Zombies!

The article “The zombie film and its cycles,” I found to be a very interesting article and what I got from is it that after 9/11 the most tragic day authors started making movies and books about zombies. They figured that if everyone died in the world that there would be only zombies walking around and they are known to be the hardest things to kill if someone by chance survived.

            Some popular movies today about zombies are dawn of the dead, return of the living dead and day of the dead that’s not just all the zombie movies they seem to make a new one every year. They when have a TV show out now that called “The Walking Dead” I could only watch that show for 5 minutes and totally changed it really fast. Some people I know actually like shows like that but I don’t.

            Zombies are these creepy monsters that are known to be created magically by witchcraft. Everyone knows this is totally fiction because it’s never going to happen, people die for good. It’s crazy how much people make for the movies and books they make about zombies. If it was that easy to make billions of dollars on a silly movie about zombies I would. It’s a weird way to see death but people do believe that things would happen like that.

Refs:

The zombie film and its cycles

http://www.thedogsayshello.com/zombies-a-survival-guide/

Vampires and Werewolves!

   Stories of monsters have become very popular lately; the majority of the readers and watchers are the younger generation. Walking through books stores all you ever see these days is about vampires, werewolves, witches, etc. The most popular monsters being vampires and werewolves, with every story line making them out to be some kind of hero. Writers are betraying them to be hero’s so that readers aren’t afraid to watch or read about them. Flipping through TV shows these days you’re sure to turn to a couple of them being about vampires or werewolves.

   The most popular book out these days is the series of twilight; this series has three books out that they have made into movies. The novels being eclipse, new moon and breaking dawn, these movies are about a teenage girl falling in love with a vampire. There is also this boy Jacob that is a werewolf. After much research the girl finds out that the boy she loves is a vampire but even knowing what she knows she still loves the boy. Edward which is the boys name introduces the girl to his family which being many more into there life.

   This series is very popular and has been made into movies as well as books, I heard from this series from my sister which it’s probably the only thing she feels normal doing being she is in the military. She has read every book that has came out and watched every movie. I think people have gotten really attracted to this series that they get everything of this series from bedding, back packs etc. This series has made people see that vampire and werewolves are very fiction but they get the joy in reading and watching.

    Writers have also wrote TV series about vampires, the recent one being vampire diaries which is a American teen supernatural drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, which is based on the book series of the same name written by L.J. Smith. This series takes place in Mystic Falls Virginia a fictional small town haunted by supernatural beings. Its main focus of the series is the love triangle between the female Elena and Stefan and Damon all of whom have dark pasts.

   Being that twilight was very popular with the public and made so much money, people on television wanted a show that would being in just as much money. This show was also to make the public to be happy and enjoy watching the show. That is the most important thing is to make the watchers happy and this show does. I heard of the show again from my sisters, being she is a huge fan of twilight she was a fan of this one to. I find this show myself to be very weird but if I would have watched and read twilight I would also be a fan of this.

   Writers today want reading to see that vampires and werewolves are truly fiction and not to be scared to watch the movies and TV shows they come out with. Mysteries stories have become very popular these days and that are were a lot of the money comes from. People like my sister would stand hours and hours just to be able to see these kinds of stories. With TV shows if a show isn’t being watched with so many people the show is taken off so when they find something people really like they make it in so many ways.

Meyer’s, Stephanie “Twilight Series” Book Series/Movie Series

Williamson, Kevin and Plec, Julie “Vampire Diaries” TV Series

Werewolves!

My first site I found about werewolves is the Wikipedia it has some really interesting facts about werewolves like etymology, folk beliefs, and origin of werewolf beliefs. I have never really looked up them before so it was interesting finding sites I actually liked and that had good information. I believe this is the website I am going to use mostly being it has so much information. Like this also says that werewolves continue to be in modern culture and fiction, with books, films and television shows.( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf) 

Most everyone has heard of the twilight series that’s one of the hugest things going around these days.

The next site I found I thought was really cool but I didn’t find the person that wrote it, it listed this from the definition, origin, types, mythology, history and powers. The powers part just sounded really cool so I think that’s going to be one of the things I talk about in this paper. It says that werewolves are immune from aging and from most physical diseases. (http://werewolves.monstrous.com/werewolves_powers/) I think really anyone would want that just so they could live longer and never get sick. But all this is fiction so it won’t happen but it would so be nice if people never got sick or got cancer.

Then the last site I found was totally interesting to me, I tried finding a different one but it seems to be really hard to find a good site. I don’t really know if I will use anything from this site because most of what is wrote is just repeating from the other two sites I listed. The only cool thing about this site is the pictures it has on it. That’s really all I would use for this site but it was a lot of fun looking up werewolves. Another thing that was cool is talked about getting bitten by a werewolf, nothing its fiction kind of stinks but it still is really cool to find out about them.

Sites:

Wikipedia “Internet Source” <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf>

Werewolves: The myths and the truths “Internet Source”<http://alam25.tripod.com/portrait.htm>

Monstrous.com “Internet Source” <http://werewolves.monstrous.com/>

Final Project!

 I believe that I will be doing option #2; I think monsters are the coolest things to write about. I just really didn’t understand the Frankenstein book at first but now that I understand it better it’s actually a really great book. I don’t really know what text to use yet but there is a lot of really great stories about monsters. My nephew really loves reading about monsters so it will be cool to research it for class and have some stories to tell him. What I am hoping to accomplish from this project is like everyone hopefully getting an A on it. Not really good at writing stories but getting to pick my own thing to write about will be nice. As everything I research with would be Google you can find a lot of great things on there and also living close to the library I will also get some books on things I will be talking about. I think it’s better to actually read about monsters in a book because you get into it more then setting in front of a computer.




http://www.monstersforkids.com/2011/09/06/monster-stories-for-kids/

Me!

Brenda Tyson

English 102

Laura Cline

October 23, 2011

For whom this may concern...

     My biggest challenge in this class so far has been understanding poems I have never really had to so it took me a while to truly understand it. I had to read it probably about ten times, the last draft I did in the hospital when my mom was in surgery. All I had was my phone which I am glad it has a word app on it.

     I think the biggest success finally understood the poem even though being stressed out about my mom, I think when you’re not thinking about it is when you finally understand it.

     The reading in the class has made me see I can actually understand what’s in front of me it just takes time and patience. Its something I am totally not good at been I think with the things that are put in front of you are lessons for the future.

     Analysis is totally different then anything I have done before but that’s what school is about learning things you have never done before. Writing has always came hard to me and its not always the great thing but I don’t give up and make excuse for myself.

     Goals for the second part of this class are hopefully nothing else happens that makes me have to hurry in doing it. I missed one assignment because my mom had to be taken to the hospital. I am always wishing the English came easy to me, at times it is but when I have to write about things I don’t really understand is hard. Like I could talk about the military, kids etc but when having to do a poem I was lost.

Frankenstein Articles!

Critical Response!

                    

                     I chose to write about The Women of Frankenstein by William Veeder. The article doesn’t say when it’s written but its pg 271-273. In this article William starts out by saying that Mary was very sense of the weakness in herself and womanhood that makes her defensive in Frankenstein. It tells the reading that women are no more immune than a man to weakness, and that Mary justifies that women are less then weak. It states in the article that there is a lot of weakness in Frankenstein and that we must be more attuned than most criticism has been to the careful controls which prevent readers from responding. It also talks about Justine and her weakness when she has to go to court and the lessons her and Elizabeth has to face.

                    The author is right about Frankenstein, it does show a lot of weakness and readers have to be careful with all of the criticism. After reading every article in this book this is the only one I could really relate to, women are seen as weak but if we are told we can’t do something we are the first to prove you wrong. There are ways we are weak, and that’s a lot of us show are emotions and that can get ourselves in trouble but we are very caring people. I believe that this would be a great article to use because people can totally disagree with me, don’t think a lot of women would but men would.   

http://www.moviediva.com/MD_root/reviewpages/MDBrideofFrankenstein.htm