Modernist Author Project

Ernest Hemingway: http://m.facebook.com/?_rdr#!/erneast.hemingway?__user=100005533359957

Tennessee Williams: http://m.facebook.com/home.php?refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ferneast.hemingway&refid=8&_rdr#!/thomaslanier.williams.9?__user=100005509479752

MAPLAN

I'm still not sure how i'm going to hack the project but i am definitely going to try something different, something unique, unexpected, im not sure what it is but i guess thats whats going to make it unexpected. I 've been researching my modernist authors alot so i got that part down now i just need to get them all together and get my project together. Im sorry this is late i honestly forgotten last night. I was literally researching about my authors last night.

Writing Modern

My writing now sucks because i guess o wasn't properly taught with all the school hopping through my elementary days. If it was five years ago i probably would have learned the proper way to write an essay.

Map(1): Introducing Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and Tennessee Williams

Langston Hughes:

1. Hughes was raised primarily by his grandmother. She told him important stories of the African-American oral tradition that would influence his work.
2. Hughes’ father wanted him to become an engineer, so Hughes attended Columbia for a time. He left because of racial intolerance and because he wanted to spend more time writing in Harlem.
3. He graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1929. Among his classmates was future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
4. For a number of years, Hughes was attracted to some of the political philosophies of the Communist Party. Though accused of being a member, he never actually joined
5. Hughes died of prostate cancer in 1967 at the age of 65. His ashes are buried in Harlem under a special medallion in the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Ernest Hemingway:

1.  Hemingway met J.D. Salinger during World War II. Salinger was fighting with the 12th Infantry Regiment
2. Hemingway’s memoir A Moveable Feast, about his life in Paris in the 1920s, was not published until 1964.
3.  Hemingway only wrote one play called The Fifth Column and it is set during the Spanish Civil War
4. Hemingway was awarded a Bronze Star for his bravery under-fire in World War II when he was a war correspondent.
5. Hemingway left trunks of material in the Paris Ritz in 1928 and did not recover them until 1957
6. Hemingway’s sister and brother, and also his father committed suicide as well.
7. The FBI maintained an open file on Hemingway from World War II onwards.

Ezra Pound:

1. Pound was a great admirer of William Butler Yeats, believing him to be the greatest living poet at the time. They even lived together for a short time during World War I, and Pound briefly served as Yeats’ secretary
2. Pound was married to Dorothy Shakespear, who was the daughter of Olivia Shakespear, a former lover of W. B. Yeats. A few years after marrying Shakespear, Pound began a romantic relationship with violinist Olga Rudge. The three carried on a romantic relationship until Pound’s death nearly fifty years later
3. Pound was also a noted translator of Asian literature. He revived many Confucian works and brought Japanese poetry and drama into the forefront in America and Europe
4. Music became a large part of Pound’s life in the 1920s. He is mainly responsible for bringing Vivaldi’s music back into popularity
5. Pound was friends with Ernest Hemingway, who tried to teach Pound to box. Hemingway said of the experience, “I was never able to teach him to throw a left hook.”

Tennessee Williams:

1. Williams’ mentally ill sister, Rose, was lobotomized and provided the inspiration for tragic characters in Suddenly, Last Summer and The Glass Menagerie. His domineering, unstable mother was the basis for Amanda Wingfield inMenagerie and Blanche DuBois in Streetcar
2. His real name is Thomas Lanier Williams. His friends gave him the nickname “Tennessee” because of his thick Southern drawl
3. Williams caused controversy with his screenplay for Baby Doll, a Lolita-esque drama about a middle-aged man’s obsession with a teenage girl.
4. One of his most famous plays, A Streetcar Named Desirewas originally titled The Poker Night
5. Williams succumbed to the addictions he so often portrayed in his plays. Alcohol and prescription drugs contributed to his death by choking in 1983.

Spring Vocab #6

Chronic- constant; habitual; inveterate
Sentiment- an attitude toward something; regard; opinion
Morality- conformity to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct
Remorse- deep and painful regret for wrong doing; compunction
Defect- a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection
Acquaintance- a person known to one, but usually not a close friend
Sanity-  the state of being sane soundness of mind
Implication- something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood
Alternative- a choice limited to one of two or more possibilities as of things; propositions
Savage- fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed
Phenomenon- a fact, occurrence, or circumstances observed or observable

My Modernist

I decided I'm going to research four modernist writers. I decided to do you that because researching one isn't enough for me. I'm researching Langston Hughes and Ernest Hemingway because I always hear about them and I don't know who they really are. And I'm also researching Ezra Pound and Tennessee Williams because I never heard of them and they have very interesting names. I'm actually glad that we're researching modernist writers and how their Novel, saying, poems, ext. In English class, we never really get to know the author of the books we read.

"The first seven years" response

I thought it was weird that when Feld was meddling into his daughters love life, is that it seemed like he was arranging a husband for her. I knew the moment Sobel walked out of the shoe shop that he was mad at Feld for asking Max to ask Miriam out on a date. I thought it was insensitive of Feld that he didn't try to understand Sobel and why he liked to read. He just assumed Sobel was queer(weird). This story relates back to "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, because Feld  didn't understand the point in reading if you didn't have a college degree. Sobels dedication to Miriam, reminds me of a book I read for literature analysis, "Shadow land" by Allison Noel. In the book, the character Damen, waits til Ever, to grow up to  become a teenager before he introduces  himself because he's immortal and in love with her. So when I read the part that Sobel's only reason for working at the shoe store was because he was waiting til Miriam became a woman. I liked the story, it wasn't as boring as I thought it would be. A good moral that came out of this story would be is don't judge a book by its cover. And this moral can go both ways in the story, sentimental and literally.

And then there was light!!!

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while I'm really behind and I'm trying my best to catch up so all I can ask is for your patience and I promise I'll get back on track in no time!