Rebel

   Anthony's student film Rebel was a great film and I think that he did an amazing job with it. I have seen rebel without a cause and thought it was a great movie. In Mr.Feldmen's film studies class we watched this film when we were doing a unit on teen angst along with the Breakfast Club and the Perks of being a Wallflower which I have to say is one of my all time favorite movies because I can relate to it so much plus I also love the book. When talking about teen angst we can all relate to it because we have all been through it. 
Being a teenager is hard even though you don’t have to deal with all the responsibilites an adult deals with there is still so much that we go through on a daily bases. There are so many changes in our lives and barriers that we must overcome. We deal with the pressure that society has put on young people with the way they look or how they should act and we are also in the process of discovering ourselves, all this in such a short amount of time.  We have our friends trying to put pressure on us to do things that we do want to do only to fit in with whatever people think is cool. To me the teenage years is one of the hardest stages in life that we have to go through because of all these things. Yes being  an adult is stressful because of bills and families and everything else that happens in their daily life but teenagers have to go through things on a more emotional level which is why I am so intertested in this teenagst and want to become a psychologist specifically more towards the youth. Overall Anthony did a great job and all the hard work that he put into it really paid off at the end.   

Precious

After watching the film Precious my heart broke. This was a great film and even though I didn’t get to finish it I think it was amazing. Precious had to go through so much at such a young age and even got kicked out of school for something that she had no control over. Her father was the one that did that to her and why was she the one that had to suffer? Her life was so sad having to deal with a mother that honestly was not really a mother. She didn’t want Precious to go to school because it would affect her benefits that she was receiving and to me that is one of the saddest things a parent could do to their child. Her mother would tell her things that no one should ever have to hear especially from someone that gave life to them. But Precious didn’t listen to her mother and went to the school. What I really admired about Precious was how even though she was going through so much in her life she still found places in her mind where she could daydream about being a star and having a light skinned boyfriend; it was her own little safe haven which the school also was too. Her second child was her happiness and even though she knew that she could barely support herself that it was going to be difficult supporting another human being that needed her but she still tried her hardest. Overall I really enjoyed this film and I just have to finish it as well as read the book.

To Kill a Mockingbird

 I remember reading this book when I was going into junior year and really enjoy it because I thought it was just extremely interesting and I was very into the whole book. I remember not being able to put it down and really enjoying when I had to write the journals for the summer work that we had to do for Feldman. The movie I thought was just as good as the book. We all get know the feeling we get when we hear that a book that we enjoy is going to be turned into a film because it could either go one of two way; turn out to be nothing like the book or staying pretty true to what the book was trying to show. To me I feel like to kill a mockingbird stay really turn to the novel. I felt as if I was watching the book. I could relate to scouts character because I was just like her when I was a little girl. When I was watching the film I felt as though I was watching the way I used to act as a child. I really enjoyed how the movie started off with all the close ups of the effects and the hand drawing I thought that it added to the film stylistically. Overall it was a great film and I enjoyed watching it. Though I didn’t get to watch the rest of the film because I was absent the day that we finished it I still really enjoyed the film and would make sure that I finish it because though I did read the book I don’t really remember what happens at the end. I read it all the way through but I don’t remember what happens at the end.

Rites of Passage poem 6

As the guests arrive at our son’s party   

they gather in the living room— 

short men, men in first grade 

with smooth jaws and chins. 

Hands in pockets, they stand around 

jostling, jockeying for place, small fights 

breaking out and calming. One says to another 

How old are you? —Six. —I’m seven. —So?

They eye each other, seeing themselves   

tiny in the other’s pupils. They clear their   

throats a lot, a room of small bankers, 

they fold their arms and frown. I could beat you

up, a seven says to a six, 

the midnight cake, round and heavy as a 

turret behind them on the table. My son, 

freckles like specks of nutmeg on his cheeks,   

chest narrow as the balsa keel of a   

model boat, long hands 

cool and thin as the day they guided him   

out of me, speaks up as a host 

for the sake of the group. 

We could easily kill a two-year-old, 

he says in his clear voice. The other   

men agree, they clear their throats 

like Generals, they relax and get down to   

playing war, celebrating my son’s life.

This poem to me is a satirical poem because of the way that the kids are portrayed. At first I thought that the writer was talking about grown men going to a party but then the  writer talked about the age of the boys and I saw that they weren’t really men. To me this poem was making a comment on how fast children are starting to grow up.  Parents don’t really get to appreciate their children when they are at the earlier stages of their lives because of the fast pace life that we live. The language that the writer uses to explain the children and the way that they were acting was like she was trying to make us see the boys as men even though they are acting like the boys that they are. 

I for one really enjoyed this poem because of the way it was written and how the author wants you to see the boys as men. I think that it made the poem very interesting and as I was reading it I was picturing it in my mind. I could see the little boys acting the way that the poem “As the guests arrive at our son’s party they gather in the living room— short men, men in first grade with smooth jaws and chins. Hands in pockets, they stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights breaking out and calming”.  The author used those images to really captivate the reader and make them see what she was trying to put out and say about how children are growing up very fast. It is almost like a coming of age poem.

The world is too much with us poem 5

The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—

Little we see in Nature that is ours;

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;

The winds that will be howling at all hours,

And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;

For this, for everything, we are out of tune;

It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be

A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,

Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;

Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

This poem talks about how we as people on this world have stopped looking at the beauty that is nature and worry more about that things that go on in our daily lives. The author of the poem thinks that the world is too much for us to appreciate and to enjoy so that is why we appreciate other things instead. He states that he would rather be a pangan that wordships other Gods so he could appreciate more of the beauty of nature. 
I do agree with the author of the poem because I believe that we live such a fast past life and we are so involved in our everyday lives that we don’t take time and “smell the roses”. There is so much that we are missing out in the world because of what we are focused on. The world is such a big place and should be explored and I think that is what the author is trying to say. He wants us to see that we are not appreciating “this Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; the winds that will be howling at all hours, and are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; ” and that we have sold our souls to things that don’t really matter. I do believe that we should be more connected with nature and not ignore how beautiful it truly is. As I was reading this poem I thought about when I was in Puerto Rico and every night I would see the moon reflected upon the ocean and it was one of the most beautiful things that I have ever seen. And as I read this poem those were the times that I would think of and it something that I always think  about.   

We Real Cool poem 3

     The Pool Players.

       Seven at the Golden Shovel.

           We real cool. We   

           Left school. We

           Lurk late. We

           Strike straight. We

           Sing sin. We   

           Thin gin. We

           Jazz June. We   

           Die soon.

After reading the poem , we real cool by Gwendolyn Brooks, though it was short I thought that it was very relatable to teenagers. We are at a stage in our lives where even though we are about to jump into adulthood, we are still young and naive. The lines we real cool, we left school for me shows that mindset that many people use to think that not going to school was cool and being a rebel was something that everyone wanted to be. Young adults a lot of the time like to stay out late and go out with friends doing things that they know they are not suppose to do but they do them anyways because they are young. 

I believe that young people think that since we are going to die soon why not live your life the way that you want; everything is just going to go to waste so enjoy the moment that you are in. I feel as though the poem is showing us how short this time really is because of the length and I also think the style of this poem has a lot to do with the meaning as a whole. The way that it is broken up and divided, each stanza only having two lines and also ending with we leading into the next stanza shows that this time of our lives goes by different stages, each stanza showing a different stage until we come to the end which is the death of our youth.