Well I set up the web page which is http://harrypotterbanned.wetpaint.com/ . I changed the background, I added pictures of the covers of the books and I added music. I also added the six movie trailers from youtube.com. I was adding information about J.K. Rowling. The reasons why people wanted to ban the Harry potter series.
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Added by Ruth on May 15, 2009 at 3:41pm —
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The first thing I noticed after reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, was that Harry is extremely humble not only for the 10 years living with his aunt and uncle but also when he find out who he is and why he’s so famous. He still stayed the same humble he once had been. Even when the opportunity is presented to be friends with Draco Malfoy (A boy who only gloats about having pure-blood and about his family history.)Harry refuses to be part of it. He makes friends with people that don’t…
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Added by Ruth on May 15, 2009 at 3:31pm —
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Well first of all I choose the Harry Potter series of books because I always been a big fan of the books as well as the movies. What I found interesting was that the book series have been banned in schools and in public libraries all over the world. Which it never really never occurred to me. I was also curious about why such a wonderful set of books would have been banned. So I defiantly wanted too read the Harry Potter books again but this time with an eye out for themes and events that might…
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Added by Ruth on April 28, 2009 at 9:36am —
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Well I was responsible for setting up the web page which is http://themegroup.wetpaint.com/ . I changed the background, I added pictures of the covers of the books and we added a poll. I was also responsible for starting a PowerPoint presentation, which I did and then I emailed it to Kathy so she could up information about her book. I also addded a video from youtube.com about the rise of nazi germany bacause I found that nazi germany had alot in common with the government in the book 1984. Also…
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Added by Ruth on April 5, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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Blog# 9 Factors that challenged 1984
The book was challenged on the counts of communist content, sexual content, immorality and profanity. There were also considered to show communism in a favorable light as well as “communistic ties”. Although this book was challenged many times for this reasons the book shows us a bigger picture than just communism but what happens in a totalitarian society. 1984 was a warning that any government is capable of this kind of power of total control in their coun…
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Added by Ruth on April 5, 2009 at 7:00pm —
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Blog #8 Theme 1984
There are many themes throughout the book, such as fear, control; brain wash, obedience and oppression just to name a few. But what I found interesting was that Winston even though he was obedient and did everything he was told to do, deep down he knew better, he knew that the government was brain washing him. He knew that the government lied and that he no longer wanted to be a “slave” of this political party. So when he bought the journal and wrote his self thoughts even tho…
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Added by Ruth on March 31, 2009 at 10:23am —
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In the first chapters of the book 1984, you’re brought into a world that once was England and now it’s the state of Oceania. The first character that we meet is Winston Smith a man that is a minor official in the party, who works changing the true facts of the past to match the government version of past events. He is watched night and day all the time by the government. He is under the party’s oppressive political control; he is just a subject not a human being.
In Oceania there is no freedom,…
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Added by Ruth on March 25, 2009 at 11:41am —
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Well in our group we are going to focus on the fact that many books that were once banned or challenged are now part of school curriculums across the country. I find it kind of funny how these books were not available for people to read them during the time the books come out because of they were being challenged or banned and now high school students have to read them in order to pass an English class. We are all reading different books and we are looking for similar themes. I am reading 1984 b…
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Added by Ruth on March 4, 2009 at 9:59am —
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Connie does parallels England during that time period, and it makes perfect sense why the book ended the way it did. We are left with no clear answer of the future of Connie and Mellors and the baby that it about to born. Just like there was no clear answer to the future of England during that time period. And the unborn baby to me represents hope of something good and happy to come even when there was an unclear or uncertain future. Throughout the book we saw find out the Clifford represents th…
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Added by Ruth on March 3, 2009 at 9:00am —
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What I saw was that in the beginning of the book Clifford and Connie had only an intellectual relationship with each. Later on in the book Mellor and Connie had only a physical relationship even though they too seem to be in "love” a great example is when Connie would ask him if he loved her; he would never say he loved her, he would say he loved her body among others things but never would he say he loved her. It just goes to show that relationships between men and women can't just be about int…
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Added by Ruth on February 24, 2009 at 9:26am —
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The first symbol that I found was the house in the beginning of the first and second chapters. The house represents Clifford and Connie’s marriage. Their home is describe as a
“…long low old house in brown stone…. with its clouds of steam and smoke, and on the damp, hazy distance of the hill the raw straggle of Tevershall village… and trailed in utter hopeless ugliness for a long and gruesome mile: houses, rows of wretched, small, begrimed, brick houses, with black slate roofs for lids…” And yet…
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Added by Ruth on February 9, 2009 at 12:00am —
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In chapter three we meet a new character a young Scottish playwright named Michaelis, who has been very successful but treated like an outsider by the upper class. He comes to visit Wragby to be “used” by Clifford on his expertise on success. He also begins an affair with Connie. After it was over he acts like nothing happened between the two. It even makes Connie wonder whether he remembers what happened earlier that day. After he leaves Wragby and after he goes back to visit again, they contin…
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Added by Ruth on February 8, 2009 at 8:22pm —
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover begins with the tragedy of war and life during and after the First World War. In the first chapter we learn that Clifford and Connie marry in 1917, (he was 29 and she was 23) one month after the wedding he is forced to go back to fight the war. In 1920 Clifford Chatterley returns paralyzed from waist down. Clifford and Connie live at Wragby, “near the grim, soulless coal-mining village of Tevershall.”
By sort of background we learn that Connie and her sister Hilda were ra…
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Added by Ruth on February 8, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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