Lord of the Rings (Extended Version) by Peter Jackson

I watched the Lord of the Rings the Extended version by Peter Jackson and this was actually my first time ever watching these movies, and I thought that they were very interesting and had alot of dark action scenes in it. I was surprised because I thought that this movie would follow more to the novel The Hobbit, but it didn't it took us more into depth and to many places that The Hobbit didn't.
My favorite character is frodo and not because he is the main character but because he seems that he really wants to go on this adventure and is really hyped up and excited about it and when Gandolf took him and his friends to the dwarves and the other creatures they asked who was going to take the ring to the fire pit thing and nobody wanted to so frodo stood up and said ill go. I really like his energy and his will power. My scene I hate the most in the first movie is when Gandolf falls off of the cliff with the firey dragon, but first he is just hanging on the edge of the cliff and everyone is just standing there watching then frodo runs to him and tries to help him but the others pull him back and Gandolf yells at them then falls. Well the reason why I hate this scene so much is because Gandolf has helped these people and protected them through everything on there journey so far and then when it comes to him needing help and some protecting the others are just like forget it and basically that’s why it makes me so angry. But yeah anyways overall it’s a pretty good movie and I can’t wait to see the last one and find out how it ends.

The Hobbit

The Hobbit

The Hobbit

This week I read the J.R.R Tolkien’s graphic novel The Hobbit. This classic novel is in the genre of fantasy. First I must mention that this book was originally intended to be a fairy tale story for children, however the adventure and action in this book is more suitable for adults.
The Hobbit is a story of Bilbo Baggins, and he really isn’t your normal looking hobbit, he is more of a plumper man who loves to eat (which are what Hobbits are all about Fooooood!) and is a quiet and content hobbit that keeps to himself more often than none. But one day his whole life get turned upside down when the wizard Gandalf comes wanting him to go on a quest with him and many other dwarves to retrieve the dwarves stolen treasure. This story first takes place in a more happy and magical surrounding and then we head into a dark gloomy setting and throughout the chapters in this novel you will find yourself reading about many different kinds of mystical creatures such as elves, goblins, wolves, dragons and many more. All these people go on this quest with Bilbo but when it all comes down to it, it is Bilbo himself that must face the dragon Smaug.
In my Opinion I think that this book is very interesting read and there is lots of adventure it, so if you have any time on your hands and wish to read something then I recommend to you my friend The Hobbit.

Classic Japanese ghost stories

This week i have read a few of the Classic Japanese Horror Stories and in fact they are pretty good I must say.
The first one I read is called a Dead Secret and it was basically about this lady who's name is O-Sono and her father sent her to a school where they would teach her proper accomplishments and then she ended up getting married to a merchant named Naragarya and they got married and had a son.. but after four years O-Sono died but after a few days she came back and haunted the house she lived in but she wasen't looking to scare anybody she wanted something so she stood by this chest and and nobody could figure out wat she wanted so this priest came and watched and listened to her and it ended up being a letter in the bottom of the chest that someone who loved her wrote a long time ago and she didn't want her husband to find out so the priest burned it and then O-Sono was laid to rest and never came back to.
The second one I read is called Of Mirror and Bell and this one is about a priest who wanted to build a bell for there temple so he went out searching for bronze mirrors and he got an assortment of them, but he still needed one more so he went to a young woman's house and asked her if she had a bronze mirror and she did and she gave it to him but after she donated it the priest she realized that it had been a family heirloom and she wanted it back but she couldn't get it back after she already gave it up so she let it go.... so finally the people melted all of the bronze mirrors but one would not burn and that just so happened to be the womans and of course everyone new if a mirror could not be melted that it ment they really didn't want to give it away and they were cold hearted.... soon the woman was so ashamed that she killed her self by drowing in a pond she put alittle curse on the bronze but the town didn't think anything would happen so they kept ringing the bell day after day nothing happened, but the priest became scared and took down the bell and rolled it into the muddy pond.

Response to Mr.Steiling's Troll Bridge Question

List made by Amy Schilling and Andrew Dimase
Different Elements of Fantasy in Troll Bridge
- Trolls
- Barbarians
- Dwarfs
- Talking Horses
- Beasts
- Treasures/Gold
- Setting/forest/enviroment
- Quest/adventure
- Wizard
- Hero/ Warrior
- War
- Swords

interview w/a Vampire

About two weeks ago I read Interview with a vampire, and surprisingly I really liked the book. It really wasn’t that confusing to read unlike a few of the other books that I have read for my lit Class. This book really caught my interest mainly because, I like the thought of vampires and there inner battles first being mortals and then turning into the dark side, I just really like the whole concept of that I guess.
So basically in the book this guy Louis suffers from the loss of his wife and child and couldn’t bare to live on which pretty much caught the attention of vampire lestat and unlike lestat, Louis had a choice to become a vampire or die and he chose to become a vampire. Which was really surprising to me mostly because he said he didn’t want to live anymore, but I suppose its because he wouldn’t feel anything anymore. But as I read on in the book it seemed to me that they really did have feelings or at least one exception Louis. And I say that because, Lestat shows no regard for mortal life while Louis does. During a conversation one night, Lestat tells Louis that they could survive on animals, although it is nowhere near the same experience that killing mortals gave them. But Louis insisted until he came across a town were the plague had killed most except for this little girl so Louis decided to take her life a relieve her of her pain, but instead of killing her he only got enough were she was suffering (losing lots of blood) so Lestat freed Claudia of her pain and let her drink from his blood and she turned into a vampire. Really what im getting at here is that Louis became so in love with this little girl, like it was his own daughter. There bond was so strong and no other vampires liked that because they are not supposed to feel for anyone. Which is why the vampires that Claudia and Louis met along the way decided to take Claudia and Madeline and put them in an outdoor cell where they instantly disintegrated and turned to dust at first light. Forcing Louis to break the bond he had. Which I thought that was very cruel just because they were jealous of what he had they wanted him to suffer. That really connects to the world today because nobody like’s if someone is better them so they want to down grade them however they possibly can. Well that’s it for this time; stay tuned for next week’s blog.

Response to Mr.Steiling's P&P&Z Question

How do the rules for zombies expressed in P&P&Z embody the rules for zombies generally?
1. They kind of walk around mindlessly with no soul eating people, also helping the story out (the disease or plague has taken over the bodies of all the people and they have turned into zombies or unmentionables.

We see zombies in this novel represented as the lowest of lower classes. They are harnessed to pull carts, burned "adead" in a concentration camp-like cremetory, slaughtered coldly and recreationally. Just what is the metaphor being presented by the figure of the zombie in this novel?
2. it may be a metaphor between nature and man.

Moreover, what can we make of the zombie as it has become a fixture in contemporary popular culture; just why have zombies become so popular?
3. I believe that zombies have become so popular in this day and age because it gives us more adventure and horror in your life something that we wouldn't usually get otherwise.

Pride, Prejudice and Zombies

The Novel that was selected for this week is Pride and Prejudice and zombies, this is a book I have never and in fact I have never read a Jane Austen book in my life. But I have to say that it wasn’t all that bad of a book. I could actually stand to read it and it wasn’t that difficult to understand. I do believe that with the type of language that they use in the novel, that it takes place in the early 1800’s but I could be wrong. The book seems to focus on a small town with really rich people.
So in the beginning Mr. And Mrs. Bennett are talking amongst themselves and Mr. Bennett first tells his wife that this really rich guy is in town named Mr.Bingley and it would be nice if they could get one of there four daughter’s called upon but Mr.Bingley favors the oldest child Elizabeth the most, and Mrs. Bennett doesn’t appreciate that but anyways what I’m getting is I think its weird that Mrs. Bennett is mainly focused on getting her four girls married off and her husband just wants the girls to be safe from all of the zombies and could really careless about getting them married off, so he put them all into deadly arts. In my opinion if my mom was only concerned about getting my sister and I married off I would be pissed, because there is more to life then just marriage go and explore the world. I think its kind of strange that nobody ever call them zombies except for maybe one or two times in the whole novel they are known to man as the unmentionables. I mean why can’t they call them zombies that’s what they are. Another thing why dress the dead in fine clothes I mean I know that we do it know but then they were just put in some dirt. I love when the Bennett’s daughter’s are at the ball, there dancing and singing and then all of a sudden the unmentionables climb through the windows and start feasting on the people and then the girls just whip out there knives and kill them all I just find that amusing, its just so random I guess.
Ok more towards the end of the book when Elizabeth is over at Bingley’s house, they left the cellar door opened to let the night air in and then the unmentionables were found the next day feasting upon a dozen servants, some maids a couple of cooks and a steward. Ok so if you knew that this plague was going on and there were zombies everywhere I’m sorry but wouldn’t you make sure that the door was closed so you wouldn’t get infected.
All right I will try and wrap it up now I like the ending when Elizabeth ends up marrying Darcy even though Lady Catherine is kind of a bitch to them and doesn’t want them to get married, I honestly think that she’s jealous of Elizabeth. One other thing why do the people stay in England and fight off the zombies why not just move to another town and find safety away from the zombies.