Poems From Lewis Carroll: Dreamland

Passage:

"When midnight mists are creeping,

And all the land is sleeping,

Around me tread the mighty dead,

And slowly pass away.

Lo, warriors, saints, and sages, 

From out the vanished ages,

With solemn pace and reverend face

Appear and pass away.

The blaze of noonday splendour,

The twilight soft and tender,

May charm the eye: yet they shall die,

Shall die and pass away.

But here, in Dreamland's centre,

No spoiler's hand may enter,

These visions fair, this radiance rare,

Shall never pass away.

I see the shadows falling.

The forms of old recalling;

Around me tread the mighty dead,

And slowly pass away."

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Comments and Response:

The theme of this poem is that dreams are forever and the real world is not. While the real world "may charm the eye.." or it seem pleasant it is still capable of passing away and ruining the current world that the person has made."No spoiler's hand may enter.." the dreamland and cause things to go wrong, there in dreamland nothing dies and gets old, but lasts forever young and beautiful. There is also a tone shift from lines 8 to 9, the poem shifts from a informative and descriptive tone a more serious one as it warns the reader about the dangers of the real world. Another tone shift appears in the 13th line to a more pleasant tone to describe the wonders of dreamland. 

Poems From Lewis Carroll: The Crocodile

Passage:
"How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!"

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Comments and Response:
I believe that the theme of this poem is looks can be deceiving. The theme can be noticed in the last stanza of the poem when the crocodile "cheerfully...seems to grin...with gently smiling jaws!" Although the crocodile looks like fun and cool because of his "golden scale[s]" he is actually leading you into a trap to be eaten. In This poem also contains diction that allows the reader to picture perfectly what the crocodile looks like and how he "grins" at the fish he is luring in.

The Mark Of Athena 2

Passage:
"On the deck of the Argo II, Percy and Jason stood together, their swords crossed. Annabeth got a tingle down her spine as she realized the boys were working as one, summoning the sky and the sea to do their bidding. Water and wind churned together. waves heaved against the ramparts and lightning flashed. Giant eagles were knocked out of the sky. Wreckage of the flying chariot burned in the water, and Coach Hedge swung a mounted crossbow, taking potshots at the Roman birds as they flew overhead.

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253

Comments and Response:
This scene depicts amazing imagery and it is one of my favorite scenes in the book. I can picture it perfectly as the two boys stand tall and have there swords held high in the air forming a cross with each other, as the sea and wind come together to form a storm. Being the strongest people in the group when the two of them worked together I had a mental though of "oh hell, y'all in big trouble now." It was right to think that too because the enemies got battered around like flies. On a side note this is how I want teen fiction to be depicting awesome quest stuff not all about romance.

The Mark Of Athena 1

Passage:
"Annabeth wondered how Jason could be so dense. Was it possible he really didn't understand how much Reyna liked him? It was obvious enough to Annabeth. Asking to show his girlfriend around Reyna's city was rubbing salt in a wound."

Page:
32

Comments and Response:
This shows character development of three characters: Jason, Annabeth, and Reyna. This shows how observant and how much Annabeth pays attention to detail. It shows how Reyna feels for Jason and how she wears her heart out on her sleeve with the guy. Finally, it shows how unobservant Jason is because he does not consider Reyna's feelings towards him. On a side note I did never realized how romance is in teen fiction these days. Even in stories about adventure and action they have love stories, I don't mind the love stories its just that so many of them have them and I would like to see something else.

Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn 18

Passage:
"'Now,' says the duke, 'after to-night we can run in the daytime if we want to. Whenever we see anybody coming, we can tie Jim hand and foot wit ha rope, and lay him in the wigman and show this handbill and say we captured him up the river, and were too poor to travel on steamboat, so we got this little raft on credit from our friends and are going to get the reward.'"

Pages:
87

Comments and Response:
It seems that there is finally a character that matches Huck Finn in cunning nature. The person speaking in this passage is the Duke of Bridgewater, who is probably not the actual duke which Huck Finn has commented on himself. He uses his cunning to think of a plan so that Huck, Jim, the dauphin, and himself can travel through the daytime and not worry about people stopping them for a runaway slave. The plan that he thought was on the fly and something that I honestly believed only the character of Huck Finn was capable of doing.

Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn 17

Passage:
"I staid in the tree till it begun to get dark, afraid to come down. Sometimes I heard guns away off in the woods; and twice I seen little gangs of men gallop past the log store with guns; so I reckoned the trouble was still agoing on. I was mighty down-hearted; so I made up my mind I wouldn't ever go anear that house again, because I reckoned I was to blame, somehow. I judged that that piece of paper meant that Miss Sophia was to meet Harney somewheres at half-past two and run-off; and judged I ought to told her father about that paper and the curious way she acted, and then maybe he would a locked her up and this awful mess wouldn't ever happened."

Pages:
75

Comments and Response:
This scene further develops the character Huck Finn because he feels that he is responsible for the fighting that occurred. Although he was not directly involved in the fight he feels as though he caused it because he did not tell anyone about the letter that he gave to Miss Sophia. This scene shows how innocent Huck really is because instead of blame Miss Sophia for the events that transpired that day, he takes out on himself even though it is actually Miss Sophia's fault.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 16

Passage:
"Buck looked about as old as me--thirteen or fourteen or along there, though he was a little bigger than me.  He hadn't on anything but a shirt, and he was very frowsy-headed. He come in gaping and digging one fist into his eyes, and he was dragging a gun along with the other one. He says: 'Ain't they no Shepherdsons around?' They said, no, 'twas a false alarm. 'Well,' he says, 'if they'd a ben some, I reckon I'd a got one.' They all laughed..."

Pages:
63-64

Comments and Response:
A new character has been introduced that I believe will be important to the story. I believe that he will be important because Mark Twain gave more detail about Buck then the other characters presented in the same scene. I also think that he will be important because he is close in age to Huck Finn which would make him a good friend if the two got to know each other more. The new character is Buck who reminds me of Huck Finn in a way. If Huck were in the situation that Buck was in I'm pretty sure that Huck would respond the same way and say, "Well, if they'd ben some, I reckon I'd a got one." Not only are they close to each other in age but that they also have similar names, the only difference is the first letter of their names.

Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn 15

Passage:
"'Why, Huck, doan' de French people talk de same way we does?'
'No, Jim; you couldn't understand a word they said--not a single word.'
'Well, now, I be ding-busted! How do dat come?'
'I don't know; but it's so. I got some of their jabber out of a book. Spose a man was to come to you and say Polly-coo-franzy--what would you think?'
'I wouldn' say nuff'n; I 'd take en bust him over the head. Dat is, if he warn't white. I wouldn't 'low no nigger to call me dat.'
'Shucks, it ain't calling you anything. It's only saying do you know how to talk French.'
'Well, den, why couldn't he say it?'
'Why, he is a-saying it. That's a Frenchman's way of saying it.'
'Well, it's a blame' ridicklous way, en I doan' want to hear no mo' 'bout it. Dey ain' no sense in it.'
'Looky here, Jim; does a cat talk like we do?'
'No, a cat don't.'
'Well does a cow?'
'No, a cow don't nuther.'
'Does a cat talk like a cow, or a cow talk like a cat?'
'No, dey don't.'
'It's natural and right for 'em to talk different from each other, ain't it?'
'Course'
'And ain't it natural and right for a cat and a cow to talk different from us?'
'Why, mos' sholy it is.'
'Well, then, why ain't it natural and right for a Frenchman to talk different from us? You answer me that.'
'Is a cat a man, Huck?'
'No.'
'Well, den, dey ain't no sense in a cat talkin' like a man. Is a cow a man?--er is a cow a cat?'
'No, she ain't  either of them?'
'Well, den, she ain' got no business to talk like either one er the yuther of 'em. Is a Frenchman a man?'
'Yes.'
'Well, den! Dad blame it, why doan' he talk like a man? You answer me dat!'
I see it warn't no use wasting words--you can't learn a nigger to argue. So I quit."

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52

Comments and Response:
This scene shows further character development of Huck Finn and Jim the former slave. This scene shows an in depth dive into both the minds of Huck Finn and Jim. Huck mind represents complex thought for a young boy, which I take to believe that Huck is wise for age. While Huck shows more complex thought, Jim is the opposite and shows a thought process of that of a little kid because of how he pieces information. Although Jim was wrong in his logic it is kind of hard to argue with it which makes this scene for character development so great.