DISHONESTY IN THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST.

        A large theme in the play The Importance of Being Earnest is the dishonesty. Almost every character in the play probably lies one time or another. Whether it's lying about your whole name, or just a little white lie about why there aren't any cucumber sandwiches. It's difficult not to lie, we all do it. The characters seem to have a lot of trouble with not lying though. The dishonesty of the characters add a good amount of humor in the book. An example being that when one character dislikes another, the act overly nice to them that it's to the point where they're over the top. It gets to be funny in the actions that they make. Being satirical about social classes also incorporates into the idea of being dishonest at times. Such as when Lady Bracknell doesn't like or find Cecily attractive until she finds out that Cecily has 130,000 dollars in her funds. After Lady Bracknell hears about this, she starts being extra nice to Cecily as if she is just going to give it all away to her. John Worthing is dishonest about his name/brother throughout the entire play. He lies about his bunburying deeds and makes up a character named Ernest. You'd think that if there was a character named Ernest then they'd be earnest themselves. However, Jack lying about Ernest isn't being earnest at all. Many characters in the book make up other people that they pretend to be or they just lie about their identity. They do this just for their own pursuit of pleasure.
        During the time period that Oscar Wilde wrote this play, people acted way different then they do today. He is making fun of the upper class and how ridiculous they had been about their everyday issues. One being all the lying they did. They even lied about their age! Another issue being that women and men acted so differently. When getting married, they sometimes weren't even allowed to choose their partner. Men got married to one women, but yet he went out with another women to fulfill his pleasuring needs. When Gwendolen and Cecily found out that both their Ernests' weren't really who they said they were, they forgave Jack and Algernon a little to easily. Oscar Wilde seemed to be stereotyping each of the genders.

ANIMAL FARM PROJECT EVALUATION.

1. Name: Kady
Type: Movie
Comments: This was very well made, you can see that it took a lot of time to make. It showed that she understood the story and that showing the cruelty of animals and then having them befriend the humans.

2. Name: Maddie
Type: Picture
Comments: Maddie showed what the animals were feeling all throughout the book. She used arrows to show how the storyline went. It's easy to tell what's happening because they start off sad, then get happy because they're equal, then sad again because they're being ruled over.. again. Great understanding!

3. Name: Meghann
Type: Picture
Comments: Her picture was very creative and well thought about. It looks nice because she used actual pictures instead of drawing them. The elements were all shown well, but the words were a little hard to read because it was so small.

4. Name: Jake
Type: Picture
Comments: He showed how Napolean was the ruler and that Snowball was innocent. Also showed that Napolean had his guards and that they were a big part in the Revolution also.

5. Name: Nic
Type: Picture
Comments: Nic's project was nice and simple, but he added the writing to explain his thoughts. It symbolizes all the different parts of the pigs wanting to be human.

6. Name: Aaron
Type: Picture
Comments: You can tell he took time planning out the cycle in this. He used the literary elements and showed which characters are parallels to those in the Russian Revolution. He showed all the different animals instead of just the main ones talked about.

7. Name: Kyra and Amaya
Type: Video
Comments: I like how they used puppets. It was something I hadn't seen yet. I enjoy how they showed the commandments and how the pigs disobeyed them and changed them throughout the book.

8. Name: Daryl
Type: Picture
Comments: Very creative, and used sort of an advertising thing instead of just drawing out the plot. He showed the different parallels and he also showed the irony of the different animals.

9. Name: Olivia
Type: Picture
Comments: Nice, and shows how the pigs start acting exactly like humans. Shows the irony but not really much else.

10. Name: Emma
Type: Picture
Comments: I like how she had the truth smudged out because there were some many lies that Napolean was telling. It also shows the parallels to the Russian Revolution.

After looking at my classmates projects, I really don't think my project met the standards. I did something simple and easy and should've thought of something else to show in the picture to show more of the literary elements instead.

EXTRA CREDIT - NEW YEARS RESOLUTION.

        So, for 2011 I'm going to start taking control of my life. The first thing is that I made a list of resolutions/50 things to do before the end of 2011. I'm not finished yet, but I'm not going to start any of it until February. The main thing that I'm doing is making a big list of all these different books that I want to read this year. Last year, I wasn't that big of a reader. This year, I'm going to expand my books and try to read at least fifty! I think it's good to read a lot because you expand your knowledge on all different types of subjects and it never hurts to take in good literature.

ANIMAL FARM CREATIVE PROJECT.

        So, for my Animal Farm project I created an image of the how during the beginning of the book the farmer is the leader/ruler over everyone and all the animals. But as the book progresses the pigs take over the farm and are starting to run it just as the humans did. They act so human like that all the other farm animals can't tell the difference between the pigs and the humans.