https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89 en-us 2016-09-30 19:46:01 UTC 2023-06-13 06:53:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Hearts.png sandrina_asr https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/127640255 When I read "Farewell to Arms", at first I thought it would had been another history tale about First World War but then I changed my mind.
Of course the story is set during the war, more precisely during a granade attack and many people are injured, but we have the witness of a soldier. The author, that is also the narrator and the protagonist wrote that in a simple way and when I was reading it I could put myself into it. From this extract I've learnt how people felt during that horrible period and that everyone had a different attitude towards war. What happened had an impact on all, soldiers and not. There were people who believed in war, these people thought war was the right way to resolve things, on the other side there were people who just wanted to end that terrible situation, I think that it's okay to have different opinions but in these cases it doesn't matter at all, what's really matter is to be aware of war's cruelty.]]> 2016-09-30 19:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/127640255 sandrina_asr https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/130906848 From this poem I learnt more about war's conditions. We all know how bad war is and that everybody hate it but reading poet's testimonials you can truly get the sensations of living it. In my opinion Owen is very similar to Hermingway by the styles used and in the way they describe scenes and characters. This poem has an important message, the poet criticizes who encourage children to join the war. This shows how he was against every aspect of the war I think this is very important because not everyone know what people went through.]]> 2016-10-15 10:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/130906848 sandrina_asr https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/135235551 From "the waste land" by TS Eliot we have studied two parts of the first section "The burial of the dead". I really liked this extract, especially because this poem is very different from the others we have done about "war". The poet describes everything about the situation, not just what is happening but also the atmosphere he has created. He uses a lot of repetitions of sounds and words to underline men's attitudes, not only the soldiers but everyone. I personally learnt how to describe something not just focusing on the content but also on people's feelings. I also know now, what is the objective correlative, how it can be used in a poem and how to recognize it.

]]> 2016-11-03 20:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/135235551 sandrina_asr https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/148512977 I have learnt a lot of things about Virgina Woolf. The first thing that impressed me was how innovative she has been. She use a new  technique called 'stream of consciousness' : through the free indirect speech she is able to describes the entire thoughts of characters using the 3rd person singular pronoun. We can clearly understand everything about a character (her/his past, her/is attitude..) just by her/his thought, in fact, for example 'Mrs Dalloway' doesn't have a plot: nothing important happens on the outside but on the inside of Clarissa's mind. Woolf doesn't have a traditional treatment of time: to her one day is enough to tell a story (like in Mrs Dalloway). During her life the London society is changing, she describes this development through putting new objects in her story's background as for example the spread of new newspaper, the increasing use of cars and planes. She do a division between moments of being and moments of non-being: the first ones are the moments we live with awareness and intensity while the moments of non-being are experienced as something we get through without being aware of it. But she underline that what distinguishes the two things is the intensity of feeling and not the nature of the actions. Another thing is the use of multiple point of view: there isn't a traditional omniscent narrator that knows everything anymore, contrariwise the point of view shifts from a character's mind to another's.]]> 2017-01-21 13:17:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/148512977 sandrina_asr https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/154138993 We have studied a lot of things about James Joyce. First of all what impressed me is the way Joyce describes Dublin, he has a negative view about his city, but it is the protagonist of every story Joyce has written. He wanted to show how was the life in Dublin, the city of paralysis. And so he wrote about ordinary people doing ordinary things and living ordinary lives. He utilized a very good style and technique, he used differents points of view and narrative techniques of many characters. The book we've read is Dubliners, that I've really enjoyed. This book represent the paralysis of Dublin through people's life and their failures, in fact no one manage to reach his/her dream. For example in one of them: Eveline, we can see how the girl who is the protagonist, during all the story is deciding to change her life, to escape, but at the end she is scared and she changes her mind. 

]]> 2017-02-15 19:31:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/154138993 sandrina_asr https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/160984299 David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer born in Eastwood in 1885. His life was very influenced by the relationship with his mother which can be described as a toxic one. For this reason we have analyzed the Oedipus complex, the myth described in his most famous novel: Sons and Lovers. In this book we can see the relationship between Paul (which is Lawrence) and Miriam but they can't be together because of Paul's mother. We have read and analyzed the passage "the rose bush" which describes the moment when Miriam and Paul have their communion.]]> 2017-03-19 11:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/160984299 sandrina_asr https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/168422061 We have studied Fitzgerald's well known work: The Great Gatsby. I've really liked the plot, and even if at first it seems really complicated at the end I've understood that everything 's about money and specially luxury. This work describes in a perfect way how american life was during the jazz age, a period when American people lived in a carefree way. But at the same time this novel describes the hidden sense of loss and empitness that there are behind the cult of wealth and materialism. ]]> 2017-04-26 16:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/168422061 sandrina_asr https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/170151322 Harlem is a section of Manhattan in New York, it was founded in 1658. At first it was populated by Jewish population but when African-American started to migrate from the south it become the centre of their community. This area then was known as the 'Black Mecca and 'the capital of black america'. Inside the Harlem there were lots of clubs, the most famous was the Cotton Club. It was run by a white gangster and this is one of the taboos people could indulge in: the mix with blacks.]]> 2017-05-05 11:56:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sandrina_asr/4qsjnlp2cq89/wish/170151322