Lit. Analysis Remix.!

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

1. This book is about 16 year old Jacob and his journey to discover his grandfathers haunting past. After finding his grandfather murdered in the forest, Jacob has terrible nightmares and anxiety. His family signs him up for therapy and the therapist soon convinces him the only way to beat his fear is to face is head on, by visiting the orphanage his grandfather once lived in once his family sent him there to have a chance to survive the mass genocide in Germany. Jacob goes to the island which his grandfather grew up and finds the orphanage his grandfather had described, but everyone's dead? The orphanage was destroyed from a Nazi missile that happened to hit it. Jacob feels discouraged and feels like giving up but something tells him to keep searching and he ends up in a time loop back to the day before the orphanage was destroyed and meets Headmistress Peregrine and her "peculiar children." All these children obtain special powers and Jacob learns he is also peculiar. He can see the children's invisible enemies, otherwise known as wights. As the story continues Jacob finds out the Wights had found the loop and taken Miss Peregrine hostage. Jacob and the others have no choice but to save her before it's all to late.

Say it LOUD.! I'm BLACK and I'm PROUD (:

I know what your thinking..."Black History Month doesn't start until Friday.", BUT i can't help it! This truly is an inspirational month for me and many people all over the world.

I can't even lie, though my excitement for Black History Month is great, my knowledge for it is very weak. There is a lot of history in the month of February, that history includes a lot of anger, pain and suffering but it is also overjoyed with celebration and pride. I am proud to live another year to celebrate this month and the amazing people who made it all possible. The history behind my skin is a sad yet inspiring story and i'm looking forward to digging deeper into the real meaning and emotions packed behind it. I look forward to updating you on my progress. (: 

~Jasmine D. Beebe

The Peeved Pedestrian

"Because it's a book about life, it's a book about death. It's a book about triumph." ~ Ray Bradbury 


I'm not really sure why this book was written, BUT being the professional web surfer i am, i was able to look into a few articles and figure out what the purpose behind this story was about. I found this article that supposed to be an interview with Bradbury

Click Me.!!

In the 9 days it took Bradbury to write the book he explained how his inspiration to write the novel came from Hitler himself, claiming at the age of 15 Hitler was burning books in the streets of Berlin and it gave him the sense that libraries would soon be in danger. By reading this article i developed the opinion that this book was more of a warning than a fortune teller. As technology increases knowledge through books decreases. We literally have the world in our hands, the internet, cellphones, computers, etc. I mean, who needs to read a book when you can find an article or a few summaries that give you all the main points about it? Who knows, a few decades from now we might not even be using books.


***Did you guys know 451 is the temperature in which books burn? That is SO cool!! ***

I'm a poet and i know it (;

I'm writing this poem in the view of Guy Montag.

Today i had to question who i really am
But will i ever know?
Because i cannot seem to grasp these feelings.
I'd like to hope my real life does not remain a history
My thoughts are buried and hidden by my flaming history.

Today i had to define myself
But i can't seem to find a definition
To think through all the flames and heat my destiny was meant to be different
I no longer feel satisfied and free
There's nothing i want more than to figure out who i'm supposed to be.

Today someone tried to figure me out
Only to realize my life is a puzzle
Because over time i lost track and damaged the pieces
How will i ever get them back?
This entire time I've been on a different track.

Today someone questioned my feelings of freedom
Only to leave me feeling constrained
These feelings so heavy and tight
I feel so light headed dizzy and weak
My pride and joy has become very difficult to seek

So who am i?
Will i ever seek the truth?
The definition of my character is lost
I don't think i can ever be the same
Relief can only be found outside of the flame.

Fahrenheit 451

What are five things I've learned about Fahrenheit 451? Well lemme tel you then!

*This novel was placed among the greatest works of the imagination written in English in the last decade or more.

*Bradbury claims the book was about how television destroys interest in reading literature.

*There is a prequel named A Pleasure To Burn

*One of the women Montag attempts to arrest recites Nicholas Ridley before burning her house to the ground.

*The culprit in Fahrenheit 451 is not the state- but the people.

My theme for English 3

Dr. Preston said-

Go home and post on
your blog tonight
And answer these questions
about you because only
you know whats true.

Whats you SMART goal?

In class we were asked to create a SMART goal, SMART standing for
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Reinforcable
Timely

Our smart goals are supposed to help benefit our future in some way, shape or form and is supposed to be something WE really want, not our parents, friends, teachers or peers but our own goals set for our own happiness. At the moment i find college very important for my future and its something i can hardly wait to experience. During the time we were given in class i started to brainstorm on what i need for college and how i can make it live up to the SMART "standards". At first i felt as if i hit a fork in my road to obtaining my goal because just like most teenagers, i struggled to think about what i "really" want and need for myself involving my future.I had to ask around and sneak a peek at other peoples goals for awhile but then it hit me. Scholarships. They can be pretty specific, you can measure the amount applied for and received, able to be attained, reinforced and its quite the timely process to get them. I nonchalantly wrote down the goal and decided i could relax until the class period was over. At the time i didn't realize Dr. Preston was checking everyone's goals, but he ended up coming over and read mine. He asked me a few questions about it and i answered them like a pro. I figured my goal would be easy to achieve and i wouldn't have to worry too much about it but Dr. Preston had another idea. Make it big. His idea was brilliant, create a scholarship website. I mean, if i'm looking for scholarships junior year could you imagine how many seniors are looking as well?My website would offer things such as tips, rules, ideas, and some essay templates for how to get scholarships and to get a guarantee to obtain one. We'd set up two options. "free" and "premium". Free offers a few hints and examples but the premium gives you templates, advice, information, understanding and much more. This website will help give students a better understanding about scholarships and what they are. If everything goes as planned it can help a lot of students. I'm really excited to launch this project and make my goal a reality. (:

Spring Post: Music as Literature

Can we consider music to be literature?

I feel music can be considered literature as much as poems can be considered music.

• Music and Literature are both considered a type of art.
• They can both be put in writing.
• Both tell stories.

Music, poems, novels, etc. are all forms of literature, they are just told in different formats. Music is basically literature with instruments, Poems are forms of literature that rhyme (In most cases at least.), and a Novel is pretty much another word for literature. 

The way i see it is that if it tells a story with a plot, theme and/or tone, then its Literature. 

So what is literature?

I think literature can be defined as peoples point of view. I see literature as anything with a story and a message within that story. If that "story" executes telling it with a meaningful message and an understandable point of view then i consider it to be type of literature.

I actually found an article about what exactly literature is to help explain it better.
Link: What is literature?


What is the difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony?

Personally i don't see a "difference" but the way i see is that all these things ( novel, poem, rap, song, opera, and symphony.) are different genres of art. They all have the same blocks but they're all built differently. Same concept, different ways of expressing them.