Synthesis of Course Material 4

Maybe this might be the last one. O well depends how I feel at the end, in the meantime, once again, enjoy!

Alright, we've covered a lot of ground but now we need to speed up here a little. So let's just dive into the material shall we?
- ok.........

Tell me about Ceremony.
- It was confusing.

And........
- *sigh* I guess I might as well get this over with.

Why you ungrateful simpleton! I'm the one who has to help you study when I could be playing golf outside.
- it's snowing........

Goto, Goto! Come on let's do this.
- Why are you talking in Shakespearean language in the first place?

Why not? It's AP lit and use to it by now you should be eh?
- ................................now you turn into Yoda.............................

Alright fine, I'll stop. And the term for that was actually a.........
- Chiasmus.

Good. Now continue.
- Ok, Ceremony sorta synthesized, hey, there's a coincidence, we're synthesizing too, the old traditions of the Native American culture with present day culture. It shows the old belief that time is circular and it emphasizes the importance of storytelling to preserve a sense of identity. There's really nothing more to it than some dude named Tayo finding himself through a ceremony he conducts himself. He just receives help from many charcters along the way such as Betonie and Ts'eh.

Ok good, this is such a controversial book with many different opinions, I won't even bother asking yours.
- Thanks for ignoring me then..........

What about Pride and Prejudice?
- Well, Jane Austen sucks at writing proposal scenes, I can tell you that. Probably because she has never accepted one. The piece is a satire of society in Jane Austen's time but is still quite serious. Mrs. Bennet just annoyed me so much at times but who can say that a mother's worries aren't the most important in the world?

Quite right......
- The two main couples were interestingly similar but yet so different. Jane and Bingley are both beautiful, cheerful, optimistic, yet they are weak-willed because their friends and family members can influence them so easily. On the otherhand Darcy and Lizzy are both stubborn, with strong opinions which leads to strong wills. The book basically shows how important marriage was for girls at that time.

True again. You really want to get this over with don't you?
- Truthfully................................. yeah.

Ok, I'll just ask you only last thing to do. Tell me about Hamlet.
- Tell you about Hamlet! Well I could go rambling on for hours with that play. Well, not really but I could see that Shakespeare just loves to put parallelism in situations and speeches and again, the idea that God is controlling our fate comes up, not our freewill. The play starts out with the rather bizarre appearance of the Ghost and Marcellus's line, "something is rotten in the state of Denmark" foreshadows the play to be a tragedy. Hamlet rambles on about the purpose of life, his favorite subject to talk about, boy he could talk to a insect and make it believe him. But look sharp! He is very good with his word choice with a lot of double meanings and masks. Hamlet loses faith in women and female sexuality when Ophelia dumps him and his mother marries his uncle. And he goes crazy, which is understandable because he gets dumped by a girl he loves, a feeling I know very well I might add, btw do you know what it feels like to be dumped?

No............
- Well you need a social life then. Anyway my questions is how crazy is he? We've seen a couple versions of Hamlet played as a movie and all had different interpretations. It's interesting how much Shakespeare just leaves stuff for different interpretations. Also many of his questions are never truly answered which supports that he doesn't really know what he is talking about but then again, he might just be trying to fool Polonius, who he kills by the way, and.........

Ok, I'll stop you right there before you go rambling on.
- But....... but........

You're starting to act like Hamlet himself.
- am I?

Yes, well you did enough for today. Hopefully we learn more so we can do well on the AP exam right?
- O definitely, we still have much to learn.

I say, since when were you so....... studious?
- I always was, I just pulled a Hamlet around you.

say.......... WHAT?
- I'm actually the best student not only in our class but in all the AP lit classes.

No........... way......... this......... is........ possible...........
- Well it is so suck it up. Well my friend, I have enjoyed our study sessions. I hope you learned as much as I did which now I think about it, I already knew everything. But anyhow it was fun. I hope we can do this before the AP exam again and until then, I will say.............................




















































 Adieu, Good Night my friend, sweet dreams.