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BOOKS Part 2

WUTHERING HEIGHTS -Mayra
I like the climax of this novel, because is dramatic is about Catherine´s death is the culmination of the conflic between herself and Heathcliff and removes any possibility that their conflict could be resolved positively and after this Heathcliff extends and deepens his drives toward revenge and cruelty.

Country: England
Genre: Dramatical Novel
Literary Movement: Victorian Period
Author is Emily Bronte, she was novelist and poet, wrote only this novel considered a classic of English Literaturem is about passion and hate.


LITTLE WOMEN- Mariam
Author is Louisa May Alcott, Pennsylvania. She had been publishing poems, short storiesm thrillers, and juvenile tales since 1851, under the pen name Flora Fairfield. This novel was written during the war.  And it belongs to the American Romanticism
Genre: Didactic, moral lesson
Characters: Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy

The book is about the family daily life of hte Marh sisters, beautiful Meg, tempestous Jo, lovely Beth and romantic Amy, who are growing up in a small town somewhere in America during the Civil War.

BOOKS Part 3

I AM MALALA- Evelyn

This book was written by Christina Lamb
Evelyn explained about the all minor characters, Dynamic character that was Malala Yousafzai
This text is narrated in third person.
This book is about the girl who stood up for education, it belongs to the modernism as literary movement because was inspired in the real life.
Genre: Popular notification book.




ROSE IN BLOOM- Vivian
This is novel written by Louisa May Alcott, the same author of Little Woman
Her first novel was Flore Farfield and she belongs to the transcendentalism
Rose Cambell is the protagonis in this story and the novel is about romance that because as well with issues with the relationships as regular romance and is written in third person.



TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Me :)
I really enojoy to share my book with my classmates!!!

TIMELINE

MOVEMENTS AND PERIODS OF ENGLISH

 

We should know the history of Eglish as teachers because we will teach in better way with an extend acknowledge about it.

BOOKS Part 1

Kimberly Monzon NARNIA



The genre is a novel
The conflict is when children knew a place called Narnia through the wardrobe. There is the conflict external.
The point of view was the third person
The climax is when Aslan was sacrificed to redeem Edmund. They hear a resounding when the stone table had broken and that means that Aslan had risen. The author was C.S. Lewis had many occupations as a medievalist, apologist, literary critic, novelist, academic, radio broadcaster and essayist.
The author belongs to the modernism

 Jeyson Linares PRIDE & PREJUDICE

Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist
The plot:
The Bennet´s are invited to the Bingley´s ball at Meryton and Elizabeth meets Mr Darcy
I like the Resolution that is about Wickham and Lydia realize how is to marry to money is horrible and Mr. Bingley and Jane purchase a home near Pemberley where Elizabeth and Darcy live and they are visited frequently by family and friends.
This one has an external conflict when Mr. Collins asks her to marry him.
This one has an internal conflict when Elizabeth has a hard time believing everyone when they warn her about Mr. Wickham being a liar and atrocious man.
The point of view is told in third person narrative.
The author is Jane Austen was a great novelist and she belongs to the romantic period.
And the Genre is the dramatic novel.

Alexandra Rustrian EMMA

This book is written for Jane Austen that we know that she belongs to the romantic period that was considered England´s best novelist.
and she transmits this novel to the third person and Emma is a person that is taking care fro the others about the true love but she does not take care of her own true love.
The conflict is that Emma has internal conflict when she does not accept her feelings and her desires, and for this reason, she affects others and the story goes on so that she can also see what it caused by herself.
This novel is narrated in the third person as the point of view and the narrator provides thinkings and feelings of the characters.

Patty de León AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS

This is a science fiction story that describes a travel that was made in 80 days and describes the places visited. This book is coming from France
The literary movement of the author belongs was in Realism and Romanticism because he was considered realistic.
The author is Jules Verne displayed imagination about the story but also he was realistic.
When this book was published, the travel was on everyone´s mind because in the space of a few years technology had suddenly shrunk the distance between countries: as Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, etc.

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

CHARACTERS- Protagonist

Mrs. Ramsay - Mr. Ramsay’s wife. A beautiful and loving woman, Mrs. Ramsay is a wonderful hostess who takes pride in making memorable experiences for the guests at the family’s summer home on the Isle of Skye.

Mr. Ramsay - Mrs. Ramsay’s husband, and a prominent metaphysical philosopher. Mr. Ramsay loves his family but often acts like something of a tyrant. He tends to be selfish and harsh due to his persistent personal and professional anxieties.

Lily Briscoe - A young, single painter who befriends the Ramsays on the Isle of Skye. Like Mr. Ramsay, Lily is plagued by fears that her work lacks worth. She begins a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay at the beginning of the novel but has trouble finishing it.

James Ramsay - The Ramsays’ youngest son. James loves his mother deeply and feels a murderous antipathy toward his father, with whom he must compete for Mrs. Ramsay’s love and affection.

CHARACTERS- Antagonist

Paul Rayley - A young friend of the Ramsays who visits them on the Isle of Skye

Minta Doyle - A flighty young woman who visits the Ramsays on the Isle of Skye

Charles Tansley - A young philosopher and pupil of Mr. Ramsay who stays with the Ramsays on the Isle of Skye.

William Bankes - A botanist and old friend of the Ramsays who stays on the Isle of Skye

Augustus Carmichael - An opium-using poet 

Andrew Ramsay - The oldest of the Ramsays’ sons who visits the Ramsays on the Isle of Skye

PLOT-Exposition
Both James Ramsay and Lily Briscoe are trying to find places for themselves within the society of the Ramsay family.

James is the baby of the Ramsay family and much-beloved by his mother, but he feels fiercely competitive with his father, who occupies a place in Mrs. Ramsay's life that James cannot hope to occupy.

Lily Briscoe, on the other hand, is a friend of the Ramsay family whose uncertain social place is due to the fact that she's thirty-four, unmarried, and not very conventionally attractive.



PLOT- Rising action
Both James and Lily rely on Mrs. Ramsay as a kind of alternative model of power to Mr. Ramsay's bullying tyranny. But Mrs. Ramsay throws them each a curveball by not really supporting either James's trip to the lighthouse or Lily Briscoe's painting.


PLOT- Climax
World war I strikes and the Ramsay family suffers a series of losses that change the shape of both the house on the Isle of Skye and of the family itself.

The second part of the novel experiments with the passage of time through focusing on the shifting, decaying form of the semi-abandoned house on the Isle of Skye, with limited interruptions for the deaths of Mrs. Ramsay, Prue Ramsay (she falls ill in childbirth), and Andrew Ramsay (he is killed in France by a mine during World wardI.



PLOT- Falling action
It's the beginning of Part Three, and ten years have passed. What are James and Lily going to do now that Mrs. Ramsay, who gave both of them a place in the Ramsay family, has died? What are they now going to work towards?


James is finally getting his expedition to the Lighthouse, but this time, it's on his father's terms and he's being forced to go with his sister Cam. As for Lily Briscoe, she still feels the oppressive force of Mr. Ramsay that interfered with her painting so many years ago. And she, like James, is picking up where she left off:

She must escape somewhere, be alone somewhere. Suddenly Lily remembered....There had been a problem about a foreground of a picture. Move the tree to the middle, she had said. She had never finished that picture. She would paint that picture now. It had been knocking about in her mind all these years... She had borne it in her mind all these years. It seemed as if the solution had come to her: she knew now what she wanted to do.

PLOT- Denoument
The denouement is the point in the plot when everything becomes clear. Both James Ramsay and Lily Briscoe do get their denouements by the end of To the Lighthouse. In Part Three, Chapter Twelve, Mr. Ramsay praises James Ramsay for his steering skills. At last, he acknowledges that James has talents in his own right, that he need not control every aspect of James's life.


PLOT-Conclusion
Both James and Lily have gotten what they've been wanting, so all that's left for the conclusion is that final "line there, in the centre" to emphasize Lily's recognition of her own freedom from the Lighthouse and all it represents.





DEVICES

Static: Mrs. Ramsay She is a dutiful and loving wife but often struggles with her husband’s difficult moods and selfishness. Mr. Ramsay is a prominent metaphysical philosopher. Mr. Ramsay loves his family but often acts like something of a tyrant.

Dinamic: Lily Briscoe single painter who befriends the Ramsays on the Isle of Skye. Like Mr. Ramsay, Lily is plagued by fears that her work lacks worth. James Ramsay he has grown into a willful and moody young man who has much in common with his father, whom he detests.



Point of view: The narrator is telling the story in third person, because the narrator use the pronouns...(he, she, they).




CONFLICT
James wants to go to the Lighthouse, though his father says that the weather won't be good enough to go. Lily Briscoe wants to paint, though Charles Tansley has told her to her face that women can't write or paint. James's desire to go to the Lighthouse and his father refused it. Is the main conflict through which James's difficult relationship with his oppressive father gets represented. Mr. Ramsay wants all of his children to behave on his terms and to strive according to his orders. James's rebelliousness shows that the main conflict of James's life is going to be with his father and his father's power over James's life.

Lily Briscoe, like James. She wants to paint, but to do so seems to be a threat to the masculine system of intellectual hierarchy that both Mr. Ramsay and Charles Tansley rely upon. Lily's trying to find a way, as a woman, to pursue her own artistic development freely, but she's meeting lots of obstacles along the way because of her gender and relatively low social status.

Conflict intern: James loves his mother deeply and feels a murderous antipathy toward his father, with whom he must compete for Mrs. Ramsay’s love and affection.

Conflict extern: Lily: She begins a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay at the beginning of the novel but has trouble finishing it. The opinions of men like Charles Tansley, who insists that women cannot paint or write, threaten to undermine her confidence.



HERO
Mrs. Ramsay: She always wanted to be good with her children, as welll as with James that she knows that he detests his father. However she takes care of both because she loves her husband and James.





BIOGRAPHY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF

She began writing as a young girl and published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. Both of her parents had been married and widowed before marrying each other.

Woolf spent her summers in St. Ives, a beach town at the very southwestern tip of England. The Stephens’ summer home, Talland House, which is still standing today, looks out at the dramatic Porthminster Bay and has a view of the Godrevy Lighthouse, which inspired her writing. In her later memoirs, Woolf recalled St. Ives with a great fondness. In fact, she incorporated scenes from those early summers into her modernist novel, To the Lighthouse (1927).

As a young girl, Virginia was curious, light-hearted and playful. As a young girl, Virginia was curious, light-hearted and playful; at the age of 13, she also had to cope with the sudden death of her mother from rheumatic fever, which led to her first mental breakdown.

Virginia had begun working on her first novel. The original title was Melymbrosia. After nine years and innumerable drafts, it was released in 1915 as The Voyage Out. Woolf used the book to experiment with several literary tolos including compelling and unusual narrative perspectives, dream-states and free association prose.

A year after the end of World War I, the Woolfs purchased Monk's House, a cottage in the village of Rodmell in 1919, and that same year Virginia published Night and Day, a novel set in Edwardian England. Her third novel Jacob's Room was published by Hogarth in 1922. Based on her brother Thoby, it was considered a significant departure from her earlier novels with its modernist elements.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Her family was split by the mores of the stifling Victorian era, with her half-siblings firmly on the side of "polite society" and her own brothers and sisters curious about what lie on the darker side of that society.

Virginia Woolf grew up in an environment frequented by literati, artists and intellectuals. Woolf was also a pioneer in reflecting on the status of women, women's identities and women's relationships with art and literature, which she developed in some of her essays.

Influenced by the philosophy of Henri Bergson, it experimented with special interest with the narrative time, both in its individual aspect, in the flow of variations in the character's consciousness, as in its relation with the historical and collective time.


Virginia Woolf also wrote a series of essays revolving around the status of women, in which she emphasized the social construction of female identity and claimed the role of female writer

MODERNISM

Modernism is the first literary movement that emerged in Latin America. Instead of being guided by the Spanish models of the time, the Latin American modernists were very influenced by two French currents: the symbolism and the Parnasianismo

Beauty cult: Modernist poetry values art culture by art

Love: The theme of Love takes on a more erotic and sensual tone in modernist poetry.

Evasion: Modernist writers evoke a fantastic world of faraway places and archaic times.

Religious syncretism: Regaining ideas from various religions: Budhismo, Christianity and Greek philosophy.



CONNECTION BETWEEN THE LITERARY WORK AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Virginia Woolf is part of modernism with respect to his works that relate the life of women and their role in society. The modernism in his works is reflected in the experiences that she lived with her family and her inspiration in writing novels related to these experiences and a clear example of this connection in Mrs Dalloway.

COUNTRY: England -British

GENRE: Novel




SUMMARY

The novel is divided into three important moments: the window, the time passes and the lighthouse. Which represent different situations between the characters that put to play their willingness to coexist and of aspiring the Eco-logic of the personal relationships that arise in context of the time in which they are in which, the woman was exposed to a series of n Ormas of behavior that are questioned, and which, cause the whole sense of history.

At first, the feelings and situations of all the characters are explained. Since they are in conflicts of love and dislike, homesickness, anger and confusion. The story begins by making it clear that the Ramsay family is made up of people from very different personalities, which creates an atmosphere of stress and misunderstanding.

The main character is Mrs. Ramsay, a kind woman who enjoys charisma for the people who need her help, while her husband, Mr. Ramsay, is a bitter person, who sins of being so sincere and to some extent cruel because he always makes it clear to the people around him, how hard of life, this couple has eithgt children (Andrew, Cam, James, Nancy, Jasper, Rouse, Roger and Prue)

The plot of the story unfolds when the family wants to go for a ride to a lighthouse, and one of the Ramsay's eight children who is James is disappointed that his father's apathetic father refuses to go. His mother assures him how possible it is to go just to make him feel better.

The story takes place in the time of 1892, on Saint Ives Island, where the lighthouse that Mrs. Ramsay wishes to visit along with her children and friends who accompany her is located. On that day, Lily Briscoe, a painter and friend of the family, who also accompanied them, began to design a painting of Mrs. Ramsay and James (the youngest of the Ramsay).

Mrs. Ramsay's sympathy causes many people to be attracted to her and always be surrounded by people interested in her.

Mrs. Ramsey's identity is the most complicated to decipher, because during the story, Mrs. Ramsey's identity is the most complicated to decipher. Ramsay is identified with the light of the lighthouse and its melancholic search for something indefinable that goes beyond married life. Although people always gently accompany her, she always feels lonely and enjoys it.

Among the people who relate to her and share moments are, for example, Charles Tansley, who was deeply in love with her, Mr. Carmichael, who enjoys sunbathing in the courtyard of the Ramsay family house. Lily Briscoe, the painter, is also a person who stands beside Mrs. Ramsay, always attentive to what may happen to her and is her faithful companion in many situations that can be disconcerting; she is secretly in love with Mrs. Ramsay, and hates her husband, as it makes life very complicated in marriage with his macho and egocentric attitudes. Briscoe is very analytical, and analyzes many situations in support of her friendship.

She came to Ramsay life with a very cheerful attitude, because everything around her seemed like a marvel to her, although some time later she was asked about some situations that changed her mind in certain aspects, such as the treatment of women towards men, represented by the Ramsay marriage. The relationship between Briscoe and Ramsay was always supportive, most of all, of Lily to Mrs. Ramsay, as she felt a deep secret love for her, and never manifested it beyond her thought and caresses in a few moments that she had contact with her.

Nancy Ramsay has a relationship with Minta Doyle, a girl who describes herself as a "tomboy" because of her attire and attitudes not in keeping with those of the woman of the time, who later became involved with Paul Railey, a friend of the Ramsay family.

During the next moment of the novel, it becomes clear that Mrs. Ramsay is dead since the first night and it has been a long time since it happened, 10 years have passed in which the lives of the Ramsay family passed only through Lily Briscoe's eyes and her memories of what goes on represented in her painting from the garden of the house to the completion of the painting, so it is deductible that this work developed and was conceived as an analogy of the work that Lily paints, and indeed, during the reading, she is the one who transcends and who takes the meaning of the story.


Explain the reasons why you liked it and why you recommend it.

I recommend this book because is a great example to explain and understand the relationship between parents and children. This makes you think about your attitude with your parents and children. How are you with them? Do you love them? Do you detest them? Why your relationship is not good, the love is missing in your life? Is there any confidence in them? What do you think about them? It makes you realize and know about people who are your own family.

What were your expectations before reading the book?

When I read the title and I knew that was the next novel of The window, I thought that I will compare the situation of this family with mine. I really wanted to enjoy and understand it.

I expected to improve my ability to read and learn new words because I knew that Virginia Woolf was a kind of descriptive with her works, however, while you are reading you need to pay attention for details that are going to provide you the response of question that you can get reading the novel. So I expected to pay attention to those details in the writing.




How do you feel after reading the book?

Well, I can not believe it but I am happy because I could finish to read it and also I decided to write the meaning of the new words in the book, becuase I would like to read it one more time and now to understand better with the new vocabulary for me.

I also feel satisfied after to read becuase when I was buying the book, I was wondering if I woul like it or not, but of course I had to get it becuase it was the only that got my attention for the title and becuase is from Virginia Woolf.

MY EXPECTATIONS
My expectation about to get new vocabulary was confirmed, I think that if I read, I always am going to learn new words, I wrote them down in my book and I looked the definition to understand better the novel.

I could compare the situation with my family, I confirmed that all the families have problems but they are different, that is the only comparison that I made with my family.

Basically this novel is about a different people, bacuase the Ramsay has a lot of children and every child has a specific problem and the parents are the similliar parents that all family had during that period, the father is the person that proposes and decides the rules in the house and all the memebers including the wife need to follow them, and the mother is the typical mother who supports and loves her children when they need to get help from their father and they can not get it.



COMMENTS...
The truth was not sure to buy the book because I had doubt whether I would like it or not. But I try to be a little open with my preferences then I read the introduction of the book and found it interesting, so I decided to buy it.

When I read it I realized that I concentrated in order to understand the context and I was also writing new words to familiarize myself with the vocabulary that the author uses in the novel. 

I can say that it was not a bad decision because I really liked to read it, and even better I liked learning about the life of Virginia Woolf because I had already heard of her and I read Mrs Dalloway and never investigated the life of the author.

I really liked this Enlgish Classic Book!
I found  a  nice video about the literature with of Virginia Woolf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1W7wqXD_b0




REFERENCES

Biography.com Editors. (N/A). Virginia Virginia Woolf BiographyWoolf Biography. September 15,2017, de A&E Television Networks Sitio web: https://www.biography.com/people/virginia-woolf-9536773