Aneka's Online Journal

1. describe Gatsbys feelings towards the meeting with Daisy. Find 2 quotes to support your description. Explain why he might be feeling the way you have identified.

He was nervous,

1. How does the scene at the apartment develop our perception of Tom?

When Tom enters the apartment, he calls Ms. Wilson ‘Myrtle’ this indicates that the apartment is for affairs because in the 20’s you called the wives by the husbands name. Tom does not care about calling Myrtle by her husbands name because he doesn’t want to be reminded that they are having an affair. He also punches and breaks Myrtles nose because she was going on about Daisy, this shows that Tom still must have some feelings for Daisy. This scene confirms that hes angry and likes to control people.

2. Nick states that he “was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” What do you think he means by this?

Nick was drunk during the scene, and he was there but he was standing back from the action and observing what was happening.

1. Nick tells us at the beginning of the chapter that he is “inclined to reserve all judgements.” What do you think this means? Does this mean we can trust him to tell this story truthfully and without bias.

Nick states that he is “inclined to reserve all judgements” this means that he is to not judge the comments that have been said and listen to everyone’s comments with an open mind. This means that we can trust him to tell his story truthfully and without bias because he is using an open mind.

2. Describe your initial impressions of the following characters:

Tom – He’s racist and is cheating on Daisy which makes me think hes a bit of a dick. He used to be the best football player at New Haven.

Daisy- She seems to not really care about her daughter and the comments she makes a comment about hoping her daughter will be a fool – which makes me think she might not be happy with the fact men have power over women

Nick – Nick has a job but its not the main thing in his life and he’s writing a story

Jordan (miss Baker) –

3. Explain the relationship between Tom and Daisy. What seems ‘off’ about it?

Tom and Daisy are married and have a daughter. During dinner time, Tom gets a call and we think its from a lady so he could possibly be having an affair. Daisy and Tom don’t seem to care to much about their daughter. Tom has all the power in the relationship and he was an excellent football player at New Haven which was a university like Yale, he was the best football player there.

Chapter 2 – The valley of Ashes

“… the motor road hastily joins the railroad… so as to shrink away from the certain desolate area of land. This is a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent of effort, of ash-grey men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.”

The film ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ by George Nolfi is about two people who fall in love but are kept apart by adjustment officers who are strictly following ‘the plan’. Nolfi uses sound and music, lighting and dialogue to communicate the idea of if you fight hard enough for something, you’ll get it. In the scene, David and Elise share a passionate kiss before Elise realizes that the officers who were chasing them have left. Thompson appears and explains that they can’t change their fate before Harry arriving with a note from the chairman announcing that their plan/destiny/fate has been changed and then states for them to write their own plans.

The director uses sound and music to inform the concept of change. When David and Elise are running away, the music changes from a calm, peaceful sound to an anticipation drive led by the music. Shortly after, they make their way up the stairs and after their kiss the music changes, again from the anticipation to soft, hopeful music. This is presenting us with hope and can help us with what is going to happen next. Elise and David watch the officers who were chasing them leave, and the music, camera, and lighting are put into slow motion. We, the audience see their reactions and the music flows into a pleasing, soft enjoyment. This points out to us that something joyful has happened and they have lastly got what they wanted. The two take the stairs and walk the streets in high spirits and the music follows along. Music takes a big role in what we feel and think will happen later in the movie. In this scene, music plays the role of lifting the mood, and silently making us think about what will happen next. It shows us when they put their minds to something, they will work hard to get it by lifting the mood and leaving us with suspense. The music controls the message of fighting hard for what you want by being changeable. It shows us that we have to go through highs and lows before reaching the end result we want by having upbeat and downbeat music.

Another technique the director has used is the lighting. Nolfi uses this to set the mood. After David and Elises passionate kiss, the film shows a birds-eye view of the sun rising over the city. This leads to the lighting becoming more golden, bright, high key lighting. Which indicates to the audience the happy mood swing of the film. Before Thompson brings the note in, the top of the building is very low key and bland. This informs us of the non-emotional officers. Nothingness, they are just there to follow the plan nothing else. In the film, lighting also indicates to us the mood and conveys the plot, creating the atmosphere. The lighting controls the message of fighting hard for what you want by being changeable. When they are emotional the lighting is soft and low key, though when they are fighting hard for each other’s love, the lighting becomes golden bright and high key.

Dialogue confirms what we have already pictured to happen. The director uses this because it is an easy and immediately understandable way to convey information that might have not been shown through the image. Dialogue is used to set the scene and give insight into David and Elise and foreshadow future dramatic action. The communication between David and Elise is very romantic. They know that they want each other after meeting only once or twice. We know this because before they jump into their passionate kiss they each say ‘I love you’ in meaningful purpose. Another way dialogue has been effective in this scene is when Harry states ‘Seems like you inspired the chairman too’ Here, Harry is hinting at the fact the chairman has rewritten the plan. This is before Harry says ‘Maybe one day we won’t write the plan, you will’. Harry states great significance and value in these few lines, this links back to working hard for what you want because harry said they ‘inspired’ the chairperson, meaning the chairman was happy with how hard they had fought and he knew they weren’t going to stop until they got what they wanted.

In conclusion, George Nolfi has explored the language features of sound and music, lighting and dialogue to create the main idea of If you fight hard enough for something, you’ll get it. I have shown, in this final scene that Nolfi has used these language features by controlling the message to show the emotion of the main characters and by showing you have to go through highs and lows to get to where you want to be. Overall, Nolfi has used solid information to support this main idea.

By Aneka Rossiter

The director has used colour and lighting very well to develop The Adjustment Officers by making the colour bland and the lighting very almost non-emotional and deserted. He has used the colour to express that they are almost nothing, and are not supposed to be emotionally invested. This links to the dialogue used in the film. As one of the men suggests that ‘everyone needs a vacation, even us’ he hints at the difference and the lighting is dim, making us feel apologetic for them.

The film technique in the opening scene is a long shot concentrating on Davids frame and showing us him as he’s standing in a room, about to go and present a speech. This scene acknowledges that David is alone, and he has nobody else. We find that David is a congressman running for senate, and he is doing really well with a 10% lead. The director has used a long shot at the beginning of his speech to emphasis his power over his audience. From this shot, we find that he shows the power to give orders, and

On the surface

Where is this passage set? – canada

What is the temperature? – minus twenty degrees

How high up are they? – 300 feet

How fast was bear travelling down the hill? – 40mph

How does Simon (the camera man) descend? – On his wooden sledge

What went wrong? – Simon and his heavy wooden sledge wiped him out

Discovering Techniques

1. find an example of each of the following parts of speech from the sentence below:

a) Personal pronoun – I or My

b) Noun – Mountain

c) Abstract noun – nimbly

d) Adjective – Deep

e) Verb – Drive

f) Adverb – Mountain

g) Preposition – into

2. Several similes are used in this passage to help create the atmosphere. List 3 of them

a) and

b) with

c) into

3. Why are there several very short sentences beginning with ‘I’?

Because he’s kind of explaining on an intense level and there’s a lot going on

Search and think

1. Why doesn’t Bear notice the beautiful day and surroundings? – because he’s unusually nervous
2. What does Bear blame Everest for? – old frosty injuries
3. Describe the way Bear travels down the mountain and stops? -he falls down the mountain and drives the axe into the ground to stop.
4. Bear says he was ‘unusually nervous’. Copy down several other sentences that show his nervousness.

• ‘I don’t really notice’
• ‘I only like to use it sparingly, like now’
• ‘it is like a freight train’

Hidden depths

1. What does this short article tell you about the man ‘Bear Grills’? Would it be a good opening

Statement : For Centuries, scientists have tested hair, face, and skin products on animals to later on, make them safer for humans.

Explain : Poisoning, shocking, burning, and killing animals is all in a days work for vivisectors. If these awful acts were committed outside laboratories, they would be felonies. But animals suffer and die everyday in laboratories with little or no protection from cruelty.

eXample : In a study done by Peta, they found that each year, more then 100 million animals are killed in the United States laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing.

Y – idea : Animal testing should be erased because it violates animals rights and causes pain and suffering to the experimental animals, and other means of testing product toxicity are available. Animals should not have to suffer the consequences of our harsh, and toxic products to be tested on them because the products are not made for them.

I invite you to enter my creative world, used for growing crops and rearing animals. Acres and acres of pink and white fluffy spun sugar rapped around sticks spread the land, with an incredible amount of small fields or enclosures where the animals are kept. There are even chocolate fingers running around to do all the jobs needed, so please, take your time and enjoy everything we have to offer.

Animals such as Gummy Bears, Jelly bean squirts, Candy apple heads, and TnT rhino’s like to be together, so they are preserved in a paddock full of chocolate flavoured sweet food made from flour, fat, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients baked and these ones are iced and decorated with a thick and sticky substance that hardens when dry. The gummy bears spend most of their time lazing around on the light and fluffy floating clouds, which are similar to the texture of melted marshmallows and are only half a meter high so the animals can get up and down. For on hot days, they loiter in the shaved ice sand pit which is located in the middle of the paddocks for all of the animals to come. You can see the flavour frothing in the glass pipes, which dissolve into the ice when poured. The fences are built out of colourful nerd rope, which the farmers have a nibble out of now and again, but it reconstructs itself magically to keep the animals in.

On the other side of the farm, the kids like to play in the ambrosia river, with chocolate shavings as the base of the river, and donut walls on the side. Be sure to mind the jelly dolphins swimming around though! The river is lined with Wittakers creamy milk chocolate shavings which kids like to dive down and take a clump whenever they feel the need to as it reconstructs itself magically, too. Overlaying the chocolate base is the cold, sticky, thick with marshmallows, cream, berries, and greek yoghurt mix, all to make the beautiful ambrosia. Kids row their boats up this river during the warm months of summer, some of the boats are made out of a nice crunchy, but soft texture that melts in your mouth called shortbread and are fitted together tightly so they won’t break. Others are made out of chocolate fudge, which is a type of sugar candy that is made by mixing sugar butter and milk, heating it and then cooling it so it acquires a smooth, creamy consistency. The oars are made of lemonade popsicle sticks and they are very firm so they won’t break. Alongside the river, a donut wall follows. It is as tall as the height of Mount iron and there are giant donuts only pinned to the wall, so it is easily accessible. The donuts are only of two flavours that include chocolate frosted with m&m’s which as you can imagine, there is the donut as the base, only the top half has been dipped it chocolate, then m&m’s have been placed on top, before getting frosted. There is also an normal glazed donut which is so effective because of its chewy texture. The flavour isn’t to aggressive, but the sweetness makes it melt in your mouth.

And, I said to my friends, look at the mushrooms, and look at the leaves! ‘Of course’ the chocolate fingers said, everything is edible. ‘Do you like our duck pond?’ Asked the chocolate fingers, ‘It is our newest creation! made from melted Black Forest chocolate. Please they said, ‘have a taste. Im sure you will like it.’ A simple snap back to reality from my teacher had me sitting, miserable in class, only 10 more minutes until the end of the day!!

It was summer, which meant everything was sweltering in the hot, dry sun. Perfect conditions for a camping trip. We had been there for about a week, it was our last night so we thought we would light a fire for us to toast marshmallows on. What unimaginatively did not cross our minds, what that it was fire weather. The fire took off, the bright orange, red, and yellow colours disintegrating the