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Chapter 21 Marked for Greatness 1. Mary media type="custom" key="5614177" width="200" height="200"

2. Brian Bilbo Baggins is by no means a heroic-looking figure; being a hobbit, he is short and weak. His physical weakness creates irony once he becomes a heroic adventurer--his shortness is his distinguishing mark, and, ironically, serves as his mark for greatness.

Tom Robinson's distinguishing feature is his destroyed hand. This separates him from the others and becomes a symbol of his goodness, something that most of the other members of his society lack.

The Hobbit. Digital image. //GoreMaster News//. Wordpress, 17 July 2009. Web. 14 Mar. 2010. . To Kill a Mockingbird Trial. Digital image. //The Maycomb County Times//. Web. 14 Mar. 2010. .

3. Kristen

In the Saw movie series, this man, (^) "Jigsaw" puts people into traps that in a cruel way teach them life lessons that they do not understand. If the person does not make it out of the trap it kills them. When the peopl are dead the man cuts a puzzle piece shape out of their skin. Each of the people who survive the trap are branded with that scar and memory that represent a change in their lives which they will never take for granted again. Harry Potter's Scar is a representation of, in general, his life. Its a constant reminder of what happened and how he received it and how Voldemort is his enemy. It also shows the love that his mother held for him and the strength he has himself. His scar is representation of many different things throughout the novel. such as marking him as a hero. Forrest Gump was born with a medical condition of his legs (polio?). His is forced to wear leg braces that burden him with every move he makes. he wears them for the majority of his life until he has to out run some bullies. The physical ailment represented his unknowingness of himself and his shyness, but when he runs out of the braces he breaks free of his shelter and becomes his own person. "Saw V." //Gradly//. Web. 10 Mar 2010. . "Harry Potter." //READ Magazine Blog//. Web. 10 Mar 2010.  "Forrest Gump." //Tech Support Guy//. Web. 10 Mar 2010. .

Chapter 22 He's Blind for a Reason, You Know 1.Brian 2. Mary



In //Lord of the Flies//, many scenes take place at night or in darkness. The boys are searching for a mysterious "beast" that seems to prowl their island at night, sparking terror and unease throughout the camp: "...the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist’s chair unreality." The darkness "blinds" they boys to the ridiculousness of their fantasies, and also hides their true natures. The dark hides the enmity between Jack and Ralph, and also adds to their fear of the beast. While the boys are shrouded in darkness while searching for the beast, they become blind to the truth, and eventually end up killing each other.



In //Atonement//, Briony witnesses a curious scene between her sister, Cecilia, and her friend Robbie. A treasured vase is broken, and Briony watches at a distance as her sister undresses before Robbie and dives into a fountain to retrieve the vase. Briony's distance serves as a "blinder" to the truth. From her vantage point, Briony can only see the actions themselves, and doesn't see the context in which they are acted out. Briony's distance and misconception blind her to the budding relationship between Robbie and Cecelia, ultimately leading to the two lovers' separation.

Unknown. //Lord of the Flies//. N.d. Movie Photos, Los Angeles. //Current Film//. Web. 15 Mar. 2010. Unknown. //Cecilia and Robbie//. N.d. Atonement Stills, London. //SBS Film//. Web. 15 Mar. 2010.

3. Jess Although Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody is not actually blind, he has a false left eye due to the loss of his own eye. His eye give him the ability to see things that are not visible to the naked eye. The loss of his eye shows that he has lost parts of himself to his demanding and dangerous career as an auror.The real eye and the false eye on his face reflect from the fourth novel,//Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire// the existence of the real Professor Moody and the impostor who is actually a Death Eater, Barty Crouch Jr.. His sight abilities given to him by his false eye make him wise and dangerous.

The movie //Minority Report// takes place in a futuristic society in which the government uses eye scanners to tell the identity of citizens. When Chief John Anderton is accused of murder (modern technology can determine murderers and their victims prior to the actual act) he runs away from society and tries to prove the criminal justice system wrong. When he is almost tracked down a few times because of eye scanners, he undergoes an underground surgery in which his eyes are removed and replaced with a different set. The period of time in which he is blindfolded to heal from the surgery, he is completely blinded and helpless. In this period he is also lost mentally, trying to figure out if he is doing the right thing and completely at the mercy of those who are looking for him. It also represents that he is blinded by his drive to prove the system wrong, and will go to any ends to succeed.

"Harry Potter" Web. March 15 2010. "Minority Report" Web. March 14, 2010. 

Chapter 23 It's Never Just Heart Disease. . . 1. Caitlin media type="custom" key="5685545" 2. Jess 3. Brian In //Iron Man//, Tony Stark has shards of metal slowly making their way into his heart, only stopped by an electromagnet in his chest. The slow death he is experiencing is representative of the decaying force of his initial lack of love and compassion for the people around him--he is focused solely on himself and his own achievements and it is becoming his downfall. He is saved when he gets the magnet put in him, essentially a "new heart." This becomes a symbol for his decision to help other people instead of himself.

In //Big Fish//, secondary character Don Price dies of a heart attack after his fiancee falls in love with the protagonist. This heart attack is representative of his lost and broken love and its immense "attack" on his life.

Iron Man. Digital image. //Rohitmitra5752's Profile//. Game Spot, Oct. 2009. Web. 21 Mar. 2010. . Big Fish Movie Poster. Digital image. //Big Fish//. Wikipedia. Web. 22 Mar. 2010. .

Chapter 24. . . And Rarely Just Illness 1. Brian
 * “The Sisters” by James Joyce
 * Irony of a priest with no hope after his stroke
 * Paralysis as a symbol of being stuck by church, state, and convention of Dublin
 * Expressed throughout the other stories in //Dubliners//
 * The ideas of this one symbolic disease echoes throughout Joyce’s entire career
 * Disease Itself
 * Used to be shrouded in mystery—where exactly did disease come from?
 * Even after they knew about bacteria, there was no way to stop it for a long time
 * Way to represent the frightening and unknown
 * Disease in Literature
 * Not all diseases are created equal
 * Some diseases, though less frequent in actuality, show up more in literature due to image and euphemism for other diseases (i.e. syphilis)
 * //A Doll’s House//- TB in the spine is a code for inherited STDs
 * It should be picturesque
 * Even suffering can produce a “bizarre beauty”
 * It should be mysterious in origin
 * How were diseases transmitted? Why is only my family getting this disease?
 * It should have strong symbolic or metaphorical possibilities
 * I.E. the symbol of tuberculosis wasting away a person
 * Tuberculosis is used incredibly often in literature as a symbol
 * Plague works as a symbol for large-scale degredation
 * Daisy Miller
 * “Roman Fever” a symbol for the lifestyle of Rome and her Roman lover becoming her end
 * //Justine// by Lawrence Durrell
 * TB shows the damage of life on Melissa and how men have “used her up”
 * //Mountolive// by Lawrence Durrell
 * Smallpox—divine judgment or the toll that life takes on all humans?
 * AIDS
 * Each generation has a defining disease
 * Consumption, smallpox, shell shock, AIDS
 * Lies dormant in a person and then strikes when they are unaware
 * Mysterious because we cannot defeat it
 * Fever
 * Made up diseases will work better for authors because they will do exactly what the author needs done

2. Mary

In //The Scarlet Letter//, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale contracts a mysterious illness that seems to eat away at his very being. This illness is symbolic of the guilt he feels, for he is the unidentified father of Hester Prynne's illegitimate child, Pearl. His external suffering is reflective of his internal suffering, Dimmesdale's resolve is crumbling along with his ailing body.

In Mary Shelley's //Frankenstein//, Dr. Victor Frankenstein's adopted sister, Elizabeth, contracts scarlet fever. Though she recovers, Elizabeth passes the disease on to Victor's mother, who dies from the illness. Caroline Frankenstein's sickness and subsequent death is symbolic of Victor's move from childhood to adulthood. Also, her illness is used to foreshadow the loss of loved ones later in the novel.

Unknown. //Scarlet Letter//. 2008. The Scarlet Letter, Unknown. //Make Waves at Your Library//. Web. 18 Mar. 2010. Unknown. //Frankenstein//. 2003. Frankenstein, Unknown. //One Book, One Community//. Web. 18 Mar. 2010.

3. Jess The movie //I Am Legend// is set in New York City after almost the entire population of the world has been wiped out by a disease created by accident from trying to cure cancer in America. The horrible disease not only kills the human species, but turns them into vicious, horrible monsters before they die. This disease represents western culture, and how the spread of "Americanization" and modern ways to replace traditional culture and tradition of other places is a bad thing and could ultimately lead to the demise of the human race.

Shelby's diabetes in //Steel Magnolias// brings out the friendship and strength that can be found even in a small southern town. The fight that Shelby puts up against the disease that ultimately kills her, demonstrates the fragility of human life and teaches the lesson that life should always be lived to the fullest because it is brief.



The broke, struggling people living in the rundown part of New York City are constantly fighting something in the play, //Rent//. Whether its the hate against homosexuality, corrupt law enforcement, lack of money, or hunger, the group of people have to stick together to fight their many problems. The strongest problem that they have is the disease of AIDS. a number of the characters are HIV positive, and their internal battle against the disease mirrors their external battles against the hardships that they face. The AIDS virus shows that the people are in a constant struggle against an unbeatable foe.

Unknown. //I Am Legend//. 2007.  Unknown. //Steel Magnolias//. 1989.  Unknown. //Rent.// 

Chapter 25 Don't Read with your Eyes 1. Kristen media type="custom" key="5747943" 2. Mary While reading //The Good Earth//, one must read with a different viewpoint and change his perception of wealth to understand the novel. To fully understand the theme that land and family are the most important things, one must forget his 21st century views and allow himself to be transported back in time, or else risk being hopelessly confused and only glean a surface knowledge of the novel.

While reading //Tess of the D'Urbervilles//, you have to shift aside any feminist views you have and accept the fact that Tess will be mistreated within the novel. To understand the social politics of //Tess//, one must forget any idea of gender equality and female power and allow the story to unfold on its own.

Unknown. //Tess Cover Art//. N.d. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Unknown. //Reading Comes From Writing//. Web. 28 Mar. 2010. Unknown. //The Good Earth Cover Art//. N.d. Images, Unknown. //Tenggren//. Web. 28 Mar. 2010. 3. Brian In //Forrest Gump//, Jenny becomes immersed in the hippie culture of the sixties, including drug use. This lifestyle seems like a bad decision, but it needs to be considered in the time period it takes place in. The events of the world at the time, such as Vietnam, almost demanded some form of relief. She would also need relief from her troubled childhood. Considering this, her lifestyle are almost understandable.

In //Slumdog Millionaire//, a man takes advantage of Indian children by blinding them and sending them to beg for money. This is obviously an evil thing to do, but his point-of-view must be considered. He is living in extreme poverty, and this may be the only way he can survive. It is wrong, yes, but his point-of-view can shed some light on his decisions.

This Is My Jenny. Digital image. Jeff Pearlman, 13 July 2009. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. . Slumdog Millionaire Poster. Digital image. //Martinique//. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. .

Chapter 26 Is he Serious And Other Ironies 1. Mary [|Spicy Node]

2. Morgan By just the title alone, //The Good Earth// is expected to be a book about how the earth will bring you happiness in life. That is not the case though. In Pearl S. Buck's novel, all the earth does is bring bad luck to Wang Lung and his family. There are times when they prosper from the land and it seems like their luck is beginning to change, but whenever the land brings them good fortune, something goes horribly wrong. At a time or prosperity, O-lan has a daughter (she has already had sons) and from then on everything goes wrong. Wang Lung gets another break down the road, but when he is on his deathbed, his sons decide to sell the land out from under them, the land that made them so well-off.

In //Frankenstein//, the monster created by Victor Frankenstein is thought of to serve some lesson and purpose about creation. While he does symbolize many themes in the book, the fact is that normally when you think of creation, you think of a valuable lesson being learned. That does not happen to Victor Frankenstein. In fact there is no epiphany moment at all; he simply runs away, his family dies, and he never kills the monster. For a book that can pinpoint lessons about morality, the fact that the monster wins, in a way, is ironic.

//Frankenstein//. Digital image. Web. 28 Mar. 2010. .//The Good Earth//. Digital image. Web. 28 Mar. 2010. .

3. Caitlin In literature, summer is typically a season that represents freedom and happiness. However, in Harry Potter's life, summer is a time of imprisonment, solitude, and negativeness. He must stay with his aunt and uncle, who basically won't let him out of the house because they do not trust him. What should be a time of joy and exploration becomes a time of misery in Harry's life. In other words: Summer is supposed to be happy happy joy joy and for Harry it's like crappy crappy my life sucks time.

The Twilight saga takes place in Forks, a place where it is almost always raining. Rain tends to symbolize rebirth, but in this case, it does not. Rain protects the vampires because without it, they would sparkle in the sunlight. This is ironic because the vampires, who are bringing harm to the town, are being protected by what should cause a rebirth.

"unknown." //potter_stepfamily.jpg//. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2010. <www.killermovies.com/images/harry_potter/empire_scans/potter_stepfamily.jpg>. "unknown." //twilight-tease-poster.jpg//. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2010. <urbanfantasyland.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/twilight-tease-poster.jpg>.