The Graveyard’s Mood

It’s the middle of the night and I’m walking through the crypts, as I keep walking I see
people looking at me, but not sure whom or what. I stopped for a minute just to look around
and realize what was going on. O notice voices around me like whispers talking to each
other’s ears and in a deep sound I gear an owl which is in a tree, the light of the moon it
touches the owls wings and it lights the path that I’m walking. My nose perceives the wet
leaves that fell from the trees after the rain of last night.

I feel the sights of every ghost and spirit of the graveyard even though no one cares about
my presence. My feelings are, intrigue and more restlessness than fear.
I keep looking around and I can see the stars though the branches of the trees, the cold wind
cooling down my hands and face.

I keep walking and as I walk I have the strong feeling that someone is looking at me, I look
back and there is man staring at me, waiting for my next movement. My first thought is if
what he was feeling and if my feelings were changeable because of him. I didn’t notice
more than he’s look over me. My unconscious betrays me, my skin starts to getting hot, my
ears and eyes become sensitive and my feet want to run away; keep calm, I thought. Finally
I crossed the graveyard with the only feeling of going to the street besides the light
flickering in the pavement. I’m holding breath looking at the graveyard.

The Pauper's Drive

Rattle his bones
Over the stones
It’s only a pauper
Who Nobody owns 
– Traditional Nursery Rhyme

The poem that Neil used in the Graveyard Book was written by Thomas Noel (1841) talks about a pauper who just died that is bumped around roughly in a broken hearse; Nail Gaiman used this epigraph to refer the book, "Nobody" is the baby's name and "owns" could refer to the Owens who adopted the child, the scene takes place in the graveyard, maybe in a tumb in which the "Rattle" of the bones could refer the baby playing with the bones "rattling" them, the bones  of the Owens or their parents that just died. Eventhough the original poem is about the pauper which is on the way to the graveyard it also talks about death. Them man dies without money, friends, or family, he’s still owned by God.

The poem argues that it is disrespectful to honor the dead based on how much money they had while they were living. In The Graveyard Book, "who Nobody own" seems to mean that Nobody Owens owns or claims the pauper. Since Nobody is a friend of the dead, (refering to their parents's death) this would be a good thing, it suggests that it's up to compassionate, 

Gaiman said in the book that in a graveyard the democracy it doesn’t exist eventhough death is a great democracy, like in the first chapter all the deaths argue and say their opinion as to “whether the living child should be allowed to stay”.

Death is the great democracy because it does not discriminate. It strikes the poor

as well as the rich, and everyone in the world must encounter it. When people are

dead, they can not leave the graveyard since their bones are buried there. They may

walk in the graveyard, but the potential to change is finished.

Sueña

El hombre que triunfa, comenzó por soñar.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard book is considered a children's novel eventhough Neil Gaiman wrote this novel with the thought that anybody could read it. I've read about Neil Gaiman and how he came with the idea to write this novel, it took him 23 years to publish his book, and he finish it only 10 days before being published. He came out with the idea in 1985 when he saw his son riding his bike around a graveyard, I expect to be a great book, filled with a mix of fantasy and human longing.

Neil Gaiman's style is very particular because since he writes about every literature genre he can write a story or a novel in this case with the panorama of not being only from one theme in specific, as the criticism from the most important newspaper after the release of the book. By knowing about the authors' style, the main idea of the book, the criticism of the newspapers and the academies, it makes me think that will be an inusual book

I’ve read the first words of the first chapter, the story begins with a child killing all his family, this is not a good start if its a children’s book but the New York Times classifies this  book “This book is a wonder…weaving a tale of unforgettable ­enchantment”
I’ve never benn atracted by the scince fiction or fantasy but from the comments and the beggining of this story i’m already into it.

What it really interests me is the style that the novel is written, a different short story every chapter telling the story about the kid that murdered his family. With Gaiman’s writing, The Graveyard Book is full of rich scenery, strong characterization, and mysteries that are sometimes not fully explained. Is not a fanastic novel talking about unicorns and princess, it’s a novel where drama is in every part of the novel.

Adv. English V

3. Reflection

A fairytale is a story full of adventures, fantasy and characters that expose the good versus evil, all of the fairytales are alike, they all are irreal and have drama were the good triumphs over evil, it has to have an introduction, drama and conclusion; To be considered true fairytale has to have some especial characters and a sense of adventure. In order to be considered true fairytale. Fairy tales are distinguish from narrative stories, all the fairy tales have a part of romance and a climax where good triumphs over the evil. 

English V

Andrés Ramírez

A00999825

08/10/13

Carmen Zamora

The Princess Bride

The movie “The princess Bride is based on the book written by William Goldman, this book combines several genres, comedy fantasy, romance, adventure etc. This story is best known as a fairytale, because it’s characters are from fantasy. Eventhough fairytales are more serious and with a little bit more fantastic or irreal; Is “The princess bride” a fairytale?

The story begins with a child that was sick on bed, with his grandfather about to tell this story that Fred didn’t want to hear. His grandfather, ignoring his bad attitude begins to read the book “The Princess Bride”.

“As you wish” , were the words that the farm boy said every time  the princess Butterycup demanded something, that how the true love began in this story, the words that will later become another meaning for the beautifull princess.

They both loved each other, Wesley went to America “to make his fortune across the sea”. The princess butterycup finds out that he have been murdered by the Pirate Roberts. It was then when the Prince Humperdink chooses the pirncess Buttercup as his wife eventhough she didn’t love him.

After a long time of sadness and desperation of not having his true love, Wesley. The princess is riding her horse through the forest and she met a short intelligent man, Vizzini, Iñigo, and a giant, Fezik. They kidnap her because Vizzini wanted to start a war with the nearby country by murdering her. The man in black were following them so Vizzini ask him to fight him since Iñigo was a great swordsman.

Eventhough they have respect for each other, they had to fight, the man in black wins but didn’t kill Iñigo. Then Vizzini sends Fezzik to kill him, while he ran away with the princess.. The man-in-black fought the giant with success.

Then the man in black went after the short intelligent man to rescue the beautifull princess with unknown purposes. Since the man in black seemed invencible, Vizzini challenges him to a intelligence duel were both can fight for the princess. The man in black killed the short man by poison him, the man in black told him to choose a glass without the one with poison, Vizzini switch cups with the thought that the man in black putt he poison in his cup and not in his but he died anyways because both cups had poison, the man in black had the inmunity to die with that posion.

The man-in-black took Buttercup in the chasing of prince Humperdinck, she tought that was the Pirate Robert, the man-in-black said that in fact he was he pirate and he have killed Wesley, the man-in-black ask why she became the bride of the prince if she really loved that man. “Oh my sweet Westley…What have I done?” said Buttercup, as she accidently throws her true love down the hill. Desperate she threw herself down the hill after him, This scene shows how the entire film is. It mirros the themes that the movie and the book have.

The prince Humperdink tortures Wesley to death, he wanted to despite her undying love for Wesley. His friends rescue him by taking him to a witch doctor to revive him. Eventough the doctor said, it will take a miracle, he revives. As the story goes it proves that tru love can conquer death. Wesley is a genuine hero, strong, brave, honourable.

Indigo Montoya, one of the friends that saved Wesley from death has one of the best scenes of the movie, “My name is Indigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die” is was he said to the six-finger man, who almost killed him, but the determination and the desire of revenge is what made him kill the six-finger man.

The Princess Bride, a tale of the love between the beautiful Buttercup and the besotted Westley shows a modern fairy tale, the good versus evil, true love, and adventures.