FInal Progress

-Senior Memorabilia Video

• We started filming our questions this week

• We need to finish filming all of the students, edit, and finalize our senior video

• Our work will benefit other because it'll be something people can refer to when there older to describe their's and others high school experience here at Righetti.

AP Prep

My attempts at AP preparation (play-by-play):

APRIL 27

So my first attempts at tackling this last minute studying is to bring my study materials with me everywhere. I have printed out numerous study packets off the course blog and I always have at least one handy in my car, backpack, or at home (even at friends houses!) Any time I have a second I sit down and drill myself, mostly with the literary techniques. The literary techniques were first and foremost in my study efforts. Throughout the quizzes we've had I've just crammed before the tests so not all of them have stuck with me so this is where I decided to start. I plan on studying every night from now until the exam takes place.

My next efforts for studying start with the comprehension questions. Once I have the lit terms down I feel these will be a lot easier for me to tackle. The essay prompts are last on my list of studying because I think that is my strong suit. Really I am determined to good on this test, and I'm going to put in as much effort as I can to achieve what I know I can. AP TESTING WILL NOT DEFEAT ME!

MAY 1

Flash cards are very helpful! I keep my packet of ALL the words with me and once I completely get it down in my head I check it off on my list. As of now I have around thirty perfected, but I will not stop there, the next couple days I'll finish the lit terms and move to multiple choice questions.

MAY 3

Having a better time with the flash cards than my notes, but the notes are still very handy when I don't have my computer around me. I have kept these notes with me since April 27, but progress is being made!

Literature as a Conversation Over Time

Never Quit

"When things go wrong as they sometimes will; When the road you're trudging seems all uphill; When the funds are low, and the debts are high And you want to smile, but have to sigh; When care is pressing you down a bit- Rest if you must, but do not quit. Success is failure turned inside out; The silver tint of the clouds of doubt; And you can never tell how close you are It may be near when it seems so far; So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit- It's when things go wrong that you must not quit." -Unknown

Macbeth Notes

Notes on Macbeth

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow

Macbeth Test answers

Part One
1.Slaying the traitor Macdonawld
-Act I, Scene 2.  In that scene, we see Duncan talking about Macbeth.  He calls Macbeth "valiant" and "worthy."
2: B. the Thane of Cawdor him.
-Act 1, scene 2
3: A. I and II
-Act 1, scene 3
Then they tell him that he will never be king but that his children will sit upon the throne (1.3.63–65).
4:C. the predictions made to Banquo and to himself.
-Act 1, scene 3
5:A. the traitorous Thane of Cawdor.
-Act 1, scene 4
6.B. a metaphor.
7.B. "too full of the milk of human kindness."
-Act 1, scene 5
9: C. has accepted the challenge to slay the king.
10:A. get the chamberlains drunk.
11.he is one of King Duncan's generals, noted for his fierce courage. In his battle against Duncan's enemies, he fights so furiously and valiantly that Duncan rewards him by making him the Thane of Cawdor. He then becomes a bloodthirsty tyrant as he sets out to gain the throne of Scotland. In the plays conclusion, the last view of Macbeth is one of courage in battle, a glimpse of his former self.
12.Macbeths ambition is aroused by the witches' prophecies, and once he becomes Thane of Cawdor, he sets out to gain the throne of Scotland.
13.Macbeth gained his power with help from the Witches and it destroyed him. They present things to Macbeth, planting the seed of ambition which is watered by his wife. He brings about his own demise, the witches were only the tools who acted as a catalyst.
14.Macbeth lets ambition corrupt him immediately upon learning that he has become the new Thane of Cawdor. The fact that one of the witches' prophecies comes true makes him hungry for the rest. Banquo, however, is very distrusting of the witches' because they are evil beings. He won't put much stock into what they have said just yet because he's concerned about the reprecussions.
15. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are very interesting in so far as they are quite ambivalent. Lady Macbeth admires her husband but also triggers his downfall. Lady Macbeth encourages her husband to slay Duncan. 
This event is pivotal and needs to be stressed if we really want to understand the whole concatenation of this wonderful yet mysterious play. Lady Macbeth symbolizes evil, Macbeth symbolizes gullibility. In short the relationships between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth can be construed as a mixture of cruelty, anger and admiration.
Part Two
1. "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible / To feeling as to sight?" is a reference to the
A. ghost of Banquo.
-Act 3 Scene 4.
2. Lady Macbeth confessed that she would have killed King Duncan herself except for the fact that
A. she couldn't gain easy access to his bedchamber
-Act 3 Scene 3
3. Shakespeare introduced the Porter in order to
C. provide comic relief.
-Act 2 Scene 3
4. Malcolm and Donalbain flee after the murder
A. because they fear the daggers in men's smiles.
-Act 2 Scene 3
5. Macbeth arranges for Banquo's death by telling the hired killers that
A. Banquo had thwarted their careers.
-Act 3 Scene 1
6. Macbeth startles his dinner guests by
A. conversing with the Ghost of Banquo
-Act 3 Scene 4
7. The Witches threw into the cauldron
"Eye of bat and tongue of frog"(I)
"Wool of bat and tongue of dog" (II)
"Fang of snake and eagle's glare" (III)
A. I and II
-Act 4 Scene 1
8. The three apparitions which appeared to Macbeth were
An armed head. (I)
A child with a crown. (II)
A bloody child (III)
C. I, II, and III
-Act 4 Scene 1
9. In Act IV, Malcolm is at first lukewarm toward Macduff because he
B. suspects a trick.
-Act 4 Scene 3
10. C. Lady Macbeth convinces her husband to stand and fight.
-Act V scene III

11. This tells us that in the play things are not going to be the way they seem.
12. Morality is evident because it's a play where good and evil battle, and Macbeth knows the difference between the two and struggles with the two but he goes on the path of evil.
13. Remember that dramatic irony is present when the audience knows something the characters, or some of the characters, do not. When Duncan and his party arrive at Macbeth's castle, they are unaware of the wicked plans that are being made.
14. Lady Macbeth insults Macbeth and questions his manhood.
15. Macduff cannot believe the news at first. Once he accepts it, he feels the pain and wants revenge. Macbeth, on the other hand, seems like he isn't upset and it is hard to tell if he feels any pain; he then just gives up and everyone dies.

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Literature Analysis

Kafka on the Shore

By: Haruki Murakami

1. "Kafka on the Shore" is a story of two men who are traveling for different reasons. Murakami structures the work using magical realism. Kafka Tamura has run away from an abusive father; while Nakata is an older man who is able to talk to cats. Both men search for the door to a spiritual realm. Murakami opens the story with information about Kafka and his background; his mother leaves the family when he is little, taking his sister with him. This event motivates the father to be emotionally abusive towards him. Questions surround this character when he wakes up one day covered in blood. Kafka searches for answers. In contrast, Nakata is in search for a lost cat. Nakata's background is unique, because he just woke up one day with this ability. By the end of "Kafka on the Shore," the two men experience different types of relationships. They enter the spiritual world, but later return to the real world to continue their lives.

 2. I feel like the theme is desire. The desire to what you want and learn for yourself. Kafka does this throughout the whole novel repeatedly. Even with other important characters they all do what they desire to do despite the outcome or what the odds are saying against it. 

3. The author of this novel seems to me to have a sort of assertive tone as he lays out his story for the reader.

Quotes:

"From now on - no matter what - you've got to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive."

The Boy Named Crow, p. 5

"Naturally, I have zero friends. I've built a wall around myself, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself. Who could like somebody like that? They all keep an eye on me, from a distance. They might hate me, or even be afraid of me, but I'm just glad they don't bother me."

Chapter 1, p. 9

"What I think is this: you should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow."

Nakata tugged a few times at the bill of his hat in his hands. "To tell the truth, Nakata's had that feeling before. That my shadow is weak. Other people might not notice, but I do."

Chapter 6, p. 52

4. Literary techniques that bettered my understanding of the purpose, theme and tone were diction, syntax, symbolism, and style.

Diction: The authors word choice helped me understand the tone a lot better because he used charged adjectives, very descriptive and to the point in the writing.

“But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.” 

Syntax: The way he wrote his sentences and how they all had a purpose allowed me to enjoy the book as well as understand it.  He used long descriptive sentences.

“The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.” 

Symbolism: symbolism was used a lot in the novel. One major symbol that helped me understand the purpose of the novel was the crow. it symbolized Kafka's inner struggles and how hard things were going for him at this time.

Style: The authors style was unique and helped me get a feel for the writing and the meaning. The author alternates chapters with different stories every even and odd chapters. This was interesting and the two characters were so complex that it allowed me to stay completely interested in his point in the end of the novel.

Wuthering Heights Remix

Literature Analysis Notes and Mind Map

Kafka on the Shore 

Notes Continued:

After life?-  Was the forest some sort of symbol of an after life? I felt it was trying to prove some sort of past or purity that some difficulties are behind him now.

"If you remember me, then I don't care if everybody else forgets." This quote is said by Ms Saeki showing her true affection and feelings towards Kafka

The lack of appearance of "crow boy" shows that Kafka is finally growing up. He is starting to leave his struggles behind him and become a normal fifteen year old boy again.  He went from being scared and lonely to a change in Kafka. A change that he had overcame his young dillusions and he was almost about to lead normality again.

The spiritual world- Nakata and Kafka both enter this eeire concept of a world and I feel both grew in this part. They grew through out the novel, especially Kafka.

Mind Map:

Socratic Seminar Notes

Notes:

Internet- viral media leads to global sharing of any kinds of ideas with out limitations
            - endless possibilities on information
            - goes beyond the structure we've known, allows our minds to wonder, if we are allowed to create                searches on our own ideas rather than that of which we are structured to think

Discussion- Open discussion allows to continued ideas, leading to new ideas and new thoughts.
                 - Constant thought, streaming train of thought within multiple minds
                 - No end to a question only answers, yet no judgement, only learning on a new topic
                 - The video allowed for constant thought and feed back with out negativity, the idea of "having an open mind" had a whole new meaning in this seminar

Breaking the Mold- Learn in a new way. allow your own thoughts to form on ANY subject.
                              - Learn what you love and love what you learn because really what else is there?
                              - Structure in books and deadlines can be a thing of the past if we push our limits
                              - Stretch minds to strive for new ideas not be forced upon, no matter the subject
                              - We need self- learning, it has been lost.
                              - STRUCTURE can either make or break a person, WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT
                              - Break the mold in a way that matters to you. Learn in a new way and take a chance
 **Thoughts: The funny thing about "breaking the mold" is that I hold this idea very dear to me. I hate structured school. I love letting my mind run, but then I find myself in the part of the class that can never bring myself to share my thoughts... Why? I dont know. I always have a lot to say, but it never comes out, or I get nervous then it's too late. So how do I break this mold with in myself to start this new line of thinking? As a matter of fact how do we get EVERYONE to go out on a limb and speak their thoughts. I want to step out of the box and voice my ideas. Im going to try my best, and those who are in the same boat as I am should do the same. I want to be apart of this new "class" we have going here because its everything I could hope for in a class. I just need to find the motivation in myself to finish what I started full tilt.

1. When grades no longer matter it is sort of a make or break point. As I stated above I need to find it in myself to embrace this opportunity, I love socratic seminars and how they work, the next step is just getting involved. This idea of going beyond structure makes life and learning a little more personal, an ideal thought that leaves learning with in the student. I love the idea, I want to embrace, but I have to find that spark to break out of the pack and learn how I want to.

2. The concept I want to be able to focus on in class is just open discussion. I love hearing the conversations on any given topic. I want to be able to listen, learn, question, and contribute. If we go on a discussion about Shakespeare for example and talk about key concepts and points, i'm learning. With in discussion I hear new words used in new ways all the time and then I want to hear more, or ask. While yes I know we never do ask these questions if we hear another student say a word in discusison we don't know, but if we did I feel our knowledge would be phenominal! If we were our own teachers, because just by listening to discussions, I find myself intrigued on how many smart people there are in our class. I want to learn from them. The more we push our limits with talking together the more I feel we will all open up to this idea in the end and we will all benefit greatly in my opinion.

3. Like I said in the last paragraph I feel the idea of talking as a whole, as students, with no limits beside one simple topic to start us off, that is how we will learn the best. In this discussion we should be able to do any research on our phones or anything for new ideas on a topic and literally just share everything we think until everyone realizes that there will be no judgement. No matter what there will be at least one topic that intrigues everyone at some point if we make this a habitual thing.

3 Poems... 9 Elements

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
By: Robert Herrick

Dramatic situation: The effects of time.

Structure: abab rhyme scheme

Logic/ theme: make wise use of your time

Grammar/ meaning: grammar is complex to fit in the stanzas. Each line has a meaning and each thought ends at the end of a stanza.

Figures of speech: personification and metaphors are used

Diction: simple diction, with complex syntax.

Tone: optimism about life, and moving on.

Literary techniques: uses a lot of personification

Prosody/ language: the rhythm to the poem contributes to the meaning because it all flows. The flow goes along with the theme of looking forward and being optimistic.

Sonnet 89
By: Pablo Neruda

Dramatic Situation: Talks about lovers, one who has passed away

Structure: Sonnet, no rhyming

Logic/ theme:  Love

Grammar/ meaning:  Meant to show another person their love.  The grammar is simple and easy to understand

Figures of speech: use of imagery

Diction: colloquial diction in the translation

Tone: Admiring tone

Literary techniques: Imagery

Prosody/ language:  No rhyme scheme.  Uses words that correspond with the theme in order to portray it more clearly

Ode to the Western Wind
By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dramatic Situation: Tribute to the western winds, and their intensity

Structure: ode. some rhyme, ababcbcdc....

Logic/ theme: the stress/ deathly aspects of life

Grammar/ meaning: grammar is simple with use of adjectives. meaning is to inform the reader of a deeper darker meaning of the winds.

Figures of speech: Similes, imagery, metaphors

Diction: uses words with different meanings to them to describe "the winds"

Tone: There is a sort of dark tone; ominous, sad

Literary techniques: Imagery

Prosody/ language: the rhyme scheme is not consistent, just as the poem is too. starting dark and hopeless then taking a more positive turn to it

Elements of Poetry:

When analyzing poetry use these:

Dramatice Situation

Structure

Theme

Grammar and Meaning

Figurative Language

Important words

Tone/ Mood

Literary Techniques

Procedy

Active Reading Notes: Kafka on the Shore

Kafka: main character
- tough fifteen year old who has run away from home in search of himself.
Symbol: the crow that pops up throughout the book telling kafka he is a "tough fifteen year old"

Satoru Nakata: Nakata lost many of his mental faculties when, as one of sixteen schoolchildren out on a mushroom-gathering field-trip toward the end of World War II, he was rendered unconscious following a mysterious flash of light in the sky.

* Satoru Nakata's experience could be from a UFO. He is able to talk to cats, as far as Kafka knows.

Oshima: kafkas friend

Hoshino: bus driver who befriends Kafka on his journey

Sakura: friend of Kafka. Forms relationship with him. Finds out later possibly his sister.

*cats continuously show up for reasons I don't know yet.
Satura is able to communicate with these cats(Goma,Mimi,Okawa,Toro,Otsuka)

Kafka goes through a journey. The garden. The book store becoming a peaceful place for him. Foreshadowing?

** the kids from the field trip made Kafka sad. We were able to see his compassionate side not only with this but with his interactions with Sakura.

Poem Interpretation

The poem I chose is about ambition and the desire to succeed in any goal you make for yourself. The poems dramatic situation can be told by the speaker. The speaker is one of optimism, he is the author and example of his own words. He writes as if he has achieved success and is determined to get there again. The structure of the poem is there are numerous stanzas, each with four lines. Each line in a stanza rhymes all through out that particular stanza. The author completes his thoughts not with the breaks of stanzas, but with the ending of a sentence seen by a period. With in the poem there is a central message, a message the author wants to convey. This message is to achiev you goals through difficult times, do what you have to do to succeed. Have ambition all the time. I feel the author plays with the meaning of words, as well as used simple language or words to convey a bigger and deeper message. In the poem the author uses a lot of personification by giving the poem itself human characteristics. Last is the tone of the poem. The poem seems very optimistic and happy to me. It has a bright outlook on life and it's tone reflects the reader as they read.

Micro AP Part I

-What was easy/ expected?
-What was difficult/ unexpected?
-What did you learn about the AP questions?
-What did you learn about your own performance under pressure?
-How will this experience influence your preparation for the actual exam?

The easiest part of this was just the fact that we basically new the novels we were writing about.  We could use any of the two novels we were reading and build off of that, and that made it a lot easier for me

The Micro AP test we took wasn't necessarily hard, but it was unexpected. I thought we were going to have one solid topic and were going to be writing on just that. To my surprise we had many topics which was hard for me to organize my thoughts.

I learned that it isn't quantity it's quality. I always get stuck explaining things in depth when i should really just find one or two great sentences that convey my meaning with out being lengthy.

I learned that I need to be able to work a little bit better under pressure. I tend to get frustrated and kind of start just writing, and not necessarily thinking clearly.

This experience will allow me an incite on how things work on the AP exam and that is just the start. Since i know how things work now I just have to master my techniques and my performance under pressure.

Great Expectations Analysis:

Introduction

The first chapters of Great Expectations set the plot as well as introduce the main character Pip and his world. Being both narrator and protagonist, Pip is naturally the most important character in Great Expectations. Dickens’s most important task as a writer in Great Expectations is the actual creation of Pip’s himself. The story is told in Pip's words, using his outlook. Because Pip is the voice with which he tells his story, Dickens must make his voice relatable and believable to readers. In this first few pages, Pip is a young child and he is able to depict a childhood relatable by many readers. Dickens uses Pip to characterize any childhood, so innocent yet open to what life has in store.

Pip being a naive young boy agrees to stay true to his promises to the convict and helps him, all the while being horrified and worrisome of his own safety. Dickens shows his own background through Pip in the beginning; the way Pip's parents die, is close in part to how Dickens father was sent to debt prison, which in those times was like death itself. Still, throughout this section, Dickens continues to show Pip's negative qualities: his dishonesty and his guilt. This is characteristic of Pip as a narrator throughout Great Expectations. Despite his many admirable qualities—the strongest of which are compassion, loyalty, and conscience—Pip constantly focuses on his failures and shortcomings. This is also, in part, relating to Dickens actual life because Pip's lack of values comes from a rough background, one that Dickens experienced first- hand as a child.


In the introduction of Great Expectations the convict is the most important occurrence in the plot of the first section. Though Pip believes that the convict’s appearance in his life is an isolated incident, he will feel this character’s influence in many ways throughout the novel. I felt as if this convict so far kind of personified Pip's views on life.

In addition to the introduction of the convict, the other important plot development in the early chapters of Great Expectations occurs at the very end of Chapter 7, when Pip learns he is to be taken to Miss Havisham’s to play. His introduction to Miss Havisham will determine a great part of his story and will change the young boy forever. Though Pip has no sense of the importance of the event, Dickens conveys its importance to the reader through Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook, who are obviously ecstatic at the idea of Pip befriending the wealthy old woman. The idea of a wealthy person in Pip's life leads up to the idea which relates to the title, his "great expectations" for what life holds for him in his unknown future.

Pip has a very low social standing which makes itself clear with his admiration for Miss Havisham as well as seen through his colloquial language. By describing Pip’s early education, Dickens continues to emphasize the idea of self-improvement. Dicken's shows his own struggles through Pip because he came up from nothing and you can see that through how Pip has such a hard time in school.

I feel as if these first few introduction chapters were not only a look into Pip's crazy world it is also an important sense of where Dickens came from. Dicken's allows himself to show through the struggles of Pip and I feel he may also feel a strong connection with Pip.  This not only keeps the novel interesting, but it also makes Pip more and more real as I continue to read "Great Expectations" and by the look of success Charles Dickens has accomplished i'm excited to see where his young, innocent character Pip will end up too.

Big Question Intro

How much power does our mind really have on our outcomes in life? This is a question people have been asking for centuries, but have never really came to a solid conclusion. How powerful is our mind really in a sense of positives attracting positives and negatives attracting negatives? 

Ever since we were kids we were told that “if you can believe it, you can achieve it”, but is this statement completely accurate?  If someone truly sets there mind to something does that give him or her an advantage over someone who doesn’t have the same kind of confidence in themselves?  It is said in the movie “The Secret” that your mind DOES determine the kind of outcome you arrive at, and that, “the secret is the Law of Attraction.”

to be continued.......

Title Meaning

Great Expectations

The meaning of the title of this book is almost exactly as it seems, the character had "great expectations" for something that didn't turn out so great. Pip is a poor orphan living with his sister and her husband the blacksmith. He has an encounter with an escaped criminal on Christmas and the help he gives him results in the criminal setting him up with a secret inheritance. One day a lawyer comes and says that he has money coming or "great expectations" and he has to have a different education now that is he is to be a gentelman rather than a blacksmith.

The title also alludes to the idea of great things to come or things that are expected to come but aren't there yet.

Pip's greatest fault is that he counts too much on what he does not already have and values too little that which he does have.  He puts his thoughts on something that "might" come rather than what he already has.

Literature Analysis

Wuthering Heights

1. Wuthering Heights is essentially a love story about Heathcliff, a mysterious man.  Heathcliff ends up falling for a girl named Catherine whom he can't have due to his social status, which is very important to people in this time. He was an orphan, but was adopted into the Earnshaw family. Catherine, Heathcliff's love, ends up dying before he gets a chance to be with her and it isn't until death when they are able to be united.  It is almost like a tragic love story with many twist and revengeful turns along the way.


2. The theme of Wuthering Heights is the power of love. Love can cause you to make irrational decisions and go against the standards of society.  The overwhelming love story that took place in the novel is what drew me in as a reader and kept me hooked throughout the entire, twisted story.


3. Bronte's tone is very ominous or dark with a strange sense of romance. The love between Heathcliff seems doomed at times, but as the novel progresses you see that the author tried to put a little hope in the idea of their romance. Examples of this type of tone are, " I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother.", " If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it." and " He'll never let his friends be at ease, and he'll never be at ease himself!".


4. Imagery, symbolism, diction, tone, and genre all helped me understand the theme of the novel. Bronte used much imagery that allowed me to picture the novel in my head as I read. The genre of story, being gothic and romantic also helped me understand and become more intrigued because of the constant wonder of what was to come next.
-"If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day. " (tone)
-"He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about among the bloom, and the larks singing high up overhead, and the blue sky and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly." (imagery)
-"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."

Ambition at its Finest

Ambitious Poem
by: Obinna Kenechukwu Eruchie

A poem with an aim, Destined to make a name To end up well in fame, Knows well to play a game. Knows it a lot to play To get there in a way, To make a mark to stay To have a brightened day. Brightened that it can face The hurdle with full grace To have, set up the pace The glory in its place. The glory as it does make, Good enough for its sake That strenghtened it to take Success right at its wake. Took its time not to fail, But of doubt it did bail With strength to make it sail Far enough for joy to mail. A poem now well made, Risks to face for it bade Against all odds to raid Its efforts have been paid

*This poem inspired me. I like it because it describes not giving up, no matter your circumstances. It made me want to achieve all I can with no complaints of what has happened in my life, but just to succeed all because everyone and anyone can; if they truly are determined.

Big Question Abstract

Positive thinking is dealing with matters of fact; expressed clearly, or in a confident or peremptory manner. Within positive thinking is meant to signify a matter of thoughts or thinking: a manner that puts emphasis on processing thoughts in a more desirable, upbeat way. The importance of positive thinking is very simple, a positive outcome, in theory. If you can make your life better by thinking more positive, anyone would be interested; well any one withy he pursuit of happiness in mind. A better lifestyle could be at the tip of our fingers with a simple change of thoughts and outlooks on many different situations. Anyone and everyone deserves a better life or lifestyle if it is available, especially in a place as convenient as your own head. The way I will go about gaining research will probably through neurological studies as well as peoples personal experiences. Possible a simulation myself?

AP Practice Exam: The Open Question

   "By their deeds shall ye know them." a character is nothing in any novel, epic, or short story with out their actions. It is seen by readers everywhere, characters can be hated or loved based upon their sometimes ridiculous actions,  Many characters are misunderstood, a character such as Hamlet. Hamlet is a character who is really hard to understand, let alone like within the play. It is seen over and over again though, a characters growth and development leading them to be intriguing and loved by readers. Thousands of author's face this hardship in creating a complex character who develops like that of Hamlet, Shakespeare depicts the classic case of a great character. Shakespeare is able to create the complexity of Hamlet through performative utterance, foreshadowing and through unique use of imagery.
   Hamlet is misunderstood, and quite frankly, an annoying character in the beginning of the play. He threatens his own life on many ocassions through use of soliloquies and this just makes him a hard to like character due to his lack of strength.  His development through his performative utterance, I think, is what makes him the respected character he is seen as today. Shakespeare derived Hamlet from an insure, weird guy to a complex, respected character.  His behavior and recklessness defined him because he let the reader in on his thoughts throughout each action or problem.  The way he talked himself through dilemas allowing the reader to relate with him.  Performative utterance was Shakespeare's way of creating a great character, a character who releases his feelings to the audience making him relatable an ultimately respected.
   Shakespeare used a lot of imagery and foreshadowing which I found extremely useful in my reading of the play. The eerie 12 o'clock, midnight, time frame at which the play began set the tone straight from the beginning. The dark night described by Shakespeare made Hamlet seem mysterious and made me want to know more about this specific character. Through out the play he continued to incorporate his use of imagery to make Hamlet more and more interesting to readers and allowed them to derive a new outlook on him as the play progressed. The technique of foreshadowing in the play also made Hamlet progress more and more in my mind until I came to a verdict that I respected him as a crazy, unique character.  Shakespeare foreshadowed death a lot in the play allowing a big build up with in readers, I feel this is why Hamlet as a character was able to change into a more developed character throughout the play; because the reader kept wanting to know more and Hamlet was slowly revealing it.  The techniques that Shakespeare incorporated in his writing allowed me as reader to depict Hamlet slowly, but surely throughout the play until I finally grew to like him as fictional character.
   Shakespeare's unique use of performative utterance, imagery, and foreshadowing made Hamlet the respected, known character he is today. In the beginning of the play I disagreed with everyones opinion on Hamlet. I felt he was a boring, self absorbed character, but as the play progressed Shakespeare began to persuade me.  Shakespeare developed him through outraguos action and thoughts which in the end; once we "got to know him" as we read, made him admirable because I was able to finally understand him and ultimately like him as a character.  The accurate and precise use of literary techniques allowed a once disliked character, become the known and respected character Hamlet is know as today, everywhere.