Fate

Me, My birthday is on august 8th and the Leo's traits is being ambitious, confident, independent, loyal, and generous. Leo's are perfectionists that try to do everything as well as they can, even when people say its already good they know they can make it better, but some Leo's can be domineering, bossy, and stubborn and think that they are right about everything even if others tell them their not.

This is actually really accurate as i try my best on everything i do, and i set high standards for what i do and believe that it will come true but it will be me that decides if it will. Some people wouldn't believe that generosity is my strongest trait, but those that know me well enough i am really generous, but sometimes i can become extremely stubborn as well because i am so sure it is correct when it actually isn't.

in the play, Romeo and Juliet fate often comes into the play as Romeo often comes up on his future, for example when Romeo hears about his punishment he tell Friar Ha, banishment! Be merciful, say “death,” this is basically saying his fate will only he death as he would chose death over exil

R&J in Modern culture

In my reference of how Romeo and Juliet has effected the modern culture, I used a Chinese TVB Series The Proud Twins because in the movie similar to Romeo and Juliet the main characters a male and female fall in love, but the male is REALLY poor, and the female is extremely rich, so their chances of being in love were unheard of, but love over came that, but unfortunately even the ending is so alike, the female character actually dies, but the male is left alive.
In this movie it is half drama and half comedy, even with all the deaths the funny parts of the movie make it seem like the end will be a happy one.
When I read the blog my mind instantly thought of that series, because it is just SO similar, the link is right below, but there are no English subtitles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEN3S8kRnuc

E.C

in 8th grade i heard my cousin talk about how "complicated" its going to be once i go into honors english, but as the year began and i went into the classroom i was expecting to do really bad on the summer assignment because i literally did it 2 days before school started. but once i saw Mrs. Gilman i just knew it was going to be a really fun and easy year.
during the year we did projects and read books after books, but to my suprise it was all most one of the easiest and most fun classes i have since middle school and highschool. but i really hated reading because i really just space off when i am reading, but it is all made up because of the discussions Mrs Gilman makes us do, to tell the truth that is where i understood and learned most of the stuff we had to read.
But if it were possible it would be sweet if Mrs Gilman was the 10th grade honors english teacher

Skit Prep

the scenes in The Great Expectations that I think would be sweet will definitely be when the two convicts are fighting each other in the marshes, one trying to get away, and one trying to capture the other, it would be a easy skit to perform, but also very fun.
the second scene when pip gets home and immediately gets beaten by Mrs Joe, it would be really funny to see what groups would do when they are acting it out.
the final scene would of course be the fight between pip and the pale young gentleman as pip completely beats him up, it would really funny to watch and really fun to perform it as well

More Questions about Great Expectations

Wait, so there is a new character mentioned, and his name is Compeyson? And Compeyson is a convict just like Abel, and hes the one that was caught by Abel? or is he the one pip saw on the coach??? And he is the same person that broke Miss Havisham's heart? if so then why is he a convict and Havisham knows nothing about it? I am so confused.. why does Dickens have to make everything so confusing.

Great Expectations: Question

In this book there are SO many confusing parts that I have no clue what it's suppose to mean, but this quote of when Estella talked to Pip I couldn't figure out what Estella was trying to tell Pip "You must know," said Estella, condescending to me as a brilliant and beautiful woman, "might,that I have no heart- if that has anything to do with my memory."


no matter how I read that over and over I just don't seem to understand what Estella is trying to tell Pip. Is Estella trying to tell Pip that she has no emotion at all? or is she threatening Pip? or making fun of Pip like she usually does?

Great Expectations:Photo

This block of clay represents Pip when he used to be plain and simple, but like the clay Pip is easily moldable, either into a masterpiece or a disaster and that all depends on who is the person reconfiguring him. In the past few chapters pip was molded by Miss Havisham into a masterpiece in her own mind, and using Estella as a tool to do so she made Pip ashamed of his own life, and family, and shaping Pip into wanting to become something she once was, only to destroy what she made in the end like a sculptor does to imperfections in their art.