Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Poe.


The Tell Tale Heart.
In this story, Poe talks of an old man with one blue eye with film over it, and how it disturbs him to the point of madness and brings him murderous contemplations. He goes into the old mans chamber every night, it's not the old man he wants to get rid of, it's the eye. On the night he is ready to kill the old man, he describes how the beating of his heart angers him. "It was wide open, wide, wide open-and I was furious as I gazed apon it." (Page 5) Then he threw the old man on the ground and thrust the bed apon him and he died I guess. He then dismembered the body and put the pieces under the planks on the floor. Three police then came over, and the murderer gradually became more and more insane until he shouted, "Villians! Disassemble no more, I admit the deed!- tear up the planks! Here! Here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!" (Page8)
In Edgar Allen Poe's, "The Tell Tale Heart," the main character is the old man and the man speaking in first person. He describes the old man as a nice man. "I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me an insult." (page3) Then the reason for his passionate hatred comes out. "I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture-a pale blue eye with film over it. Whenever it fell apon me, my blood ran cold: and so by degrees-very gradually-I made up my mind to rid myself of the eye forever." (Page 3) He even describes himself as being mad. A little later in the story, he describes how the old man is sitting erect on his bed in pure terror. He also describes the awful beating of the old mans heart, and how it is driving him even further into madness until he pushed so far and he kills the old man.
If I were to be appointed the director of the film, "The Tell Tale Heart," I would not leave any detail out, everything is important, every detail of madness and insanity is completely and utterly necessary. The main character, which I am assuming is Edgar Allen Poe, would once again be Edward Norton. He is a very talented actorand I'm sure he would dilligently replicate the schizophrenic characters that Poe depicted in "The Tell Tale Heart." As for the horrid old man with the disgusting eye and hideous heart beat, I guess that could be easilly played by my grandfather because he has a similar case of the light blue eye with the film over it. For the police officers, they would be Randen, Cody, and Matthew because thy're funny and I love those kids.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Today in History.














Today in World History, we had a test on Europes Enlightenment period. This being the scientific revolution, Philosophy and the Age of Reason, Britain at Mid Century, and The Birth of the American Republic. It wasn't a hard test, it was open note so information wasn't really needed to be memorized. Some of the influential people of this time were Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Yep, this was

World History today.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Today in math.


Well, we have a substitute for the next two weeks. She's nice I guess, she has a weird personality. We took notes today that were prewritten by Mr. Drollinger. We are doing 9.1, and it's about Joint and Inverse Variations. The general equation for inverse variation is y=k/x, and you're usually solving for k. Then there's like a million different joint variations equations that I don't really care about. We had homework, and Erin drew sexual organs on a piece of paper.

One word that defines me.


One word that defines myself is pessimistic. I hardly ever have a positive outlook. I always think things are going for the worst, and that things will never get better. That's just how I was raised, with my mom doing the things she does, and my dad saying the things he says. I don't know. This hasn't been a good week for me, and I guess this word I am using to define myself is just corresponding with the emotions I've been having and will change next week as they constantly change.

Friday, February 13, 2009




I think books effect everone differently, and theres really no book "everyone" should read, because everyone is different. I think "Go Ask Alice," is a great book about a teen who went in so many different directions, and how drugs completely shattered her life. It most definently made me think about drugs seriously and how they can really turn a persons life around.








I think people interested in Japanese culture should read "Memoirs of a Geisha." I've always been interested in Japanese history and their culture, and this is definently one of my favorite books of all time, after reading it three times and memorizing the lines, I personally reccomend this to anyone.