Monday, October 25, 2010

Informal or Low Diction

     This week, I went hunting with my dad.  We were supposed to get up at like, 5:30 in the morning, but we wanted to sleep in so we didn't get up till 6:00.  After I got up, I got dressed, and stuck my gun in the car.  I couldn't wait to get up into the woods.  We went hunting in Brooklyn, and it took like forever to get up there.  I fell asleep in the car because I had to get up early which is uber wierd because I get up that early for school anyway.  Once we were up there, though, I wasn't going to go to sleep because I was focused on findin' a deer.
     We went hunting on what's called the F Line.  (I'm not quite sure what that means exactly, but that's what it was called).  We stopped to glass over a clearing, but we didn't find any deer there.  We decided to keep driving, and eventually, we came to another little clearing off to the side of the road.  We stopped there and looked for deer, and we found one.  My first thoughts were, "Oh my gosh!" and "awesomtastic!"
     I got out of the car, and loaded my gun with 5 bullets.  I found the deer in the binos first, and then found him in my scope.  He was standing there, and I saw him lookin' right at me.  I took aim with my gun, and I shot a round at him.  I could tell it hit him because he was stumbling around and trying to get his footing and stuff.  We waited until he fell, and then we went down the side of the clearing to get him.  It was super hard trying to drag him up a steep hill for about a hundred yards, but we managed.  Overall, this was an awesome experience.  I love hunting, and I am super stoked that I got my first deer.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Wuthering Heights

     Wuthering Heights is an interesting book.  I like the way the author complicates the plot by naming the characters similarly.  For example the men have names like Hareton, Hindley, and Heathcliff.  The novel is also more complicated because Emily has related almost all of the characters either by blood or marriage.  I think the book is a wonderful story, almost like a mystery, but it is hard to understand.  The book was written in old English, and that writing style is not common among novels of this time period.
     In my creative project, I want to focus on the characterization of people in the book.  Characterization has been greatly used in the novel thus far.  As previously mentioned, characters have similar names and are mostly all related.  Not to mention, the story is being told through the eyes of two people.  Mr. Lockwood, the man who wants to be a tenant for Wuthering Heights, starts out as the narrator for the story.  Now that the story has progressed, the servant named Nelly is narrating the story of Heathcliff and Cathy to Mr. Lockwood.  Emily has intertwined the characters in such a way that the novel becomes much more interesting.
     I think this novel relates to the play Romeo and Juliet because it is about forbidden love.  Romeo loves Juliet, but their families are enemies which means they can never be together.  Cathy loves Heathcliff, but they come from different worlds.  She can't marry him because she is a proper lady, and Heathcliff is more of a carefree ruffian.  Cathy then marries Edgar Linton which really makes her love for Heathcliff impossible.  To complicate it more, Heathcliff marries Isabella Linton which means he and Cathy are now, by law, siblings.  The theme of forbidden love is present in both of these literary works.
     At this point, I don't really have any ideas for my creative project.  I know I will come up with some as the book progresses, but I don't know enough of the story to base a project off of.  The plot gets more and more in depth as the story goes, and I am excited to see what will come out of it.