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Fictional Dream Date to Prom
If I could choose a fictional character to be my date to Prom, I would choose Harry Potter. Harry Potter is an intelligent, brave, kind guy. He is also extremely resilient, which is a very important characteristic to me. Plus, the book describes him as having glasses and dark hair that is crazy and never lies flat, which reminds me of Ian...so yeah...I guess that’s it...
I wrote my first abstract today and boy was it hard. Not because writing an abstract is hard, its hard because I’m on my computer and the temptation to go on Facebook or youtube or listen to spotify is so strong. I told my self i would start abstracts 3 days ago but i finally started my first one...
I totally agree! Once I actually sat down and wrote my abstracts, I found that they weren't that bad at all. As long as you understand the criticism, the writing is the easy part. It's cool to hear that you like your book so much because I feel the same way about The Hobbit. I too found that the criticisms were actually pretty interesting and made me love the book even more.
So I just finished my first annotation. I am a little concerned about its organization and flow of ideas, so I may work on it a little more before I show Kreinbring on Monday. I plan on picking out and annotating my other two passages right now. I am hoping to write my second annotation today as well. I think that I am going to choose one from the middle that demonstrates how the narrator is a critic and one from the end that shows Bibo's transformation into someone that seeks spiritual fulfillment. All in all, I am finding that the annotations are much harder to write than the abstracts. The abstracts were basically organized for me because they are based off of another person's work, where with the annotations I have to organize all of my ideas from scratch, which is proving to be difficult. I recommend talking through your ideas out loud when you are writing your annotations. Kreinbring suggested it, and it really helped me.
There is no Adele without Aretha Franklin
After talking in class, I was really curious about Aretha Franklin. When I looked her up, she immediately reminded me of Adele. They both have big, soulful voices. When they sing, they themselves disappear from their work and let their listeners slip into the sheer emotion of their song. After looking at a lot of Franklin's songs on YouTube, I noticed that she actually did her own cover on Adele's song, "Rolling in the Deep," which I found interesting. So not only did Aretha Franklin pave the way for soulful singers, like Adele, to be heard, but she also hears them, and allows her own work to evolve with their influence.
Aretha Franklin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RadQ8toLzM
Aretha Franklin's Covered of "Rolling in the Deep": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl8iBkjnRdA
Adele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmdcD22VrAU
Here is a picture of me at the OU Library. Lol the librarian was so mean to Megan 😂
I just finished writing my final abstract! It was much easier to write this one because I outlined my thoughts beforehand. I actually really liked this criticism because it had a perspective on The Hobbit that I had never thought about before. I also had never considered the narrator’s impact on…
Alright so I am still working on my first one! I was wondering how did you start it off? Was there any helpful websites that would work? I want to try and get all of my stuff done before spring break and I feel like I am honestly just lost in the whole process!
Ok, so here is the website that I looked at before I wrote my abstracts! https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/656/1/ One of the things that helped me a lot was that I have read a lot of abstracts for articles in my independent study in anatomy this semester. So I recommend finding abstracts on stuff that you have already read (maybe to an essay we read last year?) to become more familiar with how abstracts are supposed to work and their language.
And then here is kind of the process of how wrote my abstracts and what I would have done differently: The first two I just kind of outlined the purpose, methods, conclusion, and scope of the criticisms as I read and then wrote the abstracts. This worked well with the my first criticism, which was shorter and less complicated, but didn't work as well with my second criticism, which was longer and more complicated. While reading my last criticism, I wrote down the pieces that the author addressed as they came up and then connected them together as I read. This made it much easier to decipher the purpose, methods, conclusion, and scope of the abstract. When I was finished I ended up having an outline for my abstract all done and ready to go, which made writing my last abstract much easier. So I recommend doing what that because even though my third criticism was my longest and most complicated, it was so much easier to write an abstract for with this process. I wish I would have thought of this method earlier and used it for my first two criticisms.
Hope this helps!
In our harkness we started out really strong with a new topic that I have not even thought about while reading the book. I was really interested with the background knowledge that was initially brought into the discussion.The background knowledge showed how Zora Neale Hurston put her life story...
I totally agree. I felt like the background information not only got our conversation going, but also was one of the most interesting parts of the conversation. I am interested to see how Hurston's life will influence the story later on.
One thing I wanted to address that didn’t get brought up in the Harkness is the irony of the restrictiveness of former slave Nanny. Nanny grew up in slavery and never had freedom to choose her own path. She was required to have sex with the man of her plantation, resulting in a baby that wasn’t...
This is very insightful. I didn't even think about this until you mentioned it. How do you think this fits into accomplishing the larger purpose of Hurston's novel, and do you think this characterization of Nanny reveals anything about that purpose?
I wanted to share with you all possibly the best panorama I have ever taken. Court Mort and I went to the OU Library today and it was one of the most frustrating experiences ever. Our librarian was decently helpful, but it wasn’t anything like the other stories people have been telling. But we found some books and some online articles relating to our books. We printed out the articles and found our books pretty easily. However, when we tried to check out our books, I didn’t have my library card and Courtney’s wouldn’t work. So we had to settle for only our online pieces and now I have to go back to check out my books when I get my library card. But going to the library and not being able to check anything out was really annoying. I’m probably going back later today to get them. I’ll keep you all posted since I know how interested you are in my adventures on this mythical quest to get an A in lit.
I am so sorry that your experience at the library was so awful. It’s so weird because when I went, the librarian was really nice. Maybe we got different librarians? Are you going back today? Because if you are, Garrett and I are meeting there at 3:30 and we could all meet up :) Haha, I just love how sassy this post is at the end though.
Ahh! I wish I could come, but I have to babysit until 6:30. Gosh dangit.
That's too bad, but I hope you have fun babysitting! Lol I went all the way back up to the library with Garrett and got so caught up in returning and renewing books that I forgot to take a picture of myself at the library AGAIN
Reflection of the First 5 Chapters
Ok, so the most interesting thing that I saw in the first five chapters of the novel was the extended metaphor in the beginning of chapter two. It stuck out to me a lot because last semester in my independent study in metals I made a tree wind chime. Trees typically symbolize balance and unity, just like it does in my piece. In the first sentence of chapter two, the narrator says, "Janie saw her life like a great tree in lead with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches (8)." Perhaps the tree symbolizes the balance of Janie's life between the things mentioned in the quote? When I shared this idea in class, someone pointed out how Janie's grandma compares African American women to trees without roots. A tree without roots could symbolize a lack of balance, and seems to support his idea. I am not 100% certain, but I am interested to see where Hurston takes this idea of balance and the tree metaphor.
Man, these books take a lot of work to get through! They are written by really smart people and it takes me a while to decipher what they are trying to convey. I now have a lot more respect for the people who’s job it is to write these things. I thought I was going to have this book stitched to my...
I felt the same way because the criticisms on Tolkien are so complicated and have so many allusions to other works. Something that I found helpful was to kind of jot to the side key pieces that the authors address as they address them. Then at the end, and a little bit as I read, I started connecting all of the pieces. It really helped me figure out the purpose of the criticism. It also made writing my abstracts much easier because I basically had an outline by the time I was done reading the piece.
"As nearly impossible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool Lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the prolific, defender of the...
I feel the same way about Tolkien. It would be so cool to sit down and talk to the person behind the book that I love so much. I also feel the same way about telling Tolkien my story though, or really any story. He is so talented and creative that he made an entire fictional world, and I just feel like anything I told him would be child's play in comparison. But I completely understand your feeling about wanting to talk to your author.
I wanted to share with you all possibly the best panorama I have ever taken. Court Mort and I went to the OU Library today and it was one of the most frustrating experiences ever. Our librarian was decently helpful, but it wasn’t anything like the other stories people have been telling. But we found some books and some online articles relating to our books. We printed out the articles and found our books pretty easily. However, when we tried to check out our books, I didn’t have my library card and Courtney’s wouldn’t work. So we had to settle for only our online pieces and now I have to go back to check out my books when I get my library card. But going to the library and not being able to check anything out was really annoying. I’m probably going back later today to get them. I’ll keep you all posted since I know how interested you are in my adventures on this mythical quest to get an A in lit.
I am so sorry that your experience at the library was so awful. It's so weird because when I went, the librarian was really nice. Maybe we got different librarians? Are you going back today? Because if you are, Garrett and I are meeting there at 3:30 and we could all meet up :) Haha, I just love how sassy this post is at the end though.
I just finished writing my final abstract! It was much easier to write this one because I outlined my thoughts beforehand. I actually really liked this criticism because it had a perspective on The Hobbit that I had never thought about before. I also had never considered the narrator's impact on the story before reading it either. I am going to show Kreinbring it tomorrow. But for now, my next step is to pick out the excerpts I'm going to annotate. I'm a bit confused on the writing portion of the annotations, but nothing is stopping me from picking my passages and marking them up.
I just finished annotating my last criticism, Tolkien's Art: "The King Under the Mountain: Tolkien's Children's Story," by Jane Chance Nietzsche, and this is by far my favorite criticism on The Hobbit. In general terms, it discusses the "children's level" of the story: mainly the narrator and the story's framework. I love how deeply it goes into its explanations and all of the examples it uses. It is very well rooted to the text, and it synthesizes the characters very well. I outlined all of the variables Nietzsche discusses and mapped out how they connect as I read, so my abstract is pretty well formed in my head. Now I just have to get it on paper.
so i am currently trying to decide which criticisms to use for my research paper however i am just so stuck. I have two really good articles on the a subject called “the voice”. However that is the problem, i need a third article but i cannot find one that contains the same theme. On the other...
Our criticisms can be on completely separate ideas. I am doing my project on The Hobbit, and I have one criticism that proves the novel to be a dry run for The Lord of The Rings, another on the names of people and places in the novel, and a third on the child-like components of The Hobbit world, specifically on applications of the term "King Under the Mountain." Kreinbring has approved it all so far, so you should be fine. I like how you have two criticisms on the same topic though. I didn't think to do that.
Ok, I got a total of 5 critical assessments on The Hobbit from the OU library. After looking them all over, I decided to write my first abstract on Brian Rosenberg's Tolkien: A Critical Assessment. Although the book is mostly a critical assessment on The Lord of the Rings, there is an entire section dedicated to criticizing his other works. To my luck, one of the works this section covers is The Hobbit. What I really liked about this critical assessment was how it placed The Hobbit as a sort of dry run for The Lord of the Rings. The assessment was very interesting, and it was not hard to write an abstract on it at all.
I decided to write my second abstract on William H. Green's The Hobbit: A Journey into Maturity. While the first critical assessment I wrote an abstract on was in a book analyzing all of Tolkien's works, this book is a critical assessment entirely on The Hobbit. After reading through a bunch of the book, I found the section on the critical assessment on Tolkien's naming of people, places, and things most interesting. It was quite a bit longer than the other piece I read, but it was well worth it. I really like how Green analyzes not only how Tolkien drew inspiration for all of the names in his fictional world, but also how the inspiration of each name and the context functions in The Hobbit as a whole. This abstract was a bit harder to write, but I think that is mostly because this piece was more complicated than the first one. I think it ended up working out well though.
I just gave my first two abstracts to Kreinbring to look at before I write my final one. I am beginning to look back though all of the critical assessments I brought home. One of the books is literally a list of critical assessments on all of Tolkien's works, so while that is interesting and relevant, I can't exactly use it as a piece of criticism. This leaves me with two sources left to choose from. One of which, Nietzsche's Tolkien's Art, has a section called "The King Under the Mountain: Tolkien's Children's Story." This seems to be a literary criticism on the various characters who occupy residencies under hills and mountains and how they function in contrast to one another. The other source, Clark TImmon's J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonance, has a section that is titled "Tolkien's Versecraft inThe Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings," and it seems to be about the poetic meter that is found throughout Tolkien's novels. I am not sure which of these two criticisms I will choose to write my last abstract on yet.
