Unit 5: 1-4

1.a. The Glorious Revolution or the bloodless revolution was pretty much about one main person, Jame II and his actions and beliefs. this one man causes this whole revolution. well' as the story goes , James  was extremist  of the Catholic religion. He put  a hold on almost anything that questioned the Catholic believes. He had took every Protestant out of parliament and replaced them with Catholic officials. As you can tell, he was regressing the kingdom singlehandedly. And When the people found out that King James II's wife had gave birth to a heir, The people did like it. So , they had the William Of Orange , his nephew and son-in-law, had been put in place to replace James. And when the people had revolted , James had ran to France , thinking the people were going to harm his son.

b. This event is so important because this revolution had so many different ways of dealing with something then many revolution of this age. One of the things that makes this revolution different from other revolution , is that , they didn't kill anyone. This revolution was the only one in this time period that didn't kill someone to get them out of power. another thing about this revolution was that this was the last time the Catholic church had any control over England at all!

2. The definition of satire is to be ironic or to have irony or sarcasm. To me satire makes  living more of a life instead of existing  . This is life little joke on us. There are so many things that have satire , from movie  to TV , to everyday life.  Like the other day me and some friends went out to catch bumblebees  for entomology class. And i was the only one who was bold enough to go near the hive to catch one , but the whole time my friend, Irving, was saying i was going to get stung and mocking me , and acting like he was me, but when i went to get a bee , Irving ended up getting stung .

3. "The Modest Proposal" was  a satire in a almost cruel way, but a satire all the same. Jonathan Swift was talking about how by eating 1 year infant, its good for the economy, and country in general. He mostly talks about all the reason why its a good idea. For example: it would give woman more job, it  would also  help with the overcrowded streets of beggar. one that is really twisted that he said it would help the hungry people of the country and also that it would make sure that the husbands would beat on their wives for the fact of having a miscarriages. So Jonathan was trying to compare the cruelty that the English had did to the Irish, and justifying by saying it was for the country.

4. The Diary From Samuel Pepys was really complicated and difficult to read. i had to search almost every other word, but i made it through it. Samuel was mostly talking about how many people family had died, And how town were infected within weeks. onee of thing that sticks in my mind , is that a whole family was killed by the virus , but one little infant was still alive from this whole family. this bitcher and his wife , who had lost their infant from the plague , had found the infant, and decided to take in this lucky little baby. To relize  some many family had died in the street and so many were dying , that they had just starting burying them in groups.

The pardoner's tale (rap)

The rap to me was a easier to understand then the story.  The rap was easier to understand because the beat kept my interest. But the story was a good story to begin with to me. I like this story because this story had a lot of good twists and turns. Like, in the beginning , it started of with 3 really bad dudes , who were sitting in a bar ; gambling , drinking, and smoking. Then all of a sudden , like every other bar has , The Cryer, the dude who starts drinking then starts crying. Then The Cryer starts telling his story, of how his friend died in his sleep. And that when the twist comes in , the 3 guys who have been drinking this whole time , decide to go out and try to kill death itself. And that when you know that are drunk because they are trying to kill death.

Well, the 3 men , looking for death run across a crippled,elderly, and injured man and decide to threaten this man to tell  them where they can find death, and the old man told them to go look under the tree to find death. that when the next twist come, the 3 thugs go look under this tree and find a bunch of money. Then the 3 thugs decide to pull straw to see who will go get the wine , to celebrate the good fortune of finding money. And that when the next twist comes in because the 2 guys who stayed behind decided to kill the third dude so they only have to split it 2 ways. but while these to are plotting behind the 3rd one's back , the 3rd one decide he don't want to split it at all , so he poisons the wine. so when the 3rd guy comes back with the poison wine , the other 2 thugs kill him , then after they kill him , they drink the poison wine , and die too!! So, Finally they all find death! To me the irony is strong in this story, but then again that what makes it great!



The Website For THE PARDONER'S TALE RAP

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v1360204mSwjEDXy

unit 2: opening

To me the medieval period full of people who were inconsiderate , and only thought about Themselves. Everyone was trying to get ahead by stepping on other people to get there. The king, the lords, and the knights sole concerns were themselves. They were all trying to get more money , land , and material things for themselves, and didn't care who they hurt. the beat and overworked all underneath them on the sole purpose that they thought they could. and the sad thing is that this poor , hardworking serfs would go to church to get peace and pray and give all there money to the church . In reality the church, The most holy place , was getting payed and giving all the serfs money right back to the lords and knight and king, that treated them so bad. So, to me the Feudal System is rigged.

Beowolf

To me Beowolf was a little boring to start off , but then i relized that the Anglo-Saxon religion is very big on lineage. Hrothgar was destined for a good and prospers life. he had a father and grandfather be great heroes , and protectors. So , as grain began the story he had a great life. But that when the inciting incident begins , Grendel. Grendel was the monster who was supposedly the monster who controlling and  was exiled with all evil beings including zombies, elves, and monsters. Grendel was the doom that hung over the kings head for it was unknown pain. Grendel attacks were cowardly in my eyes, because he had attacked this innocent joyful people , in the middle of the night while they were sleeping. He had killed 30 people and felt no regret. he had even laughed as if it meant nothing. as Grendel killed mercilessly , no one dared came into the mead-hall, so as the fear traveled so did the story of Grendel. soon the story hit Geats, and that where our hero enters the story.

Beowolf, the hero, had heard of the torture and pain of this people in Herot, and felt as thought he needed  to help this people. So he brought 14 of the bravest warriors and set sail to Herot. Beowolf in my eyes , had made ,himself a great hero for this fact alone. he had set out on a voyage to a unknown land to help innocent people that he did not know, to a almost a impossible mission to kill a monster who was almost invincible. So, as a god hero does , he got to the mead-hall determine to kill grendal and save these people. So, when Beowolf had got there in the morning , ready to fight but, he was informed that grendal only comes at night so Beowolf decided to wait. So, he waited , and waited , and waited , soon night came. Beowolf decided to plan a sneak attack , and take all his men to the mead-hall and sleep there for the so when grendal got there he wouldn't be the wiser. as the night went on , Grendal finally arrived, he had saw the men in the mead-hall in saw it as a easy dinner. So as grendal started of his usual activities , he started by picking up what he thought was a helpless , pathetic very dimwitted , and weak mortal. But, what he didnt't expect was Beowolf.

As Grendal was reaching for beowolf , beowolf got up and grabed him by his hand broke all his fingers. At, that very moment , grendal relized beowolf was not a force to be messed with. in this part of the story , beowolf really proves his strength , and courage, because as he grabs up this almost godlike cresture , he makes grendal terrified and makes him run home like a little toddler who got his candy tooken away by the playground bully. but as beowolf starts to fight grendal he cuts off grendal arm , at that very moment grendal saw his way out and ran! He ran towards his home , the great lake, for he saw he was going to die.

What i think is so amazing and interesting is that when Grendel's body was in the water , the WATER STARTED TO BOIL, and turn red from Grendel body and blood. because supposedly he was so evil and treacherous that his blood did that to the water. But after the warriors and Beowulf was sure he was dead , they started to celebrate their great victory over Grendel. they were happy about Grendel's death, there was people from all over to come to the kingdom to congratulate the king for such a great victory. When Beowulf to show the king that Grendel was dead it surprised me on how even thought he had defeated Grendel, Beowulf was so unsatisfied with what he did. He didn't feel like he had kill Grendel good enough, or made him be punished enough for what he did. but then he attitude changes in says almost like oh,well, he will get what he gets when the "Great Judgement".

That the thing about this story, why i don't like this story, because to me it seems like the original Anglo-Saxon way the story would have went another way in the story. Because to me the Anglo-Saxon belifs was interesting and just made everything interesting. the myths and super strength , god-like glow and the fact of mythical creatures , and magical swords and golden goblet , just spice up a story. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to knock christian beliefs, to each is his own , but put god in the story with monster , and creatures from the underworld, seems a little far fetched. but besides that , this story was a little catching because it has all its basics, action, death, and straight fight after fight with slight possibly of death. Even, saying that it was a good story just not a story for me.