I'm doing this early because I will be in D.C. this weekend ^^, (so excited) and I'm not bringing my laptop, and although they probably have computers at the hotel, I don't think I'll have time.
For my trend, I think it's going to be OK if I can just find a few charts or graphs. Or data of some sort for deafness among teens. See, since I'm doing the effects of modern music on teen's everyday lives (language and hearing, mostly, maybe style or personality, morals) then I would love to compare with rates from a while ago, like maybe as far back as the Beatles (1960s).
So. This Week's Reading.
Before we get started, I'll give you a hint: title is a synonym for RED+ the letter "t" , sequel to Gone With The Wind, but by a different author. I like GWTW better. She's unscandalous, it's a fresh story, and all the boys are swooning over a shallow, stubborn, smart, and very spoiled sixteen-year-old named Scarlett. Hence the title of the book.
So, now Scarlett is strong and disgraced, plus kinda depressed from all the deaths, and I read up the book on Wiki and it turns out that the spunk and stamina that Scarlett needed to get through GWTW is necessary. Now that I think of it, Scarlett is a stupid book. She ditches Tara, which she would NEVER do, EVER, I mean, Tara is her home! I don't care if Suellen is now queen, she's Scarlett, and she can easily take over! She carried Tara through the aftermath of Sherman's March! She can take on her little sister! GRRRRR!!!!!!!!!! And now she's apparently going to end up in Ireland (what the heck, right?) and meet her grandmother (who's like, 80 by now) and have another kid. ARGH! SHE IS SO ANNOYING NOW! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIE BEFORE YOU WROTE A SEQUEL, MARGARET MITCHELL?? WHY???????
But I'll still read it.
I miss the old Tara. And the old Scarlett, spoiled and dependent.
Short post. Just for this week. Next week will be a LOT longer.
Quote:
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."- Rhett Butler, Gone With The Wind (the movie, 1939- first movie to win Oscar for Best Picture)
-Jenni <3
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Thsi Week's Nonexistent Reading
Soo....yeah. Not much reading this week...:/
But instead I've been writing. I love writing. Not crap writing, like "Write about a time when you were angry" or "Please write a 3-paragraph essay evaluating your performance at our concert" but real writing like "This story cannot be summed up in a 5-sentence-plot but still has a well defined conflict, although you don't know exactly what it is until the end."
For some reason, I have a new favourite number: 35. Why, I have NO IDEA. Probably some unknown connection in my subconcious mind....
So, in the beginning of NewNvl35 (which is all I've got so far), the first bit is entitled "The Best I Could Come Up With Was 'Sorry'" and is going to probably end up something like Inception + Th1rteen R3asons Why + The Host. So in the beginning, the narrator/main character, a 14-year-old boy named Jacob (Jake) likes a girl named Daphne DeRue, who starts out a lot like me. By the end of the first bit, she's committed suicide, mentally scarring Jake forever. Now Jake, being the science whiz that he is, has figured out that reincarnation is real. So he somehow sets up a device that will basically kill him, but it will be painless and it won't technically be killing himself. See, it's like a soul requesting a new body. (Example: Netflix. So say you want one movie really, really, really badly, but it's not in stock right now. So they give you your second choice, and when your first choice becomes availiable, then you are notified, you ship the econd-choice one back and recieve your first-choice DVD.) And since souls have lives too, and memories, and the older the soul, the smarter the being is. Where a soul has lived influences the attitude. (Example: a soul that has been a deer shot by a hunter in a past life and is now a congress(wo)man may fight to stop deer hunting.) You can also change gender, which Jake will do. His new name will be...coming soon! It's going to be rare, but pretty (like Juliet, but without the big meaning...I'm considering Verena, though. Even if it does sound like Verona.) And then in the next life, Jake is given a pet (dog, maybe?), which he thinks is Daphne in a different form. And, since he doesn't have to give up his memory until he wants to, he remembers about the soul-thing. After about six months with his new dog, which he still believes is Daphne, he decides to give up his memory, because he finds that he cannot have a true relationship with the Daphne-dog until he lets go, which will be the end of the story.
So basically the book is about someone trying to move on from a traumatic experience in their life. It sounds so much cooler with the long lists and bad grammar.
Yep. Randomness. Gotta love it.
Quotes this week: from NewNvl35
"...or perhaps you just can't comprehend my language, whoops, excuse me, I meant maybe you don't know the words I use a lot,"-Daphne talking to antagonist, first bit (I wish I had that kind of courage)
^^,
-Jenni
But instead I've been writing. I love writing. Not crap writing, like "Write about a time when you were angry" or "Please write a 3-paragraph essay evaluating your performance at our concert" but real writing like "This story cannot be summed up in a 5-sentence-plot but still has a well defined conflict, although you don't know exactly what it is until the end."
For some reason, I have a new favourite number: 35. Why, I have NO IDEA. Probably some unknown connection in my subconcious mind....
So, in the beginning of NewNvl35 (which is all I've got so far), the first bit is entitled "The Best I Could Come Up With Was 'Sorry'" and is going to probably end up something like Inception + Th1rteen R3asons Why + The Host. So in the beginning, the narrator/main character, a 14-year-old boy named Jacob (Jake) likes a girl named Daphne DeRue, who starts out a lot like me. By the end of the first bit, she's committed suicide, mentally scarring Jake forever. Now Jake, being the science whiz that he is, has figured out that reincarnation is real. So he somehow sets up a device that will basically kill him, but it will be painless and it won't technically be killing himself. See, it's like a soul requesting a new body. (Example: Netflix. So say you want one movie really, really, really badly, but it's not in stock right now. So they give you your second choice, and when your first choice becomes availiable, then you are notified, you ship the econd-choice one back and recieve your first-choice DVD.) And since souls have lives too, and memories, and the older the soul, the smarter the being is. Where a soul has lived influences the attitude. (Example: a soul that has been a deer shot by a hunter in a past life and is now a congress(wo)man may fight to stop deer hunting.) You can also change gender, which Jake will do. His new name will be...coming soon! It's going to be rare, but pretty (like Juliet, but without the big meaning...I'm considering Verena, though. Even if it does sound like Verona.) And then in the next life, Jake is given a pet (dog, maybe?), which he thinks is Daphne in a different form. And, since he doesn't have to give up his memory until he wants to, he remembers about the soul-thing. After about six months with his new dog, which he still believes is Daphne, he decides to give up his memory, because he finds that he cannot have a true relationship with the Daphne-dog until he lets go, which will be the end of the story.
So basically the book is about someone trying to move on from a traumatic experience in their life. It sounds so much cooler with the long lists and bad grammar.
Yep. Randomness. Gotta love it.
Quotes this week: from NewNvl35
"...or perhaps you just can't comprehend my language, whoops, excuse me, I meant maybe you don't know the words I use a lot,"-Daphne talking to antagonist, first bit (I wish I had that kind of courage)
^^,
-Jenni
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Back To The Tale Of Juliet And Her Romeo And Striped Pajamas/Pyjamas
First things first: Romeo and Juliet for an immature/Middle School audience (IM by Jenni's Film Association).
First, I would rename all of the characters after someone in the school (example using Foks High: Juliet=Bella, Edward=Romeo, Mike=Paris, etc.) as so to bring the play into more...modern terms. And the conflict with the parents and all is relevant, because tey're from rival gangas (like in West Side Story, also based off of R&J)Of course, we wouldn't be talking in Elizabethan english either. No one would have swords, and no one would be biting their thumbs (they'd have guns or knives and be flipping people off). And for communication purposes, Romeo and Juliet would have their handy-dandy cell phones. Also, there'd be a lot more explectives. And in the end, we use a drug overdose as the method for Romeo's suicide (making the school angry) and Juliet instantly cuts too deep (she began to become anorexic and started to cut herself when Romeo was expelled for a gang fight) (which could make the school expell me, perhaps). Kinda like Lia from Wintergirls.I suppose that my version for immature audiences would come off as a sort of comedy, mixed in with some serious high-school stereotypes.
Pyjamas. Pajamas. Tyre. Tire.
Weird. Weyrd.
But all the same, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas/Pyjamas was AMAZING. The end was a bit predictable, and the likely hood of that happening is like, 1 to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and that's what made the end so shocking and sad that I didn't cry.
So, the story revolves around an nine-year-old boy named Bruno, who is living very comfortably in Berlin with his mother, older sister Gretel (who is apparently a Hopeless Case), and father (who is a Nazi commandant), during WWII. Bruno's grandparents also live two blocks away. The family is very wealthy and has a maid (Maria), a cook (who is called Cook), and a butler (Lars). One day, Bruno comes home to find Maria packing all his things. Mother tells him that they are moving. Upon arrival, Bruno is deeply annoyed. The new house has only three stories, including the basement (compared to a five-story home back in Berlin, if you count the room on top with the window and the basement) and there's no one around to play with other than Gretel, who is nearly thirteen. At the new house, which Gretel has told Bruno is called "Out-With" (yes, I know exactly what that sounds like, and it's increasingly obvious where- or what- Out-With is), the family acquires four new servants: a man, Pavel, to help the cook with miscellaneous tasks, and three new maids, who whisper quietly to themselves and don't talk to anyone else. The family has been told that they are to remain there "for the foreseeable future." From his window, Bruno can see a fence. A very tall fence, streching on for ever, with bales of barbed wire at the top. After about a month at Out-With, Bruno decides to go exploring, even though he has been told that the fence is Off-Limits-At-All-Times-With-No-Exceptions. He comes across a boy wearing striped pajamas, sitting on the other side of the fence, named Shmuel. The boys develop a forbidden friendship and the story becomes bone-chilling from there on.
I've found a clip for the last part of the movie for the book. This is by far the most unbelivable part of the book. If you haven't read the book, then I recommend you click here first and follow the videos to par two, part three, four, five six and so on. There are nine parts, but the credits start in part eight.
Warning: This content has been rated M (for mature audiences) by Jenni's Film Association (JFA) for something words cannot describe. Sadder than sad. More awful than anyone could ever imagine.
Click here to see the end (Part 8/9) of the movie.
And the quote for the week comes from The Boy In The Striped Pajamas (the book, not the movie):
"Despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go."
First, I would rename all of the characters after someone in the school (example using Foks High: Juliet=Bella, Edward=Romeo, Mike=Paris, etc.) as so to bring the play into more...modern terms. And the conflict with the parents and all is relevant, because tey're from rival gangas (like in West Side Story, also based off of R&J)Of course, we wouldn't be talking in Elizabethan english either. No one would have swords, and no one would be biting their thumbs (they'd have guns or knives and be flipping people off). And for communication purposes, Romeo and Juliet would have their handy-dandy cell phones. Also, there'd be a lot more explectives. And in the end, we use a drug overdose as the method for Romeo's suicide (making the school angry) and Juliet instantly cuts too deep (she began to become anorexic and started to cut herself when Romeo was expelled for a gang fight) (which could make the school expell me, perhaps). Kinda like Lia from Wintergirls.I suppose that my version for immature audiences would come off as a sort of comedy, mixed in with some serious high-school stereotypes.
Or we could do the Romeo and Juliet conspiracy plot. (See my blog post from two weeks ago) It could be called (drum roll please)
5,773 Degrees
"A red sun rises; blood has been spilled this night."
-Legolas (Orlando Bloom)
(The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002, directed/screemplay by Peter Jackson, based on the novel by JRR Tolkien)
Weird. Weyrd.
But all the same, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas/Pyjamas was AMAZING. The end was a bit predictable, and the likely hood of that happening is like, 1 to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and that's what made the end so shocking and sad that I didn't cry.
So, the story revolves around an nine-year-old boy named Bruno, who is living very comfortably in Berlin with his mother, older sister Gretel (who is apparently a Hopeless Case), and father (who is a Nazi commandant), during WWII. Bruno's grandparents also live two blocks away. The family is very wealthy and has a maid (Maria), a cook (who is called Cook), and a butler (Lars). One day, Bruno comes home to find Maria packing all his things. Mother tells him that they are moving. Upon arrival, Bruno is deeply annoyed. The new house has only three stories, including the basement (compared to a five-story home back in Berlin, if you count the room on top with the window and the basement) and there's no one around to play with other than Gretel, who is nearly thirteen. At the new house, which Gretel has told Bruno is called "Out-With" (yes, I know exactly what that sounds like, and it's increasingly obvious where- or what- Out-With is), the family acquires four new servants: a man, Pavel, to help the cook with miscellaneous tasks, and three new maids, who whisper quietly to themselves and don't talk to anyone else. The family has been told that they are to remain there "for the foreseeable future." From his window, Bruno can see a fence. A very tall fence, streching on for ever, with bales of barbed wire at the top. After about a month at Out-With, Bruno decides to go exploring, even though he has been told that the fence is Off-Limits-At-All-Times-With-No-Exceptions. He comes across a boy wearing striped pajamas, sitting on the other side of the fence, named Shmuel. The boys develop a forbidden friendship and the story becomes bone-chilling from there on.
I've found a clip for the last part of the movie for the book. This is by far the most unbelivable part of the book. If you haven't read the book, then I recommend you click here first and follow the videos to par two, part three, four, five six and so on. There are nine parts, but the credits start in part eight.
Warning: This content has been rated M (for mature audiences) by Jenni's Film Association (JFA) for something words cannot describe. Sadder than sad. More awful than anyone could ever imagine.
Click here to see the end (Part 8/9) of the movie.
And the quote for the week comes from The Boy In The Striped Pajamas (the book, not the movie):
"Despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go."
:'(
-Jenni
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