Prefaces

Victor Hugo’s Preface:

            So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world; --in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.  

Reflection:
       If you read Les Miserables, it will help you understand about the human trafficking, starvation, and poverty and it tells you how to help the people in need. It makes you feel like you’re in the hard situation and get a better perspective on things. As long as all those problems are still in the world, Les Miserables will tell you how to solve them.

My Preface: 
       So Long as there shall exist, the troubled students continue to bully defenseless children, creating hell in the halls and in class, increasing the miserable mood of myself and others; so long as bullying stays within the schools—the degradation of religion, the degradation of homosexuality, the degradation of mentally handicapped—are ignored; so long as bullies take out their anger on others; so long as bullies who hate never accept love, students who understand and want to help like I, can never fail.

classical bookproject

1.      Provide a famous artwork (or draw one) that would fit in a certain part of the book.  Explain in one well-developed paragraph why this piece of art would fit in your selected place.  Use one or more literary terms in your explanation.

My classical book is Black boy by Richard Wright. I drew a picture of a four year old Richard Wright accidently lighting his house on fire. He and his little brother are supposed to stay quiet because their grandma is very sick and their mother doesn’t want them to disrupt her. Richard is getting bored so he starts to play with fire in the fireplace. He swats a piece of coal at the curtains and they burst into flames. Richard runs and hides under the house so he doesn’t get beaten by his mom. His father finds him curled up in a ball crying his eyes out. Everyone gets out safe, except for Richard. His mom beats him so badly he loses conscience and falls ill. I picked this scene of the book because it shows the life Richard lived and the childhood he grew up with. The mood to me would be unbelievable. I didn’t realize how bad parents were to their kids back then even if what the kid did was an accident. Burning the house down is pretty bad though I can understand why Richards mom beat him but till he unconscious.

Dense Question

Text:   Throughout ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ William can’t go to school, his aunt gets sick, his dog dies, and his windmill is injuring him. How does William keep hope with himself?

            Even with the little information he has, William knows that if he doesn’t finish the windmill he won’t have any electricity. He likes communicating with his friends and family through phones that require electricity to charge and work. He likes to have running water to drink. He doesn’t go to school and the library is the only thing he has for him to learn. Besides working out in the fields he works on the windmill so he looks forward to it every day until it’s perfect.

Other Lit: Did Equality find what he was looking for at the end of Anthem or did he find something he wasn’t expecting?

            Both. Equality ran away to find who he was. He found not only himself but he found another; Liberty. He wasn’t expecting to find love when he was looking for himself.  

Reader: Describe a time when you thought your life was bad, then it got worse and you thought it can only get better - and it did.

            Three years ago, my favorite aunt past away from breast cancer. I was devastated and for several weeks the whole family was in tears. After we got over my aunt, my mom found out her best friend got breast cancer. The cancer didn’t take her as quickly as my aunt did but when my mom’s friend past away it was the same week as my sister’s wedding. The wedding took my mom’s mind off of her friend so it wasn’t as bad as my aunts passing. This was when my life was bad, then it got worst, and it actually got better.