Romeo and Juliet stuff #1

HOLA!!!! ARRIBA!!!
Alright, I'm going to get off to a fast start here with my Romeo and Juliet blog, so here we go! The first thing that I would like to point out on this book is something that I realized while reading it: For one, it says that Juliet's thirteen and this guy Paris (I bet he looks like Pius Thicknesse) wants to marry her. EW! And another thing, Juliet's mom says that she was her age when she got married, which means that Mrs. Capp (I'll get to their names in a second) was thirteen when she got married. DOUBLE EW!! That also means that if Juliet got married at thirteen, Mrs. Capp would be a grandmother at twenty six. TRIPLE EW!!! I don't need a lecture on "That's just what they did back then" but it still grosses me out a little. Going back to the names, I got tired writing Capulet and Montague and hippopotomonstrosusquippidaliophobia over and over again (...okay maybe not that last one so much) so I shortened all their names. Here's my list so far:
Lord Capulet-Mr. Capp (I chose the last name Capp because when I was little I had this computer game called the Sims 2 where there was this neighborhood called Veronaville where there were two families: the Capps and the Montys. So I shortened the last names according :) )
Lady Capulet-Mrs. Capp
Juliet-Juliet (I kept the main characters the same)
Tybalt-Tyler
Sampson-Sam
Gregory-Greg
Abraham-Abe
Benvolio-Benny
Nurse-Nurse
Prince-His Royal High Highliness Prince Jennifer of Verona the Great Nation of Smallness (...:) )
Lord Montague-Mr. Monty
Lady Montague-Mrs. Monty
Romeo-Romeo
Paris-Pius
Mercutio-Mac
And that's all the named characters that have been introduced so far.
Well that's all for today compadres. See ya!
Ribonucleic Acid ;)

ANTSIJ Stuff #2

Hiya y'all.
Here we go:

1. Irony:
1. One examply of irony in this play is that Henry Williams spent all this time being a slave and escaping, but then dies when he is free.
2. Another example of irony is how Waldo is supposedly doing all of this stuff to stop the war and to get peace, but then goes into a war with Henry.
3. Also, Waldo gets mad at Henry for being removed from Concord but saying how things should be, but this entire time Waldo has been in England saying how things should be.
2. Characters:
1. The most important, of course, is Henry. I would choose Johnny Depp to play Henry just because Henry believes that living simpler is actually smarter, and Johnny Depp plays a lot of characters that may seem mad on the outside but are actually quite smart, like Henry. Also I just like Johnny Depp :)
2. Waldo is also a very important character, and I think that Richard Griffiths should play him because for one, he is old, and also he plays a lot of characters that look like they're doing good on the outside, but really are not doing very much on the inside, like Waldo.
3. I would say that another important character is John, and I think that Colin Firth should play him because John is a very peaceful and calm character and, well, Colin Firth just seems right for the job. Of course, all of my actors would have to adopt American accents ;)
3. I think that Henry's protests are succesful in the end because the war ended. It may not be because of his protests, but his goal was acheived nevertheless.

Well that's it for today, Hasta los Tacos! Maybe I'll do my next post in Spanish...

ANTSIJ and Bananafish stuff

Hey guys. It's Molly (duh)
Bananafish:

1. Muriel really reminds me of Sally from CITR because all she talks about with her mother is clothing and Seymour's behavior instead of how everything's going, the scenery, and all that type of stuff. It is also sort of evident that she doesn't really love Seymour all that much, as she lost the German book he gave her and doesn't really stick up for him that much, and it reminds me of how Sally doesn't really like Holden.
2. Sybill reminds me of Phoebe from CITR because she is innocent and curious and very trusting of strangers. Seymour sort of sees her as like this little clean and good spot in his life at the moment (as in Florida) like Holden sees Phoebe.
3. Seymour sort of reminds me of Holden from CITR because he has really worked himself into a pit. He doesn't really like Muriel because he killed himself and he really doesn't enjoy all that materialistic stuff like Holden.

ANTSIJ stuff:

1. I think that the quote, "Our own school, John, no buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All we need is the sky!" really refers to transcendentalist thought because part of transcendentalism is not really believing in the whole organized government and religion, and how each person should be self-reliant. "Breaking out of the classroom prison" is like saying to not go along with the rest of the population and be your own person, living off the simple land and not relying on others to teach you things that they think that everyone needs to know.

So yeah that's it for today. Penguins in space ^_^

Catcher in the Rye Stuff #2

Hiya.

1. If I was in Holden's exact position, I would actually go the same place that he went--rummaging around NYC. But that is only if I had his fear of disappointing his family. I would personally go back home because I would probably be tired of boarding school (unless it was Hogwarts).
2. Jane (just watched Forrest Gump so I keep wanting to call her Jenny) is sort of an enigma to Holden. He knows her so well, but there are things about her story that he has no idea about. They have sort of a complicated relationship, as Jane really likes Holden but isn't ready to tell him everything about her.
3. People are always ruining things for you. It's true. But people also make things happy for you. It goes both ways. For example, you will only have fun playing a board game if there's someone there to play it with you. But if you have a really moody person playing with you, it's not fun. But if you have a fun person playing with you, you'll have a great time. It depends on the person. An example of when someone ruined something for me was today when my snow day was interrupted by the West Ottawa superintendant not cancelling school. Another one was when I came to school on the day of our show (it's in two one in a half hours now) and having the person playing Linus not knowing any single lines, songs, blocking, or choreography. And the other Linus (the part was double cast) who actually knew their part couldn't get to school because of the snow (ahem superintendant) so now we're about to go fail.

So yeah, as you can probably tell I'm in a cheery mood right now.
FRACASO
(not you my show)

The Catcher in the Rye Blog Stuff #1

Hey guys.
Woo, it's been a while since I've been to the ol' blogging station. Had to dust off the dashboard a little when I got here haha.
So anyways, here's all my blogging stuff:

1. To be unique is to be your own person. You don't try to copy anybody else and make yourself known to others. I personally think that it is a good thing to be unique as you naturally are, but still try to improve yourself. Some people strive too hard to be unique--they want to get the attention of others. Usually, this makes people either really strange or more mean, because they don't know how to get more attention by doing good things.
2. To be an individual in the adult world meants that you need to let go of that strive for attention desperate enough that you settle for negative attention. There are some adults who never give that up--take a few celebrities, for example. Some of them go so far to get re-married and re-divorced just to see their face in the newspapers. You should not let that indivuality go, but when you grow up you need to start getting the attention and start giving it.
3. I do not have a favorite person--it'd be waaaay to hard to pick just one. But I do have an idea of a good person, and I think that both that ideal of a person and Allie can be quite similar--kind, creative, intelligent, but I guess I would have to pick a favorite person and decide if they are similar to Allie's innocence. I think they would be, whomever I would pick. But then again, I can't pick....

Happy Penguins!

Odyssey, rest o' the book!

I just finished the Odyssey. All I have to say is this...
YESS!!!! YEAH!!!!! WHOOP WHOOP!!!!!!!!!! LOOK AT ME NOW, REGULAR ENGLISH TEACHERS!!!!!!!!!!
.......Anyways.....
*Spoiler Alert! I bet by the time you read this you will be done, but if you are not, I suggest you run away right now and go eat a waffle.
I'm very happy about this, but I had a LOT of problems with the last few books of this book. So I guess I'll just go through the list of stuff...

First what I liked:
1. I like how Homer made Ulysses all happy when he saw Penelope for the first time and likewise when he revealed himself to her.
2. The insult "impundent baggage". Remind me to use that in the future...
3. Page 158, paragraph 3, it says that all the suitors and their servants, "Bit the dust". They even had catchy Queen songs back then!

Now for what I didn't like...:
1. When disguised Ulysses describes meeting himself to Penelope. First he's all, "That one was twenty years ago and I'm old, so I don't remember much." But then he goes on to describe how he remembers exactly what Ulysses was wearing twenty years ago, down to the dog eating the fawn! How does Penelope not see this? How could she be so dumb?
2.When Ulysses almost strangels nice old Euryclea. All she does is recognize him, and then he's all, "Don't you tell anyone or I'll kill you!" Why is he such a meanie?
3. Another Penelope stupidity moment. She asks Ulysses to interpret a dream of hers. I get how the first part can be confusing:
"I have twenty geese about the house that eat mash out of a trough, and of which I  am exceedingly fond. I dreamed that a great eagle came swooping down from a mountain, and dug his curved beak into the neck of each goosetill he had killed them all. Presently he soared off into the sky, and left them lying dead about the yard; whereon I wept in my room till al l my maids gathered around me, so piteously was I grieving because the eagle had killed my geese."
 Yeah, I get how this part would have to be interpreted. But listen to this part:
"Then he came back again,n and perching on a projecting rafter he spoke to me with a human voice, and told me to leace off crying. 'Be of good courage,' he said, 'daughter of Icarius; this is no dream, but a vision of good omen that shall surely come to pass. The geese are the suitors and I am no longer an eagle but your own husband, who am come back to you, and who will bring these suitors to a disgraceful end.' On this I woke, and when I looked out I saw my geese at the trough eating their mash as usual."
Sorry Penelope, don't mean to be mean to you, but HOW COULD YOU NOT INTERPRET THAT!!! I mean, the eagle literally says, "The geese are the suitors and I am Ulysses." What needs interpreting? It interprets itself! How does Penelope not get this?
4.I had to censor a word on page 142, paragraph five.
5. Okay, anyone notice that Homer doesn't really describe anything except the ways people die? I guess occasionally what they're wearing, but mostly he just takes a whole paragraph to describe the way people die, spurting blood and everything! Like page 155, paragraph 8. It's so disgusting, I won't quote it on here, but EW! Come on, Homer! Let's keep it PG!
6. Page 156, paragraph 8. Ulysses, Telemachus, the pigman, and the random storeman are having this big battle against the suitors. Then on that paragraph that I just pointed out, the first line is "Thus did they converse." Sorry, but how do you "converse" during a big battle! Did all the suitors just stop and watch as they conversed? Just asking.
7. The end. Here it is:
"Thus spoke Minerva, and Ulysses obeyed her gladly. Then Minerva assumed the form and voice of Mentor, and presently made a covenant of peace between the two contending parties. The end."
Come on, Homer! What kind of ending is that? "They made a covenent of peace between the two contending parties. The end." What? No family hug? No kiss for Penelope? Just peace covenants between the two contending parties. Whoo. I believe that book endings should either make the reader extremely happy or extremely sad. This one was just, "...contending parties. The end." Okay. No emotion. Just okay, it ended. Now where's my waffle?
But seriously. It didn't leave me with any book fog* when I finished it, all because of the unemotional ending. It made just say, "Okay," and close it. No happiness. No sadness. Just "Okay." What sort of an ending is that if it just makes me say, "Okay."? If any of you were like "WHOO!" or "NOOOOO!" when you read that ending paragraph, let me know. Am I missing something here, or is it just a boring ending?
8. I've decided that overall, I'm on team nobody. I've lately been all, "Team Ulysses!" or "Team Telemachus!" but really, they're both wombats. I mean, I like how Ulysses loves Penelope so much, but he and Telemachus are both sort of mean. Telemachus is always so mean to his mama! Seriously! Whenever she says something when he's around, he scolds her for no reason! Why so mean to your mama, Telemachus? I was thinking about being Team Penelope, but then I realized that she's sort o like...Bella. She's better than Bella, at least she does that loom thing, but all the time she just mopes around, like "Wah wah, I miss my hubby!" Does she do anything to get rid of the suitors? No. Does she do anything to help Telemachus, even though he's mean to her? No. And then Ulysses was all mean to Euryclea and Minerva, so.....I'm Team Nom Nom Monster! The one that eats Ulysses' whole ship in the movie, but not in the book. The monster that they pass before they get to the cow island! The Nom Nom Monster! Whoop whoop!

Okay, I think that's it for my Odyssey blogposts! WHOO! I have to say, I enjoyed posting these. It was fun! I hope you guys liked them, and I'll probably be back with more posts as we are assigned. Unless I slack off and never post. Muahahahahahahahaha..................................The end :)
*Book fog: when a book leaves you in a daze when you're finished with it, not being able to forget about the book you just read. Books with very strong fogs:

• The Harry Potter series
• The Hunger Games
• The Inheritance Cycle

Okay bye!
Waffles!
And Snow!
And bye!

Odyssey Books 14-17

You know, I'm listening to Christmas music as I write this, getting into the holiday spirit. You know, that would be if we actually had any SNOW!!!
Anyways, putting my weather angst aside, I accidentally read an extra book last week, so I'm starting up on book 14. First of all, I'm just wondering why this book's in Roman. I mean, it's the Odyssey. If you want to put it in Roman, why is it called the Odyssey? I think it should be the Ulyssey if you want to put it in Roman. Just saying.
What in the world is figgy pudding?
Sorry, got sidetracked. For me, these books were slightly annoying. Has anyone else noticed that whenever Ulysses lies, he comes up with this huge backstory? I bet if you saw Ulysses at a party wearing a pink tie and you came up to him and asked what color tie he was wearing. If he doesn't want to admit that he's wearing a pink tie and lies, it will go something like this:
"Hear me and hear me true, my father was from Russia and my mother from Italy, so when rosy-fingered Dawn appeared the morning of my birth my mother died because of the cold and also my father was the king of Russia and I had a unicorn but then some guys stole my unicorn and I was sad so I went to work as a professional stooper and bla bla bla bla bla so I'm wearing a green tie." Really, what is the point of that?
Also, did anyone notice how when Ulysses disguised as old beggar and he came to Eumaeus (I call him the pigman), Eumaeus calls up his servants to get a pig ready for Ulysses. His servants. He's the pigman. Does Penelope's dishboy have his own servants? Does the dishboy's servants have their own servants? Do the dishboy's servants' servants have their own servants? How is this possible?
Pregunta: Why do all the suitors have the hots for Penelope, anyways? I mean, it says in the book that she's all pretty, but wouldn't she be, like, old? She has a twenty year old son. Helloooooo! I get it that woman had children earlier back then, but people also died earlier back then. Forty was considered pretty old. Did she have Telemachus when she was six or something? Am I missing something? Why do all these suitors have the hots for an old lady? How old is Penelope anyways? I'm guessing that she uses some age-defying skin cream granted by Diana or something, or maybe a magical pickle from...
Holy wombats.
Did I just say (or type actually) Diana? Call the doctor! I'm speaking Roman! Artemis. Artemis, you fool! I think I might need to read the Percy Jackson series again to get my Greek brain working again. The book is contagious!
Aw man, Celtic Christmas is so beautiful!
So yeah, that's it for today, bye!
Artemis. Artemis. Artemis. Artemis. Artemis. Artemis. Aphrodite. Apollo. Athena. Zeus. Poseidon. Hera. Hermes. Ares. Hades. Artemis. Artemis. Artemis. Artemis. GAH!