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BONUS QUESTIONS

juliusreyes — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:07:43 +0000

1) The woman behind the wallpaper represents the incarceration that the woman is living in that room with a husband that has control over her; so she wants to escape from that “jail”.

2) The sweat symbolize the hard work that Delia has to do every day to maintain her family also how she tries to do the best she can. Sweat also represents the treatment of woman where they had to do all the domestic work and had to be obedient and the husband did what he wanted to do. Delia uses her faith in God to protect her against her abusive husband.

3) The letter in “How I meet my Husband” is really important because if she did not go to wait for that letter everyday she would not have meet the mailman with who she fell in love.

4) The storm passed and everyone was happy, they were happy because there was nothing between them that maintained them united, they could do whatever they want.

5) It was a two piece bathing suit but it doesn’t tell the color.

6) No because she was an assassin, she killed that men and also had a intimate relation with his dead body.

7) Mrs. Wright was worried about her preserved because she really wanted to have children with her husband but he did not want, so she preserves her eggs. She wanted to preserve herself for long time so she could one time have children.

8) I relate to “sure thing”, because sometimes I practice things that I have to say so I don’t do it wrong or make ridiculous, but different to sure thing if I do ridiculous I cannot start over again.

9) He tries to arouse the reader’s sympathy.

10) One common theme has been the maltreatment from man towards woman.

REACTION TO RIME TO THE ANCIENT MARINER

juliusreyes — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:50:14 +0000

REACTION TO RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Elements of poetry:

Narrative poem

is a Free verse poem: it does not use a strict rhyme scheme.

86 stanzas

23 strophes

Imperfect rhyme is most seen in the poem.

Similes: “As idle as a painted ship in a painted ocean.”

Symbol- Albatross- Is like the bird that represents the holy spirit in Christianity

What is about?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is about a Mariner that has been cursed because he killed an albatross, the curse follows him in the sea where a lot of strange things happen to him and his crew and the only way to spoil the curse is with the help of the Hermit (a holy man), who tells him to say his tale once it was told he was released from his spell but the guilt came again and persisted until he told the tale again. He knows the man he is destined to tell the tale; the wedding guest was that man.

JOURNAL #5

juliusreyes — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:02:28 +0000

May 10, 2009

Dear Mother:

How are you? I wish you are fine. The reason of this letter is to make you know the motive why I had to leave home on Friday. Well, mom you know that when is the time of going to my house I am always excited because there has been a week without seeing you guys and I really miss you. You know that I love the way that you treat us; I am still your little baby. But I also have grown up and also changed a lot throughout these years. There are some things about you and my brother Kevin that really stresses me up when I arrive home on Fridays and is the way that Kevin treats you. Sometimes he curses on you and you do not even punish him, instead you go and buy him whatever he wants: games for the playstation, for the psp, etc. Last time that I went home you bought him the guitar hero game. I believe that you are doing things wrong and if you want him to be a good kid and useful for the society you need to demonstrate to him some character and make him know that the person who decides what is going to be done in your house is you and my stepfather. Something that I have notice is that when my stepfather punishes or puts some character on Kevin you tell him that he is not is father and to leave him alone, because of that Kevin also lost respect to him and he now does whatever he wants. I believe that Kevin is now in a point where nobody can really make him change; only a psychiatrist could help him and medication. If you don’t take this decision fast he will end up destroying our family emotional and mental health. You know why I tell you this. This Friday when I arrived at home Kevin was misbehaving, cursing on you and also hitting my sister. When my stepfather tried to put him on his place and put some shame on him, he tried to grab Kevin but he stumbled with the furniture and broke something, you rapidly started to yell at him and to curse him with some very strong words that I am not going to repeat. You treated him in a way that I believe was really out of place. Also you made him look like someone that Kevin can disrespect whenever he wants. He always loses his authority when he tries to help you with Kevin’s misbehaviour. That is not all, you went to the kitchen and grabbed a knife and menace him that you were going to kill him. In that moment was when I had to intervene with you, I know I had to increase the volume of my voice but if I did do it maybe something lamentable would’ve happen. I put my life in risk in that moment where you were blind of anger, but thank God you didnot do nothing, maybe God made me be there in that moment to prevent something worst to happen. Well in that moment I saw that my brother needs help and you need to look for it immediately because if not because of him you are going to end up in jail or in a mental hospital. I beg you to do me that favor. This was the reason why I had to leave on Friday, and I couldn’t share with you on Mother’s Day, but you know that I love you. I did it because I cannot accept anyone to ruin my peace. Since I study and live at Mayaguez I have learned to live with peace in my heart. I live as I like with no discussions, people cursing or bothering me, fights, etc. I exhort you mom to try to change in that aspect and try to make our home a peaceful place where I could feel comfortable. If not I will have to make the decision to stop going on the weekends to your house, because I don’t find the peace and concentration that I need to study and I am not going to risk my grades because of my brother Kevin. I wish you consider my petition and I want you to know that I love you.

Your son,

Julius C. Reyes

juliusreyes — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:53:21 +0000

How to Love? It is hard to be myself Not knowing how to love. Love without loving me. I prefer to cry with dignity. My heart is yelling for you You are the love of my life Maybe you could be my wife But, How could I stay with you? My heart is for my nature There it is safe for sure Because if not I could die Depressed of being alive. But I know you love me You will never let me here You will be my lovely rose That I will use to clean my tears. Maybe you are not sure of me But I know you love me If not you will not be here Waiting for a hope from God To leave me here or take me away. He knows I have not been good I know he knows the truth I love you with all my heart It is here where I belong. I have learned to love Thanks to you my lovely rose How to pay you my dear Not even with my tears. Stay with me my love Forever I will be for you Because my heart belongs to you And you will never let me die.

By Julius Reyes

Differences between Hamlet the Movie and the Play

juliusreyes — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:55:03 +0000

Differences between Hamlet the Movie and the Play:
First of all, the play starts with the guards standing at the castle with Horatio. The guards and Horatio are waiting for the ghost of King Hamlet to arrive. The ghost arrives twice but doesn’t speak. They decide to tell Hamlet to see if he could speak to the ghost. The movie starts with the funeral of King Hamlet with Gertrude standing beside the coffin. Hamlet sprinkles dust over his father, the coffin is covered and Claudius puts his sword over the coffin. The director changed this part from the play because in the play they say that Hamlet came after his father’s funeral.
They were a lot of deleted lines for Ophelia during her madness making her look more like crazy. Also when Polonius and Ophelia spy on Hamlet, this is how he learns about Hamlets strange visit and about his madness vs. in the play Ophelia informs Polonius of Hamlets visit and apparent madness.
In the movie when Hamlet arrives to Ophelia’s funeral she is laying on a white bed and they pull her in to the grave. In the play she was already in the grave and Hamlet testifies his love to her.
In the movie Rosencrantz and Guildenstern appear like at the middle, different to the play were they appear almost immediately.
Before Hamlet is sent to England he passed by Fortinbras army who is headed to Poland. He can’t believe the men they are going to waste for a piece of ground. At the end of the play when Hamlet is about to die he wants Fortinbras to be the king, Fortinbras army arrives at Elsinore and find the tragedy and he claims the throne , This was not presented in the movie.
In the movie the director changes a lot of scenes he goes back and forth maybe the director thought it was easier for the audience to understand. Also he cuts some long lines from the characters and put them easier to understand because in the play they are some words difficult to understand.

act II

juliusreyes — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:22:10 +0000

The best of Act II was when Claudius sends for Hamlet’s old schoolfellows, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and enjoins them to spy on the prince and when Hamlet decides to “catch the conscience of the King” by having a company of strolling actors present a murder play with a plot imitating that of his father’s murder.

MOVIE REACTION

juliusreyes — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:09:27 +0000

Love Actually Reaction:
Love actually is a good movie, it shows us some relationships that are very different one from another. Also it presents love as something that can happen to anyone, for example the kid that was in love of the girl and he learned how to play drums to impress her. Here we see that for love we do anything. For example the First Minister who fell in love of one of his employees, that was totally in a different social status, also how in went to her neighborhood and had to knock on almost 100 doors. Another situation that is presented is this man who is married and is seduced by a woman from work and he buys her a necklace very expensive and gets caught from his wife. Also this man who learned Portuguese, and went to Portugal to ask the love of his life to marry him. The story of the England guy who goes to USA to find nice girls and when he arrives he enters a bar and meets some girls and have sex with them, this was a bit unreal in the movie because how some girls recently getting to know a man are going to kidnap him to have all of them sex together. They are a lot of situations in this movie that shows love as something that it does not matter social status, age, ethnicity, marriage, etc, it can happen. The only thing in the movie that I did not like was that their where some strong scenes (nudity), something obviously normal but is my opinion. This movie is very special because it has a very nice ending all the couples arriving at the airport and each one of them together.

Question # 4

juliusreyes — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:47:25 +0000

“Is so hard to talk to John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so”. His wisdom is, to say the least, open to question, but what about his love? Do you think he suffers merely from a failure of perception or there is a failure of affection as well?
I believe John suffers from a failure of affection because if he really loved his wife he should rather do anything to take care of her and to help her go on with her life. John does not want to see that she is really sick and needs something more than being looked in a room, sleeping and not working. He needs to be more affectionate with her and demonstrate his love to her, listening to her to be able to understand her sickness that maybe is only a lack of love that has made her fall in that depression. He could help her more than leaving her in that house that what is making her is to lose more her mental health. It is very sad that John is a doctor and he is not even able to cure his own wife.

Rapunzel’s Reality

juliusreyes — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:02:15 +0000

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Rapunzel Ending:

The King’s son came to see Rapunzel but he found something strange, her hair was already down the tower and he haven’t cried for it. So he decided to wait a little to see if Rapunzel had the enchantress visiting. Fifteen minutes pass and nothing happened, the king’s son didn’t trust the enchantress so he decided to visit a friend that was very famous for being able to see the future, when his friend saw his letters he got surprised, he told him he was going to lose his vision and also that the enchantress had found the relation between him and Rapunzel. She had sent her to a desert and had cut her tresses off. He told him to be careful because the enchanted was waiting for him to let him blind. But he gave him a mirror to reverse any spell. He went to the tower and cried: Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, her hair came down so he climbed to the window. When he got there he saw the enchantress and when she told him I will scratch your eyes he put the mirror in her face and the enchantress got blind. She left angry. The King’s son went to his castle and asks his father if he could order some soldiers to look for Rapunzel the love of his life. The King ordered everyone in the kingdom to look for Rapunzel and who found her will have a great prize. Time past and nothing was found until one of the soldiers found Rapunzel and brought her home with her two babies.

When the King’s son saw Rapunzel he got very happy and told her to sing, she sang and everyone was amazed with her voice. Rapunzel couldn’t believe what was happening her hair was growing. Rapunzel sons grew up very happy and they liked to play a lot with her hair. They played jump the rope, hide and seek, and they also imagine they were in a forest. Rapunzel was now the princess in the kingdom and in her time off; she sang and also opened a store of wigs that she made when she cut her hair. Rapunzel, her husband and kids lived very happy and Rapunzel was waiting for more children. The End.

“Haunted House”

juliusreyes — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:39:38 +0000

Once upon a time there was a boy and a girl who were brothers, their names were Pedro and Maria. They liked to play a lot and they sometimes fought with each other because they both wanted to win. One day they decided to play ball in front of the house. Their mom said to them to stay there. Everything was normal until Maria threw the ball very hard and it fell into the neighbour’s house.

Pedro got mad with his sister Maria because that was his favorite toy. Maria also got upset. Pedro came with an idea. He sad: “Lets jump the fence and get our ball”. Maria said: “But mom said…” But he didn’t care and Maria went with him. When they were at the house they remembered that many people said that house was haunted. Pedro was brave and said no ghost could scare him. So they got the ball and started to play. Suddenly a noise came from the garage. Pedro and Maria got scared and left running as fast they could. A nice litle kitten came out the garage. Pedro and Maria learned that they should always obey their mom.