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This blog is for Harbor High Students enrolled in American Literature Honors. It is a place to share ideas and resources
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- Rene Ohana
- Ms. Ohana is an English teacher at Harbor High. She enjoys reading, writing, gardening, and baking. Her students are an energetic and creative group. She can hardly wait to hear all of their great ideas about literature.
There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?
ReplyDelete"And do you know, those old gentlemen who were sliding gently down to death are too interested to die now?"- East of Eden, John Steinbeck page 302
ReplyDelete"I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents. Some you can see, misshapen and horrible, with huge heads or tiny bodies. . . . And just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?" (Steinbeck 72)
ReplyDeleteTrevor, that's gross!
ReplyDeleteJust kidding.
"And always there was Alice to play with, Alice to love her and trust her. Alice was her friend, always waiting to welcome her to tinyness." (Steinbeck 552)
Looking for something to "comment" about? Perhaps you could discuss one of the quotations that someone else posted here. Why is it important? Why did Steinbeck say it the way he did? Focus on style (diction, sentence structure, literary techniques) in relation to content.
ReplyDelete"He developed a love for poor people he could not have conceived if he had not been poor himself."
ReplyDelete"I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents. Some you can see, misshapen and horrible, with huge heads or tiny bodies. . . . And just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?" (Steinbeck 72)- Trevor's quote
ReplyDeleteThis quote is the beginning of the chapter that introduces Cathy. Cathy is the malformed soul being described in this. Steinbeck uses imagery of deformed children, then relates this to malformed souls. This implies that Cathy is just as shocking as these deformed children that are being described, but her deformity is obscured from view.
"And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is." (415)
ReplyDelete"Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now-look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do it-not your mother." (449)
“I know what you hate. You hate something in them you can’t understand. You hate the good in them that you can’t understand. You don’t hate their evil. You hate the good in them that you can’t get at.” (Pg. 323)
ReplyDelete-Samantha Lee
Ms. Ohana,
ReplyDeleteI am an English Teacher at Snider High School in Fort Wayne, IN. I have dreamed of doing something like what you've done here. Would you be opposed to replying to this query about how to start a blog like this and what invitations you give, and elements you require of, your students on a blog? My email is joshua.kellenberger@fwcs.k12.in.us.
Thanks!
Josh
"We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest between good and evil. It occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is."
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