An Inductive Leap Too Far

An instance where a character makes an inductive leap which proves to be incorrect, is in the novel Night Elie Wiesel. In this book, the Jewish citizens of Wiesel's town are all under the impression that the gestapo coming to their town is a good thing. They have heard that the gestapo are brutal killers, but when the gestapo originally come to them, they are kind, even giving gifts to the families. In the end, this is most definately not the case. Soon after, the Jewish citizens are segregated in ghettos, and beaten brutally at times.

The reason that this decision was made was perhaps because the characters were wishing that the Germans would not really do as they were fabled to do in the stories they had heard. 

Hunger Games Wordle Explained

1. What is the purpose of your poem? What mood, message or point are you trying to make? The point which I am trying to make is that the idea behind the hunger games. Tributes participate in a competition which is a fight to the death to win food and such for their district. The winner is able to return to their family and friends, whereas the defeated are dead and therefore unable to return to family and friends, at least not alive. This is my reasoning for placing the such words in the wordle as the words are things such as Katniss and her friends as well as the basic concept behind the games themselves. 2. What did you do to create this purpose? Discuss your word choice and your decision on the size of particular words in comparison to other words. How I created this purpose is through the particular use of particular words. I used the names of Katniss' friends such as Gale to show that this is perhaps one of the reasons that she wants to return home, other than simply just not being brutally murdered in the games 3. Did you like using Wordle? Come up with other possible uses of Wordle inside and outside of English class. I suppose that the use of wordle was alright, and their is really not another way to do something like this in another simple manner. Another use of wordle could be some sort of assisting method for an alternate project. For example if one is doing a project on Nuclear fusion, he/she could include words such as hydrogen bomb, nuclear reaction, fusion, fusing, and the radioactive.

Hunger Games Concrete Poem Using Wordle.net

Significant Characteristic

I am currently reading the novel entitled The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. An important characteristic is the location itself, as the what is happening here would not occur at this point in our reality. This makes for a very significant characteristic as this shows us that it is a very different world.

Another important characteristic in this novel is the main character herself, Katniss. Without her, there would not be much of a story, as her younger sister would have been sent to the hunger games and would have realistically been killed very quickly. This would make for an unexciting story, as it would have a pathetically fast and most likely not have much of a real plot line, in terms of her victory.

Film Adaptation (Part A)

     The Book Fahrenheit 451 has been turned into a movie.
     In the film adaptation, the plot line is slightly altered, for example, at the beginning of the novel, the main character's, Guy Montag's, wife has overdosed on some pharmaceutical drug and she needs to have her stomach pumped. In the novel, the first time he comes home, she is laying on the ground like this, whereas in the movie, it is the second lime he comes home, and the events which occur after this occurrence in the book, occur before this in the film adaptation. The reasoning for changing parts around like this is most likely because they make more sense in relation to the other alterations in this film. Reason for cutting sections out of the book is simply because there are time restrictions on how much can actually be used to make the movie, and these may be over the limit, so cuts need to be made.
   
     I thought that the film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 was an alright creation because the story is still the same, just with semi-minor alterations. Generally, the film adaptations are not as good as the books anyway, and it is the same for essentially everything else as well: video games made into films are often not that great (the movie, I mean, not the video game itself) It is still a good story, no matter what changes are made, unless the film director really messes up in recreating the storyline from the novel into a film.

Suspense

        In the book Fahrenheit 451, a point at which there is a considerable amount of suspense is when the main character, Guy Montag, is sitting in his bed, with a book under his pillow, and his wife is trying to get at his pillow to fluff it, while Montag's boss, Beatty, is sitting right in the room talking to him. To understand this, one needs to know that it is illegal to have books in this books universe, and Montag's job is to burn books when they are found. Now, Montag is sitting in his bed with the book under the pillow, and Mildred (his wife) is trying to get at the pillow beneath him to "fluff" the pillow. She keeps trying, even though Montag is telling her to leave as he is speaking with his boss, when she reaches under the pillow, and feels the edge of a book. This section of the book is almost slowed down as Montag sits speaking with Beatty, listening to him talk about the fact that they allow the firefighters to have the books for a single day, then if the firefighter hasn't gotten rid of it yet, they will get rid of it for them. During this portion of the story, the author speaks of every possible feature during the drawn out process.

        The point of view is telling only what Guy Montag thinks, not what Mildred or Beatty thinks, which means that the author does not know what anyone except for the protagonist is thinking. Also, the fact that the setting of this portion is in all in Montag's room, only really taking a few seconds, but seeming to take far longer than what is perceived also sort of makes the reader keep thinking that something is going to happen, even if nothing truly does happen. The mood which was created during this part is also dark. Montag has just aided the fire team in burning a house full of books (the house which he attained the bible he currently has hidden under his pillow) and a women who refused to leave the house when the poured kerosene all over the house and books, which inevitably cost her her own life. This makes Montag feel sick, and he begins to question alot of things, especially what is in the books which would make someone want to die when they could no longer have them.

Point of View

     Elie Wiesel's Night is told from a first person perspective, from the authors own perspective. The author chose to tell the story this way, because it was a memoir of the author himself (a young Jewish person), who had been to and survived the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. The author chose this perspective as then the reader could get the story told first hand, as it is told from the point of view of someone who has experienced the horrors of this said death camp, not someone interpreting what happens, from their own point of view.

     Personally, I would not change the point of view. My reasoning for this is that you only get to know what the character knows at the same time as the character: you don't have someone saying what is happening elsewhere in the story, it is just what the main character's retelling of what he saw/experienced, which adds to the reality that this really happened.