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Conjoined

 Sometimes we feel trapped in the relationship we have with other people. In Judith Minty's poem “conjoined” the relationship of a husband and wife are convey and how the feel trapped with a “skin” and what ever the fact that is holding them back whether it is money, love, or any other feeling. The question of how people feel trapped and there is no real way to get out sometimes from the uses of diction as well as other literary devices.

Diction can be used to convey the feeling of the people in the story or poem. For example, Minty uses the words “accident” “Fighting” “Freaks” “Doomed” to express to feeling the couple has. They feel trapped and like a monster under this “skin” or common experiences they share. They can not break away from each other because of all the things that developed over the time they were together, so the love can be go but there is so much other factors that influence their relationship. They can not separate no matter how much they want to. So they feel like “Freaks” trapped in this “Doomed” relationship.

Minty conveys the monstrosity of the relationship through figurative language. For example, the simile “An accident, like the two-headed calf rooted / In one body, fighting to suck at its mother's treats.” expresses how they hard forced to live together but they constantly fight for the lead. The marriage it self is like a tag of war between both parties for what the ideals of themselves are. In addition the simile “like those other freaks, Chang and Eng, twins / Joined at the chest by skin and muscle, doomed / To live, even make love, together for sixty years.” backs up everything the author Minty wanted to convey with the a relationship being stuck together or “Doomed” with each other until they die because of the situation they are in.

diction used in the third stanza to express the exact feelings the couple is having in their home is extremely powerful following the first and seconds stanzas set up for the actual setting with the couple in the house. For example, the words “bind” “heavy” “sever” “kill” “slice” “escape”. Irony is expressed through this diction because of how when you think of a marriage you automatically picture a happy couple. This relationship is the complete opposite, they want out of the relationship so much but they can not get out. The words in the last stanza make it seem as if the people want to kill the relationship. To slice each other apart. But they can not because of heavy binding that holds them together under “one transparent skin”

through out Judith Minty's poem “conjoined” through the uses of diction as well as other literary devices to expresses the trouble in the couple's relationship and how they can not leave one another. It begs the question of how people feel trapped and there is no real way to get out.

In this article the write conveys how the authors of Shoah and Maus convey what happened in the Death Camps during the Holocaust. But then the author goes on the explain how Shoah and Maus look at the Holocaust in a way of there own, and when they portray what happened they cant meet it 100%.

“Lanzmann knows that the experience of the death camps cannot be communicated through his medium,nor can an image be created (recalled) that demonstrates that experience without some degradation or distortion. Spiegelmann, in illustrating Maus, must make concrete decisions about what to include in each panel – this is part of the medium of the comic book.”

Both Spiegelmann and Lanzmann understand that they will never be able to express what truly happened. Then the author of the essay goes on the explain how Maus is not a direct representation of Vladek's life in the camps because of how he added other people stories in it aswell. 

“The ‘image’ must therefore be expanded then to include the mental recollections submitted by a witness, or at least the transmission of their experience to a collator, author, filmmaker, who then distills them into some sort of narrative form, be it a film or comixx”.

This essay conveys how the story is passed from person to text and so on that the story does not meet the same as what truly happened to those who lived it.

"But it must be noted that these images, although distorted, do not degrade the reality of which they are based upon. In their distortions, Maus and Shoah encode deeper meanings for their viewers, presenting a new and clearer way of engaging with the retellings of the Holocaust, for a true, accurate and honest depiction of those events is simply not achievable."http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/358/2/retelling-the-stories-of-the-holocaust-in-shoah-and-maus-distorted-images-of-a-monstrous-past

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I feel cats cradle is a post modern text because of just the way it makes you feel from reading it. For the quotes it has or the feeling the author had while writing it our the authors goal is writing it. The novel is written for the purpose of the author not to conform to modern writing. Vonnegut wrote to express him self on all levels possible down to the form of writing and flow of the novel. And thats about it on post modernism . Now I am just going to talk about some quotes I liked from the book. “Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.” this quote I feel is true. People get so lost in finding the meaning of there lives that they forget to live. And I know I do it sometimes I will sit there and get lost in my thoughts and forget to live. “think is a way for people to not participate in real life. "My God — life! Who can understand even one little minute of it?"
"Don't try," [Castle] said. "Just pretend you understand." this quote show how people will spend there lives trying to understand everything because that is the human condition. Yet you can never understand everything because our brains are not up for the task. And our thirst for knowledge like shown in cats cradle will be a great possibility our end. Cats Cradle has been a pleasure reading and I think it has changed my out look on the world slightly. POST MODERNISM ROCK THE WORLD MAN!

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? ~M.C. Escher

 

In my essay response to Brave New World I’m going to use to things in relation to it. The First is the movie “Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.” Directed by Michel Gondry. I choose this because it is about a man who finds out that his Ex girlfriend had him erased from his mind and where he decides to have the same thing done. And for most of the rest of the movie it is him changing his mind and trying to find his way through the reality of his collapsing memories he wishes to keep. And I also picked this movie because through out the film you are confronted with multiple characters that are dealing with the reality of the own lives and I felt like I could use this well in my essay as something I could bounce of the reality of Brave New World.

In addition the second thing I’m going to relate to Brave New World is the book Night by Elie Wiesel. I choose this book because of the dramatic change the main character goes through Wiesel describes his childhood during the holocaust and how he went from living in a Jewish Transylvania village to being in Auschwitz and being a prisoner of the Nazi “Final Solution” I chose this one because of the dramatic change Wiesel goes through and how that effects reality as he knows it.

I also thought about using the book “The Perks Of Being A Wallflower” by Stephen Chobsky (my favorite book) because the narrator is this boy named Charlie and it shows how his perception of reality changes as he goes through his life in his first year of high school. I could write about that book forever so ill leave it at that. But no matter what I chose im going to relate it back to Brave New World and contrast the different forms of reality that are presented through out all books/movies I choose.

After watching this video and comparing it to brave new world. I have so much I would like to talk about but I cant think of how to put it in an essay format but who cares its a blog. I would first of all like to say Sir Ken Robinson seems like a man that would be a person it would be very great to talk to and have a deep conversation about anything because he seems to think deeply about things. In relation to Brave New World and his views on education. In Brave New World the quote "you do look glum! What you need is a gramme of soma." is said and this contradicts Robinson view completely. He believe ADHD is being over medicated and people are being over scared about. He does not think ADHD is not true he just thinks it is being dealt with wrongly when it comes to school. In Brave New World you take soma to suppress emotion and to suppress the person themselves, and Robinson feels the same is being done with Ritalin in relation to ADHD and Education. He feels we are holding back students and “deadening one self to whats happening” and to be honest I have to agree with him. All people learn different but by making them take these drugs we hold them back and deaden them . And like Robinson says “i know kids that are much better then other kids at the same age at different disciplines or at different times of the day or better in smaller groups then large groups or at some times they are better on there own.” just because a kid has “ADHD” doesn’t mean he is learning wrong. Robinson believes Education needs reform.

And in addition Robinson says its about conformity and standardization and that he thinks we need to go into the opposite direction. And that is the truth in my eyes. Education should be about collaboration and coming together to form and over all idea about what ever one is learning about. But education is still stuck in the past and the way it was originally coordinated in the times of the industrial evolution. This reminds me of Brave New World in the sense of how people are born with out a choice for themselves and how this keeps them from changing things. And this relates to how education is still stuck in the industrialization movement in the sense of how things are ruled. Education needs to be reformed in the world of academia. And the way people control others in Brave New World relates to this.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ~Frank Lloyd Wright

“There was a thing as I’ve said before call Christianity” this shows how values and believes in the “new world” with the AF instead of AD and children playing naked in the garden. Some might see this as a progression like the characters of the book . But I see it as a digression the people are degrading themselves. And some might see it as they are freer this way but truly they are not. The people are being made for the governments goals. They predestine their fates and because of that I feel that they are being made less free then the modern day man. “well all I can say is that I’m going to accept his invention” this shows there dependence on machines. And what is not to say we have the same dependence on our machines of our day. Some might even say people worship there machines and an example of that is when you see the teenage girl text so fast that 160 characters are done faster then a Ferrari can get to 60. all I'm saying is that maybe our world is becoming what Aldous Huxley envisioned . Maybe at the rate we are going we will change our belief system to that as in Brave New World. I think it would be a horrible day when people throw all morals away and just do as people do in the story. But those people do not see anything wrong with it. So maybe they are not at fault . And maybe the government is to blame for all the injustice in the world. But I'm no conspiracy theorist. I’m just saying there is may things we can take and think about from the narrative. Oh Brave new world don’t let us down now