Clue 1

1.What is beauty?

What is beauty? I think beauty is an idea. Just like everyone has different opinion on certain idea, the concept of beauty can change in many different way. For example, your culture can be one factors of how you accept something as beautiful thing. There is no such thing as an ideal beauty since everyone doesn't agree with the others. A person can be beautiful, cars can be beautiful, and even music can be beautiful. Even though we all pursue for the ideal beauty of ourselves, you will never be able to, because beauty is all about what you think it is.

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"How great is the love the Father has lavished on us,that we should be called children of God!" 1 John 3:1

Proverbs 31:30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 "He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world (eternity) in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

1. Reader Response analysis is when there is a detailed connection and interaction between the text (BOOK) and the reader. From the powerpoint that Ms.Lilo showed us during our class time, It says that Literature doesn't really have a meaning and reader is the one who is making the true meaning of the text. Since People can never be the same, They might have a different perspective toward certain ideas or object. They could connect the events that occur inside the story and make connection with their own experience and make their own meaning! It might sound very surprising to you, but everytime you read something, you always make connection to something that you have experienced. For example, If you are reading about scene where group of people bullies others, you will picture the scene of your friends (IM NOT TELLING YOU WHO THEY ARE ) making fun of others or one of the people that you personally dislike. Skilled readers not only understand the theme or plot of the story, but they are also able to make connections and interpret their own meanings into the text throughout the process of reading.

2. Reader Response to the text can open your eyes to more truth as we read. Making connection requires an excellent understaning of the plots, themes, and all the other elements that exist in the text. As you make more connection throught the story, you will be able to learn and realize many things. For example, When you are reading while you listen to exciting rock band such as GREEN DAY (THE BEST), you won't really have a clue of what the theme or plot is. You will barely remember the events that happened, and you will have to read the text again to fully understand the story. This is why you shouldn't have anything that can disturb you during reading. Making notes, making connections, summarzing the main points and all the other stuff will not only help you understand the author's intention, but it will also be able to help you find something that only you can find. For instance, you might discover something about yourself that you quiet haven't noticed before by making connections with the characters in the text, and you might also be able to realize how certain reactions toward others can affect them. If you are able to fully connect yourself and the text, you will be able to find something that no one else can find. something about YOURSELF.

random information :)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/weekinreview/25rich.html

3. All of my English teachers used to say that making connections and interacting with the texts were very important? When I first heard about it, I thought it was really silly. Why would you make a connection for something that completely has nothing to do with you? It is because if you do not make any connections or interact, you will simply get nothing out of reading that book, which will become a waste of time. The reason you read a book is to gain knowledge, to understand how that book is connected to your life and try to make your life better. If you read something only with the literate meaning of the text, you will never be able to understand author's true intention. Also, it is harder for you to understand the text if you do not make any connections. For example, Bob gets an 'A' on the test, and he is extremely happy. You know that he is happy because you have also gotten an 'A' (or 'B') before and know how it feels like when you have achieved something that not every people can achieve. Even if you dont have a solid ideas of what connection is, you are always making connection somehow. You just need to find where and you will be able to become a succesful reader.

4. Few months ago, I read a novel called 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus. When I was about to read the book, my teacher had told me that this book was about something called 'existentialism'. But I really didn't clearly get the meaning of the story until I read it the second time. The book is about a person called 'Mersault' ruining his life by unintentionally killing Arab. He is sentenced to death, and tell the reader at the last page that he had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of his execution and that they greet him with cries of hate. Just by reading this, you should be able tell that he is somehow abnormal. He seems that he doesn't have something that everybody else has. EMOTIONS. What he has done made him a stranger of the society. I think that the theme of the book that Camus is trying to tell the reader is that society often misinterprets those who do not fit in. Due to those misinterpretations, society condemns, persecutes, and isolate these misunderstood group of people. BE NICE TO WANGDDAS (OUTCAST).

I DID IT! :)