Book " Little Women "
Presented by Marian
It is the story
based on the author's experience when she lived her childhood with her sisters,
Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy, who lived in Massachusetts in the First World War. While
their father is at war, these four women live in constant evolution and
learning within the historical context of the time. The story focuses on these
four little women and their way of life.
In my opinion
I would like to watch the movie instead of reading the book.
Those are my
notes from this class.
·
About the
Author, she had been publishing poems, short stories, while working as a nurse
se had problems with her hand, so she had to write with the other hand.
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About the
book, Little women.
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Literary movement,
The Victorian age 1,837, 1901.( that Is in England) ( romantic because, is from U.S.A.)
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Genre
Didactic genre.
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Main
character Dynamic character
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Me, Jo,
Beth, Amy. The last who was as a pet for the family, also Laurie
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Static
characters, Marmee, Mr. Laurance or Grandfather, father.
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Secondary
Characters are Mr. Brooke, Hannah, the Hummels, scrabble Joanna, Aunt March.
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There are
too many more.
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Conflicts.,
struggle with life, external conflict the life in the war. She had to resolve
·
Point of
view Third person, The narrator.
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Plot Is about
the family, they started in a family Christmas day, the father was priest, and
let them alone, the mother and their four daughters. The mother was there to help the family,
there’s a lot of situations that she had to resolve. The girls sometimes felt alone and felt
afraid, a lot of conflicts.
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There is
a love story at the end of the novel.
·
Father
come back, and they were happy for Christmas
·
She loves
the story.
·
Here is a
phrase she thinks many families should follow:
·
“My dear,
don’t let sun down upon your anger. Forgive each other, help each other and
begin again tomorrow”.
Book “The Wizard of Harry Potter”
Presented by Ana Silvia
Summary
Harry Potter is the most miserable,
lonely boy you can imagine. He’s shunned by his relatives, the Dursley’s, that
have raised him since he was an infant. He’s forced to live in the cupboard
under the stairs, forced to wear his cousin Dudley’s hand-me-down clothes, and
forced to go to his neighbour’s house when the rest of the family is doing
something fun. Yes, he’s just about as miserable as you can get.
Harry’s world gets turned upside down on
his 11th birthday, however. A giant, Hagrid, informs Harry that he’s really a
wizard, and will soon be attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry also learns that, in the wizarding world, he’s a hero. When he was an
infant, the evil Lord Voldemort killed his parents and then tried to kill Harry
too. What’s so amazing to everyone is that Harry survived, and allegedly
destroyed Voldemort in the process.
When Harry hears all this, he doesn’t
know what to think. However, everything Hagrid tells him turns out to be true,
and with a joyful heart Harry starts wizarding school in September. He quickly
becomes best friends with a boy named Ron Weasley, and before they even make it
to Christmas, they break tons of school rules when they attack a troll and
prevent it from killing fellow student Hermione Granger. After the troll
incident, the three become inseparable, and Harry is amazed to have found such
great friends. He is constantly busy trying to stay on top of the mounds of
homework, as well as participating in weekly Quidditch practices. Quidditch is
a popular sport among wizards and Harry is the youngest Quidditch player in
over a century. It's also a game Harry loves more than anything else at school.
As the year progresses, the three
friends set out to solve the mystery of the gigantic three-headed dog that is
guarding something in a deserted corridor in the school. They figure out that a
very valuable object, the Sorcerer’s Stone, is being hidden in the school,
although they don’t know why. When one of the professors starts acting as if
he’s trying to steal it, they quickly take action to circumvent the theft.
Things come to a head when they sneak
past the vicious, three-headed dog and go down into the bowels of the school,
determined to save the stone. Ron and Hermione help Harry get through the
challenges set forth to stop the thief, but Harry must go on alone to battle
the professor. When he finally gets to the last room, however, he’s astonished
to find someone else entirely.
Harry is forced to do battle with the
wizard that tried to kill him so many years before, Lord Voldemort. He’s able
to save the Sorcerer’s Stone, although he’s almost killed in process. The
school headmaster, Dumbledore, arrives just in time to save Harry.
The school year ends spectacularly.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione are honored for their service to the school, and Harry
leaves to go back to the Dursley’s for the summer feeling as if he’s finally
found a place where he really belongs.
Reference.
In my opinion I don´t really like that
kin d of stories. I like the real ones. No
the fantasy ones.
Those are my notes in class:
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In an unspecified time, modern and roughly contemporary,
1990s. in surrey, England, and the Hogwarts wizardry academy. Harry attempts to stop Voldemort, who killed
Harry´s parents, from stealing to sorceres´s Stone.
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Raising action.
Harry Potter arrivel at Hogwarts
, the news of the break at Gring…..and friends come up with their own plan to
save the stone and set it into motion. Hermoine realizes theres is a trapdoor
under the guard gor in the third-floor corridor.
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Climax Professor Snaps apparent hex on Harry during
the Quidditch game brings the simmering tension between good and evil out into
open, shifting Harry´s concern from winning the game to surviving.
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Falling action with the conflict about the open of the
forces of good and the forces of evil draw closer together: Harry Ron and
Hermonione explore the school and learn about the Sorcere´s Stone: Voldemort
drinks unicorn blood to sstain himself and attacks Harry in the Forbiden
Forest; Harry faces Professor Quirrell and Veldemort, who orders Quirrell to
kill Potter.
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Resolution Gryffindor wins the house cup.
·
The reader understands that Voldemort is going to
continued thereat to Harry and the Wizard community.
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Harry returns tradition a different change in the main
because he knows that the family loves him.
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Dynamic Harry Potter.
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Static, Voldemort, didn´t change.
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Both internal and external, because he was thinking he
was abandoned by his parents.
·
Hero, was Harry Potter, because he fights against the
evil things, but he didn’t change his values.
·
British Author, JK Rowling, she was an English
Teacher, once she was divorced, she decided to move to England, when she had
all this problem, she decided to make this book. She made it in 1999.
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It was an international hit. Is the modern literary movement.
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In my opinion I don´t like this type of books.
Book “The Wuthering Heights”
Presented by Mayra
Many people, generally those who have
never read the book, consider Wuthering Heights to be a
straightforward, if intense, love story — Romeo and Juliet on
the Yorkshire Moors. But this is a mistake. Really the story is one of revenge.
It follows the life of Heathcliff, a mysterious gypsy-like person, from
childhood (about seven years old) to his death in his late thirties. Heathcliff
rises in his adopted family and then is reduced to the status of a servant,
running away when the young woman he loves decides to marry another. He returns
later, rich and educated, and sets about gaining his revenge on the two
families that he believed ruined his life.
In my opinion Love stories must have more than just a romance. So if I decide to read a love story.
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Characters:
Edgar Linton, Nelly Dean or Ellen, Lockwood. Catherin Linton and Hindsley
Earnshaw.
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Protagonist
Heathcliff
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Antagonist
Hindsley Earnshaw
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Dynamic
Character: Nelly Dean, she is telling the story.
·
Plot: Wuthering
Height is divided into 2 love stories, the tragic, eternal love between them.
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Rising
action Heathcliff’s arrival at Wuthering, Hindsley’s abusive
treatment of Heathcliff and Catherine’s first visit to
Thrush cross.
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Climax. He went to the commentary and toke the coffin
and open because he was very fall in love with her. (Catherine´s death,
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Resolution:
Heathcliff loses interest in his plans of revenge and dies,
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Author Ellis
Bell (July 30, 1848 Thompson England.
She wrote 1 novel and many novels.
“I AM Malala book”
Presented BY Evelyn
Summary
This
book starts with the story of Malala´s father and how the grandfather of her
influences her father to be an eloquent man.
Then about Malala Yousafzai was born in the town of Mingora, Pakistan to
a poor but prominent Muslim family, headed by Ziauddin Yousafzai. Growing up,
Ziauddin encouraged Malala to study literature and rhetoric, and to express
herself freely. From an early age, Malala was conscious of the inferior
position of women in her society: she was especially conscious of the
difference between her mother, Tor Pekai, a woman with no formal education, and
her father, a man with considerable training in writing, poetry, and oration.
At the age of 11, Malala began writing a diary for a BBC blog, thanks to
contacts her father had established. She also made an appearance in a New York Times documentary on life in Pakistan
under the Taliban. Following these two projects, Malala became increasingly
active in the media, in spite of her young age. She gave interviews in which
she criticized the rise of the violent religious extremist group, the Taliban,
in her country. In the fall of 2012, Malala was shot by a Taliban soldier. She
was treated in Pakistani military hospitals, and afterwards, thanks to her
international fame, taken to superior medical facilities in Birmingham,
England. Malala made a full recovery from her bullet wounds, and continued to
actively campaign for women’s rights and education. In 2014, she became the
youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in its 114-year history.
This experience gave me more than an opinion I went
more in the path of the knowledge of Muslims and this enricher culture and try
to rescue the goods no the bads.
Actually, I admire Malala with this courage and realize that the support
of a Family is very important to accomplish and get to the goals.
This is the book I presented, so in my opinion I
really appreciate it. Because I have learned a lot about this culture. I could never imagine how much I learned with
this book.
All crimes against the women and human rights made in Afghanistan
, I hope some day could stop.
“TO THE LIGHTHOUSE”
Presented By. Lesly.
The
Lighthouse is a
1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel is about on the Ramsays and their visits
to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.
Following and extending the
tradition of modernist novelists. The novel recalls childhood emotions and highlights
adult relationships. Among the book's many tropes and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, the
nature of art and the problem of perception.
To the Lighthouse takes on some elements of Woolf’s own life: she felt stifled by
her father in much the same way that Mr. Ramsay squeezes the life out of his
children. And the sudden deaths of her mother and her sister Stella left her in
deep mourning (echoes of Mrs. Ramsay and Prue’s deaths in To the
Lighthouse).
But, Woolf herself got fed up with critics who
insisted on reading the Ramsays as direct representations of the Stephens
(Stephen was Woolf’s maiden name). To the Lighthouse is also
an extended meditation on the relationship between art and life, and on late
Victorian family structures. (Source: Mark Massey, “Introduction,” To the
Lighthouse. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Books, 2005, xlviii.)
In my opinion
when this book was presented It moves me
to read. I think I would like to read
it.
In my words,
what I take:
Protagonist Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ramsay
Plot. James and Lily.
He really wants to go to the lighthouse
Static: Mrs. Ramsay.
Dynamic: Lily Briscoe
Point of view:
conflict: intern James Ramsay,
extern Lily Briscoe, the heroine Mrs. Ramsay.
Virginia Woolf Was the author.
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one
of the foremost modernist of the XX century.
Historical background. Was written in the first world
war.
Literary Movement: Modernism
Country England.
Summary: woman can not paint or write. How family resolve the conflict. different
relationships, literature is associating with the life.
“ROSE IN BLOOM”
Presented BY
VIVI
By Louisa May Alcott
In Rose in Bloom (1876), Rose now
twenty, comes out into society and must navigate its risks while choosing
between several suitors, including two of her cousins. It’s important to
mention that this is the sequel to Eight Cousins.
Rose insists that she will manage her own fortune
rather than find a husband to do it for her. Further advancing Alcott’s
passionate advocacy of women’s rights.
Three young men stood together on a wharf one bright
October day, "They are the Campbell's, waiting for their cousin,
who has been abroad several years
with her uncle, the Doctor“.
When Rose gives a chance to Charlie and they tried to
have a romance, but he didn’t give up
with his drinking bad habit, even though Rose try to help him in different
ways. He dies because of it in an accident.
“Rose is finally ready to bloom into a good, strong,
sweet and true woman”.
The Author :
Louisa May Alcott
She was
born on 1832 in Pennsylvania, USA. Her parents were Amos Bronson Alcott
(teacher and philosopher) and Abby May (social worker).
She was
educated mainly by her father and by various other educators including Henry
David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller,
they were her father friends.
In my
opinion All that is related with woman´s right I would like to know, because
spite of all the modernism, and the human rights existed right now, I can
understand that we are behind the reality, we are lost in space sometimes. We must know our rights to advocate them
and put in practice everywhere.
Setting
United States in 1876.
Point of
view. It is written in 3rd. person,
he, she, they.
Protagonist:
Rose Campbell.
Antagonist: Maybe we can see as an antagonist,
Charles C. Campbell (Charlie) because of his behavior, another antagonist for
me is Charlie’s mother because she let her son down the wrong path.
Conflict: The conflict in This story is “love
against money”, and the high society way of living.
Literary
movement: Realism
Genre: General
Fiction Romance
Historical Background:
• Johns
Hopkins University is founded.
• Alexander
Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone, and makes the
first successful call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see
you.“
• The Transcontinental
Express arrives in San Francisco, California via the First
Transcontinental Railroad, after having left New York City.
• First
published a review of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark
Twain, on December 1876.)
The
United States celebrates its centenary.
Book “THE GREAT GATSBY”
Presented
by Jeannette
Notes
from the class:
It is a
love story, Gatsby wats to marry Daisy but she found a boy called Tom. All the characters live close. Meyer
Wolfsheim in his best friend.
He comes
from the Midwest of North Dakota. He is established as a dreamer who is
charming.
Daisy
Buchanan She is a Nick´s cousin and the one Gatsby loves. As a young woman in
Louisville before the war.
Nick
Carrraway is the one who narrates the story, is a young man from Minnesota, he
knows the secret of everyone. He was next-door neighbor of the mysterious.
Tom
Buchanan Daisy´s immensely weighty, once member of Nicks social club at Yale.
Jordan Baker,
Daisy´s friend, a woman romantically in love with Nick.
Myrtle
and George Wilson. Tom´s lover, George exhausted owner of a run- down auto shop
at the edge of the Valley of ashes. He loves and idealizes Myrtle.
Meyer
Wolfsheim Gatsby´s fiend, a prominent man.
Protagonist: Jay Gatsby.
Antagonist:
Tom Buchanan. In My friend´s opinion.
Plot: Nicks moves to a New York in search of the
American Dream and finds himself withnessing the disillusions hidden in the
people who live it.
Climax:
Daisy tries to leave Tom
Author´s
biography was. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on Sept, 24 1896 in Minnesota. He seems to be like the character of Gatsby.
Historical
Background:
Economical
things were so important, the treat people give you at that time was good, if
you were poor you don´t receive good treat.
This is
how he started the book, he had the opportunity to visit this type of mansions,
organize crime were there, so this is all begins.
This book
is Romantic and drama book.
Why
choose this book? Was a recommendation of a relative, I Personally give a doubt
to read, she said that you don´t know what could happened in the next part.
She
showed the trailer of the movie, so we supposed to be interested in reading the
book.
If you
like that type of movies fiction, action and drama, this is the kind of movie.
Is the same name as the book has.
She has
the expectations that the characters were going to cheat each other. But at the end was pretty much as life is.
The book
has 261 pages. The places are fictitious.
In my opinion
I would like to read and watch then the movie, just to verify if this is
similar or not, as the way my friend exposed to.
Book “THE CHRONICLES OF Narnia”
by C.S. Lewis.
Presented
by Jessica.
Main
characters:
Digory Kirke,
he is brave, strong, loyal, impulsive.
Polly Plummer,
Thoughtful o curious, but cautious polite a
Aslan a
Magic Lion., which is the principal character.
The story
takes place in London in this part explains about the situation of the family,
passing bad times.
After
that Andrew tries to explain that he is so curious, with his friend finds the
attic with books and strange things.
He got the feeling to go out from there but, Polly suggests staying
because it was a ring which disappear.
They find a place of wooden between the worlds.
He
convinces her to explore the strange place. They can see statues, the last one
was a statue of a beautiful woman.
They
found a bell in a special place. The
statue becomes real and evil. Who is suffering there. Suddenly they come back
then to the attic of the uncle, and meet, she made a disaster in the real
world, she crashes in the park, and she jumps in the horse. Polly and Andrew said that she must come back
to the wood place.
Let´s try
to put this queen in her original place.
So was so dark then suddenly become bright, as creation, everywhere
flowering.
Aslan
create some animals which talk to Frank and Hellen,
They go
to the western wild Garden, protected by a high hill.
It appear
the fruit of life, Aslan said that they can not touch it. Jadis according to the bible is Adan.
Was a
prize to the boy because of the obedience of take the apple with permission, it
was to heal his mother.
Aslan
crowned them and gives the apple, and give the promise to grow this tree to get
the fruit for the future.
The
Author C.S. Lewis
Literary
movement. Modernism
Conflict
is internal and external.
Background: He has lost his faith, it was written in
first world war.
Personally
I don´t like that kind of books. I found
Fantasy bored, has a lot of details.
Book “Inferno” by, Dan Brown.
Presented
by Guillermo Guzman.
About Dan
Brown A controversial writer, Exeter, He was involved in -masonry and luminaty, He is Psychologist. Is a post-modernist author.
In the
movies from Inferno and The Vinci code,
are the same characters.
Main
Characters, Robert Langdon Protagonist, and the antagonist Berthard
Plot of
the story
Harvard
professor Robert Langdon makes up in a hospital with a head injure and no
memory of the last few days, but he quickly realizes that he is now in Florence
Italy.
Dr.
Sienna Brooks reveals that he is suffering from amnesia. When Vayentha shows up in the hospital and
Brooks helps Langdon escape, and they flee to her apartment.
A trail
of clues leads the.
They
cross the attic where Brooks pushes Veyentha to her death. Langdon connects the
phrase “Paradise 25” to the Florence Baptistry, where they find the Dante Mask.
Climax.
Of the story.
They
realize that the billionaire genetic named Bertrand Zobrist talked about
halting of humanity growth, due to its about of control population.
Zobrist
supposedly developed a new biological ….
Brooks
goes rogue and the Consortium realizes she was a secret supporter and lover of
Zobrist. She learned were the plague
was being and went before everyone.
For the story they realize that she lies about everything.
It is
discovered Brooks didn´t puncture the……, it was soluble and had dissolved one
week earlier in the cistern water, meaning that the whole world has already
been infected. She was trying to stop
the virus herself, but didn’t trust the WHO.
All
people are infected,
Sinsky
and Brooks decide no to ty to reverse
Zobrist´s actions, Brooks pointed that Zobrist had a point about the dangers of
overpopulation.
Literary
movement, Post modernism
In my
opinion. I found this presentation interesting, because I didn´t know the name
of the person in charge to make all this movements of the new age. Luminati, I have heard about it, because of
my kids, they told me that this lumniti has the belief against what Catholic
Church have taught us. They already
know what is right or what is wrong, so with a mature belief they now can
choose or decide all about his new age fashion belief. I understand that a psychologist can play
with the human minds too.
It was interesting. I would like to read and watch the movies too
in spite of I have my strong beliefs, it would be just to know what this people
try to convince us.
