Last blog post EVER

After careful and tedious math, it has been determined that over this past semster, I have read 2745 pages total in etymology. Most of these were pop fiction, but I had four plays that were literary fiction.

A lot of books i read this semester will be classified as my favorite books such as Divergent and Matched. Usually when I sat down to read these books, I couldn't stop so I took it everywhere. If i had a free moment i would read. If we went out to lunch and none of my family was talking, i thought that was a que for me to pick up my book. the only downside to this was, i really can't read with any background noise. I don't read with music, i can hardly read with birds chirping outside, but i found that when reading these books, it really didn't matter because they enticed me so much. if you are really interested in a book, nothing will distract you. the other day when i was finishing Divergent, i was reading it for 9 hours after school. typically, my phone is always next to me, but when i got home, i left it in my book bag and just sat down to read. finally after like seven hours i realized that i didn't have it and i found that my best friend had called me like 3 times. THE POWER OF BOOKS.

At the beginning of the semester, i really didn't know anything about poetry. i mean, i liked it when i found poems i liked. i wanted to like it. i wanted to be a poet. i wanted to be one of those people who carried around a poetry book or a journal and wrote their feelings. i wanted to be a hipster. I am not a hipster lol. but i do have a new appreciation for poetry. i have a new book of poems that i love and words that describe everything i feel. 

Usually in english you learn to take apart the poetry you read and don't really get the full feeling of it because you are too busy depicting it and finding literary terms. in this class, that isn't even necessary. even though you have to write about it, you more have to write about the impact it made on you than  the technical aspect. throughout this whole semester i have found so many poems that i have loved. i have made my family read them, my friends, everyone. I would have to say, my favorite poem this year that all i can do is relate to is "The Friend" by Marge Piercy. it speaks volumes with such fierce intensity. i love it. here it is:

The friend

By Marge Piercy 

We sat across the table.

he said, cut off your hands.

they are always poking at things.

they might touch me.

I said yes.

Food grew cold on the table.

he said, burn your body.

it is not clean and smells like sex.

it rubs my mind sore.

I said yes.

I love you, I said.

That’s very nice, he said

I like to be loved,

that makes me happy.

Have you cut off your hands yet?
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So Long Etymology

Love, Cheyenne

If you're wondering why I'm not in school...

It's because it's my birthday :D

and I am having a party at home.

Someone should really read this book so I can discuss it with someone...

This is like the best book i have ever read. i know i know what your thinking.... I do love harry potter and twilight but those hold a special place in my heart. This book is something i have never read before. Going into it, i thought it would be a mix of the hunger games and matched, but it isn't not at all. I mean, it has similar themes, but the plot is so much different. it came out a few weeks ago and i heard it was going to be a trilogy and i absolutely cannot wait until that happens. please read this. here is a quick synopsis i reluctantly copied from the internet....

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

Debut author Veronica Roth bursts onto the literary scene with the first book in the Divergent series—dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.

for more information on this amazing book

pg. 195- 314

Part 5 
The newly arrived AWOL Unwinds face a tribunal of sorts with the top three that were designated by the Admiral to find what job they would be doing. Connor gets mechanic, Risa is assigned medic and Roland is learning how to fly a helicopter from "Cleaver" another high-up that isn't an Unwind like the other high-ups. During the course of a month the Unwinds get used to their lives in the Graveyard which include something called work call which Unwinds can nominate themselves to take a job they like. Also people grow suspicious of the Admiral because of his abnormally white teeth which they think are from a Unwind. Rumors fly that the Admiral is just here to pick and choose Unwinds. A few days later Lev shows up in the Graveyard. How he got there is unknown but he looks so different that at first Connor couldn't recognize him. A few days after this the Admiral summons Connor on the pretext that Connor needs to fix a coffeemaker. Admiral says that he hears of Connor a lot because of his fights and how they always resolve something. Connor realizes the coffeemaker is in working order and figures out there's something else the Admiral wants to talk about. The Admiral explains that Connor's feelings of unease around him are based on rumors. The Admiral wears dentures and he started this because of the mistake of letting his son be Unwound. The Admiral also shows him the dead bodies of his top five, the three that gave the tribunals, and two others. The Admiral wants Connor to be a spy and find out who killed them. The Admiral also tells Connor the whole truth about the Heartland War and how the Bill of Life came to be. He tells Connor that he was forced to unwind his own son to set an example since he had had a hand in the creation of the Bill of Life. Lev meets up with Cleaver, and two other kids who want to shake up things in the world. In the next few days Risa notices something going on with both Connor and Lev and tries to get to the bottom of it. The next work call Lev and his gang sign up for a job on an oil rig in Alaska. Connor thinks Roland killed the top five and locks him in the same crate that the five Unwinds and the top five were killed in. When the Unwinds get riled up, they attack the plane that the Admiral is on with Risa. Connor hears about the situation and goes to intervene. He manages to calm them and get to Risa and the Admiral. The Admiral has a heart attack because of the heat in the plane. Connor rushes to Roland since he is the only one who can fly a helicopter since the mob killed Cleaver because he was associated with the Admiral after he makes a comment about suffocating. Connor figures out he killed the Goldens, the top five. They fly a helicopter to a hospital to try and save the Admiral. Admiral doesn't want an Unwound kids heart so they do what doctors did before the Heartland Wars. Roland turns in Connor, Risa, the people who live in the Graveyard and inadvertently himself. The Juvey-cops take away Roland, Risa and Connor to a harvest camp.


Part 6
They arrive at the harvest camp and realize that exercise is a main focus. At every sports court there are either cameras for every person playing or people with clipboards watching to see how their body moves and if muscles work right. It is found out that Lev's group killed the Goldens by suffocation before Lev got there and they are planning on blowing up the harvest camp by being Clappers who are people who, when they ingest a certain liquid, self-destruct if their blood comes out of their veins. Roland gets Unwound a few days later and the process is explained in detail for the first time. The person is conscious until they take the last chunk of the person out. The law says that people being Unwound have to be able to see it happening to them and be awake. They don't feel pain because of a drug they inject in him. After Roland is gone it's Connor's turn. It's exactly the time the Clappers are going to detonate the building he's going into so Lev runs to Connor to try and save him as he walks into the building. Right after Connor walks in the building explodes as the two other Clappers explode. Lev doesn't. Lev runs in and saves Connor who is missing an arm and an eye, and Risa from the demolished building.

Tony Orrico

take a look at this link. beautiful symmetry drawings done by Tony Orrico all drawn on his stomach.

take a look

If you've been in a failed relationship and have been accused as the reason why it has failed. if you have been in a relationship where the other is constantly has put you on such an emotional rollar coaster ride you don't know what to do, take a look at the poem i posted.
The friend by Marge Piercy

pg. 155-195

Part Four

Risa and Connor end up in The Graveyard, while CyFi and Lev reach Joplin, Missouri, the home of Cy's transplanted brain's owner. The section begins at a pawn shop, where Lev tries to sell a diamond bracelet (stolen by CyFi/CyTy) to the pawnbroker in order to get some money.

Over at the warehouse, Risa, Connor, and the other Unwinds are being herded by the fatigues into airline packing crates in groups of four. Connor gets into a fight with one of Roland's followers so he can avoid sharing a crate with Roland. Connor ends up “rooming” with Hayden, Emby (short for "mouth breather"), and Diego. As they travel in the darkened crate, the four wonder where they are being transported to. During the trip, they discuss whether unwinds are considered dead or alive, and whether they would rather be killed or unwound. Hayden then asks what happens to someone's soul when they get unwound, and it strikes up a big debate on their way. When the plane lands and the crates are opened, Risa finds out that they have landed in an airplane graveyard in the middle of nowhere and hears that five kids suffocated to death on their journey here. She worries about Connor's safety, but then finds him among a crowd of Unwinds who are waiting to receive clothes and food. At this point, The Admiral is introduced, Risa sees Roland, and the Unwinds find out they will remain in The Graveyard until they reach the safe age of eighteen.

The book cuts over to Lev, who is following CyFi to Joplin, Missouri. CyFi's transplanted brain is telling him that he belongs in Joplin, although he's not sure what he'll find when he gets there. CyFi starts having a seizure-like tantrum as they are walking around in Joplin, and things begin to look familiar. CyFi follows the impulses over to the home where Tyler, the Unwind who unwillingly gave CyFi a part of his brain, lived. CyFi/CyTy realizes that Tyler's parents had him unwound, and that Tyler is not aware that he has been unwound. CyFi/CyTy requests a shovel from Tyler's parents, and digs up a briefcase full of stolen jewelry and shiny items that Tyler had previously buried. The police are there but not aware of the situation. Tyler/CyFi falls to his knees, begging his previous parents not to unwind him. Lev threatens the parents with a shovel, and forces them to tell Tyler, their unwound son, that they will not unwind him. Lev realizes that he is not safe in the presence of the police since he's an AWOL unwind, so he runs away.

Does anyone remember this?

This was like my favorite show when i was a kid: Bananas in Pajamas! These British bananas got me through preschool. i vaguely remember this episode...

Poems for Anthology

Theme: Break-Ups

1. Leave-Taking by Louise Bogan
2. Farewell to Love by Michael Drayton
3. On Monsieur's Departure by Queen Elizabeth I
4. And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus? by Thomas Wyatt
5. A Farewell to False Love by Sir Walter Ralegh
6. Such Simple Love by Thomas McGrath
7. Barrels by Barbara Guest
8. He Marked the Page with a Match by Vera Pavlova
9. Ars Poetica by Dorothea Lasky
10. Oh God by Michelle Tea

The Friend by Marge Piercy

We sat across the table.

he said, cut off your hands.

they are always poking at things.

they might touch me.

I said yes.

Food grew cold on the table.

he said, burn your body.

it is not clean and smells like sex.

it rubs my mind sore.

I said yes.

I love you, I said.

That’s very nice, he said

I like to be loved,

that makes me happy.

Have you cut off your hands yet?

 

 

i found this poem when i was searching for the anthology project and i really liked the message it conveyed. how a women goes through life with a man who basically tells her to give up her whole life and she gets nothing in return but solid crap. i can't use it for my project, but it really stuck with me.

pg. 53- 155

Part 2
Connor, Risa, and Lev go around a suburb trying to get different clothes to wear. While doing this, they find a newspaper and, upon reading it, realize that there is no report of them missing. They spot a police officer on the street and then decide quickly to get on a school bus to avoid detection. Right before Conner gets on the bus, though, he sees a storked baby waiting on a doorstep to be picked up. He feels terrible when he sees it and sees the people who live there's expressions when they see the baby, like they don't want it. He decides impulsively to take the baby with them. On the bus, Lev tries unsuccessfully to communicate to a student that he has been kidnapped by AWOL unwinds because he just wants to be tithed like he's known all his life. This escape attempt foreshadows what Lev will do in the near future. Connor and Risa (pretending the storked baby is her and Connor's own) meet a girl named Alexis, who is a single mother. Once the bus arrives at the school, the Unwinds decide to hide in the girl's bathroom to wait for an opportunity to escape. At one point during a passing time, however, Lev escapes in a crowd and goes to the office to report Connor and Risa. After informing the school administration about his kidnapping, Lev decides to call Pastor Dan and is shocked to find that Pastor Dan doesn't want Lev to be unwound. Lev learns that everyone outside of his family thinks he was already unwound, and that Pastor Dan wants him to seize this opportunity to create a new life for himself. This revelation causes Lev to become confused and lost. He panics about having told the school about Connor and Risa, and he impulsively pulls the fire alarm to create another opportunity for them to escape. Connor and Risa find it to risky to leave the school, so they hide in a science classroom during the school's evacuation. While in the classroom, though, the baby cries and catches the attention of a teacher named Hannah. Hannah is sympathetic and helps them avoid the police by directing them to a nearby safe house for Unwinds. Connor, Risa, and the baby go to the safe house, which is downtown in the back of an antique shop. At the safe house they meet Sonia, who leads them to a hidden basement where they meet other AWOL unwinds named Roland, Mai, and Hayden. A few days pass and Sonia makes all the AWOL's write letters to people they love from their old life that will be mailed when they turn eighteen. Eventually the “Ice-Cream Man” comes to take the Unwinds from safe house to safe house until they arrive at a big warehouse full of other Unwinds.
Part 3
The section begins with Lev, who we last saw calling the cops on Connor and Risa at the high school and then being trampled by the crowd evacuating the school. After he escapes from the school he meets a kid named CyFi. CyFi teaches Lev to sharpen his street smarts so he doesn't go hungry. During their travels, CyFi and Lev go into a Christmas shop and CyFi (who claims to hate stealing) thieves a shiny ornament. CyFi later explains to Lev that one eighth of his brain belongs to an Unwind, who sometimes takes over his mind and body. Next, we catch up with Risa and Connor, who are at the warehouse with hundreds of other Unwinds. Risa begins to realize the power games Roland is playing, and convinces Connor to think more strategically about how to take Roland down. Soon after, Roland tries to make a pass at Risa in the bathroom during Christmas dinner. Connor doesn't fall for the bait and instead listens to Risa's advice, managing to defuse the situation.

Time Well Spent

this just happens to be Tom Felton(Draco Malfoy), the man i am obsessed with. let's admire him shall we.

this makes me want summer.

pg. 1-51

part 1

to start off, Unwind takes place in the United States, somewhere in the near future. After a civil war—known as the Second Civil War or the Heartland War—which was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached that parents could sign an order form for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 years old to be unwound—taken to "harvest camps" and having their body parts harvested for later use. The reasoning was that, since 100% (actually 99.44% taking into account the appendix and "useless" organs) was required to be used, unwinds did not technically "die", because their individual body parts lived on. Unwinding became a mostly accepted practice since its conception. Also, parents who have had a child born who don't think they can care for the baby can "stork" it. This means going to a household before sunrise so they cannot be seen and leaving the baby on the doorstep. The "storked" baby then becomes the other family's responsibility.

part one starts off with connor. Upon finding signed "unwind" orders, Connor Lassiter seeks the advice of his romantic interest, Ariana, and the two decide to run away or "kick AWOL" together. When Connor flees his home and goes to collect Ariana, she has reconsidered, and leaves Connor to runaway by himself. Hitching a ride with a trucker, Connor believe he is making progress in his flight, but is tracked and apprehended by the police. Connor resists arrest and flees the police, running into traffic, snatching a tithe (tithes are born knowing that they are going to be unwound as soon as they come of age), Lev, from a car to use as a human shield/hostage, causing a bus full of State Home wards (StaHo kids) on their way to the harvest camp to overturn, and giving the perfect opportunity for Risa to escape. Risa, Connor, and Lev flee into the woods, are pursued briefly by a JuveyCop, who Connor shoots with a tranquilizer, and eventually happen back upon society.

I guess my family is wired...

i read the article about the 'Wired Family' and i guess i could relate somewhat, but nothing in my family has gotten that out of control that we don't even talk to each other. wait, correction. we hardly talk anymore because my sister left for college and took her constantly chatty voice with her leaving the quietest house on planet earth, but that has nothing to do with electronics. sorry to get off on that tangent... but in the ways i can relate, ANGRY BIRDS HAS REDEFINED OUR LIVES. even if we all sit in the living room together "watching TV," my mom is on her ipod playing angry birds (and failing miserably i might add), i am on my ipod playing angry birds (not to boast, but i rock.) and my dad is on the other couch on his ipad playing some stupid air traffic control game. we might as well turn the TV off because no one is watching it, we are all engrossed in our electronic devices. other than this occurance which happens quite a lot, electronics are not the things that keep my family and i from communicating. in fact, whenever i start texting at dinner, my dad yells at me.
it's funny how just talking about angry birds makes you want to play it. is this what addiction is called?

i mean, come one.... look at this kitten!

 I found this and thought it pretty much summed up my life. > click here <

I can't wait for harry potter....

Scenes 2 and 3 pg 142-143

            Shakespeare is walking home from the tavern, coming across the Old Man and Judith who criticizes Shakespeare. Shakespeare tells her that after temporarily abandoning her mother, he tried to love Judith with money, but ended up making her materialistic and crude. She leaves him, and as he sits alone, several dark figures run by backstage, and a gunshot is heard. The Old Woman comes to bring Shakespeare home.

            Shakespeare is in bed, half delirious, with Judith and her mother knocking on the door calling for Shakespeare to let them in, until finally he slips his will to them under the door and they leave. The Son enters, and tells Shakespeare that in a scuffle with Combe's men he shot his father, the Old Man. Combe enters, and the Son hypocritcally accuses him of shooting the Old Man, and leaving Shakespeare to take poison pills he had taken from Jonson. Combe and the Son leave, unaware that Shakespeare is dying. Judith enters, and paying no care to her dying father, she scours the room looking for money or a second will.

live like a hobbit?

check out all of these weird looking buildings. i especially like a huge shell. the interior is just as cool. my other favorite is the one that looks kind of like a hobbit house. it is in wales... i guess i will just have to move there because i think i would love it. but really, check these out there great.
awesome architecture!

Scene 1, 2, 3 pg. 101-142

this is another play by edward bond that i had to read along side many other books. it is actually quite interesting...

Bingo begins with Shakespeare seated in his garden when the Young Woman arrives to beg. The Old Man takes her into the back garden for sex, but not without the Old Woman warning Shakespeare that William Combe’s intentions to enclose the common lands will ruin local families. Combe then arrives to convince Shakespeare to sign a contract stating that he will not interfere with the scheme, in exchange for the security of his own lands. The Old Man enters, followed by the Son, scolding the Old Man for his sexual misconduct with the Young Woman. Hearing this, Combe and the Son take the Young Woman to be whipped for prostitution.

            Six months later, The Old Woman tells Judith, Shakespeare’s daughter, about her husband's condition after being involved with the press gang, but Judith condemns him. Later, Shakespeare and the Old Man are in the garden when the Young Woman returns. She is physically defeated, having been living in burned out barns all winter, supported by the Old Man. Shakespeare tells Judith to give the woman food and clothing, but Judith resents her and refuses. Combe arrives to give Shakespeare the contract, which he signs. Judith soon feels guilty at being the cause of the woman's punishment, after telling Combe that she has returned, and regrets turning her in. The Old Man believes she will be executed for burning down several barns.

            Later on, The Young Woman has been executed. Hanging on a gallows, The Son and his friend Wally look into the dead woman's face and engage in passionate prayer.

While Shakespeare and Ben Jonson are drinking in a tavern, Jonson has come to tell Shakespeare that the Globe Theatre has burned down, and to ask Shakespeare what he is writing. Their conversation and their attitude towards literature are unglamorous due to the fact that Jonson recounts a life of violence, compared with Shakespeare's composed existence. The Son and the workers then enter, having just had an encounter with Combe's men while destroying Combe's ditches and fences and Combe confronts them, claiming that he represents progress and realism.

how would you handle yourself if this was offerered instead of cash?

i'm wondering why she even ponders it...
my favorite part is when she screams uncontrollably.
i also enjoy when her sister yells at her. it's just so hilarious.
i think i would cry or faint.

once upon a time, there was a girl

who was absolutely obsessed with harry potter.
who wants to come with me to the premiere on july 14th?
you might only be slightly embarrassed by my draco malfoy shirt( i am in love with tom felton) and my dark mark tattoo.
but speaking of tom felton, i recently ordered a draco malfoy cardboard cutout that i have had a lot of fun with. yesterday i had a little to much fun...
you can see what i did here

the blogs i enjoy.

my favorite blog to read is this one. i love her take on everything. seems to like the same things i do, and keeps up with her blog every week way better than any of us do. just admit it guys! it is really a fun blog.
this is really a fun blog too. i love the balance of pictures and text. i love the personality of it, it's so down to earth and real.

i am obsessed with adele right now. i don't have time to blog. i'm too busy listening to adele....

Lear Act 1, 2, 3 pgs. 1- 102

Act I

Lear opens at the site of a wall King Lear is having built in order to keep enemies out of his kingdom. Two workers carry a dead laborer onstage just before Lear enters with Lord Warrington and Lear's daughters, Bodice and Fontanelle, among others. When Lear sees the dead man, his primary concern is with the resulting delay to the building of the wall, and he shoots the worker who accidentally caused the man's death. Bodice and Fontanelle object to Lear's violence and reveal their own plans to marry Lear's enemies, the Duke of North and the Duke of Cornwall, respectively. Lear's daughters believe their marriages will lead to peace, butLear believes that only the wall can protect his people. After Lear and the others leave, Bodice and Fontanelle reveal the plans they share with their husbands to attack Lear's armies. In Scene 2, as Lear prepares for war, Warrington informs him that each daughter has written separately, each asking Warrington to betray Lear, then the other daughter. In Scene 3, each of the daughters complains about her husband and reveals plans to have him killed.

In Scene 4, the audience discovers that the sisters' armies have been victorious, but Bodice and Fontanelle each has failed at having her husband killed. Warrington, now a prisoner whose tongue has been cut out, is brought before the sisters. Bodice calmly knits while Warrington is tortured by her soldiers. Fontanelle calls for increased violence against Warrington, then deafens him by poking Bodice's knitting needles into his ears. Warrington is taken out by a soldier.

In Scene 5, Lear, in the woods, finds bread on the ground and eats it. Warrington, crippled, and for whom the bread is intended, sneaks up behind Lear with a knife but leaves when the Gravedigger's Boy arrives with bread and water for Lear. The Boy asks Lear to stay with him and his wife. Scene 6 takes place at the Boy's house, where Lear finds out how the Boy lives. The Boy has two fields and his pregnant wife, Cordelia, keeps pigs. When Lear goes out with the Boy, Warrington returns with a knife, and the Boy's wife calls out, saying that the Wild Man has returned. While Lear sleeps, Warrington returns with a knife, attacks Lear, then leaves.

In Scene 7, the Boy complains to Lear about the king who caused so much suffering for the workers building his wall, but asks Lear to stay. A sergeant and three soldiers come on stage looking for Lear. Warrington's body is discovered plugging the well. The soldiers kill the Boy, rape Cordelia, and kill the pigs. The Carpenter arrives and kills the soldiers. Lear is taken prisoner.

Act II

In the first scene, saying Lear is mad, Bodice and Fontanelle bring him before a judge. When asked about Bodice and Fontanelle, Lear denies that they are his daughters. Bodice has her mirror given to Lear, as she believes that madmen are frightened of themselves. Lear sees himself in the mirror as a tortured animal in a cage. He is found mad and taken away. Bodice tells Fontanelle that there are malcontents in the kingdom and that there will be a civil war. Fontanelle replies that the rebels are led by Cordelia.

In Scene 2, the Gravedigger's Boy's Ghost appears to Lear in his cell. Lear asks the Ghost to bring him his daughters. The apparitions that appear are of Bodice and Fontanelle as young girls. Lear and his daughters talk as the two girls sit with their heads on his knees. Lear asks the daughters to stay, but they leave him. The Ghost reappears and asks Lear if he can stay with him. Lear agrees, saying they will be comforted by the sound of each other's voices.

In Scene 3, Cordelia appears with her soldiers, one of whom was wounded in a skirmish with Bodice and Fontanelle's troops. The Carpenter arrives. A soldier captured by Cordelia's men asks to join their forces, but Cordelia has him shot because he does not hate. The others go offstage, leaving the wounded soldier to die alone. In Scene 4, Bodice and Fontanelle, talking at their headquarters, reveal that their husbands have tried to desert. Fontanelle is given Lear's death warrant by Bodice and signs it. The Dukes of North and Cornwall arrive and are told they are to be kept in cells unless there is a need for them to be seen in public. Left alone, Bodice reveals that she started to have the wall pulled down, but that she needed the workers as soldiers.

In Scene 5, Cordelia's soldiers, who appear leading Lear and other prisoners, have lost their way. Lear says that he only wants to live to find the Ghost and help him. Fontanelle is brought in, a prisoner also. In Scene 6,Lear and the other prisoners, including Fontanelle, are in their cell. The Ghost arrives. He is cold and thin.Lear says he wishes he'd been the Ghost's father and looked after him. Fontanelle tells Lear that if he helps her, she will protect him if Bodice is victorious. At the Carpenter's command, a soldier shoots Fontanelle. A medical doctor who is also a prisoner arrives to perform an autopsy on Fontanelle. Lear is awed by the beauty of the inside of her body, in contrast to her cruelty and hatred when alive.

Bodice arrives as a prisoner, indicating that Cordelia's forces have defeated the last remnants of the daughters' regime. Lear tells his daughter that he destroyed Fontanelle. Bodice too has been sentenced to death. The soldiers stab her with a bayonet three times. Cordelia, now the Carpenter's wife, has asked thatLear not be killed. Using a “scientific device,” the doctor removes Lear's eyes. In terrible pain, Lear leaves the prison with the Ghost. In Scene 7, Lear meets a family of farmers by the wall. They reveal that the father will go to work on the wall and the son will become a soldier. Lear feels pity and tells them to run away. Lear says that Cordelia does not know what she is doing and that he will write to tell her of the people's suffering.

Act III

In Scene 1, Lear is living in the Boy's old house with Thomas, his wife Susan, and John, all of whom care forLear in his blindness. A deserter from Cordelia's wall arrives; the Ghost wants him to leave for the sake of everyone else's safety. Soldiers arrive, looking for the deserter, but Lear hides the fugitive. Unable to find him, the soldiers leave. The others want the deserter to leave as well, but Lear insists that he—and all escapees who come to the house—can stay.

Scene 2 occurs some months later. At the Boy's house, Lear tells a group of people a fable. The audience learns from Thomas that hundreds gather to hear Lear's public speeches, but Thomas believes it is dangerous for Lear to continue speaking out against the government. An officer arrives with Lear's old Councilor and accuses Lear of hiding deserters. The deserter from Scene 2 is taken away to be hanged. The Councilor tellsLear that Cordelia has tolerated Lear's speaking, but now he must stop. The Councilor and those who came with him leave. Lear complains that he is still a prisoner; there is a wall everywhere. The Ghost enters; he is thinner and more shrunken. The Ghost suggests that he poison the well so the others will leave; he will takeLear to a spring to drink. Lear sleeps, and John tells Susan that he is leaving and asks her to come with him. John leaves, Thomas enters, and Susan, crying, asks Thomas to take her away from Lear. Thomas tells Susan to come into the house.

In Scene 3, Lear is alone in the woods. The Ghost arrives; he is deteriorating rapidly and appears terrified. The Ghost believes he is dying and weeps because he is afraid. Cordelia and the Carpenter enter. Cordelia speaks of how the soldiers killed her husband and raped her and of the way in which her new government is creating a better way of life. The Ghost watches his former wife, wishing he could speak to her. Cordelia asksLear to stop working against her. Lear tells Cordelia she must pull the wall down, but she says the kingdom will be attacked by enemies if she does. When Lear continues saying he will not be quiet, Cordelia says he will be put on trial, then leaves.

The Ghost is gored to death by pigs that have gone mad. In Scene 4, Lear is taken to the wall by Susan. He climbs up on the structure in order to dig it up. The Farmer's Son, now a soldier, shoots Lear, injuring him.Lear continues to shovel. The Farmer's Son shoots Lear again, killing him. Lear's body is left alone onstage.

scene 2,3,4,5 pg. 29-57

Scene Two takes place in a park near the flat. Len and Pam are in a boat on an otherwise bare stage. The audience learns that Len is now a boarder in the flat. They also speak of their relationship, the fact that Harry and Mary haven’t spoken in so many years Pam can’t remember when the silence started or why, that they had a boy during World War II and that he was killed by a bomb in this park. Fred, the boat handler, calls them in and makes crude sexual jokes. Len jokes back, and it is obvious that Pam is attracted to Fred.

Pete, Barry, Mike, and Colin meet in the park. Pete is dressed in a suit because he is going to the funeral of a boy he killed with his van—intentionally, he says. He openly seeks the admiration of the others and they do admire him for the killing and the fact that he got away with it. They tease Barry and there is lots of low and crude sexual humor. Len comes in and Colin recognizes him from school years before. Mary enters with groceries, Len goes to help her, and there are more crude sexual jokes among the gang.

Scene Four takes place in the living-room. Mary puts food on the table, Len eats, and Harry dozes in the armchair. Pam enters in her slip, turns on the TV and puts on makeup. The TV doesn’t work properly and no one knows how to adjust it. The baby starts to cry off-stage and continues to cry throughout the scene. No one does anything to comfort the baby. The only other actions consists of bickering about where Pam should dress and small domestic concerns. Fred arrives and Pam nags him about being late and they leave, Len clears the table and Harry tells Len it is better for him to sleep with his door closed so he won’t hear Pam and Fred in her room. The baby continues to scream uncomforted.

Pam is sick in bed and Len tries to comfort her. She is pining for Fred, who has dumped her. Len fetches the baby and Pam wants nothing to do with it; she hasn’t looked at it for weeks. (It is worth noting that throughout the play the baby is referred to only as “it” by all the other characters.) Len has bribed Fred with tickets for a football game so he will visit Pam.

scene 1 pg. 1-29

i had to abandon the book i was reading and get cracking on these plays for english. i have to read four of them for my research project along side All the Pretty Horses. quite a bit of reading...

anyway, the plays are by Edward Bond. the first one i am reading is called Saved.

the play is basically about this baby that gets stoned and murdered, but thats really all i know...

so far i have read scene 1.

so far, Pam has brought Len home for sex. She insists on using the living-room because her bed isn’t made. They have just met and when Len asks Pam her name, she says, “Yer ain’ arf nosey.” They have trouble getting comfortable. Harry, her father, comes in and goes out again. Len is somewhat disconcerted, but Pam doesn’t seem to mind the interruption at all. Pam and Len continue their sex play, Harry again puts his head in, and Pam and Len offer him candy (laced with sexual innuendo). Finally, they hear Harry leave the house for work and as Pam undoes Len’s belt, Len says, “This is the life.”

Pharrell William's home

I really liked this house and how sleek and clean it looked. it had crisp and clean lines with a modern, but urban feel to it. i especially loved this chair. it looked like he had it designed especially for him. i love how it can tell so much, like the human body is compared to a piece of furniture. the other white piece reminds me of the michelin man mixed with some sort of elephant creature. i love how it is all his own, all funky creations, maybe describing his ornate personality.every single one of his pieces are different and tell visitors something else about him.

exciting day

i am very excited to go home today. harry potter comes out friday, but i preordered it and it came today. guess what i'll be watching today :) oh and this new twilight guide book came out today. im excited to read it. yayyyy

this is what my spring break consisted of

thats daniel radcliffe... i was 2 feet from daniel radcliffe. i'm still freaking out.

maybe i should start playing online poker

after reading this article, my question is one that many people have, "How were these kids, many of whom were too young to set foot inside a casino, outsharking the sharks?"
if you just sit at your computer all day playing online, how are you learning to play? i don't understand. i didn't even know you could make this amount of money playing games on line, i just always figured it was spam. i guess in his case they are for real when the computer tells him he just won 100,000 dollars.
my concern is that he doesn't even understand that the money he is making is real money, not just computer money.
"It is unclear whether Cates actually does understand that the money is real. On the second day of my visit, we took a trip to Best Buy. Cates had grown bored of playing poker and wanted to buy a video game. As we stood in the PS3 aisle, discussing which games looked good, I asked him if he had ever walked into a store like Best Buy — or perhaps a car dealership — and thought to himself, Hey, I can buy out this entire place. Cates smiled sheepishly. He said: “I’m not really into material wealth. Plus, I need to save up some more money. My fiscal goal for 2011 is to reach $10 million in liquid cash.” I asked what the difference might be between $5 million and $10 million, especially for a 21-year-old whose relative spending habits sit somewhere on the line between modest and monastic. He explained: “You can do anything with $10 million. Like, you can buy a house and still have around $5 million left over.”"
he obviously has a skewed view of looking at things after spending 21 years on the computer playing poker. he thinks he needs MORE. he has like millions. from playing games! get a life!

10 years from now...

There is one student in the article that pretty much has the same lifetime goals as me, Elivia Freeman says that she wants to be a neonatal nurse. That profession really interests me. ever since i was a kid i have wanted to work somewhere in that field. i am not sure if it will be in that exact workplace, but it will be similar. She just wants to be comfortable and well off, that is fine with me.
my sister dropped her biology major and picked up one in psychology so it is also really ironic that there is an aspiring psychologist on the list here.
the most delusional one here is probably the actress, Shauna Casale, i would tell her to pick a different career unless she wants to live in a box on the street.
Where do i see myself fin ten years?
i have no idea. i am hoping to live in a big city. maybe not huge, but like in a city somewhere. i want to be working in my career, not still struggling through college. i hope to have a tight bond with my family. i want to be married or something or atleast not alone and unsocial that would be bad. i just want to be happy.

pg. 1-68

it was just brought to my attention that the blogs were due today... apparently this was announced when i was absent. i knew this,i wouldn't have been so nonchalant about not blogging for tons of weeks. i started this knew book, 13 Reasons Why, everyone keeps telling me it is a really good book so i shall continue. maybe i can fit another blog in at midnight tonight since i missed so many...lol.
anyway so far in the book, this kid clay jensen recieves 13 tapes from this girl hannah who has committed suicide recently. hannah has recorded herself on each tape discussing the reasons why she killed herself and pointing the blame at the 13 people which led her to do so. each person who recieves the box of tapes, is apart of hannah's suicide which is a complete shock to clay. he has no idea what he might have done to cause her to kill herself, but so far, the story has begun to unwravel as she has already described how justin, jessica, and alex started ruining her life the day she moved into town.
i think that clay is the most recent one, that he is tape number 13, that he is the last one who led to her suicide. that is just what i have been thinking as i have been reading this book.
can't wait to continue and meet the other people who have contributed to the death of hannah. reminds me of Pretty Little Liars.

my headache of the week

if you haven't noticed, i haven't blogged in quite some time. i have been having extreme difficulties with this. between getting the flu at state, having to go through dance team workshops and tryouts, having an immense amount of homework because i missed two days, and just being plain exhausted, you could see why blogging about i book i have no time to read is causing me trouble. i finally had time to get to my recent one today in study hall. the only reason for this is because mr. jankowski told us that he was going to have to push back the All The Pretty Horses deadline til after spring break, which basically saved my life. so i should be getting to this blogging thing soon.

Crossed

At first, the cover art had not been released for the second book, but i found this yesterday and i found it very intriguing how similar it was to the first book. i love how it looks like she is breaking out. breaking out of society's expectations. its so cool and symbolic.

pg. 348- end

finally, i get to get a new book! woohooo
the last part of this book sets you up really well for the nest one. i almost didn't want to stop reading. i want the next book really bad.
after everyone is made to take the red tablet, they basically don't remember a thing and they are all confused on why they are certain places and where they left things. that part is kinda funny.
Xander comes and admits to cassia that the red tablets don't work on him. they don't work on a few others either. he knows this because they had to take it one other time too but he hasn't divulged that secret yet. i am very interested in that one.
Cassia's mom is transferred to the farmlands. probably because of the whole ky situation and they don't want her to be anywhere where she could possibly start a revolution of some sort. good luck with that.
they move out there and her dad mentions to an official that they think she will be a problem (actually trying to help her) so she can move closer to the province where she thinks he will be at.
That is basically where the book leaves you. Cassia, on search for Ky. i wonder what the next book will be about. i am very excited :)

pg. 290-348

This section is actually the best part of the book. the plot thickens and realize what the book is actually about and why it is so darn good and why there is more books and why you want them to come sooner than november.

Cassia is put to the test. she is basically the best sorter. she has passed all the tests they have thrown at her with flying colors and she is ready to receive her vocation but they said that she will have to perform a sort in real life first. god only knows what that is supposed to mean. They take her to the industry part of society, the part where Ky works. actually the exact work site where ky woks in nutrition. nutrition basically means scraping food off dishes. they want her to sort out the people she thinks in the group they have given her look like they perform their job the best and they people who don't. there is really only one problem with this though, ky is in this room and the officials say that the higher group will go on to receive a different vocation. this is basically a prisoners dilemma as she calls it. she wants him to have a better vocation, but she doesn't know what they will do with him. she puts ky in the higher group and she thinks she has done the right choice until a few days later when he is taken by a few officials out of his own home. His father informs everyone that they are taking him to war because the society is losing miserably and killing off everyone and that basically ky has no chance.

the officials come and make everyone take out their red tablet and swallow it. up until now, no one has no idea what the red tablet does and this is because the red tablet erases the memory of 12 hours later. officials don't want anyone to know what is happening in the war.

Cassia pretends to take her tablet, she wants to remember where ky is so that she can go search for him.

spring break in the big city. woohooooo

For the first time in my whole like i will be going somewhere on spring break. i am so darn excited i can hardly hold myself together. And it's not even like the normal spring break trip: "hey where you going?" ..."florida" shocker!
I am going to New York City baby!
for me this is really exciting. while we are there, we will be seeing to shows: the lion king, and how to succeed in business without trying. the second one is extra special to me because the star of this musical is... (hold for suspense) DANIEL RADCLIFF! i am so excited. i will be in the same room as harry potter. i will probably pass out or something.
the second most exciting thing is while we are there, the harry potter exibition will be touring in new york! how lucky are we?! i saw it while they were in chicago, but since then, they have added the props from the Deathly Hallows, and being an extreme Harry Potter fan like me, i have to go. I HAVE TO GO.
my only concern is that me and my mom are going to nyc alone. we have a horrible sense of direction. i hope we make it back...

Blog Assignment

After zooming through the list of popular children's books, the reading rainbow theme song is stuck in my head, even though it is only comprised of two words.
READING RAINBOWWW
I also remembered one of the books in the list, Love you Forever. I loved that book when i was a kid. Actually, I still love it. I saw it at Barnes & Noble the other day and read it.
I Distinctly remember the part of the book where the mother is really old an sick and because she took care of her son all his life, the son goes to her and holds her like a baby which i have always thought was a little deranged, but i guess as a kid you need a visual aid to see the care between a mother and son. whatever, I STILL LOVE IT, i'm going to go read it when i go home.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is on here. Everyone goes on and on about this book about how they love it and how it is the best childrens book they have ever read. never read it. I guess I am missing out.
All the other books I read as a youngin aren't on this list. I guess they weren't good enough. what about the puppy book!? my fave!

there is no truer of images.

pg. 208- 290

When all the artifacts are taken from the houses by the officials, the artifact that Ky gave Cassia is no longer safe. Ky gave her a compass, which the officials have no knowledge of him having, but when they take them, cassia is able to trust Xander and she puts it down his shirt for him to hide. he hides it in his bushes where it will be safe.

Xander and Cassia's relationship is a little, how can i put this? ... damaged? Cassia has informed Xander that she doesn't feel for him the way he feels for her, but instead she is in love with someone else which is totally illegal. he doesn't take this news at all well.

It is brought to cassia's attention, first by Xander because he loves to play games that Ky is extremely smart, but he throws every single game. he knows what move would be the winning move as soon as he starts the game, but he goes with the move the average person would take. later cassia confronts him and he claims that he only does this to stay unnoticed. Cassia says: "Ky can play this game. He can play all of their games, including the one in front of him that he just lost. He knows exactly how to play, and that's why he loses every time." if he were to win as much as he were supposed to given how smart he is, he would not be average, he would not work in a slum job. he would be watched. constantly watched, because he has shown skills that have made other people believe that he has talent others don't.

It is made known to cassia by Ky after Ky suddenly has two brand new poems that there is a place where people have saved things other that the hundred of everything. If you go to the basement of the museum and stand in front of the Oria Province exhibit, someone will ask you if they can help you with something, if you say yes, they know you will want contact with an archivist.

pg. 133- 208

Cassia has basically decided by now that she is going to pursue Ky.

apparently, people in the future don't write at all. they can't. the society trains them for one specific purpose each so if they ever decide that they want to rebel or want to escape, they don't know how to survive on their own because they only know how to do one thing and they have only been trained to do that one thing all of their life. because writing has basically been prohibited, they only use like touch screens now to send messages and do whatever they need to do but for some reason Ky knows hoe to write in the "ancient" writing technique of cursive which cassia thinks is absolutely extraordinary. Ky begins teaching her how to write her name in the dirt during their assigned summer hiking activity which they both excel at. It is here in the forest where cassia reads her illegal poems away from society and where Ky gives her some poems of his own which he has written just for her to tell his story on how he cam to be in this strange society and why he isn't in the outer provinces where he belongs.

Xander and cassia also have their first "outing" after their match. unfortunately, because it is protocol, they have to be accompanied by an official which is extremely awkward for the both of them because they have been friends for so long and have gone out by themselves so many times.

After cassia lends her artifacts to one of her friends fir her match banquet something happens and then all the artifacts all over have to be taken away which is really depressing. the artifacts are the last ties to the past and the one thing that cassia holds very dear to her heart.

Whose as obsessed as i am?

pg. 69-133

compared to the hunger games or even twilight, this book is extremely slow-paced. it doesn't even have that strong of a plot but yet i am unable to put it down. it is like magic. I forgot to mention that at match banquets after people have been matched, they get a microcard of their match's details on it and pictures and stuff because usually people have no idea who their match is. When Cassia gets hers she goes home and plugs it in and watches it and sees a picture of Xander, her match, but what is weird is that the screen then goes black and Ky's face shows up.

the officials claim that is it someone attempting to poll a prank or something and switch cards. They also reveal to cassia that Ky is an abberation.

After Cassia had visited her grandfather on the last day of his life, the officials had saved a tissue sample for the future where they were hoping to recreate and bring those people back through them. Grandfather puts Cassia's father in charge of this tissue sample, but when cassia returns home later on she finds that he has lost it. later it is revealed that it was Grandfather's wish for his tissue sample not to be returned.

Also while visiting grandfather, cassia is handed two poems that are not two of the list of hundred poems that were selected. this is extremely illegal and could basically get you killed or just ruin your reputation. cassia reads them and falls in love with their beautiful words. she then realizes why this poem was not selected as one to keep. it is a poem about fighting back against the authority.