Vocabulary #9

savory
incite
tactless
integrity
compensate
aloof
Goad
Cohort
1. Taste the savory rainbow with Skittles.
2. I always incited my sister to ask our parents to pass by Mcdonalds.
3. The tactless hobo always cried for money at Mcdonalds.
4. I show integrity when I'm at weddings
5. My dad is well-compensated at his job.
6. My sister always aloof when her school has show-and-tell.
7. I goad my sister and her friends about how girly and immature they are, and World War III broke out.
8. My stupid cohort disrespected my butterfingers.

Vocabulary #8

Malignant
Ornery
Indolent
Belittle
Jeopardize
Demise
Awry
Frugal
1. His sister was malignant when she dared challenge him on /dance Dance Revolution.
2. I was ornery by how people kept on touching peoples butterfingers.
3. My sister is indolent when she has to do her chores.
4. My parents always belittle me, so I do it right back.
5. He jeopardized his house by betting on the Lakers game.
6. My demise began when I drank Starbucks.
7. The soldiers were attacked by the terrisrists; however, it was awry.
8. The only frugal place to buy stuff is at the swap-meet

Literary Analysis #1

THE GOOD SOLDIER-Ford Maxx Ford

1. The Good Soldier by Ford Maxx Ford was written in World War I. This book is not in        chronological order, and it’s in 4 parts. It takes place in many places at first in the following places: Country Side of French, Nauheim, and Nauheim Spa. The meeting of John and Florence Dowell and Edward and Leonora Ashburnham in a German health spa is the center of a train of lies, deceptions, adulterous love triangles, and deaths. John Dowell, a memorably "unreliable" narrator, calls it "the saddest story I have ever heard". Heart disease is the major problem that both Flourence and Edward play. They both fake the "heart" condition in service of his/her serial "affairs" Florence fabricates her heart trouble before her marriage is ever consummated, using it to turn Dowell into a cardiac nurse and keep him out of her bedroom. Edward Ashburnham fakes his illness to escape his military post and take his latest love object to Germany. When the focus shifts to Edward, Leonora, and their ward Nancy Rufford, The Good Soldier becomes a tragedy of emotional sadism. It all turns out that there are two tragic flaws, but I’m not going to ruin it for you unless you read it! ;)

 2. Theme:

The Difference between Appearance and Reality

The distinction between appearance and reality is one of the most important themes of the novel. No one in The Good Soldier is really who he seems to be, or who Dowell thinks him to be. Edward is not an honest, trustworthy "good soldier"; Florence is not a demure and faithful wife; and Leonora is not an upright, "normal" woman devoid of passion or emotion. The villain would be Florence and Edward meanwhile Edward and Leonara are good.

3. Tone: 

Confused, naive, and angry; the narrator's tone changes throughout the novel as he tells the story and reflects back on the events which have occurred; above all, he seems to be earnestly searching for meaning and simplicity, though he is utterly lost.

4. Literary Techniques/Devices:

Florence's suicide which foreshadows the suicide of Edward Ashburnham; the actions of the Hurlbirds foreshadows tragedy for Dowell and Florence.

Ford creates imagery of umbra and shadow elsewhere in the novel: “inevitably they pass away as the shadows across sundials.”

Ford alliterates “the flames still fluttered.” Nancy’s passion prevails while “introspection”; about desire and love pervade her. Nancy considered marriage as a

“Sacrament”; and the burning logs once represented an “indestructible mode of life.” Now the world Nancy is absorbed in becomes embroiled in doubt and uncertainty. 

Ford exploits repetition in: “love was a flame,” and “a man who was burning with inward flame”; to reiterate fire signifying Passion. The tone shifts after the passage, passion is extinguished by “the whole collections of rules:”; “the fire had sunk to nothing…a mere glow amongst white ashes.” 

Vocabulary #7

Inhibit
Aberrant
Loathe
Prowess
Incoherent
Epitaph
Elaborate
Countenance

1. If I was"Butterfingers-Man" I would inhibit like people touching other peoples butterfingers.
2. My aberrant sister is always drinking water from the hose.
3. The only way to loathe butterfingers is if you never tried them.
4. My prowess to protect butterfingers is very asinine.
5. Antigone by Sophocles wasn't easy to read because it was incoherent.
6. The epitaph in which I would lie down someday will be red, and say "Butterfingers-Man".
7. The story was very elaborate, but it was perplexing.
8. My sisters countenance was devastated when someone touched her butterfingers.

Antigone Compare/Contrast Essay

            In Antigone by Sophocles, the basic problems between Antigone and Creon would be claims of state, and quarreling between families. The conflicts between the characters are the result of both their similarities and differences. The major conflict between Antigone and Creon would be over the burial of Polyneices. The least conflict between Antigone and Creon would be about beliefs.

            Antigone is loyal to family in certain ways. Antigone says, “I will bury the brother I love” (Prologue. 69). Antigone is loyal to gods because in Scene II she says that everyone is to follow god’s laws, and no one below them are to make such laws. Creon is loyal to state when he says, “You will give no support to whoever breaks the law” (I. 59). Creon is not loyal to family because in Scene II he didn't want to bury Polyneices even if he was his nephew.

Some similarities of Antigone and Creon would be how they show “pride”. Pride is a major character trait for both Antigone and Creon. Antigone shows pride when she says, “I do. I deny nothing” (II. 59). In scene II, she tells Creon she isn't guilty of anything she’s done. She is prideful because she disobeys Creons law, and buries Polyneices body because she loves him. Creon shows pride when he says, “If we must lose, lets lose to a man, at least! Is a woman stronger than we?” (III. 50-51). In scene IV, he shows us how “women” were defying him so he sends Antigone to be locked in a vault to live or die. He is prideful because he doesn't have any respect for women. Even if Antigone and Creon have pride it all ends up as a tragic flaw for Creon.

At the end, I think each character deserves to be blamed. Antigone is arrogant in pride which defies the law and buries her brother who was a traitor. Creon is arrogant in pride which caused his downfall of losing his niece, son, and wife. After all, I think the tragic hero would be Creon because he failed to pay attention to Tiresias causing three tragic flaws all due t o his “pride”.