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 * JOB**

Italicized which Bible one is using, followed by book (not italicized), chapter and verse. ex) Ezekiel saw "what seemed to be four living creatures," each with faces of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle (New Jerusalem Bible, Ezek. 1.5-10).
 * How do you cite a quotation from the Bible? Please don’t forget that OWL Purdue is the preferred grammar source for KIS.**

The word bible is capitalized usually as it is referring to a book but sometimes it’s not capitalized such as when it’s used in a secular context.
 * When is the word bible capitalized and when is it not?**

The New Jerusalem Bible. Ed. Susan Jones. New York: Doubleday, 1985. Print.
 * Write the MLA citation for the Bible.**

1. “But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face” (The King James Bible, Job. 1.11). 2. “And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD” (The King James Bible, Job. 1.21). “Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?” (The King James Bible, Job. 3.11). “Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward” (The King James Bible, Job. 5.7). “Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?” (The King James Bible, Job. 8.3).
 * Copy and paste 5 of the most important lines from Job. Cite the locations correctly.**

It means immoral behavior. It’s important in that it appears so many times in the story in variations. People who commit iniquity get punished but Job was getting punished even though he had done nothing wrong. It made him, however, think that he had committed iniquity though.
 * What does iniquity mean? Why is this word important?**

Faith. People should know faith since that’s the main moral of the story. God punished Job to test his faith and Job keeps his faith by never insulting God.
 * List one other word that people who read Job should know.**

Assonance: //Is it// good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? (thine, shine) Simile: Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? (milk,cheese) Metaphor: I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
 * Find 2-3 figures of speech. Copy and paste the lines and identify what figure of speech is used.**

Book of Job is a tragedy as far as I know. Until now, Job has been punished to test his faith with methods such as losing his wealth, losing his family, and getting disease when he has actually done nothing wrong.
 * Is the Book of Job a tragedy, romance, history, or comedy?**

media type="youtube" key="Z9HAirx4IJk" height="340" width="560"** Comments on Sarah's page: http://kisapenglporter2009-10.wikispaces.com/Q3APWiki+Sarah
 * VIDEO:

My Comments: 1. Analysis -- what specifically does the person do well in analyzing? I thought I analyzed the overall theme and deeper meaning well. I tried to focus first on how I could get people understand the poem's meaning and what it's saying. An then I focused on analyzing the deeper meaning such as the salvation representation or other metaphors to help people see the deeper meaning. I also think I analyzed the speaker's intent as well as attitude with the photos and the speaking itself. I think my analysis on how the literary aspects contributed in emphasizing the meaning worked well as well. 2. Analysis -- if the person had to do this again, what would you recommend in analysis? I would definitely fix the wrong analysis on cacophonous word since it was wrong. ;) I would also try to maybe describe on more background knowledge about the author or the time period since those could help the analysis as well. I did mention that he was a priest but more would be great as well. 3. What is something you found surprising? or amusing? Even it was my poem that I was analyzing I was amazed at the deeper meaning that I found out later on in the poem. I really found his arguments amusing in that if you relate salvation, death never really exists. Dead dies. How amusing is this idea? : ) I also found it interesting and relevant that John Donne was a priest. He sounds more religious in this poem than other poems that we read that he wrote such as the flea. 4. Comment on the visual portion of this video. I also worried about the comic image of the grim reaper but my intent was to show that death was being mocked in this poem just like the grim reaper that was being abused by billy and mandy in the cartoon. The visual aspect at the end was also to show death as a powerless, rather delightful figure to people since it represents salvation and eternal life. I also included christian paintings with God to relate to my point no how death is nothing fearful. Grade: A- I think I did pretty well in the analyzing part as well as the reading part of the poem. The visual part was also part of what I focused on getting quality photos that helped the understanding of the meaning and the deeper meaning. I tried my best to help people read between the lines. : ) My process of analyzing and producing this video was a long, hard process. : ) I read the poem literally about 50 times and researched about the author's background as well as the time period it was written in. I took alot of time trying to record a clear voice to pass my meaning the best to the listeners as well.

INTRO: Death is something that almost everyone fears about. That's why we have the grim reaper figure, someone that comes to get us. Death might relate to hell or punishment and all sorts of things that normally frighten people. However in this poem called “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne, he portrays death as something weak and pitiful that we should not fear. Let me read this poem once.
 * OUTLINE**

DEATH be not proud, a though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art “not” so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dust overthrow, Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou “kill” me. From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and souls delivery. Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men, And dust with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell, And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well, And better then thy stroke; why swellst thou then; One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

First of all, Title. When I first read this title, I thought why would dead be proud anyways? for taking away people’s lives? And then after I read this poem, I felt like death was being personified in this poem as someone that has pride in having the ability to take away the souls and to end lives. As if death is a serial killer that has pride in his or her so called accomplishments. Now let’s look closer at this poem to figure out the deeper meaning.

In lines 1-2, the speaker tells death, which seems to be personified throughout this whole poem as a human figure being taunted, that death should not have pride in what he does even if some people fear death as being “mighty and dreadful”. The speaker makes it clear to death that he’s not powerful nor fearful because the truth is that death actually has no power. In line 4, the speaker mentions that death is “poor” because he doesn’t have the actual power to “kill” the speaker. Ironic isn’t? Death can not bring death. The following lines explain this a bit more.

In lines 5, the speaker mentions the similarity of death to rest and sleep since all three of them bring comfort at the end and relieves people. Not so fearful is it? The speaker even describes death with the word “pleasure” in line 6.

In lines 7-8, the speaker says the death is inevitable by saying that even the best men with death do go, which means that people eventually do go hand in hand with death to afterlife.

However, from line 9, there’s a shift from lines 7 and 8 which slightly empowered death by saying that it’s inevitable. From line 9, the speaker starts mocking death as if he’s teasing death about his weakness. The speaker ,in lines 9-12, compares death to many other incidents and causes that will also kill us even if death might not come to find us. The speaker calls death a “slave” as if death just does the afterwork for fate, chance, kings and desperate men, which I perceived as people who want to die early such as people who commit suicide. If fate or chance or people themselves decide that it’s the time to die, death then comes to just deliever the soul. Death is even weaker than a simple king that could order people to die. This shows that death doesn’t really have the power to kill at all. Death kills just like any other poision, war, and sickness as mentioned in line 10 and sleep that death brings us can also be brought by poppies and charms that are mentioned in line 11. Lines 9-12 completely weakened death and mocked death into becoming someone that’s helpless and weak. Someone almost pathetic because killing that death does is not even really his power and there are many things that kill other than death.

In the last two lines, there’s another shift from mocking death into praising the actual existence of ending life. After dying, which is portrayed so peacefully as “one short sleep” in line 13, the speaker says that we wake eternally. Deriving from the fact that John Donne was a priest, I guess that this represents heaven where people because of Jesus’s resurrection, never really die. People live eternally in heaven after death which makes line 14 make sense since if people live eternally after a “short sleep” on the path to meeting god, death’s existence means no more. The last line that says Death thou shalt die pin points the final meaning that death doesn’t existence and has no need to exist since people never die. Even if they stop breathing that people perceive as death, it’s not actually death because people after that short amount of break, get to go to heaven and live eternally.

So overall, the poem summarize the speaker’s arguments on why death shall not be feared. Death is just a subject to fate and human will since people can kill themselves whenever they want to and death is just one things that’s amongst many other things that kill such as war, illness and poison. even the short sleep that the existence of “death” might bring is not powerful since many other things can bring sleep such as poppies, charms, and medicine.

This poem also includes the sense of heaven that people could live eternally next to god. It tells people not to fear death since it’s just a short pause on the way to God. Death leads to an eternal life of salvation. So it’s something great, fantastically great.

If we look at the rhyming scheme, we could see that this poem is both Italian and Shakespearean sonnet in its rhyme scheme. It starts out with abbaabba which is Italian rhyme but goes on with the shakespearen rhyme. The last two lines don’t really fit into either of the rhyme schemes and I think John Donne purposely did this to seperate the two lines form the whole poem. The last two lines withhold the great meaning of salvation which is quite idfferent form the whole mocking that does on in the beginning. The different rhyme scheme gives more emphasis and makes the reader pay a bit more attention to the greater meaning of death.

Death is almost used as a metaphor as a route to eternal salvation which supports why death shall not be proud for being fearful to people nor having the power to kill because it doesn’t kill.

For other literary aspects, there’s lots of cacophonic words to make other things sound harsher than death such as sickness and charmes. Apostrophes are used to emphasize important words such as “not” and “kill”, which are used to emphasize what death is not capable of doing.

There’s also an alliteration of “m’s in much more must or lots of ts in those whom thou thinkst thou and so forth. There’s much more such as short sleep, we wake, and they all help the poem flow better.

So if we now look back at the title, we now get why death shall not be proud. Here’s John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” once again.

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee A Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; B For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, B Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. A From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, A Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow, B And soonest our best men with thee do go, B Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. A Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, C And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell; D And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well D And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then? C One short sleep past, we wake eternally, A And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.E


 * AUTHOR CRITICISM ESSAY

THESIS**
 * The theme on criticism about the non-socialist states and the people’s immorality can be seen by comparing two dystopias from Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell.**


 * OUTLINE

Intro: Thesis: The theme on criticism about the non-socialist states and the people’s immorality can be seen by comparing two dystopias from Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell. Dystopia: definition What’s utopia for Orwell? When these books were written First paragraph: why a dystopian thought? WWII its impact in the world and Orwell but why dystopia over utopia? more shocking more real details since the world wasn’t the utopia that orwell wanted Third paragraph: utopia that orwell dreamed of marxism tenants people’s morality government system social status how they are distorted in the novels Fourth paragraph: Totalitarianism vs. Stalinism WWII CRITICISM: Totalitarianism missile incident why they are criticized by Orwell their presence in both of the books how the two books relate to each other characters: Napolean and Big Brothers that resemble the dictators V. Immorality how it’s related to non-socialism beliefs appearance in novels cheating betrayal affair reality example changing history CRITICISM: propaganda in education and culture tie it with animal farm and 1984 Conclusion: show why was this so important? impact on society legacy George Orwell’s biography born, job, how he was brought up So how does this make the novel interesting? worth reading? animal farm was educational as if children story dystopia clearly showed his point**

FIRST DRAFT: Lauren Lee AP Literature 2/25/2010

Animal Farm and 1984: George Orwell’s Criticism on Totalitarianism

Germany and the Soviet Union were the two major non-democratic states in the early 20th century when the WW2 raged through the entire world. Though they were on different sides and were located in different continents, they had very stunning similarities in their totalitarian government systems. Hitler’s Germany was very alike with Stalin’s Soviet Union as they held dictatorship under the disguise of praising socialist ideals. George Orwell, through Animal Farm and 1984, criticizes totalitarian states as promoting immorality through portraying distinct dystopias in both of the books. Immorality means opposite of morality that concerns with the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. George Orwell based his particular system of values and principles of conduct on Marxist Socialism. He believed that Marxism was the only solution, and also the inevitable solution, for people to become moral and equal. Marxism ideals included that there should be no social class, no economic differences, and no educational differences. George Orwell praised these ideals as they were portrayed in his dystopia that portrayed how the opposite, totalitarian government, promoted immorality within the people. Utopia that Marxism praised and the utopia and Orwell dreamed of was absolute equality. There’s no other word that could explain even better. He believed in a word where everyone had the same privilege, the same opportunity, and the same status. He dreamed for a world and believed that socialism was truly the sole solution to the problems that raised in the world. He knew that totalitarianism involved extreme propaganda that altered how people thought of things and knew that propaganda was everywhere. In people’s education, culture, and ordinary life-- propaganda lived. In Orwell’s utopia, propaganda couldn’t exist since it was a totalitarian tool to control people’s thoughts and actions. Use of dystopia gets his thoughts to the readers more clearly in that it’s more shocking but realistic than actually portraying an almost impossible utopia in his terms. Describing how the dystopia, which was his reality when he wrote the novels, messes the character’s minds and their hopes, he would have thought that it would warn people of the dangers on totalitarianism as well as any other possible greedy government systems that involved non-socialist ideals. Germany and the Soviet Union were socialist states but it was only their name. In Animal Farm, that mainly portrays Stalin’s totalitarian system, the normal process of becoming immoral is included in the plot as well as the character development. His tone is indeed sarcastic and mocking in phrases such as, “” with dictions that seem to underestimate the plans of the animals. Napoleon, who seems to represent Stalin, is a widely known evil character who betrays his fellow animals to gaining power with the human beings in the end of the story. Dictatorship and the difference in social status made animals anxious and corrupted as time went by unlike how “the horse” had planned before. “All Animals Are Equal” changed to “All Animals Are Equal but Some Are More Equal” after Napoleon finally starts his corrupt government. Animals don’t get equal shares and they work only for the higher “officials” as they are told to do without no freedom of speech, no right to vote, nor discuss on the major issues. Animal Farm shows how the dictatorship and the grieve for power not only messes up the government’s mind but also the people themselves as well. Animals in the Animal Farm once believed that things could be changed. They dreamed of an utopia where everyone, including the hypocritical human beings, was equal with all the happiness allowed. However, what they got in return was dystopia, filled with corruptness and humans coming back to exploit them more. They soon had to lose hope and they did at the end when they watch the pigs dine with the human beings. They say, “---”, with no hope and not even a desire to improve or change. It’s worse to George Orwell that people lost hope and admitted themselves that inequality was okay. Equality was what he treasured the most. Napoleon best portrays other dictators that fell to demise, which in Orwell’s term means fall to greed, forgetting about the original motive of achieving equality. He started as a renowned leader with Snowball in defeating Mr. Jones, the previous human farm owner, for the animals but he starts grieving for more power in the dual leadership. He eventually exiles Snowball for actually no apparent reason and the voting system, which is a symbol of equal freedom of rights, is destroyed for his dictatorship. He starts out changing the rations system and telling the animals that he praises socialism but it isn’t socialism but more totalitarianism. He achieves total power over freedom of speech, freedom of thought, as well as freedom of revolution by threatening the other animals with violence. This portrays the absolute dystopia that Orwell criticizes for bringing immorality. In 1984, the government system, called the Big Brothers, itself portrays the exact totalitarian state. No freedom of speech or thought since even the thought is punished. Every action and crime is over-watched by giant spying screens as well as human spies. Nobody can be trusted due to the extreme control and people have lost hope and dream. If Napoleon portrayed totalitarianism in Animal Farm, the nation itself portrays totalitarianism in 1984. The government here also uses utmost propaganda to control people by saying that this is the best way to save the nation from demise and war when it’s actually the cause. With no freedom, people start immoral activities such as adultery, affairs, and crimes. Under the pressure of control, people started becoming immoral without emotion, without dreams, without ambition. This parallelizes with how Orwell felt in his home country. Living in England, he felt miserable in that people thought of the Soviet Union and its totalitarianism as a good model country where people were happy and merry. People thought of the Soviet Union as good only because they were on the Axis of with England and America, on the opposite side of the evil Germany. Even though Germany and the Soviet Union were ultimately the same dictatorship totalitarianism government, people saw them as one evil and one angelic depending on which side they were in. Orwell wanted to tell the people of the atrocity that totalitarianism brings to the people through the books. The government even tried to block the truth by sending missiles to his house but he retrieved his manuscript no matter what. His ideas were spread as soon as the world war 2 ended and the english government didn’t block anymore in that the Soviet Union was no longer “useful”. Orwell was never ruled under extreme control nor had unequal opportunities since he was brought up in a pretty good financial background but he knew of the atrocities that totalitarianism could bring to the people. Immorality and the loss of hope meant dystopia to Orwell and the utopia that he dreamed of consisted of equality and people with the intention to do good actions. Not evil actions against the suppressing government.