Mari’s ideas

Before Friday I had started to answer one of the elements. On Friday night I started my introduction paragraph. Throughout my three day weekend I worked on it every day. I also used the “read aloud” on Word so I was able to hear if what I wrote made sense. After that I wrote my essay in pen, but it took me a while because I kept messing up and I didn’t want to use wite•out.

I have a writer’s conference coming up with Dr. Preston, and I am excited to go over my final essay and my big question research posts. I chose these two pieces for specific reasons because I feel like I did my best writing on these posts.

The learning modalities that are the most effective for my Masterpiece Topic are auditory and visual. I’ll address these in my presentation by doing a power point and showing pictures so my audience gets an ideas of what I’m explaining. I am also planing to speak clearly so my audience is able to follow with everything I am saying.

People all around the world try to change their appearance and, or their personality just to “fit in” with the rest of the world. In “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, Huxley shows us a perfect example of someone who thinks differently, but is afraid to show it to the world. The character who fits this description happens to be Bernard. Bernard is considered an outcast in the beginning, but doesn’t accept himself for what he truly is. The idea Huxley has on Bernard connects to the theme, which is that it is easier to be part of society and be part of their label, than being an individual and being considered an outcast. Bernard is a character that right from the beginning we can tell he just thinks differently and is different than the people in the World State. “He was like a man pursued, but pursued by enemies he does not wish to see, lest they should seem more hostile even than he had supposed, and he himself be made to feel guiltier and even more helplessly alone.

Two big ideas I got by reading the ending of Brave New World is that people always get caught up in society and what others think. People can not be taken seriously about their feeling because others won’t understand them, or it’s something they have never felt before so others don’t know how to react.