Romeo And Juliet Response

When we  started this unit i did not expect to drawn  in with modern  scenery modern clothes and situations that happen every day. I expected to see a whole bunch of mid evil streets with plague riddled homeless people wandering the streets, where laws would have people killed and or abused. The words may not have matched their actions too well but the actors but the actors compensated  for it the conviction in their voices.
  when i saw the trailer i got interested  because it seamed like a action-type movie that could be very engaging. Gun fights helicopter chases hostages held at gunpoint this was the real world as it is to day not as it was hundreds of years ago. While at some points the language could not convey the message of or complex scenes the scenery had all the words matched out.When they traveled and spoke the scenery matched the mood in soft caring moments natural light filtered in and the cameras  zoomed in on the characters. In fight scenes the scenery turned rough and jagged just as the emotion  that are free flowing especially when Tybalt killed Meccucio. The setting was so real and vibrant that one the makeup specialist was kidnapped by gangsters and and had to be ransomed back.
 I think that Lurhman made it a more modernized version because the original was un-relatable and since Shakespeare is used as a sonnet study for schools full of teenagers that want action and  realistic things that they would know about. his choice of cast  was very well done. Leonardo Decaprio and Clair Danes  Made  the last scene a thing that provoked many emotions  of anger and sadness. The fact that she could not react quick enough to prevent Leonardo from drinking the poison brought anger but the fact that she regreted  no being able to stop him enough to kill herself.
     The bond the formed lasted the rest of their short lives kept the different poles of their family magnets grinding together until one had to break. only the loss of what their families treasured most could  defog their minds of the meaningless hatred.

Hope by Ashley Helmers- Starry night By Vincent Van Gogh

Ashley's post was just about as thought provoking as the picture it was about. She used compelling words to convey her interpretation of  "Starry Night". She bring New light to a old and famous piece of art. When  I origionally saw  starry night i thought o f a peaceful evening under the  stars but ever since reading this poem i have seen hope. Times were difficult in the years of Van Gough yet more simple than the every day  lives we lead  with out the  medical science we  take for granter today and people dieing in the streets hope may have been the only thing they had.
This  was a very thought provoking poem and i recommend this to any who wants to get a new look on  hope  should read it here (http://peaceloveandpages.blogspot.com/2011/01/picture-poetry-response-starry-night-by.html

Untitled By Charlie Slavin

 Charlie has a interesting perspective on the book that makes me want to read his post and after that go to Barnes& Nobels and buy that book to read. He takes completely fictional character and  and brings the problems of the books world into correlation with real problems such as racism, and slavery.
       The book issues seem to plague the entire orc cast of the book Because if they fight to the death the influx of orcs would have to be constant so villages are most likely to be raided normally. I can tell if this practice has been going on for a while i am sure orcs had enough common sense to move but this might only increase the suffering and stress they go through in the raids,  their captors having to drag then a longer distance becoming more and more surly as the journey continues.  The fact the the main character escaped means that  it will be plotting revenge because any creature that has ever endured the abuse the character has would seek retribution.
          I see how this translates back into slavery, and racism. Racism the creatures capturing the orcs have a  certain hatred or feeling of supremacy towards them and feel the need to pit them against each other almost like in the hunger games where people are gathered against their will by a huge impossible to fight force and are force to fight each other to the death. I see slavery in the way the are captured, tortured until they fight o the death, and generally mistreated.    

True Mexican By Alex Isakova

            Overall this was a very thought provoking post that mad me think farther into the topic of people being split between two sides of themselves. I found this very intriguing  because there are many poets and artists that have this same sort of inner struggle that the artist of this picture seem to be experiencing. Not necessarilary      
            In the poem she interprets what the artist meant to show through the picture. She say that the artist feels torn between two lives, and heritages that they live because they are Mexican-American. The picture further re enforces that idea with  a group of objects from both cultures mostly sitting on an table who's colors are red white and blue like the American flag. Something else that sticks out is that most of the items are from the American culture like the photo of George Washington wrapped in again red,white, and blue beads.
        I think that the artist is trying to say that America and Mexico May be two big parts of their life but since it seems that they currently live in America and that is why they reserve a larger love for America . Possibly America is favored because they had an important reason the came to America or even that they have never gotten the chance to plant root into their Mexican side and only knows about their American side
        I think that the Alex feels that the artist was or is detached from a part of themselves but have a small piece that lives on no matter how much the other side tries to smother it and and take over. The lion is generally  not part of Mexican culture which might say that  they are not that in touch but the lion is known throughout Spanish culture as a symbol of being regal and have power. also the picture shows balance with      the back being a rural old time-ish Mexican home a the front being the picture of an over Americanized front ( being fake).

        http://blogginglife97.blogspot.com/2011/01/true-mexican.html