LITERATURE ANALYSIS #2

The book I read was, The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow, By Ann Turner. At first, the thing that drew me to this book was the cover. When I saw it on the shelf in the library, the Picture caught my attention and I went to pick it off the shelf. I read the back and a few pages into chapter 1, and I really liked it that I had to take it with me and finish reading it. I hoped to experience the feeling that the character was describing and be able to picture the scenery as well. The thing that kept me reading past the first ten pages, was that the author gave details and and explained thoroughly was was occurring in the story and the way that she used her words, made me want to keep reading. My reading habits consist of me reading in the morning before I get ready for school, if I wake up early. Usually when I am getting ready to go to bed, I will listen to a reading of something random that pops up in my recommended on YouTube. If I have a book then I'll read out of it a few minutes before actually going to bed. 

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

LET ME WALK YOU THROUGH THE PEDESTRIAN

It's a moonlit night in the year 2053, and and Leonard Mead, The Pedestrian, is taking a walk, like he usually does every night, through his unnamed city. As he walks through empty streets, he would look inside the houses and just see people sitting in front of the a television screen. Leonard Mead has walked the streets for ten years and he has never encountered another person walking, since everyone else stays inside their homes. The way he describes them as "grey phantoms" that live in "tombs", is quiet interesting since he is comparing them to the dead. The Pedestrian was enjoying the peace outside in the world an was taking it all in as any human would. As he continues to walk back to his house, The Pedestrian is stopped by a police car, mind you there is only one police car for the whole city. He is asked questions, and the police is trying to figure out why he outside walking instead of being inside his house like everyone else watching television. The police finds out that Leonard doesn't have a TV, he isn't married, lives by himself and that he was a writer when the world still cared about was was written. He is told to get inside the Police car, and as Leonard gets inside, he notices that the car is a robot, and that he is going to be taken to a psychiatric place because he is acting different from everyone else. 

THE VALUE OF MY TIME

The time investments that I make today to help with my future are to listen to a movie play in the background while I have my eyes closed. I found this very soothing and help to calm my brain down and to take a break from school work. The time investments that I am trying to make for my future goals are to learn how to manage my time better and be able to deal with last minute time consuming problems.

VOCABULARY WE NEED

MEME - IMAGE, VIDEO, INSIDE JOKE

 SENTENCE : THERE ARE A LOT OF MEMES ON INSTAGRAM.

VIRUS- SOFTWARE PROGRAM THAT CAN SECRETLY REPRODUCE AND TRANSMIT ITSELF AND CAUSE HARM TO FILES OR OTHER PROGRAMS ON THE SAME COMPUTER

SENTENCE : THE VIRUS ON HER COMPUTER MADE HER INVEST IN A NEW ONE BECAUSE HER OLD ONE WAS DESTROYED AND DAMAGED.

VIRAL- Relating to the spread of ideas or trends through media and other Chanels

SENTENCE: Kylie Jenner’s Rise and Shine went viral on instagram.

Blog : online journal that is updated daily
SENTENCE: My class has online blogs.

WIKI: A website that allows collaborative editing.
SENTENCE: There are many Wiki pages online that you can edit like Wikipedia.

URL: ADDRESS OF A WORLD WIDE WEB PAGE
SENTENCE : WE USE URLS TO FIND SITES ONLINE.

WEBSITE: SET OF RELATED WEB PAGES THAT ARE LOCATED UNDER A SINGLE NAME,MOSTLY PRODUCED BY ONE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION
SENTENCE: THIS WEBSITE HAS ALL THE INFORMATION.

Www 8is -Fi : wireless transmission

2.0 : interactive version of World Wide Web. We can comment and edit.

Tim Berners : skin of the internet

INTERNET : a global computer network.

OPEN SOURCE: software in which original source code is made free and could be redistributed

TECHNOLOGY: study of and use of cleverness in using tools

STORY OF MY LIFE

An event that happened in my life, was just last week on Friday after school. I was called by my dad to go help him take a few things to a person in Nipomo. Me,not thinking much of it since we had done this before, agreed to go and so we went. When we arrived, I got off the car as usual, and when I turned around after closing the door, I notice two big dogs with red looking eyes just looking at me. I slowly open the car door again and get it, mind you I was frightened, and I decide to call my dad since he had left with to knock on the front door. After a while, I was assured by the dog owner that his dogs wouldn't attack me and that I'll be alright. I get convinced, and get off my dad's car again and help to unload the car. Out of the corner I can see one of the dogs getting close and I didn't see the owner around so I panicked. Around the corner I can see my dad making his way back up to the car and I make a run to safety, which is to hide behind my dad ( I know it sounds silly ). I strongly REGRET making that choice. Just as I am about to make it to where my dad was at, I felt the front paws of the dog on my back and I fall to the ground. The dog continues to bark and was about to bite my leg when I get covered by my dad and the owner comes out to scold his dog. Moral of the story, DON'T RUN AWAY FROM DOGS, YOU WILL BE ATTACKED. 

SO THIS GUY GOES FOR A WALK

Ray Bradbury wrote "The Pedestrian" because he was describing the night and how nobody really walks outside anymore. He is also letting us know how the police reacted when they saw him just walking around to no real location and just walking for walking. What happened to him contributed to the plot of the story because it pretty much explains reality in how when you are walking around at night, it becomes very suspicious to the police because they think you are going to break a law, or you are going to meet up with someone. 

MEET MY NEW VOCABULARY

MEME-  HUMOROUS IMAGE, VIDEO, PIECE OF TEXT, INSIDE JOKE

  

INTERNET - A GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK


CONNOTATION- USE OF A WORD TO SUGGEST A DIFFERENT ASSOCIATION THAN ITS LITERAL MEANING. CAN BE POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, OR NEUTRAL



THEME- SUBJECT OF TALK, PIECE OF WRITING, A PERSON'S THOUGHTS, A TOPIC


ALLUSION-expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it 

TONE- GENERAL CHARACTER OR ATTITUDE OF A PLACE,PIECE OF WRITING ETC

MYTH- WIDELY HELP BUT FALSE BELIEF OR IDEA


SYMBOLISM- USE OF SYMBOLS TO REPRESENT IDEAS
 
INDIVIDUALISM- HABIT OF BEING INDEPENDENT


SPECIALIZED- INVOLVING DETAILED OR SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE

INVESTING IN ME

After High School, I plan to work and save up my money to help me pay off  educational things. I also plan on having another place to save my money so that if I will ever need money for an emergency, I won't be taking any out of my educational funds.

LETTER TO A MENTOR DRAFT1

Dear Mentor,

                    My name is Yazmin S. and I am a Junior at Santa Maria High School. My dreams are to travel the world one day and to become a doctor. I plan on going to a 4-year university after high school and then enroll in medical school. I know that to be able to achieve this, I will need to be very focused and take a step at a time. This is the reason why I am looking for a mentor to guide me along the way. 

HAWTHORNE & POE ON DREAMS

The authors use the idea of dreaming to make us think what is real by describing in detail the images they want to paint inside our minds, but then also letting us know that we are dreaming this image, because we don't see it, only imagine what it would look like. The elements that are seen in both pieces, is the element of imagination, because since both are talking about dreams, it is something you can only imagine.