Reading ,My Sisters Keeper, by Jodi Picoult, I came to understand many themes that are illistrated in this book. Anna was a baby girl created and brought into this world, not to expeierence life but more importantly save her sisters life so that she could expeierence a longer life.
In this story the author portrays Anna as almost a "bad charecter" because she goes against her parents will of saving her sister. Throughout her life she has been using her body parts to save her sister but when she turns 13 there comes a turing point. When Anna is asked to donate her kidney to Kate she refuses because Kate will not be saved for long and she is also putting her own life at steak.
At the age of 13 Anna begins to think of herself and this may seem selfish but shes just a child who wants to live her own life. Anna has this urge insdie her to experience the greatness of life for herself. She starts a law suit against her parents, not wanting to donate her kidney. At this time Anna is portrayed as a selfish, cruel girl who cares little about her sister and family. Looking at it in Anna's persepective life is a beautiful thing that everyone should expeirence and using ones body parts is not a reason to bring them to life.
Anna a young girl goes through alot in the first few chapters, this all comes to show her inner charecter and desires of living a normal life.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Beyond Limitless
This week I was interested in reading the book, The Dark Field, by Alan Glynn. As I had heard much about the movie,Limitless, released several years ago I was interested in reading the book.
The book started off describing the main character and how he lives in a one room apartment, which seems to be too much for him. After losing his job once again, his girlfriend decides she does not appreciate his low life, leading her to leave him. Although the girlfriend stress was not on his mind anymore, he had to come up with ways to pay his one room apartment rent.
The main character, Eddie Spinola, spends much of his time outside of his apartment drinking at bars. Once his girlfriend leaves and he loses his job he is clueless, not sure what to do with his life. At a local coffee shop Eddie runs into an old friend who is rather successful. Of course Eddie was jealous! Comparing himself to his colleges he had made it nowhere while others were prospering in numerous ways. Eddies friend was a clever business-like gentlemen, who was willing to help Eddie, after hearing his tragic story.
After meeting with an old friend Eddie was ready to be successful again he was looking for a new path and all he needed was someone to guide him. In the end of this chapter Eddie's friend offers him a drug that could be magical that could open up all corners of his brain and make his life perfect and the drug is FDA APPROVED! The question is do the limits approve?
The book started off describing the main character and how he lives in a one room apartment, which seems to be too much for him. After losing his job once again, his girlfriend decides she does not appreciate his low life, leading her to leave him. Although the girlfriend stress was not on his mind anymore, he had to come up with ways to pay his one room apartment rent.
The main character, Eddie Spinola, spends much of his time outside of his apartment drinking at bars. Once his girlfriend leaves and he loses his job he is clueless, not sure what to do with his life. At a local coffee shop Eddie runs into an old friend who is rather successful. Of course Eddie was jealous! Comparing himself to his colleges he had made it nowhere while others were prospering in numerous ways. Eddies friend was a clever business-like gentlemen, who was willing to help Eddie, after hearing his tragic story.
After meeting with an old friend Eddie was ready to be successful again he was looking for a new path and all he needed was someone to guide him. In the end of this chapter Eddie's friend offers him a drug that could be magical that could open up all corners of his brain and make his life perfect and the drug is FDA APPROVED! The question is do the limits approve?
Diction Bingo
1.) Discussing the effects of passage, avoid referring to the way it affects "the reader" or "the audience"
His clam, but intense attention to detail leaves readers intimidated yet expectant for the forth coming of his next step.
http://chieftian.blogspot.com/
2.)Avoid "he says" quote introductions
Baker said the lobby was filled with "towering volumes of marble and glass.
http://mariahsetymologyblog.blogspot.com/
3.)Don't say "this" without putting a noun or a noun phrase after it.
this creates imagery for the reader of what the daily worker sees.
http://runskunkrun.blogspot.com/
4.)Avoid the verbs "use" and "shows"
The crisp words that are used in Catcher in the Rye depict that his emotions are like a closed box, not wanting to deal with issues that seem non-important to him.
http://readbetweentheblog.blogspot.com/
His clam, but intense attention to detail leaves readers intimidated yet expectant for the forth coming of his next step.
http://chieftian.blogspot.com/
2.)Avoid "he says" quote introductions
Baker said the lobby was filled with "towering volumes of marble and glass.
http://mariahsetymologyblog.blogspot.com/
3.)Don't say "this" without putting a noun or a noun phrase after it.
this creates imagery for the reader of what the daily worker sees.
http://runskunkrun.blogspot.com/
4.)Avoid the verbs "use" and "shows"
The crisp words that are used in Catcher in the Rye depict that his emotions are like a closed box, not wanting to deal with issues that seem non-important to him.
http://readbetweentheblog.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Practice Diction Analysis
In the excerpt from Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine, Baker’s business like figurative language characterizes the refined workplace which he describes. Baker describes the escalators themselves that rise to his office, “They were the free-standing kind: a pair of integral sins swooping upward between the two floors they served without struts or piers to bear any intermediate weight.” The careful diction used to describe the setting escalates an image in the readers mind. In addition, the escalators portray a controlled environment as the sun only shined in the “needly area” of the escalators. Although the escalators suggest a controlled and stiff environment the author recommends a rather welcoming and straightforward environment.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Currently
Pages- 109
1.) In Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road, the straightforward descriptions of the stripped wilderness give the text a minimalistic feel and forcing attention to the rare dialogue between the father and son.
http://norwegianwood329.blogspot.com/
2.) To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, uses the coarsely sophisticated literal language which accurately conveys the dialect of the narrator.
http://bookwormsfiresidereading.blogspot.com/2011/10/style-mapping.html
3.)Even more casually written is Jack Kerouac's On The Road, which incorporates a stream of consciousness that mirrors the complex workings of the narrators mind using words that are far less complicated.
http://charliebucket15.blogspot.com/
I liked all three of these sentences from different passages for many reasons. For example, in each of these passages the writers incorporated strong adjectives used to appeal to the senses.While reading these sentences I felt as if I was familiar with the story lines but in essence I've never read these books. The diction and adjectives immediately caught my attention making these sentences stick out to me!
1.) In Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road, the straightforward descriptions of the stripped wilderness give the text a minimalistic feel and forcing attention to the rare dialogue between the father and son.
http://norwegianwood329.blogspot.com/
2.) To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, uses the coarsely sophisticated literal language which accurately conveys the dialect of the narrator.
http://bookwormsfiresidereading.blogspot.com/2011/10/style-mapping.html
3.)Even more casually written is Jack Kerouac's On The Road, which incorporates a stream of consciousness that mirrors the complex workings of the narrators mind using words that are far less complicated.
http://charliebucket15.blogspot.com/
I liked all three of these sentences from different passages for many reasons. For example, in each of these passages the writers incorporated strong adjectives used to appeal to the senses.While reading these sentences I felt as if I was familiar with the story lines but in essence I've never read these books. The diction and adjectives immediately caught my attention making these sentences stick out to me!
Life Remains but the Extremes Come to an End
Finally finishing the book Surving The Extremes this week I came to realzie many things about various charecters and family conditions. In these chapters Dr. Kamler goes through various enviroments to treat patients who are survivng in hazerdous condtions.
In each chapter Kamler highlights the behavior of patients in different conditions. These behavior changes may include drinking human urine in the dessert, using mud to fix blooded wounds, eating animals to keep meat on the body. In all of these conditions that Dr. Kamler joins he learns various different things that he would have never learned in the normal hospital setting.
The book was overall enjoyable because the reader gets involved in dramatic medical condtitions that are not only intense but real life stories. In addition, the diction used appeals to the readers emotions and senses. When the patients where feeling extreme pains or undergoing dangerous conditions I could almost feel the pain the reader was trying to emphasize. Often times throughout the book patients were emotionally in trouble or influnced by a loss. When travlers were put at emotional danger the diction effected my emotions and I felt almost as if I had experienced a loss. Overall, reading this book gave me medical knowledge of how the body reacts in different extreme conditions and to what extent the human body can go to experince life.
In each chapter Kamler highlights the behavior of patients in different conditions. These behavior changes may include drinking human urine in the dessert, using mud to fix blooded wounds, eating animals to keep meat on the body. In all of these conditions that Dr. Kamler joins he learns various different things that he would have never learned in the normal hospital setting.
The book was overall enjoyable because the reader gets involved in dramatic medical condtitions that are not only intense but real life stories. In addition, the diction used appeals to the readers emotions and senses. When the patients where feeling extreme pains or undergoing dangerous conditions I could almost feel the pain the reader was trying to emphasize. Often times throughout the book patients were emotionally in trouble or influnced by a loss. When travlers were put at emotional danger the diction effected my emotions and I felt almost as if I had experienced a loss. Overall, reading this book gave me medical knowledge of how the body reacts in different extreme conditions and to what extent the human body can go to experince life.
The Burning Son (Repost)
Finishing the Desert chapter in surving the extremes this week I came to find that often times parents can make extreme decesions to ensure their childs safety.
In the desert chapter a family on vacation visiting the area decides to explore nature and get away from the modernized hotels. When reaching the desert the family decides to abandon their car and explore the great oppurtunity before their eyes. the father stays back in the car for a few minutes and the family including the son, daughter, and mother travel ahead and loose the father who travels behind. The father travels back to the car when the car stops functioning and his family is lost ahead he has no choice but to travel in the heat and save his wife and children. Day and night he travels under the burning sun without water and food, the love of his family urges him to continue each day. The mother on the other hand, works hard to protect her children killing animals and using plants to keep her children hydrated. The parents fight to meet each other in the desert but never find each other and in the end both the father and mother with the children are killed by the burning sun with no water or food for their body to build off of.
This passage from the dessert chapter shows what parents can do or what extent parents to can go to to save their children and keep them protected. The father puts his body at risk to save his family and in the send sacrifices himself for his children. Emotional attachment to family can lead people to extreme conditions puting their own health at risk under dangerous heat conditions.
In the desert chapter a family on vacation visiting the area decides to explore nature and get away from the modernized hotels. When reaching the desert the family decides to abandon their car and explore the great oppurtunity before their eyes. the father stays back in the car for a few minutes and the family including the son, daughter, and mother travel ahead and loose the father who travels behind. The father travels back to the car when the car stops functioning and his family is lost ahead he has no choice but to travel in the heat and save his wife and children. Day and night he travels under the burning sun without water and food, the love of his family urges him to continue each day. The mother on the other hand, works hard to protect her children killing animals and using plants to keep her children hydrated. The parents fight to meet each other in the desert but never find each other and in the end both the father and mother with the children are killed by the burning sun with no water or food for their body to build off of.
This passage from the dessert chapter shows what parents can do or what extent parents to can go to to save their children and keep them protected. The father puts his body at risk to save his family and in the send sacrifices himself for his children. Emotional attachment to family can lead people to extreme conditions puting their own health at risk under dangerous heat conditions.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Style Mapping
In this excerpt from Little Altars Everywhere, the author ,Rebbeca Wells, uses modestly harsh diction that is straight forward.The literal diction can portray a somewhat bitter and cinical atmosphere to the reader. The author describes the Girl Scouts outfits, " They bring out my worst features---fat arms and short legs. Mama tries her best to give that drab green get-up some style, but I just get sent home with a note because the glitzy pieces of costume jewelry she pins on me are against regulations."
Contrasting the opening of The Guns of August , Tuchman portrays a sophistacated view of regality that harmoniously prescribes a session of kings. The precise diction glorifies the seasoned May morning of 1910. The author further distinguishes the morning, "So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward V11 of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration." Simlarley, in the passage from Eragon, Paolini uses vulgar diction to portray a meldious tune. The author describes the morning sun rise, " The sun rose the next morning with a glorious conflagration of pink and yellow. The air was fresh, sweet, and very cold." Many others choose different styles of writing making the writing comparable on different levels.
Contrasting the opening of The Guns of August , Tuchman portrays a sophistacated view of regality that harmoniously prescribes a session of kings. The precise diction glorifies the seasoned May morning of 1910. The author further distinguishes the morning, "So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward V11 of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration." Simlarley, in the passage from Eragon, Paolini uses vulgar diction to portray a meldious tune. The author describes the morning sun rise, " The sun rose the next morning with a glorious conflagration of pink and yellow. The air was fresh, sweet, and very cold." Many others choose different styles of writing making the writing comparable on different levels.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
To what extent?
In surviving the extremes many outrageous events have occurred this far in the book. For example in the Jungle Chapter the young boy hurts his hand and mud is used to help the hand and soak the blood. In addition in the dessert chapter a young man is forced to drink the blood of a bad as well as drink his own urine when he is desperate. Also, in the outer space chapter another young man is left in the snow to die while speaking with his pregnant wife. These events in the chapters all come to show the extremes of human endurance and what humans can do to survive and how there minds begin to panic at the thought of death,.
The main theme of this chapter is to show how us humans have various body systems that are affected in different forms of nature and how far we can take it before our body goes into panic mode. In addition within these first few chapters we learn how a doctor can substitute equipment in these extreme environments to ensure patient health.
These chapters in the book also come to show what extent humans can go to gain knowledge on place that humans are not yet aware. In addition, doctors such as the author writing the book may go trips like this to gain experience. At the end of the day this comes to show what extents we can go to gain knowledge, experience, and where our curiosity can drive us.
The main theme of this chapter is to show how us humans have various body systems that are affected in different forms of nature and how far we can take it before our body goes into panic mode. In addition within these first few chapters we learn how a doctor can substitute equipment in these extreme environments to ensure patient health.
These chapters in the book also come to show what extent humans can go to gain knowledge on place that humans are not yet aware. In addition, doctors such as the author writing the book may go trips like this to gain experience. At the end of the day this comes to show what extents we can go to gain knowledge, experience, and where our curiosity can drive us.
Currently
Pages: 100
The wrist was caked in mud and dried blood, the hand drooping forward. I wanted to get a look at the car, but I knew that once I removed the mud it would start bleeding again. As we stood there surrounded by a crowd of adults and children of all ages, I spotted what looked like a clean rag in the sand and walked over to pick it up.
This quarter the passage above remains my favorite for many reasons. It comes to show how the Dr. of the book is willing to save lives and make the best of adventures. He has a positive attitude and trys his best to adapt to new locations and at the same time help humans and not put there endurance at test while in these new environments. Knowing that this book is based on real stories comes to show what some people can do to gain knowledge and experience.
The wrist was caked in mud and dried blood, the hand drooping forward. I wanted to get a look at the car, but I knew that once I removed the mud it would start bleeding again. As we stood there surrounded by a crowd of adults and children of all ages, I spotted what looked like a clean rag in the sand and walked over to pick it up.
This quarter the passage above remains my favorite for many reasons. It comes to show how the Dr. of the book is willing to save lives and make the best of adventures. He has a positive attitude and trys his best to adapt to new locations and at the same time help humans and not put there endurance at test while in these new environments. Knowing that this book is based on real stories comes to show what some people can do to gain knowledge and experience.
Enviroment's nature of attitude
While reading over the past few chapters of Surviving the extremes I have found many things that draw to my senses but while reading through each of the chapters. While reading the attitude of a doctor in a new nature who is treating patients at the limits of human endurance stuck out to me the most. Throughout each chapter the doctor is taken to a new extreme area on a team project and required to live in unsanitary conditions to treat these patients and ensure their well being.
A New York City doctor who has much money is spending his life helping other people in unsanitary conditions when he could be living in a mansion. In addition to this, he learns to adapt to the new environments and the peoples way of life. In each different chapter the Dr. has a very positive attitude towards helping others and understanding their lifestyle.
Not only does Dr. try to adapt to new environments but he finds alternatives in these environments to help the people make this trip as successful as possible without medical endurance becoming a problem. Each new chapter is a little of a struggle for him at first but he learns about the new environments and receives a great experience while also helping others and also receiving knowledge that can be applied at the hospital at home.
A New York City doctor who has much money is spending his life helping other people in unsanitary conditions when he could be living in a mansion. In addition to this, he learns to adapt to the new environments and the peoples way of life. In each different chapter the Dr. has a very positive attitude towards helping others and understanding their lifestyle.
Not only does Dr. try to adapt to new environments but he finds alternatives in these environments to help the people make this trip as successful as possible without medical endurance becoming a problem. Each new chapter is a little of a struggle for him at first but he learns about the new environments and receives a great experience while also helping others and also receiving knowledge that can be applied at the hospital at home.
Currently
Pages:150
She had given me precisely the same answer I get from non compliant patients in New York. The surgery had been two weeks ago. I wouldn't be surprised if the bandage had come off the next day.
This passage from the book stuck out to me this week because it shows how the Dr. is comparing the different practices of medicine. For example, the New York hospital setting of medicine verses the Jungle setting of medicine. It comes to show how in both settings the Dr. is learning to adapt and how medicine can range from different settings.
She had given me precisely the same answer I get from non compliant patients in New York. The surgery had been two weeks ago. I wouldn't be surprised if the bandage had come off the next day.
This passage from the book stuck out to me this week because it shows how the Dr. is comparing the different practices of medicine. For example, the New York hospital setting of medicine verses the Jungle setting of medicine. It comes to show how in both settings the Dr. is learning to adapt and how medicine can range from different settings.
High Mountain Losses
Another chapter in Surviving the extremes that i read was titled high mountains. In the high mountains chapter various tragic events occur and unfortunate families suffer. The helpless travelers suffer to pursue their curiosity even leading to a death.
In the high mountains chapter the group is traveling up to the high mountains on this voyage the author is also involved. He talks of there travels up to the mountain and the struggles. In this chapter the group sets up a base camp with various pharmaceutical medications as well as medical equipment. As they leave from the base camp to higher altitudes and the cold snow falling causes numerous struggles for the team. At one point a team player becomes very sick and he knows of his death he then encourages other the team to go on and leave him behind to die. Although he was humble, he did have one request before dying which was communicating with his pregnant wife before his death. This sad chapter comes to an end with many deaths, tragic, and losses.
In the high mountains chapter the group is traveling up to the high mountains on this voyage the author is also involved. He talks of there travels up to the mountain and the struggles. In this chapter the group sets up a base camp with various pharmaceutical medications as well as medical equipment. As they leave from the base camp to higher altitudes and the cold snow falling causes numerous struggles for the team. At one point a team player becomes very sick and he knows of his death he then encourages other the team to go on and leave him behind to die. Although he was humble, he did have one request before dying which was communicating with his pregnant wife before his death. This sad chapter comes to an end with many deaths, tragic, and losses.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
What can one do just to survive?
This week I continued reading in Surviving the Extremes and finally came to an understanding of the title. While reading the dessert chapter at first I was a little confused because this chapter did not include the doctor but was about another marathon runner.
In the dessert chapter a marathon runner starts off as a healthy runner along with the other runners. The runner who the author chose to write about was a man who was a road traffic officer during the week and trained often for this marathon. It was finally his day to shine and show his talent that he had worked on. Days after the marathon started the runner loses the group and is off to survive on his own.
He manages to survive off the food and water he had packed in his aid kit for a few days when no rescue helicopter was in reach. Days later the food and water supply began to run out and the suns rays were getting to the marathon runner. He was unsure of what to do he went hungry for a few days but still had a source of water to keep himself hydrated.
Water began to run out and he was desperate he knew if he did not get water he would die instantly under the sharp sun rays. As time goes on the runner is forced to drink a bats blood to keep himself alive this was a great example of what people can do to survive under the extreme conditions. Reading further I came to find that the runner went as far as drinking his own urine to keep his body from becoming dehydrated. These were great examples in the book that came to show what people can do to survive under extreme conditions in different environments. These passages were very visual and I was able to picture them due to the descriptions given by the author almost as if I were struggling along with the marathon runner.
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