Week 10

I am thinking of possibly doing Horatio Alger, Jr as my author for realism. The young salesmen is one of the books by him i am interested in reading. I also find his life interesting and that he went to Harvard at age 16. It also says that he became rich from his books and would give his money to homless boys. I think that he is a good role model and according to websites his books use to be a big hit back int he day so i think he would be a good author for me to read.

Honors 11 summer work

My favorite period, ism that I enjoyed the most was realism followed closely by romanticism. I read Kate Chopin's short story The Kiss. This was very different from all the other things I read because it was very easy to follow along with and no exactly what she was trying to prove and show. She used a lot of symbolism and certain settings for different things in the story that was going to happen. For example every time there was going to possibly be a kiss she described the settings in a dark place or room. The short story ending was very goo because she finally couldn't get her sneaky kisses anymore and it also came out and told you a life lesson. It made me happy when it pretty much said you can't always have everything you want because that is so true. Also with realism it shows a lot about life and the ways people live during that time. It seems then kissing guys secretly a lot and marrying people for money and not out of love would be common. Even today that still happens which makes the connection to realism even better. Today there are so many divorces and a reason that may be is because of cheating or marrying for the wrong reasons. I really liked that it has connections to the world today, which made the story even better to read.

I also really liked romanticism because I found the poem Annabel Lee really cute and romantic. Edgar Allan Poe usually writes deep and darker pieces so this poem surprised me because this poem was about death but it showed that his love would always be strong with Annabel lee. He loved using her name over and over I think this shows that she was very important and he doesn't want you to forget her name .