Keenan's English Journal

The young kid is telling us all the words he gets called when he gets bullied. Words are a hurtful thing and it always “makes him cry”. One of his quotations was, “I’m seven and I’m dead bright, but words give me a fright.” He is saying it in rhytmictic way and a little kid at the age of seven will always express these feelings and he always thinks that it will never stop happening and will always have words “Shoved in his face”.

One of his quotations was, “I wish words were things you could hug.” This quotation is used as a personification and it means when he hugs the words he won’t be offended by it and he’ll be protected so the words won’t hurt which is used as a metaphor and in that quotation there is illiteration as it says, “wish words were”. Another quotation was, “Words are mean. They bully me, lock me away from what i want to say.” It is like he’s saying he is being forced into prison and doesn’t have the right to say anything to the judge and is being punished for nothing he has done to anyone and he “can’t ask anyone for help” because everyone is bullying him and won’t talk to him.

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The way the poem speaks out

Both of these poems titles are showing us that they are combining each poem into one story as “hawk roosting” and “the falling of the leaves” are sharing the same story as it has to something with like a tree for example.

The poem called the falling leaves is a diary written about what had happened on that day. One of her quotations was, “Today as I rode by, I saw brown leaves falling from their tree.” By that she is thinking about her family, I know this because this diary was based in Novemeber 1915 and that is during World War One and she is thinking about her family going to war and imagining what is happening to them right now, pain? injury? Or even death? Every time she sees the leaf fall slowly and “thickly and silently” towards the ground, she is probably thinking about her family.

The poem called Hawk roosting is about a hawks day, similar to the poem “The falling leaves”. One of his quotations was, “I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed” this means that he was standing on the top of the tree and was imagining about what happened during that day. The message of this poem is saying that the hawk is in control of what he does and he can do whatever he wants. He is acting like a predator and wants to eat his prey. One of his quotations was, “I kill where I please because it is all mine.” Another quotation was, “My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this.” These two quotations show that the Hawk is in charge and is acting like a king and he “sits on the top of the wood” above everyone else.

Page 58- Premonition: Some people claim to have premonitions, such as a dream about a friend they haven’t seen in years the night before the friend dies. A premonition is a warning that comes in advance, or a feeling that something is going to happen. One of the quotations from Page 58 was, “We had been on the mountain for over fifty hours and perhaps had become attuned to potential threats; so much so that i had sensed something would happen without understanding quite what it would be.” He knew that something bad was bound to happen to him or Simon, it is like deja vu and he can see the future.

Page 60- Dialogue: Dialogue is a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people. One of the quotations from page 60 was, “Simon: You ok? Joe: Yes. Scared…. that’s all. Simon: Yeah. Joe: We’ve gone far too low.” This is how they communicate and interact with each other as they are climbing up the mountain just to make sure that they both are ok and nothing is bad, this is how they can really connect with each other. When they both were communicating, they both were probably thinking about the next method of how they were going to survive and where they can keep safe and not fall of the mountain and they both were using self talk in their mind to make them keep going and pushing them forward.

Page 108- Personification: Personification is when you make an object or idea do something only a human can do. One of the quotations from page 108 was, “A black hole calling me.” and “The stars were good to see. I was glad to see them again. Old friends come back.” The first quotation is saying that someone is down in the black hole having a conversation with him, but it’s like he’s talking to no-one, just the black void. The second quotation is saying that he had a close relationship with the stars in the sky and all of these quotations were being used as a metaphor. It’s like Joe was talking to the void and he was getting closer and closer as he interacted with it, it’s like when you die you go towards the light, but this is the opposite, he is falling and dieing into a bla k void.

Page 117- Personification: Personification is when you make an object or idea do something only a human can do. One of the quotations from page 117 was, “It was as if the mountains were holding their breath, waiting for another death.” This quotation means that Simon thought that the mountain was waiting patiently for someone else to fall down and die and it was holding its breath until another person dies and it will breathe again until it would eventually happen.

Page 150- I had murdered him: This title tells us what Simon thinks when he thought that he murderded Joe. One of the quotations from page 150 was, “There was no point in being here. It was barren and lifeless; I hated the place for its cruelty, and for what it had made me do. I wondered whether I had murdered him.” This quotation means that Simon had given up hope for Joe and thought that he had murdered him and he was expressing his feelings with different emotions and was blaming himself for what he has done and thinking of that scene when he cut the rope.

This is how we can explore a phrase and expand on the many possible references it can offer.

All the feelings that Sylvia Plath has: angry, lonely, frustrated.

Angry: Sylvia Plath was very angry because she didn’t want to see her dad, but deep down she missed him very much, one of her quotations was, ” Daddy I have had to kill you, you died before I had time.” This means that she wanted to kill him in the first place before anyone killed him because she was so mad at him for what he has done to her. Another quotation was, ” I used to pray to recover you, ach du.” Which means that she wanted him back again and so she can do what she wanted to do to her father and that was to hurt his feelings very bad.

Frustration: She uses different languages to use her frustration on her father by using German, for example one of her quotations was, ” Ich Ich Ich Ich.” Which shows and tells us that she is in disgust with her father. When you say the word, “Ich” out loud, it’s like you have a really sore throat and you want to get the words out of there so you can be clear on what you say when you speak to someone or yourself.

Lonely: She tells us what it is like without a dad and tells us what it feels like. It was the same quotation she used before and that was, ” I used to pray to recover you.” Which tells us that she was very lonely and wants him back, but then she doesn’t.t want him back, it is a very complicated relationship between these two. Another quotation was, ” You do not do, you do not do any more, black shoe in which I have lived like a foot for thirty years poor and white.” It tells us that she was lived in an empty shoe for at least thirty years in a metorphorical way comparing a shoe towards her dad and there was no one there to comfort her, this means that she was trapped and disgusted living in an empty shoe.

The poem called, “Daddy” shows and tells us about Sylvia’s relationship with her dad in the past which shows and expresses her feelings with a lot of anger and sadness and trapped, one of her quotations was, ” I have always been scared of you.” Another quotation was, ” Daddy, daddy you bastard I hate you.” It looks like her voice is raised at a high level with a lot of angry feelings and shows us how she feels about her own dad.

1. How they look?

George looks like a small but very smart and sophisticated man and has all the plans and brains. Lenny looks like a tall and strong man, but he doesn’t have any brains, he’s not very smart and he is very shy and lost. Every time when he has pet like a mouse or a puppy or a rabbit, he always protects it and wants to play with it, but then one day when he lost a mouse, he felt like he lost his best friend and like he knew it all of his life and was so emotional. Curley looks like a small man who thinks he knows everything and thinks he can control anyone whenever he wants to and tell them what to do and what not to do and thinks he is better than everything in anything. Curley’s wife look like a open hearted romantic girl who wants to be loved by someone who shows her respect and kindness unlike Curley, but she is a bit dodgy on how she treats people and tells them how to treat her. Candy looks like a weak old man who loves his dog which he has had half of his life and loves and wants to protect it everyday for the rest of his life, but unfortunately the dog died and it changed his emotions to being sad and lonely and unhappy. Slim looks like a hard working man and is the leader and wants to help and protect people. Curley’s dad looks like a mean old man who knows how to run everything in his organisation and if he don’t like people by looking them in their eye he’ll tell them to go away and never work for him again, he’s very strict and likes to get his work done peacefully and quickly. People normally refer to him as a boss.

2. What people say about them?

George doesn’t like Curley because he doesn’t like the way he is treating Lenny when he didn’t do anything wrong and Curley always wants to start trouble. He also doesn’t like Curleys wife because she keeps on flirting with Lenny and he knows that Lenny would get into trouble if he touched a girl’s clothes or hair etc. Curley doesn’t like Lenny because he just swooped in the job and became popular of doing a good job better than Curley and he thinks that he is trying to go out with his wife and doesn’t like the way he has been treated.

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In the book Touching the void, there are two characters called Joe and Simon who go on an dangerous but exciting adventure towards the top of the mountain Siula tarnde. They have been climbing half way up the mountain for at least 5 days and they both were starving and thirsty and they both were cold and hot and dehydrated and hydrated.

Then suddenly things were starting to get worse, at least for joe when joe was trying to climb up the mountain halfway up, and then suddenly the ice axe