So I basically can't say I like the monologue I wrote. The reason for this is because I didn't write enough. I felt like I held back too much in some important areas. I'm not even sure if the things I said in the monologue made any sense.
The speech didn't go anywhere. There were all kinds of things I'm sure I would have loved to have Spencer (the boy that talks in the monologue) talk about. All I did was make him come off as some pissy little boy that only likes to complain about the kids around him. (Holden?)
Spencer is a fictional character from a short story I came across. I found him to be very entertaining and relatable. His snarky attitude and sarcastic wit was what made me want to have him be the speaker of the monologue.
If I could make any changes, I'd probably end up adding a lot more information about Spencer's personal life. But hey, maybe Mr. Kunkle will like it.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
School Days by The Runaways
Used to be the trouble maker
Hated homework, was a sweet heartbreaker
But now I have my dream I'm so rowdy for eighteen
Never read a single book
Hated homework and the dirty looks
Now I live my life
There's a lot I seen at eighteen
School days, school days
I'm older, now what will I find
School day, school days
Starting to slip I'm losin' my mind
Used to be the wild one
Hated class only lived for fun
I'm mean an' got my schemes
At the crazy age of eighteen
Never made the honor roll
Hated rules what I was told
Now I am almost free It's a dangerous scene when you're eighteen
School days, school days
I'm older, now what will I find
School days, school days
Starting to slip I'm losin' my mind
This song is not only really BA...it expresses the teenager perfectly. Deep down, we all have those days where we just don't want to be at school and we just want to party. It's not a bad thing. Nothing is bad as long as it's fun...for me.
Hated homework, was a sweet heartbreaker
But now I have my dream I'm so rowdy for eighteen
Never read a single book
Hated homework and the dirty looks
Now I live my life
There's a lot I seen at eighteen
School days, school days
I'm older, now what will I find
School day, school days
Starting to slip I'm losin' my mind
Used to be the wild one
Hated class only lived for fun
I'm mean an' got my schemes
At the crazy age of eighteen
Never made the honor roll
Hated rules what I was told
Now I am almost free It's a dangerous scene when you're eighteen
School days, school days
I'm older, now what will I find
School days, school days
Starting to slip I'm losin' my mind
This song is not only really BA...it expresses the teenager perfectly. Deep down, we all have those days where we just don't want to be at school and we just want to party. It's not a bad thing. Nothing is bad as long as it's fun...for me.
Holden's Experience with Sunny and Maurice
Asking a prostitue to come to your hotel room is one thing; but how do you handle being pressed up against the wall because you are being forced to pay the prostitute more money than you agreed?
Holden had quite an experience being forced to pay a woman extra money for a night that never happened. When he first met Sunny, he assumed she was nervous. But now Sunny is expressing an intereting change in dominace and confidence. She takes five more dollars out of Holden's wallet as he is being cornered by the large Maurice.
Maurice was the one that got Holden a prostitue in the first place. But Holden didn't realize until the next day that Maurice and Sunny were working together. This basically makes Maurice Sunny's pimp.
Holden didn't see that coming...
Holden had quite an experience being forced to pay a woman extra money for a night that never happened. When he first met Sunny, he assumed she was nervous. But now Sunny is expressing an intereting change in dominace and confidence. She takes five more dollars out of Holden's wallet as he is being cornered by the large Maurice.
Maurice was the one that got Holden a prostitue in the first place. But Holden didn't realize until the next day that Maurice and Sunny were working together. This basically makes Maurice Sunny's pimp.
Holden didn't see that coming...
Monday, April 19, 2010
The Catcher In the Rye (So Far)
As Mr. Kunkle already knows, I've decided to annotate my copy of the book with sticky notes. I've always wanted to own my very own copy of The Catcher In the Rye and I didn't want to mark it up with a bunch of words that I'm only putting in the book for a class. So after we finish this book, I'll be able to remove all the sticky notes and the book will be free of vandalism.
Back to the book, I'm enjoying it. Though the main character's personality isn't my favorite, J.D. Salinger has a special skill of keeping the reader engaged in the story. Nothing too jaw-dropping has happened in the book yet, but I'm still intrigued by the storyline.
Holden is definitely a complex character. Under all the crude remarks about other people and why his life is so terrible, you can see that there is something wrong with the boy. His psychological troubles are the source of why he reads off as a haphazard character. His mental flaws are what really draws you in as a reader. Sometimes you think his cynical attitude can be entertaining. Other times you question if the boy belongs in a room with spongy walls. Either way he is just a mere reflection of how we as people think. We say one thing but we mean the other. We criticize those around us, yet every now and then we dump on ourselves. We judge. We lie. We snark. Holden is just are more dramatized version of ourselves.
I'm still trying to find how this book inspired that psycho to kill John Lennon. So far the worst I think a person would want to do after reading this book would be to swear uncontrollably.
Anyway, the book is fun so far. I'm looking forward to seeing how it ends.
Back to the book, I'm enjoying it. Though the main character's personality isn't my favorite, J.D. Salinger has a special skill of keeping the reader engaged in the story. Nothing too jaw-dropping has happened in the book yet, but I'm still intrigued by the storyline.
Holden is definitely a complex character. Under all the crude remarks about other people and why his life is so terrible, you can see that there is something wrong with the boy. His psychological troubles are the source of why he reads off as a haphazard character. His mental flaws are what really draws you in as a reader. Sometimes you think his cynical attitude can be entertaining. Other times you question if the boy belongs in a room with spongy walls. Either way he is just a mere reflection of how we as people think. We say one thing but we mean the other. We criticize those around us, yet every now and then we dump on ourselves. We judge. We lie. We snark. Holden is just are more dramatized version of ourselves.
I'm still trying to find how this book inspired that psycho to kill John Lennon. So far the worst I think a person would want to do after reading this book would be to swear uncontrollably.
Anyway, the book is fun so far. I'm looking forward to seeing how it ends.
Friday, April 9, 2010
About Kevin Dobosenski
Kevin Dobosenski:
Senior at McFarland High School.
17.
Male.
Brown Hair.
Blue Eyes.
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LIKES TO:
Read books
Listen to classic rock
Wear clothes that are older than him
Take long car drives with friends
Sleep in his room
Hide from the normality
Talk to himself
Go places he's never been to before
Write poems based off of his imagination
Take a lot of English classes
Beat his reflection in a staring contest
Walk with his eyes closed and pretend he's somewhere only he knows exists
Have conversations with his dog
Eat chocolate
Wear a mushroom necklace
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DOESN'T LIKE TO:
Be ordered around
Become obsessed with what's "in"
Smell like bonfire
Sit in his house with nothing to do
See his friends get treated poorly
Stand in awkward silence
Be told that being weird is a bad thing
Lose an argument
Talk to a lot of people at the same time
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I don't have a favorite book. I've read quite a handful of books in my life and fell in love with a large majority of them. But I guess I could tell you the last book I read. Go Ask Alice by an anonymous writer is a story about a teenage girl who keeps track of her life on drugs in a diary. The entire book is nothing but diary entries of the girl who gets into drugs like LSD, marijuana, speed, heroin, etc. The most intense part of the book is knowing that it is a legitimate diary written by a girl from the 1970's. The information of the diary like the names, dates and places have all been changed for the privacy of people who could've been involved in this girl's tragic story.
Senior at McFarland High School.
17.
Male.
Brown Hair.
Blue Eyes.
-----------------------------------------------------
LIKES TO:
Read books
Listen to classic rock
Wear clothes that are older than him
Take long car drives with friends
Sleep in his room
Hide from the normality
Talk to himself
Go places he's never been to before
Write poems based off of his imagination
Take a lot of English classes
Beat his reflection in a staring contest
Walk with his eyes closed and pretend he's somewhere only he knows exists
Have conversations with his dog
Eat chocolate
Wear a mushroom necklace
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DOESN'T LIKE TO:
Be ordered around
Become obsessed with what's "in"
Smell like bonfire
Sit in his house with nothing to do
See his friends get treated poorly
Stand in awkward silence
Be told that being weird is a bad thing
Lose an argument
Talk to a lot of people at the same time
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I don't have a favorite book. I've read quite a handful of books in my life and fell in love with a large majority of them. But I guess I could tell you the last book I read. Go Ask Alice by an anonymous writer is a story about a teenage girl who keeps track of her life on drugs in a diary. The entire book is nothing but diary entries of the girl who gets into drugs like LSD, marijuana, speed, heroin, etc. The most intense part of the book is knowing that it is a legitimate diary written by a girl from the 1970's. The information of the diary like the names, dates and places have all been changed for the privacy of people who could've been involved in this girl's tragic story.
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