Fun fact.

When Dickens wrote, his neighbors frequently called the cops. 

Great expectations notes

Pip transforms throughout story from boy to man. 

Pips an orphan so he imagines family because he didn't have his own. Has a very strong sense of being unwanted. 

Believes that family and marriage isn't enough for him but also isn't sure of himself. 

Fills fatherless void by adopting make characters as father figures and mirroring them. 

Magwitch- meets at church and is a prisoner. Acts like an animal and seems to be a selfish brutality about him. A potential for violence. Represents a fear of abandonment for Pip but pip also sees a version of himself

Havesham- witch like figure. Seems like a fairy god mother to Pip but is a symbol of horrible decay. Her house is stuck in a moment of time, hasn't touched anything since she was left at alter 

Begger your neighbor. 

Astella is Ms. Haveshams revenge. Pip falls in love with Astella. 

Characters remind pip of his own inadequacy. 

Siddhartha

1. Siddhartha features substantial activity and narrative action. At the same time, it is about one man’s largely internal spiritual quest. What is the relationship between the internal and exterior worlds of Siddhartha? How does Siddhartha negotiate these worlds?

2. Herman Hesse’s novels before Siddhartha focused on alienated young men who rejected the cultures of their upbringings. However, these other novels did not feature the spiritual elements of Siddhartha. How do the spiritual elements of Siddhartha make it different from any other story of an alienated youth?

3. Most literary scholars agree that Siddhartha was prompted by Herman Hesse’s fixation on Eastern spirituality. Is there a case to be made that Siddhartha is designed to celebrate Eastern religion? Is Hesse’s treatment of spirituality as relevant today as it was when he wrote the novel?

4. Siddhartha concerns the quest for spiritual enlightenment, and by the end of it four characters have achieved this goal: Govinda, Gotama, Vasudeva, and Siddhartha. Is the enlightenment achieved by each of these characters the same? Why or why not? What distinctions and similarities exist between the paths these characters use to reach their final goal?

5. Consider Siddhartha’s relationship with Govinda. How are they similar, and how are they different? What are the narrative functions of Govinda’s reappearance throughout the novel? How does their relationship impact the novel’s ending?

These questions tell me that the test is in depth and covers a wide range of topics and concepts.  

Siddhartha Notes

Finding himself, what he wants to do and where he wants to go

Brahamin is the highest social class in India so it shows how hard it was to leave family and identity behind. 

Central Message: discovering yourself on the way to your destination 

Tone: sorrow, yearning, self discovery

Beginning: self pity. End: panic/realization

Poetry Comparison Essay

Not all poems are created alike. Many are similar, but not the same. Some are long, some are short.

Some rhyme, some don't. 

Working Together. 

The Place Where We Are Right. 

Both similar but not alike. 

Working Together. 

David Whyte. 

People coming together. 

For a common cause. 

One talking to the mass. 

Looking to make change. 

Hoping to open eyes. 

The Place Where We Are Right

Yehuda Amichia

A thousand memories. 

All coming together. 

One recollecting. 

Looking to the past. 

Back to the changing days. 

Two poems. 

Two authors. 

Not the same, but similar. 

Descriptive language. 

Similar audience. 

Tones alike. 

Never the same, but similar. 

The love song of J Alfred Prufrock

Time plays a huge role in this poem. Prufrock seems to be running out of time throughout the entire poem. Time continues to tick away until it seems that he doesn't have much time left to turn his indecisiveness into confidence. 

Elliot alludes to hamlet and the "eternal Footman". This is significant because Elliot uses Hamlet as a contrast. He's saying that Prufrock isn't royalty unlike Hamlet. Although hamlet has to make a choice it's a very different one than the one that Prufrock seems to be making. 

The very last stansa when elliot talks about waves. He uses waves to describe the features of the old man. To me it seemed to be the end of not only the poem but much of the Prufrocks hope. 

Poetry Remix

We shape our self

To fit this world

And by the world

Are shaped again.

The visible 

And the invisible

Working together 

In common cause,

To produce

The miraculous.

I am thinking of the way

The intangible air

Passed at speed

Round a shaped wing

Easily

Holds our weight.

So may we, in this life

Trust

To those elements

We have yet to see

Or imagine, 

And look for the true

Shape of our own self, 

By forming it well

To the great

Intangible about us.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gbrbUfYSt0E