Literacy Blog #6

          I chose this book cover to be most effective for the play A Midsummer Night's Dream because as you can see a lot of action happening in the background which represents most of what  happens in the book. You can see that is placed in the woods because of all the green and brown colors used around the picture. In the front center you can see Titania and Oberon talking over the changeling, since the child is standing behind Titania. Following Titania is her trail of fairies.  To the right of Oberon, is Puck and you can see him "jumping" into some sort of scheme he has planned "That frights the maidens of the villagery" (II, i, 35). Puck is known for his mischievous behavior, so him jumping into something, perhaps a conflict, would be a great way to describe Puck. Between Oberon and Titania in the cover, there is a couple kissing and my guess is that it's Hermia and Lysander, since they have run away from Athens into the forest to be with each other. Under Oberon's pinkish cape seems to be Helena and Lysander together, with Hermia beside them wondering what's happening, since Lysander got the flower juice on his eyes and has fallen in love with Helena. Then there are the actors around all of this conflict practicing the play they are to perform at Theseus' and Hippolyta's wedding day, while being among  all the tension between the lovers. This book cover would be the most effective to represent the play A Midsummer Night's Dream because it tells the story within the book cover.

Literacy Blog #5

          For today's blog post, I'm going to be writing a comparison about Helena, from the play a Midsummer Night's Dream and Pierce, from the book Abandon. In some ways Helena and Pierce are similar, but in others they are totally different. Pierce is a shy and kind of awkward person, she seems to be  alone most of the time and isn't much of a sociable person. Since she moved to a new town and school, she is now trying to become more involved with making friends and being a part of something different. Pierce also becomes partially blinded by feelings for a guy, John, that doesn't necessarily love, or even like, her back. Even Pierce isn't positive about her emotions for John, and somehow he always there to help her from dangerous situations. Helena is more of a independent woman, she makes up her own complex schemes to win her love. She also has a strong and passionate persona for her love, Demetrius, but he does not love her back. That disgust towards her makes Helena do things that only push Demetrius further away. Pierce and Helena are similar because in one way or other, since they both have feelings for a guy that doesn't love, or even like them back, and that emotion makes them act like unintelligent people. In other ways they are quite different. Helena is more of a vigorous and scheming person, but Pierce, on the other hand, is more of a timid and klutzy kind of person. People can be similar and different, in ways that you might never know.

Literacy Blog #4 (2/2)

I think this picture represents most of my spring break, which was hanging out with friends. Clearly my friends don't actually look like that, or else that would be really weird. Anyhow, on Monday, Cara and got together and hung out even though we didn't do much, I think we still had fun. We ate delicious pizza, spicy chicken pizza, and I have to say it was pretty amazing. Cara and I also talked and tried to prank call some people, but it didn't work because they decided not to pick up. Later that evening I went to the Rihanna concert with my step-dad. The concert was really awesome, but it sucked Rihanna only came on stage at 10 o'clock, so we ended up coming home at around 1am in the morning. It was nice because I got to sleep in for once. Since I slept in that morning, the rest of the day was quite boring. This picture represents my spring break because later on Wednesday, Kira, Keyana and I had a sleep over. It was nice to hang out with them since we go to different schools and barely see each other. We talked about school, which was probably kind of strange since spring break is the time to escape from school, not talk about it. Anyway, after we watched the movie Pitch Perfect in the evening, it's a really good movie even though I slept through most of it and sang along through the rest. On Thursday we went shopping, we were planning on going to Kildonan Place, but instead went to Polo Park. Most people would refer to the term that we "shopped till we dropped," but we just ended up walking around the mall. It may not seem like it, but I did spend most of my break hanging out with friends and catching up. It was nice to see Keyana and Kira since we only see each other once every few months.