Project

https://youtu.be/6CKKd6P073U

Thesis

The poem "Mujer" by William Carlos Williams used black Persian cat as a metaphor to describe the unequal level between women and men.

Peer Review

I think this poem analysis is good that to use a lot of quotations which is in the poem. He connect the quotation with his paper. I think that make this analysis more interesting. Also, he write a lot about the meaning of the poem. In the analysis, he also added his own thinking in the poem. I think this is a good analysis because he uses his own words to explain what the meaning for every sentence in the poem. The words "I count the hours I think of you" appeared lots of times. He spends more time to explain this sentences and says the differences between these two times. In the analysis, he also adds some his own opinions to let people understand it more easy. This is a good start for the analysis I think. The hook “what is love?” is good for readers to make a interest in this analysis. If he just begin this essay, it will be very boring. Also, he doesn’t only explain the sentences, and also he write the meaning of the words. That people can understand the poem not only by the sentences, and also by the verbs and etc.
Although he write so many things about the meaning, he doesn’t spend too many time to explain the deep things in the poem. I think there will have more deep things, such as the background. Why the author wrote this poem? We don’t know the reasons by reading this analysis. I think he can add more like that. Also, I think explain the title will be better because sometimes, the title will have some meaning to the poem. In this analysis, he uses too much time on the meaning to the poem which is not the things that people really want to know. I think add some more experience can make the reader go with the analysis; that will give readers more ideas to understand this poem, even it’s not right at all. By the other side, this analysis is too boring that use too many words in the poem. I think the quote should be in the right place. When the readers read that, they can understand why the author write this sentences.

Another big problem in this analysis is the paragraph. There are only one paragraph through the whole essay. That makes readers hard to read. I think to separate the paragraph will be a better choice because people will know what are they read about in this paragraph. In my opinion, in the first paragraph, he should write something about the meaning in the poem; in the second paragraph, it’s better to write the deep thing, such as the meaning of the title, the background about this poem. If he write this poem for only one paragraph, it will be very messy for the readers to read.

In conclusion, I think this analysis is good to have the meaning for the whole poem. However, it’s better to have more deep thinking and to separate the paragraph.

Drama

We have drama on Friday and Saturday. Because I am a dancer in the first step, I only see the second part, and I already watched that for 3 times.

I was confused when I know we should have a show this week. It is very nervous when the show will began a week later. We spent the whole week to practice and make our dance to be better and better. I learnt this dance in only one week. In the beginning, because I was sick, I missed lots of part of the dance. I couldn't follow others. That made me very said. Then, I practice more and more time, I danced better and better. The only thing that is hard for me is the memorization. I should remember all the things in one week, and the couch wouldn't teach us as carefully as they did in the first time. However, I think I did week on the stage. I smiled and watch the audiences.

When the first step finished, we went to the auditorium to watched the drama. I think this drama is very interesting. Especially, the part for the girl called "Sam" and the boy "John". I like their singing; I like the action of Sam; I like the last part when Sam run after John. The girl is very brave that she can tell the person who she likes. This kind of musical made me very exciting that I want to know more and more, and watch more. I even took a video about this part for my friends to tell them how interesting is this drama. 

I think this drama is very interesting and exciting. I could hear the laughing during the whole show. The audiences are also very nice that they didn't just sit there and watch the show. They gave us the laugh and handclap. I think that was the best encouragement for the actors. 

Analysis --- Mujer

Mujer

A week a ago, I read a poem called Mujer. The poem "Mujer" by William Carlos Williams used black Persian cat as a metaphor to describe the unequal level between women and men. The title of this poem is the Spanish which means the women. In the poem, it writes about the cat. I think this poem is very interesting, so I memorized this poem and wanted to learn it more and more. The meaning of this poem is funny, but also, in the deep of the meaning, this poem is more mysterious. I think this author not only care about the equal between people and people, but also between people and animals.

In the poem the “black persian cat” is special, and it is the main points in the poem. Black Persian Cat is ominous. People will curse them unequally because they afraid they will give them unluck. Then, they “took you for rest”. I think they just kill this unlucky “black persian cat”; it just like “that old”. In my opinion, “Yankee farm” is the heaven. Even there are “so many field mice”, the cat still feel very lonely. In the end, “you return to us” because the retribution is coming. The “black persian cat” wanted someone come to stay with it. This poem has two stanza, and in the second stanza, there are only one sentence which repeats “Oh, black Persian cat.” In the first one, there is a exclamation mark in the end of this sentence. I think because in the beginning, the author wants to stand out the main character “black Persian cat”. Then, in the end, all the things become clam. Also, maybe in the beginning, the author want to explain the fear from people to the “black Persian cat”. However, in the end, the author pities the “black Persian cat”. Although it did not do anything, people cursed them unequally because they were afraid it. When I read this poem, I think it is very interesting and want to know more about it; a week later, I think I know some of the meaning in deeply.

By reading more and more time, I began to understand this poem. In the beginning, I said, “Mujer” is the Spanish which means “the women”. No one will write a title which is not connected with his poem. Therefore, the “black persian cat” is meaning the “women”. It is the metaphor in the poem. Also, “black persian cat” also mean the “woman”. The author want to talk about the curse of women in the ancient. As we know, in the ancient, people think women is lower than the man. Man can have education and work outside. The woman should stay in home and take care of the field. I think it is very unfair to the women because we both have the life from our parents, and we cannot choose our sex before we come to this world. That’s the reason to say, “Was not your life already cursed with offspring?” Because the women cannot choose their destiny, they are cursed when they was borned. “We took you for rest to that old.” It means they want woman listen to them, just stay in the home that is like “that old”. “Yankee farm” means they should work in the farm and cannot go outside. That’s why they feel “so lonely” no one stay with them; the only thing in the farm is “so many field mice”. If you are the women in in the farm by yourself and there are no one take care about you, what will you do? therefore , they “return to us”. I think this is the liberty of the women. By reading this poem deeply, I know find the author wants to talk about the unequal care about women and men. We can see the difference care for women before by this poem. I think that’s why the author write “Oh, Black Persian cat.” in the end again. He wants explain the social problem in the world. I think this is a good poem because no one can tell their voice at that time.

The whole poem is the metaphor which is talk about the “black persian cat”. The author both talk about the unfair of the women also about the black persian cat. I think that is really good because there are lots of unequal things in our life, between human and human and also between human and animal. I think the author wants tell people take care of everything equally. If you don’t do that, the retribution will come soon. When I knew the meaning about this poem, I began to think about my life. Should we separate the different level between the people? I think everyone should be the same.

Poem

https://youtu.be/rbSOajGCBpQ

Muier-William Carlos Williams

Oh, black Persian cat! 
Was not your life 
already cursed with offspring? 
We took you for rest to that old 
Yankee farm, — so lonely 
and with so many field mice 
in the long grass — 
and you return to us 
in this condition —! 

Oh, black Persian cat. 

Fun poem

People paused

in the middle of doing whatever 

they are doing to stop and talk 

Just as they still pause

Talk to Pobby and Dingan

The opal in their dreams

Poem

Boarding school provides a safe environment 

students explore their independence 

learn to take responsibility 

Living on campus provides students 

the structure and adult guidance 

build build self-reliance and maturity 

serve them well in college and beyond.

Haiku (spring)

Rain is getting stop,

Sunshine comes out with dew,

The spring is coming.

The Tyger (BY WILLIAM BLAKE)

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,

In the forests of the night;

What immortal hand or eye,

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies.

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? what dread grasp,

Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears

And water'd heaven with their tears:

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright,

In the forests of the night:

What immortal hand or eye,

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

This poem is praising the tiger. The writer said the tiger is very strong, and its eyes are very bright. He was confused this kind of eyes can on the world. Therefore, on the second stanza, he said “In what distant deeps and skies”. In this part, the writer think there’s no eyes like this even in the hell or the heaven. By the other side, the writer also said, “On what wings dare he aspire?” I think he wanted to said the tiger can get rid of any dilemma just like the god, Icarus. Also, in the third stanza, there is a word, “shoulder”. The shoulder can mean the whole body in this poem. And, also in the third stanza, “And when thy heart began to beat” It can mean when it was born on the world. In writer’s opinion, he think the tiger is brave, smart and intrepid. I think he was talking about someone, but I am not sure about that. Maybe there is a person like this tiger.

In this poem, the writer use rhythm in it. In the first stanza, the writer use “bright, night” and “eye, symmetry”; in the other stanza, the writer also use the rhythms. Then, in the last stanza, the writer rewrite the first stanza.

I like this poem, because the writer use lots of rhetorical device. And I think these rhetorical devices are very interesting. On the other hand, the writer included lots of fairy tales into the poem. These fairy tales are all the bad ending and the gods are very hard in the stories. I think these want to say even the tiger is very hard to live, but it still live very well in the world. I think this poem want to tell us we should do our best to live in the world.

Poem

Falling

Patrick Phillips

The truth is that I fall in love
so easily because

it’s easy.
It happens

a dozen times some days.
I’ve lived whole lives,

had children,
grown old, and died

in the arms of other women
in no more time

than it takes the 2-train
to get from City Hall to Brooklyn,

which brings me back
to you: the only one

I fall in love with
at least once every day--

not because
there are no other

lovely women in the world,
but because each time,

dying in their arms,
I call your name.

I chose this Poem because I could not understand it.I wanted to learn what this poem mean and why the writer write that. I like this one because I think the sentences are very graceful. I think this poem is talking about how the people fell when they fall in love.

Reflection

Painting Project For Pobby And Dingan

Last two weeks, we did a creative project for the book, Pobby and Dingan. I chose painting to do this project because I want to use painting to express this book. However, I think I am not very successful.

For this project, I paint Kellyanna, Pobby and Dingan on the paper. However, I did not draw Pobby and Dingan’s body because they are Kellyanna’s imaged friends. Then, I design how to draw Pobby and Dingan, so I draw their shadows. I draw three shadows for Pobby, Dingan and Kellyanna. I did not draw Kellyanna’s legs because in the end, she has already died. She is looking at a house. In my opinion, she cannot forget the her family, especially Ashmol, because he is the only one went to the claim to look for Pobby and Dingan. I think for the book, Ashmol is the only one really want Kellyanna to be better. That’s why he tried every thing that can make Kellyanna feel better. By the other way, his father care more about his job and his future; his mother care more about her choice before and her future. I think for this part, we can see the difference between adults and children. Children are more naive than adults. They think less about the works, money and life. They just help someone that they like. They did everything they want and they like.

For their house, I use the dark color that I want to say their family is sad for Kellyanna’s death. However, I use the light blue for the sky because I think even there is a family member died, they still should work and get more money to make this family to get better. Also, because people believe Kellyanna’s father is going to look for Pobby and Dingan, he is not the ratter any more; he can work in the claim again. That is another “nice day”. On the ground, there are nothing there because Kellyanna died, she won’t say more things about Pobby and Dingan. However, it looks not very comfortable because Kellyanna leave also.

In the beginning, I was thinking to draw the life that the left Kellyanna, Pobby and Dingan. However, that should draw like a cartoon, and that is the worst thing I drawed. I think their father and mother will still prepare for another three plates for Kellyanna, Pobby and Dingan. Maybe father will regret why he didn’t take more care about Kellyanna before. Therefore, for the Painting, I drew a view of Kellyanna’s back. That make she looks sad and worry. I think she is worry about her family; she is sad about she didn’t she died so young that she didn’t have a nice life. However, she is not lonely because Pobby and Dingan are staying with her.

I tried my best to do this project, but it still have so many problems. For example, I want to finish my project in the weekend that I have three days to change it. However, Ms. Kubat forgot sent email to tell AOD to open the Art Building for me, so I just can do that on Wednesday. Therefore, I have no time to change it. Then, the house, shadows, sky and etc. are all very simple. That is not the painting that I want to get. Also, in the beginning, I said I want to draw a opal in the sky, but when I finish most of the things on the paper, I find I have no time to draw the opal. Therefore, I just draw a very simple sky on the paper.

I have so many things should be improve. I think I will do better next time.

In Class Writing

Last week, I finish my outline for my painting. However, because this weekend Ms. Kubat forgot told AOD to open the door for me, I could not use the art building because I did not get the permission to do that. Therefore, I just stay in my room and change a little bit outline about my project, I thought about what should I writing on my painting, and where should I put. In this week, I will spend more time on color it and design it. I thought I should put more details in my painting. I was thinking about putting an opal on the top right side to be a sun.

Pobby and Dingan Project

I want to do the painting. Every week, I will spend  two or three hours in the art building to do the work. I think if I do the artwork, I cannot work too less once because artwork should be silent and slow; that will let people deep in painting. Therefore, maybe I will spend more time one week and less week to do my work. If there are too long time between two time of paint, the felling will be different. I have two reasons that I want to do my painting project.

First, I found a very interesting picture about Pobby and Dingan online, I want to paint them out and show that to the others. Also, I want to change a little thing in it because I want to draw Pobby and Dingan very clearly. On the other hand, I think this picture summarize a lot about the whole book.

Second, I want to have the art major later, so I want to draw as many as I can. Because in the dorm, I will draw something on my own book. Then, I will choose some to be my portfolio. I think this work also can be part of that. Also, because I always stay in my room during the weekend, I think I should go outside. I want to do some work and walk a little. Maybe, when I have done this work, I will go outside every weekend and go to someplace to paint.

I also asked other what are they work about. However, I think the board game have two people is enough; I am not very good at action; the essay should spend long time, and if there are two people in it, it should be very long work. By this reasons, I think the painting is the best choice for me.

The Quote of The Book

The Quote of The Book

"The secret of an opal's color lies not in its substance but in its absences." This is a sentence with in the beginning of the book. I did not know what it means before. However, when I finish my book, I began to understand what that means.

According to the book, we know that Kellyanna died in the end. I think at that moment, Ashmo know that the most important thing is his sister, and it is not the opal or anything else. In the beginning of the story, Ashmol seems he doesn’t like Kellyanna because she has two imaged friends. He thinks people are laughing at his family because they have a child like that. People cannot understand Keeyanna about her two friends because no one can see them. However, in the later story, Ashmol began to want to help Kellyanna to find her friends. He thinks Kellyanna will get the sick because these two friends disappeared. Ashmaol tries to make Kellyanna feels better. Even he thinks she is stupid that she believe she has two imaged friends, but she is also his sister. Then, he goes to the dark claim at the midnight and helps Kellyanna to find Pobby and Dingan. In his mind, he believes Pobby and Dingan are real. Then, he find a opal under a big rock. Although Ashmol can use this opal to make his family have a better life, he uses this opal to pay for Kellyanna’s funeral. I think that because he finds that the family member is more important than the better life.

On the other hand, when Ashmol use opal to pay for the funeral to the funeral for Pobby and Dingan. Ashmol’s father did not stop him. He also wants to make Kellyanna to be better. In the beginning of the story, how hard is him to find a opal in the claim. Even if he is called ratter, he still goes to make a new claim on the other place. However, after Kellyanna get the sick and just can lie on the bed, he seems have more humanization. In the courthouse, he talks about Kellyanna’s two imaged friends and told others how grievous his daughter is. Also, he doesn’t stop Ashmol to pay the funeral with the opal. I think that because he thinks his daughter is more important.

I think for this sentence, the opal means the money and the better life; the absences means the family member which is Kellyanna. Ashmol, father,and the members in that village all changed because of Kellyanna’s sick. People do not think father is a ratter anymore; Ashmol likes his sister more and tries to help her; father changes a lot that he doesn’t care about money so much like the beginning. They all want to save Kellyanna’s life. Because if they lose the money, they can use other way to get them back, but if they lose Kellyanna, they have no way to see her anymore. I think that is the meaning of the quote.

Quiz

2. The claim are the ocean before. That is very unbelievable for Ashmol because the land was all of the water before but now, there are lots of rocks and sands. After he remember this, he think everything will be possible. Therefore, Pobby and Dingan also can be true. They are both very strange to the others, but maybe that is very normal for his sister, Kelltanna. Just like the land is ocean before is very strange to them, but it was very normal for the people at that time.

5. Rex's dream is to find the opal and get enough money for his family. That they can have a better life. But the are very hard. Just like Kellyanna's friend. people cannot see them, just Kellyanna can see them. They both make people very hard to believe they are true. Rex's dream is the same. Even his wife cannot believe him also. However, although no one believe he can find the opal, he still work very hard. Kellyanna is as same as him. She believe Pooby and Dingan are the real, so she tried to find them. 

Group 2: Question 4

Because he want to make his sister to feel better, also when his sister feels better, his mom would also be happier. On the other hand, that opal is not his, so he could not decide to sell it. We agree with his choice because if he can help Kellyanna hold a funeral, that means Pobby and Dingan are real friends and so people in the Lightning Ridge will believe that his Dad is not a ratter, which is the main reason he wants to help his daughter to find Pobby and Dingan.

Spring Break

In this spring break, I went to have some classes about my drawing. I live in Changzhou, but my mom thought there's no great teacher about drawing in Changzhou, so she found a professor in Wuxi for me. 

Because the place for me is too far away, I almost should spend 1 hour on the way there. That is a Art university. Professor let me drew with the students in the morning. In the beginning, I am very embarrassing because there only me is a high school students. However, after spending one day with them, I found they are also the students. Most of the topic they are talking about I knew and can talk with them. Over there, I have a good time.

However, although I have leant drawing for more than 10 years, I didn't draw anymore when I come to America. Also, I didn't draw the same kind of art. Therefore, I have so many problems when I was drawing. Professor taught me the way to draw that. First, he drew one and give me to see the steps to draw those. Than, he told me how to make the works looks really. Next, he let me draw one for him to see, and he will give me some advice when I was drawing. Finally, when I have done my work, he let me see what should I add. 

I draw 7 works in my whole spring break. In the beginning, I just drew some objects. Then, I began to draw the face of the people. In the end, I drew some clothes, shoes and jeans. I told professor I want to lean fashion design. He gave me lots of materials about fashion. He told me if I want to lean, I will lean well. I thinks  so.,I will spend some of my rest time on practicing drawing.

Pobby And Dingan

Pobby And Dingan

From the book, I knew Dingan is a very pretty, there is a “lovely opal in her bellybutton”. Pobby “had a limp in his right leg”. They speak English and like to whistle. Also, they don’t sleep and shoot. Kellyanna said they are pacifists. By the movie, we can see, Pobby is fat and short, and Dingan has long hair, and she is tall and thin.

I think in the common days, Pobby and Dingan will go anywhere with Kellyanna because they are the friends. When Kellyanna is having the classes, maybe they will also sit beside her and listen the classes with her. Maybe they will tell Kellyanna don’t forget to take notes; maybe they will tell her the answers when she got the questions in the class; maybe they will go to the front desk and make a joke with the teachers. After the classes, they will have a good time in the school. Maybe the other students will feel Kellyanna is crazy, but she won’t care about that. When they should go back home, Pobby and Dingan will go beside Kellyanna. If there are some cars go very quickly, they will notify her and let her go inside.

In the book, her father said he will take Pobby and Dingan to the exercise. I think they are not happy because Ashemol and father never think they are real. However, Kellyanna wants them go, so they go with father and Ashemol. However, when they come to the claim, they find father and Ashemol don’t want to take care of them, so they just come out of the car and play by themselves. They hope the night will come that they can go back home and find Kellyanna, but when they are playing, they forget the time and they cannot find the ways in the claim. They are fearful and wait the people can find them.

I think Pobby and Dingan will be the good friends because they are quiet, they can listen to Kellyanna they what she wants to tell others, but she cannot say. Also, because Dindan is pretty, Kellyanna can wear the clothes like her. By the other way, because they won’t sleep, they can think for Kellyanna what she forget for the next day.