Cat in the Hat blog #1

Character Analysis:

The character that I am going to analyze is going to be the Cat in the book The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss. According to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis paper, the Cat is an Id ego, he does many things that our animal instincts want to do, what we want to do to have fun, and to complete our desires no matter what, as Sigmund Freud has said; “...The part of the personality that contains our primitive impulses: such as thirst, anger, hunger; and the desire for instant gratification or release. According to Sigmund Freud, we are born with our Id. The Id is an important part of our personality because as newborns, it allows us to get our basic needs met. Freud believed that the Id is based on our pleasure principle. The Id wants whatever feels good at the time, with no consideration for the other circumstances of the situation. The Id is sometimes represented by a devil sitting on someone's shoulder. As this devil sits there, he tells the ego to base behavior on how the action will influence the self, specifically how it will bring the self pleasure.” As the Cat is an Id type of ego, he also plays a huge part within this book and the plot of the story. He plays a huge part because without this Id character, there would not being a conflict, therefore just leaving the children and the fish at home, alone, with nothing to do but waiting for their mother to arrive home. Also, he provides the solution, or conclusion, to the end of the story, which is a very big role with-in this story because he helps make the house completely normal again before the mother comes home. Now, the Cat has an Id like personality because he comes into the children’s and the fish’s house and completely messes it up by bringing in his shenanigans and messes with the fish while destroying the entire house. He also shows signs that he is an Id like ego by letting the mess get bigger within the house, not even caring about it getting messy while ignoring everyone elses plea for him to leave the house and stop causing the messes, and just doing as he wishes. In all, the Cat is an Id like personality because all he does is cause trouble for the narrator and his sister and the fish. He completely messes up their house without no care and then refuses to listen to anyone else. Also, he is an Id like ego with-in the story because he helps causes the conflict within this story by causing the mess while the mother is close to the home, which makes him a very important of the plot and story. Even though he was an Id throughout most of the book, he became a good superego by helping the kids clean-up their house and everything, making everything nice and neat before the children's mother come home.

Persepolis Blog #2

2) Yes, Persepolis is more powerful than if she had fictionalized it because instead of just reaching out to the adult world of reading, it extends to the kid and the teenage world of reading because it has pictures, which keeps kids entertain and makes them want to read, as well as to teenagers because it is simple to read, you do not need to visualize anything because the comic book like set-up helps you see what is directly going on, therefore it is easier to remember, which i can relate to because sometimes if i have a picture in my head, i can memorize it better and even understand it even more. At the sametime, it doesn't appear as powerful because it has a comic-book like set-up, which i believe, a lot of adults won't pay attention to much at first, because I think that they believe that if it's a comic book like setting, it will have a comic book like writing, a hero with a problem, the hero solves it, then it ends, but in this book, there is no hero..., just a girl who is telling about her whole life with her family and the surroundings around her that helped shaped her to who she is, so it's just not for kids and teenagers, it is for everyone to read because it tells a real story of how one persons life was shaped by her country. Within memiors, there are benefits and drawbacks. The benefits would have to be that we get to hear straight from the persons point of view, but the drawback would be that we do not know if most of the things are true, because it's from the authors point of view, so everything may not be factual.

3)Satrapi goes and challenges this myth by showing that not all Iranians are like that, a lot of them rioted and protested against this, they hated it and did not want it in their country at all, but they did not have enough power to stop this. Persepolis dispels and confirms my views on Iran because at first, i thought that all iranians were like that, but now i see that only some of these people in iran are like this, not all of them at all, which kind of makes me feel bad for misjudging people based on their government and what they stand for, but at the same times, shows me that iran was corrupted government wise, not the population wise, well, just maybe part of the population. It helps deepen my understanding of iran because i feel more sympathetic because they have suffered so much in their past, also that they people do not have as much freedom as we do in the U.S., which makes me think how i should be glad to be able to live within this country, and that a lot of people in Iran are just striving to live.

9) They did this by doing what they thought was fun, and they still bought banned stuff like CD's, Posters, and other western things that were not allowed within Iran. If I was a child within this environment, i would have been scared and probably would have followed the rules because i cherish my life and want to keep on living, and also, go with my beliefs because i am proud of my religion and cherish it and appreciate it, so i would not rebel as much as satrapi because i would be scared to be punished, locked in prison for so long, then tortured, then maybe even killed. As i am now, a teen, i have rebelled a lot of things, i have rebelled against my parents, (of course, everyone does it sooner or later), by staying out later, not doing crap, and just kind of doing whatever i wanted even though they yelled and lectured at me, but i rebel even less now because i know that they are just looking out for me because they just care and worry about me, but i still stay out later than i am supposed to because i do nothing bad, just chilling at a friends house who lives like four blocks away from me. Satrapi, in a lot of ways, is a normal kid because she plays with other kids, she talks to other kids, gets mad a lot, is loud and annoying, and talks to her parents a lot, which is what i did when i was a kid, i would always hang out with my parents, just talking to them in hmong and asking weird questions.

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8) A lot of things prevent people from being completely free, the government , work, laws, religion and more. It all comes down to what strikes you the most, for me, it's a lot of things like family stress and a little more things, but in general, no one can really be free, but there are some certain times where you can experience freedom, like your first time to a movie without your parents or family, or maybe your first time at a restaurant and ordering something with your own money, for me, it was Subway. Marji and her family rebel agaisnt the rules by clrearly denying to wear veils in their homes, wearing jean jackets, having posters, hosting parties and going to protests, abd they try to live normal livcs by enjoying themselves, refusing to do things that just does not make sense.

5) I think the narratores voice is nice and appealing vecause it is easy to understand unlike some other books that i have read in the past. The part that i like the most about Marji's character is how she is entertaining, willing to tell about her life, and just kind of open to ideas, but the part that i don't like is how she can be really stubborn sometimes and how she just sometimes blurts stuff out sometimes when it isn't appropriate. Marji has affected my way of reading by giving reading autobiagraphy's a different a twist and kinda of adding visuals so you can connect what is really going on instead of just visualizing it.

14) By saying that 0ther have had it worse in their lives and have led harsher lives, while more than 80% of people in America have some much more freedom than Marji's grandpa, uncle, and her neighbors who were sent to jail because they protested against the beliefs and laws of their country, while we are able to do this without almost no fear. So we should cherish our lives along with our freedom in this country. This suggests that that we should be proud abd happy to live in this country because we have more freedom, and that our lives can be lived up to so much more do to our level of freedom, yet so many of us don't see this.

Visual Essay - Consumerism

The theme that i am going to talk about is consumerism. My pictures represents the things that we tend to spend money on, from clothes to food and cars. We spend a lot of money on things that we really do not need or that is even necessary(43). I start off my pictures with a cloud picture slowly taking over the sun and the sky to represent consumerism and how it slowly consumes us and everything in life by advertising, targeting certain people and group of people, and many other ways. As we start to go downwards, you can see that i have included a Walmart picture that shows the smiley face logo on top a human body with many arms taking money, wrecking things, grabbing people and many other things inside the picture. This picture represents the same thing as my cloud picture, the taking over of everything, but instead of representing everything, i solo singled out Walmart because most of us know that Walmart goes and takes out the small businesses in towns, then makes them go out of business. They make them go out of business with their advertisement and prices compared to the small businesses. All of these pictures just pretty much imply that we spend money on a lot of things that we really don't need, but want because they are the things that are in style or look nice. As to clothes that are most of my visual essay, i added my picture of a Mc Donald bag that i took to represent that we also spend money on excess food that we know is bad and not healthy for us, but we still buy it because it is more convenient, and cheap.
I can relate to this topic because i am a "victim" of consumerism. I spend money on things that i do not really need, but i still buy it anyways that i like or that i think that is in style. Slowly over time, i have developed into consumerism because it is only natural in our time, and especially from groups around my age to maybe groups in their 40's-50's. I developed into consumerism naturally, as i said before, because it's only a matter of time before consumerism was introduced into me, as i am at that age where i buy anything i desire. My feelings toward consumerism isn't strong because i know it's there, but i just don't really have a reaction towards it because maybe i'm just too young to really care what i buy or not.

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#4) This way of marketing is very similar to our current tactics for advertising because we categorize fashion into different styles, and target certain individuals for these styles. The only difference is that instead of company’s categorizing us individuals into groups, then sending us advertisements of things that we would like to buy, straight into our heads. If I was to be categorized into a type, or group, I guess it would the kind of “preppy” group or something similar to that cause I do like preppy kind of clothes.

(Last One) When the author dedicates this book to those who resist the feed, I believe that he is saying that he is dedicating this book to those who resist the normal, consumerism, or anything else that would make them be like everyone else. In the sense, the feed is big companies that dominate our lives and kind of makes us depend on them, and this can be resisted by refusing to buy products from big companies or many other ways that seem fit or just. The benefits of doing this is that many other small businesses will gain more reputation and money, but the drawbacks will be that many big store companies will make things cheaper to compete with small businesses, therefore by chance, will make many of the small business supporters go to those big companies for cheaper prices. I don't think that i resist the feed at all because I like to buy name-brand clothing and i also like to buy cheaper stuffs. Also, I don't do much to help stop consumerism as it is.

(9th from the bottom) I think that the author had the father in this story use the "slang like-words" to kind of show that the father and son/family relationship has changed in the future since the "Feed" was added, therefore causing a kind of weird relationship, where we know the father is a father, but he is more like a normal man, or even a teenager to his kids so that they can relate to him. The author might have added the use of those slang words to also represent that the feed-like future is near because we still use quite a few of these slang words in our time and place.

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1) This sentence sets up the rest of the story because it kinda of sets an adventurous kind of theme to the story. With this adventurous theme added to the beginning means that this book is meant to have some more interesting adventures throughout the story, which, hopefully will make this book very interesting. Along with adding a adventurous theme, it kinda sets a boring theme at the same time because they went to the moon to have fun, but then it turned to be boring because i believe that they made it boring too.

2) The thing that i am noticing about M.T. Anderson's way of writing is quite weird because he sometimes does not use incorrect grammar sometimes, which i think is a unique and nice way of writing, but at the the same time, a kind of confusing writing cause it makes me read it twice cause it's incorrect to the way that we are supposed to read sentences.
Now, I believe that Anderson wrote like this to kind of show how the future is like without teachers teaching in a real school environment in the future, and as we can see, the effect is quite obvious.

9)In this statement, the trends in the novel now shows us that trends very, very, very, quickly. Therefore, a feed is needed to keep in the latest trends, giving the people with Feeds the upper hand in looking better, like those with money in our time and world.