Monday, November 24, 2014

Arabian Blood



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Literary source by timothy Murad

Part I of the novel, then, presents horses and man as being in harmony and, moreover, emphasizes the horse as a source of strength and power. Descriptions of horses accord well with the ascendant trajectory of the first part of the novel.
In Part II, horse images and their symbolic import are strikingly different. They symbolize the?descenso al infierno de la barbarie?(10) which characterizes this central section of Los deabajo. The wild, uncontrollable, and brute nature of horses now predominates in descriptions.
Author(s): Timothy Murad
Source: Journal of Spanish Studies: Twentieth Century, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Fall, 1979), pp. 207-222
Published by: Society of Spanish & Spanish-American Studies
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27740882.
Accessed: 13/11/2014 13:51

Animal Imagery and Structural Unity in Mariano Azuela's Los de abajo
Scientific source By Stephen Duren

Horses have larger eyes than any other land animals except ostriches. A horse's eyes are oval, and they are set on the sides of the head. The two eyes can be moved independently, each in a half circle. Thus, a horse can look forward with one eye and backward with the other. Because of the position of its eyes, a horse has a blind spot a short distance in front of it. A horse must turn its head to see a nearby object that lies directly ahead. The shape of a horse’s eyes makes objects far to the side or back appears to move faster than they actually do. For this reason, a horse may shy (move suddenly) at the slightest movement of an object to the side or back. Horses' eyes require a fairly long time to adjust to changes of light. When a horse is moved from a dark stall into bright sunlight, it may appear nervous until its eyes adjust.
MLA: Duren, Stephen.  "Horse." Academic World Book. World Book,2014 . Web. 13 Nov. 2014.
APA:Duren, S. (2014).Horse.  In Academic World Book. Retrieved fromhttp://www.worldbookonline.com/academic/article?id=ar263040
Harvard:Duren, S 2014,'Horse', Academic World Book, World Book, Chicago, viewed 13 November 2014,
<http://www.worldbookonline.com/academic/article?id=ar263040>.
Printed source by Patton Charles U.
The eye is one of the most important organs connected with the horse. From the fact that when your horse goes blind he is almost worthless. It is one of the most delicate parts of the horse to be treated, and is in many case.
Common Sense Horse Book by Prof Charles U. Patton  p: 47

    I have always been fascinated by horses specially the Arabian race; they have the most majestic silhouette and strength that allows them easily to occupy the first places between the other breeds. Horses have inspired artists and poets through the ages, because they are well known for being affectionate and bonding well with humans, as well as they are famous for their power and intelligence. The literary source that I pick out confirm that there is a certain harmony between horses and man, and also mentions some typical characteristics of horses. On the other hand, the scientific and the printed source that I choose, we can see a deep description of horse`s eyes, and how delicate are they.

Friday, November 7, 2014

"Unpacking a Quotation"


’I am sitting by the window now, up in this atrocious nursery, and there is nothing to hinder my writing as much as I please, save lack of strength. John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious. I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dread­fully depressing. “

In this passage from “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, we can see that the narrator of this story is a mentally disordered woman, who has clearly a strong passion for writing, even if her husband forbids her to write, because he thinks that writing is not helping her getting better. Apparently, the fact that her husband prohibits her to write, push the narrator to start sneaking, when she wants to write, because she has a strong belief that writing is her unique way of liberation.

The theme of mental illness is plainly dominant in this quotation even if john dismissed it as nervous troubles. But normally, a competent physician like John should easily diagnose the disease of his wife or take her to a medical specialist, to make sure that she is on the mend.  But unfortunately in this passage we see totally the opposite, the doctor does not understand how the narrator exactly feels and how serious her case is.

The narrator begins this passage with describing the nursery such us an “atrocious” place, which means an absolutely unpleasant or cruel place. The word “Atrocious” makes it seem like if the narrator hated being a patient and “the nursery” constantly reminded her of the sickness that she suffers from even if she is trying to neglect it.

Not only the negligence reigns on her case, but furthermore, the narrator is trying to camouflage her own illness as “only nervousness”. The “only” in this passage tell us that the narrators try to convince herself that her mental disorder is only nervousness, but here we certainly see that there is a hint of mockery, she is completely conscious that something is wrong with her.

“I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous trouble are dreadfully depressing” here, the narrator uses a figure of irony. She exclaims that her case is not that critical but simultaneously she complains from “these nervous troubles” that makes her “dreadfully depressing”. The adjective “depressing” here connote a much stronger feeling than simply from a bad day. I think here the narrator is trying to protest against the oppression and the imprisonment that she suffers from, since they are in this nursery, more specifically,  in this story the narrator is trying to represent the repression of women in their epoch.

Monday, November 3, 2014

The Yellow Wallpaper



Explain the relationship between the narrator and her husband, John. How does this relationship affect the narrator?

In “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, we can see that there is a patronizing relationship between the narrator and her husband. John is consistently making every decision regarding her wife`s life, even the minors decision “John says if I don’t pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall” “John says it is good for me, and to sleep all I can”. As we can mentions from those previous quotations, the narrator is always referring and following John`s advices.

Moreover, John`s is not only patronizing the narrator, but he also “hates” her to ”write a word”. Here, the husband is trying to deny her wife`s voice by forbidding her the right to write. But this time, the narrator decides to follow her own instinct, by keeping her writing hide from John ”there comes John, and I must put this away”, in order to prevent him getting angry.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

The Fall of the House of Usher


The Fall of the House of Usher

  
1. Choose a few lines from the above passage as the material for your quotations.

“I know not how it was; but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit”

2. Write a sentence or a few sentences integrating a phrase from Poe into a sentence of your own. The easiest way to do this is to make a comment about Poe's story. For example, if I were writing about "The Raven," I could say: At the beginning of Edgar Allan Poe's long poem "The Raven," the narrator tells us that he has stayed up late reading "a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore." It must be a pretty boring old book, because reading it leaves him "weak and weary" and "nearly napping."
        
         In “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Edgar Allan Poe describes his ride to Usher`s house with a dark imagery. The narrator recounts his “first glimpse” of Usher`s house and the irrational fear that ”pervaded” his “ spirit “.
        
3. Introduce a quotation and then explain what the quotation means. For example: In "The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe's narrator tells us that the events of the poem happened "in the bleak December / And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor." The second line refers to the fact that he's sitting by a lit fireplace, and it's just a fancy, spooky way of describing the effect of the firelight as it shines off the floor.

Edgar Allan Poe opens this passage with a sinister description of an overcast day in the autumn ” during the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year”, then he illustrates “ when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens “ he also mentions the physical pressure that the clouds are pushing down on the narrator.  

4. Paraphrase a short passage from Poe. For example: In "The Raven," Poe's narrator tells us that the events of the poem take place in the winter. At the beginning of the poem, he's sitting cozily by the fire, falling asleep over an old book.

       In “the Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe tell us that the events of this story happens in an autumnal evening. At the beginning of the passage, the narrator mentions that the weather was gloomy, while he was riding on horseback at Usher`s house.
        
5. Now here's a tough one: try to summarize the entire passage from "The Fall of the House of Usher" in five short sentences.

       In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe describes his ride to Usher`s house in a cloudy autumnal day. When he first saw Usher`s house, a sense of fear and insecurity surrounds him due to old looking of the house, the old wall and the creepy windows. This elegiac atmosphere affects him, and made him interrogate himself about what made him feel like that about Usher`s house.

6. Now here's a really tough one: reduce your summary to two short sentences!
      
In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe draw a sad picture of his travel to Usher`s house. The narrator had a creepy feeling about the house and what surrounds the house, without finding an accurate explanation to these feeling.