Plays are Books too, Right?

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Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men

In the story Of mice and men a lot of the characters had a dream that they wanted to achieve and get, and no matter how hard they planned even to the tiniest detail not everything always went as it was supposed to. This ties right in to the quote from Burns, “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft a-gley” which means that everything that is planned doesn't always go the way it is supposed to. George and Lennie had a dream to own their own little place with all the animals on the farm and Lennie would get to tend the rabbits, and it would be just the two of them. That  didn’t go as planned when Candy decides to join in on the deal so it wasn’t just the two of them. Then after Lennie kills Curley's wife he has to be shot by his best friend to be put out of his misery, so he never got to be able to tend the rabbits. Curley's wife had a plan to be an Actress a real star, but that didn't go as planned either because she was tricked and she ended up marrying Curley. These are some of the reasons that the title of the story and the line from Burn’s poem go with the theme of the story.

All of the main characters are disabled except for Slim.  Carlson has no heart in the story because he shoots candy’s dog without any problem or hesitation, his disability makes himself worse as a person. Candy has one of his hands gone, and he seems to be living life just fine without it. The Black guy was kicked in the back by a horse and he now is a hunchback, his disability doesn't prevent him from anything he just is lonely and he wants someone to talk to and to be treated normally. Curley’s Wife has no freedom she's supposed to stay in the house all day and only talk to Curley sometimes she sneaks out and tries to talk to other people, I think she tries to overcome her disability but it gives her a bad image. Lennie is mentally retarded and he needs George to be his caretaker but he has no idea what he is doing in life he just knows that he wants to tend the rabbits. George is disabled by the fact that he can’t show love to Lennie even though he knows he loves him he never tells him only at the end.

The Outsiders

    The Outsiders by S.E . Hinton was first published in 1967 by puffin books.This story occurs in the 1950's This story is told in first person observer.

The main characters are

Ponyboy Curtis: He is a 14 yr old greaser who is emotional and also very smart
Darry Curtis: He is a 20 yr old greaser who has to take care of his brothers ever since his parents died
Sodapop Curtis: he is a 16 yr old greaser who is a dropout and works at a local gas station
Cherry: A red head that is Bob's girlfriend
Bob:  A soc that was killed because he tried to drown bob
Dally: A grease that is the roughest and has lived in New York for three years
 Johnny: A 16 yr old kid that lives with an abusive and alcoholic

The book starts when Ponyboy is walking home from the movies and a group of socs jumped him and pretended to give a "haircut", when Darry and Sodapop come to the rescue. Later Ponyboy and Johnny go to the movies with Dally. Dally sees a girl named Sherri "Cherry" Valance and starts to mess with her Johnny steps up and tells Dally to leave her alone. Cherry and her friend Marcie invite Ponyboy and Johnny to sit next to them.Two-bit says he'll walk Cherry home and Cherry's boyfriend Bob shows up and tries to start a fight to prevent the fight Cherry goes home with Bob. Ponyboy gets home late and Darry gets mad and slaps Ponyboy. Ponyboy runs away with johnny and they go to the park. They run into Bob and his gang and they try to drown him in a fountain, but johnny stabs Bob. They think that there going to get in trouble so they run to Dally and he gives them a gun, fifty dollars, and tells them to go hide in a church.The church caught on fire and the roof collapsed Ponyboy tries to save the little kids in the church,and johnny got it hit and it broke his back. Dally comes to rescue them and, Johnny  and Ponyboy ends up in the hospital but Ponyboy is okay Darry see's him and cries and Ponyboy realizes that Darry does love him. Dally robs a bank and tries to shoot the police but they shoot him. Johnny dies in the hospital. When Ponyboy gets back to school his grades drop and his English teacher tells him to write a story to make them comeback up. He decides to write about his experiences.

This book seemed to be objective because he seemed to prove no point. This book caused few emotions in me like  felt sad when Ponyboy was being drowned, also when johnny broke his back. I was made aware of human nature because some people could be that terrible enough to kill or even hurt  other people with knive. The characters in this story seem believable because there are people today exactly like that in the world. This book won't be out-dated because it is very interesting

Here's my animoto
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1984

1984 by George Orwell was first published on June 6, 1949 by Secker and Warburg, London  this story occurs during the future. The  story is written in first-person participant.
         The Main characters are,
Winston Smith - Winston is the main character in this book and is an adulterer
O'Brien - O'Brien pretended to be a member of the brotherhood when he wasn't
Julia - Julia is a member of the junior league of the anti-sex club and is apparently 26
          George Orwell appears to be Subjective  because he tries to prove how communism can be a terrible form of government.
         The book starts off where Winston is at his home he drinks some alcohol and  he writes events from the recent past in his diary. Later on in the book Winston thinks Julia is apart of the thought police, but he feels passion, comfort, he has the feeling of love in his body. Winston  also wants to find out all of one poem. Then he writes a note that says  I love you and puts it  in the memory hole. Finally Julia and Winston  go to a secret place and mate. One day O'Brien comes and ask them would they like to join the brotherhood and they said yes.  After a few days Winston get's a book by Goldstein and reads it to Julia.When Winston was strapped onto the electric table I felt sad when  he was on there because I thought he was going to die.
         This book is out-dated because it is hard for little kids like me to understand and has lots of big words, It also has a lot of inappropriate things. It made me aware of Geography because Oceania is Australia and Eurasia is Europe and Asia.
I made an animoto video 1984

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the flies Task one Part Three 

We found positive in this novel when the boys are rescued and in the beginning were there sense of civilization pops up. We found the death of Simon most negative in the book, also the Whipping of SamnEric. Half the tribe turning into savages was negative too. When jack decided to start his own tribe is when the negativity started to form. The killing of piggy for no apparent reason was a negative attribute to the book. We think that roger is the most negative character in the book, because he was a sadist and enjoyed torturing people. Following behind roger is jack as the second most negative character. We think his negativity is when he lost being chief of the island. What also made jack mad was when Ralph yelled at him for not letting the fire go out while he was hunting and told him hunting was not as important as the fire.                                                                        

               Some positive attributes are; when Ralph stood his ground and did not become a savage, also when the marine officer asked him who was in charge and Ralph said he was. When they find the conch the use it as the symbol as There order. Something else we found negative on the first time they tried to find and kill a pig and failed trying the first time yelling ‘kill the pig cut his throat bash him’. Another that we found interesting is that even though piggy was the smartest he was still rejected multiple times. We found some interesting facts in the book one of them was how they used science to make a lever to knock the boulder down the hill to kill Piggy. Another was when they managed to kill Simon with their bare hands and feet just because they were scared.

Lord of the Flies Task two Part one 

We were asked to find ten books that can relate to Lord of the flies explaining the Good vs Evil in Humanity. We were also asked to explain why they show the Good and Evil in Humanity

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee:

Reason why Bad: Boo Radly tries to stab his father.

Reason why Good: Boo Radly saves Scout in gym.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins:

Reason why Bad: Because people have no problem with kids killing each other.

Reason why Good: Katniss volunteers for her sister.

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Reason Why Bad:  Smaug in The Hobbit is the epitome of evil, as he kills relentlessly and all he lives for is greed and the treasures that he cannot use. 

Reason Why Good: Bilbo Baggins, as he goes with dwarves to the Lonely Mountain to recapture it

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Reason Why Good:  Frodo Baggins, who, along with eight companions, embarks on a long and dangerous quest to destroy the ring.

Reason Why Bad: And, along with it, Sauron himself.

Goblin Secrets by William Alexander

Reason Why Bad: Only goblins are allowed to perform plays, because they’re not considered human.

Reason Why Good: Rownie saves his older brother

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Reason Why Bad: Harry’s parents die when he is a baby, killed by the evil wizard and primary villain, Voldemort.

Reason why Good: Harry becomes a hero and kills Voldemort even though he is a part of him

Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

Reason Why Bad: Luke betrays his friends and goes with Cronus

Reason Why Good: Percy Jackson decides to save the camp

Gone by Michael Grant

A girl Shot fire liquid and caused the school to set on fire

Sam temple decided to organize fights against his brother Caine

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Reason why Bad: King Galbatorix has no other motivation then to bring evil to the world

Reason Why Good: Eragon Decides To help save evil

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Mr. Tumnus was diabolical and tried to kill Lucy by scheming and putting her to sleep but  he had a change of heart

The Four Kids save Narnia with a turn of heart

In an interview in 1963, William Golding said of Lord of the Flies :

“I learned during World War II just how brutal people can be to each other. Not just Germans or Japanese, but everyone. I tried to point that out . . . some have said that the brutality of the novel is impossible. It’s not. Look at any newspaper . . .”

We were asked to defend or refute Golding's statement here's what we came up with .

We think that William Golding statement is true because if you do look in the newspaper there is no problem finding bad news but it’s really hard to find good news over the past century there has been nothing but terrible news so much shootings that America is thinking about banning guns from America. So many people have died from either a bullet to the chest or being blown up by a grenade. This maybe couldn’t happen if people would go to school. That’s right go to school I mean look at it this way, if there was kids learning about  different religions, cultures, and races. We could know what not to do to offend someone. We also could learn how to solve problems that could lead to world peace. When we look up good words like right, well behaved, and proper describes good. When we look up the word evil words like diabolical, despicable describes evil, but looking on to those things we can all prove that both Jack and Ralph were both of those things. Jack was more nice and proper towards the beginning of the book Lord of the Flies and at the end he was more evil. Same with Ralph, but the evil thing he did was help kill Simon. Roger when he rolled the boulder to kill Piggy. Well we think that jack is evil because he was jealous of Ralph because everyone in the group said he was going to be there leader and he did a good job at it and he still hated him. We also think the people in that took part in jacks tribe were evil because they were a part of the madness that jack made happen and they were also supporting him throughout that process. We also thought that part of the story was sort of devilish because it was pertaining to a lot of deaths from multiples hatreds of people because either they did something or there just jealous. We thought it was especially when piggy died because he was pretty much helpless in that moment before his death we thought that there was nothing he could do to save himself from that death that was coming to him. And that is our summary wrap up of what we think about the good and evil in the world and in Lord of the flies by William Golding

Task three 

We were asked to choose six people to stay in a fallout shelter that has enough resources for three months 

From Department of Human Resources, Canberra

We, the undersigned, having given due consideration to all eligible people, submit this list and our rationale as our final decision.

Name:1) 15yr pregnant girl

Rationale:We will not be keeping #1 because she is pregnancy and she will eat more due to cravings

Name:  2) 36yr doctor      

Rationale:We will be keeping #2

Name: 3)Armed Policeman

Rationale: We will not be keeping the policeman because he

is untrustworthy

Name:4)35yr violin           

Rationale:We will be keeping #4

Name:5)39yr mother of two

Rationale:We will be keeping #5

Name:6)24yr law student

Rationale:We would be keeping #6 if she would split from her                                                           husband

Name:7)26yr husband with multiple personality disorder     

Rationale:We will not be keeping #7 one of his personalities could be dangerous    

Name:8)75yr minister   

Rationale:We will be keeping #8

Name:9)65yr historian

Rationale:We will be keeping #9

Name:10)29yr Syrain   

Rationale: We will be keeping #10

Signed:

Christopher A, Adkins

We did task five for extra credit

we were asked to put ourselves in a situation in court after the island

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