LIT 11 UNIT TWO

A theme is the point you get across or what a writer is trying to get you to know when reading a short story, poem, a book etc. There can be mutiple themes to a story so im sure i would come across one! Yeah i would take it out of the story maybe some lines that were in there to support my theme.

RIP VAN WINKLE
In his story he uses alot of example os romanticism. Romanticicm is the school of thought that emphasizes intuition over logic, and feeling over reason. one example that he uses is nature. He said in the story "The Kaatsberg, or Catskill Mountains, have always been a region full of fable. The Indians considered them the abode of spirits, who influenced the weather, spreading sunshine or clouds over the landscape, and sending good or bad hunting seasons." This was the example as far as nature he was talking about the mountains and describing its beauty and it could take you away from a bad situatuion and turn it in to something good.

Another example of romanticism that he used in the story was imagination. One day Rip Van Winkle had seen a little elf and although he was unsure about the elf him and the elf went up a gulley and seen new things that they werent aware of before. While also describing the sights of nature they had seen as well. my evidence on this example: "He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.
keg, that seemed full of liquor, and made signs for Rip to approach and
assist him with the load. Though rather shy and distrustful of this new
acquaintance, Rip complied with his usual alacrity; and mutually relieving
one another, they clambered up a narrow gully, apparently the dry bed of a
mountain torrent." He used imagination because in reality there wouldn't be a such thing as an elf.

Thanotopsis by William Cullen Bryant
My examples of Romanticism from the poem:
1. He used imagination in his poem when he was saying that the nature was talking to the people who were afraid if dying. In reality nature doesn't really talk to you, but in the story it did which made it more intersting to read and listen to.

2. He also used examples of Nature when he was talking about death and if you were scard of dying that mother nature itself had the voice to help you.

3. He also had the example of common poeple as well he spoke aboput the speechless babe, and the gray-headed man and how they will come together and others should follow. It was saying that as far as the common and ordinary people are going to die the same as a king or a queen would they are not going to die in a special that an ordinary person wouldn't, they are going to die the same.

The Georgia standards:
I have achived the first standard by supporting my anwers with evidence in a poem or story. the 2nd assighment and the 3rd kind of is my evidence that helped me achieved this standard because we had to take things out of that story and poem as evidence for our examples which gave me an understanding of it. I achived the 2nd standard by reading poems and coming up with a theme to make me understand what the poem was trying to say whether i know every word they used in the poem or not. i have also reached the third standard because i do use alot of things that i read and relate them to other things in history or another story, and you can get a better understanding of what your reading.

Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
What stuck out to me in the story was basically that Nature is a key to everything. It talked to you and it was your source if you ever needed anything. Basically, you are nothing ithout nature it makes you the person you are. You should love and appreciate Nature. My evidence from this story was "I am a lover of uncontained and immoral beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages."

This story is a good example of the Transcendentalists because in the story they used Nature as the key to everything that it was more dearing than any other thing in the streets or villages. The Transcendentalists believed that if a person was in touch with their surroundings and nature that they could communicate with God buy their work and that people were pure and not necessarily born a sinner like the original sinner concept made out to belive.

Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The understanding that you get from this story is that you rely on yourself that you don't use other people to get you through life and the obstacles in it. Any of your mistakes are your own you can't blame another person. My evidence from the story is this quote "With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall."

This story is an example of the Transcendentalists because they relied on thereselves thEy didnt belive in the concept of the orignal sinner that adam and eve started with their first sin they believed that everybody was pure and good and talk to god through their work and thats how God had thoughten about us was through our work so that is where the self reliance comes into place.

WILDERNESS VIDEO
The man in the video WILDERNESS belived he was meant to bi in the wilderness not just to fream it, but to actually do it. He felt that he had to test himself and find out what he was capable of in thw wilderness. So he stayed their for over 30 years surviving and exploring through the wilderness because he felt he was suppose to which shows that he listened to his mind as the transcendalists belive is the mist powerful thing in the world.