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Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II Turning Point Art     Above is a picture that I drew of what I believe are two important moments in Hamlet and The Stranger . I chose these two events to draw not only because they are turning points for the main character, but also because how they compare and contrast. Both scenes set in motion the circumstances that lead to the main characters' deaths. The scene on the left is Meursault shooting the man on the ground. The scene on the right is Hamlet's conversation with the ghost in act 1 scene 5. As soon as Meursault pulls the trigger, he seals his fate to ridiculed for his character and die. Similarly, when Hamlet agrees to avenge his father, he is set on a path in which his personal failures bring ruin to himself and those around him. The setting on the left is overwhelmingly bright due to the sun, and Meursault is the one in the dominant position. Contrarily, the Hamlet scene takes place at night with Hamlet in awe/fear of the...

Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II November 30 2021 Hamlet and The Stranger Final Topics D.3 Hamlet and The Stranger use the main protagonists’ internal dialogue to give the reader insight into their character. Hamlet’s soliloquies are used to show the audience his internal conflict.  Hamlet’s internal conflict originates from a sense of uselessness. His soliloquy in act one scene two describes to the audience how powerless he feels. “But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue”(Shakespeare 1.2.159). The entire soliloquy is about how Hamlet despises the marriage between Claudius and Gertrude, yet at the end of it he relents that he is unable to speak his true feelings. Further on in the story, twice is Hamlet shown his inability to carry out his revenge. After watching the player act: “Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause”(Shakespeare 2.2.561-563). Hamlet is angered that he is not enraged at his father’s murder but he ...

Summer Assignment 3 Trauma, Innocence, Characters, Communication, In, Theme The Dew Breaker 3 Thematic Topics Relationships,Character,In,Thematic Topics,Identity,The Dew Breaker,Communication The Dew Breaker Creative Portfolio Relationships,Character,In,Violence,Family,The Dew Breaker Poetic Notes Poem,Character,The Things They Carried,Monkey Bridge,My Brilliant Friend,Trauma Hamlet and The Stranger Dialectical Portfolio Hamlet,The Stranger,Character,In,Identity,Relationships,Thematic Topics,Comparison,

Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II Hamlet and The Stranger Dialectical Portfolio Part 1: Use of the death of a parent Hamlet : Father is dead Learn much about the character because of it Spurs him into action The Stranger : Mother is dead Learn much about the character because of it Forces him into action     In both Hamlet  and The Stranger , the main characters experience the death of a parent early in the novel to introduce the readers to their characters and spur them into action.     Hamlet opens around two months after the titular character's father has died. Hamlet's first introduction illustrates that the event still heavily plagues Hamlet. Reflecting on what has happened, he laments " Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, t haw, and resolve itself into a dew,  or that the Everlasting had not fixed h is canon 'gainst self-slaughter!"(Shakespeare 129-132). Hamlet feels useless due to his inability to fix his sadness or s...

Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II November 3, 2021 How our relationships with others can help us Danticat uses the characters' relationships in The Dew Breaker in order to illustrate how people can be changed by their relationships with others. The main example of this comes from the relationship of the titular character (known as Papa) and his family. Through the first and last chapters, "The Book of the Dead" and "The Dew Breaker", we learn about Papa's past. He was a horrible man who took pleasure in carrying out terrible missions for a terrifying government. He used his power and influence to get what he wanted and killed any who got in his way. Danticat uses his actions and his physical appearance to characterize him as a monster. By the time we see him in "The Book of the Dead", he is a completely changed man. He is soft-spoken, and visually disturbed by violence. After he explains the truth of his past to his daughter, she is conf...

Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II   Poetic Notes Poem #1: "The War Photographer" by Carol Anne Duffy Thesis + Outline: Duffy juxtaposes gruesome imagery with the photographer's perspective to illustrate how one is able to become desensitized to violence through constant witnessing of it. Duffy uses violent imagery to convey the horrors witnessed by the photographer. "fields which don't explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat"(11-12) "blood stained into foreign dust"(18) These lines show the reader what the photographer sees everyday The strong visuals help to align the reader's perspective with that of the photographer. The photographer's mannerisms are shown in contrast to the horrid events he sees. "Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now"(7-8). In the moment of witnessing the violence, the photographer had no distinct reaction to it, shown by hi...

Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II October 7 2021   "The Dew Breaker" Important Character Web