Incongruity

Incongruity- trying to blend thing that don't mix.
Example: Pizza and orange juice

Philosophy

Plato's philosophy suggests that everything is just a shadow of the perfect ideal form. We remember things for past lives. In order to discover and learn is to leave our comfort zone. Sartre's characters in No Exit act similarly to the prisoners in The Allegory of the Cave. Sartre's characters are forced to accept the others words cause the didn’t know otherwise. The prisoners in The Allegory of the Cave also were forced to believe what they saw. When the released prisoner returns he is enlighten of true reality. He is treated like an outcast and then killed. This is an example of humans narrow mindedness and a need to people to leave their comfort zone..

Literature Analysis

Of Mice and Men

1) This story  is about two men, George Milton and Lennie Small, that wonder around looking for work during the Great Depression. George is a smart man, who wants a better life. Lennie is his special cousin. He is like a small child mentally. The two find their way to a ranch near Soledad. There, they meet a man named Curley. He is the son of the ranch owner, and he doesn’t feel confident Shortly after their heated encounter with Curley, they meet Candy, the old worker who offers money for George’s ranch. Curly's  wife messes with Lennie. Unfortunately Lennie gives her a hug  but doesn’t realize he is hugging to hard which breaks her neck. Curly forms a mob in a hunt for Lennie. George knows that Lennie would never hurt anything intentionally. So George kills Lennie before the mob gets him.

2)Things don’t always work out the way you want them to. No matter what you do plans don’t always work out. The title says it all. It’s important to keep trying and have a dream.

3)Steinbeck's tone in the book is serious. He was able to make you care for the characters. I really wanted Lennie to be okay. Making you want the two men to successed. The reason they left their hometown was because Lennie touched a woman's  dress  and they were ran out of town. Lennie is a nice character,but everbody except George thinks Lennie is a dangerous mental ill person. The older woker, Candy, had a dog that he had raised and used on the farm since he was a puppy.  The dog gets to old and Candy has to put it down. It burdens Candy when he doesn’t put down his own dog. In the end, George wants to be the one who ends Lennie not a strange who would do it in anger.

4)George's description of his clothing is the only real direct description.  You gain a better sense of the characters through their actions and dialogue. George has goals for himself but you can tell he cares for Lennie. He wants Lennie to be happy. George reads Lennie the his favorite story when asked.  Steinbeck does a great job in making the readers care about the character. You care for the George and Lennie  and hope they will be okay.

Plato Essay

 Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave" is an extended metaphor. Plato uses many lit techniques to get his point across. “The Allegory of the Cave” has a central message, which is “Is our reality really real?”  Is our reality real or was it created by the wants and dogmas of society. People need to think for themselves. It’s important to make your own choices and make your own decisions.

            Plato uses fictional characters and setting to get his point across. Everything in the work represents something. The prisoners that are stuck in the cave think they know what reality is but find out there is a greater version outside. The cave represents the ignorance and dogmas of society the keep us from seeing reality. We are the prisoners that are forced to try and understand true reality. The fire in the cave represents enlightenment and reveals the true reality.

            One of the prisoners escapes into the real world. When he comes back the other prisoners don’t accept him. They whether stay in the cave than experience the outside world. New things often scare people. They don’t like being taken out of their comfort zone.

            Plato is sayings we to escape our narrow mind-ness and start trying to understand each other.  We need to try and understand new things and new ideas. We need to break the chains of society and narrow mind-ness.

Big Question

My does man feel the need to create art?

AP Essay

        Hamlet is different from other epic heroes from many reasons. Hamlet is not some brute that goes around beating up his enemies. Hamlet is a thinker, who carefully plans his actions out. He is clever but often over thinks things. His soliloquies are proof of that. He talks about what he does and plans. he likes to try to see all the outcomes of an action.