Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher Literature Analysis #1

1. The main plot of this book is in the town called Crestmont. This books plot also takes place in the school, houses, rooms, and hangout spots of Hannah Baker's classmates.

2. The theme of this book is basically about a girl named Hannah Baker who committed suicide. What Hannah does before she dies is make thirteen tapes to send to the classmates that were the reasons of her death or why she killed herself. After her death the tapes are sent out to the first kid and if this kid does not hand the tapes to the next person in the list of the people who were the reasons of her death she says that she will have a way to leak all the tapes out to the town and everyone will know what they did.

 3. When I hear the author's tone i think of sadness. I can imagine and visualize that the first thing she does when she wakes up is immediately think to herself why she is alive. I can imagine her not eating and always trying to look her best because she cares about what other people think of her. Excerpts that make me imagine this are, " I know what you are all thinking Hannah Baker is a slut, I heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular, but I do know which is the least popular, the truth," also when she says, " I needed a change, just like they said so i changed my appearance, the only thing I still had control over," and lastly i think that she does these things because she says, " suicide it's something I've been thinking about, not too seriously but I have been thinking about it."

 4. These are 5 Literary Techniques that I found with excerpts:

 Personification:
1. " My stomach squeezes in on itself"
2. " I tear the blades of grass out of the gutter and stand up to leave"
3. " Warm air rushes out to grab me"

 Simile:
1. " The spot of paint flakes off like a scab"
2. " My breath stopped like I've been sucker punched in the stomach"
3. " I felt my head continue to nod as if it was attached to a heavy spring"

 Imagery:
1. " I scrambled for the stereo, hitting several buttons all at once"
2. " A line of hot sweat rises along my hairline, Alex Standoll it's your turn, a single bead of sweat slides down my temple and I wipe it away"
3. " That tiny scar you've all seen above my eyebrow, that's the shape of Jessica's fingernail... which i plucked out myself"

 Hyperbole:
1. " The world around me tilts and spins"
2. " It sounded like something she'd said a million times before"
3. " But if I was right, their eyes would glaze over, like they were a million miles away"

 Onomatopoeia:
1. " Cha-ching! went the register"
2. " Tap, Tap, Knock, Knock Tyler, I hear it, she taps on the window twice"

VOCABULARY #2

Satire Project "Recycling, is it worth it?"

(Do not proceed with this reading if you are a person who gets easily offended)

Dear Human Species, 

          For some odd reason I only like using things once because that one thing will always be special for me. How dare you reuse your plastic cups and bottles! I totally love keeping trash that I don't need in my backyard in a huge pile because it is a very clean and healthy form of a art. Is recycling worth it? Throwing our trash away is honestly a waste of time! I mean who cares about pollution and diseases that can be attracted. We're all eventually going to die right? We're not killing animals they are the ones who are killing us with there infectious illnesses and diseases! Nature is definitely the problem here! We as humans should be able to enjoy the places we go to like the beach. We shouldn't have to worry about picking after ourselves. I have a great idea! Seagulls can clean up our mess, who cares if they die. Who cares if the fishes and sea creatures die. We'll wake up one morning and they'll be dead laying on the shore, we would just have to go pick some up and cook them, so easy! We will be able to enjoy the beach now, if there's parts left of it.😏 You know what's a better idea than that? We should just wait until someone dies from the pollution in the world and for every person that someone finds dead we can sell them so their disposals can be useful for other things. People who haven't died could be paid for each person they find and they will benefit greatly from it! Remember ladies and gentlemen we are totally not the problem here, we are definitely not polluting the world by throwing our trash on the ground. I can already see the world becoming a better place, keep it up! This will totally not bring the end of human or animal species! We might as well create another planet and destroy that one too!

           

                    Sincerely, a girl with a satire project 

VOCABULARY #1

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I CAN READ ?!

I tried my best !!! I believe my time was 4:55 and I found 9 mistakes 😂 

Conscience of a Hacker

I believe that this teenager is trying to say that he is tired of adults and teachers teaching him the same old things or teaching him stuff that they want a teenager to know when they grow up but it is not precisely what they need to know. Teenagers want to explore what they have but the minute they do it they are being judged. Adults think that every teenager is a trouble maker or that they don't know what's right for them but in reality some teenagers just want the best for themselves and they are open to new things in the world like technology. Teenagers should be judged by what they do not by what they look like!

A Modest Proposal ‼️

We can see satire in "The Modest Proposal," when Swift says that the children from Irish familys should be fed so they can get fat and sent to a meat market to be sold . He also continues to say that if Irish parents did this then it would profit the family because they would get money from it and they wouldn't have to worry about children anymore. The use of his words are crazy but he is doing this to help us see how bad poverty is for all these families. The tone of his voice for me would be commitment because it sounds like he has studied what he is talking about and feels serious about it even though we see satire being used.

MY BIG QUESTION❓

Examples : 

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/the-single-story/

My big question would be: How would the world be if we all had different story's of the people around us? For example if instead of thinking that the first Mexican we see is an immigrant, we think of them as who they actually are and see their real story and not just the stereotypical story.

EVERYTHING'S AMAZING

The video "Everything's Amazing" is an example of satire because Louis Ck makes us realize in a humorous way how much this generation is messed up. We take everything that we have for granted. Back then our parents did not have anything that we have today but they never complained and they cherished the things they did have. This generation needs to learn how to enjoy life and the resources we have! TBH I get frustrated when my phone takes long to load a page or a video. 😂😂

Satire

Example #1 This is an example of satire because they are imitating how twitter would sound like but in a mocking, ridicule and humorous way! 

Example #2 This video is an example of satire because it is a humorous way of explaining the dangers of selfie sticks.

 

Example #3 This is an example of satire because they are showing us the I phone in a hilarious way.

"The Laughing Heart" by Charles Bukowski Recital

"The Right to Your Opinion" by Jaime Whyte

I believe that "The Right to Your Opinion," by Jaime Whyte is telling is that we don't have the right to our own opinion. An example could be that you want to drive a car at 100mph in a street that you can only go 30mph, chances are that there will be a car that you will crash into. Your friend is with you and you tell him/her that you are going to do it because you have the right to your opinion as in how fast you want to go, but of course if you have a caring friend he/she won't let you do it so you basically don't have the right to your own opinion. Jaime Whyte wants us to realize that we will never have the right to our own opinions, I'm still not sure if I agree.

"The Laughing Heart" by Charles Bukowski

I believe that "The Laughing Heart," by Bukowski has a lot to do with depression. I feel like this poem is directed to anyone who is struggling through depression. Bukowski is telling us to overcome that depression because there are better things in life than spending it miserably. Life is to short to be spending it sad. We need to give ourselves a chance to enjoy what we have around us. We have to express our inner voices. That is what I got from this poem.