Honduras=Animal Farm

There is a connection with George Orwell’s book Animal Farm and to the event that happened in Honduras. From my observation Animal Farm connect is some little way with Honduran government. In book they talk about their Constitution and over the course of time they change their Constitution and not everyone body agrees to it. Similar thing that happened in Honduras. Their president Mr. Manuel Zelaya tried to change their Constitution to make his presidency longer. And the military people of Honduras did not agree to his conditions of making his presidency longer. In the New york Times said, that “ President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was ousted by the army on Sunday, capping months of tensions over his efforts to lift presidential
term limits.” To the military people did not agree with with his terms and the military only did that to protect the law and doing their jobs.

In the Animal Farm they did change their Constitution as time pass by, but no one tried to stop Napoleon and the other animals that was in charge from changing the Constitution. And he also declared that will be the only leader with one disagreeing or agreeing with him. At sparknotes it said, “Squealer explains to them that Napoleon is making a great sacrifice in taking the leadership responsibilities upon himself and that, as the cleverest animal, he serves the best interest of all by making the decisions.” It is another way of dictating, similar to the president at Honduras. He probably want to expand his presidency because he want to dictate over Honduras.
With the connections i saw from Animal Farm and Honduras it explains how George Orwell’s writing is true. That his writing about government and power could happen anytime at the governments around the world or it is currently happening in the world. - The only difference i see is that in Animal Farm the animals do not fight back, but in reality people revolt and fight for what they believe in. So i was wondering did George Orwell ever thought of this happening to world or he did not. -

Chapter 11 - Human Revenge

Years after the animals took over the their owner’s farm, and renamed it into Animal Farm, everything was normal. Napoleon was still in power, dogs weakening because of old age, and secrets were leaking.With-in the farm someone had been a spy. In the dark night, rustling, and whispering was heard. No one paid any attention to it,they thought it could be just a a wild rabbit or crickets. They did not know that it was one of the animals from Animal Farm telling secrets to the humans about Napoleon's plan to take over England.

Once in a while, the dogs would hear these sounds, until one of them got irritated, and he peeked through the bushes in the dark night, he saw a big animal with a long tail and a bow in it. He realized it was Clover, a trusted animal. For over two years she had been telling humans some of Napoleon's plan. At the end of each month, she would sneak out and make an excuse like “I am just going for a run” or “ I am just getting air”. While the other animals does their own activities, she is in the dark across from the Animal Farm talking to a human about what was currently happening in the farm and what Napoleon was planning. After she told all the secrets of the farm, the human gives her carrots, lettuce, and cabbages.

As time went on, Napoleon noticed something was different. He had a feeling in his guts that something was wrong. Then suspected that someone is a spy within his group. Clover was shaking, sweating, and has cold hooves, as Napoleon was walking slowly towards her. He saw a drop of sweat coming down from her head to the floor. He asked “Why are you sweating, Clover? Do you have anything to say?” he said suspiciously and Clover did not answer him, but with a blank stare from her eyes. From there on he had his eyes close on to Clover. He had some of his best dogs report back to him when they noticed something suspicious about her. But Clover was quick, she caught on that Napoleon was watching her, so she told the humans to meet somewhere else. They met at the far end of the field, that took hours to go to, but since she is a horse she got there within less than an hour. That was their new meeting place, until one day when everything changed.

As usual, Clover met with the humans at night in the end of the field of corn. When she got there she did not see the humans. Napoleon had created a forged letter from Clover saying that she would not be able to meet, and the humans believed her it. So when Clover arrived in the end of the field she saw nothing, but tumble weeds. When they did not meet the humans was planing with a group of men on how to attach the Animal Farm. But clover did not know that her job as a spy would not be permanent. The humans were planning to get rid off her after they are done with animal farm.

After months of planning, they attack! The animals saw shadows of humans running toward the farm. The animals were defenseless. They had no weapons to protect them-selves, so they went on a head on collision. It was brutal war. Groats were biting the humans’ bottoms, humans were kicking animals, horses were stomping on people. They called it The Battle of the Cow Shed II. While the humans and the animals were fighting, within the horizon a huge machine was brought into battle. the humans called it Machine 2011. The animals did not suspect this, this weapon was meant to destroy all animals that was in it’s way. little by little the animals was dieing including Clover. All was left was Napoleon in this little corner surrounded by all humans. Since the humans had feeling and compassion, they left him running for the wind going through the forest.

The war was done. Everything was back to normal, the humans were back on top of the chart. They ruled over the farm. Everything was in it’s place. Everyone was in peace. And so they thought. After hearing about the revolution the animal farms did, the see animals was to gain respect from the humans too. Soon enough the sea creatures will attack and become rulers of the Seas.

Winston's love and rebellion affair. (Book post#2)

My group-mates and i just finished reading the second part of 1984 written by George Orwell. The second part was mainly about Winston’s love for Julia and the book of Goldstein. In the discuss that we had at Friday afternoon during English class, was Julia’s multiple sex partners and her love for Winston. While reading the second part of the book, i came across the area where it explains he job and her multiple partners with men within the Party member and the Inner Party.

“She had had her first love affair when she she was sixteen, with a party member of sixty who later committed suicide to avoid arrest... Since then there had been various others. Life as she saw it was quite simple... the Party, wanted to stop you [her] having it;you [she] broke the rules as best you could,”(Orwell131).

And there i had a question, is Julia truly in love with Winston or is he another sex partner like the others? And there my group discussed this topic. My group said that it could be either way or both. Since there are no relevant evidence, we ended in a conclusion that it could be both. It just shows that love can be a way to cover up for a problem or it could be true and passionate love.
So far the reading of the book as been great. With Winston’s adventure and his rebellion against government and Big Brother just added the suspend to it. In part two there was not a lot of things that was happening, but just explain about the love affair he has with Julia and the book called The Theory And Practice Of Oligrachical Collectivism written by Emmanuel Goldstein. I like the fact that Julia is fighting for her rights again. Ever since Big Brother, the Ministries, and the Party members came the people has lost their individuality because the government forced all the people of London to wear the same designed overalls. The government did this because they wanted to stop the creative thinking of the people and made it illegal to think creatively. And so the government did their work for illegalizing the creative thinking of the people and to show passion for others.

1984 Book Post.

Currently I am reading the book call 1984 by George Orwell. Just this week my group finished the first part of the book it is about one hundred pages long. The first part was mostly about Big Brother’s power.

Big Brother is a tyrant over London, he control the people’s lives and thoughts. In all citizen of London, if they have a telescreen or television, the government can see their each movement they made in seconds. Narrator said,

“It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time...-in the assumption that every sound you made was overhead, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinize. Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer...,”(Orwell3).

This means that the government will do anything to keep their power. It seems that the government is paranoid that the citizen of London would try to over throw them, so they would have to create a television that had camera to view the people daily. It just shows that Big Brother and the Ministries are self-centered people and care about their power. Including the fact that London has been in constant wars with Oceania and Eurasia.London’s government is just ridiculous and odd.

Big Brother made changes into the society of London is to destroy any textual evidence of the past history and change it to Big Brother’s prediction or idea. This change in the society was a terrible idea because now many people would think that Big Brother did or think those things that happened in history and make him like into a God. Winston’s job is to change the history to make it into Big Brother’s prophecy. It said,

“ A number of the Times which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it,”(Orwell40).

This means that Big Brother cares about people worshiping him because he changed the history to make it in to some prophecy. It just makes him sound like a swallow person.

Big Brother and the Ministries has been controlling the people of London. In the year of 1984 there is a new language called Newspeak, and Newspeak was type of language that the people in the government to use to make the citizen sound like idiots. But there is also Oldspeak, this language is what the people around the world currently speaking. It is the normal way, but in Newspeak the people that create new words destroy the language. They tend to make dictionaries filled of Newspeak words and by the end of 2050 all people would speck Newspeak. Winston’s friend said,

“‘The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,’”he said. ‘We’re getting the language into its final shape-the shape it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we’ve finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again...,that our chief job is inventing new words. But not one bit of it! We’re destroying words-scores of them, hundred of them,every day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone. The Eleventh Edition won’t contain a single word that will become obsolete before the year 2050,’”(Orwell51).

The purpose of Newspeak is to make the people sound like a fools and to lower the thinking of the citizen so that the superior men would think that they are intelligent people.

Finally the government style in the London has been destroyed by a “powerful” being called Big Brother. And him and the Ministry has been destroying the country of London. They have ruined the language arts and replaced it with Newspeak, there are no more privacy, and they destroyed the history. Big Brother and the Ministry has been controlling the people's lives and thoughts.

The Garcia Girls and The Men

   Reading the novel How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents has been quite a reading. The book is all little confusing because of the time changing from present to the past, and the vignettes are not as helping at all. Some of the vignettes are little confusing because of the transition of going to the past, but so far the reading of part two has been straight forward and understanding.
    In part has been an acceptable reading, and i pretty much understood all the vignettes. For example, in the first vignette in part two it talked about the four Garcia girls being influenced by the American culture, and by the influences they encountered they were all sent to boarding school for punishment. 
      The second vignette titled Daughter of Intervention and it was about Yolanda writing a speech for her school and she wanted to write the speech by herself with no help. When she finished writing her speech she read to her father and he thought it was disrespectful to the teacher, so he ripped it apart and he did not want to hear any reasons from Yolanda. Yolanda ran to her room and her mother voluntary wrote a brand new speech for her. 
      The third vignette titled Trespass talked about Carla experiencing a disturbing moment in her life. Carla had troubles in school because the lack of understating of English and going through some changes that made her feel like an outsider. She went to school and many boys ridicule her because of her appearance and her accent. Then Carla was invited by a stranger to get inside the car, but she refused and ran off. She told her mother and her mother called the police. Police came and asked questions about what happened during that time, but she could only say that the man was driving a green car and the man had little hair. It was also families first year in New York, and it was the first time the family experiencing snow. She was afraid to tell and she did not know a lot of English, so he was frustrated. 
         The fourth vignette titled Snow was about the family's first year in New York and it was the first time the family experienced snow. It was the time Yolanda was growing and developing her English vocabulary that describe her life challenges. 
         Fifth, the vignette explained the family had dinner with the people that helped their father to have a job as a doctor, the Fannings.  they were at a ballet show and everyone was enjoying until Sandra saw the most shocking thing in her life. She saw her Mrs. Fanning put a kiss on her father, she could not believe that her father kissed another woman. Then her father saw Sandra and immediately told her not to tell anyone, it was between her, Mrs. Fanning and her father. It was shocking for a child to see her father kissing another woman. These were short summaries about part two.

By reading all of the short summaries of part two from the vignettes it ends tell me that part two is about men had total control over women. I have observe this because in the vignette called Daughter of Invasion the four Garcia girl’s father ripped apart the speech that Yolanda worked really hard on because he thought it was disrespectful. In this action the man controlled the house hold and the women did not had a chance to say anything. Because after he ripped apart the speech he did not want to hear any reasons or excuses from Yolanda or the girls. It is a sign of controlling rude man. In conclusion, the Garcia has went through many trials in their life that involves men being to controlling.

How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents: Book Blog Post 1

I just read the first part of  How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and it was great. The first part of the book mostly talked about the adventures of the four girls, they are: Yolanda, Carla, Sandra, and Sofia. Even though there are many adventures that these four girls had in the first part of the book, there are also weakness in the book. The weakness is that i have noticed that the book it is a Vignette, I personally do not like vignette books because sometimes it does not work with the stories inside the book. Because on the last book that i read had Vignettes and it worked because there was a main idea that mostly talked about it. Not like the book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents just explained about the adventures in the past years and i have not seen any connection with the girls but they are all related.

Since the book is full of vignettes and not a connective story then it has been confusing. The book is okay, but i just did not see the main idea of it. Even though it is a book of vignettes it should have a certain topic that connects all the ideas together. Because i like a book that has an idea by just reading at least the first part, but in this book reading the first part did not give me any connection that could the entire book me about. The only idea that i know is that it is about four girls that are related to one another and the book is structured like a time line but the time goes backwards not forward. I do not see the main point yet about this book.

The book has been fine, and i think the book connects with the audience that had the same experience as the four girls had in the vignettes. For example the vignette that talked about the four girls being treated like they are still children when ever they visited their father. Probably there are women that are married ,out there that they are still being treated like children when ever they visit there parents place. My point is that this book can relate to readers that has the same experience like Yolanda, Carla, Sandra, and Sofia had.

Night. -.-

    In the world people are part of a religion or not. Some are strong with their faith some are not. At the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, he experience of losing his faith with his Jewish religion. He started as strong boy that wanted to learn more about his religion ended to be a confused boy whether if he believes or not. The central conflict in Night is Eliezer began strong at his faith and ended with a confused mind.
    In the beginning of the book he started a strong boy with enthusiasm learning about his religion. He even wanted to be a Master to instruct about Zohar. Him and his father was talking and he told hid father he wanted to a Jewish Master. “One evening i told him how unhappy i was because i could not find a master in Sighet to instruct me in the Zohar, the cabbalistic books, the Jewish mysticism,”(3). Eliezer was determined to be an instructor, he wanted to learn more about the Jewish religion. His father is encourages him to a Rabbi, but Eleizer only thinks it so easy but it is not. His Father said, “ You must first study  the basic subjects within your own understanding,”(2). His father told him that it is not just learning about the religion, but also to to try to make it with his own words. Eliezer needed to comprehend the word and share with everyone that believes in the Jewish religion. Eliezer is strong boy with strong faith.
    As the war worsen, the city of Sighet turned into a ghetto. The Nazi soliders put barbered wars around the city so no one can leave or enter. The community felt like they were a small republic or a close community. Eliezer said, “Little by little life returned to normal. The barbed wire which fenced us did not cause us any real fear. We even thought ourselves rather well off; we were entirely self-contained,”(9). They are a brave community, without worrying about tomorrow if they will live or not. Including Eliezer’s fate, it seem nothing can tear his faith from him. As their life continue with the war. They received terrible news mostly everyday, but this one is the worst. “ ‘I have teribble,e news,’ he [father] said at last. ‘Deportation,’... They began their journey without a backward glances at the abandon streets, the dead, empty houses, the gardens...,”(14&19). It is like being apart from their childhood; they were forcefully moved out and traveled by foot to another destination. And yet he stayed with his fate, he felt this journey is an opportunity in life. So they traveled to a concentration camp.
    Finally him and his community reached the concentration camp, he was separated from his family and from there they experience a life they would not have. He witnessed many tortures, he felt the fear of dying; as if they were losing their fate. “Never shall I forget that night, the night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night,... Never shall I forget that smoke... Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever,”(32). He finally understood that living during a can cause his life. Well enough he is  losing his faith at his religion. He is coming to the realization that not everything will be fine.  Until little by little they lost it. As his life in the concentration camps continue and seeing his family and friends disappearing he lost hope and fate. For example on Eliezer,”.... there was not longer any reason why should I fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence,”(66). Eliezer lost his faith and hope that the war would end and their connection with God.  He is coming to the point that he does not believe in God anymore because of the war, people disappearing, and his family being apart from him. He just gave up at his religion and tries to move on with.
    As his life goes on at the concentration camp, he lost his fate and himself because he witnessed a lot of things that he should not have seen. He wanted to quit his fate and tired to move on with his life. His fate became a memory that will never come back.

Q's Misunderstood Love Life

Thesis: Q’s love relationship is played by his misunderstanding which consistently lead to heartache. 

              It all happened, when Q met a female reptile creature, at  near by swamp. They spend the days together. They both played, chased each other, and just having fun. Q said, “That was about the time [Q] I fell in love. Lll and [Q] I spent the days together...”(pg74).  She was his first love, and they mostly staying together all day. They should have a serious relationship, where they understood one another, but he has the wrong idea of Lll’s future . He said to him self, “Finally, [Q] I understood: she went to the lagoon,... to swim underwater...It was a game..., but a game I didn’t like...” (pg 80-81) Q understood Lll, but has a different idea of their future together as a married couple. He taught that Lll just wanted to learn how to swim, turns out she wanted to live in the water.  At that point Q was confused and he misunderstood Lll. He wanted to convince her that she does not belong to the water, but on land where they belong. There fight ended with break up. He said, “ It was hard to blow for me. But, after all, what could I do about?  went on my way, in the mist of of the world’s transformation, being transformed myself.” (pg 81) The fight did not really matter to him, but he was still hurt. After all, they were engage and had a serious relationship. By Q’s misunderstanding of idea, he lost the girl that could have been his forever.      

              Years has passed and Q has forgotten all about Lll. He met new creatures from a group called New Ones or Pantotheres. Later on, he met a female Patotheres, and he has a different feeling, and her name is Fer-Flowe. Q describe her,” [She] Fern-Flower, the young creature of the spring...” (pg 101) When he first saw her, he has no words to say to. It clearly show that he is having a different feeling toward her. They first became friends and turned into something special. He say, “ A kid of friendliness has grown up between Fern-Flower and me. Nothing too intimate: [Q] I had never dared touch her. But we had long talks... This was the moment for me to embrace her.” (pg101) At first he does not have an intimate feeling towards her, and later on wants to tell her how feels and he just do not know how to express his feelings to her. But after all that loving, they came into a small bump into their relationship. He said, “Fern-Flower burst into tears.” (pg 107) Q got so mad that her lost his temper and put on that anger on Fern-Flower.The fight was about Q’s low life.  

               With his misunderstanding and anger problems he lost two girls that could of been his. He has no control, he thinks all about himself. Like the incident of Fern-Flower, 

“I has burst of pride; I stiffened and hurled a few contemptuous phrases in her face: ‘Why do you bore me with these dreams of yours? They get more childish every time! You can’t dream anything but sentimental nonsense!’(pg107) 

He could only talk about is himself, he is so coincident. Especially, the way he says it to Fern-Flower, he yelled at her and destroyed anything between them. He can be so rude and he has no feelings