So we get to take a rest from blogging about the American Dream, just saying. I have nothing against the American Dream but every now and then everything needs a break. After the first blog I was already at the point where every other writing assignment I wrote somehow involved the American Dream. In AP History, since we were appropriately learning about the industrial revolution of the US, I ended up including properties of the American Dream in my chapter 24 essay. Although it wasn't a bad thing to include the American Dream, I just thought it was weird that the very first thing I thought of was the American Dream. Anyways, this blog entry is a break from the topic of the American Dream.
I spent pretty much all day today looking for some wicked cool metaphor or example of literary terms in real life. I'm sorry to say I came up with nothing. I believe I ended up looking at the boxes for stuff like cereal and other food just to find an interesting example of a literary term. Unfortunately I am writing this blog entry based on my flow of thoughts in my head. I completely forgot the actual literary term for the type of story that takes simply the characters flow of thoughts. However, that is pretty much how I am typing this blog entry. Furthermore, please excuse the extended degree of casual attitude in this blog, but I believe the freedom of the blog's topic at least allows some leniency.
While I was writing the sentence above about literary terms and trying to find examples in real life, I decided I could talk a little bit about dramatic irony. Everybody that has ever read a book, or watched television or a movie has most likely experienced dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is defined as when the audience knows more than the character knows. Frankly, the experience of dramatic irony completely frustrates me. Occasionally, if I get too worked up, I end up being the type of person that will yell at the TV. The things that usually get me worked up are the shows that involve really undeveloped, impossibly ignorant characters that have the intelligence, both in terms of common sense and book smarts, of a tiny mammal. These characters and the situations they often get into prompt me into yelling something along the lines of "How did you think that was a good idea? Did you really not see what was going to happen? Geez you are so stupid!". This can count as a fair warning to anyone that wants to invite me to watch a very badly made movie or an unbelievably unintelligible TV show, I strongly suggest you do not invite me to such an activity.
Kind of funny that you were racking your brain to find some way that literary terms relate to your everyday life. I guess if you look at your own life as a story where you are the main protagonist, there are infinite possibilities to relate literary terms to real life. I feel that dramatic irony is an excellent literary term to relate to real life, because we all have experienced the frustration of watching somebody we love or are close to making a decision that we know is ultimately going to get them in trouble. This is a form of real-life dramatic irony. Imagine the frustration of a parent or older sibling as they watch their family member fall head-over-heals for somebody who is obviously going to break their heart in the end. We will see this in The Great Gatsby when Nick, the narrator, watches his friend and neighbor, Jay Gatsby, risk an entire American Dream for the love of an unworthy person.
ReplyDeleteI really liked reading your post because it was so casual. It was entertaining, and really funny. Your voice also really comes through your writing, which is pretty cool. Oh, and I yell at the tv too sometimes :p
ReplyDeleteThats a pretty good post. Its pretty cool that you tried relating your life to the literary terms that we learned in class. Also, yeah the T.V can get pretty annoying. Pretty sure everyone has yelled at it.
ReplyDeleteI believe the literary term that you're looking for is "stream of consciousness". We learned the term last year while reading Catcher in the rye (great book, but only if you understand all the metaphors and themes). I enjoyed the relaxed pacing of your writing, as it carried through to the "readability". Many of the others tend to either under or over-think their entries which destroys the flow in the writing. Well done, at any rate.
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