Friday, May 18, 2012

What is true happiness?

In the book Brave New World they talk about being happy is better than knowing the truth. I completely disagree because if you are happy but only know what people want you to know, you are pretty much living a lie. There are no problems with emotions, life or any struggles in this book. Everyone is always happy because thats how they are basically programmed to be.

Big question

How far would you go to figure out the truth? In Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Jacobs grandfather tells him all these storeis from during world war 2. These stories have outragous charectors and crazy things nobody could believe. His father tells him the stories are just stretched out a little but nobody actually believes him. Jacob wants to but these stories make it a little hard on him to trust his grandfather. One day Jacobs grandpa called him at work and was freaking out saying that he was being attacked and told Jacob to go to the island where he will be safe. Jacob and a friend went to go check his grandpa and make sure he was okay. Everything looked very strange when they got to his grandfather’s house. Jacob found his grandfather dead with the house a complete wreck.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Sneetches Allegory!

The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss represents allegory. Allegory is a symbolical meaning such as from characters, objects, settings or events. The sneetches all want to look alike and keep getting stars put on and taken off over and over to look the same. The allegory behind this is about people trying to fit in. No matter what you look like weather you're black, white, tall, short, skinny, fat, boy, girl or of any kind, we are all the same. The sneetches use all their money to get a star on and then take it back off over and over. Until, they learn that the star doesn't make them different and they are all the same. McMonkey McBean was exploding theyre fear and prejudice and game. He was just like a carney person. Taking peoples money by ripping them off. But in the end he tought them a lesson.
Mr. Spence is like McMonkey McBean, and all the students are all like the Sneetches. But Mr. Spence wishes he could walk away with tons of cash after teaching us a lesson. He would not like rob us, and have some how that cash would magically appear.