This Might Make Life Easier

Hey, um.. I was playing around last week and figured out that you can make your own profile and then add it to the list of administrators for the blog. It would probably be a lot easier to do this than having to sign or name after everything we post. So if you want to do this you can. Just go to the home page of word press and make an account using whatever user name you want (cause you can change it to say your real name in posts) and then log in and everything as your new person to make sure it is working. Then log out of your new profile and log in as sixthperiod. Go to the dashboard. Click Users. Scroll down. Add yourself as a user by entering your email address and choose your role to be administrator. Then you should be set. You can then log in as your own account and go to the users tab of dashboard and click “Your Profile”. There, you can make your name appear as your real name and not your user name, and do a bunch of other stuff if you so desire.

You don’t have to do this but it will probably make life easier in the long run.

xX Congradulations Xx

It’s the end of the first blogging period (that’s what I’m going to call it)  and I just wanted to say how awesome we are.  Return of the Native was one of the best summer readings I think we’ve ever been assigned at PCA.  Thanks Mr. Green!  We just won’t mention King Leer, ok?  Haha.  Good job all.  Socratic discussion for-the-win!

 ~ Jeremy Thompson **

** Mr. Awesome

Heath pic

Here’s a picture of a Heath.  It’s in Wessex so it’s the same setting as RotN.  I call it “The Shire meets Braveheart…”

~ Jeremy Thompson **

** Mr. Awesome

It’s 11:00. Things are always funnier after 11:00…

I just felt like it, ok?

Christian Cantle:
“My preciousssss!…finally I’ve won you back from those filthy hobbitses and their stupid little tricksies…I’ll never gamble with you again preciousssss….”

Wildeve:
“No, I don’t want Eustacia, I want Thomasin.  No wait, I do want Eustacia.  No, I’m married to Thomasin, but I want Eustacia.  But…what about Mrs. Yeobright?”

Diggory Venn:
“I’m coming for you Wildeve…”

Mrs. Yeobright:
…Ok, so this one is somewhat in bad taste…

Eustacia:
“Yes…here’s my ticket to Paris.  There, I will finally have better specimens to suck the life out of…one broken heart at a time…”

And as a tribute to Game of the year…Diggory Venn 2.0…

May the AP English class of ’08 never fall…

 ~ Jeremy Thompson **
** Mr. Awesome

P.S. No Senor Verde,  I do not expect points for these pictures

Decisiveness: It keeps you alive!

I just wanted to get this idea out there, and didn’t know what other page to use so…

I think it’s cool that the indecisive characters all kicked the bucket while the ones that stayed true to their original intent saw the story to its end.

 Eustacia – always switching men.  Hers is a spirit that will never settle, a soul that will never become tied to any one person or any one place.  It’s the passion of something new that keeps her going.  A passion that was snuffed out by the night’s raging tempest.

Wildeve- (Ok, stephen, seth, did his name never once remind you of the Wildheart armour set from World of Warcraft?)   He, like eustacia, had an everchanging view of what he desired.  Many of you have noted that his focus was on whateevr he couldn’t have.  This indecisiveness also led him to his death.

Mrs. Yeobright- Yes, she will be mentioned on this blog once more!  Twice in the novel she made a decision, and later changed her mind.  First by “forbidding the banns” (not giving Thomasin approval to marry Wildeve).  Later she gave her daughter her blessing.  Then she told Clym she would never visit.  She changed her mind and ended up dead.

 Clym- Sure, he started out by changing his mind about the diamond business, but after that he was focused on his dream of being a professor of the uneducated.  He lived to the end of the novel…somewhat the worse for wear but he survived.

Thomasin- Never changd her mind about Wildeve dispite the rumors and the messed up marriage license.  She lives happily ever after.

Venn- He never gave up his feelings for Tamsie.  Stayed focused on her happiness until the end.  and would you look at that?  He got the girl!

 ~ Jeremy Thompson **

** Mr. Awesome

Heres a short poem written by Thomas Hardy before he wrote Return of the Native

Its called I Look into my Glass.

I look into my glass,

And view my wasting skin,

And say, “Would God it came to pass

My heart had shrunk as thin!”

For then, I, undistrest

By hearts grown cold to me,

Could lonely wait my endless rest

With equanimity.

But Time, to make me grieve,

Part steals, lets part abide;

And shakes this fragile frame at eve

With throbbings of noontide.

I think of it as kinda Clym’s lament after Eustacia died.

Video

I don’t know how to insert a video so heres a link to a video about the life of Thomas Hardy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDVQ7rzbTDw

Mr. Green- listen to the words

Class- watch the video its kinda funny…and strange

Picture of Wildeve and Diggory Venn

This is a picture of Diggory and Wildeve. Diggory is trying to ‘win back’ the guineas that Christian Cantle lost.

 -Katie A.

Eustacia and Venn

I thought the similarities between Eustacia and Venn were interesting. They both have very distinctive looks that influence the way others treat them. They are outcasts. Reddlemen are looked on as boogeymen and Eustacia is seen as the witch of the heath. They both have been rejected by ones they loved (Thomasin rejected Venn at first and Wildeve rejected Eustacia by marrying Thomasin). They are romantics. They both are more comfortable being out at night. Eustacia looks like she sprung right out of the heath and Venn is the color of the dirt of the heath. They respond to their situations in such incredably different ways which results in Eustacia dying and Venn ending the novel happily married.

christine

Hardy website

Heres a really good website with information about Thomas Hardy’s works and life and links to other websites about it:

http://pages.ripco.net/~mws/hardy.html