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The Death of Santiago Nasar

On the morning of bishop’s arrive; I hadn’t had a doubt about my death. I was feeling like I was insulted by Angela Vicario. I was walking with Cristo Bedoya after the bishop went through. Celeste Dangong was sitting in front of his door and he called me to have some coffee. I told him that I had to hurry to change my clothes to have breakfast with my sister. When we were passing his dry goods store, Yamil Shaium went out the store and his view was confused. He called Cristo Bedoya and I answered him. We made our played on words that we exchange whenever we meet. I said goodbye to both of them and I turned the corner of the square.

I went to the house of my fiancée, Flora Miguel to see her. I knew that they kept their house locked up every day, so I was planning to stretch my keys across the window screens to show Miguel that I came.  It was so strange that she invited me to the house and it was the first time that a person outside of their family entered that house at six forty-five in the morning. When I came in, she yelled at me: “I hope they kill you!” and I was shocked and baffled. She threw my letters to the floor. I felt like I was guilty and I wanted to catch her before she lock herself in her room. I knocked her door several times, and tried to call her but she didn’t come. With the loud voice of mine, the entire family members came there and Flora’s father ordered her to open the door and he walked in. The rest of the family were looking at me while I was picking up the letters and putting them back into the chest. After that, Nagil Miguel came out of the room and whole family disappeared with a hand signal of him. He asked me whether I knew that the Vicario brothers were planning to kill me. I was shocked again and these things were too much for me in a day with this hangover.  I just said that I didn’t understand anything and when I opened the door, I just said that it would be two against one: the Vicario brothers versus me.

I left Flora’s house while I was walking, I couldn’t find the way home because I was so confused and in a way, depressed. Someone shouted from a balcony to tell me the way that I must go, but I wasn’t able to realize and understand anything. My friend Yamil shouted me to get into his store and everybody was shouting me from every side. The voices were baffling me. I was walking toward the house and I was on the way to the kitchen door but I have realized that the main door was open when I was less than fifty yards from my house. Suddenly I heard someone shouting, and when I saw Pedro Vicario throwing Clothilde Armenta to the ground. I ran to the main door and the Vicario brothers ran after me with their knives out.  When I arrived to the main door, even I pounded it many times with my fists; I couldn’t open the door, because it was closed. I felt miserable and panic at the same time. I turned my face to them and I tried to guard myself with raising my hand when the knife thrust into my hand. After that Pedro thrust my body many times. I was feeling the pain at first, and I crossed my arms over my stomach, but then I couldn’t feel anything. When I turned my back to them I felt the knife at my back. I leaned my back against my mother’s door. I saw my own viscera and I fell on my knees. I wanted the get rid of the dust of the floor, so I stood up, and walked to the kitchen door of the next house. Lanaos were eating their breakfast and I passed by the table with smiling at them. Wenefrida Màrquez asked what happened to me and I said that they have killed me. Afterwards, I went into our house and I just remember that I was falling.

 Works Cited

García, Márquez Gabriel. Chronicle of a Death Foretold. New York: Vintage International, 2003. Print.

The Taming of The Shrew, Tamed or Not?

Is Katherine Tamed?

            Taming of the Shrew is one of the well known plays of William Shakespeare and the “shrew” of the play who gives the book her adjective is Katherine. On this paper, some of the arguments which are supporting the idea of Kate is tamed by Petruchio will be given. If the characteristic properties of Kate at the beginning of the play are examined, it can be said that the difference between two characteristic values that are seen at the beginning and at the end can be accepted as solid evidence for whether she is tamed or not. If the initial characteristic values of Kate are examined, the list of the values can be stated as: shrew, self-centered, selfish, stubborn, irritable, angry, impatient and tactless. On the other hand, if a list of final characteristic values of Kate can be written, it would contain the adjectives: complaisant, pleasant, serene, and able to obey and someone with gratitude. Without taming her, that much change on the characteristics of person would be impossible.

By the progress of the play, she starts to accept everything that is said by Petruchio is true. She was so stubborn at the beginning. How a stubborn girl became a complaisant one? Petruchio didn’t give her the food she wants, the rest she needs and she have weakened by her husband. He showed only way to escape from staying in hunger as obeying what he says right after the word is finished.[1]When it was surely sun, Kate says “And be the moon, or sun, or what you please;/An if you please to call it a rush-candle,/Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me”( 224).  This part was a solid evidence of how her mind was focused on what Petruchio was thinking and even though it can be illogical, she was focused to accept t what is said by her husband as real and true.

In addition to the Petruchio-focused life of her, she always tries to be near to her husband as much as possible and she wants to keep him near her by obeying what he says. She wants her husband to stay with her and to pay attention to her when a decision becomes given about the issues related to her but only from on the basis of what Petruchio thinks or decides.[2] If she wants her ideas to be considered, Petruchio shows only two ways to achieve this to her: obeying what he says, doing what he wants by being the “wife” of him. So, Kate tries to do her best to carry out the things expected from her and to keep her husband near to her, interested in her situation. For example, when Petruchio wants a kiss at a public place, even though Kate was ashamed to kiss in front of the public, she kissed him and demanding him to stay with her by saying “Nay, I will give thee a kiss; now pray thee, love, stay”(246). As it can be seen, she obeys him, she does exactly what he expects from her and after this, she demands something from him.

 Moreover she focused her life at Petruchios as she doesn’t have an individual life for her, at the end of the book, the concept “husband” becomes everything of her and she devotes her life to do her “job as a wife”. If Katherine’s last monologue of the play is examined, one part gets attention at most: “Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,/ Thy head, thy sovereign; on that cares for thee”(262). This part shows everything that has a big value in life for her became her husband. At that point, the idea of what if she was using irony at this part can be proposed. However, she was surrounded by the people that she new and she would probably feel comfortable enough to say or state what she thinks, what she feels without hiding them under some bombastic words.

Overall the play, it can be said that Katerine became a puppet whose ropes are in the hands of Petruchio whereas before marrying,  she was a sat up car which gets its energy from a little movement of a dial and runs on its way until her energy that she provided from her anger becomes finished. She was definitely tamed and controlled by Petruchio at the end of the play.

Works Cited

1.      Shakespeare,William. The Taming of The Shrew. New York: Printed at USA.

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[1] Based o the information given at the Act 4, Scene 1: the plan of Petruchio.

[2] Based on the information given at the Act 4, scene 3: where tailor comes and the hat and dress are discussed. 

Reflective Essay about the Death of Santiago Nasar

I’ve used the first person because Santiago Nasar was talking about his own death and I’ve tried to give every single thing from his point of view, so I didn’t use the parts that he cannot know about. As an example, Cristo Bedoya was searching for Santiago Nasar, but Santiago didn’t learn it from somebody at the novel, so I didn’t use that part of the story.

            I chose to start the history of Santiago’s death from the point that he was walking with Cristo Bedoya, because these were the times that the murder plan was heard by many people, and the times that Santiago and the people that knows about his death were in relation. Afterwards, I used the time that Santiago said goodbye to Cristo and Yamil, in purpose of showing the point that Santiago wasn’t in relation with the people on the street who were able to warn him about his planned death.

            When Flora’s invited Santiago into the house, I used the word “strange” because in the book, it says “No one, not even a doctor, had entered that house at six-forty in the morning,” so, Santiago would felt like that was a strange thing. Even the narrator explains the tone of Flora with using “she told”, I preferred to use “she yelled” because she was in a crisis of humiliation when she was waiting Santiago.

            At the end, I tried to explain Santiago’s behaviors and feelings from his view with saying “I couldn’t find the way home because I was so confused and in a way, depressed,” and I used the word “depressed” to show the effect of facing with a situation that he cannot overcome being humiliated by a person that he was trusting.

            Overall, I wanted to show the situation of his body and his nerve system while he was dying because of the loss of blood. I used “I was feeling the pain at first,… but then I couldn’t feel anything,” because in the book, it is written as “He didn’t cry out again,” and the only thing that can explain this situation is the loss of nerve with the effect of trauma.

At the end of the story, I wrote “I just remember that I was falling,” because I wanted to show Santiago as he was telling his story after his death. My purpose was using some events fits with the type of our original novel, Magical Realism and using the same figurative language with the author.

Works Cited

García, Márquez Gabriel. Chronicle of a Death Foretold. New York: Vintage International, 2003. Print.

On the Origin of Photosynthesis

World without photosynthesis, which has no greenery, no humble algae, none of the things that are nourish leaf munching organisms.  The complex multicellular life is the direct reaction of early photo-synthesizers’ actions. The oxygen released by these organisms helped the creation of ozone layer and made Earth congenial for both water and land-dwellers. Photosynthesis is one of the biggest milestones of evolution by changing the planetary environment forever and by steering the researches to the ways to harnessing light’s energy, the clues that can be found in delving into DNA sequences.  When the earliest solar-powered bacteria are scrutinized it can be said that these bacteria relied on different ingredients such as hydrogen sulfide and the photosynthetic machinery became more sophisticated day by day. Even though the molecular vestiges of the early events that remain in living organisms are blurred, today’s scientists are trying to illuminate the duration of photosynthesis’s evolution.

How organisms turn CO₂ and water into food? More than 100 organisms including chlorophyll team up to put light into work.  Plants and some organisms have the protein clusters photo-system I-II to use water as electron source. The electrical circuit starts with the light jump and it includes electrons flow from photosystems through protein channels to make ATP and NADPH, the energy-rich molecules which power the synthesis of the sugars that are needed.  Organisms use either oxygen or hydrogen sulfide as electron source. This difference of the e^- source may be evolved through the duplication of genes, but no one knows for sure.

To find the evolutionary path of photosystems, scientist first worked on the purple bacterium and created bacteriachlorophyll. They were not able to create –evolve- a strong oxidizer as Photosystem II so the reaction center wasn’t able to split water but it was enough to oxidize less possessive molecules such as hydrogen peroxide.  The scientists agree on the fact that shortly after life originated, the nonoxygenic photosynthesis arose before the oxygenic one. The disputes revolve around when organisms shifted to oxygenic one.

The great oxidation events (GOE) and the first hints of oxygenic systems are found by the fossil records. These hints could push the origin back around 600 million years. By the researches on the cynobacteria, scientist found those 3.2 billion years ago, microbes were using water to produce energy. During the search for traces of RuBisCO, a key photosynthetic enzyme is found. By these searches scientists conclude that oxygen-making photosynthesis began at least 2.9 billion years ago. One thing is for certain, however: Without this innovation, Earth would look a lot like Mars.

Beyaz Gemi, Özet

Annesi ve babası tarafından çok küçük yaşlarda  terk edilen çocuk Karavul dağı yakınlarında, üzerinde üç hanenin bulunduğu San-Yaş Vadisi’nde dedesi Kıvrak Mümin, ninesi, eniştesi Orozkul, halası Bekey, tembel işçi Seydahmetle Gülcemalin kızları ve köpeği Beltek ile yaşamaktadır. Kendisini dere kıyısında dedesinin yaptığı gölette yüzerek, dedesinin dürbünüyle vadinin etrafını ve kasabayı izleyerek, şekillerinden ötürü “Deve, Kurt, Eyer ve Tank” isimlerini verdiği kayalarıyla konuşarak ve dedesinden masallar dinleyerek eğlendirmektedir. Bir gün Maşin-Mağaza denilen satıcı araba geldiğinde satıcının da ısrarı üzerine dedesi çocuğa bir okul çantası alır ve ertesi yıl çocuk okula başlar. Okul çok uzakta olmasına rağmen dedesi çocuğu her gün atıyla götürüp getirmektedir.

Çocuğun inandığı iki hikâyesinden biri kendi kafasında kurduğu, babasının Isık Göl’de kısa bir süre görünüp kaybolan beyaz geminin kaptanı olduğu, bir gün başı insan başı olan bir balığa dönüşüp beyaz gemiye kadar yüzdüğü ve babasıyla konuştuğu hikâyedir. Bu nedenle her akşam dağ başına çıkıp dürbünle beyaz gemiye bakar. Diğer hikâyesiyse “Boynuzlu Maral Ana” hikâyesidir. Enesay Nehri kıyısında yaşayan Kırgızlara komşularından biri saldırdığında Boynuzlu Maral Ana kabile halkından geriye kalan iki çocuğu kurtarıp San-Taş vadisine getirir. İnsanların zamanla maralları avlaması sonucunda Maral Ana vadiyi terk eder ama onları hala korur. Dedesine göre hepsi Boynuzlu Maral Ana’nın soyundan gelmektedirler.  

 Çocuk bir  gün yol kenarındaki kayalarıyla oynarken San-Taş yakınlarından kuru ot almaya gelen bir konvoyun peşine takılır. Çocuğu gören kamyon şoförü Kulubeg durur ve çocukla konuşup kendisinin de dedesi Mümin gibi Boynuzlu Maral Ana soyundan geldiğini söyler.

Dedesi, damadı korucubaşı Orozkul’un yanında çalışan, çalışkan, yardımsever ve ailesine bağlı bir insandır. Çevresindekiler ona herkesle anlaşabildiğinden Kıvrak Mümin derler. Şişman ve içkiye düşkün olan Orozkul çocuk sahibi olamayacağına üzülüp Bekey’i kısır olduğu için suçlar ve her akşam içip karısını döver. Sarhoş olunca yanındaki arkadaşlarına yazlık evlerinin inşaatında kullanmaları için birer tomruk sözü verir. Mümin dede ile Orozkul dağdan ağaç indirirken uzun zamandan beri ormanda görülmeyen maralları görürler; fakat onlarla ilgilenemezler. Tomruk çayda kayalara takılır. Dede, akşam vakti çocuğu okuldan almaya geç kalır. Yolda çocukla onu eve getirmekte olan öğretmenine rastlar ve öğretmenden özür diler. Dede küsen çocuğun gönlünü almak için Boynuzlu Maral Ana’yı gördüğünü söyler.

Eve geldiklerinde Orozkul’u dede ondan izin almadan işi bırakıp gittiği için sinirlenmiş bulurlar. Orozkul o gün Bekey halayı yine döver. Çocuk evin bu durumuna üzülüp yatmaya gider. Gece yarısı Kulubeg ve arkadaşları yolda kaldıkları için Mümin dedenin evine sığınırlar ve sabah olunca evden ayrılırlar. Aynı gün Orozkul’un arkadaşı Koketay tomruğu almak için gelir ama tomruk çayın içindedir. Dede Orozkul’un kendini affedeceği düşüncesiyle Orozkul, Koketay ve Seydahmetle tomruğu getirmeye gider. Tomruğu çıkarmaya çalışırken çayın karşısında birkaç tane maral görürler. Tomruğu çıkarıp kamyona yüklerler.

Çocuk o gün hastadır ve evde yatmaktadır. Akşamüzeri kahkaha sesleriyle uyanıp ve bahçeye çıktığında herkes neşe içinde ve sarhoş bulur. Et dolu bir kazanın yanına çökmüş sessizce kazanın altındaki ateşle oynamakta olan dedesinin yanına gidip seslenir; fakat dede duymaz. Avlunun dışındaki geyik derisini, bağırsak eşeleyen Beltek’i ve elindeki baltayla Maral Ana’nın boynuzlarını kırmaya çalışan Orozkul’u görünce içeri kaçıp, yorganın altına girip ağlamaya başlar. Kulubeg’in gelip onu kurtaracağını hayal eder. Sofra içeri kurulduğunda çocuk hayalinden yine kahkahalarla uyanır. O sırada Seydahmet olanları anlatmaktadır. Tomruğu çıkardıktan sonra Seydahmet ile Mümin dede ormana çalışmaya giderler ve maralları görürler. Seydahmet onları vurmak ister ve maralların peşine düşer; ama sarhoş olduğu için nişan alamaz ve tüfeği dedeye verip onu maralları vurursa Orozkul’un kendisini affedeceğine inandırır. Dede istemeyerek de olsa bir maralı vurur.

Çocuk bunları duyunca dışarı kaçar. Dedesini yerde toz toprak içinde yatarken bulur. Ona birkaç defa yine seslenir ama dede yine duymaz. Çocuk dedesinden bir tepki alamayınca balık adam olup babasına ulaşacağını düşünerek koşar ve kendini dereye atar. Hızla akan su çocuğu alıp götürür.      

Sorumsuzluk Üzerine Ergen Bir Yazı

Sorumsuzluk Üzerine Ergen Bir Yazı

Geçen gün perşembe akşamına acil lazım diyerek okuldan birinden -özel hakka saygı, isim veremeyeceğim- 5 bilemedin 6 soruluk bir röportaj için randevu istedim. “Olur, çarşamba öğlen arasında gel” dedi, gittim. On dakika bekledim, yok. Dersin başlamasına beş dakika kaldı, yine yok. N'apayım, bıraktım derse gittim. Ders çıkışında gittim, yine yok. Akşam mesai bitiminde buldum, maille at soruları ben yanıtlarım dedi. Maille yazdım gönderdim. Yok oğlu yok… Suçlayamam da insanları, herkesin işi çok. Mecburen elimde yazacak konu olmadan günü perşembe ettim. Konu yok diyerek kendimi kandırıyormuşum meğersem. İşte konu: sorumsuzluklar ve bu sorumluluk. Bilinç akışı.

            Ben söyleşi yapma sorumluluğunu üzerime almasam, söyleşi yapacağım kişi sorumsuzluk yapmasa ne güzel olurdu değil mi? Mademki olmadı, yetişkinleri azıcık eleştirmek için bana bahane çıktı. Onlar değil mi bize hep “Şöyle ol.”, “Böyle ol.”, “Şunu şu güne yap.”, “Şuraya gecikme.” gibi bir sürü öğüt, bir sürü emir veren? İyi örnek olmaktan bahsederler bir de. İnanmıyorum ben böyle şeylere. Benim önümde iyi örnekler var mı var; ama buyurun kötüleri de var, hem de en bana öğüt vereninden. Seçmek kimin elinde? Benim, senin, onun, bizim. İrademiz var bir kere. İlla da yetişkin olacak değiliz ya. Ergeniz sonuçta, en önemlisi insanız da: arada kendimizi salmışsak ne olacak? Toparlanıveririz. En azından biz bahaneler üretmek gibi bir dertle uğraşmıyoruz. Yapmadıysak, ergen ergen kavgasını ederiz “Yapmıycam, vaktim yok, zaman az, fazla zor…” diye. Kavga ettik de olmadı mı? Beyin bedava, bir yolunu buluruz elbet. (Sabahın köründe kalkıp ödev yapanlar, gece 1’e kadar sınavlara çalışanlar parmak kaldırsın!) Biz sorumluluğumuzu biliyoruz arkadaş, bilmiyorsunuz diyorsanız da hemen açıklayayım: kimimiz biliyoruz ama yapmamayı seçiyoruz, bilmiyor sanılıyoruz.

Aslında siz biz ayrımı yok bu yazıda, içinde bir ergen yatan yetişkinler de var nitekim. Çabuk kızanlar, tersleyip trip atanlar da var. Ama onlar da “Sorumluluklarının bilincinde ol, işini zamanında yap” derken tam bir ebeveyn oluyorlar. Bana işi zamanında ver, ben de yapayım. Bana işi yapacak zaman ver, ben cidden yaparım. Bana ne yapacağımı düzgün anlat, yapmayan…

10.sınıf koridorlarından ergen bir ses:

            Çok iş var, zaman yok.

            Ben işi yaptım, değerlendirip de dönüt yapan yok.

            Herkesin işi var. Anlayış! Empati! Sorumluluk! Saygı! Can sıkıntısı…

10. Sınıf Koridoru

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