Hayze Talbot English 1-5th W. Rodrigue 22 October 2013
While reading chapter three the only thing I could get form the selection was that you need to word your titles and sentences. If you do not word them correctly you could say something totally different than what was meant.
Destiny Hotard English 1-5th W. Rodrigue 23, October 2013
In the selection, I learned that prepositions are import in the way you word your writing and that there's always more to a story than what you see.
In response to the question:
The essentials of a vampire story as shown is chapter three are a vampire, a victim, a story, and a dependence on the sex of a person. The vampire must be a killer or a threat of some sort to characters, not just a person who drinks blood. A victim must not only be attacked but must be affected and changed forever. A story must explain why something happens and the sex of a victim defines the vampire. A good example of this would be Harry Potter. The vampire would be Tom Riddle/Voldemort. He's not only a threat to Harry but is a threat to everyone else, especially Harry's friends. He likes the idea of power. A victim would be Harry. Not only was he affected by the scar placed on his head, but the loss of his parents and the loss of his godfather later in the series made him brave and determined to do what is right instead of what is easy. The story to explain why starts with a bad history that made Tom Riddle become Voldemort and a prophecy which made Harry the 'chosen one'. The sex of a victim mattered in the story because neither Harry nor the other boy that could've been the chosen one, Neville Longbottom, was a girl. The only girl heroes were Hermione, Ginny, and a few others, none of which, except for Ginny, was targeted by Voldemort himself. Hermione was targeted by one of Voldemorts followers, though, which made her a victim.
In chapter three, the essentials of a vampire story are the vampire (evil figure, usually thirsty for some kind of power), the victim of the vampire, a reason for the victim to be chosen, and the downfall of the victim. The vampire doesn't have to be an actual blood-sucker that roams in the night. The vampire can be a person who tries to ruin the victim's life. Just as the vampire doesn't have to suck blood, the victim doesn't have to have his/her blood sucked. There is always a reason as to why the victim was chosen. The victim usually has to experience downfall for the vampire to get its rise in power. Vampires in literature are more power-hungry than blood-thirsty. Like in the story "The False Prince", the vampire is a member of the king's court. The court member, a nobleman named Conner, is trying to steal the throne away from the rightful prince. In the story, the victim was the prince, Sage (Who's real name was Prince Jaron) , and his family. The nobleman Conner poisoned the royal family when Sage was a baby. Prince Sage was taken by a caretaker in the castle and dropped off at an orphanage to be kept safe. Now that Conner thinks the whole family is dead, he begins to try and take complete control over everything. When Sage grows up enough and begins to understand things more (his age was not confirmed), he was chosen to play the part as the prince by the man who brought him to the orphanage. He was chosen because he resembled the prince greatly (I wonder why). At this time, the victim is going back to where the vampire attacked the first time. When Sage arrives, Conner is told of it and becomes upset. His vampire side comes back. Now Conner is back as the vampire, Sage is his victim, and Conner's reason is that he wants to be the king but now Sage is there as the rightful king. In this story, though, the victim becomes king and the vampire is put in the dungeon. This is only the first book so maybe that's not the end.
Camryn Rodrigue English 1- 2nd W. Rodrigue 23, October 2013
With this selection, I learned that the way you word a selection is key. Like the speaker states in the first paragraph: "If you take the “with” out of “Nice to eat with you,” it begins to mean something quite different.". If I were to accidentally misplace a word in a title or paragraph, the audience could think I've switched topics.
Responding to the question, I would say that some essentials are a ghost, doppelgÀ¤nger, victim, vampire, and a hero. Typically, your vampire (or ghost/doppelgänger) would be more of a villain figure, while the hero is still the hero. An example of this is Peter Pan. Peter Pan would be the hero, saving the day from the "vampire" Captain Hook. Wendy Darling would be the female victim. Throughout the storyline, they battled for the right of Neverland, and Peter always won, thus saving the day again and again. I believe this is what Chapter 3 of Literature Like A Professor was trying to get across to the readers.
When reading this selection, I've noticed that the characteristics of a vampire are used when answering questions. You have to be very careful when responding and before, reading. My response to this question is that all the essentials of it are selfishness, exploitation, a refusal to respect the autonomy of other people. This states that the only reason one may be the way they are is because something might've happened earlier in their life to make them this way. For instance, the reason Princess Fiona is now an ogre is because she gave herself to Shrek. If people wouldn't have known how she was before, they would've never knew she was a real princess and even a person!
While reading and comprehending Chapter 3 from "How To Read Literature Like A Professor", I understand how important it is to state the words you say correctly. Something that is said, may get taken the wrong way even if you left our one simple word such as "with" as used in the chapter. Once that happens, a person may look at themselves differently as well as looking and judging people due to their depression and sadness of something. This is where the essentials come in to take place of the situation. The essentials include the victims, the different points of views, self appearance, and respect. I use these key words because I can relate to all of them which means they must be essentials in the Vampire Story. As a young teenager, I have changed majorly, but you will always have the people in your life in which start drama and get into each others' business. The victims represent the fake friends you have, the point of views represent what each individual sees the problem seems to be and how to fix it, self appearance is the major part because how you look at yourself can either break you or make you meaning that you can stay down and unconfident or you can forget about the situation and act like it never happened working harder at everything you do, and respect is also a major key because without respect, we wouldn't be the individuals today. Each of these essentials are needed because if you miss one, the pot inside the kettle black is not complete. This relates to several books and movies because in the end, everything is either happy or sad and depressed. Therefore, I feel that these essentials are necessary relating to the Vampire Story leading on into the literary work of The Hunger Games due to the districts going against each other (fighting for their life), showing respect for other individuals by helping and volunteering, having a certain wardrobe for each district fighting to the end, and so on.
After reading this chapter, vampires don't have to have fangs to consider them vimpires. Vampires just don't go out at night an finds anyone. They usually pick someone that they don't care too much about. Don't mistaken vampires to always look like one. Some can actual look like an human being, not looking pal. You really wouldn't kno if they're an vampire because its going to be dark when they come out. This story can relate to Van Helsing. Van Helsing is the one that trys to protect everyone from the vampires. These vampires goes for women that are not married but beautiful. This is also like Dracula. Dracula does the same, he makes himself look young to get young girls and kill them.
Karlie Trosclair English 1 5th period Rodrigue 23 October 2013
Literature like a Professor Chapter 3:
The essentials of a vampire story is vampire, selfishness, exploration, and the autonomy of other people. A book that I have read that shows the essentials of a vampire story is the first book in the Twilight series. This story is definitely about a vampire. There is selfishness shown when Edward puts Bella in the situation of being another vampire's next meal just to make him happy. This book is about exploration because they explore the forest where Edward lives. Finally, it is about the autonomy about Edward and Bella's relationship. in conclusion, the first Twilight book is a story that shows the essentials of a vampire story based on the description given in Chapter three of Literature like a professor.
The essentials of a vampire story are the vampire, heroes, victims, selflessness, etc.. A story I know that displays this concept is the movie Cinderella. In this movie, Cinderella would be considered the victim because of the terrible way she is treated. The antagonist or "vampires" would be the step mom and sisters. They are the vampires of this story because they are always mean to her and disrespect her. The heroes would be the fairy god mother and the prince. They are the heroes because the fairy odd mother helps Cinderella get ready for the ball and the prince falls in love with her and gets her away from her step mom and sisters. Cinderella would also be the selfless person in the story because she always puts others before herself. She does what they tell her to do and what she thinks is expected of her. I feel that this story is a great example of what chapter three was trying to portray. I think that this is what Chapter 3: Literature Like a Professor was trying to get across.
Justin Babin English 1 5th Period Mr. Rodrigue 24 October
I think the essentials of a vampire story is, selfishness, exploration, and to not respect the autonomy of other people. People change from things that might have happened in the past to them. It also shows how if you dont use your meanings correctly, you can throw your reader off.
Kayla Webre English I: 2nd period Mr. Rodrigue 24 October 2013
I think that by vampires, its not necessarily the evil vampire, with fangs and pale cold skin, although it could be. The vampire is the antagonist. The victims are the protagonists. A story i can put into this chapter is "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". The evil step mother is the vampire in this story and Snow White is her victim. She tries persuading her to eat this apple, which comparing that to the chapter, would sort of be seducing her into eating the apple. The hero's would be the seven dwarfs, who treat her like a sister and love her, also the Prince who kisses her and wakes her from the spell of the evil step mom.
Jillian Landry English1 5th period Rodrigue 24 October 2013
The essentials of a vampire story are selfishness, exploitation, a refusal to respect the autonomy of other people. In the Maximum Ride series, Max wants Fang for herself. She loves him so much that she can't be without him. When she is away from him she can't do anything.
Chance Hepola English 1 2nd period Rodrigue 24 October 2013
As I read Chapter 3 Read like a Professor I found and analyzed the essentials to a vampire story. They were selfishness, a refusal to respect the autonomy of other people, and exploitation. For example the story of Dracula by Bram Stoker. Dracula is said to take advantage of young women. Which is an example of exploitation. Said that he "steals their innocents" in the writing of young women.
Jake Brannagan English 1 5th period Rodrigue 24 October 2013
The essentials of a vampire story are selfishness, exploration, and disrespect to a person autonomy. Vampires don't go looking for anyone, they look for people they don't really care about. Not all vampires have the fangs, the blood, and the long black capes. They sometimes just look like normal people. I can relate this story to Adam and Eve. Satan who disguises himself as a snake to not look like the devil, which a little red creature. He persuades Eve to eat an apple of the tree God told them not to eat from. Adam then takes a bite. God is mad and then kicks them out of the Garden of Eden. That is an example of selfishness.
The essentials of the Vampire story is that by it saying vampires, it might not actually mean it. To me, I think is means the antagonist which is the person that tries to hurt, put, down, or destroy the protagonist in the story. A literary work that I can apply this to is the three little piggy's. In the three little piggy's, the wolf tries to destroy the piggy's house when they move out there mom's home. At the beginning the wolf succeeds by blowing down the first to piggy's homes because they made it out of sticks and straw, but ends up failing when he tries blowing down the third piggy's brick house. Since the "vampire" (antagonist) is the bad guy in the story, this would be the wolf in the "Three Little Pigs."
Malorie Kraemer English 1 5th period W. Rodrigue 24 October 2013
The essentials of vampire story are an older figure representing corrupt, outworn value; a young, preferably virginal female; a striping away of her youth, energy, virtue; a continuance of the life force of the old male; the death or destruction of the woman. A real story this applies to is "Divergent" by Veronica Roth. The older trainer and leader, Eric, represents the older figure striping away at the young female. The young initiate, Tris, represents the young female.By brutally training Tris they strip away her youth and pride, and her suffering leads to the success and new youthfulness of Eric. By humiliating and hurting her and her fraction, they destroy her.
Chapter three of "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" elplains the essentials of a vampire story. These essentials are exploration, selfishness, and the autonomy of other people. The main things a vampire story needs is a vampire (usually an older male) with outworn values and a victom (usually a young virginal female) with their energy, virtue, and youth taken from them. The vampire is unconcerned about the destruction of the victom. One piece of literary work I have previously viewed that has these essentials is the movie Snow White. In this the "vampire" is the Evil Queen, and the "victom" is Snow White. The Queen becomes jealous of Snow White because she is the "fairest of them all". She immediatly hires someone to kill Snow White. She learns that Snow White is still alive, and the woodsmen she hired was not able to bring himself to kill her. She then disguises herself and give Snow White a poisoned apple in an attempt to kill her. Unfortunately for the Evil Queen, Snow White is revived by the prince.
Katelyn Belote Pre-AP English 9 - 5th Period 24- October- 2013
After reading and analyzing chapter 3, I have became known to a whole different mind set as towards "What does it mean to be a vampire?" If you would have asked me what a vampire was before the I read the selection, I would have described a figure who is popular around Halloween. I would describe him having very white skin, along with having fangs, and love to suck blood from others. But now, I have come to the conclusion of vampires are written to be the antagonist of the story...someone to put others down by either showing personalities of evil, selfish, or plain mean. A movie that I have watched that reminds me of a vampire is from the movie "Coal Minor's Daughter." Loretta Lynn's husband, known as "Doo" or "Mooney", was always a heavy drinker which brought pain and abuse within their relationship. He was bad to her, just like a bad guy or in literature speech, the antagonist.
Alexis Pierce English 1: 5th period W. Rodrigue 24 October 2013
The essentials of the vampire story is that not all stories of this kind are the classical type where an older man leaves his mark on a young women, taking away her innocence. It could also be targeted as selfishness, not respecting others, and using them for what we want, which is usually negative desires. When we think of vampires, we think of evil. If you think of it a different way, the protagonist resembles vitality, as well as life. Even though you may make a piece of literature with a specific meaning, it may not mean the same thing to others.
Evan Gaudet English 1: 2nd period Mr. Rodrigue 24 October 2013
This chapter talks about the essentials of a vampire story include drama, twists, plot, thrill and a creepy story that includes a scary parts. The characters usually include a vampire who is the evil person, a hero, and a victim. The vampire does not always have to look like an evil character like a blood sucking creature of the night. The evil character can be anyone who is evil and full of hate. I can compare the essentials of the vampire story to the Lion King. In the Lion King Scar was the evil character like the vampire. Simba was the hero and Mufasa is the victim. Scar takes Mufasa’s life, but Simba defeats Scar and returns peace to the African Plain.
I learned many things from Chapter 3, but the essentials of the vampire story is selfishness and exploitative. I chose this because the vampires use other people by taking advantage of their youth and pride. It's not always that way for evil monsters or beast. Some are just described that way and what I learned is just the way you describe something can change everything you know about that one person or monster.
In chapter 3 i learned that a vampire story has a very suspense background. Also a sense of thrill and horror. These types of stories usually include a Vampire, and hero to stop the vampire. A vampire can look like a high school girl all the way to an old wrinkled man. This usually has a scary plot that usually ends in the hero defeating the vampire. This is how i learned that anything can change what you think about someone or something.
Pacie Cortez English 1/ 5th period W. Rodrigue 24 October 2013
As I read chapter 3 of "How to Read Literature like a Professor", I learned about the vampire, or threat, the victim, and the reason. In the story Valdimir Tod, he was the victim of the "vampire". In this story there was more than one. He was hiding from the Vampire Counsel, his best friends cousin, and he didn't realize his father was the main threat till the end of the series. His father wanted the take the power of the privus. Which the Privus was the child of a vampire and a human, and that's what Valdimir was. The Vampire Counsel feared the power of the privus and wanted to kill Valdimir so the power would be contained. His best friend's cousin was a vampire hunter. Josh, the hunter, knew about Vald, but was keeping him alive out of the friendship they had, but was urging to kill him. In the end, Valdimir realized that his power didn't have to be used for evil. He stopped the war between the humans and the vampires, but if he wasn't constantly in danger or being attacked, he might possibly have never realized that his power wouldn't have to be for evil.
When most people hear the word vampire, they probably think of Edward from the Twilight series who sucks blood and has white pale skin. But in literature, a vampire is a totally different thing. A vampire in literature is someone who is selfish, has exploitation, or an autonomist. In the book/movie The Help, the vampire is Elizabeth Leefolt, who has a maid who does basically everything for her, even raises her kids. Her daughter sees her maid as her own mother, and all Elizabeth does is worry about herself and what people think of her. So basically, in literature the vampire is the person who is conceded and only worries about themselves, never puts others first.
As I reads chapter 3, I realized that the essentials of a vampire story include an antagonist, a hero, and a victim also known as a protagonist in literature terms. The antagonist is usually selfish and evil while the protagonist is usually an innocent female. The antagonist is usually out to hurt, kill, or put down the protagonist. An example of this would be "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." In this selection, the evil queen(antagonist) sees Snow White(protagonist) as being prettier than her. The evil queen's selfishness gets the best of her and she makes Snow White eat a poisoned apple to get rid of her. Then, her Prince Charming(hero) comes along and saves her.
What is a "vampire?" A fictional creature that sucks blood and has pale skin? One who is frightening and only comes out at night? Maybe you'll think of the Cullens fromt Twilight or Dracula? I guess it depends on whether you're a teenage girl or a nerdy boy obssesed with Halloween. Although these are stereo type definitions of vampires and the most common thoughts and ideas about them, they are actually something almost completely different. In literature, vampires are people who have traits such as selfishness and mean. These characters are usually known as the "bad guy." They use people, who they feel are less important they are, to do things for them and get what they want. In a lot of cases, the vampire is an elderly, yet attractive, mysterious man. He draws in innocent girls and takes that away from them. This makes them become the same way he is. An example where this can be found is in Tangled. The vampire is the old lady who kidnapped Rapunzel. Although she is a woman, she's still old yet mysterious and attractive to men. She uses Rapunzel's hair to keep her young. For 18 years old her life, Rapunzel is forced to live in the tower. She wasn't able to leave or live an enjoyable life. That was her innocence. Overall, vampires aren't just dress-up characters; they are actually found in stories everywhere and even in real life.
I have learned many things in chapter 3. But, the most important thing I learned is that you need drama, exposition, and a victim to create a vampire story. In almost every vampire movie you would see, you would see these things in it most of the time. Also, in a vampire movie, you always have that creepy feel in it and you always have that tense of horror that is always with the movie. Which makes the movie so great. You would want to have drama in it because that's what usually makes the story more interesting to readers and makes them want to read more. The, the exposition comes in. This is when the vampire usually takes over that person are tells the person to do really bad things. Which that is most common in movies like this. Lastly, you would have the victim. This is the person who the vampire has usually done something to and is always hurt or dead. This builds up the tension in the story, so you would defiantly need to have this and all of these in your story to make it a good vampire story.
The essentials of the Vampire story is selfish and exploitative. The vampires take advantage of the other people. Also it talks about how even people who are bad like some vampires can be, they all have some good in them. They are there to make you feel bad about yourself and ruin your life and try to get you like they are so they don't feel as lonely and more important.
As I read chapter three, I found that the essentials of a vampire story are the vampire (typically the dark, evil figure), a victim (preferably a young virginal female if you were to think of the nineteenth-century England), selfish pleasure to the evil figure (, and a dramatic downfall. For instance, the story of Dracula is a great example. Dracula is portrayed to take advantage of young virginal women in order to meet his own needs. He wants to stay young, energetic, and meet his other needs that he couldn't possibly meet on his own. He uses these women for what he wants, and then leaves them to find more. Sooner or later, someone is going to try and stop him which will cause a dramatic downfall in the story.
Hayze Talbot
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W. Rodrigue
22 October 2013
While reading chapter three the only thing I could get form the selection was that you need to word your titles and sentences. If you do not word them correctly you could say something totally different than what was meant.
READ THE QUESTION!!! : )
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W. Rodrigue
23, October 2013
In the selection, I learned that prepositions are import in the way you word your writing and that there's always more to a story than what you see.
In response to the question:
The essentials of a vampire story as shown is chapter three are a vampire, a victim, a story, and a dependence on the sex of a person. The vampire must be a killer or a threat of some sort to characters, not just a person who drinks blood. A victim must not only be attacked but must be affected and changed forever. A story must explain why something happens and the sex of a victim defines the vampire. A good example of this would be Harry Potter. The vampire would be Tom Riddle/Voldemort. He's not only a threat to Harry but is a threat to everyone else, especially Harry's friends. He likes the idea of power. A victim would be Harry. Not only was he affected by the scar placed on his head, but the loss of his parents and the loss of his godfather later in the series made him brave and determined to do what is right instead of what is easy. The story to explain why starts with a bad history that made Tom Riddle become Voldemort and a prophecy which made Harry the 'chosen one'. The sex of a victim mattered in the story because neither Harry nor the other boy that could've been the chosen one, Neville Longbottom, was a girl. The only girl heroes were Hermione, Ginny, and a few others, none of which, except for Ginny, was targeted by Voldemort himself. Hermione was targeted by one of Voldemorts followers, though, which made her a victim.
In chapter three, the essentials of a vampire story are the vampire (evil figure, usually thirsty for some kind of power), the victim of the vampire, a reason for the victim to be chosen, and the downfall of the victim. The vampire doesn't have to be an actual blood-sucker that roams in the night. The vampire can be a person who tries to ruin the victim's life. Just as the vampire doesn't have to suck blood, the victim doesn't have to have his/her blood sucked. There is always a reason as to why the victim was chosen. The victim usually has to experience downfall for the vampire to get its rise in power. Vampires in literature are more power-hungry than blood-thirsty. Like in the story "The False Prince", the vampire is a member of the king's court. The court member, a nobleman named Conner, is trying to steal the throne away from the rightful prince. In the story, the victim was the prince, Sage (Who's real name was Prince Jaron) , and his family. The nobleman Conner poisoned the royal family when Sage was a baby. Prince Sage was taken by a caretaker in the castle and dropped off at an orphanage to be kept safe. Now that Conner thinks the whole family is dead, he begins to try and take complete control over everything. When Sage grows up enough and begins to understand things more (his age was not confirmed), he was chosen to play the part as the prince by the man who brought him to the orphanage. He was chosen because he resembled the prince greatly (I wonder why). At this time, the victim is going back to where the vampire attacked the first time. When Sage arrives, Conner is told of it and becomes upset. His vampire side comes back. Now Conner is back as the vampire, Sage is his victim, and Conner's reason is that he wants to be the king but now Sage is there as the rightful king. In this story, though, the victim becomes king and the vampire is put in the dungeon. This is only the first book so maybe that's not the end.
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W. Rodrigue
23, October 2013
With this selection, I learned that the way you word a selection is key. Like the speaker states in the first paragraph: "If you take the “with” out of “Nice to eat with you,” it begins to mean something quite different.". If I were to accidentally misplace a word in a title or paragraph, the audience could think I've switched topics.
Responding to the question, I would say that some essentials are a ghost, doppelgÀ¤nger, victim, vampire, and a hero. Typically, your vampire (or ghost/doppelgänger) would be more of a villain figure, while the hero is still the hero. An example of this is Peter Pan. Peter Pan would be the hero, saving the day from the "vampire" Captain Hook. Wendy Darling would be the female victim. Throughout the storyline, they battled for the right of Neverland, and Peter always won, thus saving the day again and again. I believe this is what Chapter 3 of Literature Like A Professor was trying to get across to the readers.
When reading this selection, I've noticed that the characteristics of a vampire are used when answering questions. You have to be very careful when responding and before, reading.
ReplyDeleteMy response to this question is that all the essentials of it are selfishness, exploitation, a refusal to respect the autonomy of other people. This states that the only reason one may be the way they are is because something might've happened earlier in their life to make them this way. For instance, the reason Princess Fiona is now an ogre is because she gave herself to Shrek. If people wouldn't have known how she was before, they would've never knew she was a real princess and even a person!
While reading and comprehending Chapter 3 from "How To Read Literature Like A Professor", I understand how important it is to state the words you say correctly. Something that is said, may get taken the wrong way even if you left our one simple word such as "with" as used in the chapter. Once that happens, a person may look at themselves differently as well as looking and judging people due to their depression and sadness of something. This is where the essentials come in to take place of the situation. The essentials include the victims, the different points of views, self appearance, and respect. I use these key words because I can relate to all of them which means they must be essentials in the Vampire Story. As a young teenager, I have changed majorly, but you will always have the people in your life in which start drama and get into each others' business. The victims represent the fake friends you have, the point of views represent what each individual sees the problem seems to be and how to fix it, self appearance is the major part because how you look at yourself can either break you or make you meaning that you can stay down and unconfident or you can forget about the situation and act like it never happened working harder at everything you do, and respect is also a major key because without respect, we wouldn't be the individuals today. Each of these essentials are needed because if you miss one, the pot inside the kettle black is not complete. This relates to several books and movies because in the end, everything is either happy or sad and depressed. Therefore, I feel that these essentials are necessary relating to the Vampire Story leading on into the literary work of The Hunger Games due to the districts going against each other (fighting for their life), showing respect for other individuals by helping and volunteering, having a certain wardrobe for each district fighting to the end, and so on.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this chapter, vampires don't have to have fangs to consider them vimpires. Vampires just don't go out at night an finds anyone. They usually pick someone that they don't care too much about. Don't mistaken vampires to always look like one. Some can actual look like an human being, not looking pal. You really wouldn't kno if they're an vampire because its going to be dark when they come out. This story can relate to Van Helsing. Van Helsing is the one that trys to protect everyone from the vampires. These vampires goes for women that are not married but beautiful. This is also like Dracula. Dracula does the same, he makes himself look young to get young girls and kill them.
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Rodrigue
23 October 2013
Literature like a Professor Chapter 3:
The essentials of a vampire story is vampire, selfishness, exploration, and the autonomy of other people. A book that I have read that shows the essentials of a vampire story is the first book in the Twilight series. This story is definitely about a vampire. There is selfishness shown when Edward puts Bella in the situation of being another vampire's next meal just to make him happy. This book is about exploration because they explore the forest where Edward lives. Finally, it is about the autonomy about Edward and Bella's relationship. in conclusion, the first Twilight book is a story that shows the essentials of a vampire story based on the description given in Chapter three of Literature like a professor.
The essentials of a vampire story are the vampire, heroes, victims, selflessness, etc.. A story I know that displays this concept is the movie Cinderella. In this movie, Cinderella would be considered the victim because of the terrible way she is treated. The antagonist or "vampires" would be the step mom and sisters. They are the vampires of this story because they are always mean to her and disrespect her. The heroes would be the fairy god mother and the prince. They are the heroes because the fairy odd mother helps Cinderella get ready for the ball and the prince falls in love with her and gets her away from her step mom and sisters. Cinderella would also be the selfless person in the story because she always puts others before herself. She does what they tell her to do and what she thinks is expected of her. I feel that this story is a great example of what chapter three was trying to portray. I think that this is what Chapter 3: Literature Like a Professor was trying to get across.
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Mr. Rodrigue
24 October
I think the essentials of a vampire story is, selfishness, exploration, and to not respect the autonomy of other people. People change from things that might have happened in the past to them. It also shows how if you dont use your meanings correctly, you can throw your reader off.
Kayla Webre
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Mr. Rodrigue
24 October 2013
I think that by vampires, its not necessarily the evil vampire, with fangs and pale cold skin, although it could be. The vampire is the antagonist. The victims are the protagonists. A story i can put into this chapter is "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
The evil step mother is the vampire in this story and Snow White is her victim. She tries persuading her to eat this apple, which comparing that to the chapter, would sort of be seducing her into eating the apple.
The hero's would be the seven dwarfs, who treat her like a sister and love her, also the Prince who kisses her and wakes her from the spell of the evil step mom.
Jillian Landry
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Rodrigue
24 October 2013
The essentials of a vampire story are selfishness, exploitation, a refusal
to respect the autonomy of other people. In the Maximum Ride series, Max wants Fang for herself. She loves him so much that she can't be without him. When she is away from him she can't do anything.
Chance Hepola
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Rodrigue
24 October 2013
As I read Chapter 3 Read like a Professor I found and analyzed the essentials to a vampire story. They were selfishness, a refusal to respect the autonomy of other people, and exploitation. For example the story of Dracula by Bram Stoker. Dracula is said to take advantage of young women. Which is an example of exploitation. Said that he "steals their innocents" in the writing of young women.
Jake Brannagan
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Rodrigue
24 October 2013
The essentials of a vampire story are selfishness, exploration, and disrespect to a person autonomy. Vampires don't go looking for anyone, they look for people they don't really care about. Not all vampires have the fangs, the blood, and the long black capes. They sometimes just look like normal people. I can relate this story to Adam and Eve. Satan who disguises himself as a snake to not look like the devil, which a little red creature. He persuades Eve to eat an apple of the tree God told them not to eat from. Adam then takes a bite. God is mad and then kicks them out of the Garden of Eden. That is an example of selfishness.
The essentials of the Vampire story is that by it saying vampires, it might not actually mean it. To me, I think is means the antagonist which is the person that tries to hurt, put, down, or destroy the protagonist in the story. A literary work that I can apply this to is the three little piggy's. In the three little piggy's, the wolf tries to destroy the piggy's house when they move out there mom's home. At the beginning the wolf succeeds by blowing down the first to piggy's homes because they made it out of sticks and straw, but ends up failing when he tries blowing down the third piggy's brick house. Since the "vampire" (antagonist) is the bad guy in the story, this would be the wolf in the "Three Little Pigs."
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W. Rodrigue
24 October 2013
The essentials of vampire story are an older figure representing corrupt, outworn value; a young, preferably virginal female; a striping away of her youth, energy, virtue; a continuance of the life force of the old male; the death or destruction of the woman. A real story this applies to is "Divergent" by Veronica Roth. The older trainer and leader, Eric, represents the older figure striping away at the young female. The young initiate, Tris, represents the young female.By brutally training Tris they strip away her youth and pride, and her suffering leads to the success and new youthfulness of Eric. By humiliating and hurting her and her fraction, they destroy her.
Chapter three of "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" elplains the essentials of a vampire story. These essentials are exploration, selfishness, and the autonomy of other people. The main things a vampire story needs is a vampire (usually an older male) with outworn values and a victom (usually a young virginal female) with their energy, virtue, and youth taken from them. The vampire is unconcerned about the destruction of the victom. One piece of literary work I have previously viewed that has these essentials is the movie Snow White. In this the "vampire" is the Evil Queen, and the "victom" is Snow White. The Queen becomes jealous of Snow White because she is the "fairest of them all". She immediatly hires someone to kill Snow White. She learns that Snow White is still alive, and the woodsmen she hired was not able to bring himself to kill her. She then disguises herself and give Snow White a poisoned apple in an attempt to kill her. Unfortunately for the Evil Queen, Snow White is revived by the prince.
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24- October- 2013
After reading and analyzing chapter 3, I have became known to a whole different mind set as towards "What does it mean to be a vampire?" If you would have asked me what a vampire was before the I read the selection, I would have described a figure who is popular around Halloween. I would describe him having very white skin, along with having fangs, and love to suck blood from others. But now, I have come to the conclusion of vampires are written to be the antagonist of the story...someone to put others down by either showing personalities of evil, selfish, or plain mean. A movie that I have watched that reminds me of a vampire is from the movie "Coal Minor's Daughter." Loretta Lynn's husband, known as "Doo" or "Mooney", was always a heavy drinker which brought pain and abuse within their relationship. He was bad to her, just like a bad guy or in literature speech, the antagonist.
Alexis Pierce
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W. Rodrigue
24 October 2013
The essentials of the vampire story is that not all stories of this kind are the classical type where an older man leaves his mark on a young women, taking away her innocence. It could also be targeted as selfishness, not respecting others, and using them for what we want, which is usually negative desires. When we think of vampires, we think of evil. If you think of it a different way, the protagonist resembles vitality, as well as life. Even though you may make a piece of literature with a specific meaning, it may not mean the same thing to others.
Evan Gaudet
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Mr. Rodrigue
24 October 2013
This chapter talks about the essentials of a vampire story include drama, twists, plot, thrill and a creepy story that includes a scary parts. The characters usually include a vampire who is the evil person, a hero, and a victim. The vampire does not always have to look like an evil character like a blood sucking creature of the night. The evil character can be anyone who is evil and full of hate. I can compare the essentials of the vampire story to the Lion King. In the Lion King Scar was the evil character like the vampire. Simba was the hero and Mufasa is the victim. Scar takes Mufasa’s life, but Simba defeats Scar and returns peace to the African Plain.
I learned many things from Chapter 3, but the essentials of the vampire story is selfishness and exploitative. I chose this because the vampires use other people by taking advantage of their youth and pride. It's not always that way for evil monsters or beast. Some are just described that way and what I learned is just the way you describe something can change everything you know about that one person or monster.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 3 i learned that a vampire story has a very suspense background. Also a sense of thrill and horror. These types of stories usually include a Vampire, and hero to stop the vampire. A vampire can look like a high school girl all the way to an old wrinkled man. This usually has a scary plot that usually ends in the hero defeating the vampire. This is how i learned that anything can change what you think about someone or something.
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Pacie Cortez
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W. Rodrigue
24 October 2013
As I read chapter 3 of "How to Read Literature like a Professor", I learned about the vampire, or threat, the victim, and the reason. In the story Valdimir Tod, he was the victim of the "vampire". In this story there was more than one. He was hiding from the Vampire Counsel, his best friends cousin, and he didn't realize his father was the main threat till the end of the series. His father wanted the take the power of the privus. Which the Privus was the child of a vampire and a human, and that's what Valdimir was. The Vampire Counsel feared the power of the privus and wanted to kill Valdimir so the power would be contained. His best friend's cousin was a vampire hunter. Josh, the hunter, knew about Vald, but was keeping him alive out of the friendship they had, but was urging to kill him. In the end, Valdimir realized that his power didn't have to be used for evil. He stopped the war between the humans and the vampires, but if he wasn't constantly in danger or being attacked, he might possibly have never realized that his power wouldn't have to be for evil.
When most people hear the word vampire, they probably think of Edward from the Twilight series who sucks blood and has white pale skin. But in literature, a vampire is a totally different thing. A vampire in literature is someone who is selfish, has exploitation, or an autonomist. In the book/movie The Help, the vampire is Elizabeth Leefolt, who has a maid who does basically everything for her, even raises her kids. Her daughter sees her maid as her own mother, and all Elizabeth does is worry about herself and what people think of her. So basically, in literature the vampire is the person who is conceded and only worries about themselves, never puts others first.
ReplyDeleteAs I reads chapter 3, I realized that the essentials of a vampire story include an antagonist, a hero, and a victim also known as a protagonist in literature terms. The antagonist is usually selfish and evil while the protagonist is usually an innocent female. The antagonist is usually out to hurt, kill, or put down the protagonist. An example of this would be "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." In this selection, the evil queen(antagonist) sees Snow White(protagonist) as being prettier than her. The evil queen's selfishness gets the best of her and she makes Snow White eat a poisoned apple to get rid of her. Then, her Prince Charming(hero) comes along and saves her.
ReplyDeleteWhat is a "vampire?" A fictional creature that sucks blood and has pale skin? One who is frightening and only comes out at night? Maybe you'll think of the Cullens fromt Twilight or Dracula? I guess it depends on whether you're a teenage girl or a nerdy boy obssesed with Halloween. Although these are stereo type definitions of vampires and the most common thoughts and ideas about them, they are actually something almost completely different. In literature, vampires are people who have traits such as selfishness and mean. These characters are usually known as the "bad guy." They use people, who they feel are less important they are, to do things for them and get what they want. In a lot of cases, the vampire is an elderly, yet attractive, mysterious man. He draws in innocent girls and takes that away from them. This makes them become the same way he is. An example where this can be found is in Tangled. The vampire is the old lady who kidnapped Rapunzel. Although she is a woman, she's still old yet mysterious and attractive to men. She uses Rapunzel's hair to keep her young. For 18 years old her life, Rapunzel is forced to live in the tower. She wasn't able to leave or live an enjoyable life. That was her innocence. Overall, vampires aren't just dress-up characters; they are actually found in stories everywhere and even in real life.
ReplyDeleteI have learned many things in chapter 3. But, the most important thing I learned is that you need drama, exposition, and a victim to create a vampire story. In almost every vampire movie you would see, you would see these things in it most of the time. Also, in a vampire movie, you always have that creepy feel in it and you always have that tense of horror that is always with the movie. Which makes the movie so great. You would want to have drama in it because that's what usually makes the story more interesting to readers and makes them want to read more. The, the exposition comes in. This is when the vampire usually takes over that person are tells the person to do really bad things. Which that is most common in movies like this. Lastly, you would have the victim. This is the person who the vampire has usually done something to and is always hurt or dead. This builds up the tension in the story, so you would defiantly need to have this and all of these in your story to make it a good vampire story.
ReplyDeleteThe essentials of the Vampire story is selfish and exploitative. The vampires take advantage of the other people. Also it talks about how even people who are bad like some vampires can be, they all have some good in them. They are there to make you feel bad about yourself and ruin your life and try to get you like they are so they don't feel as lonely and more important.
ReplyDeleteAs I read chapter three, I found that the essentials of a vampire story are the vampire (typically the dark, evil figure), a victim (preferably a young virginal female if you were to think of the nineteenth-century England), selfish pleasure to the evil figure (, and a dramatic downfall. For instance, the story of Dracula is a great example. Dracula is portrayed to take advantage of young virginal women in order to meet his own needs. He wants to stay young, energetic, and meet his other needs that he couldn't possibly meet on his own. He uses these women for what he wants, and then leaves them to find more. Sooner or later, someone is going to try and stop him which will cause a dramatic downfall in the story.
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