AP Prep: Post 1 Siddartha

1. Siddhartha features substantial activity and narrative action. At the same time, it is about one man’s largely internal spiritual quest. What is the relationship between the internal and exterior worlds of Siddhartha? How does Siddhartha negotiate these worlds?
http://danig14.blogspot.com/2013/01/1.html

2. What purpose does self-denial serve in Siddhartha? What about self-indulgence?
http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/questions.html

3. Siddhartha features substantial activity and narrative action. At the same time, it is about one man’s largely internal spiritual quest. What is the relationship between the internal and exterior worlds ofSiddhartha? How does Siddhartha negotiate these worlds?

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/siddhartha/study.html

4.Herman Hesse’s novels before Siddhartha focused on alienated young men who rejected the cultures of their upbringings. However, these other novels did not feature the spiritual elements of Siddhartha. How do the spiritual elements of Siddhartha make it different from any other story of an alienated youth?

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/siddhartha/study.html

5.iddhartha is a love story in addition to the story of a spiritual quest. How do Siddhartha’s romantic love for Kamala and his love for his son impact his spirituality? How does Siddhartha’s spirituality, in turn, impact Kamala and his son?

All of Them

Even though their later than they ever should have been here are the last 3 literature Analise the day before their final cut off date. I will more than likely be more current with these in the future .

Hitchhikers Lit Anal. #5

“Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams is about Arthur dent a human from earth that is awakened one morning by a construction team trying to tear down his house to make way for a highway. Arthurs friend ford prefect comes and explains that a race called the Vogons are going to demolish earth to ironically build a space highway. The two escape on to a Vogon Ship and are then jettisoned in to space where they are picked up by Zaphod Beeblebrox president of the Galaxy. The group encounters dangers and hijinks. They eventually come to a supercomputer called deep though which was asked the question to the meaning of life to witch it calculated was 42. The answer was unsatisfactory therefore deep thought constructed earth which would help calculate the question that would give the answer some kind of meaning. Unfortunately just before the Earth had completed its calculation it was blown up by the Vogons. A pair of mice that escaped with Arthur when he first left reveals themselves to be sentient beings and curious about the meaning of life offer to buy Arthurs brain. He refuses which gets him in to trouble his friends rescue him in the nick of time. The group then decides to go have lunch at “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” to which the book ends and leads to the sequel. The theme is that the answers were all seeking are right in front of us as long as were not so blinded to look. Douglas’s tone is playful, serious, and whimsical as this is a crazy tale of total mind F****.

  Like many other authors and novels the author approaches characterization in two ways direct and indirect the most common and easiest of these to point out is when he describes physical attributes of the characters like the fact that Arthur is British or Ford is Black. Then through the characters actions we grow to know how their minds work and their personalities which fill the rest of the characters profiles. The author’s syntax and diction remain the same throughout regardless of what he is describing.  No Arthur remains the same neurotic constantly opposing and questioning persona that he is except for the fact that maybe he is a little bit more accepting of change. There was something about this book that just didn’t grab me so unfortunately after reading the characters just remained words on a page that didn’t make me feel for them or grab me as a reader.

Innocence in Death lit Anal #4

  Innocence in Death” another installment of the “In Death” series of novels written by J.D Robb. In this one Detective Dallas is back on the case to solve the murder of a seemingly normal history teacher of a prep school. Again this is a detective novel so most of the events follow along the lines of people being interrogated suspicion being thrown from person to person etc. Two girls were witness to the crimes Rayleen Straffo and her friend Melodie Branch. Rayleen is at the top of her class and has never received a grade lower than an A until her. She is a bright child full of promise, she also believes herself to be smarter than everyone else and she puts herself above most everyone else. Eve eventually puts two and two together after and realizes that Rayleen murdered her teacher after he gave her a B+ on her essay. She finds a diary that details the child’s plan in great detail. Eve brings her in for questioning and after a game of the minds she tricks Rayleen in to confessing to everything, she wasn’t about to let the veil of innocence fool her like it had everyone else. With the case closed Eve moves on just like always. The theme is that eventually the pressure we build up in our lives will eventually crush us. My evidence of this is Rayleen look at her; she’s a 10 year old girl who has never seen a low mark in her life who is constantly pushed by her parents to strive to be excellent in every way. So when she saw that lower grade and failed to convince her teacher to change it she snapped. The tone is dark and somber and remains so until the very end there aren’t very many other tones in a detective novel.

  So since I described Eve on the last Literature Analysis ill analyze the killer in this novel Rayleen. The Author goes about describing her basic looks brunette with long curly hair smart gifted kid. Where we really learn about her is in what she says and how she seems to have a cynical and overall disdain for those who can’t intellectually challenge her. She thinks herself an adult even though she’s only a child. Her actions also give major clues to her character and state of mind. The author uses both methods so that the reader gets a full scope of who she is and understanding shy she did what she did. When it comes to characters like Rayleen the Author keeps a strange eerie tone when speaking directly about her. Does Rayleen really change or does her demeanor just change from the beginning she is the murderer but she plays the innocent act the entire time and by the end she is tricked into singing the truth through her insanity. In this I came away reading just a character a psycho character but still just vivid words on a page.

Origin in Death Lit Anal.

“Origin in Death” written by Nora Roberts or her alias J.D Robb is about Lieutenant Eve Dallas as she attempts to solve the murder case of Dr. Icove a brilliant plastic surgeon beloved by his many patience. The story is pretty routine of a cop drama and mysteries clues are found evidence analyzed. As the story progresses Dr. Icove’s son is called into suspicion until he as well is murdered leaving Eve at a loss Clues are found evidence analyzed. She eventually stumbles upon the Icoves obsessions with perfection which spirals in to a flurry of questions which inevitably leads her to find and uncover an organization founded by the Icoves focusing and creating female clones that are genetically perfect.  The Theme of “Origin in Death” is perfection and no matter how hard you try to attain it true perfection cannot be achieved. Thought this entire series due to the characters many tragic back stories the author keeps a somber serious tone through the entire novel. J.D Robb uses suspense constantly to keep the reader on the edge and give him or her a better sense of what is transpiring by heightening the action a drawing more attention to all the details.

  The author describes Detective Eve Dallas as a young beautiful women with an aggressive and strong willed personality. She constantly tells people how incompetent or stupid their being when she actually cares deeply for them all. It seems as though she treats the people closest to her the worst. Most of the time when there is some kind of action or revelation Eve’s actions directly explains how she is on the inside. The author uses both approaches to fully develop Eve as someone relate-able. The only notable thing I can see that changes when the author talks about character is that the tone changes to be more human and motherly as if J.D Robb holds these characters very close to her. For the most part Eve stays static she is very clearly defined at the beginning and hardly changes through to the end. This is one of the few books I’ve read (since it’s a series) that I really did connect with the characters and took away that I really had met people.