Making an advertisement

Duiring last week we work on making like the "script" of an advertisement for a cellphone, after that the teacher ask us to make the text we make into a full ad and this is what i`ve do, it is and ad about the new Blackberry Z10.

Language and Literature year 11

This year we will take a look at mass communication, we will be looking and studying media texts of al types and we will also do some crytical analysis.On the second semester we will take a look again at literature reading the famous novel Jane Eyrie and a collection of poems. I expect this year to have many challenges involving english but I trust that my capabylities will be enough to have a succesful year.

AD ANALYSIS

1.- The producer of this ad is axe

2.-It is enticing because it give  a very powerful for many men affecting their emotions.

3.- The value they show is love and that it is more important to have a social life than playing video games

4.-The girl views is left apart because this is a totally male oriented advertisement and also their are shown as very superficial.

5.-Convince men to buy this product by catching their attetion showing waht would the product do for them

Fatelessness book trailer

During last week we were gaven the task of making a book trailer for fatelessness in groups of three, I was not very happy about it, but then I realized how entertaining it was to practise our actor skills with my group and we passed a very good time doing the trailer, here is the link, hope you enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjwzH4l-YEI&feature=plcp

Men writing as women and women writing as men

In this entry I search a little about wmen writing as men and women writing as men

Men approach

Samuel Richardson

Richardson more or less invented the English novel with Pamela, written in the form of letters from a 15-year-old servant girl in the household of country squire Mr B to her anxious parents. Eighteenth-century readers were amazed by the author's knowledge of female emotions and female clothing.

John Cleland

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as "Fanny Hill", is narrated by a naive northern girl who comes to London to seek her fortune. She soon falls into the hands of a top brothel keeper, and good copy for Cleland's pornographic purposes is ensured. After a few dizzy years as a whore Fanny is still the good-hearted girl she was on page one and is rewarded with a happy marriage.

Women approach

The Professor by Charlotte Brontë

Brontë may be known as a great recorder of female experience, but her first completed novel (published posthumously) is narrated by a man. William Crimsworth is a northern lad who becomes a teacher in a girls' school in Brussels. Before he finds love with a pupil-teacher at the school, he has to survive the flirtatious mockery of all those teenage girls.

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Wharton's story is told by a nameless young man, who has been sent by his employers to the small town of Starkfield in wintry New England. He is intrigued by the mysterious Ethan, whom he hires as his driver. Thus we get access to the tale of Ethan's passion for Mattie, his wife's cousin. It all ends in a very nasty sledging accident.

These approach give a very interesting point of view about gender types and how do they see the other. I think that is a really good thing to write in this stle since the athor can understand better women problems and have more constructive opinions about gender roles, although there are natral limitation in this approach like that a man do not think in the same way as  a woman

Anne Frank diary

Now, after I have finish my written task I have started reading fatelessness again, but when i was going page by page throught the chapters, I started thinking how was WWII but in another point of view, from another boy or girl that live in those times. Thinking about it it quickly appeared in my head Anne Frankk  and his incredible story so I decided to write about her story, her diary and her life during that period, in order to understand better the context of "fatelessness" since bothe the novel and the diary have many simmilarities, being the mos important one, that both narrators where boys and the authors live in those times and suffer the Nazi attrocities.

Plot and story summary:During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands Anne Frank began to keep a diary on June 14, 1942, two days after her 13th birthday, and twenty two days before going into hiding with her mother Edith Frank, father Otto Frank, sister Margot Frank and three other people, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, and Peter van Pels. The group went into hiding in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of her father's office building in Amsterdam. The sealed-off upper-rooms also contained a hidden door behind which the Franks would hide during the parts when Nazi soldiers were investigating the buildings for harbored Jews. Mrs. van Pels' dentist, Fritz Pfeffer, joined them four months later. In the published version, names were changed: the van Pels are known as the Van Daans and Fritz Pfeffer is known as Mr. Dussel. With the assistance of a group of Otto Frank's trusted colleagues, they remained hidden for two years and one month, until their betrayal in August 1944, which resulted in their deportation to Nazi concentration camps. Of the group of eight, only Otto Frank survived the war. Anne died in Bergen-Belsen from a typhus infection in early March, shortly (about two weeks) before liberation by British troops in April 1945.

Here is a video I find very emotive about Anne Frank and her diary:

Rationale

I choose to make a new chapter, more like a "new opening" about George Koves and "Fatelessness". I did it beacuse it is important to underdtand better the context of the novel and most importantly, try to understand what have happened and how the situation have develop up to the point where rhe novel begins.

As we know George is a dinamic character, and as a 1st person narrator, we can see how he is constantly changing both emotionally an physically and that is what I try to capture through my "new opening" for the novel. I think that it was better to make the tense in past since I want him to relate why he was in the situation he was at the beggining of the novel by relating it and foreshadowing what will happen next in the novel as for example I insinuated his parents discussions.

About the context of the novel, I decided to show a little about Jewish customs, like the sSbbath, but mainly about the nazi invasion and the quickly  installment of their ideology in Budapest as happen in many places of Europe during WWII. I write about the discrimination of Jewish people, the imposition of wearing "yellow stars to know there believes and how their where sent to ghettos, taken away from their houses and without the option to protest since they will get "tortured". All the above situation is directly related to the mood and the tone of both the novel and my chapter because that situation was of great desperation, resigned and suspenseful since Jewish didn`t know what will happen next, and that it is exactly what I look foward to in my task, to show the resigned and suspense in wich the Jewish were forced to live inside the Gheto walls after being taken away from their homes by the germans.

Written task

  (I will write the rationale in the following post.)

This is the big one, hope you enjoy:

"Today was a very strange day, I mean we have a nice family Sabbath and I turn 13th the day before  although there was something strange in the air and I couldn`t tell what it was, I think it have something to do with the germans as most of the chat on the meeting was about  all the rumours that stay they are getting closer to Budapest. Anyways I have a quite nice time and even my mother and father didn`t have any discussion, as they usually have about even non-importance things, like if the kosher was too cook or not. 

At about midnight I was tired so I went to bed, but the problem was that I couldn`t sleep much since at around 6:00 am I reckon, I was awaked by a powerful noise that was coming from the outside. I tried to ignore it but it was too anoying so I didn`t have any option but to open the window and  take a looked at what was going on. I was astonished , in the street a very peculiar show was going on, as some people were running from  many men dressed in the same clothes  and some of them running, others marching, all of them with guns,and I could see the same scene whereas I look. I quickly realize then that they were Germans and I deduced they must have entered the city and take it very fast. Anyways  it was too early and I was still tired so I find nothing bette than went back to my bed  and fall sleep, I mean actually I wasn`t very interested  in that stuff back then.

I remember that the next days were of great disorder in the city. First the germans were gathering mass groups of people iin different points  of the city as I was told by my father. When we get to the nearest point from our house. The line move fast and when we get to the control desk, they asked us many things, much of them common as I reckon, except one that it seems they asked everyone there, I wouldn`t care of it but that question look very important for them as they insisted a lot in it, and it was who was Jewish and who wasn`t one. Naturally my parents answer that we were Jewish and after that it was strange since the officer did not ask any more questions and send us  to another line that turn out to be eternal for me.As time passed I was annoyed  because those who weren`t Jewish could just leave the place and went to their homes and  those who  were Jewish, were just like us in that infinite lines. 

Finally we were the first ones in the line and we were given a "yellow star" wich we were instructed to have at all times cause if not we will get punished, before leaving the officer tell something to my parents that totally aggravate their faces but still we  leave quite quickly. On the way home we stoped at a grocery were my mother have a really nasty discussion with the owner since prices were  far more expensive for jewish than the rest of the people, wich I think was totally non sense.

 Until that moment I didn`t find anything so terrible, but the next day the worst thing happen. We were having breakfast when a German officer knock the door and when my parents went, I heared that my mom started crying. I was a bit worried since she don`t usually cry but when they came back they were silent and that uncomfortable silent stay for the rest of the breakfast. When I was leaving to my room, my dad stoped me and asked me to packed evetyhing I consider important, and when I asked him why, he just  answer me that a dark cloud was coming and then he hug me for a quite long time. Don`t ask me why but when I was packing I realized we were being moved from our house and that was why my fathers were so upset during the last day and breakfast.

Time passed and we were bored waiting for the truck to pass. We were outside our house and after two hours  the truck finally pass. We went on board after having to left one bag behind, as those were the "orders",just one bag for person. After that we began the trip through the dark and ruin streets of Budapest after all the air raids and gun firing. It was a very long trip for me and I was kinda depressed by looking at the crumbling city.

When we finally arrive to our new place, that seems like a complex for me, I was surprised by two things. First everyone there was Jewish as we could saw; ans the secong thing was that I could only figure out one word to describe the whole place and our apartment, and it was "small". We could not asked for anything better although, since those who protested we saw that were being punished, according to rumours tortured, and  send to  "labour camps" as germans called them. We couldn`t get out of there unless for work and food was expensive and scarce. I remember that I was hoping that situation to end soon but in the meanwhile  I maked new friends in school back then and I quickly get used to wearing the star. At that time my mom start dicussing again with my father and  eeverything stay went back to "normal". Although I  remember I was not sure about what would have happened in the future just as I am now...