Frankenstein

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly is the book we are now reading in English class. This book thus far is pretty good. My favorite part is sun Victor, the stranger is on the ice cap all by himself and the people on the ship are yelling at him to come aboard so that he does not die in the attic on an ice cap. This part of the book bus far is my favorite because of how Shelly portrays everything that is going on with just a couple of letters. I know that the book is in the epistolary format which is writing with a set of letters news articles and journals. Since this is my first time ever reading an epistolary I find it very interesting to think in a new way to read this book. I also liked this part because I found it funny that there would be some guy on an ice cap floating around near the North Pole just chilling and as calm as can be. This part also set up the first chapter of the book because it is a flash back of Victor's early days, and that is what I think of Frankenstein thus far.

November blues

The November blues are not the best things in the world, but most people get them. I have not yet gotten a mental break down or any real down for that matter, but I have had my own sort of November blues that really have been bad for me. I have bee extremely forgetful which has been very bad for what I have left undone. I have forgotten many things throughout November which has been mostly homework or things that need to been done for school such as these blogs. I have been caught up all until the begining of November which I had forgotten to write a lot of. When I had looked the other day I had thought I had only needed three more blogs to be done the. I looked and I actually only had four of the ten that are supposed to be done. Then there was the incident with the yawning during my reciting of the Shakespearean soliloquy from hamlet. I am just glad that that is over and most likely not honing to happen again. I don't even know why I had yawned. I just wish that December is going to be better than November was.

Epistolary

The whole idea of an epistolary piece of writing is kind of cool. Having many letters or news articles or journal entries making up a novel or story. This had all came up because we have been discussing Frankenstein in my AP English literature class this had also been the type of book we at about to read as a class. This book is going to be Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. My friend thinks after reading a thousand leagues under the sea he knows what all epistolary ex are going to be like. In my head this is wrong because not all books that are written similar give off the same vibe as the book before it. With this I think that this book is going to be an amazing read. I have heard a lot of good things about this book and how the author, Mary Shelly, uses these letters in a great way. Although my sister's friend has ruined the whole book for me I think that I will enjoy it because it is a new way of writing that I haven't encountered thus far in my reading career. I also think that even though my friend said he wouldn't like this book he will turn around and like it by the end.

The year

Throughout the year of school many different things have happened so far and many different people have changed. This change has been both good and bad in some ways. Some of these people are better for the ways they changed thought some are words than what they started or they are just worse. I think that this might have at first been their own decision to change and become different then it transformed into someone else had been changing them to act a certain way or to thing another way. These people are the worst in my mind because the transform to the people around them. As an example someone might be hanging out with a set of friends for a while then all of a sudden they start acting like them, but then some freak accident happens and these people are no longer friends, and after a week they have changed again. These types of people just jump around from group to group or person to person changing. When should all this change end and when should some one finally stop changing just to become themselves. When some one does get out of this I think they become better for it. They set a better example and they chose the right decision to finally get their own person rather than being a sheep being led to slaughter.

The trip

I had been gone most of last week in a city named Elko. I know what some people are thinking, “what the heck is Elko,” I agree with that statement I had no clue where or how many people were in Elko. After we had left I realized that Elko is the place to be if you need to pre-order or buy things on black Friday this is because there are so little people in the city of Elko that everything is still there or not off of sale. One of the chaperons that went on the trip had gotten a PS 4 and was one of the first ones in line, and she didn't even place a pre-order or anything. Back to the trip though, I had a lot of fun on the Skills trip I hung out with some pretty cool people and I also danced a bunch. One of the songs that I danced to was a song named Gas Pedal and when the chorus of the song came on I went to the wall and twerked upside down on the wall. It was really fun and the teachers just shook their heads and laughed at that.

Soliloquy Fright

Having to recite a soliloquy was pretty difficult for me, although I do not have a hard time memorizing the lines itself I just got flustered up in the front of the class. The minute right before I had gotten up and took the walk up to the front I had recited my soliloquy perfectly. Then when I got to the front of the class I looked out and started I felt weird. I mean I have acted a lot previous to this and I usually do not get stage fright. After I blurted out the first three lines the rest just escaped me. I stood so still as if Medusa had frozen me and said “shot its gone all gone.” I called for my first line and kept trucking along missing half lines there and botching words here. It was a train wreck. To top it all of I gave out a giant yawn right in the middle of my speech the crowd started laughing and I went back to my seat in shame. I have no clue what went wrong, though I think it was the pressure of getting graded that had gotten to me and I had just fallen short.

The end has come

           I know recently I have been writing a whole lot about the Shakespearean play “Hamlet,” but not to fear the end of Hamlet has come. All the people are dead, and all that is left is poor Horatio to deal with good old Fortinbras. Now that I am finishing Hamlet I can move on to my next topic which is going to be Frankenstein. I am excited for this new change in writing I was sort of getting over whelmed with all of the play type writing. Do not get me wrong I like Shakespearean plays and all that but to spend that long on them it got a little boring to me and some of the parts were harder for me to grasp at first. My first impressions of Frankenstein are that it is going to be a great book with a lot of killing, like Hamlet. I also think that we are going to bring a lot of the things that we had gotten out of hamlet back into this new book, though I have really been waiting to change to a new book and to finally stop talking about good old Hamlet.  Hamlet good bye I will come back to you in about five months.

The Theroy

What I really think of Ophelia’s death in the play Hamlet.

I think that the Queen, Gertrude, had went with poor miss Ophelia to the lake, and while Ophelia was in the tree Gertrude had decided to break the branch she was sitting on or that she just started throwing rocks at Ophelia. The reasoning behind this theory of Gertrude being the killing factor of Ophelia is because the day before Gertrude had saw Ophelia. At this time Ophelia was not in her best state, due to her father’s recent death, and Gertrude was just fed up with what Ophelia was doing. So this gives the Queen a motive, but how did she get away with it? It is because she was the only one around that she had gotten away with it. Due to Ophelia’s state it seems like a plausible thing that she would so. Since Gertrude had been the only witness she decided what to tell everyone what had happened at the lake that afternoon. So Gertrude tried to cover her death up with a suicide. Even Ophelia’s brother, Laertes, had thought that his poor sister killed herself, but we know the truth of what had happened at the lake don’t we...