Antonin English Blog

 Prompt Response: The seven objects that I did for my Multi-Literature Final was a pair of jeans (represented a type of freedom and independence of not following social norms), an old shirt I had for about a year (presented her development of being independent and being able to earn her own money out of making clothes), aluminum foil (represented her reflection of herself acting as a mirror), A purple flower (represented Joy, beauty, and spiritual awakening), A paper (represented Celie's letter's that she wrote on, showing her voice and how she felt internally, a bible (represented Celie's religious path or spiritual path to God throughout the book), and my final object, a key! The key represented her finding herself at the end of the book and being content with herself, a happy ending. 

 Prompt Response: The thing that I enjoyed most about this class was that it made learning in a way that I was able to understand quickly and adapt, but that's not all as we try to figure out the deeper meanings behind what we read using our critical thinking which is not what you normally do as a high school student. The project that I found most engaging was around at the start of the semester when we had to make a cultural poem about ourselves and make it good, I found it fun to do it because I like to sometimes make poems in my head because they sound nice or just read them to truly understand them. Finally, something that I need to improve in or need additional support is actually in analyzing poetry or writing because I am sometimes bad at that even when I'm using all my thinking expenses and only being able to understand what is happening and not the meaning behind it.  Summary: Today in class I continued working on my final project for this class, as well as study for ...

 Prompt Response: One tradition that is important to my family is to have presents under the tree. Personally to me it doesn't matter to me that much now because I have grown up and learned that Santa wasn't real however there's a faint belief in the spirit of Christmas that I still enjoy with my family that makes up of memorable moments.  Summary: Today in class I watched another few of my classmates present in class about The Color Purple, Letter's 86-90. After that we continued watching The Color Purple movie and comparing it to the novel and debating which one was better.  Reflection: Today I learned from the movie that Sophia and Celie's scene of laughing together in the novel after arguing with each other wasn't there. This impacted me by making me feel a bit down of not seeing it there in the film because I felt that scene was very important to the story and adds deeper resonance with the characters. In the future I will use this information to talk about...

 Prompt Response: As I grow older, the holidays for me have changed a lot from the once naive kid who believed in false fantasy's to now where as I'm starting to realize that you often contemplate you're life when you're by yourself or quite literally having nothing to do. To me emotionally speaking, right now it's just stale and empty compared to back then where I felt it was so full of life.  Summary: Today in class I presented along with my group in front of the class, as well as watching The Color Purple film along with our peers and teacher.  Reflection: Today I learned that in the movie they portray the start of the movie in a different light leaving a questionable feel of what I read from the book. This impacted me by making me feel this strangeness at what I witnessed, since if we compare the novel to the movie then at the beginning of the movie it leaves us with some questions even though throughout the movie it was quite similar of leaving even more questi...

 Prompt Responses: A time that I had forgiven someone, or been forgiven in a way it changed me was when my mother has forgiven me numerous times. As it impacted me and changed me into becoming a more forgiving person, however even though she has forgiven me I still hold past grudges as she does the same. The novel's ending shapes my understanding of forgiveness across different cultures or families by showing that across those different cultures and families by showing that weakness can be turned into strength and throughout the story seeing the many flaws of the people around Celie, that in the end that everything turned out well.  Summary: Today in class I will have to take a guess that we finished the last 5 letters of the Color Purple.  Reflection: Today I learned that even though Celie had many flaws in the past throughout her life she grew and mended those flaws into her own strengths and resilience till the very end. This impacted me by making me feel emotional for...

 Prompt Response: If I am being honest, I have no idea on a "specific" song that would bring me a certain memory back to me. Regardless I feel like I should say that it is broad such as a genre of music, this genre of music brings me into an emotional state of being heard and really impacts me. Those are my two qualifications of what I call a good song, if I can vibe with it on an emotional level, and if I can understand what the song is trying to say. Now enough babbling on about that and say what genre of music brings me back a certain memory...whenever I listen to "Insomnia" made by Eve  (Japanese singer), it really connects to me not because I can relate to the character but due to the fact that when you grow up to be an adult it is relatable and as she/he continues to make the most amazing songs.  Summary: I was not here in class, however I believe we started working on our final's or the assignment for it.  Reflection: Today I learned from reading Reverend...

 Prompt Response: The best gift that I have received has got to be money, I mean let's be honest here. All around us, some might say that they don't need money since money can't buy happiness. But even if that's the case I believe it does move us in some sort of way giving us the leniency towards our sense of purpose or to what we desire as it might not solve everything, but it most certainly solves most things.  Summary: Today in class we read over letter's 76-81 of the Color Purple and translated two paragraphs, a portion of Celie's and Nettie's letters regarding dialect.  Reflection: Today I learned about Nettie's continuation of living in Africa and raising the kids. This impacted me by making me feel a bit bored of the story, the reason being is while I understand that it is necessary to put this into the book to understand Celie's emotion's towards Nettie's letter to truly be in Celie's pov and understand her, I'm not much of a ...

 Prompt Response: A moment in my life where I had something I believed in and was different from what I imagined was when I believed in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy, it was until one eventful night of waking up that I found out and connected the dots together that it was really my mom that got me the present! This realization made me shape my identity/worldview by making me more susceptible to things and made me question the truth.  Summary: Today in class we read over letters 66-70 of The Color Purple, and started on a found poem that involves using quotes from what we read and turning it into a poem which has to consist of 10 long lines. Reflection: Today I learned that Celie has started gaining a deeper understanding of herself and the awareness of the people around her as she starts to delve into her own truth of things even if she is wrong she is affirmed into what she believes. This impacted me by making me feel respect for Celie as she is growing and maturing as her ...

 Prompt Response:  When I found Nettie’s letters , it was like everything I’d believed about myself and Mister came crashing down. I’d spent years feeling forgotten, small, and trapped under his control, thinking I was invisible. But these letters told me something different: Nettie had never forgotten me. She had been writing all this time, loving me from afar , believing in me. I felt a mix of anger and relief—angry that Mister had hidden them, but relieved to know the truth. I wasn’t nothing, and I wasn’t alone. The letters made me realize I had the power to change my life . I could finally see my worth, and that was the moment I knew I had to stop living for Mister and start living for myself. Summary: Today in class we read over letter's 61-65 in The Color Purple Reflection:  Finding Nettie’s letters taught me that I wasn’t as powerless as I thought. For so long, Mister had controlled my life, making me feel invisible and worthless, but reading those letters remind...

 Prompt Response: A relationship in my life that changed over time and I grew more aware was when I was much younger about three years ago that our friendship had started albeit we were only online and never met during those three years since it was purely based off of just playing video games together. Anyways the dynamic at the beginning was playful and teasing not much to it since I was naive and young so I often could not take sarcasm or jokes but as I grew older and more aware the dynamic now was hesitation and spiteful of this friend since now even though he is long term friend of mine, he is a bad influence and I am starting to dislike his character overall.  Summary: Today in class we discussed over the discussion questions about letters 46-50 that we answered yesterday and then started reading letter's 51-60.  Reflection: Today I learned that while Nettie's life seemed much better than Celie's, she herself also had to overcome her own challenges in her own relati...

 Prompt Response: Something meaningful to me that I experienced over the break is the loss of my pet dog, he got run over by a car. But to be fair my dog was pretty stupid, still it was such a devastating loss of my dog of 2 years! Something I'm thankful for over the break is the roof over my head and family since it's the only things I have that come on the top of my head.  Summary: Today in class we read letters 46-51 over the novel (The Color Purple) and answered discussion questions.  Reflection: Today I learned about Albert's development of becoming a slightly better person from his original image viewed by Celie. This impacted me by making me feel curious about whether Celie will have the courage to break off from Albert in future chapters despite her age. In the future I will use this to help me on the finals that is in the few weeks we have.