White Heron, Desiree's Baby, Wagner Matinee-September 17th

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Remember you assignment for White Heron, Desiree's Baby, and Wagner's Matinee is to create a chart for these three stories. The information was given in class on Thursday. This assignment is due in class this Thursday. Please see a classmate if you did not write down the assignment.

Don't forget your COW essay is due on September 18th.

Blog question for this week is simple:

Please tell us what book (children, novels, classic, YA,  short story, myth, legend) you would consider your favorite? Then share any examples of worldview intentionally, or unintentionally, described in the book. Again, I'm not looking for specific names of worldviews (no isms). I'm looking for examples and thoughts about what the worldview could mean.

Please complete this blog by September 25th.

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  1. UnknownSeptember 18, 2018 at 7:42 PM

    Murder, affairs, and money sound like my type of fairy tale. No fairy, just a tale. Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite books.
    Throughout the book, a disorder is made, but unlike most novels, it ends badly for the characters. Gatsby ends up dead, a lady is murdered, her husband becomes a murderer, and Nick goes back home. One of the more cliche worldviews throughout the book is, money does not create happiness. Money is what makes Gatsby love Daisy in the beginning. Money is probably why Tom and Daisy get married. Throughout all of time, money seemed to be the answer to all problems. If Gatsby just had money he could have Daisy. From the beginning, Fitzgerald defies this, by in the first chapter, the two wealthy people in the book Daisy and Tom had problems, which did not develop over time they were present from the beginning and gave the story depth.
    Another worldview that Fitzgerald imprints throughout the story is that ends doesn't reconcile means. Think about it. We don't know how Daisy family got their money we just know that they have had it for a long time. We do know that Tom made some of his money by playing football. In the end, both Tom and Daisy life gets back to being normal. It could even be argued that they are better off. Daisy long lost love died, while Toms mistress died. In contrast, Gatsby made his money through organized crime. Nicks family made there's by paying someone to fight in the civil war for them. Gatsby ends up died and Nick goes back home.
    A large margin of the worldviews that Fitzgerald weaves throughout The Great Gatsby is shown by the negative effects of different views. What happens when you do think ends reconcile the means. What happens when you do think that means can buy happiness. What happens when you think you can recreate the past. The entire books seem to written as a warning, a warning to those in the Roaring 20s who thought they could get anything they wanted.

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    1. ThisisQrisSeptember 29, 2018 at 4:29 PM

      Interesting thoughts here! Especially about it being a warning. Can't wait to read it!

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  2. Mrs. ButlerSeptember 19, 2018 at 8:56 AM

    Gatsby! On our reading list this year. Can't wait for that discussion.

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  3. ThisisQrisSeptember 22, 2018 at 7:22 AM

    urg I can't pick a favorite story! But some I really like are the classic Greek myths found in the Odyssey. I read those a lot as a kid, probably because it was so full of things different from everyday life. I think those stories are the products of a culture that prized the values found in the mythic heroes. Self-discipline, unrelenting courage, and a dash of "survival of the fittest" are common themes. I don't know what the stories meant to the ancient Greeks themselves, but I doubt they were taken literally by the general population. I wonder if they were simply hypothetical scenarios to explore how the ideal hero would react. In any case, they are great stories that can just be read as interesting fiction, or analogical fact.

    In terms of worldview, how should we look at myths? I'm thinking of others that are more difficult to pull such values out of.

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    1. UnknownSeptember 23, 2018 at 2:04 PM

      I completely agree with about finding themes of "Self-discipline, unrelenting courage, and a dash of survival of the fittest" I agree with you about them probably not taken literally. I conclude that from today when we talk about myths and legends you think of people around campfires telling jokes and stories. Although I would say they do influence people. The way they think and act.

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  4. UnknownSeptember 24, 2018 at 5:49 PM

    My favorite book is easily Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Even though it is a nonfiction/biography book, there are still the worldviews of Louis Zamperini and the people in his life. Louis Zamperini was a bombardier in WWII and a prison of war in Japanese camps. One major worldview in Louie's life was his religious beliefs. Even though his Italian family had religious beliefs, he did not accept any kind of faith of his own until after the war from the influence of his Christian friend. Up until that point, he believed entirely upon fate, and after how he was delivered through the war, he then saw the real God. Another view is "If I can take it, I can make it." When Louie was younger, he began running, and from training learned this concept from his brother. In the war, he used it basically every day. From being tortured, starved, and worked to death, Louie learned that if he could stay in the fight a little longer, he could make it to the end of the war and honestly anything in his life. Overall I think the view of life for Louie is that (until he found the Lord) you have to overcome every obstacle in life on your own and fight so that no one can break you down. In his life I think that view was warranted.

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    1. UnknownSeptember 24, 2018 at 6:24 PM

      I find an interesting point that even after you accept Christ and become a Christian, you can still have that mentality. It's almost of the struggle of being a Christian. Learning to rely on God to help you through the hard times, when your own mind is saying to you are the one who has to make it through. You only have to figure it out. When in reality God is just waiting for us to ask him for help. Waiting just to help us through it.

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  5. ThisisQrisSeptember 29, 2018 at 4:10 PM

    I agree - it might also be a hard habit to break when you rely completely on yourself for so long. What exactly does "relying on God" look like though? It sounds like a good book, I'll have to check it out.

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