QUOTE
"The reason i'm acting like this is becuase I got something big on."
DESCRIPTION OF QUOTE
Bigger is making a huge mistake, he is leaving a metaphoric trail of blood from the crime scene. He is doing little things that could very easily get him caught. Then Bigger decides to think up a crazy scheme of extortion. Bigger has no reason to try an extort 10,000 dollars from the Daltons, it will just make people suspicous. Bigger is getting in way over his head.
QUESTION
Will Bessie go along with Bigger?
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Native Son Post #5
QUOTE
"He reached into his pocket and drew forth the roll of bills."
DESCRIPTION
Bigger had no reason to show Bessie the roll of money. Although Bigger thinks Bessie can be trusted, he should not be taking risks in a situation like his. One slip can expose Bigger as a killer. There is also no reason for Bigger, a poor black man, to have over one hundred dollars on him. I think Bessie became suspicious when Bigger showed her the money. In the end, one of Bigger's closest friends could be his downfall.
QUESTION
Will Bessie betray Bigger when she finds out the truth? Will she find out the truth?
"He reached into his pocket and drew forth the roll of bills."
DESCRIPTION
Bigger had no reason to show Bessie the roll of money. Although Bigger thinks Bessie can be trusted, he should not be taking risks in a situation like his. One slip can expose Bigger as a killer. There is also no reason for Bigger, a poor black man, to have over one hundred dollars on him. I think Bessie became suspicious when Bigger showed her the money. In the end, one of Bigger's closest friends could be his downfall.
QUESTION
Will Bessie betray Bigger when she finds out the truth? Will she find out the truth?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Native Son Post #4
QUOTE
"Then, convulsively, he sucked his breath in and huge words formed slowly, ringing in his ears: Shes's dead."
DESCRIPTION OF QUOTE
Bigger has made a huge mistake. His problems started when he failed to drop Mary off at her correct destination. He failed at his first task, and he payed dearly for it. Bigger should never have suffocated Mary, if he let her talk he may have been in trouble but now his problems have increased greatly. He will have to be in hiding for the rest of the story becuase when a black man kills a famous white woman the police will stop at nothing to get justice.
QUESTION
Will Bigger get caught?
"Then, convulsively, he sucked his breath in and huge words formed slowly, ringing in his ears: Shes's dead."
DESCRIPTION OF QUOTE
Bigger has made a huge mistake. His problems started when he failed to drop Mary off at her correct destination. He failed at his first task, and he payed dearly for it. Bigger should never have suffocated Mary, if he let her talk he may have been in trouble but now his problems have increased greatly. He will have to be in hiding for the rest of the story becuase when a black man kills a famous white woman the police will stop at nothing to get justice.
QUESTION
Will Bigger get caught?
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Native Son Post #3
QUOTE
"That's the way they say it, he spoke flatly."
DESCRIPTION OF QUOTE
Jan and Mary are taking things to somewhat of an extreme. They seem like they are trying to be black when they have no idea how hard it actually is. An example is when Mary says that she wants to see where the blacks live, she says she imagines that they live just how white people live. This statement could not be furthur from the truth. Jan and Mary think they are much closer to black people than they really are.
QUESTION
Will Mr. Dalton find out where Bigger took Mary?
"That's the way they say it, he spoke flatly."
DESCRIPTION OF QUOTE
Jan and Mary are taking things to somewhat of an extreme. They seem like they are trying to be black when they have no idea how hard it actually is. An example is when Mary says that she wants to see where the blacks live, she says she imagines that they live just how white people live. This statement could not be furthur from the truth. Jan and Mary think they are much closer to black people than they really are.
QUESTION
Will Mr. Dalton find out where Bigger took Mary?
Monday, March 23, 2009
Native Son Post #2
QUOTE
"Gus turned and walked towards the rear tables. Bigger, with an amazing bound, grabbed him in the back of his collar."
DESCRIPTION
It is unbelievably annoying to me that Bigger acts so tough when he really is just as scared as any other black man in the 1930s. What is even more frustrating is the fact that Gus lets Bigger push him around without any sort of retaliation, Gus needs to stand up for himself. It is also very surprising that GH and Jack let Bigger punk their friend and just stand by and watch it, why is everyone so scared of Bigger.
QUESTION
Will Gus, GH, Jack, and Bigger continue to be friends after the pool room incident?
"Gus turned and walked towards the rear tables. Bigger, with an amazing bound, grabbed him in the back of his collar."
DESCRIPTION
It is unbelievably annoying to me that Bigger acts so tough when he really is just as scared as any other black man in the 1930s. What is even more frustrating is the fact that Gus lets Bigger push him around without any sort of retaliation, Gus needs to stand up for himself. It is also very surprising that GH and Jack let Bigger punk their friend and just stand by and watch it, why is everyone so scared of Bigger.
QUESTION
Will Gus, GH, Jack, and Bigger continue to be friends after the pool room incident?
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Native Son Post #1
QUOTE
"He hated his family because he knew they were suffering and there was nothing he could do about it."
DESCRIPTION OF QUOTE
Bigger can do something about it, he can take the job he has been offered and he can stop committing crimes. His mother suffers everyday thinking about what Bigger is doing and wondering whether he is in jail or not. If Bigger wanted to he could help his family by making money and using it for the benefit of his family, not just himself.
QUESTION
Why won't Bigger just take the Job? Why is he being so difficult?
"He hated his family because he knew they were suffering and there was nothing he could do about it."
DESCRIPTION OF QUOTE
Bigger can do something about it, he can take the job he has been offered and he can stop committing crimes. His mother suffers everyday thinking about what Bigger is doing and wondering whether he is in jail or not. If Bigger wanted to he could help his family by making money and using it for the benefit of his family, not just himself.
QUESTION
Why won't Bigger just take the Job? Why is he being so difficult?
Thursday, March 19, 2009
1984 Final Essay
Tim Rezendes
English 10 Honors
March 20, 2009
1984 Essay Exam
The All-Powerful Party
In the history of our world there have been numerous totalitarian regimes that have assumed power. All of these various regimes have had strengths and weaknesses that eventually led to an overthrow of the government. In the society of the Party there are no weaknesses and there is no hope of an overthrow. The Party assumes every emotion that is contained in the human body and uses it to their advantage. A Party member is not even safe in his own mind; the only notion of rebellion is located in ones bones, as Winston so cleverly articulated. The Party has an assortment of aspects that they use to control all members; the three most important aspects of control are surveillance, limited membership, and a variety of fear tactics.
The Party uses a far advanced system of surveillance that consists of telescreens, which are televisions that project the message of the Party while recording everything a member says and does, this system keeps every member in line. If a member makes one slip, even an involuntary twitch of the face, the constituent will either be killed or sentenced to twenty five years in a forced labor camp. At one point in the novel, Winston sees a man that has a spontaneous twitch; Winston knew that he would not survive very long.
Yet another system of surveillance that the Party uses is the Thought Police. The Thought Police is a patrol that is undetectable in society but is undeniably universal. Winston emphasizes the power of the Thought Police during this shorts soliloquy.
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. (Orwell 3).
In the Party government there is no laws; there is only thought crime. Thought crime is carefully scrutinized by the Thought Police so as to eliminate heretics. Winston can only describe thought crime by saying this, “Thought crime does not entail death, thought crime is death” (27). This shows the control that the Party has and it shows the influence that the Thought Police and thought crime have on the daily lives of those within the Party. Yet another aspect of Party control is actual Party membership.
The Party has an elaborate system of accepting new Party members which is taken by all people living in Oceania at age sixteen, this test is analyzed and only the top scorers are let in. The Proletarians who score well on the test are immediately vaporized due to their threat towards the Party. Select Party membership creates a system that is virtually invincible. There are only a handful of people that are allowed to be members, this number is not nearly enough to start any sort of revolution. The only citizens of Oceania that could start a revolution are the Proletarians, these people will not because they are kept in the dark when it comes to the true nature of the Party. This system forms a hierarchical tree with about eighty five percent of the population being Proletarians and only about fifteen percent of people being actual Party members. Winston compares the Proletarians to a horse that could easily shake off the flies that cover it, the flies being the Party. This is indeed true, although, the horse that is the Proletarians is in a deep sleep and there is no sign of an abrupt awakening. This sophisticated system may, in fact, be the most important aspect of control because it gives the Party a legitimate way to inspect all citizens of Oceania without seeming to be overly apprehensive. The Party also uses fear tactics to instill terror in the minds of all members.
The utilization of fear tactics comes standard with almost every totalitarian regime in history. The Party takes fear tactics to a whole new level. The Party has numerous devices that keep Party members in constant fear of their own government. One of these fear tactics is the use of room 101. When a Party member is in a holding cell their greatest fear in the world is room 101. This fear is not consoled at all by the guards; the only thing the guards will ever say about room 101 is room 101. This creates a very intimidating scenario that strikes fear in the inner most recesses of one’s body. The fear that room 101 strikes in the prisoners is expressed by the skull face man when he asserts, “I’ve got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn’t six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I’ll stand by and watch it. But not room 101” (237). Room 101 is a way of achieving ultimate submission from the Party members, which is of course the ultimate goal.
On a smaller scale, it is human nature to have a fear of death. This fear is enhanced by the Party government. The Party has no shame in killing millions of people as long as they stay in power. The ultimate goal of the Party is to remain in power. With a constant fear of death, nobody in a mentally stable state would disobey. Even people who aspire to be a heretic would not speak out. Those who rebel can be killed just for thinking of rebellion. These fear tactics create stability, although this stability is built under false pretenses, it is stability and power nonetheless; the exact aim of the Party.
The Party employs an unbelievable amount of aspects to achieve decisive control. There are three characteristics of the Party that stand out as paramount, the use of surveillance, a stringent Party acceptance policy, and the use of fear tactics. These aspects exemplify the dystopic society that the Party has created. In a world view, the society of the Party is not much different from our own. There are only a small amount of people in power with most of the citizens oppresses and living in conditions that could easily be avoided. The Parties use of three principal aspects of control has created a society that is unimaginable by today’s standard; these three aspects have made the Party invincible. The Party will never be defeated.
English 10 Honors
March 20, 2009
1984 Essay Exam
The All-Powerful Party
In the history of our world there have been numerous totalitarian regimes that have assumed power. All of these various regimes have had strengths and weaknesses that eventually led to an overthrow of the government. In the society of the Party there are no weaknesses and there is no hope of an overthrow. The Party assumes every emotion that is contained in the human body and uses it to their advantage. A Party member is not even safe in his own mind; the only notion of rebellion is located in ones bones, as Winston so cleverly articulated. The Party has an assortment of aspects that they use to control all members; the three most important aspects of control are surveillance, limited membership, and a variety of fear tactics.
The Party uses a far advanced system of surveillance that consists of telescreens, which are televisions that project the message of the Party while recording everything a member says and does, this system keeps every member in line. If a member makes one slip, even an involuntary twitch of the face, the constituent will either be killed or sentenced to twenty five years in a forced labor camp. At one point in the novel, Winston sees a man that has a spontaneous twitch; Winston knew that he would not survive very long.
Yet another system of surveillance that the Party uses is the Thought Police. The Thought Police is a patrol that is undetectable in society but is undeniably universal. Winston emphasizes the power of the Thought Police during this shorts soliloquy.
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. (Orwell 3).
In the Party government there is no laws; there is only thought crime. Thought crime is carefully scrutinized by the Thought Police so as to eliminate heretics. Winston can only describe thought crime by saying this, “Thought crime does not entail death, thought crime is death” (27). This shows the control that the Party has and it shows the influence that the Thought Police and thought crime have on the daily lives of those within the Party. Yet another aspect of Party control is actual Party membership.
The Party has an elaborate system of accepting new Party members which is taken by all people living in Oceania at age sixteen, this test is analyzed and only the top scorers are let in. The Proletarians who score well on the test are immediately vaporized due to their threat towards the Party. Select Party membership creates a system that is virtually invincible. There are only a handful of people that are allowed to be members, this number is not nearly enough to start any sort of revolution. The only citizens of Oceania that could start a revolution are the Proletarians, these people will not because they are kept in the dark when it comes to the true nature of the Party. This system forms a hierarchical tree with about eighty five percent of the population being Proletarians and only about fifteen percent of people being actual Party members. Winston compares the Proletarians to a horse that could easily shake off the flies that cover it, the flies being the Party. This is indeed true, although, the horse that is the Proletarians is in a deep sleep and there is no sign of an abrupt awakening. This sophisticated system may, in fact, be the most important aspect of control because it gives the Party a legitimate way to inspect all citizens of Oceania without seeming to be overly apprehensive. The Party also uses fear tactics to instill terror in the minds of all members.
The utilization of fear tactics comes standard with almost every totalitarian regime in history. The Party takes fear tactics to a whole new level. The Party has numerous devices that keep Party members in constant fear of their own government. One of these fear tactics is the use of room 101. When a Party member is in a holding cell their greatest fear in the world is room 101. This fear is not consoled at all by the guards; the only thing the guards will ever say about room 101 is room 101. This creates a very intimidating scenario that strikes fear in the inner most recesses of one’s body. The fear that room 101 strikes in the prisoners is expressed by the skull face man when he asserts, “I’ve got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn’t six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I’ll stand by and watch it. But not room 101” (237). Room 101 is a way of achieving ultimate submission from the Party members, which is of course the ultimate goal.
On a smaller scale, it is human nature to have a fear of death. This fear is enhanced by the Party government. The Party has no shame in killing millions of people as long as they stay in power. The ultimate goal of the Party is to remain in power. With a constant fear of death, nobody in a mentally stable state would disobey. Even people who aspire to be a heretic would not speak out. Those who rebel can be killed just for thinking of rebellion. These fear tactics create stability, although this stability is built under false pretenses, it is stability and power nonetheless; the exact aim of the Party.
The Party employs an unbelievable amount of aspects to achieve decisive control. There are three characteristics of the Party that stand out as paramount, the use of surveillance, a stringent Party acceptance policy, and the use of fear tactics. These aspects exemplify the dystopic society that the Party has created. In a world view, the society of the Party is not much different from our own. There are only a small amount of people in power with most of the citizens oppresses and living in conditions that could easily be avoided. The Parties use of three principal aspects of control has created a society that is unimaginable by today’s standard; these three aspects have made the Party invincible. The Party will never be defeated.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
1984 Part 3 Ch. 3
Quote
"If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man."
Description
This statement is, for the most part, true. O'brien does no necessarily have the knowledge to say that WInston is the last one of his kind but it is very likely. As O'brien described, the reign of the Party will get harsher and harsher and the Party gains power. There will be nothing left of humanity, human nature will be completely destroyed. The human will be a shell of its former self and will be filled with the Party.
Definition
Emaciation- The condition when the bones are beginning to show through the skin
"If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man."
Description
This statement is, for the most part, true. O'brien does no necessarily have the knowledge to say that WInston is the last one of his kind but it is very likely. As O'brien described, the reign of the Party will get harsher and harsher and the Party gains power. There will be nothing left of humanity, human nature will be completely destroyed. The human will be a shell of its former self and will be filled with the Party.
Definition
Emaciation- The condition when the bones are beginning to show through the skin
Monday, March 9, 2009
1984 Part 3
Quote
"The door opened. Obrien came in."
Description
Obrien set Winston up for this. Obrien is just a regular Party member who basically crushed all of WInston's hope for a revolt. The Party is invincible, they will reign forever. I also think that the brotherhood is made up. The brotherhood is just a way to catch thought criminals.
"The door opened. Obrien came in."
Description
Obrien set Winston up for this. Obrien is just a regular Party member who basically crushed all of WInston's hope for a revolt. The Party is invincible, they will reign forever. I also think that the brotherhood is made up. The brotherhood is just a way to catch thought criminals.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
1984 Ignorance is Strength
Quote
"Why should human equality be averted?"
Description of Quote
This seems like a wierd question because a fundamental principal of socialism is to bring the poor to an equal level with the rich. The Party regime is like a capitalist society with a different name and a few different principles. The Party is not truly socialist nor truly capitalist. The Party is basically undefeatable, it has a system of checks and balances, much like our governemnt, that keeps the people in check and the government in power.
Definitions
Subsidiary- to be less than something
"Why should human equality be averted?"
Description of Quote
This seems like a wierd question because a fundamental principal of socialism is to bring the poor to an equal level with the rich. The Party regime is like a capitalist society with a different name and a few different principles. The Party is not truly socialist nor truly capitalist. The Party is basically undefeatable, it has a system of checks and balances, much like our governemnt, that keeps the people in check and the government in power.
Definitions
Subsidiary- to be less than something
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