Holey ELite Beings

14 October 08 MSN Session

2008-10-15T09:43:00.005+08:00

SIMPLIFIED MSN. hope its better

9:02:47 AM lit lesson now. sorry people
9:02:53 AM lit lesson now. my son was creating a ruckus
9:03:02 AM lit lesson now. so i deported him to my mum's b4 the lesson
9:03:11 AM J.Hong #. okey dokey
9:03:37 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . haha. yeahp
9:03:39 AM nam stone. mika is eating breakfast.
9:03:40 AM nam stone. hahahaha
9:03:46 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. NO?
9:04:03 AM lit lesson now. wokay...
9:04:15 AM lit lesson now. u guys regurgitate wat u think of the prose
9:04:22 AM lit lesson now. remember, to b a bit more systematic
9:04:30 AM nam stone. wihich one? the second one?
9:04:36 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . the kunta?
9:04:39 AM lit lesson now. the one with kunta kinte
9:04:44 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . HAHA
9:04:46 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . kunta kinte
9:04:49 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . it sounds wrong...

9:05:09 AM atikahsyahirah. has been added to the conversation.
9:05:11 AM the dark knight is missing a star; has been added to the conversation.

9:06:31 AM lit lesson now. that is his name lor
9:06:43 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . kunta kinte?
9:06:48 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . i thought only kunta?
9:07:33 AM lit lesson now . if u read the book... his name is kunta kinte
9:07:48 AM lit lesson now. good book to read after O's
9:08:41 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . ohhhh .___.
9:08:58 AM J.Hong #. yup yup
9:09:03 AM lit lesson now. ok
9:09:09 AM lit lesson now. so, start the ball rolling
9:09:12 AM lit lesson now. WI DIRTS
9:09:29 AM lit lesson now. how would u break down the essay first
9:09:43 AM nam stone. hey
9:09:49 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . is the use of darkness right?
9:09:53 AM @ec.bs; !FAH .*its
9:09:57 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . one of them?
9:10:04 AM lit lesson now. i want to se breakdown of essay 1st
9:10:11 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . oooh
9:10:25 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . breakdown?
9:10:29 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . as in whats the story?
9:11:16 AM lit lesson now. breakdown of essay
9:11:24 AM lit lesson now. as in para 1 : ___________
9:11:26 AM lit lesson now. para 2 : ________________
9:11:32 AM lit lesson now. then we explore each para
9:12:20 AM lit lesson now. Para 1 : __________ anyone?
9:13:23 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . First stanza conflict with self, whereby hed wanted to save people but he's being picky, only desiring to save those of his own clan. proved in the term "he wished" and "unworthy pagans", whereby he looked down on the rest as weak tribal group members.
9:13:24 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . ???
9:13:33 AM nam stone . Blacks as low status and has no rights?
9:13:52 AM lit lesson now. i m talking abt the essay U WILL BE WRITING
9:13:57 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. So kunta is not a black
9:13:59 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. ?
9:14:02 AM lit lesson now . Para 1 : what will u write
9:14:07 AM lit lesson now. kunta is black
9:14:11 AM lit lesson now. there are many tribes
9:14:21 AM lit lesson now. his tribe is the highest one around i think
9:14:34 AM lit lesson now. Para 1 : _______ ?
9:15:10 AM lit lesson now. estimated 7 paragraphs
9:15:24 AM lit lesson now. how wld u breakdown ur essay and incorporate the qns in ur answers
9:15:45 AM lit lesson now. like the breakdwon i gv u in last lesson

(watch the time. three minutes interval. considered long)

9:18:38 AM lit lesson now. y the deathly silence
9:19:12 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . i dont think i still get whats expected
9:19:17 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . HAHA and people are dead
9:19:21 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . its tues morn. .___.
9:19:43 AM nam stone. sian.. i misintepreted the whole thing
9:20:09 AM lit lesson now. meaning?
9:20:09 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . wheres JH?
9:20:10 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . HAHAH
9:20:20 AM nam stone . i thought Kunta was one of them-.-
9:20:30 AM nam stone . so... my essay is totally wrong. AHAH
9:20:45 AM pink pengantin;. wait kunta is a prisoner?
9:20:51 AM lit lesson now. sigh
9:20:59 AM lit lesson now. im summarising as i hv no time
9:21:21 AM lit lesson now. kunta is a prisoner... put tog with blacks who mite b his own slaves in his tribe
9:21:28 AM lit lesson now. or tt they are not worthy for him to marry
9:21:40 AM lit lesson now. thus, he mite also b someone of importance in his tribe
9:21:50 AM lit lesson now. he's now a slave to the white man
9:22:14 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . but the setting here is that hes trying to run away, but unsuccessful?
9:22:51 AM nam stone. he feels hopesless already? cause he has to end up "praying". instead of trying..
9:23:12 AM lit lesson now. he's prob a muslim man
9:23:18 AM lit lesson now. who has to pray five times a day
9:23:35 AM pink pengantin;. but nt facing the sun
9:24:13 AM lit lesson now. this is not written by a muslim man
9:24:19 AM lit lesson now. he mite have gotten the direction wrong
9:24:21 AM lit lesson now. ayway
9:24:24 AM lit lesson now. people
9:24:28 AM lit lesson now. breakdown
9:24:43 AM lit lesson now. Para 1 : WI
9:24:50 AM lit lesson now. Para 2 : ?
9:25:00 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. maybe he's a christian or smt?
9:25:21 AM nam stone. use of sound.
9:25:45 AM nam stone. diction.
9:25:51 AM pink pengantin;. sound?
9:25:52 AM lit lesson now. SOOOO...
9:26:01 AM nam stone. to intensify.
9:26:09 AM nam stone. the pain and fear
9:26:12 AM lit lesson now. Para 2 : Techniques used to highlight suffering
9:26:21 AM lit lesson now. such as, sound and diction
9:26:27 AM lit lesson now. it cld b para 2 & 3 :
9:26:37 AM lit lesson now. or even Para 4
9:26:42 AM lit lesson now. Para 5 : ?
9:26:49 AM nam stone. what is sira kango tongue?
9:27:09 AM nam stone. paragragh 4
9:27:15 AM lit lesson now. his dialect
9:27:20 AM nam stone. okay.
9:27:40 AM nam stone. paragragh 5. to emphasised on the suffering that it is haunting him.?
9:28:10 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . the use of nightmare, emphasise his dark memories?
9:29:15 AM atikahsyahirah. para 5: to display his hysterical pasts that he could not forget.
9:30:24 AM nam stone. the cautious people that capture him that it is almost impossible for Kunta to run away?
9:30:33 AM lit lesson now. yes to all
9:30:44 AM lit lesson now. give me words to replace the word "highlight"
9:30:59 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . highlight?
9:31:03 AM pink pengantin;. emphasize
9:31:04 AM nam stone. bold out.
9:31:10 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . intensify?
9:31:11 AM nam stone. accentuate
9:31:13 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . underline?
9:31:21 AM nam stone. point out
9:31:23 AM lit lesson now. yes to all but bold out
9:31:36 AM lit lesson now. words for suffering
9:31:43 AM nam stone. pain.
9:31:46 AM atikahsyahirah. accentuate.
9:32:02 AM lit lesson now. apadah atikah... suffering oredi
9:32:02 AM nam stone. tortured mentally
9:32:07 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. stress
9:32:14 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. accent
9:32:21 AM lit lesson now. whr's lyana n amni?
9:32:25 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. distressed
9:32:26 AM lit lesson now. accent?
9:32:29 AM pink pengantin;. sleeping?
9:32:29 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . ly go polyclinic
9:32:30 AM pink pengantin;. hahahhaa
9:32:31 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . amni gone
9:32:36 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . hahaha, idk
9:33:09 AM lit lesson now. so, wats the WI?
9:33:36 AM nam stone. to emphasize on the misery the blacks go through
9:33:57 AM lit lesson now. deeper
9:34:30 AM nam stone. that it is haunting them mentally
9:34:38 AM nam stone. and unable to part from the pain.
9:35:13 AM nam stone. To the limit that he lost hope in survival from the use of negative words like "someday"
9:36:19 AM lit lesson now. nam, u nd to say tt, with the use of a black man who was captured as a slave, the writer had shown the misery of the blacks ...
9:36:23 AM lit lesson now. ok?
9:36:27 AM nam stone. yeah
9:36:31 AM lit lesson now. specific first to explain general
9:38:20 AM nam stone. With the use of the word"march" which is mirrored to soldiers and used to describe the blacks, it emphasizes on the hopelessness for survival. As they are soldiers that are injured mentally and physically. Thus, shows that they are unable to fight back and gain their freedom????
9:38:32 AM @ec.bs; !FAH .can say that the fact that the author only used one black to show the suffering bringsa bout the possilbilty that kunta is of great standing, and that even a great black leader is treated so lowly by the whites. therefore it intensifies the prejudice and unfair treatment received from the blacks?
9:39:15 AM lit lesson now. fuyoh
9:39:17 AM lit lesson now. now u r talking
9:39:34 AM lit lesson now. so u understd the specific first then general pt rite?
9:39:46 AM lit lesson now. talk abt the protagonist, then abt wat he represents
9:40:12 AM lit lesson now. rest of u ok?
9:40:32 AM atikahsyahirah. nods head.
9:40:35 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. i have no idea
9:40:37 AM pink pengantin;. mmhmm
9:40:39 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. nods head too
9:40:52 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. zdfgsdz
9:41:39 AM lit lesson now. when writing at WI, u need to talk abt the protagonist suffering
9:41:47 AM lit lesson now. then wat or who he represents
9:41:56 AM lit lesson now. then u get the complete WI
9:42:09 AM lit lesson now. whether or not irony is used to further emphasise something
9:42:14 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. wat he represent? as in?
9:42:40 AM lit lesson now. he is a black man who is captured and enslaved
9:42:44 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. oh
9:43:00 AM lit lesson now. he therefore reps all the blacks who are captured and enslaved
9:43:05 AM atikahsyahirah.. oh.
9:43:21 AM lit lesson now. so from protagonist, we see the people he/she rep
9:43:41 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. most interesting
9:44:43 AM lit lesson now. so, we hv the WI oredi
9:44:52 AM lit lesson now. nam, ur reading of it is very good
9:44:57 AM lit lesson now. shd dev it further
9:45:02 AM nam stone. okay.
9:45:03 AM lit lesson now. now, use of techniques
9:45:06 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . .___. JH
9:45:12 AM lit lesson now. choose one and support ur points ppl
9:45:14 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. yes?
9:45:23 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . nth. la-mey
9:45:46 AM lit lesson now. just now, i saw sound, darkness
9:45:53 AM lit lesson now. choose one and support
9:46:10 AM atikahsyahirah.. use of negations?
9:46:11 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. use of subtleties
9:46:29 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . use of darkness. to symbolise hopelessnes
9:46:34 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . imminent doom?
9:46:35 AM lit lesson now . i want to ans with evidence and supporting explanation
9:49:37 AM nam stone. The blacks are portrayed as unrespected and not important as they are slaves. And the emphasis on the ignorance of the whites is seen when the protagonist is praying. the act of praying is not sinful and yet, they are "interrupted" with the use of agression.
9:50:21 AM lit lesson now. nam, u r writing on WI rite?
9:50:25 AM lit lesson now. not techniques
9:50:37 AM nam stone. coming to it...
9:50:38 AM nam stone. hahha
9:50:52 AM lit lesson now. good flow though...
9:51:05 AM lit lesson now. im excited for u and ur writing skills now
9:51:25 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. "If that footprints were blessed, he would return safely to his village. Some day." From this line, the writer chooses specific words, diction, to potray the mood of the persona and how perhaps also how his personality is like."Some day" is a form of subtlety the protagonist shows to show how helpless he is, relying on luck from "blessed" to dictate his future.Readers may argue that his circumstan
9:51:29 AM atikahsyahirah.. use of negative emotions such as 'nightmare', 'tears', and 'frustration'. it emphasizes that the blacks are facing their lowest points during their stay.
9:52:33 AM lit lesson now. mika... amendments... the term "someday" allows us, the readers to feel the hopelessness and mood of the protagonist...
9:52:36 AM nam stone. are the whites religious as well?
9:53:05 AM lit lesson now. u can assume they are religious if ur argument is thye dont like to see the practise of other religions
9:53:37 AM lit lesson now. atikah, yes... but stay is postiive... like holiday stay
9:53:50 AM lit lesson now. next time try to be consistent in ur use of terms in ur argument
9:54:04 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. ces may be enough to stop him from getting out, but if freedom is so important to him ,he would be able to break away.Therefore, this reveals a form of fear and how the protagonist is a pessimist as in the whole prose, he does not use any form of clever or direct way to break the lock.
9:54:06 AM lit lesson now. "lowest points of imprisonment"... ok?
9:54:08 AM nam stone. i wanted to argue that they have superior complex that overrules the acts of religion like"praying"
9:54:27 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. oh kk
9:54:56 AM atikahsyahirah. yeah.
9:55:04 AM nam stone. they-the people tha capture the blacks
9:55:05 AM lit lesson now. mika... b a bit more focused... i love ur argu... the first 3 lines... ur "but if..." portion shows that its too casual
9:55:14 AM lit lesson now. like u r bantering with the reader
9:55:20 AM lit lesson now. cannot do that
9:55:24 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. ok what';s bantering?
9:55:27 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. oh kk
9:55:29 AM lit lesson now. discussing
9:55:41 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. so how shld i change it?
9:57:00 AM lit lesson now. The fact that Kunta does not show much ingenuity or creativity in escaping, makes th redaes question his earnestness in escaping.Therefore, this reveals a form of fear and how the protagonist is a pessimist as in the whole prose,
9:57:05 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. "i wanted to argue that they have superior complex that overrules the acts of religion like"praying"" can i argue back? erm, if their superioty complex is so high, they wouldnt be even praying, so it doesnt overrule it.cause they still pray? :D
9:57:22 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. oh cool
9:57:24 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. kk got it
9:57:27 AM nam stone. hahah. mika that looks familiar
9:57:32 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. arouses suspicion and all right?
9:57:36 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. hahaha
9:57:44 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. coz im argueing back you kuku
9:58:11 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. oh its "arguing"
9:58:39 AM lit lesson now. nam, u can show the inhumanity of the slave masters with the point... rather than argue abt the religious aspect
9:58:54 AM lit lesson now. the fact tht they are merciless... wouldnt allow them even breaks to pray...
9:58:58 AM lit lesson now. inhumane
9:59:18 AM lit lesson now. whr r the rest?
9:59:31 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. /
9:59:36 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . rest who?
9:59:50 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. the rest
9:59:51 AM lit lesson now. the ones without arguments
10:00:07 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . still writing
10:00:18 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . hold it, cannot write here. always kena press enter one
10:00:18 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . hahah
10:00:20 AM nam stone. The act of crying snatches away the manly hood in the word"man" which represents strength and growth. thus, shows the inability to run away as they are attached to children who cry and are unable to fight for themselves.
10:00:33 AM nam stone. thus, shows the imprisonment from slavery
10:00:40 AM lit lesson now. its manhood...
10:00:43 AM lit lesson now. not manlyhood
10:00:48 AM lit lesson now. but another very good point
10:00:50 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. haha
10:00:51 AM lit lesson now. can i add to that
10:00:52 AM nam stone. LOL.
10:00:58 AM nam stone. ok.
10:01:16 AM lit lesson now. it breaks the man
10:01:20 AM lit lesson now. repeat
10:02:24 AM lit lesson now. attempt to break a man's strength and core charater... by taking away wat makes him a man... making him impotent... defiles his image of himself as a warrior...
10:02:31 AM lit lesson now. defeated by mere dogs
10:02:49 AM atikahsyahirah. chiminology.
10:03:05 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. haha ok.
10:03:09 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. woah impotent?
10:03:10 AM nam stone. wow
10:03:13 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . why use dogs?
10:03:15 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . oh
10:03:15 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . yeah
10:03:19 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . okay
10:03:20 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. he lost his errrrr
10:03:22 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. LOL not that kind of impotent la dey!
10:03:23 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. hahahaahah
10:03:25 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. DICK
10:03:31 AM pink pengantin;. hahahahahahahaha
10:03:32 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . walao eh you all birds
10:03:34 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. oh as in losing manhood?
10:03:41 AM nam stone. he did?!?!? haaha
10:03:43 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. useless?
10:04:12 AM lit lesson now. specifically for this one
10:04:16 AM lit lesson now. cos he's a warrior
10:04:27 AM lit lesson now. he's frustrated by the fact that he got caught
10:04:50 AM lit lesson now. tt one, ultimate frustration as it damages his pride as a highly skilled hunter
10:04:51 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . how do we know hes a warrior?
10:05:00 AM nam stone. "march"
10:05:14 AM lit lesson now. spear
10:05:31 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. but becuz of the fact that he is a warrior, he shud have the initiative to fight back and regain he pride but does he do so?
10:05:40 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. his*
10:06:13 AM lit lesson now. do u see him communicating and plotting with the rest of the blacks on plans to escape?
10:06:19 AM lit lesson now. now, do u see his pride?
10:06:21 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . nawpe
10:06:28 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . pride gone
10:06:49 AM lit lesson now. pride too much... tts y wld rather b a prisoner instead pof escaping tog
10:07:00 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . why pride too much then like that?
10:07:03 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . wait, dont get it
10:07:49 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. being captured is just a test of his proud nature but he does not even want to break free? i guess?
10:08:02 AM lit lesson now. if my 1st concern is escape, i wld do anything, even talk to ppl beneath my caste
10:08:09 AM lit lesson now. but he wldnt even do tt
10:08:14 AM lit lesson now. so he has too much pride
10:08:20 AM atikahsyahirah. he doesnt seem to share his misery with the rest of the blacks, did he?
10:08:28 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . pride as a tribal member or his warrior rank?
10:08:33 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. or maybe he fears for failure?
10:08:33 AM lit lesson now. in fact the first part of prose, he's talking abt how they were unworthy pagans
10:08:38 AM lit lesson now. instead of his suffering
10:08:44 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. that it will hurt his reputation, affectiong his pride?
10:08:46 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. i bet if he worked togehter wif the black, he can break free
10:09:00 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. he rather regard pride den freedom
10:09:19 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . okay. this is what i can manage for th moment, LMAO: In the first stanza, we see the phrase 'It was after sundown'. This symbolises the darkness which follows after the sun has set. Normally, sun is used to represent hope and life, but because the sun is seemingly setting, there is loss of hope and life. This corresponds to the Blacks' tremendous suffering of having to be Whites' slaves.
10:10:25 AM lit lesson now. so u see... there are levels of superiority
10:10:26 AM nam stone. is it that.. if they went back, he wont have that much pride cause he made them lost once already and thus, people will not believe him as much as before? so in order to keep the pride, he chooses to stay there cause he'd still be the highest status for blacks?
10:10:40 AM lit lesson now. whites... then his pride... thinking himself higher than the rest
10:10:54 AM lit lesson now. not so far nam
10:10:58 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . and then theres the irony?
10:11:05 AM lit lesson now. yes, irony there
10:11:38 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. whr?
10:12:01 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. i feel lost
10:12:07 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . haha
10:12:14 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. wheres the irony
10:12:15 AM lit lesson now. im leaving soon
10:12:19 AM lit lesson now. in 15 mins
10:12:20 AM lit lesson now. time
10:12:39 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . AAAAAH
10:12:40 AM nam stone. fetch your son.
10:12:43 AM nam stone. hahah
10:12:44 AM lit lesson now. irony in fact tt he feels superior even whn he's in the same situation as the rest
10:12:47 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . not now, gee
10:13:06 AM lit lesson now. Para 1 : WI... nam's explanation
10:13:37 AM lit lesson now. Para 2, 3, 4: talk abt techniques to show the suffering
10:13:54 AM lit lesson now. Para 5: his techniques are successful... etc, use of diction
10:14:15 AM lit lesson now. Para 6: other techniques, such as irony to show WI... the superiority complex part
10:14:20 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. 3 techniques?
10:14:28 AM lit lesson now . no lah, can be more
10:14:34 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . min 3 tech la cos no time leh
10:14:35 AM lit lesson now. im just estimating
10:14:37 AM nam stone. how do you guys mark actually. as in marks and stuff..
10:14:58 AM lit lesson now. i wld rather u write abt 3 gd ones, and touch on others in short argu in next paragraphs
10:15:10 AM lit lesson now. content
10:15:14 AM lit lesson now. understdg of tect
10:15:18 AM lit lesson now. answering of qn
10:15:21 AM lit lesson now. flow of essay
10:15:27 AM lit lesson now. identification of techniques
10:15:36 AM lit lesson now. complexity of language and vocab
10:16:00 AM lit lesson now. new and interesting points

10:16:07 AM pink pengantin; has left the conversation.

10:16:29 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. can like touch abit of tecniques focusing the main pts in that techniques at the same time focus even more in main aim of the para?

10:16:42 AM pink pengantin; has been added to the conversation.

10:16:57 AM lit lesson now. but qn is focused on techniques
10:17:46 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. hmm
10:18:07 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . HAHAHA i see stars
10:18:09 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . LOLL
10:18:19 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. stars?
10:18:54 AM lit lesson now. use of physical pain and blood, cuts, gash, etc...
10:19:08 AM lit lesson now. use of magic to show extent of his need to escape
10:19:21 AM atikahsyahirah. ah yes.
10:19:46 AM lit lesson now. use of ancestors for appeal to greater power and being since humans cant help him
10:19:54 AM nam stone. am i supposed to believe there's such thing as magic when i read this prose?
10:19:55 AM lit lesson now. his level of disgust at having been captured
10:20:12 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. that use of ancestors
10:20:13 AM lit lesson now. level of disgust in working with those beneath him
10:20:25 AM lit lesson now. ironically, whites see them as all the same, slaves
10:20:42 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. izzit like an excuse for something he cant do?
10:20:57 AM lit lesson now. mre like desperation
10:21:03 AM lit lesson now. 10 more mins ppl
10:21:32 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. 600secs
10:21:55 AM pink pengantin;. same thing jew
10:22:05 AM pink pengantin;. lol
10:22:18 AM lit lesson now. 8 mins
10:22:21 AM lit lesson now. any more?
10:22:35 AM pink pengantin;. ohoh
10:22:46 AM pink pengantin;. does anybody have the earlier conversations?
10:22:55 AM nam stone. when is the next class?
10:22:58 AM pink pengantin;. i din get to take dwn all the pts
10:23:15 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . no thurs class! prac!
10:23:17 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. you shud learn to save messages man
10:23:18 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . gawd gawd gawd
10:23:25 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . hahaha LOLL JH
10:23:25 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. dun remind me
10:23:28 AM lit lesson now. fri?
10:23:34 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. hmmm
10:23:40 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. new poem/prose?
10:23:40 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . sounds cool to me
10:23:46 AM pink pengantin;. my connection was lost just nw laaaaaaa
10:23:46 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. tks for reminding my of my current...miseries.
10:23:47 AM pink pengantin;. hahahaa
10:24:05 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . XD
10:24:09 AM lit lesson now. the 3rd one i passed to u tt day
10:24:11 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. wat miseries?
10:24:15 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . yeahp
10:24:16 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika . exams..
10:24:19 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. oh
10:24:21 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . havent get worh?
10:24:38 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . *who
10:24:49 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. me
10:25:14 AM lit lesson now. 5 mins... any last words?
10:25:29 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. last words is a bad word
10:25:45 AM SMACK!! SMACKSMACK!!. =D
10:25:53 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . hahaha
10:26:02 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . never say bye, say we'll meet again soon
10:26:04 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . LOLL BK
10:26:24 AM lit lesson now. nam... u cut and paste like last time
10:26:28 AM lit lesson now. did u do it the last time?
10:26:32 AM nam stone. hahah
10:26:37 AM nam stone. paste the whole thing

10:26:37 AM Transfer of "Mock Exam 3_08_Prose.doc" is complete.

10:26:58 AM SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika. hahaahaa
10:27:38 AM lit lesson now. ok... ttfn
10:27:55 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . ttfn?
10:27:55 AM lit lesson now. see u guys on fri
10:27:58 AM nam stone. okay
10:27:59 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . uhuh
10:27:59 AM lit lesson now. 9 am for now
10:28:02 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . XD
10:28:03 AM lit lesson now. ta ta for now
10:28:04 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . 9 Fri?!
10:28:08 AM @ec.bs; !FAH . oh okay. .___.
10:28:15 AM nam stone. anyone know what time we have to reach for practical? HAHAHA

THE REST OF CHAOTIC
CONVERSATION
IS INSIGNIFICANT TO
ENGLISH LITERATURE!
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♥

2008-10-08T10:35:00.002+08:00

poem for lit online lesson on 8th Oct.

The Upas Tree
Deep in the desert's misery,
far in the fury of the sand,
there stands the awesome Upas Tree
lone watchman of a lifeless land.

The wilderness, a world of thirst,
in wrath engendered it and filled
its every root, every accursed
grey leafstalk with a sap that killed.

Dissolving in the midday sun
the poison oozes through its bark,
and freezing when the day is done
gleams thick and gem-like in the dark.

No bird flies near, no tiger creeps;
alone the whirlwind, wild and black,
assails the tree of death and sweeps
away with death upon its back.

And though some roving cloud may stain
with glancing drops those leaden leaves,
the dripping of a poisoned rain
is all the burning sand receives.

But man sent man with one proud look
towards the tree, and he was gone,
the humble one, and there he took
the poison and returned at dawn.

He brought the deadly gum; with it
he brought some leaves, a withered bough,
while rivulets of icy sweat
ran slowly down his livid brow.

He came, he fell upon a mat,
and reaping a poor slave's reward,
died near the painted hut where sat
his now unconquerable lord.

The king, he soaked his arrows true
in poison, and beyond the plains
dispatched those messengers and slew
his neighbors in their own domains.

By Aleksandr Pushkin

miss maslinda says:
anyone WI?
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
writer's intntn?
miss maslinda says:
yup
-CP15- {online literature lesson} {shh} says:
oh
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
what's upas?
miss maslinda says:
it doesnt matter... its a poisonous tree
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
k
nam says:
to take sympathy on a solitude tree that suffers all it's life???
miss maslinda says:
err... far from it
nam says:
hahaha
> Amni says:
to symbolise the slave
miss maslinda says:
errrr... some more
> Amni says:
to differentiate between the gd and bad of man?
atikahsyahirah. says:
to display the consequences of man's actions?
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
to show irony that instead of the tree supporting lives, its taking away?
miss maslinda says:
read again can?
miss maslinda says:
aliffah... yes...
miss maslinda says:
more
miss maslinda says:
thr r 3 subjects thr'
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
subjects=character?
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
why is the 'king' there?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
their vocab rocks
-CP15- {online literature lesson} {shh} says:
subject =?
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
its supposed to be there aye?
miss maslinda says:
tree = 1... some more?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
man?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
king?
miss maslinda says:
2 men
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
or slave?
miss maslinda says:
who r they?
nam says:
high class and low class
miss maslinda says:
yup...
nam says:
poor and rich
miss maslinda says:
king n slave
miss maslinda says:
can say abt class oso
miss maslinda says:
now, go back to wi
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
oh
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
err
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
is it to show how one can affect nature?
atikahsyahirah. says:
hey, will this conversation be poster in the blog or sth?
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
it could
atikahsyahirah. says:
cause i kinda gotta go.
miss maslinda says:
arghhhnoooooooooo
atikahsyahirah. says:
?
miss maslinda says:
go atikah... aliffah can paste?
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
paste.. on blog?
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
yes
miss maslinda says:
no to aliffah's ans
nam says:
the use of silence to emphasize on their absence of rights??
atikahsyahirah. says:
oh alright, thanks so much.
nam says:
bye bye
atikahsyahirah. says:
see you guys.
-CP15- {online literature lesson} {shh} says:
bb
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
buhbyes
atikahsyahirah. says:
^^
miss maslinda says:
yes... on silence... gd pt
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
bb
miss maslinda says:
but not main pt
*
* atikahsyahirah. has left the conversation.
*
nam says:
The behavior that is displayed through the different status
-CP15- {online literature lesson} {shh} says:
man using naturing and harming his own man because of rank?
-CP15- {online literature lesson} {shh} says:
nature*
miss maslinda says:
yup...
miss maslinda says:
gd one chih peng
-CP15- {online literature lesson} {shh} says:
thank you
miss maslinda says:
finally
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
hahaha
-CP15- {online literature lesson} {shh} says:
haha
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
chey cp siol!
-CP15- {online literature lesson} {shh} says:
:)
miss maslinda says:
develop nw
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
haha
miss maslinda says:
u can use silence
miss maslinda says:
then link w poison part
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
there are more than one WI is there?
> Amni says:
can talk abt the use of movements?
> Amni says:
like theres lots of action words
miss maslinda says:
amni still here?
miss maslinda says:
yup2... so?
> Amni says:
yups. ss dont have?
> Amni says:
to emphasize on wi
miss maslinda says:
wat wi
> Amni says:
to empahsize on cp's point
miss maslinda says:
hmmm... how?
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
how?
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
how how?
nam says:
the way humans abuse nature.
nam says:
the use of nature*
miss maslinda says:
u guys got e gist of it... e end part
miss maslinda says:
but y ius such a big chunk on the tree n its poisonous nature?
> Amni says:
to show the slave's sufferings
miss maslinda says:
yeeeesssss... but not e 1st 5 stanzas
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
to emphasise th irony that instd of supporting its killing instd la
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
?
@ec.bs; !FAH// ティキ・ミック & ジャッジメント♥ says:
or is it double-meaning?
miss maslinda says:
double
> Amni says:
oh! isit to show the loneliness of the tree?
nam says:
similar to the king? whereby it has such a big power and should be helping it's people. but instead, he makes them suffer
miss maslinda says:
yes... more
> Amni says:
how other living things dont come near it
miss maslinda says:
ahhhhhhh.... goog nam
miss maslinda says:
amni too
miss maslinda says:
more more... muahh ha ha ha
> Amni says:
to represent the class of society
> Amni says:
this is refering to human and its ranking right?
miss maslinda says:
n loneliness
miss maslinda says:
n e living thgs
miss maslinda says:
combine
> Amni says:
because the tree represents the slave, it is lonely because none wants to go/come near him except when it is needed
miss maslinda says:
well u can... tho tts a bit goin 2 deep
nam says:
The fact that it is poisonous and that people should not go near it contradicts the action of the slave. Which emphasizes on the slavery they go through as they have to do as they are commanded by the king. And even though they had to sacrifice to get such a poisonous thing, the king eventually ignored the slave's credits and killed him instead. This portrays the king's selfishness as to only think of himself and ignore other's suffering...
miss maslinda says:
u can see them as separate entities
> Amni says:
oh ok.
miss maslinda says:
fuyoh nam
miss maslinda says:
correct except 4 e killed part
nam says:
ok
miss maslinda says:
e slave died from e poisn
miss maslinda says:
wat does tt say?
> Amni says:
so it means that the slave died due to working for the king?
miss maslinda says:
yup
> Amni says:
oh ok.
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
he was killed by the poison??
miss maslinda says:
link power of tree n king
miss maslinda says:
yup mika
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
poison = greed?
nam says:
they both killed the slave. one is freedom, the other is literally?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
greed kills?
> Amni says:
but its the slave who died
miss maslinda says:
yes
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
sacrifice?
miss maslinda says:
hmm... more of force
miss maslinda says:
hv 2 work cos slave
> Amni says:
forced to work for the king until cannot take it; die
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
haha amni what a way to put it
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
LOLL
miss maslinda says:
nope... poisoned in preocess of getting wat e king wants
nam says:
the uncertainty of survival for the slave everyday but he still works for the king
> Amni says:
haha. okk.
miss maslinda says:
yes name... u on fire seh
nam says:
NAME?
> Amni says:
haha
miss maslinda says:
haha...
miss maslinda says:
tree n king?
miss maslinda says:
no ans yet
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
ans to WI?
miss maslinda says:
link tree n king
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
"wrath engendered it and filled its evewry root, every accursed
grey leafstalk with a sap that killed". represents how powerful the king is, ability to control everything from colonies to small fragile commoners who end up being slaves
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
pls tell me im correct
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
tree = mighty bcos big and supposedly suport life
king = leader and supposedly lead people
miss maslinda says:
yup... u r mika
miss maslinda says:
nw develop
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
but this contradicts as they do the opp?
miss maslinda says:
yes yes... more
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
and you cant run away coz its too powerful
nam says:
tree is poisonous and thus, is dangerous and no one goes near it, similar to the king which is powerful and no one dares to go against him. but the smallest rank of a slave, is actually the one that goes close to them. this shows a big contradiction???
miss maslinda says:
gd u r doing d opp thg nw
miss maslinda says:
yes... last part a bit weak nam... rethink n rephrase
> Amni says:
brb
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
he didnt exactly goes close to him]
nam says:
bo bian
miss maslinda says:
he did... impact= he died
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
erm, the power of the king should allow him to possess powers to obtain things by himself
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
zz no
nam says:
the combine of powers of the tree and king is SUPERIOR!
nam says:
hahahha
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
erm, the king who is so powerful , actually requires a weak and powerless man like the slave to do a job for him, in this case considarably menial.
miss maslinda says:
fuyoh..
miss maslinda says:
rite on mika
miss maslinda says:
tts d part nam cldnt gfet rite
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
it contradicts with the strong showing and appearance the king possesses when he actually uses the slave's help
nam says:
yeah
nam says:
haha
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
yeah
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
cool
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
hahaha
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
we said the same thing
-CP15- {online literature lesson} {shh} says:
haha
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
LOLL mik
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
haha
miss maslinda says:
more...
miss maslinda says:
thrs still some more
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
we didnt ans the first stanzas?
> Amni says:
back
miss maslinda says:
nt fully
nam says:
does awesome represents what the king and the tree think of themselves?
nam says:
as in superior from others?
miss maslinda says:
yes...
miss maslinda says:
more irony
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
by comparing the king and slave, one is powerful and the other is powerless.The fact that he is POWERFUL should mean that he doesnt require much help.however, of all pple he can choose from, the poet intently chooses a slave to juxtapose with him fully.
miss maslinda says:
see 4th stanza
nam says:
They are powerful, but the fact is that they are lonely because of how they dangerous they are in the view of things around it that it become lifeless and alone.
miss maslinda says:
mika.. pt accepted... no nd 2 develop oredi... othr pts nw
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
oh ok
nam says:
contradicts the power they hold
miss maslinda says:
ahhhh... nam, gd.. more
miss maslinda says:
othr pts as well
miss maslinda says:
nobody doing 4th stanza?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
"No bird flies near, no tiger creeps"
reflects how lonely the KIng actually is, using birds and tigers to show the range of classes in the kingdom.
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
'tree of death' symbolise irony
miss maslinda says:
more...
miss maslinda says:
how fah?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
he also uses colour like black, that bodes ill and also keeps pple away from him
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
haha
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
i cant write
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
LOLL
nam says:
the bird mirrors the slave. if he did not go close to the king, he wouldn't have to serve him as a slave and thus., lost his freedom. which is why the bird does not go to the tree as it would be poisoned and cannot live as freely as it always had
miss maslinda says:
nam, yes
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
the use of strong diction from the words 'whirlwind', 'wild' and 'death' keeps pple away from him.
miss maslinda says:
more
miss maslinda says:
y mika such terms
> Amni says:
the whirlwind is the only thing that gets close to the tree?
miss maslinda says:
ywat do e terms symbolise?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
or it could be the fact that he "assails" them, just like the slave.which could also make pple fearful of him.they therefore avoid him for fear of going against him and displeasing him.this may make them suffer the same fate as the slave
nam says:
the tree should be a shelter for the birds and tigers. but it is contradicted by the fear they have towards the tree?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
they are all words that symbolise danger
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
and no one wants danger near them
nam says:
they symbolise the power?
-CP15- {online literature lesson} {shh} says:
that there is death that comes and goes near the treee?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
oh ya power too, tks nam
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
LOL
nam says:
hahaha
miss maslinda says:
ex;plain meang of word 1st nxt time...
miss maslinda says:
wild black, whirlwind
miss maslinda says:
linkd 2 great power, dangr...
miss maslinda says:
more imptly, unpredictable
miss maslinda says:
no1 feels safe w such elementd
miss maslinda says:
then link ur ans
miss maslinda says:
u all givg ans e othr way rd
miss maslinda says:
wat abt accursed (stanza 2)
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
the tree and the king, both are inviting death if you approach it. people may have found a way to avoid it, using the tree as a clue.if you do not approach the tree, it wont kill you.the same law applies to the king.if you do not approach him, there wont be any frear that you may go agaisnt him.But like the whirlwind, the King is unpredictable, he may "assail" when you least realise it.therefore,
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
possessing much danger just like all the terms used
nam says:
the power of the tree is contradict by the word"leaden"??
miss maslinda says:
dont use you...
miss maslinda says:
use one
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
oh
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
kk
miss maslinda says:
loeaden = poison lead...
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
oh
miss maslinda says:
verb versn
nam says:
oh
miss maslinda says:
accursed?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
cursed?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
ill fated?
miss maslinda says:
yup
miss maslinda says:
how
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
damn, i keep forgetting the words i checked up
miss maslinda says:
no sadness k?
nam says:
it's fear can never be taken away...
nam says:
fear in the perspective of the people.
nam says:
??
miss maslinda says:
link
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
perhaps a little more on hatred on their fates
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
chih peng has to leave for SS now
nam says:
is it supposed to be sad?
miss maslinda says:
k
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
no
miss maslinda says:
no sadness
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
she said no sadnes
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
haha
nam says:
YES MIKA
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
HEHE
nam says:
bye cp!
-CP15- {SCHOOL} says:
im off, bye all
-CP15- {SCHOOL} says:
bye miss mas
miss maslinda says:
bye
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
bb
> Amni says:
bye cp
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
eh say bye leh
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
hahaahaah
miss maslinda says:
accursed?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
buhbyes
miss maslinda says:
if u find words... like accursed... whc is an old word... just look at base word... curse, then u
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
eh
miss maslinda says:
u'll know d meaning
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
i thought i wrote smt abt that just now
miss maslinda says:
not enuff
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
oh
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
the term 'grey' corresponds and intensifies the fact that the tree actually kills..
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
okay i forgot..
miss maslinda says:
anthr qn... techniques used?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
"wrath engendered it and filled its evewry root, every accursed
grey leafstalk with a sap that killed". represents how powerful the king is, ability to control everything from colonies to small fragile commoners who end up being slaves

miss maslinda says:
yes... tt 1 wat technique?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
ok wait, what more i have to elaborate
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
personification!@!!!
miss maslinda says:
not enuff
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
zz
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
pesonification? metaphor?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
LOLL
miss maslinda says:
fah... wats grey?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
imagery
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
uh,
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
the branch and leafstalks
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
.____.
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
use of colours?
miss maslinda says:
evry1 throw me a technique w evidence
miss maslinda says:
yes fah finally
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
use of colour, "grey leafstalk"
miss maslinda says:
othr colours?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
theres black whirlwind too
miss maslinda says:
rep?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
black
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
intensify the deadly effect?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
of the kill?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
thru poison?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
black whirlwind???
miss maslinda says:
wat kind of colours... combine
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
haha
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
dull colours
> Amni says:
dull
nam says:
death.
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
hehe
nam says:
hahah
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
black, ominous
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
dark, forboding colours tha represent death
miss maslinda says:
here, dulll not fitting as dull more to boredom
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
dull colours, hmm symbolises lack of enthusiasm, foreboding
> Amni says:
that foreshadows the death?
miss maslinda says:
yup...
miss maslinda says:
othr technqs?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
use of silience explained?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
*silence
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
silence"
miss maslinda says:
yes... NAM'S PT
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
oh ya
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
she explained alr?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
woah
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
really
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
?
nam says:
way at the start -.-
miss maslinda says:
mika... wat shd u categorise ur terms just now?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
diction?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
use of diction!!!!
> Amni says:
isit like even tho thers silence, alot of thing is happening?
miss maslinda says:
come on... throw me some more techniques
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
or vocab
miss maslinda says:
yup... silence is never silent
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
ohya, what's alliteration again?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
the poem has got rhythmn
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
zzz
nam says:
negation
miss maslinda says:
oso foreboding of death as the tree = shd b surrounded by life... is silent
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
the silence creates a loud thud
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
WHOA...
miss maslinda says:
wat thud siak?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
the thud is death?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
LOLL! HAHAHA
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
haha just recaping from what i saw in 'the leap years
miss maslinda says:
come on
miss maslinda says:
give me more
miss maslinda says:
look at every term
nam says:
"icy" sweat?
nam says:
how can it be icy?!
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
ohya, what's alliteration again?
nam says:
hahah
miss maslinda says:
i dont know
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
and it's in rivulets!
miss maslinda says:
dont ask me qns like tgt now
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
streams
miss maslinda says:
when u r supposednto know oredi
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
OH!
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
fear
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
cold sweat
miss maslinda says:
yes
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
and the fact that its streaming shows how fearful he is
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
use of fear!
nam says:
use od coldness links to death.
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
haha
nam says:
of*
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
livid means bruised
miss maslinda says:
its streaming????????
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
blue black, another dull colour?
> Amni says:
but then, the sand is 'burning
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
'leaden' meass dark grey
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
isnt rivulets like a small stream?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
repetition of 'grey leafstalk'?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
figure of speech sry
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
haha
miss maslinda says:
whenu want to start the essay, think of wat a tree rep...
nam says:
the poison is so strong that even a "fury"of the sand ends up burning and suffering in the power of the tree??
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
"But man sent man with one proud look" i dont get this part:
miss maslinda says:
whc is?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
why man said twice?
miss maslinda says:
FOCUS PPL
*
miss maslinda just sent you a nudge.
*
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
is it to show same status?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
haha .___.
miss maslinda says:
tree normally rep?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
oh uh, life
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
supports life
nam says:
life
nam says:
nature, peace
miss maslinda says:
yes... supports n surrounded by
miss maslinda says:
however....
nam says:
but it gives pain
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
yet, so much action is seen in here from the tree
> Amni says:
this tree has the opp effect
nam says:
to things around it.
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
and takes away the life
miss maslinda says:
yes.... ok...
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
and they all aer smothered by death and danger
miss maslinda says:
tts first para
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
are*
miss maslinda says:
then u go into the techniques used
miss maslinda says:
for poet to show the deadliness of the tree
miss maslinda says:
such as
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
oh
> Amni says:
poison and use of darkness
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
contradiction and....
miss maslinda says:
im goin into essay writing oredi... our lessons will b like tt... the discussion... then essay writing
miss maslinda says:
some more
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
contradiction through the use of darkness...
> Amni says:
then talk abt personification
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
use of the term 'desert'and misery emphasises..
miss maslinda says:
colour, silience
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
on the loss of life?
miss maslinda says:
yes
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
for one sec i thoguht amni was the teacher ahha
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
kk
miss maslinda says:
then, link tree to king...
miss maslinda says:
how
> Amni says:
rite
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
.___.
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
hehe
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
personification, erm...
miss maslinda says:
explain the link
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
they have superiority complex!
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
hahaha
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
erm, i need a break.
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
use of term 'awesome'
miss maslinda says:
finishing oredi... hold on
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
k
miss maslinda says:
Para 1 : intro (how normally tree is linked)
miss maslinda says:
Para 2 : techniques used
miss maslinda says:
Para 3: techniques used
miss maslinda says:
Para 4 : link of tree to king
miss maslinda says:
Para 5 : is it successful (ans to a)
miss maslinda says:
Para 6 : explain slave and king
miss maslinda says:
Para 7: explain king and his desires (ans to b)
miss maslinda says:
you have a complete essay
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
woah
miss maslinda says:
any qn?
miss maslinda says:
u guys shd try to write the essay
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
but in the exams
miss maslinda says:
man to man... meaning king gv instructions to slave... (humble one)
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
i dont think i can do this in time
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
yeah lor
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
same here
miss maslinda says:
brain must push itself into category... tts y i keep telling u WI DIRTS...
miss maslinda says:
it will ans the qn
miss maslinda says:
plus, insert in the part a and b qns
miss maslinda says:
must plan...
miss maslinda says:
15 mins max
miss maslinda says:
read and plan
miss maslinda says:
u will get better marks with flow of essay
miss maslinda says:
write for 30m mins
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
k
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
omg, im nervous alr?!
miss maslinda says:
time urself well... dont overshot ur time
miss maslinda says:
45 mins... be disciplined n start the next qn for tkamb
miss maslinda says:
or do tkamb first
miss maslinda says:
since the knowledge is oredi thr
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
id rathre do tkamb first
miss maslinda says:
all the terms hv meaning
miss maslinda says:
y they are used
miss maslinda says:
here, the tiger...
miss maslinda says:
symbol of?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
yai tihnk i'd do tkamb first too
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
dangre?
nam says:
bravery courage.
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
predator
miss maslinda says:
bravery courage, power...
nam says:
i do part A firstl.
nam says:
jahhaha
miss maslinda says:
even danger
miss maslinda says:
but even it cowers in the sight of the tree
miss maslinda says:
whc empahsises on the tree's danger
miss maslinda says:
tt both inncoent (birds) and dangerous (tiger) creatures are afraid of it
miss maslinda says:
how lonely tt is
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
cower=crouch in the fear of shame
miss maslinda says:
hmmm... mite be courch = waiting to attack oso
nam says:
hahaha
miss maslinda says:
othr things to clarify?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
to crouch, as in fear or shame.

miss maslinda says:
techniques?
miss maslinda says:
terms?
miss maslinda says:
gotta go soon
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
i think we shld call it a day?
nam says:
did we leave out the last stanza?
miss maslinda says:
yup we did
miss maslinda says:
explain
miss maslinda says:
last few stanzas... none of u talk abt
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
"The king, he soaked his arrows true in poison", shows irony in 'true' and 'poison'?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
becaus poison is not soemthing god
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
*good
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
and shows danger and evil?
miss maslinda says:
can
miss maslinda says:
painted hut... 2nd last para?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
theres no colour for the hut.
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
LOLL .___>
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
everyone's gone?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
ha
nam says:
i cant think of that.
nam says:
hahaha
nam says:
painted doesnt come to my mind.
nam says:
on hut is shelter.
miss maslinda says:
notice how the term king only appears in last stanza
miss maslinda says:
b4 tt its man to man
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
reveals the truth of man's greed?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
equality then status?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
oh ya.
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
that initially he's humble man-to-man bu then he becomes greedy and turns to king?
nam says:
the death of the slave to sacrifice exchanged for the superior power that is combined of the king and tree?
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
show the poison in the end
miss maslinda says:
yes... man.. w poison, then king
miss maslinda says:
aiyoh all ths must see
miss maslinda says:
whn e term appear
miss maslinda says:
cos of changing roles n relp throut e poem
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
oh
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
what relationshps?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
as in the man to man thing?
nam says:
king to slave
miss maslinda says:
not yet
miss maslinda says:
same status 1st... man to man...
miss maslinda says:
then 1 sacrificed 4 e othr
miss maslinda says:
living man to king

miss maslinda says:
no more men in last stanza
miss maslinda says:
king, messenger n neighbours he wants to slew
miss maslinda says:
explain
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
king only wants to get rid of those not imp to him?
miss maslinda says:
fah... u don see e transition?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
????
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
i am lost
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
right now
miss maslinda says:
man became king w power (poison)
miss maslinda says:
tts y term king only appears in last stanza
nam says:
that he finally has the power at the end?
nam says:
because he has the poison which is feared by many things?
nam says:
fearful to many things*
miss maslinda says:
used tostay in painted hut...
miss maslinda says:
painted (slightly wealthier)
miss maslinda says:
but still hut
nam says:
IRONY!?
miss maslinda says:
then w poison he becomes (now unconquerable lord)
miss maslinda says:
yes
miss maslinda says:
then he becomes king
miss maslinda says:
how?
miss maslinda says:
by killing neighbours
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
with help from tree's poison?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
kill neighbours to get land?
nam says:
by right, he's not really a king right? it's just to represent his power??
miss maslinda says:
yes
miss maslinda says:
can take it literally king... or ur argumnt nam oso can
miss maslinda says:
don panic
miss maslinda says:
the last part... king and man
miss maslinda says:
all these are A1 A1 matreial
miss maslinda says:
i was just pushing u guys to see beyond
nam says:
okay.
miss maslinda says:
so long as u guiys can see most of the things... develop ur ideas... the A1 will b thr
miss maslinda says:
no nd to b so chim
nam says:
miss mas, do you have more prose and poem?
miss maslinda says:
i wnated to open ur brains a bit
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
she just gave one to me
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
want me email you guys?
miss maslinda says:
lesson tom morn instead can?
nam says:
i want more... hahahah
miss maslinda says:
fah will email u the thing
nam says:
okay okay
nam says:
thanks.
miss maslinda says:
i give 1 more...
miss maslinda says:
both prose
miss maslinda says:
i nd to type them out
miss maslinda says:
my stuff are mostly in hard copy
miss maslinda says:
tts y
miss maslinda says:
will get u guys some more stuff
nam says:
okay
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
k
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
jk
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
k***
miss maslinda says:
the poems and prose in ur mining for meaning oso very good nam
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
sry i need a break, seriously
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
haha
nam says:
alright.
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
oh kk
nam says:
MIKA, WHER DID YOU GO?
miss maslinda says:
ok...
miss maslinda says:
tts all folks
miss maslinda says:
please please please please
miss maslinda says:
do write this lesson out inh essay form
nam says:
hahahaa.
miss maslinda says:
always write an essay... at least one everyday
miss maslinda says:
gte ur brains into gear
miss maslinda says:
then the flow of essay will come naturally to u
miss maslinda says:
and u wont feel so scared tt its all too much
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
at least one?!
miss maslinda says:
k, any more qns... my poor son fell asleep while waiting for me
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
kk i'll try haha
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
haha
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
use of diction
miss maslinda says:
hey, at least 1
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
poor the emphasise on how poor the son is
miss maslinda says:
i didnt ask for 5 ok
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
contradiction
SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika says:
HAHA
nam says:
go la go la.
*
* SUSPENDERS(S )! Mika has left the conversation.
*
miss maslinda says:
u practise lit... its like practising for el compre
nam says:
okay.
miss maslinda says:
and ss
miss maslinda says:
ok...
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
ewww
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
ss.. el compre..
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
eww
miss maslinda says:
any more qns, ask me in nxt lesson
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
yes maam
miss maslinda says:
postiive attidtude brings better marks for ths subjexts fah
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
hahaha, yeah right. .___. my endless misery
miss maslinda says:
so, next wk, we do 1 lesson on gm
miss maslinda says:
1 lesson on tkamb
nam says:
SOMEONE STOLE MY BOOK!
miss maslinda says:
whns ur lit paper?
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
hahaha
nam says:
i want to bang the wall!
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
.___.
nam says:
last day
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
uh, 07 11
miss maslinda says:
hmmm... they prob want ur notes
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
no
@ec.bs; !FAH . says:
last day is sci
nam says:
oih
nam says:
then 07
miss maslinda says:
ok... we'll just do tt, till the end, 1 wk poem & rpose... then gm n tkamb

PLEASE DO THIS BY TML'S LIT LESSON

It was after sundown when the horn sounded across again - this time in the distance. As Kunta watched the other blacks hurrying into a line, he wished he could stop thinking of them as belonging to the tribes they resembled, for they were unworthy pagans who were not fit to mingle with those who had come with him on the big canoe.
As they began to march – each hobbling step chaffing at his ankles, which had been rubbed raw and were beginning to seep blood – Kunta heard some hounds barking far away. He shivered, remembered those that had tracked him and attacked him.
Back in his hut, Kunta kneeled and touched his forehead to the hard dirt floor in the direction in which he knew the next sun would rise. He prayed for a long time to make up for the two prayers he had been unable to perform out in the field, which would have been interrupted by a lash across his back from the toubob who rode the “hoss”.
After finishing his prayer, Kunta sat bolt upright and spoke softly for a while in the secret sira kango tongue, asking his ancestors to help him endure. Then – pressing between his fingers a pair of cock’s feathers he had managed to pick up without being noticed, he wondered if he would be able to prepare a powerful spell to the spirits, whom he would ask to bless the dust where his last footsteps had touched his village. If that footprints were blessed, he would return safely to his village. Some day.
For the thousandth time, he relived the nightmare of his capture. If only the cracking of twig had alerted him, he could have leapt and snatched his spear. Tears of rage came welling in Kunta’s eyes. It seemed to him that for moons without end, all that he had known was being tracked, attacked, captured and maimed.
No! He would not allow himself to be this way. After all, he was a man now – seventeen rains of age. Furiously, he kicked his legs in frustration – but the movement only gouged the iron cuffs deeper into his ankles, which made him cry again.
As it had often been on the big canoe, Kunta lay for half the night with scenes of Juffure flashing through his mind, until he made himself shut his eyes and finally sleep came.
“Roots” by Alex Haley

What techniques did the author use to highlight to the readers the suffering felt by Kunta?
Were the techniques used by the author successful? What other techniques could the author have used to convey his intention?

AND

a) What elements of conflict – things likely to force a development in the situation – are present in the prose?
b) State the literary techniques that the writer used to further build up suspense for the reader.

‘Foreigners are not very popular here,’ Mr Butler told me at breakfast. ‘So I don’t think you ought to go out alone.’

My heart sank. I hated to be dependent on other people. They would never want to do what I wanted to do. I began to feel imprisoned. I took up the moth-eaten balls and the old tennis racket which were lying in the hall, and went into the garden.

After lunch I decided that I could stand it no longer. Mr Butler and Mr Roote were still deep in their morning’s discussion, so I let myself quickly out of the back gate and walked along the sandy lane which led into the country. Mr Butler could not mind my walking in the country, I thought.

Everything was still and silent, in an early-afternoon torpor. The only sound came from the stunted bushes which squeaked and grated linguistically as the wind passed through them. Pillars and scarves of dust and sand rose up from the ground, eddying and swirling themselves into flat sheets which hovered in the air. Harsh spears of grass stuck up through the sand. The soles of my shoes began to burn and I looked round vainly for some shady place. I enjoyed the dreamlike stillness and wanted to stay out for as long as possible. I thought that if I walked on I might find a place. The road led towards the hills. Across the sandy plain the city walls stood up like cliffs. Turrets and bastions were ruined cottages, crumbling into the sea.

I walked on, fixing my eyes on a black speck some way in front of me. I wondered if it could be a cat crouching in the middle of the road; or perhaps it was a dark boulder. As I drew nearer, a haze of flies suddenly lifted, and I saw that the object was not black but pink. The loathsome flies hovered angrily above it, buzzing like dynamos. I bent my head down to see what it was. I stared at it stupidly until my numbed senses suddenly awoke again. Then I jumped back, my throat quite dry and my stomach churning.

The thing was a human head. The nose and eyes had been eaten away and the black hair was caked and grey with dust. Odd white teeth stood up like ninepins in its dark, gaping mouth. Its cheeks and shrivelled lips were plastered black with dried blood, and I saw long coarse hairs growing out of its ears. Because it was so terrible, my eyes had to return to it whenever I looked away. I stared into its raw eye-sockets until waves of sickness spread over me. Then I ran. The whole plain and the bare hills had suddenly become tinged with horror.

Tall rank grass grew in the shadow of the wall. It was dry and sharp as knives. I pushed through it, looking up at the towering cliff for a gate or steps to climb. Nothing else seemed to be alive except the insects. I could only hear their buzzing and the slap of them when they hit the wall. There was no gate. I began to feel desperate. I ran towards a bastion, wondering if I could climb up to it in any way. I knew that I could not.

Denton Welch, Maiden Voyage (1943)

loves, nam

good luck for O levels :D

The Third Month of 2008

2008-03-21T14:24:00.002+08:00

It's about time holey-elites.bs.com comes alive again. Anyway, this blog will be the new notice in lieu for the preparation of Ms Mas' leave. So use it well & enjoy! (:

Homework due Monday, 24th March

The notes regarding images and the links of it to Glass Menagerie (GM)
Re-read and prepare for Surprise Test for To Kill A Mocking Bird (TKAM)

That is all! Adios. ♥

2007-09-02T17:43:00.000+08:00

And it's been a gazillion centuries since this blog was last posted. Where did the sympathy go? Haha. Anyway, Fah's got uber big plans, in which she thinks wont be possible without the support of the ELite family. Huahuahua.

A new blogskin is what she longs for, and it just has to be of the simplest to which she can create. This blog will be made into a new life-form with more vibrant colours and pumped up beat in which she herself can imagine. Everyone will get a chance to feel this new urban nu-beat after contributing much t her need in the process for a true ELite Blog; eh, skin. Haha.

- - - - -

Currently, we are in the midst of having fun for it is the holiday break for the awakening of yet another new term in JVS. Yes, all might seem to dread so, but we just have to make the best time out of everything now, before we start with all the breakdowns and stressed out points in school-time. Happy happy we must for now.

Homework aye? I dont think there is any official hand-on assignment. But I believe Ms Mas would really wish to let the ELite cohort know that they have to complete reading both novels and know them even with their eyes and minds closed. Yes-sir-ree, read both the books and if you must, come up with notes and such for your own revising convenient.

Thats all for now. ELite, pull your socks up people. We have a long way to go with very little time. Happy Holiday, and oh, Happy READING x]

Fah

chiao chen and teng yin

2007-07-19T05:31:00.000+08:00

Scene 6

Tom explains about Jim O’Connor. In high school, he had been the outstanding boy who had won basketball games and the silver cup in debating. But apparently his speed slowed down after graduation because he was holding a job not much better than Tom’s. But Tom explains that Jim was his only friend at the warehouse because Tom was valuable to Jim’s ego as a person who could remember his greatness in high school.
The scene then opens on Amanda and Laura as they are preparing for the arrival of the gentleman caller. Laura complains that her mother is making her nervous, but Amanda continues to fuss over Laura and even uses two powder puffs to pad Laura’s breasts. Amanda goes away to dress herself and appears a little later wearing a very girlish frock held over from her youth. Amanda tells Laura that she will open the door when Mr. O’Connor comes. Laura is shock by this name and when she hears that the first name is Jim, she tells Amanda that she won’t be able to come to the dinner table. Since this would destroy all of Amanda’s plans, she will not abide Laura’s “silliness.” Amanda disappears into the kitchen, and, when the doorbell rings, she calls Laura to answer the door. Laura begs her mother to open the door and tells her that she is sick. Amanda forces Laura to open the door. After she has let them in, Laura goes as quickly as possible into the other room. Tom and Jim talk about the warehouse. Jim warns Tom that he is on the verge of losing his job, but Tom replies that his future plans don’t include working at the warehouse. He has used the money for the last light bill to pay his dues at the Merchant Seaman’s Union. But he warns Jim not to mention it because his mother doesn’t yet know of his plans.
Amanda comes in and meets Jim O’Connor. She immediately bombards him with a long talk about weather, her gentlemen callers, and her past life. When Tom comes back from checking on the supper, he says that supper is already on the table and that Laura is not feeling well but Amanda refuses to begin supper until Laura comes. So Laura enters. Finally, Amanda notices that Laura is actually sick and tells Tom to help her to the living room. Laura lies shuddering on the couch while the others begin the evening meal.

High School Hero

clerk

the accent of a coming foot

pretty trap

executive at desk

By chiao chen and teng yin.

jianhong&mika

2007-07-16T21:37:00.000+08:00

from jianhong and mika

scene 7 (pg 52-76)

the scene starts off by showing Laura on the sofa lying down when the lights go out and Amanda starts to tell a joke to Jim about where Moses was when the lights when out . Amanda asks Jim to check the fuse box and Amanda brought up the topic of Benjamin Franklin , and thats when Amanda finds out that Tom did not pay the bill and when Jim says that candlelight is his favourite kind of light Amanda says that he is romantic.

Amanda gives Jim a candelabrum and asks him to gives Laura a little wine and tells Tom to get his apron on.

Tom ask Laura to drink the wine the Amanda wanted Jim to give Laura.Jim asks Laura to sit on the floor and gets her to sit closer to him.They starts talking about The Wrigley Building and the Century of Progress and how the future will be like in America.Then Laura mentions about Jim having a beautiful voice when he sang at high school and Jim remembered that he called her Blue Roses because she was ill with pleurosis and it sounded like blue roses before and did not know that she was Tom's sister at high school and they start to talk about their past in high school that Laura was shy and that Jim wrote an operetta that Laura complimented about the beautiful song Jim sang and always wanted Jim to autograph her programme but never had the chance to do so and Jim gave her his autograph which confidence that his signature will rise in value someday. Jim tells Laura that he and Emily was never together and that it was all propaganda and asks Laura what she has been doing in the past six years.Laura tells him that she took a business course at business college and that she dropped out and now she takes cares of her glass collection. Jim tells Laura that she low-rates herself and that he understands it too because he had it too but not as worse as Laura's , until he took up public speaking, developing his voice learning that he had and aptitude for science. He tells Laura that he has a friend that tells him ,he can analyse people better than doctors and judge Laura's trouble , a lack of amount of faith in herself . He tells Laura that he is interested in electro-dynamics and that he took a course in radio engineering at night schooland studying public speaking. Laura tells Jim that her intrest is in glass and she shows him a unicorn that is her favourite one and she places them on a shelf with other horses that do not have horns like the unicorn and she places it on different places from time to time to giv it a change of scenery .

The Wrigley Building

Jim hears some music and ask Laura to dance Waltz with him but Laura does no know how to dance so Tom teaches her the steps and slowly Laura gets better and better and as they dance, they accidently knocks on to the table and the glass unicorn falls and breaks its horns off but Laura sees it as a blessing in disguise so that the unicorn can now fit in with the other horses.

Jim starts sweet talking Laura by complimenting her in a genuine tone and tells her that she was pretty wishing that she was his sister so that he can teach her to have confidence in herself. He starts telling her that blue roses was right for her because she was pretty and told Laura that he was saying it sincerly and tells her that someone should ought to kiss her and he slips his hand on to her shoulder and kisses her on the lips ,dazing Laura. He asks laura if she wants a mint but Laura does'nt seem to respond but she grows brighter. He tells her that if she was his sister , he would do the same thing as Tom, bringing in gentleman callers for her to meet but Tom was wrong to bring him in because he is already engaged with another girl , shocking Laura but she stills gives him her unicorn as a souvenir. Amanda rushes into the room with a pitcher of fruit punch for Jim and Laura to drink. She accidently spills the punch on herself and tells Jim that how outdone she was with Tom for keeping Jim to himself for so long and that she is going to have fun with Jim in the future . Jim tells her that he has got to be going soon and that he wont be coming back beacause of both work and Betty. Amanda was shocked to hear that Jim was engaged and Jim goes off to fetch Betty at the depot. Amanda told Tom that he pulled a good joke on them but Tom has no idea Jim was getting married even though he was his best friend at the warehouse. Tom argues with Amanda and he was so furious that he left home and in the end he descends down the fire-escape for the last time and tells Laura to blow out the candle to show that he wont be back to lit the candles again.

Legends :Suspension of a public service

What have you done since high school?

Love!

Things have a bad way of turning out so badly

And so good-bye

Image: Gentleman caller waving good-bye-gaily

Music:Glass Menagerie(not avaliable)

2007-07-16T19:27:00.000+08:00

EDITED!!!
From the pages of NINI&NANA. aka (Amni&Lyana)
Scene five: p28-37.

This scene started off with Amanda asking a favor from Tom which was to comb his hair and put great care in his appearance just like his FATHER. Even though Amanda tries hard to make her son change, Tom only expresses this gesture by going out to smoke. Thus, causing Amanda to be quite furious and started ranting on about what the cost of smoking will amount to in a month. In which the money may be used for a night school course for Tom in Washington D.C.

Soon enough, Tom talks to the audience and expresses his feelings about the Paradise Dance Hall across the alley. He explained that the orchestra played a waltz or a tango that has a slow and sensuous rhythm. Couples would come outside to the relative privacy of the alley and kiss behind ash-pits and telegraph poles. To tom, it was the "compensation for lives like mine, without any change or adventure". I think this means that Tom felt that in his place, no interesting things are happening apart from the same continuous cycle of life, just like his. Unlike the mist suspended over berchtesgaden, or those caught in the folds of chamberlain's umbrella and 'in spain, there was guernica'. Which he uses to emphasize on the absence of exciting things happening.
The play resumed when Tom stops talking to the audience and Amanda looks away from the photo of her husband.

After which Amanda joins him on the fire escape and talked about wishing on the 'little silver slipper' of a moon where Tom told Amanda that he could guess what her wish is. And when Amanda replied and asked whether her head was transparent, Tom simply retorted "You're not a sphinx". Her wishes were fulfilled as he had a gentleman caller for Laura. A friendly shipping clerk from Tom's workplace. This caused Amanda to be thrilled. She was sure that Laura would make him fall for her but Tom thought that the people outside their family might find her peculiar as she is handicapped, shy and somewhat too absorbed in her glass menagerie. He pointed out that laura lives "in a world of her own".

As Tom leaves for the movies, Amanda yelled and said she did not believe he really went to the movies. The scene ends with her calling Laura to make a wish on the moon.

Music: "The World is waiting for sunrise"
and an "ominous tango".
Others: Legend with the word "annunciation"(announcement)
Image: Fire escape and moon

*guernica - a painting- yup. i know what you all are thinking.. a painting? guernica? yeah. but look at it CAREFULLY.. it is full of the painter's feelings towards an artist's FREEDOM.

*Chamberlain and his umbrella (see the hook on the LEFT HAND OF THE MIDDLE GUY. THAT'S the umbrella. and the guy with the 'swastika' logo is ADOLF HITLER!) Chamberlain's legacy is marked by his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the concession of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler.

*berchtesgaden (a place where Hitler's mountain residence was located. The area was also purchased by the Nazis in the 1920s for their senior leaders to enjoy. Berchtesgaden and its environs were fitted to serve as an outpost of the German Reichskanzlei office (Imperial Chancellery)

*a sphinx (seen as guardians in the Egyptian statuary)

*fire escape (to escape. from fire. chei. no lah. just kidding. XD its basically a method of escape in the event that a fire happens inside a building where it makes an exit -from the inside- inaccessible)

Aliffah &Ying Nam

2007-07-15T16:17:00.000+08:00

editted
E.LITE GLASS MENAGERIE ASSIGNMENT fahnam
Scene Four pg20-28
Amanda and Tom had had a hateful argument the previous night. Amanda was heart-broken and Tom set off for the movies till dawn. When he returned, Laura was waiting for him and asked plentiful questions, and finally pleaded Tom to make it up with Mother. Tom reassured Laura that everything will be fine. The next day, when Laura left for grocery-shopping, Tom spoke to Amanda, and apologized. They soon started talking as well as discussing matters related to their life - Amanda's motherly-expectations, Laura's future and Tom's requirements to 'freedom'.
At the end of this scene/chapter, Tom is to help Laura in finding a gentlemen down at the warehouse as her very first gentlemen caller.

The Merchant Marine Logos &Person. (pg27)

The images he had witnessed during the long programme of coming attractions.
Greta Garbo - Hollywood's Ultimate Actress in the 1930s; (pg20)
Mickey Mouse - Created in the 1930s
Organ solo (pg 20) - Tom is not only adventurous but he is interested in many other aspets as well, like music.
The Milk-Fund incident - Milk Fund is an association for the disabled young kids. The kids were given "Milk Money" for proper "growth". The kids were either smaller or sicker compared to other normal kids.

The Big Show began .. (pg21)
Malvolio the Magician - did stupendous tricks eg turned beer to whisky(Kentucky Straight Bourbon) from pitcher to pitcher; magic scarf to wave over canary cage to get a bowl a goldfish and also wave over bowl of goldfish to get flying canaries; got him nailed shut in a coffin and he escaped unscathed without removing a single nail.
Significance of Nailed-Coffin trick: Father left the family more or less the same way the Magician did, not even telling anyone and disappeared just like that. Nailed-Coffin symbolizes Amanda and the children.
Notice the stage lighting concentrated its attention to Father's grinning photograph.

JENGJENGJENG ~ !
A Very Handsome Young Man - symbolises playboy attitude. It makes the readers wonder whether the Father actually had other relationships other than Amanda. The Father is a traveler, therefore he seeks freedom and cannot stay put in one place. One might wonder if Father even had any feelings for Amanda. He must have been very smart to have escaped from Amanda's clutches that keep him inside the house.
The use of a very handsome young man emphasizes the love that Amanda has for the Father. She had seventeen other gentlemen callers which shows that not only Amanda's family is rich, they are well-known and good family background. However, Amanda chose the Father who was not rich but just charming and handsome. The Father is neither rich nor well-known but he is every girl's dreams. The love from Amanda to Father was proved because she gave up her servants as well as the life of the Rich-&-Famous for a cramped and crowded apartment in the busy city area. Mirror Image/Character is Jim, the gentlemen caller.

Honore Daumier (pg 23) - The facial expression on Amanda's face when she anticipated the moment when Tom entered the kitchen and hoped that he would talk to her. It was the day after their spiteful argument the previous night.

Glass Menagerie - symbolizes the different perspectives reflected/shown by someone. The spectrum created amplifies the different sides of a person. The Glass Unicorn especially, symbolizes Laura because firstly, she considers herself different from the others like that of a unicorn which has a horn on its forehead, different from the rest. Secondly, being a glass, it is fragile yet strong and hard. Laura is fragile and sensitive, yet she has her own strong personal standing and keeps to her beliefs of what is right and appropriate for her.
Glass reflects lights and creates a spectrum. This spectrum consists of 7 different colours. Therefore it shows the different sides of Laura - when she is around with her Glass Menagerie, when she faces her Mum, or even when she is with her Brother and strangers. The Glass is a symbol of the different characteristics of Laura.

Music:
The Glass Menagerie
(not available)

Ave Maria

GLASS MENAGERIE SCENE 3

2007-07-11T21:23:00.000+08:00

--> man at door with roses

DONE BY~!!! afiq and chihpeng(:

The scene starts with the words "After the fiasco-" as Tom stands on the fire escape landing and addresses the audience. He explains that amanda is desperate on getting a gentleman caller for laura . Then, amanda enters the scene with a phone... She makes a cheerful, elaborate, unsuccessful sales pitch to an acquaintance on the telephone. Then the lights dim out..

When the stage is lighted, Tom and amanda's voices could be heard, they were arguing as Amanda had returned the novels by mr lawrence to the library and did not give him privacy.

Tom wants to end the argument by paying rent and he even tried to leave the house. However, amanda insists on not ending the argument.She attributes his surly attitude to the fact that he spends every night out—doing something shameful, in her opinion—though he insists that he spends his nights at the movies. Amanda asserts that, by coming home late and depriving himself of sleep, he is endangering his job and, therefore, the family’s security.

Tom also exclaimed that he envy's the dead...as he hears the same old thing each morning.(Rise and shine)

He then walks to the door, amanda asked where he was going, and when he said he was going to the movies, she didnt believe him..
He hurls his coat as he cant put them on, and hits laura's glass menageries...

http://music.aol.com/artist/henry-mancini/1902/album/the-glass-menagerie-original-soundtrack/27103

GMscenetwo

2007-07-10T21:14:00.001+08:00

GLASS MENAGERIE
Scene Two

Amanda was dissappointed when she found out that Laura had not be coming to Business College through a teacher with reasons that she was physically ill and suffered from a terrible nervousness. Laura admits that she has been skipping class and explains that she has spent her days walking along the streets in winter, going to the zoo, and occasionally watching movies

Amanda wanted Laura to get married as she thought her prospects of a business career was ruined. Laura confessed that she used to like a boy in her high school, a boy named Jim who sat near her who called her 'Blue Roses' as he misheard the name of the disease Laura suffered when she had to be away from school due to the attack of pleurosis. Laura concluded that he should be married by now. Amanda declares that Laura nonetheless end up married to someone nice. Apologetically, Laura reminded her mother that she's crippled. Amanda insists that her daughter never use that word and tells her that she must cultivate charm.

Images:

Blue Roses

Typewriter

A winter scene at a park.

Atikah&Sherie

Aliffah. Ying Nam

2007-07-08T15:14:00.000+08:00

E.LITE GLASS MENAGERIE ASSIGNMENT fahnam
Scene Four pg20-28
Amanda and Tom had had a hateful argument the previous night. Amanda was heart-broken and Tom set off for the movies till dawn. When he returned, Laura was waiting for him and asked plentiful questions, and finally pleaded Tom to make it up with Mother. Tom reassured Laura that everything will be fine. The next day, when Laura left for grocery-shopping, Tom spoke to Amanda, and apologized. They soon started talking as well as discussing matters related to their life - Amanda's motherly-expectations, Laura's future and Tom's requirements to 'freedom'.
At the end of this scene/chapter, Tom is to help Laura in finding a gentlemen down at the warehouse as her very first gentlemen caller.

Music:
Ave Maria, The Glass Menagerie

Others:
Legends on screen were also used e.g. Laura, Plans and Provisions.
Images were also used e.g. Sailing vessel with Jolly Roger.

2007-06-29T09:03:00.000+08:00

Been forever since we last updated on our dying blog. So Aliffah is here to bring back the cheerful and joyious life of ELite.

So, as you guys may know, like, from just now, we are currently in Com Lab and doing this Maths Software regarding to angles. And so, I took some time and went to browse our Blog, as on Monday, Ms(Mdm) Mas came to me and told me that our Lit Assignment is put up on our Holey-Elite Blog. So I did, and for three straight days there was no news regarding our expected assignment. Frantic I was, for I fear Ms Mas would misunderstand the failure of the class for not completing our assignment on Fri. But last night (Thurs Night) she came and dropped a notice.

As most of you have most probably read the notice, assignment given is to do the Spider Web of the Glass Menagerie Characters. I hope that most of the ELite students have at least covered one round of reading that drama-script book over the holidays, for I have done four rounds of the book over and over again during my boring holidays. I do not wish to brag but it is the truth. Holey-Elites, Please spend and divide your time wisely. All of us have a very very very long way to go.

I apologise if I sound to braggy and bossy but it is the truth, for what Ms Mas had said before concerns us, and the future of our fellow descendants of HoleyELites. Pure Literature in JVS depends on us if it must continue to live.
People, we have not been giving our best shot lately, and we have to change that. We have to improve. Change our mindset, change our attitude, and if we must, change the way people think about Literature - that it is never a boring and all-about-the-book subject. It is a way to express our true colours, and a way for us to do things in life better.

Literature makes you love your life better, and oyu get to see life in a much bigger, and better picture. Glass Menagerie is not a boring book. It is something related to real-life and we can understand people better, if we bother to try. Peace out people.

Lovelove Literature ♥

2007-05-08T16:24:00.000+08:00

WEDNESDAY
Can ELite meet outside Class 3C by 1230 and then we make our way to NUH and visit Jian Hong, Dill? Please hit me back asap.

Ms Maslinda is cordially invited to this grand visit. Cheyy.

Fah, Scout (Wife to-be of Dill)
♥

Aliffah; Visiting Jian Hong

2007-05-04T20:52:00.000+08:00

I would really want to visit Jian Hong tomorrow, but my mum pissed me off and so I cant go tmr. But on Sunday I can slip off from home and take that chance to see how my dear Oxymoron is doing. If you guys dont mind..

Daily visiting hours:

12:00 pm to 2:00pm
5:00pm to 8:00pm

But if you guys still wanna go together as ELite groups tomorrow I dont mind. Problem is, I aint sure if Jian Hong will be discharged from hospital by Sun and you guys now my mum. Currently, shes not in the right state of mind, sad to say, and thus she keeps complaining of my daily absence from home.

But still, do ring me 91527990 if you guys have made up your minds when to go. I believe Sundays, Chih Peng and who else have mass assembly, and Lyana and Amni have religious classes in the morning. So we can try to go later, 3+ maybe? I dont know. You people decide. Then ring me alryte? Thanks.

Fah

On behalf of ELite, we pray for an fast and strong recovery for our best Oxymoron-ous pal, Jian Hong. JiaYou my friend! Dont give up!

lit

2007-04-29T22:22:00.000+08:00

jianhong,
page 131
No ,i made him get a page of the Bible every day ,
emphasizes on the absence of education to the blacks
the use of negation here is to show the intention of the writer that society discriminates against the blacks and does not allow the black to study and it also shows that not only the white can learn but also the blacks.
the arouses the suspisions of the reader that the blacks in maycomb is uneducated and that the only way they can study is through the bible.

i dunno if this will help u guys but i hope it will XD

2007-04-29T21:10:00.000+08:00

page 104
'He never said anything about that,' Jem muttered.
'Never said anything about it, did he?'
'No ma'am.'

The absense of the understanding between Atticus and his children.
The writer uses repeated negation which shows that Atticus never mentions his abilities to his childen at all.

It arouses the reader to wonder what other abilities Atticus have and the reason he didn't let want to let others know, even to Scout and Jem.

Sherie

2007-04-29T20:51:00.001+08:00

Amni:
page 87
my quote(conversation btwn scout and francis):
'just what i asked for,' he said... a pair of knee-pants, a red leather booksack, five shirts and an untied bow-tie.
'That's nice,' i lied. 'jem and me got air-rifles, and em got a chemistry set-'
'a toy one, i reckon.'
'no, a real one...'

well, this quote basically emphasizes on the absence of the truth.
i think we can obviously see that scout lied because she did not want francis to have a bad impression upon her. saying 'no, a real one' we can tell that she wanted francis to believe she is as pampered or as fortunate as him.

this will then arouse the readers curiosity upon scout because scout is known for her 'ability' or her personality of always talking back to others. which is why it encourages the reader to find out the other side of scout's personality.

this is all i have to say so i hope it makes sense to you people. =)

atikahsyahirah.

2007-04-29T13:44:00.000+08:00

Negation quote:
(Chapter 11)
'Your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for!' - Mrs Dubose.

Emphasises on the absense of social equality.
In this quotation, it is clearly stated the impression Mrs Dubose had on Atticus when she mentioned 'no better'. Showcasing her prejudice, she discriminated Atticus by conveying that he deserved to be looked down like the blacks since he tried to defend one.

Arouse the reader's empathy towards Atticus who holds on to his strong sense of convictions and justice.

Encourages the readers to identify the conflict that had been going on in Maycomb County.

Ack, I think I crapped. This is all I got and I aint sure its right.
(:

ATIKAHY

Aliffah

2007-04-28T19:18:00.001+08:00

Well apparently, no one has started doing this essay points on the posts yet, except for Mika. Thank You my dear! But please do mind your language. Ms Mas reads this blog as often as she could manage. Please use good English dear Mickey.

Anyway, the Quote Essay Assignment;
Quote.
" 'Naw, we better wait till they get in, Atticus might not like it if he sees us,' said Jem. " {page 168, somewhere in the middle}

Explanation.

emphasizes on the absence of self-discipline of Jem & Scout.

refuse to listen to Atticus to just stay inside the house and mind their own business.
however, it underlines the reason why both of them refuse to stay home
they were interested in knowing what is actually happening
give support to their father

arouse the readers' suspicions as to why Jem allowed Scout to follow him and get inside the Court Room and witness the examination.

arouse the empathy of the reader's towards Jem as he was very much interested in this battle of justice in which his father was involved in.

encourage readers to understand the problem that have already been existing which involves both Jem and Scout.

the already existing problem is the racism that is still evidently seen until then
the discrimination of Blacks and Whites.
with Jem and Scout around, it will further intensify the racism in the society as the society will also neglect the Finch family as Atticus is defending a Black-Nigger.

Okay, Im done. Either way Im wrong but yes, please, do write your points. The important key is YOUR QUOTE!!! nyehahaha. Alright then, bye.

Mika

2007-04-28T12:36:00.000+08:00

use of negation in pg 219 ...."how could they do it, how could they?"
'I dont know,but they did it.
OK Guys n Gals..lets start my lit lesson, no noise pls..SILENCE! this phrase arouse the readers empathy towards Jem and Atticus. For helping the blacks, tom robinson in his SEX case..wootie !!However not accepted by society despite the help they gave.. So, apparently Atticus n Jem were the right guys, so why were they not accepted and why did they lose the case..simple! The society doesnt accept blacks and hence wouldnt support Atticus in his brave n courageous act to save Tom Robinson from the wrong perpective of the F***ing and racist society.this marks jem's start of maturity also.

Ying Nam

2007-04-24T23:02:00.000+08:00

in case you guys are wondering, i'm nam:]]
Today we had a single period. Miss Poh asked us to read this story last week and we continued today. Getting more detailed and revealing the truth of the story.
I started of thinking that that lady in the story was psycho. i thought she loved her husband so much that she went bonker or something. However, when miss poh explained further in details, my view of the story changed. Miss poh explained that certain phrases are significance of important character development, or story development. So, we were asked to find them in pairs:]] i paired with fah and we started nagging at each other. "There's no right or wrong in literature." It's been told ever since the start of lit lessons this year which caused the both of us to debate over who was more convincing. We called miss poh over and over again. Just to see who was less "holey". This period of time, mdm tan was staring at us! and Mika started his contradictory theories once more. I was freaked out when i noticed miss maslinda standing at the back of fah. Forboding, she was wearing a black scarf and i started giggling when i turned and saw her mysterious face. Ah, she's always like that. hahaha. when mdm tan left, the lit class was alive again! Everyone was so dead during the lesson when she was present. no idea why though... now we're left with out assignments to finish in pairs. Part of the story was given to each group and we were expected to highlight the phrases that are important in the development of the story. i did it with fah just now. And i start to noticed all those points that i've missed out from the start. I just hope there's more to it. [negative words are effective:]]

Chih Peng

2007-04-24T23:00:00.000+08:00

hellos every1, i am posting at 11pm...well to summarise today's learning points...
today mrs poh talked to us on identifying phrases that would help you infer the story... and also wad the writer wants u to think...

i think that after tis lesson it would be easier for us to indentify the key points..even though mika was saying weird things.. lyk...when miss maslinda came...he said "whats that word ar....OH YES... FOREBODING"

well signing off here
*chihpeng was here*

jianhong

2007-04-24T22:26:00.000+08:00

jianhong here!!
apologizes to chiao chen for mistaking to dunno :P ...XD

Chiao Chen

2007-04-24T21:38:00.000+08:00

chiao chen here!

JIAN HONG!!I SEE THAT!! Ok...I admit that I don't really understand what is it about. But after Ms.Poh explained the phrases to me, I understand!! I've learn to look more deeply into the words but not only the words we can see in the passage. Although I can see deeply into the story, I don't really know how to translate my thoughts into words... Think that I should practice more...

Amni Featuring Lyana

2007-04-24T21:28:00.000+08:00

On behalf of Lyana:

From today's lesson, we learned more deeply about close reading and how to infer for information from such stories.

Amni:

Well, for me, i've learned that there is more than what is being written in the story. The more deeper meaning is from what that is being unwritten because we have to learn to infer and think from a much more simple level into something higher.

(as you can see, everything is written neatly and very very short and sweet because this is the real nature of us people)

Jian Hong

2007-04-24T21:02:00.000+08:00

hello!!!!!...jianhong here and this is the first blog post that i have ever made in this blog...
today is a single period with Ms.Poh and WOW!!....all contents of just a part of The story of an hour was so complicated...although i got all of it but i think i still need to stress my brain to squeeze it in and make sure it stays there.
After the explaining and infering on the Prose from Ms. Poh i think i learned that the images,expressions and the movements of one's character can show the characteristics of that particular person,and probably the characteristics of others as well,like that Richards.He was in a hurry to tell Louise[Mrs Mallard],and it was in a way that he wanted to tell her that her husband was dead for that she would get over him and he can marry Louise and there was when he tried to block Mr Mallard from Louise view so that see would not see him[like that will help].
After that,Ms Poh made us in pairs and we each did a part of the Prose and we were suppose to point out the points that lead to the development of the story and i was paired up with Chiao Chen.It was pretty hard at first,but when Ms.Poh showed us the part with the blue patches in the sky it showed that she was not only grieving about the husbands death but also thinking about the freedom that she will get and after that i think i got it but i don't think Chiao Chen got it :P....

Aliffah

2007-04-24T19:44:00.000+08:00

Good Evening!

Aliffah here to post about our first ever Blog Assignment. What happened during today's Single Period of Literature?
Basically, today was the day that Ms Poh's teaching techniques will be examined and viewed by two great teachers, Mdm Tan and Ms Maslinda. They looked over the lesson and will be providing constructive remarks for Ms Poh for improvement-reference, as she is a trainee teacher. So, for the lesson, Ms Poh concentrated on finding sentences/phrases that contributes to the advancement of the storyline and the contributions of the character in forming the different points of the plot structure

(opening, conflict, climax, resolution/conclusion).

I paired up with Nam, as always, and started browsing through the given chunk, which is part of the passage titled "Story of an Hour". To start the recount of what happened today, I shall describe the stypical storyline of the this passage.

A woman, anonymous at first, was described as one who has a heart problem.
She had a husband, a loving husband, who was found dead after meeting into a tragic accident.
Her family members were worried and was desperate to find the perfect way of delivering the tragic news, for fear she would break down and collapse due to her having heart problems.
So slowly and gently, this woman's sister decided to tell her about her husband's fate.
Gently and giving quaint hints, the woman finally figured out the terrible truth of her husband's death.

She immediately began to change, from a weakling to a wailing, maddening woman.
She felt complete loss for the someone she depended on most, but she soon realised, this wasnt what she was actually feeling inside.
In her room, she began to unwrap and resolve her mixed feelings.
She finally celebrated her new found freedom,husband's death, as it finally dawned upon her, that there will be no one to control and to oversee her life, ever again.

*Victorian Period-
Ladies(wives) have to always follow husbands words.
They cant go out as they like and they have to always stick at home, awaiting for theier
heroes to return home. Before the ladies get married, their life lies on the parents' hands.
But as they get married and lead a new life, they will be under their husband's control
and will not be related to the family in terms of orders, demands and needs.

Upon the realisation that her body and soul is free, she was overjoyed and was celebrating in a way that she drank elixir, a form of medication to ease pains, (some sort of temporary painkiller, i guess), and became drunk that she floated down the stairs and died of a real heart problem- heart attack.
Why? When she reached the ground level, the door was open and she saw the man whom she heard had died in an accident standing still, looking alright and healthy, if not for the minor scratches he had.
Ironic isnt?

After brainstorming a few more points based on the passage, Ms Poh reminded us that we are required, as ELites, to read deeper and uncover the hidden secrets behind some sentences/phrases, and explain why they are so significant in the passage. Then did she begin to distribute chunks of the different parts of the passage to each different pairs. Nam and I had the part somewhere in the middle, I guess, describing of the mixed feelings the 'sick' woman had, when told of her husband's death.

It was a very easy passage for us, because there were obvious points that obviously had a secret meaning to it, and it was obvious that we had a little too many imagination as we were one of the two pairs that were loud enough to describe the many solutions to our 'hidden treasure(s)'. The other pair,(or rather individual) was was making such a racket was Mika. He was, well, very cute in making nonsensical point of views from the passage he received. Indeed, he has a creative mind like myself and Nam(opps. Sorry to boast XD) but his vocabs are, {gasps} Ohh-myy-Gawdd! He kept complaining about how difficult and complicating his part of passage was and yet, he actually got the points right but still insisted on saying 'No, I suck. Thats it.'

In the midst of all the chaos we were creating during the discussion, Mdm Tan left and Mika was delighted. He started using Literary techniques that were, err.. so cute? And made up how evil Mdm Tan is, and imitated the tone of a holy man saying, 'The Evil presence is gone! We are free! It's gone away~!'
This has got nothing to do with the discussion so Ms Poh, although entertained, told Mika to focus and get started with his passage (cus it was still blank). So I will continue with the report.

Ms Maslinda appeared majestic, and seriously deadly, coming up from my back and staring over. I only noticed her presence when her wow-big scarf floated with the wind, and we(Nam and I) were on about the second paragraph, on why the woman started reconsidering the consequences of her husband's absence from then on. Too many points and conversations to post, too little time, and Im already worn out from today's group-study activity. Haha.

So, to cut things short, we were almost done on highlighting the key points from the OHT paper and reasoning our points on another piece of A5 paper when the bell rang for recess. Like tyrannic, hungry animals, everyone stampede back to their seats and raced down to the finishing line, canteen. I was still stuck in class, trying to complete the remaining reasons for the last few points but was distracted when the Bio students took their turn stampeding into the class, and Nam was still busy thinking of what to elaborate further down the points.

Thats it for today I guess. Tomorrow will be one of the two double-periods for Literature. I would want to conserve and reserve my energy for tomorrow's class. Gawd, Im so worn out!

Nights people!
And stay HOLEY!

Nur Aliffah Nasrun
3C ELite Freak =D

Aliffah

2007-04-21T17:45:00.000+08:00

Good Afternoon/ Evening Holey Ladies and Gentlemen. As usual, Aliffah's here to report for the once-in-a-week news on ELite students.

On Tuesday, Ive posted a tale, that was written so long that I actually fell asleep myself. .smirks So yes, today, I wont write as much because frankly, Im tired from yesterday's Speech Day Night; and, boy, was our Holey Teacher lookin' gooooooood? She certainly does and she spoke very well indeed, in a formal tone I would say.
Hahaha.

So anyway, Ms Poh occupied our Thursday single period lesson with reading an article on this indeed, very twisted and ironic ending. Had fun though, guessing the ending and the storylines. Afiq was plain and exceptionally brilliant about explaining the uses of imagery and stuff. Very good stuff.
And on Friday, we missed the double-period. Gawd!

But finally, we can mugg in peace now. Speech Day's over, buziness is gone, so now its back to muggin'.

STUDY HARD FOR MID-YEAR LITERATURE PAPER PEOPLE!

(can somebody replace my duty of posting?! email me if you need the password and user

jianhongg!!!)

Opening Post by Fah {160407}

2007-04-17T12:15:00.000+08:00

Hey. Good Evening. Aliffah reporting for duty to post, ladies and gentlemen.

ELite students began our day, moaning as our Class Mentor was absent from school today. But still we were very much looking forward to the double-periods of Literature lesson just before recess.

Indeed, I recall the moments when we were severely punished by Miss Maslinda, for lack of discipline into completing our given assignments. The most evident scar made onto our minds, were the days when Ms Mas (in short) was so furious with the class that she was all black in the face. We know better than to speak. But now, it's all better. And we are beginning to understand better on our current novel, To Kill A Mocking Bird. Not only in terms of the different characters but also understand why certain things are meant to be this or that way.

Previously, Ms Mas introduced to us ELite students a new way of understanding the characters. By diving a piece of foolscap paper into columns of 35, we noted down the names of the important people that is inside the novel. After that, Ms Mas gave us 6points to indicate the type of person based on each character. And yes, we are slowly completing all 35characters. I, on the other hand, found more than 2 other characters that were left out. If Im not wrong, they're Jessie, Mrs Dubose's maid, and Mrs Merriweather, the playwright teacher of the pageant. If Im a little out-dated on this characters, I sincerely apologise for my stupidity. Nyehahaa.

Oh yes. I would not prefer to talk on something to formal and bore the dear readers to death. So I would now like to share with you what the ELite Students have been up to so far, without so much knowledge and concern of our teacher, Ms Mas.
If you see on the left hand side of the page, the profile is made in such a way that each of the ELite students have been given the character in which the classmates have said to suit them best.

(Ms Maslinda, please review this characters. Thank You :D)

It gives me the great honour to inform you that Afiq gladly sacrificed himself to take the role of the scapegoat, black man, Tom Robinson, the one charged for raping Mayella Ewell, daughter of the infamous Bob Ewell.

Also, the class has picked on Ying Nam aka Nam, to be Mrs Henry Lafayette Dubose. In their opinions, Nam tends to give them some form of weird lectures that dont tend to make sense at all. But Nam thinks that she's more associated to Jem. So I have no conclusion to this. =.=

It is quite obvious that I will get the role of Scout, even if I dont wish to bear that role. The whole class decided this on behalf of myself, and I really have to say that Scout does suits me best after all. Just that there is one thing Ive realised that differentiates me and Scout. Scout is still very feminine in a way but Im all rowdy.

I guess LYana's stuck with Ms Rachel's character ever since that fateful day when she dumbly claimed that Ms Rachel best represents her. It was during one of our lessons, where we have to pick one character that represents us and describe/explain what or how the character is like and was a very amusing and tiring (we had to keep jogging around the class until we found the right descriptions of the characters) lesson but at least it woke us up from our dreamland.

Without any reasons, Amni was beared with the responsibility of being the wise Calpurnia. Haha. I know people will laugh at this but Amni is one who will shut everyone up when her wisdom is unleashed. The time has not arrived yet for her to reveal her 'powers' but Im sure it will sooner, or later :D

One very attractive student in the class, is said to be Jem. He has got a new design of hairstyle and is indeed a hyperactive monkey. Mika, although he is a monkey, is actually capable enough to be called a mature man for his age. Wacky and idiotically sucky, he has brains of a Literature genius. Heheee...

Jian Hong, {the oxymoron without oxygen}?, claims to be Dill. Innocent, yet bright and explosive with wonderful creativity. I believe he will become more or less like Dill in the future, free-will and ambitious.

Atikah, as she is a pretty ladaye, was matched to the likes of Ms Caroline.

Last but not least, our good ol' friend, who we have lost forever, Keng Hui, is exceptionally the mirror of Boo Radley. I cannot disagree with this, but somehow its just cruel... Cruel!

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So that's it for now. The Opening Post by Fah. Hope you have enjoyed reading this long and indeed dull post. If you have any queries on the blog, please tag. Otherwise, questions to be enquired in school.
Thank You.

Good Night,
and stay Holey, people! :DDD

Fah

2007-04-12T16:30:00.001+08:00

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