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Casey:Symbolism
Monday, November 28, 2016
Saturday, November 26, 2016
How to Liven Up Your Room
If you're like me with white-painted walls and parents that don't like excessive holes in your walls (thereby there's very few ways to hang stuff up), you probably wish your room was a little less dull. Have no fear; here's a way to make your room very (very) unique.
Finished Product:
You will need:
- Adhesive putty
- Printer and some photos to print out
- thin ribbon or yarn
- scissors
- Paper Clips
Step One: Cut 3 long pieces of ribbon that will reach from one corner of your room to the other.
Step 2: Using the adhesive putty (be generous), attach one going directly from one corner to the other, and one piece of ribbbon on either side.
Step 3: Print out your photos. You should make them size 4x6. They don't have to be on photo paper; mine were on standard office paper, but printer paper would look nicer. You need 10-12 photos per string.
Step 4: String the paper clip onto the ribbon by sliding it through. Twist it so the part that you attach to paper is pointing downwards. Slip your photo into this spot. (If this confuses you, I attached a photo at the bottom.)
Step 5: Repeat step 4 until you finish all of your photos.
STEP4:
Finished Product:
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Symbolism
About two weeks ago, I was struggling with friendship and fights.
I was in tears, and I had nowhere to go, so I sat on a bench outside the cafeteria and tried to drown my problems in the apple juice they serve with lunch. (For the record, it only gave me a stomachache, so don't try it.) I wasn't sure which friends were my real friends anymore, and I was so totally lost. Confused. Destroyed. Insert various negative adjectives.
But then, this boy showed up. "Hey, I noticed you were upset, do you want to talk about it?" He sat down on the other end of the bench and put his hand on my shoulder. "I'm not good at this, and I don't even know your name, but if you need anything from me, I'm here."
That one small gesture led to me being happier than I had felt in nearly a month. I still have no idea who this guy is, but nevertheless it helped me more than he realizes.
(The boy in this story symbolizes hope.)
I was in tears, and I had nowhere to go, so I sat on a bench outside the cafeteria and tried to drown my problems in the apple juice they serve with lunch. (For the record, it only gave me a stomachache, so don't try it.) I wasn't sure which friends were my real friends anymore, and I was so totally lost. Confused. Destroyed. Insert various negative adjectives.
But then, this boy showed up. "Hey, I noticed you were upset, do you want to talk about it?" He sat down on the other end of the bench and put his hand on my shoulder. "I'm not good at this, and I don't even know your name, but if you need anything from me, I'm here."
That one small gesture led to me being happier than I had felt in nearly a month. I still have no idea who this guy is, but nevertheless it helped me more than he realizes.
(The boy in this story symbolizes hope.)
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Friday, November 11, 2016
free post
Sarah's prompt (it's here if you want to check it out) was "How have your priorities changed from middle to highschool.
I feel like my academic and extra curricular priorities have remained the same as I transitioned into highschool. I've always had ambitions, maybe to the point where I've been a little too hard on myself, and I've always strived to just...do well. But what's changed are my social priorities. I still don't concern myself with being the most "popular" or "coolest" or whatever people worry about these days. What I've started worrying about is just what people think of me. I constantly feel like people are judging me, and I'm über self conscious. I don't think its at an unhealthy level, but its definitely increased in a negative way.
I feel like my academic and extra curricular priorities have remained the same as I transitioned into highschool. I've always had ambitions, maybe to the point where I've been a little too hard on myself, and I've always strived to just...do well. But what's changed are my social priorities. I still don't concern myself with being the most "popular" or "coolest" or whatever people worry about these days. What I've started worrying about is just what people think of me. I constantly feel like people are judging me, and I'm über self conscious. I don't think its at an unhealthy level, but its definitely increased in a negative way.
LOTF scene
***hey, just for you grammar nazis out there, there is a run on sentence in here, and I want you to know that it is quite purposeful. Literary devices, people.***
" 'I tell you, I got the conch!'
Surprisingly, there was silence now; the tribe were curious to see what amusing thing he might have to say.
Silence and pause; but in the silence a curious air-noise[...blah blah blah...]
'I got this to say. You're acting like a crowd of kids.' [...blah blah blah...]
Now Jack was yelling too, and Ralph could no longer be heard above the noise."
(This is the scene just before Piggy dies.)
This scene is absolutely pivotal (I bolded, underlined and italicized that for a reason, folks) because it marks the point in which Jack's clan becomes like 90% animal. When they're yelling and screaming and booing and they just want him to shut up so they can continue their fun, and and all they want is to be able to hunt Ralph and kill him and put his head on a stick like they did with the Lord of the Flies, and honestly why is Piggy still saying stuff, it's not like anyone is listening they're all yelling and screaming anyway. We've seen a gradual change in personality (mood? psych setting? something?) before, but this is that final stretch that we see where they have almost nothing but pure thirst for blood.
I'm not saying this is the most pivotal , because there are some more important ones, but honestly, I most of the über-important scenes are way too gory for me to write about. But this one is the final psych change in LOTF before rescue, which influences the entire turnout of the novel.
" 'I tell you, I got the conch!'
Surprisingly, there was silence now; the tribe were curious to see what amusing thing he might have to say.
Silence and pause; but in the silence a curious air-noise[...blah blah blah...]
'I got this to say. You're acting like a crowd of kids.' [...blah blah blah...]
Now Jack was yelling too, and Ralph could no longer be heard above the noise."
(This is the scene just before Piggy dies.)
This scene is absolutely pivotal (I bolded, underlined and italicized that for a reason, folks) because it marks the point in which Jack's clan becomes like 90% animal. When they're yelling and screaming and booing and they just want him to shut up so they can continue their fun, and and all they want is to be able to hunt Ralph and kill him and put his head on a stick like they did with the Lord of the Flies, and honestly why is Piggy still saying stuff, it's not like anyone is listening they're all yelling and screaming anyway. We've seen a gradual change in personality (mood? psych setting? something?) before, but this is that final stretch that we see where they have almost nothing but pure thirst for blood.
I'm not saying this is the most pivotal , because there are some more important ones, but honestly, I most of the über-important scenes are way too gory for me to write about. But this one is the final psych change in LOTF before rescue, which influences the entire turnout of the novel.
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Saturday, November 5, 2016
PRompt
Think about the first thing that pops into your head. Describe the things in your life that may have brought this thought on. (NOT the thought itself.)
Right now, the first thing that pops into my head is stress. Moreover, stress and confusion.
I can tell you where the stress lies. It lies with school, it lies with sports, and it lies with social interactions. It lies wherever I don't feel comfortable, and it lies where I feel that I'm going to lose somewhere I am comfortable. It lies with relationships, friendships, and enemies; it lies with everything I connect with.
But what I can't explain is the confusion. I know what I am confused about (relationships XD) but why I am confused about it is what I can't place. I am confused about my confusion. It's very fitting.
I guess these things come with highschool, and I guess they just come with life and general, but I'm still getting used to it. I have no idea what's going to come, so I guess I just have to push past all of the stress and confusion and just keep moving forward.
LOTF response
[Piggy:] "I don't agree with all Jack said, but with some. 'Course there isn't a beast in the forest. How could there be? What would a beast eat?"
"Pig."
"We eat pig."
"Piggy!"
"I got the conch!" said Piggy indignantly. "Ralph--they ought to shut up, oughtn't they? You shut up, you littluns! What I mean is that I don't agree about this here fear. Of course there isn't nothing to be afraid of in the forest. Why--I been there myself! You'll be talking about ghosts and such things next. We know what goes on and if there's something wrong, there's someone to put it right."
He took off his glasses and blinked at them. The sun had gone as if the light had been turned off. [...]
"Life," said Piggy expansively, "is scientific, that's what it is. In a year or two when the war's over they'll be traveling to Mars and back. I know there isn't no beast--not with claws and all that, I mean--but I know there isn't no fear either."
Piggy paused.
"Unless--"
Ralph moved restlessly.
"Unless what?"
"Unless we get frightened of people." (83-84)
This paragraph begins with the obsession with pigs that we see so many places in Lord of The Flies. Pig. Pig. Piggy! But then it goes much deeper than that. Piggy and Ralph show another obsessiveness: the obsession with rules. "I got the conch!...Ralph, they ought to shut up, oughtn't they?" They need those rules for anything and everything to work, so when one of them is bent, they think that all heck will break loose.
Then Piggy says that "life is scientific," and that he knows there "isn't no beast," which can mean several things. It could mean that he doesn't think the beast exists, in any way, shape, or form. It could mean that he doesn't think that the beast is a physical beast, and that this "beast" is just a concept floating around. (Similar to Simon's views.) Connecting this with earlier passages, I'm not sure which one. It seems like the latter when Piggy says, "Unless we get frightened of people." But in an earlier passage, it seems like the former when Piggy calls Simon "batty" for suggesting that the beast could be within the boys.
"Ralph moved restlessly." Is he restless because he's nervous, or because he's bored. Ralph could agree with Piggy, and Ralph could not agree with Piggy.Ralph and Jack's relationship notwithstanding, it is difficult to place where Ralph lies with this whole "beast ordeal" at the time of this scene.
"Pig."
"We eat pig."
"Piggy!"
"I got the conch!" said Piggy indignantly. "Ralph--they ought to shut up, oughtn't they? You shut up, you littluns! What I mean is that I don't agree about this here fear. Of course there isn't nothing to be afraid of in the forest. Why--I been there myself! You'll be talking about ghosts and such things next. We know what goes on and if there's something wrong, there's someone to put it right."
He took off his glasses and blinked at them. The sun had gone as if the light had been turned off. [...]
"Life," said Piggy expansively, "is scientific, that's what it is. In a year or two when the war's over they'll be traveling to Mars and back. I know there isn't no beast--not with claws and all that, I mean--but I know there isn't no fear either."
Piggy paused.
"Unless--"
Ralph moved restlessly.
"Unless what?"
"Unless we get frightened of people." (83-84)
This paragraph begins with the obsession with pigs that we see so many places in Lord of The Flies. Pig. Pig. Piggy! But then it goes much deeper than that. Piggy and Ralph show another obsessiveness: the obsession with rules. "I got the conch!...Ralph, they ought to shut up, oughtn't they?" They need those rules for anything and everything to work, so when one of them is bent, they think that all heck will break loose.
Then Piggy says that "life is scientific," and that he knows there "isn't no beast," which can mean several things. It could mean that he doesn't think the beast exists, in any way, shape, or form. It could mean that he doesn't think that the beast is a physical beast, and that this "beast" is just a concept floating around. (Similar to Simon's views.) Connecting this with earlier passages, I'm not sure which one. It seems like the latter when Piggy says, "Unless we get frightened of people." But in an earlier passage, it seems like the former when Piggy calls Simon "batty" for suggesting that the beast could be within the boys.
"Ralph moved restlessly." Is he restless because he's nervous, or because he's bored. Ralph could agree with Piggy, and Ralph could not agree with Piggy.Ralph and Jack's relationship notwithstanding, it is difficult to place where Ralph lies with this whole "beast ordeal" at the time of this scene.
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