ØCatch me if you can (a story
between father and son)
Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical crime film,
based on the life of Frank Abagnale, who, before his 19th birthday,
successfully performed
cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways
pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor. His primary crime was check fraud;
he became so experienced that
the FBI eventually turned to him for help in catching other check
forgers. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Leonardo DiCaprio
and Tom Hanks, with Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye and Amy
Adams in supporting roles.
ØCatch me if you can trailer
ØTwo little mice
ØDeath of salesman
Reality and Illusion
Death
of a Salesman uses flashbacks
to present Willy’s memory during the reality. The illusion not only “suggests the past, but also
presents the lost pastoral life.” Willy has dreamed of success his whole life and makes
up lies about his and Biff’s success. The more he indulges in the illusion, the harder it is for
him to face reality.Biff is the only one who realizes that the whole family
lived in the lies and tries to face the truth.
The American Dream
The
American Dream is the theme of the play, but everyone in the play hastheir own way to describe their American Dreams.
ØCliff notes
CliffsNotes (formerly Cliffs Notes,
originally Cliff's Notes and often, erroneously, CliffNotes) are a series of student study guides
available primarily in the United States. The guides present and explain
literary and other works in pamphlet form or online. Detractors of the study
guides claim they let students bypass
reading the assigned literature. The company claims to promote the reading
of the original work, and does not view the study guides as a substitute for
that reading.
ØDivergent
The story takes place in a dystopian and
post-apocalyptic Chicago
where people are divided
into distinct factions based on human virtues. Beatrice Prior is warned
that she is Divergent and thus will never fit into any one of the factions. She
soon learns that a sinister plot is brewing in her seemingly perfect society.
ØThe hunger game
Setting
The Hunger Games trilogy takes place in
an unspecified future time,
in the dystopian, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, located in the ruins of
North America. The country consists of the wealthy Capitol, located in the
Rocky Mountains, and 12 (formerly 13) poorer districts ruled by the Capitol.
The Capitol is lavishly rich and technologically advanced, butthe 12 districts
are in varying states of poverty. The trilogy's narrator and protagonist,
Katniss Everdeen, lives in District 12, the poorest region of Panem, formerly known
as Appalachia, where people regularly die of starvation. As punishment for a
past rebellion against the Capitol (called the "Dark Days"), wherein
12 of the districts were defeated, and the 13th was supposedly destroyed, one boy and one girl from each of the 12 districts, between the ages of
12 and 18, are selected by lottery to compete in the Hunger Games on an annual
basis.The Games are a televised event in which the participants,
called "tributes",
are forced to fight to the death in a dangerous public arena. The winning
tribute and his/her home district are then rewarded with food, supplies, and
riches. The purposes of the
Hunger Games are to provide entertainment for the Capitol and to remind the
districts of the Capitol's power and lack of remorse.
The most influential writer in all of
English literature, William
Shakespeare was born in 1564.Shakespeare attended grammar school, but
his formal education proceeded no further. In 1582 he married an older
woman, Anne Hathaway, and had three children with her. Around 1590 he left
his family behind and traveled
to Londonto work as an
actor and playwright. Public and critical success quickly followed, and
Shakespeare eventually became the most popular playwright in England and
part-owner of the Globe Theater.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one
of his strangest and most delightful creations, and it marks a departure from
his earlier works and from others of the English Renaissance. The play demonstrates both the extent of
Shakespeare’s learning and the expansiveness of his imagination. The range
of references in the play is among its most extraordinary attributes: Shakespeare draws on sources as various as Greek mythology (Theseus, for instance, is
loosely based on the Greek hero of the same name, and the play is peppered with
references to Greek gods and goddesses); English country fairy lore
(the character of Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, was a popular
figure in sixteenth-century stories); and the theatrical practices of
Shakespeare’s London (the craftsmen’s play refers to and parodies
many conventions of English Renaissance theater, such as men playing the roles
of women). Further, many of the characters are drawn from diverse texts: Titania comes
from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and Oberon may have been taken from the medieval romance Huan of Bordeaux, translated by Lord
Berners in the mid-1530s. Unlike the plots of many of Shakespeare’s plays,
however, the story inA
Midsummer Night’s Dream seems not to have been drawn from any particular source
but rather to be the original product of the playwright’s imagination.
ØVocabulary
lamend: to make changes to a
document, law, agreement etc, especially in order to improve it
lamendment: formal official change
ØThirteenth Amendment to the
United States Constitution
Though the amendment formally abolished slavery throughout the United States, factors such as Black Codes , white supremacist violence, and selective enforcement of statutes continued to subject some black Americans to involuntary labor, particularly in the South. In contrast to the other Reconstruction Amendments, the Thirteenth Amendment was rarely cited in later case law, but has been used to strike down peonage and some race-based discrimination as "badges and incidents of slavery"
lmort- dead
mortal:
human and not able to live forever
immortal:
living or existing forever
ØLove not look with eyes with
mind
Helena:"Love
looks not with the eyes but with the mind."
A
Midsummer Night's Dream (I, i, 234)
Helena ponders the transforming power
of love, noting that Cupid is blind. The lovesick Helena has been abandoned by her beloved Demetrius,
because he loves the more attractive Hermia. Helena, while tall and fair, is not as
lovely as Hermia. Helena finds it unfair that Demetrius dotes on Hermia's
beauty, and she wishes appearances were contagious the way a sickness is so
that she might look just like Hermia and win back Demetrius. The connection of love to eyesight and vision are matters of vital
importancein this play about love and the confusion it sometimes brings.
The Real Inspector Hound is a short, one-act play by Tom
Stoppard. The plot follows two theatre critics named Moon and Birdboot
who are watching a ludicrous setup of a country house murder mystery, in the
style of a whodunit.It is a parody of the stereotypical parlor
mystery in the style of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, as
well as of the critics watching the play, with their personal desires and
obsessions interwoven into their bombastic and pompous reviews. The title is a direct reference to the
ending of The Mousetrap, a play well known for
guarding the secrecy of its twist ending, although the producers of
Agatha Christie's play could not publicly object without drawing even more
attention to the fact.Stoppard's
play is an example of absurdism as well as farce, parody, and satire.
ØA MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
William Shakespeare
←Important
Quotations Explained→
1. Ay me, for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth. . . .
Lysander speaks these lines to soothe Hermiawhen she despairs about the difficulties facing their love,
specifically, that Egeus, her father, has forbidden them to marry and that
Theseus has threatened her with death if she disobeys her father. Lysander
tells Hermia that as long as there has been true love, there have been
seemingly insurmountable difficulties to challenge it.
2. Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.
But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so.
He will not know what all but he do know.
And as he errs, doting on Hermia’s eyes,
So I, admiring of his qualities.
Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Helena
utters these lines as she commentson the irrational nature of love.
They are extremely important to the play’s overall presentation of love as
erratic, inexplicable, and exceptionally powerful (I.i.227–235). Distressed by
the fact that her beloved Demetrius loves Hermia and not
her, Helena says that though she is as beautiful as Hermia, Demetrius cannot
see her beauty.
Helena adds that she dotes on Demetrius in the same way that he dotes on
Hermia. She believes that love has the power to transform “base and vile”
qualities into “form
and dignity”—that is, even ugliness and bad behavior can seem
attractive to someone in love. This is the case, she argues, because “love looks not with the eyes,
but with the mind”—love
depends not on an objective assessment of appearance but rather on an
individual perception of the beloved.
3. Lord, what fools these mortals be!
This
line is one of the most famous in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for its pithy
humor, but it is also thematically important:first, because it
captures the exaggerated silliness of the lovers’ behavior; second, because it
marks the contrast between the human lovers, completely absorbed in their
emotions, and the magical fairies, impish and never too serious.
4. I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the
wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about t’expound
this dream. Methought I was—there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and
methought I had—but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought
I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand
is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my
dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be
called ‘Bottom’s Dream’, because it hath no bottom.
He
believes that his experience as an ass-headed monster beloved by
the beautiful fairy queen was merely a bizarre dream (IV.i.199–209).
He remarks dramatically that his dream is beyond human
comprehension; then, contradicting himself, he says that he will ask
Quince to write a ballad about this dream. These lines are important partially because they offer humorous
commentary on the theme of dreams throughout the play but also because they
crystallize much of what is so lovable and amusing about Bottom. His
overabundant self-confidence burbles out in his grandiose idea that although no
one could possibly understand his dream, it is worthy of being immortalized in
a poem.
5. If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear;
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend.
If you pardon, we will mend.
Puck speaks these lines in an address to the audience near the end of A
Midsummer Night’s Dream,
extending the theme of dreams beyond the world of the play and putting the
reality of the audience’s experience into question (V.epilogue.1–8). As many of
the characters (Bottom and Theseus among them) believe that the magical events
of the play’s action were merely a dream, Puck tells the crowd that if the
play has offended them, they too should remember it simply as a dream—“That you have but slumbered here, / While these visions did appear.”The speech offers a commentary on the dreamlike atmosphere of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream and casts the play as a magical dream in which the audience
shares.
ØCupid
In classical mythology, Cupid (Latin
Cupido, meaning "desire") is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is
often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and the war god Mars, and
is known in Latin also as Amor ("Love"). His Greek counterpart is
Eros.
Although Eros is in Classical Greek art as
a slender winged youth, during the Hellenistic period, he was increasingly
portrayed as a chubby boy.
During this time, his iconography acquired the bow and arrow that
represent his source of power: a person, or even a deity, who is shot by Cupid's arrow is filled with uncontrollable desire.
In myths, Cupid is a minor character who serves mostly to set the plot in
motion. He is a main character only in the tale of Cupid and Psyche, when
wounded by his own weapons he experiences the ordeal of love. Although other
extended stories are not told about him, his tradition is rich in poetic themes
and visual scenarios, such as"Love conquers all"and
the retaliatory punishment or torture of Cupid.
ØEgeus
Egeus is the father of
Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's love, and appeals
to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to
wed Demetrius, she could be put to death,or cloistered in a nunnery
for the rest of her life -- both sentences supported by Athenian law.
ØTheseus
Theseus
was the mythical king of Athens and was the son of
Aethra by two fathers: Aegeus and Poseidon.
Theseus
was a founder-hero, like Perseus, Cadmus, or
Heracles (Hercules), all of whom battled and overcame foes that were identified
with an archaic religious and social order. As Heracles was the Dorian hero, Theseus was a founding hero,considered by Athenians as
their own great reformer: his
name comes from the same root as θεσμός ("thesmos"), Greek for
"The Gathering".
The myths surrounding Theseus—his journeys, exploits, and family—have
provided material for fiction throughout the ages
.
ØVocabulary
Øaero- = air
laerobic:
biology using oxygen
laerobatic:
impressive
and clever movements in
the air made by a plane