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To The Tribe That Reads
So I was cleaning out my room and found my WNB from every year starting freshman year. So when Kreinbring says “remember WNB always there for you” there’s some proof right there, out of all the school years and notebooks that were thrown out the WNBs all made it out alive. They are all still here for me and probably contain some good writing tips and tricks.
Writing pt 2
I know I just posted about writing but I thought of more things and if I do this I can avoid working on the paper. So I can’t write book to refer to my novel because it contains three books to it is important to leave those as book. But I’ve written novel in my paper so many times it is boring and bleh and I need a new word but... all that I’ve looked at (yes I went to theasaurus.com) seem off. Also that little search lead me on a tangent to finding contronymns those are fun little words. Needless to say making the writing on my paper better is difficult and I can complain to tumblr because there’ll probably be less than ten people to actually read this.
Research!
So I’ve realized finding background sources it hard like I know the influences but they’re suppose to vary. So what I’ve got it Fitzgerald lived on the Riviera when he was writing the book. This was the setting too. So I want to work with that. There was also Zelda his wife who had mental illness and one main character (Nicole) also has mental illness, but I don’t know what to do for that. And I think for the last one I would do the war or the twenties because they are “written” into the novel but I really don’t know what to do for this...
Writing the Paper
So apparently Tumblr is what we were suppose to do for most parts of this project but TBH I didn’t really pay much attention to the document. I’ve been struggling. This is hard to write like I’ve got most of it started but it needs to be heavily cleaned and I’ve got what 3 days at this point to complain on tumblr and finish this? This week is already crazy enough...
So I was looking for some of the background on my book, and I stumbled across the fact that there’s a MOVIE on my book that was released in 1962. I found this trailer for it, but apparently it’s really long being that it is about 2.5 hours. From reading the summary of the movie it doesn’t seem like it really goes with the book. Like it uses the same characters and the sortofish not really same plot, because it follows the story differently with different events happening.
Tender is the Night #5
One big theme that can be spotted throughout this book is struggling relationships. I might’ve talked about this in one of my past blogs but it’s really big. There are numerous times where different relationships don’t work out or are wrong. There is the main one of Dick and Nicole whose marriage by the end of the book ends up failing. The there is the North’s relationship where they’re together and married but they don’t seem happy with each other. There are the little romances that Rosemary has through her life including the small one with Dick. And there are family members and friendships scattered throughout. When it comes to family members those are the only relationships that can seem to work out for anybody family members stay decently close without any trouble. But friendships and relationships seem scattered with problems whether it’s cheating on someone or falling in alcoholism which a couple of the characters (Dick Diver, and Abe North) do. This could show a reflection upon Fitzgerald as he might’ve had decent relations with family but had struggles with people beyond family,
Tender is the Night #4
One of the big things I’ve noticed about this book is how quickly some of the action moves and how slowly other parts of the action moves. In most books there’s a pretty consistent flow of time and when there is a jump or it moves faster/slower it’s written in a way that flows with the rest of the story. In this book you have to be paying more attention to make sure you don’t lose where you are in the story especially with the bigger jumps. I did a little bit of research on the book and what I found was there are two ways the book is written and that could explain why parts of it feel a bit jumpy. There was the original way which took advantage of flashbacks. Then there was a revision which took the book and put it into a chronological order. I find it interesting that it was written in both ways and can’t figure out which way would be better even just thinking about other books. Is it better to write a backstory then jump in time to get to the main point of what you’re talking about or is it better to start in the main story and then take advantage of flashbacks?
Tender is the Night #3
The way that this book is written is interesting. It starts from the view of Rosemary who is an American actor, but as you go through the book she turns out to not be that important, she becomes one of the affairs of Dick Diver, but then essentially disappears from the story. Then you get into the second part of the story Dick’s beginning (how he met Nicole), the time right after Rosemary left, and four years later. This timeline showing the beginning middle and the start of the end of the marriage. It also shows the slow decent into alcoholism for Dick. The second part is also the jumpiest part where all the other parts seem to follow a set period of time.
Tender is the Night #2
Some background that I found on this book is that it was the one the F. Scott Fitzgerald spent the most time and effort writing. That’s also interesting because it is “one” book but it’s labeled as three books as I’ve said from the three point of view. A little bit more background is that you can see parallels from Fitzgerald’s life through the book. Take for example the character of Nicole who has a mental illness, reflecting Fitzgerald’s wife Zelda who also had a mental illness. Another parallel is the setting. For most of the writing of this book Fitzgerald was staying in France and that’s where his book was set.
Tender is the Night #1
Just from glancing through the book and reading bits of it I believe that this book is going to be interesting. For one it is written not in three parts, but three books in one. Following and continueing the story in different ways. Another interesting thing is the setting which is in France, which gives Fitzgerald the ability to throw in other languages from time to time primarily French, but also German and Italian. The big thing I’ve gotten out of the first part of the book is that it’s highlighting youthful naiveness, and also the differences between countries cultures.
Tender is the Night
When I was choosing a book I didn’t really know what to look for. What I ended up doing was looking up different good reads lists and looking then looking through book descriptions. I did this many times trying to find a book until I landed on Tender is the Night. Part of what attracted my attention to this was the Author (F. Scott Fitzgerald). I liked reading Gatsby so I decided on another one of his works. The description of the book also sounded interesting being that it was following a couple people. So in the end I decided I would have a good time reading this book.
The Breakfast Club Breakdown
Tonight, the movie club of Rachel Hartrick, Annie, and I watched the breakfast club. Their first time and about my fourth. And relating to teen rebellion, here are our takeaways. ~ A little more realistic than Rebel. ~ They were all stereotyped separately. But have the same problems. ~ People see them as they want to see them. ~ Everyone seeks acceptance by someone. In this case it was more friends than family. ~ They’re friends opinions were theirs (Corn Pone) ~ Both Rebel and this movie is about family in general. Rebel about wanting one and This one about rebelling. We all contributed to this list. And can’t wait for the discussion tomorrow. Peace✌🏼
Rebel Without a Cause Observations
So tonight Annie, Rachel Hartrick and I watched Rebel. It was interesting to say the least. Here are our takeaways: ~ It all seemed to happen all in 24 hours. Heck of a first day of school. ~ Red clothing = Distress or trouble. Jim’s jacket, Plato’s Sock, and Judy’s clothing in the beginning. ~ Value of acceptance. Particularly on family. All of them wanted a family member’s attention. Teenagers specifically want to be accepted. That’s why they all found each other. ~ They even created their own family in the end. ~ All families involved were pretty wealthy. ~ Material possession doesn’t equate to love. ~ Primary Audience = Teenagers Secondary audience = Families in general We all contributed to this list and were generally confused by the movie.
Transcending the Genre: Star Wars
The Star Wars movies transcend their genre in many ways. It is a science fiction movie that expanded what the entire genre could encompass. It made advancements to the types of technology that space type movies now use. It was an original story that went above what science fiction was normally composed of. It used different si-fy elements that helped to make the genre what it is today. From the weapons that they had, to the technologies that were everywhere it went above and beyond what had been seen before. The creativity that went into star wars created a larger fan base which in turn makes the genre bigger and better. In total the entire series had expanded what people think of science fiction and especially the space aspect of that, and that is what they continue to do even as the si-fy universe continues to expand.
Original- IceHotel
One of the most original things that you can get today is the Icehotel in Swenden. It is the first hotel ever created out of snow and ice. It is a mix of an igloo and a hotel, but even though it is two things together, it is its own original concept. Also the way that it came into being is its own unique story. It started out as a small art sculpture that brought in people because of interest factor and expanded into what it is today. The originality never stops especially since the hotel is recreated every winter, with new and different people working on it each time. Once the snow starts to fall artist from around the world come to add their ideas to the hotel. That in turn adds its own originality to the actual sculpture. Therefore making Icehotel an original sculpture each and every time that it is built.
I found this article both interesting and helpful. When I was looking for secondary sources I came upon the realization that I never really questioned what "nature" is. The differences came up when responding and when reading but I keep newly discovering what my full definition of nature is. The article talks about how nature is defined and how it came about, but the part that I found most interesting was when the author talked about how humans and nature became two separate entities. They made points about how we changed the environment to fit our needs but other species do that too. It was when we started to massively change our environments that we became separate. Much of the change came from farming and that was an interesting concept. And when thinking about it I actually understand why it is like that. And it gives me a new outlook on what nature actually means.
6. Nature
Teaching a Stone to Talk: "It is as though summer itself were a mirage, a passive dream of pleasure, itself untrue. For in winter the beaches lie empty; the gulls languish; the air is a reasonable stuff, chilled and lidded by clouds. We light the lamps early; we fasten the doors. We live in the mind. The water everywhere is vacant; the tankers alone still pass, their low diesel vibrations and their powerful wakes adding to the wind's whine and waves only moment's more commotion; then they are gone."(140) This speaks to me as someone living in Michigan during the winter time. It feels like summer was years away and nothing happens during the winter time. But something that drew my attention in is how the author wrote "lidded by the clouds" and that makes me think of when the author talked about the solar eclipse (my first post) and how she said that a piece of the sky closed them in like a lid is either how she put it or how I thought of it to myself. And it I weird how she can use the same type of language for two seemingly different things.
