"To Kill A Mockingbird"

11/24/15

Book: "To Kill A Mockingbird"

Prompt: You will be selecting a photograph that represents your idea of Maycomb, AL based on Harper Lee’s description. Incorporating the different criteria from the Visual Literacy Guide, write a thoughtful, thorough, and well constructed response relating the photograph to Maycomb, AL. Make sure to include: The image of the photograph you have selected for analysis (make sure to cite your photograph.) Your written analysis.

          Based on my observations of this picture, it seems that this could describe the setting of the novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird." In the novel the setting is decribed like this, "...People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer..." This quote explains the setting of the book. 

 

The picture is similar to the setting because it seems that the people in the picture shown above are not waiting for anything they are just hanging around that place. It also seems like everything is going by slow. This relates to the quote above because my observation states that everything seems to be going by slow just as the quote states.

Theme Blog

Nicolas Fuentes 

11/19/15

Prompt: "Determine and analyze a theme development throughout the novel by looking closely at the characters actions, the setting, plot events, and and/or conflict."   

          The universal theme that I have infered from "The Maze Runner Series: The Death Cure" is courage. I think this because throughout the books in the  "Maze Runner" series the character's actions are always for the greater good of the group they have. For example, when Thomas, the main character, decides to kill his best friend becasue he has been infected with a disease that has no cure and when the subject is infected the virus drives them crazy. Newt, Thomas' best friend, implores Thomas to kill him and he does it. If he didn't do this, then everybody in the Right Arm, which is an organazation dedicated to taking down WICKED, would have suffered a major loss. This action shows bravery.

          The setting of this story is a world where 98% of the human population is infected with the flare. This disease was caused by solar flares. This makes a huge impact on the theme development throughout the story because every decision a character makes could potentially affect the whole population. For instance, every subject that WICKED has tested hates WICKED and disagrees with their ways. So, therefore they do not comply in finding a cure for the human population. 

          The plot events that have happened throughout the story are very important. In the falling action of the story the main character is left with a huge decision to go and comply with WICKED, but take the risk of actually complying with them before "The Right Arm" can sabotage WICKED. This decision affected him a lot because he was actually showing and telling how he was scared for the first time in the "Maze Runner Series." This is how I think the theme is developed throughout the book.