2015年3月28日 星期六

青少年小說week 5

3/26   Finding Forester


Movie: Finding Forrester


Finding Forrester is a 2000 American drama film written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus Van Sant. An African-American teenager, Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), is invited to attend a prestigious private high school. By chance, Jamal befriends a reclusive writer, William Forrester (Sean Connery), through whom he refines his talent for writing and comes to terms with his identity.






·         The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.





·         No thinking - that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!





·         Bitterly disappointed teachers are either very effective or very dangerous.”





·         "The rest of those who have gone before us cannot steady the unrest of those to follow." You wrote that in your book.








·         Writers write things to give readers something to read.














2015年3月21日 星期六

青少年小說week 4

3/19  Finding Forester

l      Finding Forrester - Movie Trailer

Book: 
Chekhov
The Temple of Dawn
The Sound of Waves (Yukio Mishima)





·         Finding- Coleridge, Kipling, and more


Fartheràfarther should be used for physical distance 
E.g. We walked farther than we planned.
Furtheràfurther means to a greater extent or degree.
E.g. Now we live further away from the city center.


·         "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness.




Initiation
Initial

·         Mark David Chapman is an American prison inmate who pleaded guilty to murdering John Lennon on December 8, 1980. Chapman fired at Lennon five times, hitting him four times in his back. Chapman remained at the scene reading J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye until the police arrived and arrested him. Chapman repeatedly said that the novel was his statement.

Almost broke my neck

Red-hunting hat


Symbol: museum

·         Connecting Henry David Thoreau &Holden’s need for ESCAPE
Walden
à to front only the essential facts of life

·         Chap. 1
Prep school
A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (also known prep school) is a secondary school, either public or private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education.

Phony (n.)(adj.)
If you describe something as phony, you disapprove of it because it is false rather than genuine.

Chap. 2
“ Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. ”

NYU New York university
CUNY The City University of New York 
SUNY The State University of New York

Chap.25
“Smoke Gets in Yours Eyes” 眼睛泛起淚光


Chp26
“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
à Genuine act, and not trust with others.


·         The books which Holden had been read:
David Copperfield/ Oliver Twist à Bildungsroman
Out of Africa



·         Forester: Just remember that bitterly disappointed teachers can be either very effective or dangerous.

·         英國文學浪漫時期五大詩人
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
William Blake
John Keats


·         The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. 




·     Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry.




·         Kipling “ The way through the woods” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aGIWYE5C0Q

Blasphemies: You can describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy. 


·         James Madison
James Madison, Jr. was an American statesman, political theorist, and the fourth President of the United States (1809–17). He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for being instrumental in the drafting of the U.S. Constitution and as the key champion and author of the Bill of Rights. He served as a politician much of his adult life.