chase the man that kills your wife. Your life is already destroyed, might as well get some revenge. That wont change anything. once a life is ruined, ther is no fixing it. Once everything you care about is taken from you, there is no going back. whats done is done. no revenge or anything will ever get it back, will ever make it right again. how i empathize, and envy you victor frankenstein.

were you paying attentin?

"now he only esists in memory" (149). So henry dies? didnt catch that the first time i read it. im assuming the monster does something to henry in order to ge tback at frankenstien. i cant blame him. He has been feeling abandnded and mistreated for years now and the only contact he gets is with the man tha tmade him and then ran from him. You cant help but feel sorry for the guy. His mental health is shatttered. You cant blame him for doing anything and everything he has t to get even a little bit of affection back after all he has done for others.

hello? hello?

"i will desolate your heart" (139). Now that is a threat. I wish people still talked like this nowadays. such raw emotion and passion. Say what you want to say, and do not try and hide it. You get no where if you don't say what you mean. The monster is expressing what i feel is the greattest thee in this book, that lonliness is universal. The monster, who isnt really even human, feels the same way victor feels, and that Walton feels years later. It doesnt matter the time, lonliness will corrupt the heart, and tear the soul to shreds. The feeling of isolation and selfworthlessness destroys even the strongest people. everyone can and eventually will feel the crushing weight of this inevitable emotion. Nothing and no one cana outrun it forever.

irony rules our lives

"i had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart" (56). First off id like to say i think i missed something, becasue i did not see the iconic lighhtnening bolt come down and bring the monster to life. ALos, secondly, i feel i must say i have found a very true, hard lesson to swallow in this book. our dreams and ambitioons can and usually do cloud the ind till there is nothing left, and we lose sight of what truely matters. This man is tortured for the lose of his mother, and instead tries to reanimate a corpse, only to succeed. However, his creation is unlike what he had always wanted. Instead it is a ghastly monstrosity of horror and inhumane creation. THe master hates what he has made, and even before its creaion, the monster continuesto destroy Frankensein's life. THe loss of health, of sleep, of life, of Elizabeth: all becasue of his obsession with the monster he choose to bring to life. Be careful what you wish for... you jus tmight get it.

ummm... Thanks mom?

Ok when i read this it kinda annoyed me. When Vicotr's mom dies, her last paragraph on earth is directed not at the legitamte son she bore fom her womb, but at the daughter she adopted from poverty (42). The symbolism, and her words comfirm this, that victor's mother wished for Elizabeth to take her place. both were saved from poverty for the purpose of helping and providing for the family in any and all ways possible. Victor, however, gets nothing out of this. Why?? i understand the significance left to elizabeth, but what of poor vicotr? if the last few words my mother said were to an adopted child, i would not be pissed, but i would at least be some what upset. ALso i kinda enjoy the foreshadowing that is brought about when she says "this union" between elizabeth and victor. can't wait to see where that leads to.

Great minds think... similar?

Issac Newton is legendary to hve had an apple fall upon his head so he had his great idea about gravitiy. Frankenstein had his idea when he witnessed a lightning bolt destroy a tree(40). SOmehow i think his way is more powerful. Granted Newton's shaked the world, but the idea that we now know about Frankenstien is that his idea ruptured the entire fabric of reality.Newtons idea was an idea that was alread yin exsistance, that could be witnessed by anybody at anytime. this young scientist frankenstein has a proposturous idea that has never been witnessed by the human eye. His imagination, his intellect, his ambition rivals that of the great minds he is studying. His legend, his mark on the world is that of which even he himself is aware, the only question remains what sort of mark will he leave?

old english language

Personally i have to say thatthe speaking in this book is really starting to annoy me. It takes the person 5 pages, the whole first chapter to say that the man married his friends daughter, and then they adopted a daughter of their own. The grammer, and the syntax makes th pages go very slowly, and even when i try to sit and read them i fail to. but the emotion that is expressed in this book is a world apart form the ones i have noticed in the books i read. people of today want action and drama and fighting in their reading. in this era of writing, people were looking more for connection to themselves, not so much an escape of reality. Science fiction was not even considered yet. This book is the missing link between the slow, emotionial turmoil of the stories of yester year, compared to the intense, fast paced, fanciful stories of today.

Lonliness

The human spirit is extraordinarily resilient when it is required. The human mind can push the body to new levels of survival, and can over come nearly any obstacle that arises. But eventually, every erson gives up, and gives in. Everyone needs somebody to help them and hold them up. The man who wrote the letters was a man who was i extreemely cold conditions, but the lonliness he felt for compaionionship was far more deadly than the cold around him. "my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits often depressed"(Shelley). Unrequitted love is the most menacing of all emotions felt by the human spirit, which ravanges the body and rips the soul to shreds, as we stand helplessly to hte side. lonliness is a different beast all together, and does not have the hot, passionate fury of love, but instead freezes the suffer in time and place, alienienating them from all others. Passion rips out the heart, while loliness refuses to touch it.

Screaming

"they said i was still screaming when the amblance arrived."(343). Powerful. that is the only word i can use her. poweful. Imagine, after all that, after all he went through, after the beating Amir took, only to lose his nephew after all that. his last connection with Hassan. Losing him becasue jsut like every other moment in his life, he jsut wasn't strong enoguh to save Hassan in the alley, or his son from an orphanage. He wasn't able to stop his nephew from trying to end at all. He couldnt save him from his biggest fear. and when he found out he could, he was to late because he had fallen asleep. This feeling of hopelessness leads him to turn to God in the hospital. He realizes his frality, his drawbacks, he realizes he can not do what is required of him. No human can without help. some turn to God, other s turn to other humans. either way, no one person can stand alone. everyone must be and is connected to antoher person. This is how we survive.

This is the most realstic flashback EVER!!!

That is probably becasue it is not a flashback. Amir, in order to rescue his nephew, scowers the shattered remains of hischildhood home. Eventually he finds him.. .to bad he is in the care of his childhood bully. Assef is once again threating Amir with beating him to death, and the reincarnation of Hassan in his son, allows Amir to understand the significance of what he should have done so many years ago. Hassan risked his life for his best friend. And now his son was doing the same thing. Amir should ahve known that in that alley, he may have gotten hurt, but Hassan would have been his saving grace, right by his side. Instead, Hassan took all of the punishment, without a word of protest. Amir was silent also, but in the wrong way. Now his nephew is sticking up for him, jsut has his father would have. Amir finally beleives that his debt has been paid. His suffering has been lifted.

unnecessary?

The diction of this novel is, to myself, not that to complex. it is somewhat above average, but the words aren;t to sophisticated. the use of trnslated Afghan words is a nice touch also. But Hosseni does not "sugarcoat" any of the action in the book. When the soldier at the begining describes having sex with Hassan's mother, Hosseinidoes not censory it. When Hassan is being raped, he does not say the act, but he gives enoguh detils to get the point acrossed. However, on pages 222-223, the diction takes a huge twist. Large amounts of profaity are used to describe the panic and seriousness Amir feels towards the new knowledge. The excerpt is by far the most shocking of the entire work. Does the work require this profain piece in it to completely define to extremeity of this situation? Personally, i feel that yes, the work requies these profain words to fully get across the reality of Amir's shocking, paniced soul.

A father at last

Baba is said to be in extreme happiness at Amir's graduation from High school. But he was just learning how to be a real father. His last, and in my opinion first, fatherly duty was when he "hobbled up Taheris' driveway." (163). This shift in a relationship is something Amir has dreamed of the entire book. It only takes cancer, and a move to the other sied of the world, along with a few years, for Amir to finally have the father he always dreamed of. Even the fale relationship the kite brought was not a real relationship. this one is. What brought it on? it was that Amir fianlly made Baba proud. He graduated high school, and he was surpassing Baba. Amir was in college, and Amir did what a man wold do: he asked his father to arrange his marriage. Baba finally sees Amir as a man because of the simple request.

Starting at the end

The conclusion of this novel gave me chills. on 371, when Amir repeats to Sohrab what Hassan had told Amir, i actually stopped breathing for a few seconds. "For you, a thousand times over." That line is one of the last things Amir ever heard Hassan say to him. there are many valid themes of this book, but one that really strikes home is pay your dues while you still can. Hassan was loyal til the end, and Amir was unable to return the friendship in life and in childhood. It haunted Amir for his entire life, up until Amir is able to repay the emotional damage not done to Hassan, but to Sohrab. Amir endures a tortureous emotional agony until he is able to bring Sohrab at least partly out of his depressio. He saved him from his devastated childhood and brought him to America, the land of oppurtunity, and a new start not only for Sohrab, but also for the family Amir always wanted.

Close quarters

Willy's home is decribed as three rooms and a back yard/urban area. This really is not a whole lot of space, and we know from contexts that the house all together only has 5 rooms counting to brothers loft/bedroom. Obviously this is mainly due to the fact that Willy is not that wealthy of a person, but also it shows how he desires a close family. When he remenices about when Biff and Happy were in high school and Biff steals the football, his memories are of a close bond between father and brothers. With a closed in scenerary, there is no place that the characters can go without runnnig into each other with in minutes. This means a vast amount of interaction between family members, with the hope that a close relationship will form. The brothers are very close as we see when they are in their beds conversing. And we know from context that they are close with their father at an early age. But Willy's inability to live in the present limits his ability to have a close knit relationship with his sons in the here and now. physically being close to someone is very different from being emotionally and mentally close to them.

oh brother, where art though?

When willy is in the kitchen on page 1568, he is playing cards with charley, and in his mind his brother walks in. He tries to tal kto both of them at the same time, but then eventually starts to focus solely on ben. Willy goes off on a lengthy conversation asking him to stay, to talk, wondering how his business is gonig. he keeps saying "why didnt i just go with him". Willy feels betrayed and abandondeed by Ben for just walknig out. Not only that, but then he starts questioning his brother on his father. His father left at a very early age. Willy is trying desperatly, nearly killing himself day after day to provide for his family as his father and older brother did not. The theme of abandondment is heart wrenching, as anyone who has experienced it can say. The pain never truely disappears, and rarely ever numbs. Abandonment truly reduces a person to the mental state of a five year old, which is how Willy starts to sound as Ben says he is departing.

American Dream

The parental generation always wishes the best for their children. it really is just human nature. To wish for the next generation to be better off then the parents were. In an economy that is disagreeable such as ours, many parents need to take any job they can get, even if they are under employed. Willy in the play continues to try and preform a job that he can not physically or mentally complete. His deteriorating mind makes his journey closer to home everyday. he can not even really remember driving al lthat well anymore. And yet he continues to do so so that his sons can have a good life. talk about self sacrifice. he is still desperatly trying to provide for his sons who are in their 30's! now that is a caring father.

wait for it....

This is an intense, suspensful play. One of Shakespeare's best, i must say. THe suspense comes form several places, the main one being how are people going to react to Iago's crazy excuses and plans. Well up to this point, everything is going how he had wanted. But with shakespeare, we all know that continualrity does not last forever. so the suspense comes from the point which of his next ideas is going to fail? which one will finally be the one that does not last it? I have a feeling we will find out in act 5, becasue even with shakespeare, the smart evil guy never wins.

Theme

Shakespeare is the master at twist endings. So far, up until act 4, the only theme i can think of is trust your spouse over others. Aside from that, there really is no obvious theme so far. But SHakespeare has something up his sleeves i'm sure. We jsut ahve to wait till the very end of the play to find out what it is he is hiding. Desdemona and everyone else knows that her virtue and loyalty are sound, but Othello is blinded by hurt and fear. THe only really concrete theme i can think of is fear clouds the mind which blocks the love fro mthe heart. And in my life, this is extremely true. If ot wasn't, i would not be in a worsening depression.

Deja Vu

Wow talk about irony. Funny how the world works. This story is happening in my life right now! in my life i am desdemona, and my now ex girlfried is othello. a so called "friend"of mine stabbed me in the back and lied to her, telling her i was cheating on her, and then tried and succeded in stealing her from me. The love of my life accused me of cheating, and did slap me. wow there are so many similarities! i cant believe it! i love that girlwith all my heart, but she ignores me and beleives someone else over me. irnoy... how i loathe thee. Love is all that matters in life, and when it is ripped from your chest and fingers, from the girl i even proposed to, just so i can watch her go out, hold hands with, laugh with, and accept the jacket from the guy i wish to strangle, well quite frankly i applaud Desdemona for attempting in taking him back. I tried with all my effort to win back the heart of my beloved, but alas... my efforts have been in vain... she ignores my every thought, and slowly i dip deeper in the numbing fingers of depression. truely Shakespeare was a genius, for he speaks to me centuries after he has departed from the world... i wonder how this play, and my life's eternal struggle will end?

Adaptation

Plot
If you know me and my writing, the pattern that arises is darkness and death. Please do not ask me why, just every since 6th grade dark writing has just been easy for me to write about. Anyway the story that interested me, and actually made me laugh the most, was “once Upon a Time”. The ending is just so fitting, as I feel like my parents are that over protective. The story in movie form would start off the same way with the writer in her house, struggling to sleep. After showing why she is struggling, with all the rimes outside, the movie will move to her reading the letters asking her to write a children’s story. After some movie action later, round 25 minutes into the movie, she will walk into her room, and begin writing a children’s story. The story would start right after the ‘happily ever after’ couple gets married, and eventually movie into where the writer’s story starts. From there it will follow virtually the same plot, only adding some events to keep the story going. All in all it will end the same way, with the writer finally falling into a fitful slumber. Personally, I think it needs more action and people getting hurt by the parents over protectiveness.

Setting
Same setting. The movie would need to have the exact same setting as the story. The setting, with the dangerous neighborhoods and over protected houses, is the whole basis of the theme. I do think the theme should be anywhere from 1955- the present. The time period doesn’t matter at all, only the place and neighborhoods matter. The story aspect though, should be like the dreamy, unrealistic, “perfect” world. This makes the ending oh so much more fulfilling in my movie.

Point of view
The point of view of the movie would be identical to the one of Shawshank Redemption, with the writer narrating the story that is going on, but you do not hear her talk the entire time. Only moments out of the movie does Red ever speak, but we now that the entire time he is still narrating. The omniscient third person, sort of passive narrator, would be perfect for the role of the story that this is. I love how Red keeps out of the story, but at the same time is controlling the course of the story.

Characterization
Ok well I do not really know what to write here. I mean the parents and the “perfect” family would have to be looking their best and creepily smiling the entire movie. I think that Keaton would be the best Dad in the movie, with Cody being the child, and Katie English being the mother. The writer was a little more difficult, but I think that Kahle would be a good writer for the story. Tito Ortiz is, just because we are racist with him, the gardener of the happy little tale. The narrator would be Taylor Shackleford. The reason I cast these people is because they have the qualities that I feel would be ideal for this story in movie form.

Theme
The theme in this story is a favorite of mine. Over protection is more dangerous than little protection at all. Sure everyone needs a small amount of protection, but the extreme will have adverse side effects. The movie would show a much better example of this overprotection than the story does. The story does describe the protection taken by the parents, but in the movie the measures taken will be extremely obvious and taken the extreme. And I mean EXTREME. It will be hilarious how out of proportion the measures will be. This will emphasize the theme even more so then the story does. Plus the goriness of the child in the end will finally hit home the grotesqueness of this ending.