Les choristes, is a movie based in a teacher's life, Clément Mathieu.
The movie takes place in France, in 1949. The story is about a teacher who arrives to a school with difficult students. They are really mean to each other and to the teachers.
Clément Mathieu has to go through loads of problems with the principal of the school, who was really stubborn and awfully cruel with the children by physical and psychological abuse.
In the other hand, there was this teacher, a musician who did everything to win those kids. He inspired them to be good people by creating a chorus, something different in those kids’s reality.
I think that the chorus really helped the children, because it changed their way of seeing life. Besides, someone expected something from them, someone really cared about them. That makes them feel important and loved. This is really significant to children that don’t have parents.
I think the movie is really inspiring as future teachers, because it shows the patience that a real teacher should have with their students. We all know that Chile has loads of problems with education. There’s a huge economical segregation that defines the quality of education and the way of living. Poor children don’t have the same opportunities for a good education and just as it shows in this movie, they need good teachers who can encourage them to be better persons.
martes, 17 de abril de 2012
viernes, 6 de abril de 2012
Tell tale heart.
Edgar Allan Poe was born in the United States in 1809 and died in 1849. He was a poet, writer and an American journalist. Edgar Allan Poe lost his parents when he was very young and was adopted by another family in Virginia. He spent one year at the Virginia University and then he enlisted in the army where he spent two years. He got married with his cousin Virginia Clemm, but later she died from tuberculosis.
On October, 1849 he died from alcoholism, brain congestion, cholera and other agents.
He is well known for his poetry, horror and science fiction stories.
His career started with a poem book named The Tamerlane and Other Poems.
Timeline
1.- The narrator tells his not mad and says why.
2.- the narrator goes to the old man’s room and tries to kill him.
3.- the narrator goes to the old man’s room for the last time.
4.- the narrator kills the old man and cut him into pieces.
5.- the police arrives at the old man’s house because someone heard noises.
6.- the narrator listens to the old man’s heart, gets nervous and gives himself away.
Conflict
The narrator wants to kill an old man even that he likes him, but he fears the eye of the old man. He said that it was because the old man ‘had the eye of a bird’.
Climax
The narrator finally kills the old man after several tries and then he cut him to pieces. Then the police arrived.
Resolution
The narrator listens to the old man’s heart beating while he’s talking to the police, then he cannot stand it anymore and gives himself away.
On October, 1849 he died from alcoholism, brain congestion, cholera and other agents.
He is well known for his poetry, horror and science fiction stories.
His career started with a poem book named The Tamerlane and Other Poems.
Timeline
1.- The narrator tells his not mad and says why.
2.- the narrator goes to the old man’s room and tries to kill him.
3.- the narrator goes to the old man’s room for the last time.
4.- the narrator kills the old man and cut him into pieces.
5.- the police arrives at the old man’s house because someone heard noises.
6.- the narrator listens to the old man’s heart, gets nervous and gives himself away.
Conflict
The narrator wants to kill an old man even that he likes him, but he fears the eye of the old man. He said that it was because the old man ‘had the eye of a bird’.
Climax
The narrator finally kills the old man after several tries and then he cut him to pieces. Then the police arrived.
Resolution
The narrator listens to the old man’s heart beating while he’s talking to the police, then he cannot stand it anymore and gives himself away.
domingo, 1 de abril de 2012
Scarlet Ibis
When we read the scarlet ibis, I felt really overwhelmed because I can’t stand people being mean, and of course two brothers being mean to each other, is out of question. I know that the oldest brother was feeling disappointed because of the incapacity to walk of his younger brother, but that’s no reason to force him to walk like that. I think that the parents are guilty in some way. Why? Because they should’ve noticed about what was going on between the two brothers! I think parents never should give the responsibility of taking care to the younger brother, because if something happens to the kid, the other will be traumatized with the idea ‘I did it, it’s my fault’
In this case, when he took Doodle to Horsehead Landing, Doodle passed away because he was left behind because Doodle’s brother got mad. Of course he felt regret when he found him dead, but what else could’ve he done but cry and protect his scarlet ibis from the rain.
I believe this short story really got me, not because my brother wanted to kill me with a pillow when I was born, but because my relationship with my brothers is so close and we get along so well and I think one of the reason that we are so close, is because of my parents and the participation that they had when we were born and raised.
In this case, when he took Doodle to Horsehead Landing, Doodle passed away because he was left behind because Doodle’s brother got mad. Of course he felt regret when he found him dead, but what else could’ve he done but cry and protect his scarlet ibis from the rain.
I believe this short story really got me, not because my brother wanted to kill me with a pillow when I was born, but because my relationship with my brothers is so close and we get along so well and I think one of the reason that we are so close, is because of my parents and the participation that they had when we were born and raised.
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