Books, Pages, What a Wonderful Thing
(Comments on Three Favorite Books from AP Lit. First Quarter)
Remember of a time, you first explored the Earth, all those others humans were so much bigger than you. There were scratches all over the walls, on paper, even on your television screen. Yet, one fateful day you began to decipher these strange hieroglyphic type symbols and discovered all these stories with them. What was the first words you read, novel you completed. All throughout life you will find tales that you enjoy and dislike, they tear at your emotions and change your outlook on others. As you get older there are more instances where you may have to read even though you didn’t wish to or found the pages boring and unbearable. This happens …show more content…
In the story I will begin with a basic summary of the plot and what took place through the chapters or books in the epic poem. The pages begin with the trials of Telemachus and the help of the Greek goddess Athena in Odysseus’s journey home. In the next, and largest part, of the tale you reencounter the travels and trials of Odysseus and how he has survived to make it home. The ending is the reuniting of the family and issue of the suitors with the help of many servants and loyal subjects to the King of Ithaca. This adventure is appealing to me in the sense of how it is written as much as what is put on the page. When it comes to the plot, in the end, it is all put together as on storyline and you know where all the characters stand. In the beginning though there are so many elements that are being thrown around in terms of the different characters, locations, and life stories, that you had to take a moment and think about what all was going on to be able to absorb what was coming next in the story. When it came to reading level the language was very easy to read in terms of vocabulary and style, the only difficulty was the order. In the plot the story flowed with its fast paced action and there were plenty of moments where you got caught up in the story and couldn’t put the book down. In an intellectual sense there were morals and lessons …show more content…
In the reading of Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, as an infant Oedipus’s parents were told he was a plague on the land, he would kill his father and marry his mother, and that he needed to be killed. His parents abandoned him in the nearby mountains. He was found by local farmers from the next town over and Oedipus grew up in the village unaware of his prince stature, and was found by another prophet who told him his prophecy. Hearing this, he ran away from home to Thebes. On the way he got into a fight and killed the king, believing it wasn’t his father, solved the mystery of the Sphinx, and was offered to marry the queen. The city lived in peace for years, Apollo learning of his marriage and the murdered king, put a plague on the city until the king's murderer was found. Once Oedipus learned it was him and that he was adopted from royalty he realized that the prophecy came true and the city and royal family from there began to decay. In Oedipus Rex most of my intrigue with it came to the fact that it was so detailed, beyond replication in real life. From the adoption and running from home, to the prophecy and royal lineage it is complex. One of the biggest details is in the conclusion of the story with the death and injury to the family, broken beyond repair, but their complete denial of how broken they really are as they try to stay together. It’s one of those stories that
(Comments on Three Favorite Books from AP Lit. First Quarter)
Remember of a time, you first explored the Earth, all those others humans were so much bigger than you. There were scratches all over the walls, on paper, even on your television screen. Yet, one fateful day you began to decipher these strange hieroglyphic type symbols and discovered all these stories with them. What was the first words you read, novel you completed. All throughout life you will find tales that you enjoy and dislike, they tear at your emotions and change your outlook on others. As you get older there are more instances where you may have to read even though you didn’t wish to or found the pages boring and unbearable. This happens …show more content…
In the story I will begin with a basic summary of the plot and what took place through the chapters or books in the epic poem. The pages begin with the trials of Telemachus and the help of the Greek goddess Athena in Odysseus’s journey home. In the next, and largest part, of the tale you reencounter the travels and trials of Odysseus and how he has survived to make it home. The ending is the reuniting of the family and issue of the suitors with the help of many servants and loyal subjects to the King of Ithaca. This adventure is appealing to me in the sense of how it is written as much as what is put on the page. When it comes to the plot, in the end, it is all put together as on storyline and you know where all the characters stand. In the beginning though there are so many elements that are being thrown around in terms of the different characters, locations, and life stories, that you had to take a moment and think about what all was going on to be able to absorb what was coming next in the story. When it came to reading level the language was very easy to read in terms of vocabulary and style, the only difficulty was the order. In the plot the story flowed with its fast paced action and there were plenty of moments where you got caught up in the story and couldn’t put the book down. In an intellectual sense there were morals and lessons …show more content…
In the reading of Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, as an infant Oedipus’s parents were told he was a plague on the land, he would kill his father and marry his mother, and that he needed to be killed. His parents abandoned him in the nearby mountains. He was found by local farmers from the next town over and Oedipus grew up in the village unaware of his prince stature, and was found by another prophet who told him his prophecy. Hearing this, he ran away from home to Thebes. On the way he got into a fight and killed the king, believing it wasn’t his father, solved the mystery of the Sphinx, and was offered to marry the queen. The city lived in peace for years, Apollo learning of his marriage and the murdered king, put a plague on the city until the king's murderer was found. Once Oedipus learned it was him and that he was adopted from royalty he realized that the prophecy came true and the city and royal family from there began to decay. In Oedipus Rex most of my intrigue with it came to the fact that it was so detailed, beyond replication in real life. From the adoption and running from home, to the prophecy and royal lineage it is complex. One of the biggest details is in the conclusion of the story with the death and injury to the family, broken beyond repair, but their complete denial of how broken they really are as they try to stay together. It’s one of those stories that