Final Comment

Well you know, this course was sort of fun because we never got to do everything seriously, and maybe it was because you were always absent or sometimes you just told us to go get lost but when you did come to school and made us work, well I just didn't like that because I wanted to keep resting or doing absolutely nothing. Actually I think I learned more from your strange, bizarre personal stories than from the things we read. Anyways I think it was a great year, except ,obviously, for the long, long, long, long, long exams, seriously it is difficult to write so many words in so little time and making it have sense, I mean it is really brutal. I think that's all so...see ya!

5th Period Exam Opinion

This exam was a sort of new concept for me because I had never taken a two-part exam, actually it felt kinda weird because for the first part I hadn't prepared any of my responses and, again, time beat me and I think I left a half answered question, besides, I didn't like the poems we saw in class because I could not find any rhyme, in any of them. The second part was a bit easier, I could complete my responses on time and with the previous research I had done, my response, I think, was a bit more supported with those sources and was a bit more reliable than if I just wrote what I analysed and interpreted from the book. For concluding, this exam was weird but now I'm ready for those ones.

Playlist

Face to face - Siouxsie & the Banshees
It Breaks my Heart - Regina Spektor
Riders on the Storm - The Doors
Itchy Chicken - Los Straitjackets
Clandestino - Manu Chao
Without Emotions - Combichrist

4th Period Exam Opinion

I kinda liked this exam because it was all about the things I already knew, but I know that one will not happen again (what a pity). Again, time was against me and I could not finish the last two questions properly with a couple of elements missing in each story analisis(¿?), it always happens to me and this time it happened because I spent too much time detailing the description of both elements of suspense and narrative. For concluding this, I liked the exam because it was easy and I didn't have to crack my brain in order to think of a 500-word answer which would decide my whole grade.

Playlist

Seasons in Balck - Atrocity
Gemini - Atrocity
Calm Like a Bomb - Rage Against the Machine

"The Pit and the Pendulum" Opinion

Well, as other Poe's stories I've read before, I loved this story a lot. At first, when the narrator was in his darkened dungeon, I was a little confused because he stared describing the walls in his cell, suddenly he started measuring them, then he was talking about the noises he was hearing and, whenhe fell down, he described what he could feel from the pit. The part I liked the most was when he was a about to be split in half by the pendulum, sincerely I thought he was not going to escape because the pendulum was so close to his body that any mistaken movement would finish him forever, personally I feared the most everytime he said he raised his head because I thought the the pendulum was coming towards his head and it would slice his skull. The final part where he is about to be crushed by the walls and he has no other option than throwing himself into the pit was, as I had mentioned before, a desperate attempt form his tortures to finish him at once. Generally speaking, it is a great story, with an excellent narrative, which is characteristic in Poe's works. I really enjoyed this story because there are parts of the story where you feel you're in the dungeon with the narrator, especially when he describes his despair and fear towards the pendulum.

Playlistz

Campus-Vampire Weekend
La Noche de la Barracuda-Fenómeno Fuzz
Jezebel(bt mix)-Noisuf X
Starfire-DRagonforce
A Dead Song-Lydia Lunch & The Bithday Party
Rock & Roll-Los Implantes

"No Witchcraft for Sale" Opinion

Well, first of all I did not like this story because it seems to me like a racist story, for real, one evidence of that is the way Teddy treated all black people, with Gideon as an excpetion. Another element of racism is the way the scientist tried to force Gideon to tell him about this "magical plant", because even if black people were slaves or servants, there's no way to get an answer if one tries to force someone to tell him the answer. I didn't understand the part of the story where tha snake spits its vemon towards Teddy because for what I know, that vemon blinds people immediately so it was almost impossible that he could get his eyes healed, besides, there passed lots of time since the snake spit Teddy until Gideon came back from God knows where with the root, maybe it was a fictional element the author included so that the story wasn't so short, who knows. For concluding, I didn't enjoy reading this one story the way I've enjoyed other stories.

Playlist

Us-Regina Spektor
Jump Rope-Bad Acid Trip
Apple of Sodom-Marilyn Manson & Rasputina

Opinion About The Exam

Well, for this exam, I feel I was more prepared about what was to come, mostly because you had already told us what did we have to investigate and because you allowed us to bring our notes. I did not use this last resource because it takes more time to read and copy than just thinking about the answer, I do not know if it works like this for everyone, but as long as it works for me, it is just fine. For the long questions, who were like the most important part of the exam, I fell I extended myself in some of the answers and therefore, I used more time than I should have used. As long as I remember, my longest answer was the one of Harrison Bergeron, By the Waters of Babylon and A Sound of Thunder's societies, but for that question there could not be short answers because of all the descriptions about every society must be included. Generally speaking, the exam was sort of easy, in a way, the only thing that keeps in my head is the fact that I missed three of the small questions, but I hope that missing part of the note can be completed with what I wrote on the other questions. In conclusion, I think this exam was more extended than the past one, but I think I have to focus on writing faster so that I can write more in less time and with that, I will not miss more questions in further exams.

PLAYLIST

The Doors - The Soft Parade
The Tiger Lillies - Bully Boys
Rage Against the Machine - Pistol Grip Pump
The White Stripes - A Martyr for My Love You
Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - Strawberry Fields Forever (Cover)

Harrison Bergeron

First of all, I enjoyed this story because it is a reflexion about how will societies be in the future, and, if they will be like the one describes in the story it makes you think if a a perfect, ordered, controlled society is really possible to achieve.
This story, more than being a good work of science fiction, talks about rebelion, inconformity, about making aside the routine world to make one's own fate. Even if in the story the rebelion was not fully achieved, that action may be a decisive factor for the story which could happen after the written ending, because maybe after everyone saw Harrison reveal himself before all the spectators eyes, they would be able to see that they can change their handicapped condition. I think that if people from that time appliedwhat they had read in the story, maybe it wasn't but unconsciously but it was in that time (we are talking about the decade of the 60's) when most of the social movements took place all around the world (student's movements, the hippie movement, the movements for women's rights, etc.).
As I see it, I think this writer was trying to express his feelings about the world situation in the time the story was written. I think he was against all of the government's procedures and measures it used to keep the population under control so they would not have more politic troubles than they had in that time.
Generalizing, I think it is a good story, it is well narrated, it is very detailed, it captures the readers' attention from the very begginig to the last word of the end, and even when it finishes, it leaves with the doubt of "what will happen next?, will more and more people reveal themselves?, will it be a mass rebelion of the skilled people so they can defeat H-G and the whole government?,etc.". Also, for finishing this text, I noticed that the author gives very limited clues for predicting the ending, so it involves you more and more in the story and that makes read carefully so you can catch all of the details the writer leaves for us to perceive and, furtherly, comprehend the story even better than if someone just read it without paying attention to it.