character:
I feel that actual dogs are not as intelligent as these dogs from the story. So, no, I feel that these dogs were abnormal and that i would never meet a dog that did so much.

Lit Terms 6-30

6.ANALYSIS: Detailed examination of the elements or structure of something, typically as a basis for discussion or interpretation.
Think sparknotes and how they not only look at plot but the themes and reasons behind the text.

7.ANAPHORA: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
Most songs use anaphora in their chorus.

8.ANECDOTE: A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
When your BFF tells you about that funny thing that happened over the weekend.

9.ANTAGONIST:A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary
What Voldemort is to Harry Potter.

10.ANTITHESIS: contrary ideas expressed in a balanced sentence. It is the juxtaposition of two words, phrases, clauses, or sentences contrasted or opposed in meaning in such a way as to give emphasis to their contrasting ideas and give the effect of balance. This is a device often used in rhetoric.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

11.APHORISM: A pithy observation that contains a general truth.
"If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got."

12.APOLOGIA:
A formal written defense of one's opinions or conduct.
Denial or denying something.

13.APOSTROPHE: An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) 
"Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again."

14.ARGUMENT(ATION):
A reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong.
When fighting with someone trying to persuade them to think differently.

15.ASSUMPTION: A thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof: "they made certain assumptions about the market".
A girl who wears soccer shorts may be assumed to play soccer.

16.AUDIENCE: The assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert, etc.
The crowd in the football stadium.

17.CHARACTERIZATION: The means by which an author reveals their character
Indirect/direct characterization, or how they act and make decisions.

18.CHIASMUS: 
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
"Nice to see you..to see you nice."


19.CIRCUMLOCUTION: 
The use of many words where fewer would do, esp. in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive.
Instead of saying it was hot outside you would say the sun blazed high in the sky and it's warmth radiated throughout the land.

20.CLASSICISM: The following of ancient Greek or Roman principles and style in art and literature
Greek marble statues.

21.CLICHE: a phrase or situation overused within society.
"Don't do drugs."

22.CLIMAX:
The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.
The big fight scene towards the end of the Harry potter movie.

23. COLLOQUIALISM: Slang words or informal way of speech 
"Sup", "bomb", "bro"

24.COMEDY:
A movie, play, or broadcast program intended to make an audience laugh.
The movie the hangover

25.CONFLICT: Struggle or problem in a story causing tension
The classic struggle in many stories is good vs evil.

26.CONNOTATION: An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning
Using sarcasm can imply a different connotation.

27.CONTRAST: where one item is thrown at another to prove clarity 
Black and white contrast on photos.

28.DENOTATION: Plain dictionary definition
Home denotes a place where people live.

29. DENOUEMENT:The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are resolved.
At the end of the last Harry potter novel where we see where all the characters are later on in their life.

30. DIALECT: language or certain people distinguishing them from others.
English, Spanish, French, Chinese, etc.

Poetry Analysis

1)"Last Words" By Sylvia Plath
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already — the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important.
I should sugar and preserve my days like fruit!
My mirror is clouding over —
A few more breaths, and it will reflect nothing at all.
The flowers and the faces whiten to a sheet.
I do not trust the spirit. It escapes like steam
In dreams, through mouth-hole or eye-hole. I can't stop it.
One day it won't come back. Things aren't like that.
They stay, their little particular lusters
Warmed by much handling. They almost purr.
When the soles of my feet grow cold,
The blue eye of my turquoise will comfort me.
Let me have my copper cooking pots, let my rouge pots
Bloom about me like night flowers, with a good smell.
They will roll me up in bandages, they will store my heart
Under my feet in a neat parcel.
I shall hardly know myself. It will be dark,
And the shine of these small things sweeter than the face of Ishtar.

2)"Meeting at Night" by Robert Browning
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!

3)"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

4) Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
(http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175907)

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

5) We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
(http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15433)

We real cool.
We Left school.

We Lurk late.
We Strike straight.

We Sing sin.
We Thin gin.

We Jazz June. 
We Die soon.

Saint Crispin's Day Speech

I tried my best even tried it will my eyes closed. Sorry about the back ground noise my family is watching T.V.

"Lit Terms 1-5"

Allegory: a tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions, or something represent abstract ideas or moral qualities: a story that uses symbols to make a point.

Alliteration: the repetition of similar initial sounds usually consonants, in a group of words.

Allusion: a reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects a reader to recognize.

Ambiguity: something uncertain as to interpretation

Anachronism: something that shows up in the wrong place or the wrong time

AP Prep Post 1

1.  Discuss the ways Siddhartha attempts to attain spiritual enlightenment. Which approaches are successful? Which ones are not successful, and which ones have limited effectiveness? How does Siddhartha progress from one? When Siddhartha leaves his boyhood village, he is armed only with the desire to understand himself and reach enlightenment. He has no concrete, long-term plan for himself other than to seek spiritual fulfillment, and he follows many different paths to reach his goal. 
2.Consider Siddhartha’s relationship with Govinda. How are they similar, and how are they different? What are the narrative functions of Govinda’s reappearance throughout the novel? How does their relationship impact the novel’s ending? Govinda is Siddhartha’s childhood friend and becomes his partner as a spiritual pilgrim. He serves a variety of functions in the novel, both to further the plot and to reveal aspects of Siddhartha we might not otherwise see. Govinda often provides a sounding board for Siddhartha’s ideas
4. How does his father show both patience and wisdom in dealing with his son? At first, Siddhartha’s father shows dissatisfaction and displeasure with his son’s desire to become a Samana. Despite his objection, Siddhartha waits in his room for his father’s approval. His father, although disagreeing, allows his son to leave. His patience and wisdom is tested by his son but even the father understands that his son is a grown man, capable of making wise decisions.
4.Describe the Samanas that Govinda and Siddhartha meet close to the end of Chapter 1. The Samanas are warriors who practice self-denial, the loss of need and desire, in order to live a perfect life. They teach Siddhartha about their exercises to extinguish thyself and give birth a new self, one who is connected to everything, nature and animals.
5. How does Siddhartha negotiate his worlds?
He eventually finds a balance between the two in order to attain his Nirvana.