Wednesday, February 20, 2013

1984 chp.1-3

The first biggest problem with Winston is that he is having crimethink thoughts which goes against the principles of Ingsoc. Forexample, Winston is writing crimethink thoughts in his diary in which he writes "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" about four more times in his diary (19). He writes this in his diary because he doesn't believe in the statements from the "Big Brother" party. He then wants to get rid of that page but then he decides to just hide his diary because he knows that the Thought Police can get him and give him some sort of punishment. And a thoughtcrime is considered death, according to the principles of Ingsoc. The second biggest problem is that he is in conflict with himself because he questions himself  asking for whom is he writing his diary for, the future?past?or the age of imaginary.He in a way believes that someone one day could be able to read his diary yet he tells himself that if the thought police were to  read his diary then him and the diary itself would be wiped off of existence.He then felt like "he was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear (26). The third biggest problem with Winston is that he talks about the love of his mother that she had for him and he talks about remembering his little baby sister and father. He also doesn't know or remember much in the way his family died but he knows that they sacrificed their lives for him dying in a tragic way. He claims that even though he was dreaming about them he remembers living a life full of love, togetherness, and friendship. He claims that love and affection is not seen now because he states that "such things, he saw, could not happen today. Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, or deep or complex sorrows (29). Oceania conflicts with what Winston thinks because the party states that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia but he claims that they have been in alliance and therefor that is why these parties exist and why they're currently or were in war. In this particular situation he is having a doublethink mind because he believes in two contradictory beliefs in which he accepts both.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Stranger Than Fiction

An author of a story is the one who writes the novel and the one who is narrating is the one telling the story to the audience. The difference between an author and a narrator can be that when the narrator reads the story to the audience it might not always capture the same tone or image as the author's. For example, when the author in Stranger than Fiction starts writing her novel, sometimes her tones and  images don't exactly match because there were times where she was constantly changing Harold. At the beginning of the novel she says that Harold is brushing his teeth a certain amount of times and when Harold realized that he was being narrated he would stop doing what she said and then he would continue moments later. Which in that example of the film shows that her narration did not always capture the image that was told in the book. When the narrator, narrated the story, Harold would sometimes change the image of the author's story by doing the opposite because the professor in the movie told Harold to do the opposite of what the voices said to him so that he would stop hearing voices inside his head. And so the narration did not always match with the plot of the author's book.She also claimed that Harold would die and then she changes the ending by letting Harold  live. And in order to be in control of the story, the narrator must capture the same tone and image as the author's.
As a narrator/author of my research paper choosing the right perspectives in my research paper was determined as to weather or not the information that I had was relevant or not to my topic which was Child Development theories and stages.I chose the most important theories that related to the everyday life of a a preschooler which included certain stages.For example, I thought that Jean Piaget was an important psychologist to include in my research paper because it allowed me to connect it with the cognitive stage which is seen in an everyday life of a preschooler.It's where they acquire new facts and an understanding of the world.Some theories were best if they weren't included because there are four important stages in child development and theirs also other theories that are meant to explain other aspects of human development which those other theories weren't really related to my topic. I gave information based on different psychologist's and different books that I had with me.I think the impact of my research paper will hopefully be a positive one because I tried to explain how those theories and stages relate to the everyday life of a preschooler.