SPRING POST 1: MUSIC AS LITERATURE

 I consider music to be literature, because it has a lot to do with the way we write every day and the way poetry is written. Poetry is a big part of literature and music is the same thing, but with sound. 
 we define literature as part of our language. Its something we read everyday. its something that defines a particular subject, and with music it also talks about one main subject.
 There isn't really a difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony. The only difference is the sound. If you cut out the sound and read it on a sheet of paper, you wouldnt be able to tell the difference between them. Except symphony, i dont think those have words?

Amlit Presentation

The Big Question!!

My big question is why can't people get along and treat eachother right? Why do we have to judge people and make them feel crappy and insecure about themselves, instead of happy and make them love who they are and proud to be who they are?

Sleepy Hallow & Vocabulary

I've heard stories about the Legend of the Sleepy Hallow, so I am excited to read it. I have a feeling im going to really like this book. The beginning is already really good, and is already pulling me into the story. I cant wait to keep reading! 
Vocabulary from the story that I did not understand:

• anon
• powwow
• reverie
• owing 
• cognomen 
• inveterate 
• repose 

Vocabulary #8

 flout: to openly disregard 
 caveat: a notice or warning
 blazon: to proclaim widely
 filch: to steal casually 
 fractious: bad tempered; easily irritated
 equitable: fair or impartial
 autonomy: self governing
 addendum: in addition
 amnesty: forgiveness for a pass offense
 axiomatic: self-evident; unquestionable
 extricate: free from constraint or difficulty
 soporific: medicine inducing sleep
 scathing: critical or scornful.
 unwieldy: diffucult to carry or move because of size.
 vapid: boring; not stimulating or challenging 
 prognosticate: foretell a future event
 sepulchral: gloomy or dismal
 salutary: positive effect; beneficial
 straitlaced: exaggeratedly proper
 scourge: a whipped used as punishment
 precept: A rule used to regulate.
 transient: impermanent 

A Walk by Myself

Taking this walk by myself was very difficult because i wasn't able to take my dog, who i always take with me. on my walk I walked all over Foxenwoods. Normally I have headphones in and i'm listening to music, but this assignment told us not to. It was very interesting. I enjoyed the walk, mainly because I enjoy walking, but I think i'm more at peace when I have my dog and my music. 
On my walk, many things were going through my mind. The main thing was on how i was going to write this. The other things I thought about was my boyfriend,  Josh. He's my happy thought. Watching the cars drive by and hearing the world was different for me because I normally have music. I most likely won't be going on those kind of walks again, I like my routine and they way I do it. 

The Kite Runner

1.The story took place in the beggining in Afghanistan. Amir, the main character, is a boy who grows up with a Hazaran boy, who is also his servant, and they become best friends, but Amir doesnt want to admit to other people that they are friends. Amir would always pick on Hassan, the Hazaran boy, because he was illiterate, but Hassan didnt care. All the boys in the town would go once a year to a part of the neighborhood and have these kite fights, and Hassan, was the best kite runner in the whole city. When Amir one the contest Hassan ran after  the kite and found it, running into Aseff, a horrible bully. Hassan wouldnt give him the kite and was raped. Amir was watching from a distance and didnt do anything, or tell anyone because he was too scared. Amir framed Hassan for stealing his birthday money, and Hassan and his father quit and moved out. After years of not seeing eachother, Amir moved to America, while Hassan stayed in Afghanistan. Amir went back to Afghanistan to see his fathers old friend,who was dying and told Amir that Hassan was actually his half brother, and that his father was to ashamed to say so. Hassan and his wife were shot and killed and left their son an orphan. Amir was to get Hassan's son out of the orphanage and taken to a safer place. After Amirs struggle to get to Hassans son, he brought him back to America with his wife and they adopted him.
2. Amir was never one to take chances. Now he has no choice but to go get his nephew out of a horrible place and to get forgiveness from his dead half-brother.
3. The authors tone is more of a saddening and depressed kinda feeling in the beginning, but more towards the end, it becomes more inspirational.