Mr_Shank

Welcome back guys. To start off, I am a bit confused. Why there would be a play in a play I don’t know but I am sure I will find out.

In the beginning we see Lucentio desperately wants Bianca that he devises a plan with Tranio that they should take each others places. Lucentio seems to bee our hero searching for love. He said he fell in love with her when he first saw her. This kind of reminded me of Romeo and Juliet. I know it is a very weak connection considering they were both written by Shakespeare but it honestlyseems to connect to romeo and Juliet. Lucentio the Romeo and Bianca the Juliet, the other suitors the Paris figure and Tranio kind of like the Friar. Stop me if I am wrong because I am still confused but this is what I found. Although I don’t know how Sly’s play fits into this one. The Juliet figure and the Romeo figure are again both rich. Bianca is a maid like Juliet was going to be a nun and that might prevent them from being together. Finally,Traino is helping Lucenito be with Bianca just like the Friar help Romeo and Juliet to be together.

If this is like Romeo and Juliet will there be a tragic event that will occur and what might it be or do you think I am way off track and think that none of this will happen.  Thanks in advance.

-Taran

This is a great book, and a very simple one at that.  This story is timeless because you can connect a lot of events and things to it, such as high school.  In a common high school you have the popular girls (Hero & Beatrice), the jocks (Don Pedro, Don John, Claudio), the clowns (Benedick), the nerds (Beatrice), and of course the regular crowd who can fit in with anyone…  This story reminds of a regular high school because the drama is so innocent and child-like except it is on a grander scale.  The way Benedick and Beatrice feel about each other is kept secret because in reality it seems like they hate on another when actually they are longing to be together but they both think that the other person does not like them.  The whole situation with Don Pedro being a middle man in this play is quite funny because he not only assists Claudio and Hero in their marriage but Beatrice and Benedick in theirs.  We have all probably pushed a friend or had a friend push you to go out with someone either in high school middle school or even elementary school.  All of us know how the middle man thing works and that is why this story can be related to so many things, because this situation has happened in so many forms and seen in so many ways through multiple types of media.  I have a feeling that Don John the Bastard is not going to get far in this little love tale…

Do you guys think it is strange that Hero can cause so much drama and she hardly says anything in this entire play so far?

I also just want to add that Messina is a town in Italy and the gaol is the jail.

I blogged this before but for some reason I can’t find it on the hompage? Sorry if there is two…

-Rebecca Krick

I’m going to focus mainly on Gatsby’s funeral and how it relates to some other scenarios.  In the movie, The Ultimate Gift, a young man is in the prime time of his life and is really rich and has a “great” girlfriend and a lot of “friends.”  Then something happens to him and all of his money is taken away from him: credit cards, debit cards, paper money, everything.  When he goes to ask his friends for money or help they all leave him out on the street.  When he realizes one night that he has no money on him {and his credit cards have been canceled} to pay for dinner and asks his very wealthy girlfriend to pay she dumps him.  This goes to show how people are treated when they have money and then when they are “worthless” to people.  This happens in the Great Gatsby when Nick is asked to organize the funeral for Gatsby.  Nick can’t find anyone to come to the funeral, though it seemed that when Nick was alive he had a lot of friends, but it was only because he was rich.

Who do you think Gatsby’s real friends were and why do you think that Nick was asked to organize the funeral for Gatsby?

-Maddie Zinn

There are so many similarities and differences between the book Dracula and the movie. It’s relevant to know both about the book and the movie to be able to understand the book better and see what led to the differences between the book and the movie.

A main difference between them is that the movie is made to look like a romance and the novel is one more of action and dread. Whatdo you think is the purpose of Stoker starting out his novel with romance and then making it turn to action? Mina was obviously supposed to be a girl who looked like Dracula’s dead wife, so he wants to make her immortal, but it involves Jonathan who wants her back because he truly loves her, from this point Dracula and Jonathan with his 5 allies fight to get Mina back.

The two more obvious characters that differ in the movie and book are Mina and Dracula. In the novel, whenever Dracula enters Mina’s room Mina is afraid of him and Dracula is always angry and aggressive towards her but in the movie Dracula and Mina love each other even when she finds out that he is Dracula. What is your opinion on this, if it was the other way around for the book and movie which would you like better? why?

Also, the novel portrays Dracula as a character full of hatred, and anger and is related to the theme of death. But in the movie, Dracula is shown with emotions and feelings for Mina, who he loves and does not wish to condemn her to loving him. Does this somehow depict to us a theme of love that love can conquer all evil and can turn an inhumane creature human?

Sorry if you think the post is odd and random, I thought that at the end of the book it would be good to see how the movie and book relate even if you haven’t seen the movie!

-Kianat Zamir

In this final section of the book we see that the time traveler goes into the far future in which the world has become almost a lifeless ith the air crisp and cold like on a mountain top. The sun has reached its second to last phase before it dies and now takes up the entire sky in a constant state of twilight. The time traveler goes back to his time after getting sick from the cold and the silence. Just before he left he felt a silence like all life was gone. He was all alone and everything had gone. This relates to Sponge Bob. In the episode were Squidward time travels to get away from sponge bob and Patrick he first finds himself in a distant future were there were still people that were like his own, like the Time Traveler and the Eloi and Morlocks. Then Squidward goes to a distant past were primitive and strange things lived, just like the giant crabs in the future. Squidward finally goes one last time to a time were there is no life. He is totally alone and gets a scared feeling, just like the Time Traveler on his last little jump. He was alone, no life. Eventually they both get back home and are safe again although the time traveler is not home very long.

     This leads me to my question what do you think of this emptiness? Is there really going to be an empty time without life or are we going to continue in circles and regenerate it? Is this emptiness real today?

-Taran

In this section of the story the time traveler is at the Palace of Green Porcelain. He is then running through the woods after he sets it on fire, being chased by the morlocks. He spends the night dazed in pure confusment. He lost his friend and the flames rage all around him. This scene reminds me of The Lord of the Flies. This scene is closely related to the scene were jack lights the whole island on fire. Ralph must run for his life in this pure confusion. They both have lost their friends and must fend for themselves. They both were the middle ground, Ralph the Ego and the time traveler the being between this light and dark.

     So my questions for you are, since Ralph made it home safely with the help of the coast guard do you think that the time travel will make it home with the help of somebody else or is it all his doings? Finally the scene were he goes crazy and is pounding the ground for help begging in exasperated weakness to be clear of this horror, do you believe that this changed him in a way. Will he ever recover from this trauma or will he go crazy and loose his sense with reality? Thanks a lot. Sorry if I revealed anything.

-Taran

Well in this section, Kathy attempts suicide on her old house’s land, where the Behrani man and his family now live. Behrani finds Kathy attempting to do this and he stops her. He takes her in the house and takes care of her, he also allows her to stay there for a little while. Well, Kathy’s lover, Les, doesn’t know where she is at so he goes haywire and goes to Behrani’s house and takes them all captive as hostages.

Besides the fact that this book reminds me of some sort of soap opera, it reminds me of a movie called hostage. In the movie hostage a family is taken captive in their own home by a strange man.

My question to you is why do you think les goes this insane over some woman that he is having an affair with? Is she that important to him or is he just blinded by their spur of the moment ‘love’ affair?

In Chapter 4 when Nick, Gatsby and Meyer Wolfshiem go out for lunch, some unexpected ideas of Gatsby comes up.  As Wolfshiem continues talking with Nick about Gatsby and his wealth, he suggests that Gatsby did not come about all of it honestly.  Wolfshiem leaves Nick with the impression that he and Gatsby may be involved with a certain “underground” organized crime.  This idea reminds me a bit of the mafia.  The mafia do favors for people and expect things in return.  If you ask me, that sounds like the kind of crime, if  any, Gatsby would be involved in.  What do you guys think?

What kind of organized crime do you think that Gatsby is involved in with Wolfshiem, if any?

P.S.: Where page are Megan’s and Alyssa’s posts on?  I can’t find them.  Thanks. 

-Maddie Zinn