http://aevans75.edublogs.org "We can't change the world, unless we change ourselves." Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:51:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have finished Nineteen Eighty-four and am ready to start researching criticism. The novel ended with a frustrating resolution. As a reader, I had a lot of hope in the novel's main character, Winston, to break the chain of Party and therefore government control. However, his torture and submission was heart-breaking. ... http://aevans75.edublogs.org/2009/03/10/finished/ Part 2 of Orwell's novel is plot-driven and exciting, but also introduces to meaningful clues to potential themes and questions societal hierarchy. Part two begins with a frustrated reader, as detailed in my last post. We want Winston to break out of his shell of ignorance and rebel. Finally, in ... http://aevans75.edublogs.org/2009/03/05/all-hope-must-lie-in-the-proles/ I have just finished the first 104 pages of 1984. I am pretty pleased thus far with Orwell's writing style and the overall themes that have been presented in the novel. Orwell's ideas are fairly classical; however, considering the time period in which he wrote, they were necessary to be ... http://aevans75.edublogs.org/2009/03/01/ignorance-is-strength/ Today, I am finally starting my final project. For this entire week I've been contemplating, "When am I going to start this English project". I knew we only had about 2 months of "productive" school time left and procrastination was killing me. Kreinbring suggested we have are book finished by today, ... http://aevans75.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/up-a-creek-paddle-in-sight/