Sunday, August 29, 2010

You're a racist and you didn't even know it...

So seeing as I wasn't there for the "White Man's Burden" analysis, I figure I'll kill two birds with one stone and tackle the poetry blog post and the potential racism at the same time.

Lets see it:




Alright, I was going to begin with this epic explanation of how "I've used this in history and think it's satirical" but rereading it, I don't have a clue what its about.
How about we try taking it but stanzas.

Stanza 1: Of course "best ye breed" is a reference to Crackers
"Sons to exile"-maybe like sending them to colonize foreign lands; but that doesn't make sense with-"To serve your captives need;"
And the "half-devil and half-child" reference to myself, or the fact these people are evil and ignorant.

Stanza 2: Vail terror-by showing our domination, Check pride-by criticism for being hegemonic.
"To seek another's profit, and work another's gain." Strikes me as interesting but I’m not sure what it means. Use of parallelism signifies its importance, but an example of searching for something someone else has, then profiting of it... is something that just doesn't come to mind.

Stanza 3: I think this stanza is mainly " Humanitarian efforts (peace) is always cut by minority nature (savage wars.) Even if you feed the hungry and heal the sick, when your task is nearly completed, the laziness and folly of heathens will ruin you're entire effort."

Stanza 4: Summery: "don't deal with the flashy cheapness of politics, but deal with the workings of servants. It is servants and not kings who will allow you to explore. Like the pyramids have living servants make it, and fill it with dead kings." alot of this is a stretch.

Stanza 5:Contains some kinda of soliloquy but have no clue what it means.

Stanza 6: Basically saying don't do less than your best, don't run from your task, for if you do the people will judge you and your god based on your actions. "Look good for Jesus"

Stanza 7: This one makes me think satire again because of the stress with " Judgment of your peers." Which is basically the only statement I can make out of this one.


So all of this considered I feel the poem could be either; but if this were a poem on the AP test I’d make a poorly supported argument saying he was racist using some examples I pulled out.

Over all I feel this post was an epic fail.

Apologetically and Thankfully yours,

Dusty Trem-mc-mc-bath'n

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Gooooooooddddd Morning Viet....Well Loveland [Heart of Darkness.

Well good morning campers and welcome to My blog-worst intro ever.

Alright some pre-comments before we get into the meat of this book, Never read a Pre twenty-th century book right after you read a New York Times best seller. You will be heavily disappointed.

Now on to the good stuff
Annotating process: Ok this book i annotated the least, mainly due to the fact the book was filled to the brim with such detail that finding and significant or note worthy writing was Dang near impossible. I annotated ALOT of words I didn't know, also I annotated allusions the author gives like, Jupitor, which makes Kurtz Zeus like.

Plot: So a Guy is on a ship and tells this epic tale to his fellow seamen about a time when he "was looking for a job to explore the nile, his aunt made some connections to land him the job with an english company-probably joint stock company. He makes his way down encountering several Peculiar white men and gives notice about the different labels they give the blacks in the region. As he travels deeper into the forest, and deeper into the darkness, the name of a man called Kurtz keeps coming up as a very significant and influential character in the Ivory trading markets along the river. The guy takes a steamboat much father down the river than usual and is at one point attacked by natives, killing his...driving person. Any way, they finally arrive at the place where Kurtz lives and meets the man who has claimed to aid him in his illness's. The admeration this fellow has for Kurtz is baffling to The main guy and he finally meets Kurtz after almost being raided by his native entourage. Kurtz is ill so the main guy trys taking him up river, but he dies on the trip up there uttering the last words, The horror, the horror. After he arrives back in England people come to take these and those things that belonged to him leaving at the end only a stack of Personal letters which our main character feels the need to deliever back to it's owner. After some deep conversing the main guy lies to Kurtz's women saying his last words was her name....

Characters: Main guy. Marlow
Kurtz. Kurtz
Kurtz admirer-er. The Russion-Song by iron maiden
Kurtz's women. She?

Review: Oh dear god, I honestly can't wait to get to class so that I can make sense of this book because so far I see no point and no greater meaning beyond Life in the African jungle is hard.

Whatever else strikes you: In order of appearance:
So this is just like some four hour uninterupted story told by a sailor to his sea men. I was waiting the whole time for a Shut-up by one of the ship mates. Makes me think of Jaws scene where the creepy old guy tells the story of the Shark.

This was literally the most boring of all the books, I noted it should be read by strongbad of homestarrunner.com

Again I hate finding textual errors in Books. page 55 near the bottom.

Quote "who's that grunting?" -should be the next black eye peas top selling hit

Says the title like three different times in the book.

I ever hear the word RIVETS again, i'll shoot someone.

Why the random tangents about the guy who though there were men on mars. WHO CARES??????

By Jove

and my final note, I love the smell of Old books

Structure:....it was divided up by like Three Chapters?

Style: Old crappy hard to understand english

Themes:...I got nothing

Figurative Language: first the definition: A technique in writing in which the author temporarily interrupts the order, construction, or meaning of the writing for a particular effect. If there was something I didn't note it, I usually jot down those kinda things

Imagery: LIKE Seventyfive percent of the book was Imagery, Boring description of things Nobody cares to have describle. MESSAGE TO ALL AUTHORS: unless your writing Sci-fi, we live in the same world you do, You do not need to take Large secions of text to describe things like sunsets, oceans, sand, or African Americans. just do us all a favor and keep your poetic Crap to yourself.

Symbolism: I really hope we find something inclass because if not i'm burning this book.

Sorry that you had to read this, '
but thank you anyway,

Dustin Trembath

Tone:

Monday, August 16, 2010

And now what you've all been waiting for...Kite Runner

So Its the night before school and all through the house every one was panicking, even the mouse.

Ok so this post is long over due, but lets not think of it as procrastination, rather think of it as tactically keeping it fresh in my head.



Now on to specifics about the book

Annotating process: Very similar to the last book-just noted my thoughts or things that sparked my interest. Sometimes I mark every other work, other times it'll be blank pages for awhile.

Plot:Guy has kid, his brother slash servant has kid around same time. Two kids grow up together, one master other servant. Kids enter Kite flying tournament, master kid wins. Servant kid runs after kite for master kid and servant kid is cornered by older kids who rape him while master kid sits and does nothing. Master kid feels guilty, frames servant kid for stealing so that his father kicks them out. Father forgives the servant kid. Servant kid and his dad move away anyways. Master kid and his dad a few years later flea Afghanistan and move to america. Dad works hard to put his kid through high school and most of college. Master kid meets pretty girl. Girl and Kid marry. Father dies. Flash forward several years, Kid is moderatly succsessful author and wife is happy teacher. Kid recieves a call from an old friend of him and his father requesting to see him before he dies. Kid flies out to pakistan to see him, dying friend tells his epic tale since the kid left and says that the servant kid and his wife have been murdered in his hometown and requests that the master kid go save the servants kid from the life of an orphen in Afghanistan. Master kid reluctantly agrees. Master kid gets to old hometown, the orphenage directer says that the terrorists have taking him, master kid arranges meeting with terrorists. Finds the older kid who raped the servant kid is the ringleader. Ringleader changes Master kid to a fight for the child, Ringleader....well words can't describe the ultimite destruction he had on master kid-i guess except the words in the book...then servent kids-Kid? slingshots a brass ball into the eye of the ringleader. Servants Kids Kid [SKK} and Master kid run off and eventually end up in hospital back in pakistan. They leave pakistan to somewhere else where the terrorists wont find them, the Master kid tells servant kid he's temporaraly placing him back in a orphange and the SKK slits his wrists almost bleeding to death. The master kid returns to america with SKK and master kid raise SKK who wont speak and stays sielent. at the end SKK flies a kite with Master kid and there's a slight moment of happieness between the two.

oh and the Master and servant Kid are half brothers.

Characters: Master kid. Amir
Master kids Dad. Baba
Servant Kid. Hassan
Servant kids dad. ali
Old friend of the family. Rahim khan
Rapist. Assef
Master kids wife. Soraya
SKK. Sohrab
and i think thats all i mentioned.

Review: So what did I think of the book, Well I'm not sure. Now I don't mean this as well uhhhhhhh...I guess it was good and all, I mean I've been raised on American, Disney movie endings where, The hero wins, the pets find there way back home, and the democrats take the House and Senate. But this book is different in that I feel anger/sadness toward the author at some points, at the charecters, at the culutre, so much of this book is filled with unfairness and it really breaks my heart. So its hard to say "OMG I love this book" through my tears.
I remember when I finished Nineteen Eighty Four where the ending MCsucks, and I said I hated it; of course I later on recomended the book to anyone who would listen.
So my final feelings on the book are this: Although it is a heartbreaking story, the fact the author was able to write in a manner that struck that hard to my emotions, I would be a idiot to say it wasn't a great book.

Whatever else strikes you: In order of appearance: The number one biggest thing was i bought an audio book, read by the author and it cut out well over half the book. Its interesting to see what the author did and didn't think was important.
To say I didn't like amir in the beginning, is a major understatement.

Why is Baba such and ass in the beginning then turns into this kid understanding person in america, - I think theres something in the book on this but did baba just not have hassan to be nice to so he had to take out his understanding/loving side on amir instead????

Flea market drama would probably get better ratings then Days of Our Lives "Like tears from the reader, So is the 'Gossip at the Flea Market"

I hate it when I find printing errors in books, especially best sellers-Page 177 seventh line.

I think there should be a shadow series to this switch prospecitives between Rahim khan and Soraya so that 1 Rahim khan can bash on his fathers imprefections and 2 so Soraya can vocalize the sexist BS that is Afghan culture.

Taliban= Nazi's in terms of Ethnic cleansing. So we should WWII or Kosovo the crap out of Afghanastan-You got the thumbs up from me bush.

Structure: Lots of repitition. Books broken up into chapters but each chapter has different passages signified by ALL CAPS AT THE BEGINNING of the sentence that fades to regular gramantical stylings.

Style: Itilized important words, sentances, and passsages. never used bold that i can remember.

Themes: Utter sadness.

Figurative Language: first the definition: A technique in writing in which the author temporarily interrupts the order, construction, or meaning of the writing for a particular effect. This interruption takes the form of one or more figures of speech such as hyperbole, irony, or simile. Metaphore: "My legs blocks of concrete, My lungs empty of air, my throat burning." Irony: "In Afghanistan, the ending was all that mattered"-hence why you wrote a 371 page book???

Imagery: O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!


crap sorry I meant

"Buildings that hadn't completely collapsed barely stood,
with caved roofs and walls pierced by rockets shells.
Entire blocks had been obliterated to rubble.
Childern played in the ruins of a windowless building
amid jagged stumps of brick and stone."

Ya Afghanistan, just remember that we'll always be better.
Symbolism: ohhh, i really want to know what the symbolism behind Amir's dreams were, because as of now, I haven't a clue.

Tone: Somber.

and as always,

Thank you for reading.

Dustin Trembath.