Mark Twain
Name meaning:It means it's safe to navigate. It came from when he became a river pilot.
His real name is: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Why are his books so controversal?
Answer: Huckelyberry Finn was very controversialin the way he wrote his books because they had been used in many classrooms. Now they are banned from many schools for being so controversal.People think that because he used such racial wording that kids will get the bad impression and wrong idea about slavery etc...
Interesting facts about his life?
American Writer
Wrote for his brother's newspaper
His father passed away when he was 12
At the age of 17 he left home to go be a printer.
He then ended up being a river pilot.
Started then started writing for a newspaper.
Wrote 28 short stories, letters, and sketches.
Meaning of Irony:
A technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
example: Telling someone that they are cool in a jokingly way would be an example of irony
Jules Verne
French writer
helped start the science fiction genre
What did he write?
He wrote about air travel and submarines before they were invented.
Popular things he wrote
"From the Earth to the Moon"
"Twenty Thousand leagues Under the Sea"
How was he connected to Mark Twain?
They both made good opions about things that had to get people thinking. It wasnt just a story it kind of had a meaning.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The Fall of The House of Usher by Edger Allen Poe
*Unity of effect: single overall feeling
*Strange and fantastic: are gothic literature elements
*Mood: feeling and atmosphere
*dark soundless day in autumn
*rode on a horse through a country
*6 verses in the "Haunted Palace."
*The man used to be childhood friends with Roderick usher. the houses proprietor
*Rod sent him a letter that Rod had a mental illness and he needed to see him
*Rod always was quiet and didnt say much
*House features gothic elements
*Rods sister Madeline passed away, she was all he had left, she died from a deasease
"didnt REALLY die though"
*Rod and a man burried Madeline in the basement
*Soon after Madeline died Rod became sick
*The man watches as Rod goes crazy thinking that his sister Madeline has come alive from the tomb.
*Rod and the man saw Madelines ghost in the hall. Blood on her white robe she fell into Rod so they became one and killed him.
*buries his sister alive
*has sensitive things
*house burns after they dir
*Madeline has like catatonic stages
*Strange and fantastic: are gothic literature elements
*Mood: feeling and atmosphere
*dark soundless day in autumn
*rode on a horse through a country
*6 verses in the "Haunted Palace."
*The man used to be childhood friends with Roderick usher. the houses proprietor
*Rod sent him a letter that Rod had a mental illness and he needed to see him
*Rod always was quiet and didnt say much
*House features gothic elements
*Rods sister Madeline passed away, she was all he had left, she died from a deasease
"didnt REALLY die though"
*Rod and a man burried Madeline in the basement
*Soon after Madeline died Rod became sick
*The man watches as Rod goes crazy thinking that his sister Madeline has come alive from the tomb.
*Rod and the man saw Madelines ghost in the hall. Blood on her white robe she fell into Rod so they became one and killed him.
*buries his sister alive
*has sensitive things
*house burns after they dir
*Madeline has like catatonic stages
The Raven by Edger Allen Poe and The Signalman by Charles Dickens
*Raven: bird of prophecy, Had been associated with mystery, evil, omens, and death.
*Phrophecy: something thats going to happen or a plan.
*End rhyme: similar to identical sounds @ the end of lines
*Iternal rythme: rythmes with in a line
*Rythme Scheme: the basic pattern of the end rythmes.
*Stansa: a group of words like a paragraph
*someone came to visit a man tapping on his chamber door.
*it was a ghost of Maiden Loren
*Didnt no who the visiter was
*opened the door and nothing was there
Signalman: by Charles Dickens
spector: ghost
*This was about a signalman who gets signs from a spector when someones about to die. The last time he gets one he gets hit by the train.
*Phrophecy: something thats going to happen or a plan.
*End rhyme: similar to identical sounds @ the end of lines
*Iternal rythme: rythmes with in a line
*Rythme Scheme: the basic pattern of the end rythmes.
*Stansa: a group of words like a paragraph
*someone came to visit a man tapping on his chamber door.
*it was a ghost of Maiden Loren
*Didnt no who the visiter was
*opened the door and nothing was there
Signalman: by Charles Dickens
spector: ghost
*This was about a signalman who gets signs from a spector when someones about to die. The last time he gets one he gets hit by the train.
Dance of Death and The Masque of The Red Dealth
Dance of Death
* the bug behind the door.
- the thing that scares you but its a scary relief.
* scary part is the unknown
* the thing that scares people is the leading up to the scary action, not the actual "scary" thing itself.
The Masque of The Red Death.
allegory: a work with 2 layers of meaning, persons, objects, and events stand for abstract ideas or qualities.
*sharp pains, sudden dizziness, and profuse bleeding
Every room had a different stained glass:
1.blue:windows
2.purple:panes
3.green:casements
4.orange:furnished and lightened
5.white
6.violet
7.black velvet tapestries hung over the ceilings and walls
*No light in any of the rooms
*Huge clock in the 7th room
*Every hour the clock would chime! Everyone would stop and be quiet
*Masquerades had bizzare apperences
*7th room no one was allowed
* @ 12 everyone is still and quiet
* Prince was in the blue room when he orders the man to take off his mask.
* Tall figure with clothing from the grave and was sprinkled with blood like "Red Death"
* When the prince goes up to him the figure stabs him with a dagger.
* Skull masked man= Red Death. Killed everyone at the party. The clock stopped working
Moral of Story: You cant cheat death it will always be there and you cant run from it.
When the figure is by the clock shows that death is there and ready.
* the bug behind the door.
- the thing that scares you but its a scary relief.
* scary part is the unknown
* the thing that scares people is the leading up to the scary action, not the actual "scary" thing itself.
The Masque of The Red Death.
allegory: a work with 2 layers of meaning, persons, objects, and events stand for abstract ideas or qualities.
*sharp pains, sudden dizziness, and profuse bleeding
Every room had a different stained glass:
1.blue:windows
2.purple:panes
3.green:casements
4.orange:furnished and lightened
5.white
6.violet
7.black velvet tapestries hung over the ceilings and walls
*No light in any of the rooms
*Huge clock in the 7th room
*Every hour the clock would chime! Everyone would stop and be quiet
*Masquerades had bizzare apperences
*7th room no one was allowed
* @ 12 everyone is still and quiet
* Prince was in the blue room when he orders the man to take off his mask.
* Tall figure with clothing from the grave and was sprinkled with blood like "Red Death"
* When the prince goes up to him the figure stabs him with a dagger.
* Skull masked man= Red Death. Killed everyone at the party. The clock stopped working
Moral of Story: You cant cheat death it will always be there and you cant run from it.
When the figure is by the clock shows that death is there and ready.
The Devil and Tom Walker
Boston, Mass
* Oak tree with a lot of $ buried by a pirate
- people say the devil hid the $, but Kidd never returned to the spot because he was hung for being a pirate.
* Tom and his wife didn't get along
* There house was bad; iron bars, scary trees, looked like it was haunted
* Tom took a shortcut through the woods home through a swamp, when he stopped by an old Indian village, when he was sitting he found an old Tomahawk
* A guy comes from behind and is angry with him. He is a black Indian.
* Black Indian goes by many different names: Wild hunter,Black miner
* Talks to the Quakers and Anabaptists
* They had a long talk and became friends. Black guy told him about the $
* He gets home and tells his wife about the gold and then she tells him she wants him to get it. But the more she tells him and wants him to get it the less he wants to go so he doesn't have to make her happy.
* The wife then decides to go and talk with the Indian. She goes but comes back empty handed. So she goes back with everything she owned and never returns. Tom is scared for her safety.
* Many stories come up about what happened to her:
- She go stuck in the swamp.
- Tall black guy came out of the swamp with ax and a bag of stuff.
- Tom went back to get her and when he got to the tree a vulture had an apron ad her liver and heart in the tree.
*Tom thought that the black man helped with his wife's dying. He wanted to pay him back.
* Black man says he has to open a brokers shop in Boston.
* At his office everyone hears about him.
* Everyone went to him so this means he is rich and took all there $.
* He started being a begger
* He also started going to church and being a LOUD Christian.
* As he got older he got crazy.
* One day when he was old and finishing a deal there was a knock on his door the black man was there. The black man took him away and he was NEVER SEEN AGAIN!
* Oak tree with a lot of $ buried by a pirate
- people say the devil hid the $, but Kidd never returned to the spot because he was hung for being a pirate.
* Tom and his wife didn't get along
* There house was bad; iron bars, scary trees, looked like it was haunted
* Tom took a shortcut through the woods home through a swamp, when he stopped by an old Indian village, when he was sitting he found an old Tomahawk
* A guy comes from behind and is angry with him. He is a black Indian.
* Black Indian goes by many different names: Wild hunter,Black miner
* Talks to the Quakers and Anabaptists
* They had a long talk and became friends. Black guy told him about the $
* He gets home and tells his wife about the gold and then she tells him she wants him to get it. But the more she tells him and wants him to get it the less he wants to go so he doesn't have to make her happy.
* The wife then decides to go and talk with the Indian. She goes but comes back empty handed. So she goes back with everything she owned and never returns. Tom is scared for her safety.
* Many stories come up about what happened to her:
- She go stuck in the swamp.
- Tall black guy came out of the swamp with ax and a bag of stuff.
- Tom went back to get her and when he got to the tree a vulture had an apron ad her liver and heart in the tree.
*Tom thought that the black man helped with his wife's dying. He wanted to pay him back.
* Black man says he has to open a brokers shop in Boston.
* At his office everyone hears about him.
* Everyone went to him so this means he is rich and took all there $.
* He started being a begger
* He also started going to church and being a LOUD Christian.
* As he got older he got crazy.
* One day when he was old and finishing a deal there was a knock on his door the black man was there. The black man took him away and he was NEVER SEEN AGAIN!
Gothic Literature Notes
Gothic Literature: characterized by grotesque characters, bizarre situations, and violent events.
- 19th century (originated in Europe)
- Edger Allan Poe, Steven King, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Age of Reason: Puritanism, fear of God
Romantic Writers:
-saw limitations of reason
-celebrate individual spirit
-emotions
-imagination
-saw: basic elements of human nature
-facination of supernatural
- splendors of natures that the fear God
-Washington Irving = example of writer
-romantic preoccupation with atmosphere, sentiment, and optimism.
Transcendentalism: forms of truth exist beyond reason and experience.
- every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth on his or her own, through intuition.
Dark Side of Individualism:
- Gothic architecture of the middle ages
- Gothic Cathedrals
- Gargoyles
- high stained glass windows
- imaginative distortion of reality that Gothic represents
- imagination lead to the threshold of the unknown then see the potential for dark.
- fantastic, demonic, and insane reside
Romantic see hope
Gothic writers see potential for evil
Edger Allen Poe:
- many of his stories are with dark and medieval castles or decaying ancient estates that provide weird and terrifying events.
- plots involve extreme situation such as
-live burials, physical/mental torture
- male narrators:insane
- female characters: beautiful and dead or dying
- only when pushed to extreme did you see the dark side.
Hawthorne:
- fear, greed, vanity, mistreat, betrayed
- 19th century (originated in Europe)
- Edger Allan Poe, Steven King, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Age of Reason: Puritanism, fear of God
Romantic Writers:
-saw limitations of reason
-celebrate individual spirit
-emotions
-imagination
-saw: basic elements of human nature
-facination of supernatural
- splendors of natures that the fear God
-Washington Irving = example of writer
-romantic preoccupation with atmosphere, sentiment, and optimism.
Transcendentalism: forms of truth exist beyond reason and experience.
- every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth on his or her own, through intuition.
Dark Side of Individualism:
- Gothic architecture of the middle ages
- Gothic Cathedrals
- Gargoyles
- high stained glass windows
- imaginative distortion of reality that Gothic represents
- imagination lead to the threshold of the unknown then see the potential for dark.
- fantastic, demonic, and insane reside
Romantic see hope
Gothic writers see potential for evil
Edger Allen Poe:
- many of his stories are with dark and medieval castles or decaying ancient estates that provide weird and terrifying events.
- plots involve extreme situation such as
-live burials, physical/mental torture
- male narrators:insane
- female characters: beautiful and dead or dying
- only when pushed to extreme did you see the dark side.
Hawthorne:
- fear, greed, vanity, mistreat, betrayed
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