Please place your "get busy living or get busy dying "essay" in this comment box please. Remember to insert your name!
Monday, March 12, 2007
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Shawshank Conclusion
Download the reading titled "shawshank conclusion", and listen to the final seven pages of the novel as you read the book. Once you have finished, complete the following tasks:
1. Explain how Red's search through hayfields is similar to Andy's hobbies in Shawshank.
2. Why would Red find his new life in the "real world" so terrifying?
3. Compose three paragraphs that explain the significance of the following line:
1. Explain how Red's search through hayfields is similar to Andy's hobbies in Shawshank.
2. Why would Red find his new life in the "real world" so terrifying?
3. Compose three paragraphs that explain the significance of the following line:
"Get busy living, or get busy dying" (106)
- First, compose a SEE paragraph that explains how this line is significant to the book itself. Be sure to use specific reference to the novel.
- Second, compose a SEE paragraph that explains how this line is significant in another book, film or poem.
- Third, compose a SEE paragraph that explains how this line could be significant to you in your own life.
Be sure to use quotes when possible, and to compose paragraphs that would be suitable for an exam situation.
Good Luck!
Friday, March 2, 2007
Poetry Theme: to you who would wage war...
to you who would wage war against me
I
there are many lines
you have not traced on my palms
still
you think you know me
when i speak
you nod knowingly
as if
you’ve already read my mind
and are only politely acknowledging
the confirmation of my spoken words
II
but you cannot possibly know
what i’ve been contemplating
these days
my head is full of blood
but you show no fear
and i do not trust my hands
they look to me like stones
you do not cower when i approach
though i feel like a runaway train
and i can hear your voice cool and steady
while my brain screams profanities
into the air around your ears
our past has given you no reason
to be afraid
but still i am surprised you cannot see
the danger burning brightly in my eyes
the fire i am struggling to control
III
as i sit stewing in the kitchen’s false light
with tears my daughter
comes to me
frightened by what she cannot see
afraid tonight to sleep
i hold her in my arms
singing soft words of comfort
feeling her heart quickly
beating against my chest
knowing before i can think that
i have forgiven us
for our stupid little wars
knowing in that incandescent light
that anger will never move me
as delicately as she has moved me
this night
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Activities
EAT the poem
1. The title of the poem refers to a nameless “you” and “me”. Look closely at the poem or clues about the personalities of the two people referred to by these pronouns. What can you conclude about the personalities of these individuals (support your claims with evidence)
2. The poem deals with two powerful contrasting emotions, anger and love. What words and images does the writer use to convey the intensity of these emotions?
3. What is the significance of the narrator’s observation that “anger will never move me as delicately as she has moved me”? Why does the narrator’s concern and love or her daughter move her more than anger?
4. Examine the poem “the laughing heart” and compare it to this poem. Which line from Bukowski’s poem relates the closest to “anger will never move me as delicately as she has moved me. Explain your response.
5. What ideas does the poem develop regarding perspective? How can this be related to Shawshank?
I
there are many lines
you have not traced on my palms
still
you think you know me
when i speak
you nod knowingly
as if
you’ve already read my mind
and are only politely acknowledging
the confirmation of my spoken words
II
but you cannot possibly know
what i’ve been contemplating
these days
my head is full of blood
but you show no fear
and i do not trust my hands
they look to me like stones
you do not cower when i approach
though i feel like a runaway train
and i can hear your voice cool and steady
while my brain screams profanities
into the air around your ears
our past has given you no reason
to be afraid
but still i am surprised you cannot see
the danger burning brightly in my eyes
the fire i am struggling to control
III
as i sit stewing in the kitchen’s false light
with tears my daughter
comes to me
frightened by what she cannot see
afraid tonight to sleep
i hold her in my arms
singing soft words of comfort
feeling her heart quickly
beating against my chest
knowing before i can think that
i have forgiven us
for our stupid little wars
knowing in that incandescent light
that anger will never move me
as delicately as she has moved me
this night
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Activities
EAT the poem
1. The title of the poem refers to a nameless “you” and “me”. Look closely at the poem or clues about the personalities of the two people referred to by these pronouns. What can you conclude about the personalities of these individuals (support your claims with evidence)
2. The poem deals with two powerful contrasting emotions, anger and love. What words and images does the writer use to convey the intensity of these emotions?
3. What is the significance of the narrator’s observation that “anger will never move me as delicately as she has moved me”? Why does the narrator’s concern and love or her daughter move her more than anger?
4. Examine the poem “the laughing heart” and compare it to this poem. Which line from Bukowski’s poem relates the closest to “anger will never move me as delicately as she has moved me. Explain your response.
5. What ideas does the poem develop regarding perspective? How can this be related to Shawshank?
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Visual Response
Using the picture above, construct a Visual Response essay. Be sure to include an introduction and conclusion, and three body paragraphs. Successful papers will include critical analysis of the photograph, and personal insight into the themes demonstrated by the image itself. Final papers must be posted in the comment box by Monday!
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