"Young Life" Bo Bartlett

Claims and Facts

Ways of life are passed down through generations. The boy is holding a stick in a similar way that the father is holding his gun, which suggests that the boy aspires to be like his father.

The deer represents what supports the family. The deer is above the heads of the people and is curved like a roof. This could be because the deer protects and provides for the family.

The child doesn't want to be like the father. The boy is facing away from the father. is standing far away from the father, and is dressed very differently from the father. This suggests that the boy is trying to reject his father.

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The entire painting is a representation of a house and what supports this family. The most important and supportive aspects of the family are in the center of the painting. At the top is the deer that we can assume the father has just killed. This deer is curved in a way that represents a roof, and the positioning of the deer over the heads of the family stresses this symbol. Directly below the deer is the father, who is holding a gun. The father's head partially covers the deer, and this positioning establishes the central support for the family because he is supporting the symbolic roof. Supporting the father is his female companion. We do not know if she is he wife of his girlfriend because she is not wearing a ring, but we know the she has intense emotional connections with the father because of the way she is clutching him. In this house analogy, the placement of the mother/girlfriend implies that she emotionally supports the father because she is firmly clutching him, but she has no connection to the deer above them. The father is holding his gun in a interesting manner. If the line the deer makes is continued, the gun would be protruding out of the roof of this house. This suggests that the gun is the chimney of the house. The purpose of the chimney is to remove the potentially toxic waste from the fireplace in a house. Fire is one of the most essential components of life, especially when cooking a deer, and the chimney expels these necessary toxins. Similarly, the gun expels necessary evils (bullets are designed for the sole purpose of killing other living creatures) at a target to provide protection or a source of food. Both structures expel evil for the benefit of people, and in this way the gun and the chimney are similar. Even though the father is symbolically supporting the deer, the muddy green truck behind him is what is actually supporting it. In this house analogy, the truck would represent the walls of the house that are just as necessary as the father for the support of the roof. If the father did not have this car, he could kill a hundred deer, but he could not get them back to his house. The child is the last major object in this painting, and he is the farthest away from the center, which represents his minimal contribution to the family. However, his clothing color is bright and eye-catching, and this tells us that he is not entirely insignificant. The child is standing where the door of this house would be, and this could mean that the child will go out into the world and make and support his own house. He is also holding a stick that could be symbolic for the door itself. 

SOAPSTone for "Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out"

SOAPSTone for “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out”

            The subject of Dave Berry’s “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out” is to humorously express the difference the difference between men and women. The psychological differences between these two sexes are illustrated by the humorous examples that Barry uses to represent these fundamental differences. These differences are represents by real life examples that we can all relate to.

            “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out” was written during the time after the party when the men left the conversation to watch the World Series. The essay’s time of creation is illustrated by the use of the author’s past tense and the author’s reflective tone, as if he were looking back on an amusing memory. The probable place of this essay’s creation is a workshop or some other personal and reclusive writing place.

            The time and place of this essay’s creation influence the essay by adding a reflective tone. The tone of this essay is created by the reflective tone that sounds like the author is reflecting back on a memory from several years ago. He has just realized how funny the situation was and decided to write about it.

            Dave Barry’s specific audience for this essay is the men of America, especially those men who like baseball and are stereotypically unaware of how dirty something is. The author’s target audience is exhibited by the examples he uses and the point of view of the essay. The essay is designed for men to connect to the speaker.

            Dave Barry’s purpose in “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out” is to be humorous and point out fundamental differences in men and women. These differences are expressed in the examples he uses, such as the subjectivity of clean or the importance of sports. These are examples that everyone can relate to and are humorous in nature.

            Dave Berry, a humorist, believes that there are major psychological differences between men and women, and when these differences are expressed, it can create very funny situations. The sentence that describes the way the men at the party exited the conversation to watch a World Series game is both funny and revealing. This shows that Berry believes that the differences in men and women are both extreme and hilarious.

            Dave Berry’s use of humor is evident in the hyperbole he uses when describing how awful the situation was when he couldn’t watch the World Series game. This greatly influences the essay’s purpose by lightening the tone and making the essay more enjoyable to read. This changes the essay from an analyzation into a funny reflection.

            Dave Berry exhibits a humorous tone and a lighthearted attitude about the differences between men and women in “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out.” These attitudes are expressed through the hyperbole he uses when describing the situations that express the differences between men and women. This shows that he is trying to be humorous, and that he is not very serious about this topic.

"Shame" Avett Brothers

1. Subject- A man is shameful because he emotionally hurt a girl.
Tone- The tone seemed like he was sad, shameful, and seeking remorse.

2. boatloads, shame, blame

Voice in Liturature

1. Voice is your personality and way of speaking expressed in your writing. Word choice and syntax are used to create it.
2. We don't got to do nothing. This is a very hillbilly voice.
3. I would probably talk around asking someone to do a big favor for me. I would gradually build up to it rather than go right out and say it.
4. The importance of voice in nonfiction is to make yourself sound profesional. You must always stay in the third person when writing an academic essay in order to make yourself sound official.
5. A good way we could practice voice is by writing mote personal essays or reading books and mimicking the voice of others.

Kandinsky vs. Pollack

1. I think that Kandinsky is better because there are more colors and more movement than in the Pollack.
2. I think that the Kandinsky is more pleasing to the eye because the colors are brighter and the shapes are more uniform, while Pollack has very dull colors that are not as eye catching as Kandinsky's colors.

Sign Language- a short film

1. The single effect of the film was that people should find beauty in the mundane.
2. The bright colors of the main character and the girl; The dull colors of everyone around them; the brightness of signs they were holding.
3. If I could change one aspect about this film it would be the fact that he couldn't talk to the girl. This takes away from the single effect because if he was able to talk to the girl and was afraid to, it would add to the effect of making the most out of little things.

"Shooting an Elephant" George Orwell

The subject of George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” is the sham of imperialism that turns the rulers into puppets that are controlled by the will of the people they rule. This fallacy is illustrated through Orwell’s lack of control over a situation that he should have commanded. Even thought Orwell did not want to shoot the elephant, he was forced to because he did not want to appear weak or foolish in the eyes of the natives behind him.

“Shooting an Elephant” was probably written in the later years of Orwell’s life as he looked back on this event of his youth. The essay’s time of creation is conveyed by the author’s past verb tense and the assumption he allows his readers to make that he is no longer in that country any more. In the first line of the essay he says, “In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people.” This implies that he is no longer in Moulmein and the people there have forgotten about him, which tells us that this essay was written at a later point in his life. The probable place of the essay’s creation is Orwell’s house or other usual place where he writes that is in England. This is because we have already assumed that he has left the country that the essay took place in, so that means he has probably returned to England.

The time and place of the essay’s creation influence the essay by creating a more thoughtful and recollecting tone for the piece. The tone of the essay is created by the analyzation of the flaws of his youthful personality and how they reflect the illusion of imperialism. This tone makes the most sense if it is used while looking far back into the past when Orwell is much older and much more different man than he was when he shot the elephant. The tone of the essay implies that Orwell has aged and changed from the events of the essay to it’s writing, and this demonstrates the affect the time and place have on the piece.

George Orwell’s specific audience for “Shooting and Elephant” is people who believe that imperialism is beneficial for the leaders of an imperialistic state. The author‘s target audience is identified by the unique view that Orwell has because he has experienced the effects of imperialism first hand. The point that Orwell is trying to make with the essay is that imperialism is not a positive thing for the rulers of an imperialistic state, and this argument would be wasted on people who already agree with him. The argument is for people who do not agree with the point he is trying to make, and those are people who believe that imperialism benefits the rulers.

The author’s general audience for the essay is anyone who would benefit from learning the negative effects of imperialism on its leaders. This could be the leaders of imperialistic states or anyone who is debating with themselves or others about whether or not imperialism is positive or negative. The author’s general audience is expressed by the insight and first hand account of the negative effects of imperialism. This point reveals the general audience because the people who could benefit from knowing the negative effects of imperialism could benefit from a first hand account of these effects.

George Orwell’s purpose in “Shooting an Elephant” is to reveal the negative effects of imperialism. These negative effects are illustrated through the mastery the natives had over the police officer even though the police officer should have been the one in charge. This shows that in an imperialistic society, the leaders are at the mercy of the people who they should be in charge of. Orwell says that the leaders are trapped and are constantly trying to please the natives.

George Orwell, who served the Imperial Indian Police in Burma, believes that imperialism negatively affects its leaders. This value is illustrated by the feelings of helplessness and powerlessness he had while he was watched by the crowd of natives. These feelings express Orwell’s idea the imperialism causes its leaders to become the puppets of their people. This helps support the negative effects of imperialism, which is the purpose of this essay.

George Orwell, who did not want to shoot the elephant, also believes that you should not conform to a group if you know that you will do something wrong. Orwell did not want to shoot the elephant, but the crowd of natives behind him wanted him to, so he did. He tells us that he did not want to shoot the elephant but did so in order to not seem like a fool. This shows the negative effects of imperialism because Orwell was controlled by the will of the native people, even though it disagreed with his beliefs.

George Orwell uses imagery in the scene when the elephant is dying. This imagery helps us see that killing the elephant was a terrible thing to do because the elephant was peaceful and died in great pain. This influences the essay’s purpose because it show what negative results can occur if leaders succumb to the will of the people they rule.

George Orwell exhibits a pensive and regretful attitude about his experience with the negative effects of imperialism in “Shooting an Elephant.” These attitudes are expressed by a reflective and slightly ashamed tone. The reflective tone demonstrates Orwell’s thoughtful attitude towards the negative effects of imperialism and the ways that they completely dominate the leaders of that society. After he shoots the elephant, the reader feels an almost ashamed tone in Orwell’s writing because he has a regretful attitude towards what he had just done. He had succumbed to the will of the crowd and fell right into the trap that imperialism creates for its leaders. These attitudes and tones support the purpose of this essay, which is to reveal the negative effects of imperialism, by casting an unfavorable light on the crowd’s control over Orwell’s actions. 

Harry Nilsson "Good Old Desk"

S- a man talking about his desk
O- Nilsson writing a song
A- people who do a lot of desk work
P- to appreciate his desk
S- Harry Nilsson
T- grateful

I first took the song very literally and thought he was talking about his old, reliable desk that he works on, but our class discusion revealed that he was talking about his relationship with God.

"The Runaway" by Norman Rockwell

In the painting "The Runaway" by Norman Rockwell, there is a boy at a diner talking to a police officer and the man behind the counter. The boy has a bandana tied to a stick with supplies inside, so we assume that he is a runaway. The expressions and body language of the police officer and the man behind the counter suggest that they do not expect the boy to follow through with his plan and return home once he has thought things through. However, the rising counter culture in the 1950s suggests that the boy will follow through with his plan and be in serious danger. Rockwell overlooks the fundamental rift that was rising in America in the 1950s - an emerging counter-culture that was not concerned with how things were in America but rather how they are.