Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

So I just want to say sorry that I'm blogging so late, but I'm glad to see that I'm not the last one. I finished the book right before I had to go to work for 6 hours and am now just getting to it. Anyways here it goes. Sir Gawain is a superhuman, epic-type hero because of some of his characteristcs. His superhumanness (I don't think thats a word) isn't as dominat as Beowulf's was. He's not like screaming that DON'T WORRY I CAN SAVE THE DAY! Sir Gawain shows that he is heroic by being brave courage by stepping up and taking the place instead of King Arthur since he feels he is of less worth than others. Sir Gawain is flawed by lying. He lies about the girdle. He was selfish, flaw, and wanted the girlde to save him. I don't think that the Green Knight is evil, but he is definately not totally good. He is more deceitful. This kind of shows that there is a little good and evil in everyone. I'm not quiet sure about the use of green, but I think it has something to do with starting over. It kind of plays into the New Year's Day. Both symbolize a new start, like in the spring when everything starts to turn green again and New Year's resolutions made for each year to start something new for the year.

Jack Kerouac's Scroll

Today Montana and I ventured out to the IMA while we were "job shadowing" my mom. And I am proud to say that we did not get lost or have to use the GPS. However, Montana could use some work on her map reading skills, nevertheless we got there.

Anyway, this scroll at the IMA is set in this display case that is about 30 feet long probably, but this isn't even with the whole scroll rolled out. I believe that his work, On the Road, had around 6,000 words and was written in about 21 days. (I think thats write. I may have just made that up, so don't quote me on that.) His logic behind writing on the scroll was that he didn't want his work to have any breaks in it, paragraph, chapter or page breaks. This is kind of smart but kind of just crazy. If you think about it if everything was written straight through like that your mind would not stop after every paragraph or chapter and think a complete new idea was about to come along in the writing. Your mind would just continue reading and never create breaks in the work. This could almost give you a different meaning of the work. He just went against the normal setup for writing, which was probably why he became so famous in literature.

So apparently Montana took a video of me, not a picture, so thats why I have a video not a picture! So Montana is right in the video when she says, " I don't think it took.".And we took it sideways, obviously, & I can't turn it! WOW! And we're in AP! We're special for sure!

ur AP een' shirts

In case anyone didn't hear I am going to try and run up and figure out the whole shirt thing tomorrow after school, so if you have any ideas that would be fantastic because if not I am just going to run in and pick it. So if you have a good idea please share! O and if anyone has a good idea for colors, that would be great too. THANKS!!

Beowulf

So since no one has really started blogging on Beowulf, I guess I will blog now since there is no one else to comment on. So I can't say that I enjoyed Beowulf, the first or second time, but I think I might have understood it better this time around, which is a good thing I guess. I'm not sure that I got some of the little stuff throughout the book, but I am pretty sure I got the overall idea, I hope. So here goes nothing. Lineage played a major role in the Anglo-Saxon culture. People were mainly known by who their father was. If your father was a heroic figure in society, then it was almost expected of you to also be a heroic figure. For Grendel, lineage did not help him. Since his lineage went back to Cain, he was thought to be unloyal and could not be trusted. The mead halls in Beowulf represent a place for gathering, a place for stories to be told. This plays into how Beowulf was passed down through oral tradition. It shows how the mead halls was a central key on how Beowulf is still able to be told/read today. I think that the Christians values were dominant because there were more of them expressed. The monk writing these letter for letter played a role in this because they had a more Christian based thinking. Well i guess thats all I got folks. Hope it makes some sense and not just random thoughts jumbled into one blog. See y'all tomorrow!