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                In Joseph Conrad’s passage from Heart of Darkness, the narrator, Marlow, uses colorful language to help readers understand his view of nature. “ The air was warm, thick heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine.” These few sentences can help the reader easily understand what the surroundings are like and what the narrator feels through the negative words he uses such as, “warm,” and “sluggish. Not only does the author of this passage give us a clear view of what Marlow is seeing and by the detailed language, but he also uses diction and figurative language to express the attitude of Marlow.

                Personification is one type of figurative language that Conrad uses to really give readers a clear image of the darkness of the surrounding plant life. At one point Marlow describes how the nature he is surrounded by brings back memories from the past and says that, “It looked at you with a vengeful aspect…” This personification does not bring a sense of tranquility or joy, rather , it’s an unnerving sentence that gives a very different view of nature than what is usually portrayed in most stories. The entire landscape as a whole seems to be haunting. It seems to be the hunter and Marlow the prey.

                Conrad also uses similes to show what Marlow feels during his trek inside the maze of thick foliage. He starts by describing the vast amount of tall trees that are, “…hugging the bank against the stream, crept the little begrimed steamboat, like a sluggish beetle crawling on the floor of a lofty portico.” He goes on to say that, “ It made you feel very small, very lost…” Although he describes the boat being like a beetle, he starts describe how he feels as though he also is the beetle. This is not altogether a bad thing because small creatures can easily pass by without much harm done to them. While feeling lost and small he says, “ yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling.”

               

               

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From my view I think the reason why the Geats choose to burn the treasures is because to give some back to the dragon. Since the dragon had it first and just to respect it. Also, because Beowulf told them to burn the treasures.

Destroying  and same time  honoring the wealth of the king (Beowulf) is by cremating him and putting him the tower with the treasures.  That mostly how the Geats honor their King ( Beowulf).

There are a number of posts on this blog, and today you need to read a few of them. As you read, you need to find one post that you agree with, and one that you disagree with. For the post with which you disagree, you need to post a comment on the blog; in this comment write a paragraph that explains what you disagree with and why, and what change could be made to the post that would make you agree with it. With the post that you agree with, you need to post a comment in which you state why you agree and make a statement that could possibly strengthen the paragraph (in many ways this is more difficult than disagreeing). Be sure to put your four digit code on your comments, or else you will not be given credit, and try to look for the thoughtful responses.

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The writers each have different opinions, but both stories state that you should speak out for your opinion no matter what.Dick schaap, describes the life of Muhammad Ali as a young boxer with little experience,who later grew up into a very interesting person with an important opinion. The boxer's personality changes over this period of time as well as mature. Ernest Hemingway describes writers during WWII, who are being subjected to a strict writing mold that these writers are expected to follow. He disagrees with this idea and states that each writer needs to write about what they want to write about.
These opinions are important to all writers. Writers need to write about what they want to write about because they can not show their full potential if they do not write about one of their own opinions.

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                I think schaap’s opinion is saying that Muhammad Ali is famous as others like presidents. Both the president and Muhammad Ali have changed in many ways, but they still remain the same thing. Ali has been a self- prideful guy and trust him self that he would be the champion, and knows it. His confidential idea has been in his mind every time. This is what makes him cocky. He always wants to be victorious. Ali has matured through his career of boxing, but he still has the personality of being a winner and his confidence is still alive.

 But it is not the only thing that is going on in his life when the writer talks about Ali. There are different things going on the society. Ali have not become to be a person who has changed him self completely. But partially, he has things in a society that he is a part of that let him made him to be a more matured person. This doesn’t mean that he has quit thing that he used to do, but growing, and remains the same.

           

            The importance of this opinion might be the growth process of peoples in a different period of times. Ali was very prideful when he begins boxing and throughout his every boxing, he still is self- confident. When things get newer and fixed, you try to match up with that. Ali has put things aside that has to be change, he might need to do that, but it doesn’t mean he is new, he just has changed, the personality of Ali is still there with him self. You might be get push to remain your self to change, not to make your self another. All things around you in a society make people to go through a many different ways, you don’t just hold on to one or two things forever.

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HIs opinion in writing about Mohummad Ali is that Ali really was a good guy but he turned into a bad guy because people were racist in his time. They were rude to him and his people and therefore he reacted by becoming the Ali we know now. He was innocent but he hated racism. So Dick pointed out. that because the white people were racist he had to be someone else in order to not be hurt by that. His view was important because it shows us how it was back then and how hard it was to be an innocent person like how Mohummad was back then, how he needed to change.