This Summer

This summer I had some free time to read. I read a book series that everyone has heard of, Harry Potter. Before I read them I thought they would be stupid or boring, a book I wouldn't be able to get into, boy, was I wrong. I was challenged by my boyfriend and a friend to read them before judging them, so I did. My boyfriend challenged me further to read them all this summer. So I took up the challenges and read them all this summer. They were probably some of the best books I had ever picked up.

I must say J.K. Rowling is a talented writer. For someone to write a book that both children and adults love to read you have to be talented. There are not many who can say they have written books that have come as far as the Harry Potter series. I can only think of one at the moment and that would be the Chronicles of Narnia. The one question on everyones mind is; is this where Rowling ends her writing career or will she continue it and write other books?

In the next couple days I'm going to talk about the different books I read this summer since I have no time to read during the school year.

Ender's Game

By O.S. Card

Ender's Game

This book was recommended to me by my sister, and I can see why. Ender's Game is a great book. If you are ready to stimulate your imagination you should read it. It's about this little boy that is destined to destroy a alien species. I won't say more about the book because I don't want to give it away.

What's the Controversy

Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code

So I just got done reading the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown it was quite enlightening to see what stories people will come up with so that they don't have to be accountable to a higher power. In this case God. There were so many things in the book that he had no real idea about. They were simple facts that if a person open the Bible and read it would know that Dan Brown is ignorant to the Christian faith. I feel that this will be another case of Creation vs. Evolution. I'm afraid now that it's out there in aways people are more able to understand it then they will believe it since we are in an age were we take things at others say as fact without doing research. This will be another hurdle Christians are going to have to leap in order to help the people searching for God to find him without getting caught in the lies ourselves.

This isn't the first time these writing have made an appearance. Both John and Paul have written about the Gnostic beliefs in the Bible and have warned Christians to not be persuaded by their philosophies. The Gnosticism is where the Nag Hammadi documents came from. See how relevant the Bible is whether now or 2000 years ago. God knows what Christians need to hear.

Colossians

1 John

Reading the whole book of both of these would be good for any Christian.

The Chronicles of Narnia

C.S. Lewis

Chronicles of Narnia

The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of 7 books. The first book in the series is The Magician's Nephew. It's the beginning of the world of Narnia. In the book a young boy and his friend (which is a girl) travel to different worlds with his uncles magical rings. They find one world not yet "born." When I read this particular book it remind me of the creation story in the Bible. I seems so magical how everything starts to appear out of nothing. I enjoy these book a lot. I would recommend them for any age group.

My Last Duchess

By Robert Browning

My Last Duchess

For this poem our professor Dr. Eric Johnson, had us decide whether we would want to marry the Dutch or ever let our sister marry him. All of us said that the guy sounded like a creep and would never want to marry him. Then Dr. Johnson gave us another point of view to view the Dutch. He said that maybe this Dutch changed his mind about marrying his gal so he made all these ridicules reason for why he had his other wife killed. Except in reality she might of died of a disease. So instead of insulting this Count the Dutch made it sound as if he were a jerk.

My British Lit webpage

I know I said I would post updates on my British Lit webpage about Frankenstein, but for the most part I haven't gotten very far on it. It will be worked on tonight and finished hopefully. I'm using html to make it instead of frontpage. I feel if I use html then it will help me remember and learn new techniques that I've learn this past school year.


Frankenstein Webpage This site got deleted.

Journey of the Magi

By T.S. Eliot

Journey of the Magi

We all agree that the poem is about the Christ child. Some of us in the class believe that there is a deeper meaning then the Magi just going to see the Christ child but that also that he realizes that there is more to this child then meets the eye. Personally I believe that the Magi realizes that this child will die for the worlds sins. Also that the will be or has been another death, one within himself just by seeing this child.

The Waste Land

By T.S. Eliot

The Waste Land

The Waste Land is a very difficult poem to read. Eliot alluseds to other works of literature. To fully understand this poem you must either read those works of literature or read the footnotes.

Lines

By William Wordsworth

Tintern
Abbey

This is one of the first poem that the class discussed early in the semester. Most of the class said that the speaker in the poem was reflecting on his past and how he use to look at the world. The speaker also looks at his present life and how he interacts with the nature. Then he looks at the future and how other people will interact with nature especially his little sister.

Dover Beach

By Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

This is a dramatic monologue poem that speaker is talking to someone at a time of leisure. As a class we came to the conclusion that the speaker was searching for the meaning of life. Just like everyone else in the world Arnold wants to know that there is more life than just surviving. He feels like something is missing and wants to find that something. We also said that modernism and how Arnold believes in this kind of belief that Christianity was dead but religion is the biggest aspect in the world. We also discussed that nothing in the world is matter except for what you can hold on to right now. Some students stated that Arnold is pessimistic. I definitely think so.

on my first day

Hello, I'm glad you decided to stop by. I'm new around here.Just make yourself at home and I hope you enjoy your stay and read.

I've decided to follow my British literature class talking about different poems that we've discussed. Meaning of them have been discussed earlier this semester but some will be current. You will be able to read the poem through the links I provide. Most poems have several meanings so if you would like you can leave a comment on what you think the poems mean. I will be discussing only what my class discusses. I will also be tracking my progress on my website about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for my literature class.

Enjoy!