https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl en-us 2016-10-02 13:36:02 UTC 2023-01-20 15:40:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pizza.png tryhard https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/127723105 'Farewell to Arms' is a book which talks about the World War One. It was pretty impressive how the author 'show' us how terrible is the war and what are the consequences. And another thing that surprised me is how he dealt with 'free direct speech' only to make the dialogue more realistic, it wasn't only realistic the dialogue but so it was the description of the view and the place. Even if he uses this kind of tricks to be more realistic there is a thing that isn't absolutely real: the sensation of the protagonist being like he was physically out of himself.]]> 2016-10-02 13:38:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/127723105 tryhard https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/130988416 This poem talks about war just like 'Farewell to Arms'. It describes an army who was marching away from the battle place. The soldiers were really tired that they couldn't hear the grenades dropped, they barely walked propely. When suddenly there was a gas attack, everyone put their mask on except one soldier who was stumbling and yelling that's why he was swallowed by the gas. This part remind me of a scene from the movie 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1', when Megs, one of the tribute, she was swallowed by a poisoned gas and while her mates watched her dying. So the protagonist saw this soldier dying, this image of death harass his sleep. And at the last stanza he wants to warn the future generation sabout war, he said war is not good and it isn't something to be done for the glory.]]> 2016-10-16 18:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/130988416 tryhard https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/135208290 From "Waste Land" we studied two different parts of The Burial of the Dead. In the first part Eliot shows us a reversal traditional of values: spring is seen as something bad, just like something that wakes you up from a beautiful dream, and in which winter is seen as something good that makes you forget everything, that protects you from the rude reality; this sensation keeps you from carrying on with your life.
Then we studied the other part always from The Burial of the Dead, in this part, instead he uses quotations from the greatest figures of Literature: Dante and Baudelaire, just to describe an anonymous crowd, in which everyone is the same.]]> 2016-11-03 18:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/135208290 tryhard https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/144644109 2016-12-21 22:07:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/144644109 tryhard https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/144645538 2016-12-21 22:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/144645538 tryhard https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/148579448 Virginia is one of the writers impressed me most because even if she didn't write endless description of a character we are able to understand them thanks to their interior monologue. I believe that not all the other writers are capable of it. In her books symbols really did matter, well actually not only in her books but also in her life like the water symbolized two things: the first one what was feminine and the other one the death. ]]> 2017-01-22 17:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/148579448 tryhard https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/154080760 We learnt a lot about James Joyce, especially how can a simple trivial thing can influence so much our subconscious and this trivial thing can make us realise what really we want. This is the so called 'Epiphany', which is the same thing used by Virginia Woolf, but called in another way 'the moments of being'. Joyce uses it especially in his work "Dubliners" and I really loved how he used in the story of "Eveline". Eveline is young woman and she took care of her family after her mom died until she met the love of her life, who asked her to leave and live in Argentina; but she was leaving she realised that she wanted, she should stay for her family.]]> 2017-02-15 17:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/154080760 tryhard https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/160633919 From Lawrence I have learnt how our live can influence our work. His relationship with his mother drew inspiration for his work 'Sons and Lovers'. It is an autobiographical novel, in which Paul and  Miriam have mutual feelings for each other. Everything seems fine expect the realionship between the young man and his mother, who tries to put an end to their love. But his mother isn't the evil character of the story, because according to Lawrence there aren't character who are fully evil or fully good, instead, all men and women have a dark side and bright side.]]> 2017-03-16 18:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/160633919 tryhard https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/167462947 When we were studying Fitzgerald, we focused on "The Great Gatsby". It is the perfection encyclopedia for the 'Roaring Twenties', because 'The Great Gatsby' shows us the luxious life and the hethic life and how stressful can be and how worrysome can be leading this kind of life. When none really cares about you even of your death because at the end of the work there is Nick, who prepares the funeral and none attended at it. Fitzgerald also shows that American Dream is a failure especially in this case where great life lead you to nothing.]]> 2017-04-21 11:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tryhard/8d03w8zjx9hl/wish/167462947