Finals Day!

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Life After This Blog Post

I am not going to go into much detail about my email to my future self. I think it would be pretty interesting to see what I have accomplished in a year. Also to look back on what I wrote about my goals and how they are going. I do hope that everything works out the way I planned. I am just worried that my goals may start to get out of my reach and lose them. I know that I can achieve whatever it maybe I just need to focus and be determined.

Literature Analysis: Just Listen

1. Annabel Greene is the girl who has everything. At least, that's what she portrays in her modeling shoots. But Annabel's life is far from perfect. Her friendship with Sophie ended very badly, and her older sister's eating disorder is weighing down the whole family. They are really worried for her. Isolated at school and at home, Annabel kind of lays low for a while. Then she meets Owen who is an intense, music-obsessed, and determined to always tell the truth kind of guy. And with his guidance, Annabel learns to "just listen" to herself and gains the courage to speak honestly and be real. Basically Annabel is like this total social outcast because her super popular best friend hates her because she thinks that Annabel had been inappropriate with her boyfriend. Then Annabel meets this awesome guy named Owen. Owen and Annabel fall in love and tells everyone how the popular girl's boyfriend raped her.

2. In Just Listen, the themes include the importance of honesty, the value of facing conflicts rather than avoiding them, and the vast differences between appearances and reality.

3. The tone in Just Listen would be loneliness and not belonging. Annabel feels out of place at school and in her own family. She has to worry about her sisters anorexia and her family when she just wants someone to worry about her.

4. -Direct Characterization: "She is really pretty".
- Symbolism: Camera, that she was a model and realized its not what she wanted
- Irony: "I hate having my picture taken".." but you're a model". (Page 221)
-dialogue: "No offense." "It's fine." "I mean its a nice picture I just think you look better now."
- imagery: "The library carrel where I was spending my lunches was deep in the far right corner out of sight and away from most foot traffic.
- Simile: "Misplaced, only now turning up, like a sock you find long after you've assumed it was eaten by the dryer.

Characterization:
1. Sarah Dessen uses both direct and indirect characterization. Indirect characterization let the characters define themselves. Direct let the characters define each other.
-Direct Characterization
"She is really pretty."
"She's getting skinnier."
-Indirect Characterization
"It's a nice picture I just think you look better now."
"It's beautiful isn't it? there is something about snow that makes everything seem fresh and new."

2. I feel like Dessen's syntax and diction stayed the same throughout the entire book.

3. Annabel is definitely a dynamic character. She changes throughout the book but not piece by piece. She fully grows to be a better person.

4. After reading this book I do feel like I met Annabel. She was going through so much and you could just feel the pain she was going through. I felt sorry for her. As you read more into the story you can understand that things eventually get better she just needed to stop and listen to herself.

Sartre vs. Plato

                A freed prisoner from the Allegory of the Cave would respond to something such as being persuaded to purchase a product from the shopping mall in a positive way. They could ponder on the fact they could use this product. It is always good to keep an open mind no matter what. Even if you’re sure you do not need it always weigh out the pro and the cons of whatever it is you may be purchasing. A character from the story No Exit that would react differently to a situation like this would have to be Garcin.

            Everyone has a different way of reacting to something no matter what it may be. While reading the Allegory of the Cave I noticed they don’t have an open mind until they became free. Now, about the shopping mall a freed prisoner now has a better sense of reality than that of the prisoners. Freed prisoners if were persuaded to purchase something they would most likely not walk away from something because they do not like the price or something along that sense.

            Garcin would not react the same way a freed prisoner. He was not very happy with the way everything was working out in No Exit. Garcin would not react with much excitement to something like a shopping mall. He probably would not like the idea of being told to like it or being told a sales pitch. Most people do not like being bothered or told “let me show you this new product”. Garcin will most likely walk away.

            These two characters seem to be the most opposite in a scenario like this. A freed prisoner has a better sense of reality instead of being close-minded. Someone like Garcin would most likely be annoyed at the fact they are told to buy something over and over again. Garcin would get irritated a lot and that relates to a lot of the people in the world.