Journal

Brett Strawn

10-17-11

Prompt:

10-17-11: My past experience is very different from my experience here now. Last year when i first came to the Winchendon School is was very *over whelmed* with the work given. But with hard work and determination i managed to get great grades. My present experience here is going very well, now that i know what to expect. I am not overwhelmed any more, which is a great feeling. My future at the Winchendon School is to get the student of the week award. I would also like achieve high honor roll. Those are my past, present and future experiences here at the Winchendon School.


 * //5/5 - good goals! Capitalize "I".//**

Mood of book so far:

The mood that I feel is the best about the story we are reading now is mysterious. I say this because it mentions how the certain characters are trying to find the killer. Luckily they did find him and he was questioned and thought he had to be punished which is good. I also say that it is mysterious because I feel I do not know what is going to happen next. For an example I would of never of guesses that the man on the highway would of attacked Oedipus, luckily Oedipus could defend him self. Those are the reason why I think this book seems mysterious so far. The setting of this book to me seems to be based on various different places for an example the outside a lot because it mention the highway.

Quote of Jocasta:

The significance of this quote is that to always live the most of every day. It says "seeing that fate rules us" that tells me that they go not know what might happen in their future, so in that case live every day to fullest, fulfill and go after your dreams. It also says, "why should anyone in this world be afraid" this also brings back the point of living in the present because if you are afraid you worry about something has already passed or something that might happen in the future.

Quote from Choragos:

"You suffer it all over, remorse in pain, pain in remorse."(71) To me this quote means that you will feel extreme guilt when you do a certain deed. This deed would have to be very drastic because to feel remorse is not a great feeling and in my opinion pain is just as bad. This would also mean that the action you committed was so drastic you feel pain for the something that you hurt. According to this quote it tells me that the role he is a person that is always there for someone and has good advice to give.

What I think happens to Oedipus: I think what happens at the end is that Oedipus follows his fate and ends up passing away. Although I think this could have been prevented because you can break your fate and control what you think. But although I think he passed away and did not die with pain. But I also believe he could have changed that long ago and kept being a ruler and not stepping down. He can now rest in peace because he knows his daughters and city are in good hands.


 * //14/15 - continue to read closely//**

Significance of quote "A joyless laughter save yourself"

Antigone's feelings on this quote seem to be that she does not agree with Ismene. When Antigone says, "save yourself" it seems as if that Ismene is going to do something very drastic in her future. But why would Antigone just say, "save yourself" and not do anything about it? She probably has told Ismene several times not to do her action but she has not listened. Antigone's feelings towards Ismene are just fed up with her actions. Antigone is a nice person who does not really say much and i think would do something about this situation if she had not warned Ismene about this before

Genesis Response:

This relates to the Greek Myths because of the time base and storyline. A story that compares to Genesis is Zeus. The reason why i chose this story is because Zeus is considered to be the king of all gods. That is how Genesis is describing Lord god to be, the ruler and created of this whole world. Lord god sets all punishments for all the living human beings. Zeus deals with all the punishments as well, and sets the laws for all the gods. Although Zeus did not create everything on earth he still does many things that Lord god does.

12-7-11: The Apocalypse is a popular motif because there is so much to think about. There are so many topics you can think about whether its about movies, stories or your own personal thoughts. The Apocalypse is also very popular because of halloween, this holiday brings in the idea of the Apocalypse by using zombies. This is one way to think about an Apocalypse but there are many other interpretations you can have on this. When I hear the word Apocalypse I think of zombies because of halloween and movies that have been shown.

12-11-11:

What Campbell and Moyers are trying to do here is they are trying to find what is the right way to describe the meaning of a serpent. This comes up a lot on these pages and there are many different ways you can define what a serpent is and what it represents. At the Campbell and Moyers talk about how God is above opposites and what God is in our language.

12-13-11:

1. The difference between poetry and prose is that poetry is its own style of writing, you can write and which ever style that you choose. With prose you have to stick with one type of way to write. The story of Jesus fits into this because it has its own style of writing yet it is sacred text so it needs to have that one way of writing as well.

2. The importance of the burial is that you can either believe that there is a heaven that Jesus went to or there is no such thing as a heaven. We have also seen this burial in the Greek Myths book when the demi gods passed away.

3. The dragon is related to Behemoth because it represents strength of all kinds just like the dragon. The dragon also reminds me of the serpent because the serpent is very persuasive in the bible and a bad symbol, it seems as if the dragon inside of Moyers represents a bad symbol.