“Young Goodman Brown” By Nathaniel Hawthorne page 71
“Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of friends”
What is said here is that a human does not know the attraction that friends produce. This I relevant to the story in that Goodman Brown find many of the people that he knows in the wood having a meeting doing evil things. And Goodman spots burning trees but it do not deter him for the attraction of his friends around the burn in trees bring him closer. This attraction for his friends was subconscious for he expressed no control over whether he was going towards his friend or not. This can be seen in the real world when one goes to a party and you know no one at the party and one finally spots a friend that you know at the party. One has an automatic attraction towards the person, for it is human nature to not want to be lonely.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Quote Reponse 7
“Young Goodman Brown” By Nathaniel Hawthorne page 69
“The next moment, so indistinct were the sounds, he doubted whether he had heard aught but the murmur of the old forest, whispering without a wind.”
What is said her is that the character in this story hears something that he cannot decipher wither he had heard the sound at all or if it was the forest playing with him. This is significant to the story in the forest in the story is considered to be a living creature that has demonic nature. And thus by playing with his hearing it will evade one of his five scenes causing him to lose his focuses. Consequently by losing his focus he will be easily manipulated. In the real world you experience something like this when you are out in the wilderness and an animal is moving and one might mistake it for supernatural beings.
“The next moment, so indistinct were the sounds, he doubted whether he had heard aught but the murmur of the old forest, whispering without a wind.”
What is said her is that the character in this story hears something that he cannot decipher wither he had heard the sound at all or if it was the forest playing with him. This is significant to the story in the forest in the story is considered to be a living creature that has demonic nature. And thus by playing with his hearing it will evade one of his five scenes causing him to lose his focuses. Consequently by losing his focus he will be easily manipulated. In the real world you experience something like this when you are out in the wilderness and an animal is moving and one might mistake it for supernatural beings.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Respons 6
Selections from The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals page 41
“No doubt it s indispensable that we should do out work between sun and sun, but only a wise man will know what that is. And yet how much work will be undone, put off to the next day, and yet the system goes on!”
What is said here is that, it is necessary for one to work form sun up to sun down but only the “wise” man or the person that strives hard really knows what that means. When some one work forms sun up to sun down, really how much work will get done this is what is said in the second sentence. What is also said in the sentence is that when one puts off a duty or work it will cumulate thus making the person behind in the work due the next day it will push the duties do the next day back thus moving everything back in the grand scheme. This type of thing can be related to school in that when a kid does not do his or her homework it accumulates to next night thus causing he or her to miss another homework assignment.
“No doubt it s indispensable that we should do out work between sun and sun, but only a wise man will know what that is. And yet how much work will be undone, put off to the next day, and yet the system goes on!”
What is said here is that, it is necessary for one to work form sun up to sun down but only the “wise” man or the person that strives hard really knows what that means. When some one work forms sun up to sun down, really how much work will get done this is what is said in the second sentence. What is also said in the sentence is that when one puts off a duty or work it will cumulate thus making the person behind in the work due the next day it will push the duties do the next day back thus moving everything back in the grand scheme. This type of thing can be related to school in that when a kid does not do his or her homework it accumulates to next night thus causing he or her to miss another homework assignment.
Respons 5
Selections from The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals page 41
“By a well-directed silence I have sometimes seen threatening and troubling people routed. You sit musing as if you were in broad nature again. They cannot stand it. Their position becomes more and more uncomfortable every moment.”
In this statement Thoreau gives the reader a good technique on how to over come a person that is threatening or troubling. This technique is to be silent, but just being silent is not enough one has to have cunning timing and skillful direction in the period of silences. For it this art is master he later goes on to say in this quote that the person will not be able to tolerate the situation that they are in and wile you stay silent their position becomes progressively vexing. This technique used almost every day by parents; they direct their period of silence onto their kids until the kid finally gives in. the kid will never win this battle of silence for they lack the patients and endurance to fight the power of their parents. But this technique if used too many times towards the same kid may fail to work after will for the child will build up immunity to it.
“By a well-directed silence I have sometimes seen threatening and troubling people routed. You sit musing as if you were in broad nature again. They cannot stand it. Their position becomes more and more uncomfortable every moment.”
In this statement Thoreau gives the reader a good technique on how to over come a person that is threatening or troubling. This technique is to be silent, but just being silent is not enough one has to have cunning timing and skillful direction in the period of silences. For it this art is master he later goes on to say in this quote that the person will not be able to tolerate the situation that they are in and wile you stay silent their position becomes progressively vexing. This technique used almost every day by parents; they direct their period of silence onto their kids until the kid finally gives in. the kid will never win this battle of silence for they lack the patients and endurance to fight the power of their parents. But this technique if used too many times towards the same kid may fail to work after will for the child will build up immunity to it.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Respons 4
Selections from The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals page 34
“We do all stand in the front ranks of the battle every moment of our lives; where there is a brave man there is the thickest of the fight, there the post of honor.”
What is said here is that we all experience life at the same rate, and no one is sheltered from it, but the person that steppes up and takes it head on gains the most glory. This quote informs one that to be honorable is to be courageous. The metaphor for life being a battle, is saying that life is not fare or easy and the thing that one most wants out of life one will have to work for. Thus by working to succeed, one is brave in battle and causing the “thickest of the fight”. Accordingly with hard work one will thrive, and the honorable is the thriving one, therefore he is the courageous one, for he has the “post of honor”.
“We do all stand in the front ranks of the battle every moment of our lives; where there is a brave man there is the thickest of the fight, there the post of honor.”
What is said here is that we all experience life at the same rate, and no one is sheltered from it, but the person that steppes up and takes it head on gains the most glory. This quote informs one that to be honorable is to be courageous. The metaphor for life being a battle, is saying that life is not fare or easy and the thing that one most wants out of life one will have to work for. Thus by working to succeed, one is brave in battle and causing the “thickest of the fight”. Accordingly with hard work one will thrive, and the honorable is the thriving one, therefore he is the courageous one, for he has the “post of honor”.
Respons 3
Selections from The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals page 33
“Nature never makes haste; her system revolves at an even pace.”
Thoreau states that nature is calculated and that it will not speed up or slow. This is true for if one were to observe the sun you would notice the time the sun rises and sets differ depending on the time of the year but at the end of every year the sun reset it’s self and starts over it's annual retune. When the word revolves is used in this quote Thoreau might be eluding to the sun, for that is what makes the seasons and days change. Since the earth revolves around the sun, nature must revolve around it too. Since the earth revolves at an even pace around the sun nature must do the same. Thus since the revolutions of the earth around the sun never speed up, hence nature has no haste. Natures pace can also be seen when one notices that plants die and then later come back to life.
“Nature never makes haste; her system revolves at an even pace.”
Thoreau states that nature is calculated and that it will not speed up or slow. This is true for if one were to observe the sun you would notice the time the sun rises and sets differ depending on the time of the year but at the end of every year the sun reset it’s self and starts over it's annual retune. When the word revolves is used in this quote Thoreau might be eluding to the sun, for that is what makes the seasons and days change. Since the earth revolves around the sun, nature must revolve around it too. Since the earth revolves at an even pace around the sun nature must do the same. Thus since the revolutions of the earth around the sun never speed up, hence nature has no haste. Natures pace can also be seen when one notices that plants die and then later come back to life.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Quote Reponse 2
Henry David Thoreau, Where I lived, and What I lived For, Page 25
“To be awake is to be alive.”
The main reason why Thoreau went to the Walden pound was to become aware of nature. By becoming aware of nature Thoreau hoped to achieve awaking. When the word “awake” is used in this statement he means to have a full perspective of live and nature thus by being awake he is alive. Latter on in this reading Thoreau speaks about how man cares only for technology. To his standards they are not alive for they do not have a full perspective of life for the do not care for nature. Thus these types of men to Thoreau are dead. So really he is saying to experience nature is to be bloom.
“To be awake is to be alive.”
The main reason why Thoreau went to the Walden pound was to become aware of nature. By becoming aware of nature Thoreau hoped to achieve awaking. When the word “awake” is used in this statement he means to have a full perspective of live and nature thus by being awake he is alive. Latter on in this reading Thoreau speaks about how man cares only for technology. To his standards they are not alive for they do not have a full perspective of life for the do not care for nature. Thus these types of men to Thoreau are dead. So really he is saying to experience nature is to be bloom.
Quote Reponse 1
Henry David Thoreau, Where I lived, and What I lived For, Page 24
“The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour.”
What this quote is saying is that the most impressionable time of day is morning but this quote does not just stop at the morning, for it continues on to say the specific time in the morning which is most memorable. The time that Thoreau feels is most vulnerable in the morning is the “awaking hour”. The time that Thoreau is taking about could literally mean the time that he is waking up. Or he could be speaking metaphorically, where he uses the word “awaking” to say he is trying to become “alive” and experience nature. For it is stated later in his work that by working in nature and living in the wilderness he will be able to “live”. So “awake” equals “alive” to him thus he likes to be alive hence Thoreau find joy in the “awakening hour” of the morning
“The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour.”
What this quote is saying is that the most impressionable time of day is morning but this quote does not just stop at the morning, for it continues on to say the specific time in the morning which is most memorable. The time that Thoreau feels is most vulnerable in the morning is the “awaking hour”. The time that Thoreau is taking about could literally mean the time that he is waking up. Or he could be speaking metaphorically, where he uses the word “awaking” to say he is trying to become “alive” and experience nature. For it is stated later in his work that by working in nature and living in the wilderness he will be able to “live”. So “awake” equals “alive” to him thus he likes to be alive hence Thoreau find joy in the “awakening hour” of the morning
Monday, September 17, 2007
“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nature”
What Emerson is saying here is that for one to live alone one must withdraw domestically as much as fell back form society. The word retire in this statement means to fall back or to withdraw. When Emerson used the word “society” he is referring to the main stream, and when he employed the word “chamber” he is indicating one’s house or inner self. So to reach solitude we must completely withdraw form all aspects of our lives.
“but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the minds is open to their influence.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nature”
As previously stated by Emerson nature is good, so thus if the mind is open enough and free nature will leave a good impression on the mind. In this statement Emerson must add that “if the mind is open enough” for many people have preset impressions of nature that will impede them form achieving the impression that nature will make on them.
“To be great is to be misunderstood” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Self- Reliance”
When some one in society is scorned or ridiculed it is usually because they are different and or radical. It is human nature to fear difference for it is misunderstood. To be misunderstood, one is not mainstream nor are they conforming. What Emerson is saying is that to be self reliant you will be misunderstood but the greatest minds of his time were misunderstood for they were self reliant. Emerson feels that great people are the ones that are the most self reliant, thus the most misunderstood.
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Self- Reliance”
Be your self and do what you feel like do not conform to what others tell you to do. This is a paradox for if Emerson intendeds for the read to fallow the reading, than the reader would be directly contradicting what Emerson was trying to peach in the first place. Emerson says this statement for if one were to fallow the other people orders then one would not be self-reliant.
What Emerson is saying here is that for one to live alone one must withdraw domestically as much as fell back form society. The word retire in this statement means to fall back or to withdraw. When Emerson used the word “society” he is referring to the main stream, and when he employed the word “chamber” he is indicating one’s house or inner self. So to reach solitude we must completely withdraw form all aspects of our lives.
“but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the minds is open to their influence.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nature”
As previously stated by Emerson nature is good, so thus if the mind is open enough and free nature will leave a good impression on the mind. In this statement Emerson must add that “if the mind is open enough” for many people have preset impressions of nature that will impede them form achieving the impression that nature will make on them.
“To be great is to be misunderstood” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Self- Reliance”
When some one in society is scorned or ridiculed it is usually because they are different and or radical. It is human nature to fear difference for it is misunderstood. To be misunderstood, one is not mainstream nor are they conforming. What Emerson is saying is that to be self reliant you will be misunderstood but the greatest minds of his time were misunderstood for they were self reliant. Emerson feels that great people are the ones that are the most self reliant, thus the most misunderstood.
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Self- Reliance”
Be your self and do what you feel like do not conform to what others tell you to do. This is a paradox for if Emerson intendeds for the read to fallow the reading, than the reader would be directly contradicting what Emerson was trying to peach in the first place. Emerson says this statement for if one were to fallow the other people orders then one would not be self-reliant.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Goals For 07-08 US Lit Class
In this class I hope to grasp a better understanding on how to writer analytical papers. I would also like to learn more about American history from the readings that we will be doing. I would also like to improve my skills in writing thesis statements. I also hope in the is class that I will learn better technique that will improve my writing in a timed situation.
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