11 AP Blog

Even though I am from Brazil, speaking english was always something required in my life. During this week in my 11 AP English class, we have been discussing different types of english and how they differ from each other but continue the same big and known english. For example, at home I speak broken english, actually, a mixture of Portuguese and English, at school I speak -or at least I try, a formal English as I was taught in my English school back in Brazil; and when with friends, I speak a mostly “slanged” english, and when I say slanged I mean the terms that American people created to communicate with people whom they have intimacy with, like when you say “wyd?” instead of typing the whole “what are you doing?”, because of course, that would be too much work...I must particularly confess that whenever people use “slanged” english to joke around and I don’t understand, I got to a point where I just laugh along with the group. And also, of course sometimes my brain gets tangled and

There is no doubt that Arthur Miller did an amazing job on writing The Crucible , and we can confirm that by the number of people who read it and later made this book an American classic. Besides all the story and the drama in the play, what also ignites the reader’s interest on this book are the famous quotations from its characters. Thus, I decided to write this blog’s post about my favorite quotations from this book which can maybe inspire my readers and also make them feel more interested about this amazing book! 1 -   “I want to open myself! . . . I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!” - Abigail Williams, Act I I enjoy this quote not only for the language used -the repetition of “ I want” for example, but also by the fact that it is when Abigail starts

As we read “ Sinner in the H ands of an Angry God” during this week, my teacher, Ms. Besl, asked my class to create a Parody out of Jonathan Edward’s work. According to the dictionary ,  Parody is best defined as an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. Even though they are supposed to be funny, some parodies are kind of grotesque and also use a lot of satirical devices, what creates scary thoughts on some readers, which keep wondering if the author is serious or just being satirical. Parody has entered our day-to-day life through hilarious parody movies that mimic famous blockbusters. “Vampire Sucks” parodies and pokes fun at “Twilight” which was a film adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s novel “Twilight”. Another famous parody example that could be used is “ Sonnet 130”  by Shakespeare, which is a parody of traditional love poems common in his day. He presents an anti-love poem theme in a manner of a love poem m

We live in a world where everything is open minded, most people have the freedom of speech and people express liberty to do whatever they would like to. However, it was not always like that.....What if I had lived in the 1692 ? Well, in my opinion, I would probably have some problems living at this time, and I wouldn't be half of the extroverted person that I am nowadays. During my english class, we have been reading the book by Arthur Millan, The Crucible, what made me guess about conservatism and how would it be to be living in this period of time. Thankfully, Ms.Besl helped me with these thoughts by showing my english class a quiz where she tested us to know if we would be considered witches in 1692. According to this quiz, every single person in my class would be considered a witch, which is funny in my opinion because things that are habits nowadays or things that we don’t even take as big deals are extremely censured acts, for example, having female friends, being a

        Today’s post is going to be about books. Not specifically one book, but all books, generalized. Have you ever realized how affected we are by the things we read? Even if it’s not the author’s purpose, its scientifically proved that our brain analyzes everything that goes into our minds according to our background knowledge and past perspectives.  In fact, our brains really analyze it and absorb new information to this perspectives. During the last weeks, I have been reading the book It Is Kind of a Funny Story , by Ned Vizzini, which talks about a kid that has been going through several problems including depression and anxiety. Even if it is not rare to find books with this topic nowadays, this book got my attention by the fact that it describes a lot and really explains what goes through the mind of a depressive/anxiety kid. The fact that the book is narrated by Craig, who is the victim, also helps. In my guess, it made easier for the author to make his point by using th

First of all, I decided to talk about the question that all of us that read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald may have wondered in the end of the book. Was Gatsby that  Great? In fact, Gatsby could be considered great by his benevolence to always throw parties and let anyone come in even without an invitation, for giving the dress to the woman, by lending his servants to other people, for actually being generous about his money without expecting anything in change of that, and letting people take advantage of it. Although Gatsby doesn’t mind being generous, some people see this generosity as Gatsby’s negligence about everything else except Daisy. What besides being true, reveals his obsession about Daisy, and that makes me think that maybe he is just great on planning everything for her, due the fact that all that money that he is spending on the parties and using to achieve the Dream through his eyes, is illegal money and he didn't choose the most clear path to ac