Tuesday 23 April 2013

Poetry

Look up "Poetry" in any dictionary and it says "the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts." But it is more than just an art to me, it is strangers' feelings on a piece of paper that may or may not rhyme. But to any one that reads that poem will come out with a different questions and answers to what the poem means and what the deeper meaning is.
 It is hard to find an answer to poetry. Poetry is an open book with millions of answers that are right. You can be shallow and just read the words or you can look deep and connect that poem to yourself but no matter how deep or close to the top you are, you will find a different meaning to your mum,dad, brother or sister. Even if you have known that person your whole life their thought process is different. 

Wednesday 27 February 2013

What is the What

I think that What is the What, is a very emotional book but we all say "it must be so hard to go through that". But we are just saying those words we don't know what it is like to be them. We can watch interviews, read books but we will never fully understand the emotion, pain and heartache Valentino went through.
I know that a lot of the images and scenes in this book are true but some part of me, thinks that it is exaggerated because I wasn't there, how can I possibly know the whole truth.
We are using this book to find some sort of truth but the truth is, EVERYBODY LIES.
Sometimes it is for a good cause, some times not but everybody lies. It is what keeps some people alive some might loose everything but it is the risk that everybody takes. There can be part truths in the lie but finding the humanity and courage to say that you have never lied and will not lie is almost impossible and I am waiting for the day when someone comes into my life who doesn't lie for any cause.
I think the writing in this book is outstanding and it makes you think. How Dave Eggers came up with the idea to make Michael relate to the Western World.

Tuesday 5 February 2013

Pop Quiz

Blogging is a useful part of the english classroom.
I disagree with this statement because if you spend a lot of time on one piece, not many people will read it and therefore you will feel as if no one cares about your piece. You might know that this is not true but when you have no comments or any one coming up to you saying “I read your blog post” you can feel as if no one wants to know your view or story and that can be quite demoralising. Also the problem with blogging is that it can be an escape rope for some people because they might not necessarily like sharing their stories or views through their own voice so they sit behind a screen sharing this but you can’t rely on your computer for you whole life, you are going to have to learn how to express yourself talking face to face with someone. Some people don't like having their personal thoughts online because it is a public space and we might not like showing people we don't know our views on certain topics.


How to Write about Norway

This is a satirical piece based on How to Write about Africa by Granta. 

On the cover of the book always have a picture of snow, the fjords, salmon or trolls. If you do included salmon you must make sure that it is the biggest salmon anyone has ever seen so the Norwegians don’t offend when they realize that the salmon is from Scotland.

Always use the words ‘fjord/s’, ‘frostbite’, ‘snow’ or ‘lutfisk’ in your book. Treat Norway as if it is under snow the whole year round. Write about people freezing and people having to scrape snow off their windows but never write about how they don’t shut down when there is a metre of snow unlike England.

Find a way to convey the idea that Norwegians are not just farmers that work on the icy land all year round, they do have jobs in heated buildings. You know that the Norwegians will be reading it because nothing is ever written about them because they are too far north for anyone to ever spend anytime there without feeling out of touch with the rest of the World.

When you are describing the people make the women out to be very tall, blonde and with high cheekbones. But the men as broad, hairy farmers with feet and hands as hard as nails. They must seem like they don’t speak much english but once they are comfortable they will go on speaking for hours about the latest movie which yes they watched in english.

Really make the human, polar bear relationship is visible. Them being so deep in snow, they really talk to the animals when they get lost and there aren’t many humans around. Build up their fires like it is a culture and that they don’t have central heating.

Just remember they have descended from Vikings therefore we are either king and polite or cold and they don’t show their emotions.