english 3 honors project sections - google docs

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Josh Allen

Mrs.King

English 3 Honors

8.19.2014

Section 1

Free Will and Fate:

He mourned the fact he could not be a permanent soldier but he could not imagine any any

career for his sons except the army (Steinbeck 19).

This quote is foreshadowing the fate that one of cyruss sons will be force to join the army

because of cyruss wishes. Later we learn that son is Adam because Cyrus feels the army will let

loose things in charles that he feels needs to be contained.

Theyll first strip off your clothes They'll shuck off any little dignity you have--- you'll lose

what you think of as your decent right to live and to be let alone to live. They'll make you live

and eat and sleep and **** close to other men. And when they dress you up again you'll not be

able to tell yourself from the others (Steinbeck 25).

This quote symbolizes the loss of free will Adam faces while being forced to join the army and

while having to participate in the: violence, fighting, and killings, army life entailed. We will

later on see how this loss of free will or sense of self effects Adam after his 5 years in the

Cavalry is finished.

Seems like to me theres something not finished. Seems like when you half finished a job and

can't think what it was. Something didn't get done (Steinbeck 37).


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This quote foreshadows charles fate. Charles has unfinished business and when there is

unfinished business it has to be finished. It is charles fate to finish this unfinished business. and

once we can realize cal is charles in the second generation we know it is truly his fate to finish it.

Knowledge:

He felt a man should learn soldiering from the ranks, as he had. Then he would know what it

was about from experience, not from charts and textbooks.

This quote is about cyrus thinking the best way to gain knowledge is from experience not from

textbooks.

Biblical Allusions

3. Seems like to me theres something not finished. Seems like to me when you half finish a job

and can't think what it was. Something didn't get done (Steinbeck 37)

This quote is very unsettling in the context it was spoken and helps the author set up a ominous

and uneasy mood for the rest of the novel as well as foreshadows to charless/cals fate because he

has to finish the job that he didn't finish.

When a child first catches adults out----when it first walks into his grave little head that adults

do not have divine intelligence,that their judgements are not always wise, their thinking true, their

sentences just---his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And

there is one thing about the fall of the gods. they crash and shatter . it is a tedioe job to build


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them up again they never quite shine. And the childs world is never quite whole again.

(Steinbeck 19-20)

This is a beautiful quote explaining feelings and emotions a child goes through once they realize

adults are not always as: perfect,wise,kind, or even godly as they may seem when you are a very

young child. Adam could relate to the feelings of this quote when he caught his father out and

realized his father was not a great man. He also realized his fathers training methods were only

used to make him a better man, not to benefit Adam or his brother.

4. Provide at least 2 questions

Why is charles so violent.

Why doesnt Adam love Cyrus even though he knew Cyrus loved him the most?

10 words.

Cavalry

Guess- Horsemen who were apart of the army in the 1800s.

Dictionary- The part of the army who used to fight on horseback but now are soldiers who ride

in helicopters and vehicles.

Seminoles


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Guess-A part of the army in the 1800s that worked in the swamps

Dictionary- a member of any of the groups of American Indians that emigrated to Florida from

Georgia and Alabama in the 18th and 19th centuries and that are now located in southern Florida

and Oklahoma

Interminable

Guess- Necessary for proper function.

Dictionary- having or seeming to have no end: continuing for a long time.

Bindlestiff

Guess- A homeless person who wanders/roams a country or state.

Dictionary- A Hobo

Metaphysics

Guess- A form of physics that revolves around philosophy.

Dictionary- the part of philosophy that is concerned with the basic causes and nature of things.

Esthetics

Guess- Art focused on the evolution of nature

Dictionary- of or relating to are or beauty.

Unfrocked


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Guess- Fried from a position in a church.

Dictionary- to officially remove (a priest) from his or her job as punishment for doing something

wrong

Taciturnity

Guess- Being shy or quiet

Dictionary- tending to be quiet : not speaking frequently

Circumvented

Guess- Confused or tricked

Dictionary- to avoid being stopped by (something, such as a law or rule) : to get around

(something) in a clever and sometimes dishonest way

Hysteria

Guess- a large fear.

Dictionary- a state in which your emotions (such as fear) are so strong that you behave in an

uncontrolled way


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Section 2

Free Will and Fate

there are monsters born in the world to human parents.Some you can see,misshapen and

horrible...They are accidents and no ones fault(Steinbeck 72).

It is fate that these monsters are born from their parents. No one can control whether or not

these monsters will be born making it fate when they are born into the world. We also learn about


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the other kind of monster born into the world in this section not the kind you can see but the

mentally and morally unstable type of monsters such as, Charles and Cathy.

It is my belief that Cathy Ames was born with the tendencies or lack of them, which drove and

forced her all of her life(Steinbeck 72).

The author telling us he thinks Cathy was born a monster and or without tendencies

foreshadows that Cathy does not have a good fate. The author also says she will be drove and

force by these lack of tendencies her whole life also foreshadows to cathies fate.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable

thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it

wishes, undirected. And this is what i must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which

limits or destroys free will(Steinbeck 132)

This quote shows that the author has a very strong view about free will, and fits into the idea of

choosing our own fate/destiny.

Knowledge

Cathy learned when she was young that sexuality . is the most disturbing impulse humans

have . Cathy learned that by the manipulation and use of this one part of people she could gain

and keep power over nearly anyone(Steinbeck 75).


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By learning this about people cathy was able to manipulate many people throughout the story with

her looks. She manipulated the boys,Adam,and Mr.Edwards with her good looks, charm, and

sexuallity.

Biblical Allusions

3.

Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to be a greater or a less degree. As a child

may be born without an arm, so one may be born without kindness or the potential of conscience

(Steinbeck 72).

Cathy proves that she is a monster and manipulator and may have indeed been born without

kindness or conscience throughout this section. Earlier on in the section we learn that Cathy was

indeed a variation from the accepted normal that there was something uneasy and unsettling

about Cathy, and as the section goes on we learn even more unsettling things about Cathy that

would classify her a monster. We learn that she is a liar and manipulator, she set the boys up,

and she killed her parents.

It is my belief that Cathy was born with tendencies or lack of them,which drove and forced her

all her life. Some balanced wheel was misweighted, some gear out of ratio. She was not like other

people, never was from birth. And just as a cripple learn to utilize his lack so that he becomes

more effective in a limited field than the uncrippled, so did Cathy using her difference, make a

painful and bewildering stir in the world(Steinbeck 72-73).


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This quote is very important to the section. This quote foreshadows and introduces Cathies

character to the novel, and just by reading this quote the reader can already conclude that Cathy is

going to be one of the many antagonist of this novel. This quote along with the foreshadowing

and introducing of Cathies character to the novel, continues the ominous and or uneasy mood

created in the last section.

Questions

Why did Cathy a girl with a seemingly pleasant family kill her parent?

Why does Adam take such a liking to Cathy?

10 words.

Sadistic

My Guess- Fearful Crazy Frantic

Dictionary- enjoyment that someone gets from being violent or cruel or from causing pain.

Dejectedly

My Guess- Strong and still.

Dictionary- sad because of failure, loss,.

Feverish


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My Guess- Relating to a fever

Dictionary- having a fever : suffering from a higher than normal body temperature caused by

illness

Hoarsley

My Guess- The act of being a hoar

Dictionary- None

Culvert

My Guess- hiding place, PLace of solitude used for thinking and to get away from things.

Dictionary- a drain or pipe that allows water to flow under a road or railroad

Coroner

My Guess- A writer for the newspaper.

Dictionary- a public official whose job is to find out the cause of death when people die in ways

that are violent, sudden.

Blundered

My Guess-Stumbled upon

Dictionary-to move in an awkward or confused way

Voracious


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My Guess- hungry

Dictionary- having or showing a tendency to eat very large amounts of food

Constable

My Guess- Police Guard

Dictionary- a public official whose job is similar to that of a police officer but who is elected or

appointed rather than hired

Quirt

My Guess- whip

Dictionary- a riding whip with a short handle and a rawhide lash

Section 3

Fate and Freewill

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