Visual Communications
A Central Montco Technical High School Program
Sunday September 18
270 (whole book)
Story Overview:
Steve Lopez in search of a story to write about when he stumbles across beautiful music. when he finds where it is coming from it is a bedraggled homeless man with a violin and only two strings. Steve Lopez become very excited about this and starts slowly building a relationship with the man. He then finds out that nathaniel (the homeless man) is extraordinary for two things. he used to have a very successful life as a student at julliard, and was often very well dressed and well spoken. and that he is schizophrenic. this surprise Steve Lopez very much. This book is all about the beauty power and healing of music and the ignored issues of mental health and poverty.
Completed 9/20/11
Book Title & Author: Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrnreich
How Many Pages Did You Read? 179
Story Overview: (At least 5 sentences) Nickel and Dimed is an incredibly relative book about the injust struggles that come with being a minimum wage worker. Barbara is a journalist trying to find out what it means to be a normal working class person, and she soon finds out, exhausting herself yet barely scraping by, working multiple jobs as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner,nursing home aid and a wal mart associate. This illuminating and poignant book is such a wonderful clear sight into the problems of america.
Book Title & Author: 'The Namesake' Jhumpa Lahiri
How Many Pages Did You Read? 291 (whole book)
Story Overview: (At least 5 sentences) Jhumpa lahiris book the namesake feels a lot like her book interpreter of maladies yet in a novel form not short stories. whats so strange about this book is how it follows the family members, starting the story with the mother at a very young age then ending the story concluding with the story of her son at the age of 38. because of this continuous following of the story of a timeline the book is a little long. This book is about a family called the Gangulis who come from Calcutta. the parents have had an arranged marriage and the man works in research at Harvard. the book is really all about how cultural assimilation and longing for a home land and how you feel like your kids aren't growing up properly without your old traditions. the namesake is about how the dad experienced a traumatizing train crash and was found clutching a page from his book by an author named Gogol. and thus he names his son so who doesn't understand why and tries to rid the burden of having such an awkward name.
Date: November 1st
How Many Pages Did You Read? alot.
Story Overview:
Brave New world, by Alduous Huxley, is a fictional novel that eerily and accurately foreshadows many of society's social decadence today. So far in the book what has been established is that the whole social landscape of the world has been turned over. it is ruled by 10 powerful men, unquestioned in their power. humans are no longer born, but created brainwashed to serve their social castes, people regularly take soma, an encouraged activity, emotions are considered negative and so forth.Ford is worshipped as a god, in general a whole anti-human self repressive psychology is the lifestyle of the entire world. except for maybe Bernard. Bernard wanting Lenina's attention takes her to the savage reservations where they meet a mother Lenina who is an outcast to the real world and the savages that she lives with because of her conditioning.
Date: November 6th Sunday 2011
How Many Pages Did You Read? 20
Story Overview:
bernards desire to bring 'savages' into his world are coming into fruition. you can see how the savages feel emotion, are torn between good and evil and the striking contrast they make against their 'civilized' contemporarys emotionally.john the savage has been brought back to london and the scene is turning now towards the industry.
Book Title & Author: Cry the beloved country: Alon paton
How Many Pages Did You Read? a few chapters (roughly 50 pages to estimate)
Story Overview: (At least 5 sentences) Stephen kumalo is a bishop in a small village where the way of life is dying and the tribe is being split. he lives in late 20th century South Africa. He recieves a letter urging him to come to johannesburg because his sister and brother were 'sick'. The truth is they have been cut down by illness of the mind, of the grit of the racial prejudice and poverty of the iconic city of johannesburg. there stephen kumalo is visiting a huge city for the very first time overwhelmed by the immense sprawling distances the city covers, how tall the skyscrapers reach, the danger of walking through a road. there he starts to see the
Date: Wednesday December 21st
Book Title & Author: Cry the beloved country, Alan paton
How Many Pages Did You Read? 3 chapters (approx 50)
Story Overview:
Stephen Kumalo is a bishop in a small remote village in south africa. he recieves a letter saying that his son has become sick in johannesburg, where it is known that people dont come back from that city and forget their background. stephen kumalo's senses are swamped in the first few pages of his arrival at the city, he has never seen so many streets, and such dangerous street, and buildings so tall he can only compare them to natural landmarks. He soon finds out that his sister has become a heavy drinker and a prostitute and that his brother has left the church and being a priest and become a politician, because of his anger at the injustices of 1940's south africa