Response to “A Dream Within a Dream”

Dreams can be made up of anything, good or bad, but it soon fades away because it wasn’t real and was all made up of imagination in your sleep. In this poem I’ve learned that a dream can be hard to remember. The poem says “In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem.” It is saying that most likely you are to remember your dream the second you wake up but when you are trying to remember not all of it comes to mind. 

Reflection of Young Goodman Brown

Throughout reading the ending of “Young Goodman Brown” Brown has lost his faith from seeing the pink ribbon fall down from a tree. Once the pink ribbon fell Brown had noticed that his wife Faith was nowhere to been seen. My overall thought of the whole story is that faith can show your strength and possibilities but loosing faith can leave you cofused and not trying hard on anything.

Response on Young Goodman Brown

Today in class we had started to read where we had left off in the story of  Young Goodman Brown. From what we’ve read so far Brown doesn’t want to let go of his faith. The shadow that was walking and talking to Brown was leading him to an evil ceremony. He was leading Brown towards a ceremony to invite him in to join. During the reading with the class I’ve also learned new definitions to some of the vocabulary words in the story that I didn’t quite understand.

Young Goodman Brown Questions

A: I think that Hawthorne’s purpose to this story was to show how a thought can change who you are and become a whole different person.

A: I do agree that the meaning of faith fits her name. Faith is what protected Brown from the bad. Brown’s wife Faith probably has a prescient when something bad is going to happen, her personality shows that she cares for Brown and wants him in no danger. It seem that Brown does have true faith in her because he would listen and obey to Faith when she would send him off.

A: I think that the pink ribbons signify the faith that connects between Faith and Brown. It could be a special object that can symbolize their marriage.

A: Everything that Brown would witness wasn’t real it was all a dream. It was a figment of something conjured by the evil. In the story Brown had thought that he knew it was a bad spirit. “Brown felt himself justified in making more haste on his present evil purpose. ”

A: I think that the old many was the bad spirit or could be the devil. From the point that Brown saw the figure of the old man, till walking and talking with him throughout the forest everything had seen weird and with a bad impression. The old man knew information that Brown hasn’t shared about to basically anyone and the old man knew it.

A: The staff represents the bad that haunts Brown. I do think the staff leads Brown onward to his conscience of mind because they old man knew information about Brown which made him think that everything he’ll talk about is true

A: If Brown hadn’t walked into the forest his life would of beeen different. It would be different because he wouldn’t act differently as he does now and still have trust towards the townspeople an his wife. Brown would of probably still have Faith because it shows a chance or hope to not be in danger. 

Here’s what I learned Today

Today in class I’ve learn how much you can post on your blogs and it still won’t seem like if it were a lot. Even thought I just started to blog it seem that I know how to use it in evey way. I learned that blogging can help in many sorts of ways for example posting your thoughts and opinions. I’ve also learned today that as I write more and more journals I think about the topic more with details and expand my writing skills.

Early American Literature

The Colonial literature was written by a church or government. The church’s or government that had created the American literature where a small group of people. They would not allow that there where mistakes if there were they would threaten them. It had started off being used as oral tradition.

Today I was Thinking

Today in class I had started off by writing my journal. My journal was based off how the words we choose make an impression of who we are. Your personality can define who we are and our personal traits. I started to think why people act the way the do such in a good way or a bad way. From my point of view it seems that some people would act differently to make someone think who they are. Do you think that most people are defined by their vocabulary of speaking?

GSD

My experience as an independent student can be alright from what I’ve done. I tend to stay up late finishing up homework that I could of done before and I still manage to turn it in most of the times. But on the other hand I am a very organized person, organization helps me manage what I need and what the most important thing i need to do first. I use my agenda everyday for any purpose related to school from what I did in class to what was homework. If I get confused and don’t understand how to do something I ask my peers for help first and if they also don’t understand I’ll ask the teacher.

Week in Review

In review of this week I’ve learned what tone is. Tone defines the attitude of the author towards the character and toward the reader. Tone can be used in description, syntax, diction, characteristic, imagery and figurative language.

Was it only a Dream?

From what I know about the ending of the story of “Young Goodman Brown “ the character Goodman Brown woke up from a dream. He had waken up not knowing what was going on and overthinking like if he wasn’t in his own body. On my perspective I think that Goodman Brown wasn’t himself, his mind was controlled by someone else. In the story it talks about figure of a person from the forest that was approaching him, probably the figure was a bad spirit and got to his head and made him believe what it wanted him to know.

Young Goodman Brown

The story of “Young Goodman Brown” is so far about two people. The two people in the story is a couple, a man named Goodman Brown and his wife named Faith. His wife is pushing him away but her husband doesn’t understand why. It seem that his wife’s named has a special meaning behind it. As Goodman Brown left and walked into a sketchy forest he has a bad impression of being there. His wife’s faith would hold him back from getting closer to what can be a bad figure of a man in the forest.

The Making of an Essay

During the making of my essay “The Conscience of a Hacker” it had been going alright but I’ll still struggle with some parts of it. I didn’t knew if I was setting everything up the way it had to but I was able to put everything up together till it made sense to me. At one point I had stoped to reread what I had down but I would struggle to find evidence from the story to support my thesis. Overall it took me a long time but I was able to finish it and learned that I had to reread the story a few more times to understand the authors perspective.

“Conscience of a Hacker” essay

          Computers nowadays is a way of helping you explore any curious thoughts. But can your thoughts define you as a criminal? In this story “The Conscience of a Hacker” by The Mentor, he explains how students life have improved just by using technology. Technology has also change the way that students think on something curious. The Mentor also shows us how his writing style is written in this story.
           Technology have been improving students lifestyles. The Mentor says  “I found a computer. Wait a second this is cool. It does what I want it to do.” (paragraph 5). His quote is showing his reaction or experience when he had first used a computer. In paragraph 6 he says “a door opened to a world..rushing through the phone line like heroin through addict’s veins.” His words mean that when technology was  introduced  a lot of people found different ways to adapt to how they’re being used. Technology has been worldwide and is use almost all around the world. Students have improved in their learning ability by looking up more information that can help them understand any lesson or topic.
            Students are very curious to learn about anything and to search something up they go on the internet or on computers. Teachers tend to not believe students because they think that they can cheat by searching up the answer. On the fourth paragraph it says “I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn’t show my work. I did it in my head..” Damn kid. Probably copied it. There’re all alike.” The author also says in paragraph 9 “We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons,and you call us criminals. We explore...and you call us criminals.” His meaning of this quote is based off how anyone uses technology mostly ever day and teachers or anyone in particular can judge by what they’re searching, like adults can call it hacking when it’s basically not. As society changes kids learn more on how to run computers because of how fascinating it is to know or to find anything.
The Mentor shows us how his writing style defines his character personality. In his writing it shows what his tone is on how teachers or anyone thinks of someone’s personal traits. In paragraph 9 the Mentor says “This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore ... and you call us criminals.” In this quote he’s expressing how anyone can be anything good or bad they’ll still be judge by someone else. He also shows in paragraph 11 that “I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can’t stop us all.. after all, we’re all alike.” In his tone you can tell that everyone is the same and that they can’t change who they are.
          In conclusion to “The Conscience of a Hacker” technology has changed peoples thinking but can’t change who they are. People have become more intelligent learners because they have adapted to this new generation. Curiosity has improved the way how anyone is able to figure out what they’re thinking in any form. People’s tones are express based on the was they see something in their opinion.