Applied Modernism Essay

       The Great War, also known as World War I ravaged Europe through 1914 and 1918. This war was looked upon with horror and it left society wondering what the world would be in the future. This is a way of thinking that came to be call Modernism. Authors who adopted the modern point of view wrote deliberately and self-consciously. Therefore Modernism is with the inner self and consciousness. The novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury is consider a modernism novel because it predicts the future.
     
      This novel takes place in the future and it states that books are banned. Montag  the main character lives in a world that is control by the government. Books are banned and firefighters start fire instead of putting them out. Also the country is in the middle of a war. This novel's main theme is censorship.

       This novel predicts the future. People, like Mildred, Montag's wife spent most their time watching parlor television and listening to seashells like earphones that we have today. These people are almost all ignorant. Those who act out or rebel against the law are arrested and punished. For example, if an individual is found with books than they are arrested and their property is burned to the ground. Individuals who think outside the box and think how the world is are considered crazy. For example, Clarisse McClellan considers the world around her and for that she is an outcast of society.

        In conclusion, Fahrenheit 451 is a modernism novel. It predicts the future and expresses destruction and decay. I expresses the main characters thought process or syntax. People break rules in society, there is mistrust, and brokenness with the government. Th is are evidence that makes it a modernism novel.

Applied Modernism

Fahrenheit 451 is a Modernism Novel because:

• about world/future/books -> destruction decay
• relevant
• Montag's Thought process/ syntax
• about breaking the rules
• mistrust/brokenness with the government

Modernism Writing

Five years ago, the way I express myself in my writing was very different from now. I would be writing anything and have no meaning to it. Back then I didn't know anything about symbolism, imagery, or any literary terms. The way the world change and how I view it change over time. I have more knowledge now then back then. Now I can just sit down and write and express my self the way I want my readers to understand me.

My Modernist

I declare to study Joseph Conrad.
Joseph Conrad created chilling tales with imagery and symbolism describing the uncertainty between good and evil. This really attracts my attention and now i'm curious to learn this authors way of thinking. He also examine man's moral complexities and capacity for corruption and evil, and the deep dark side of the human mind. I read a little bit about Conrad's struggle and it made me want to learn about him and to know why he writes about the uncertainty between good and evil.

Vocabulary: Spring List 5

brouhaha: An Uproar
 cloy:to surfeit with an excess usually of something originally pleasing
 demeanor:behavior toward others : outward
 deference:respect and esteem due a superior or an elder; also :affected or ingratiating regard for another's wishes

 enigmatic: of, relating to, or resembling an enigma : mysterious
 definitive: serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation
 bumptious: presumptuously, obtusely, and often noisily self-assertive : obtrusive
 choleric: easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger :hot-tempered
 bulwark: a solid wall-like structure raised for defense
 curtail: to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part
 adamant: an unbreakable or extremely hard substance 

 profligate: completely given up to dissipation and licentiousness
 mawkish: having an insipid often unpleasant taste
 thwart: to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of
 onus: a disagreeable necessity
 requisite: essential, necessary
 mollify: to soothe in temper or disposition
 sartorial: of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes; broadly : of or relating to clothes 
 presentiment: a feeling that something will or is about to happen :premonition
 impromptu: a musical composition suggesting improvisation
 forbearance: a refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due
 remit: to release from the guilt or penalty of

I can read

My Project of Fox in Socks is here
http://youtu.be/v8vkgt87UOc

Essay Post Game Analysis

I walk into class today not expecting that Dr. Preston would tell us to write an in class essay. As I sat down, I could not remember how to write an essay. So I did my best on it. I would give myself an F because I was not prepare and the essay that I have written was not my best. This is my lesson for today. I have to expect the unexpected. I will research "how to write an essay" on my free time and prepare myself for the upcoming essay. The only thing that I did good was remembering how the book ended.

TO MODERN OR POSTMODERN

Honestly I don't know what to make out of this quote. I'm more confused than ever. There were two parts of the quotes that made sense to me. 1 " There's some great essay somewhere that has a line about irony being the song of the prisoner who's come to love his cage…"  this part is meaningful to me because I have come to love my problems and I deal with them instead of turning away from them. 2 "You burn with hunger for food that does not exist," this quote is meaningful to me because it reminds me of where I came from. In my opinion this quote can state that someone in poverty can wished to be rich but they never will be because it does not exist for them. This is just my example for quote number 2. This quote reminds me of a quote that I  heard a long time ago when I didn't care for the world. The quote states " The rich person is richer when he becomes poor, than the poor person when he becomes rich"(Esperanza Rising). This basically means that we need to value what we already have and not what we want. 

SPRING VOCAB# 2

Praetorian: an ancient Roman magistrate ranking below a consul and having chiefly judicial functions
Sieve: instrument used to separate particles
Veiled: covered or concealed 
Sacron: artificial sweetener
Harlequin: comical character, usually masked and wears colorful clothes
Toil: hard and continuous work
Delinquent: a youngster who does illegal or immoral activities
Gibbering: to speak inarticulately or meaningless
Insidious: causing harm in a way that is gradual or not easily seen
Saccharine: sweet or sentimental in a way that is does not seem sincere