This is your last blog of the year and is not required, it is merely a last opportunity for extra credit. We started the year with a blog that required you to interpret a quote, agree or disagree with it, and explain your reasoning. That is the basic format for a critical lens essay like the one you'll be doing on your final or your Regents exam. This is great practice for that test. There are a few more requirements for a critical lens, so I'm going to add a few more requirements to this one too. This is what you need to do:
1st Paragraph - Restate the quote and name the author. Explain what the quote means. Tell us whether you agree or disagree with the quote. Name two books and authors you can relate to the quote, and name a literary element (characterization, setting, theme, plot, etc.) that is seen in the books.
2nd Paragraph - Give more details about what the quote means. Explain it more fully. Write at least three sentences.
3rd Paragraph - Discuss the first book and why it fits with the quote. Be sure to underline the title of the book and to name the author. The author is NOT your friend, so refer to him or her by their last name. What literary element in that book fits the quote or supports it?
4th Paragraph - Discuss the second book and why it fits with the quote. Be sure to underline the title of the book and to name the author. The author is NOT your friend, so refer to him or her by their last name. What literary element in that book fits the quote or supports it?
Last Paragraph - Wrap it up. You can insert personal narrative here; talk about ways the quote is meaningful to your life as well as in the two books. You need at least three sentences here. Be meaningful!
********* Use spell check and grammar check. All of the rules that have applied all year apply here and, because it is extra credit and you've had a whole year with the same rules, you can be sure I am going to grade accordingly. If you'd like help with your editing or formatting before Friday, see me. I am not going to edit anything on Friday.
YOUR QUOTE IS: Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
Good Luck!
Mrs. Lucia (:
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” By Confucius this quote means that we has people make life a lot harder than it is by over thinking things and not enjoying everyday like it would be your last. Yes, I agree with the quote I can relate this quote to Into the wild and Lord of the Flies. The quote basically means that life is to short to be taken advantage of people need to enjoy the moments. Instead people worry bout the small things that have no real meaning. I truly believe people over think there decisions they make on life just roll with the punches “when life gives you lemons make lemonade” Into the wild by Jon Krakauer fits this quote because in he’s book he shows that doing what you think is right may not always be for the best but you learn from your mistakes. Mr. Krakauer died in his journey, but took that chance on life he made a choice to live life to the fullest in witch he did just that. The theme of this book shows that bad decisions can lead to bad things happening to you in this book it shows that by Mr. Krakauer losing his life. Lord of the flies by William Golden book fits this quote by showing that decisions mad by other people can get you in trouble as well. In Mr. Golden’s book the boys get stranded and have to make decisions to get them home some of the boys made bad decisions witch got them hurt, Im using characterization to show that when people got power on the island that bad things happened to them. In both books gives very good reasons to relate to the quote, also in my opinion lord of the flies best describes this quote. This is meanful to me because I can relate to this by being a teenager sometimes I feel as if I can do what I want, and make bad decisions that lead to either trouble or bad things happening. Over all I enjoyed doing this blog this blogged it was fun.-Marcus Shaver
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DeleteThe quote “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” Confucius wrote this amazing quote. This means Life is really easy but the choices that we make, make it hard. I totally agree with this quote 100%. It’s so true because if we do things the first time around and don’t fuss we will make it a lot easier later. For example The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The literary element in this book is the setting. Another book is “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. One element shown in this book is the characterization
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” by Confucius. This means that life really can be simple, but we chose to make it hard not anybody else US! Everyday we make choices that can affect our future. Most of us make stupid decisions, but in the end it affects us.
The first book that I chose was The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this book Daisy could have the man of her dreams but she doesn’t know how to be patient. In the end she ended up being with a major jerk that beat’s her all the time if things don’t go his way. The only reason why she went with this abusive man is because he had old money which meant higher class. Fitzgerald based this in the summer of the 1920’s, were if you had money you were very powerful. The literary element that supports this is the setting, because of the lavish lifestyle in the 1920’s.
The second book that I chose was The Crucible by Arthur Miller. In this story Miller writes about John Proctor. Proctor could have had an amazing life with his wife, but he chose to have an affair with Abby. Abby just means (to most readers) just one big mess of ugly lies. She lies to everyone just so she can try to be with Proctor. Some lies consisted of telling people who were witches, which lead those people she accused to death, including John Proctor. The literary element in this book is characterization, this is shown by Abby and her personality, the way she caught everybody in her lies. I see it as a disease it likes if you even walk by her you get it no matter what.
This quote was very inspiring. The reason is because it makes me think about my actions. I have learned from Daisy, from The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, to be patient, don’t rush things, and let things take its course. I have also learned from John Proctor, from The Crucible by Arthur Miller, to not have an affair because it will come to bite you in the butt. I always love to say “Karma is a Bitch” by unknown.
~Katrina Lester
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
ReplyDeleteThis quote means that some things we do in life they can sometimes become even harder than what they really are. I agree with this quote because there are many things that we want to do but then there are some that don’t want to do anything. I think that Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer would be two very good books that would go very with thus quote. I think the characterization would be used for this quote also.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
This quote also means that there are some things in life that we want to do and some things that we don’t want to do. I mean like if you want to go somewhere its like you have two sides to your brain. Ones telling you to go somewhere and the other part is telling not to do it.
I think Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald fits this quote because Tom Buchanan and Daisy had to do something and Tom didn’t want to do whatever it was that Daisy had in mind. I think characterization fits this quote because it helps us figure out what they were going to do.
I think that Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer fits this quote because there was this guy named Chris McCandless who later on changed his name to Alex. The reason I think this book would fit this quote because McCandless goes to travel and he finds this boat that has supplies on it that would help him on his journey to it was wherever he was going. Again I think characterization would fit this quote.
This quote is very meaningful to me because there are many things that I do in life that are easy but then they get harder as I go on. I think this quote fit both of these two books because it helped by telling what the people did in the books.
Kenny Cornwell