Zombie Apocalypse PSA

Persepolis Presentaion Link

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14Th-PM7zs2le_FT3qB8KfLlE5rB3E5g8bxXFpTw5UBo/edit?usp=sharing

Literary Anaysis #2

1.     In Stephen King’s book, The Shining, it’s about Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy, and their son Danny. Jack who is a former alcoholic gets a job as a winter care taker of an isolated hotel named Overlook, down in the Colorado Mountains. He takes Wendy and Danny with him, thinking he could start his life anew to get away from his alcoholic and abusive past. Danny who’s clairvoyant and has telepathic powers, sees dark things inside the haunted hotel. The hotel influences people in a bad way; Jack is no exception. Throughout the story you see Jack lose his mind and jeopardize his family, and himself.

2.    The theme of this book is about malevolent spirit, because the spirit terrorizing the hotel killed his family and himself. Then tries to recreate the horrific event with Jack and his family.

3.    I chose this book because I’ve read books by Stephen King before and I thought they were well written so I bought the book thinking it would also be good. What appealed to me at first was the cover, it had a door room 217 with light shining out and I thought it looked interesting. Nothing about the book made me want to keep reading, I found it tedious and not chilling like the reviews had said it was, but I still finished to say I finished it.

4.    I didn’t find it realistic because, I don’t believe a malevolent spirit would invade a body just to recreate the same violence it did before. I didn’t make any connections from the book to my life since I don’t know any alcoholic writers, nor do I know any children who are clairvoyant.  

5.    The author’s tone is suspenseful and dark.

-Suspense is showed on p.538 “…but she had never envisioned herself prowling halls and staircases like a nervous felon, with a knife clasped in one hand to use against Jack”

-Suspense comes up again on p.539 “Heart thumping, she went to the open ballroom doors and looked in”

-Dark can be observed on p.12 “He killed them, Mr. Torrance then committed suicide”

6.    The literary elements I found were the following:

-Allusion, p.370 “Those were properly Byzantine, as benefitted the royalty…And capos who had stayed there over the years” it refers to the ancient Roman empire Byzantine.

- When Hallorann asks again “Are you sure you don’t want to go to Florida with me?” that’s Foreshadowing something bad to come, by him asking many times if he wanted to leave the hotel shown on p.125.

- “Not real! False face....Take off your mask” says Danny on p.624. That is a metaphor because the person he yelled it at wasn’t wearing a mask, but he wasn’t acting like himself”

- Imagery can be seen on p.226 “It was rich and creamy, dominated by a raised engraving of the overlook with every window alight”

- On p.125 “Yes he said, thinking of the story of Bluebeard” that is an Allusion to the book Bluebeard.

-An Allusion is shown when The Masque of the Red Death is referenced. “The red death held sway over all” p.227

-On p. 183 Figurative Language is used “But Wendy felt a cold finger touch her heart”.

- “Could you be expected to behave as a thinking human being when your hand was being impaled on red-hot darning needles” p.157 that shows Imagery.

-  “Your nose is running like a fire hose” p.145 which demonstrates a Simile.

-“They felt like rocks on the end of his arms" p.394 demonstrating a simile.

Characterization

1.    -Direct characterization- p. 12 “Wendy is an extraordinary person” Jack states. Someone is directly saying how Wendy is.

-Direct Characterization p.344 “That all come back to this she and her drunkard husband” it’s directly saying Wendy’s husband is a drunk.

-Indirect characterization p.544 “God looks after drunks and little children” that’s indirectly talking about Jack.

-Indirect characterization “oh you dirty liar” Wendy thinks to herself about her husband. She’s not directly saying it aloud but to herself.

2.    Yes, the author changes tone when speaking of different characters. When speaking of Jack he speaks negatively, and curses a lot. Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick. When speaking as Wendy he speaks in a depressed matter, and a lot of times scared. He doesn’t speak of Danny in any certain way.

3.    The protagonist is Jack a dynamic flat character, because Jack is always angry and abusive and even though he may have a short moment of remorse.

4.    I didn’t feel like I read or met a person in the story clearly.

 

Enduring Memory

One thing I will remember from reading this book is how Jack was a tortured angry man. Whether he was influenced by a malevolent spirit, effected by the alcoholism, or damaged by his past abusive childhood. The fact remains he was messed up.

 

 

 

Task Three: Preparing Your Home

In Max Brooks's non-fiction Zombie Survival Guide he wrote a certain passage entitled "Preparing Your Home", he states how you should prepare your home before the dead rise. The author supports his claim by steps on how to prepare your home, with modifications such as: putting up a fence around the home (at least 6-foot), put bars on the window, tempered safety glass etc... If you happen to live in an apartment complex you should barricade the stares and fist floor, and live on the second floor or higher. The author next proceeds to show you need supplies/equipment and what type, pistols, shotguns, gasoline, canned food, just to name a few. "Numbers should be adjusted on the number of people in the group", Brook states. Finally the author opines that you need to learn to survive an attack. A designated latrine should be in your backyard, and if weather an nature allows, you should have a vegetable garden, as a ready source of food. Brooks states "Many tasks will have to be accomplished and repeated for survival in a confined space."

Task one: Survival Basics

In Ali Khan's non-fiction article "Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse", he states that you should and how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse and/or a real disaster. The author supports his claim by explaining what should be in your emergency kit, such as: water/food, medications, tools and supplies, clothing/bedding, sanitation/hygiene, and a first aid supplies. The author then proceeds to show that an emergency plan is necessary during a disaster. An emergency plan should identify the emergencies in your area, your family and yourself should have two meet up places, have emergency contacts, and more importantly an escape route. Finally the author avers that the CDC will assist those in need, finding a cure, detaining the diseased, and finding out how it's transmitted. "If zombies did start roaming the streets, CDC would conduct an investigation much like any other disease outbreak" (Khan).
http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/

Argumentative Essay-Final

Savannah Delgado

11/20/13

Block 2

Argumentative Essay

Persepolis, a graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, it is a non-fiction story about Satrapi’s life growing up in Iran from the time she was 10 in 1980 to until she was 24 in 1994 and moved from Iran for good. She talks about first getting the veil, going through revolutions/protests, being discriminated for being a girl, living in Austria for a few years then returning back to Iran, and also her own daily struggles.  Johan Bennett, Chief Executive Officer of SMJUHSD, wrote an email/letter saying Persepolis shouldn’t be taught in school.  “Persepolis is not a rigorous text that high schoolers should study” says Bennett.  He also states that it may be alright for advanced placement or honors classes.    Johan Bennett is right in his decision, Persepolis does have explicit things, and AP or honors classes typically has a more mature reading matter for students, so they’d be able to read it.

Johan Bennett states in his letter why Persepolis shouldn’t be taught, he gives many examples such as: drug relation, crude language, rebelling against authority, etc...  An example of crude language, is “f**k you son of a b***h”, Satrapi yells to a man when he assumes she is a prostitute (320.6).  Young readers shouldn’t have to read about things like that. Additionally, Bennett states, “The main character, Marjane Satrapi, is not a good role model for our young, impressionable youth.” He also comments “Not only is it inappropriate, but it also introduces the reader to many questionable philosophies and beliefs that high schoolers simply need to not be exposed.”

            Marjane Satrapi shows she isn’t a good role model by many examples, one of which is she lied and told on an innocent man so she wouldn’t get in trouble.  “There’s a guy who said something indecent to me.”  Satrapi says to a guardian (280). The guardians put him in the back of a van taking him away.  She watched them take him, but never said a word, even though she knows what they would most likely do to him.  She is showing that lying is appropriate only if you don’t get in trouble.  Marjane Satrapi also talks about suicide and how she tried it.  “So I waited for my wrist to heal to swallow all my anti-depressants.”  Satrapi says (326). This gives young readers an idea of how to commit suicide.  If those did not change any thought of the book, Satrapi also talks about drug use.  “This is how for love, I began my career as a drug dealer,” she says (222.7).  She becomes a drug dealer “all for love”.  That “all for love” phrase in a young immature mind can be romanticized and seem cool to the reader, much as romance novels do.  Do young minds need to read those things? 

            Although Satrapi shows many bad examples, she does have some good ideas.  Marjane Satrapi talks about how she calmly voiced her opinion on why it’s wrong that women have to be covered up and not men.  “Why is it that I, as a women, am expected to feel nothing when watching these men with clothes sculpted on them but they, as men can get excited by 2 inches shorter head scarf?”  Satrapi states (297).  That teaches people to say your opinion but to do it in a calm matter.  “My father was so right that the next day I apologized to him” Marjane says (326).  She knew she was in the wrong so she apologizes, teaching people that when you know you’re wrong you should say you are sorry.  Satrapi talks about how when she was living with a friend she was rude to her mother.  “To behave like this toward one’s own mother made me indignant”, says Marjane (180).  That made Satrapi feel a strong displeasure toward her.  She believes you should treat your parents with respect showing that she isn’t all bad, and again, has some good ideas. 

Furthermore, Satrapi uses unnecessary crude language and lack of self-control, and rebellion. “Go f**k yourself!” Satrapi screams (234.5). Though she may have been justified in her anger, but she loses her temper and shows no control over her tongue, when her roommate accuses her of stealing her brooch.   “No I think you’re a selfish b***h.” (291.5). Satrapi’s grandmother says this of Satrapi when she hears she got an innocent man in trouble, as stated in a previous paragraph. “Oh sh*t” (165.2). This quote by a boy in the background is unnecessary because it lends nothing to the story line. If it had been omitted it would not have affected the story at all. Marjane Satrapi falls for peer pressure by ditching school to look cool in front of older girls. She states, “If I wanted to be friends with the 14 year olds, then I had to do it.” Marjane knows what she is doing is wrong, but carries on anyway. “I had already broken the rules once…This was the second time”, she says (111). As a 12 year old she’s beginning to test her boundaries, but continues the rebellion by lying to her mother about ditching school. She first lied about ditching to stay out of trouble, then lied again about which class she cut to make the trouble less. “And you just lied again!” says Satrapi’s mother. “I had said religion [class] to try to make my mother less angry,” she explains (113.6).  Marjane Satrapi may have lived in a totally different world than what many of her readers are familiar with and the book will have influence but is what kind of influence is it?

Persepolis isn’t appropriate for high school readers; talking about drugs, suicide, foul language and rebellion.  She may have some good points in her story, but the bad outweighs the good. Johan Bennett is right that her book shouldn’t be allowed to be taught in school.  While this may be entertaining reading on your own, high school is not appropriate due to its content. Would you want young readers to read this even if there are some good points, but more bad points?  Do the good points justify the reading of this book in high school?

Argumentative Essay

Savannah Delgado

11/7/13

Block 2

Argument Essay

           

            In Persepolis, a graphic novel, by Marjane Satrapi it is a non-fiction story about Satrapi’s life growing up in Iran from the time she was 10 in 1980 to until she was 24 in 1994 and moved from Iran for good. She talks about first getting the veil, going through revolutions/protests, being discriminated of being a girl, living in Austria for a few years then returning back to Iran, also her own daily struggles.  Johan Bennett, Chief Executive Officer of SMJUHSD, wrote an email/letter saying Persepolis shouldn’t be taught in school.  “Persepolis is not a rigorous text that high schoolers should study” says Bennett.  He also states that it may be alright for advanced placement or honors classes.   I believe Johan Bennett is right in his decision, Persepolis does have explicit things, and AP or honors classes typically have a more mature matter, so they’d be able to read it.

            Johan Bennett states in his letter why Persepolis shouldn’t be taught, he gives many examples such as: drug relation, crude language, rebelling against authority, etc...  An example of crude language, is “f**k you son of a b***h”, Satrapi yells to a man when he assumes she is a prostitute.  Young readers shouldn’t have to read about things like that.  Bennett states, “The main character, Marjane Satrapi, is not a good role model for our young, impressionable youth.” He also comments “Not only is it inappropriate, but it also introduces the reader to many questionable philosophies and beliefs that high schoolers simply need to not be exposed.”  I may have to agree, since after reading the book I first hand read everything and can say it is inappropriate for many readers.

            In the book on pg. 285-286, Satrapi talks about how she lied and told on an innocent man so she wouldn’t get in trouble.  “There’s a guy who said something indecent to me” Satrapi says to a guardian.  The guardians put him in the back of a van taking him away.  She watched them take him, but never said a word, when she knows what they could do to him.  She’s showing that lying is ok as long as you don’t get in trouble or lying is ok to keep you out of trouble.  Do you want your children or yourself to think that way?  Marjane Satrapi also talks about suicide and how she tried it.  “So I waited until my wrist healed to swallow all my anti-depressants.”, Satrapi says on pg. 273.  This gives young readers an idea of how to commit suicide.  If those did not change any thought of the book, Satrapi also talks about drug use.  “This is how, for love, I began my career as a drug dealer.” she says.  She becomes a drug dealer “all for love”. That “all for love” phrase in a young immature mind can be romanticized and seem cool to the reader much as romance novels do.  Do young minds need to read those things? 

            Although Satrapi shows many bad examples, she does have some good ideas.  Page 297 Marjane Satrapi talks about how she calmly voiced her opinion on why it’s wrong that women have to be covered up and not men.  “Why is it that I, as a woman, am expected to feel nothing when watching these men with clothes sculpted on them but they, as men can get excited by 2 inches shorter head scarf?” Satrapi states. That teaches people to say your opinion but to do it in a calm matter. “My father was so right that the next day I apologized to him” Marjane says. pg326. She knew she was in the wrong so she apologizes teaching people that when you know you’re wrong you should say sorry. Satrapi talks about how when she was living with a friend she was rude to her mother. “To behave like this toward one’s own mother made me indignant” says Marjane. Pg180. That made Satrapi feel a strong displeasure toward her, she believes you should treat your parents with respect, teaching people to be respectful.

            I do still believe Persepolis isn’t appropriate for high school readers; talking about drugs, suicide and rebellion.  She may have some good points in her story, but compared to the bad Johan Bennett is right that her book should not be allowed to be taught in the school.  Would you want young readers to read this even if there are some good ideas, but more bad?