Freytag's Triangle

For toady's assignment we are suppose to write about our book according to Freytag's Triangle.

• Exposition: The main character in the story was first introduced as the Stranger, because no one knew that he was invisible or his real name. The story fist starts when the stranger living in this hall with a number of other people. He him self as a character at fist was very silent and made very little dialog or motion. Eventually as the story progressive the stranger starts to open up more and starts to talking to people. And as it turned out, sometimes it is better if you don't talk at all.
• Rising Action: As i was saying sometimes it is better not to say a word well, according to the story talking was part of the reason that lead The Stranger to have a new name, called the Invisible man, and eventually going crazy. The Rising Action in the story had to be when the Stranger had the conversation with Mr. Cuss. Which lead to the discovery of the strangers invisibility, leading him to expose himself to everyone, and getting chased out of town. The action continued after the Invisible Man ran out of town and met Mr. Thomas Marvel. This was another turning point in the book because this lead the Invisible man to start searching for some one to help him reverse this curse that he laid upon himself, to exposing these new sense of emotions, such as anger, and madness.
• Climax: The climax of the story happened during the time when the Invisible Man began to loose his patience and Begin to start killing people, and going back on the run to get a way from the police and go find Dr. Kemp. Dr. Kemp was the invisible man old college friend. At this point we also learned the Invisible man's real name Griffin.
• Falling Action: Once Griffin found Dr. Kemp that was the Falling action of the story. For a good number of chapters he was calm, and he discussed what had happened to him, the experience that he went through. At the same time they were discussing ways to try and reverse the invisibility and make Griffin visible again. As they were discussing a ways to solve this problem, Dr. Kemp tried to get Griffin to stop with the killing and focus on the solution. Unfortunately he failed to get Griffin to avoid using violence.
• Resolution: The ending of the story was not pretty, because Griffin was not will to stop killing and stop with his obsession. Because he was not willing to stop in order to find a cure it all lead up to his death.

The End

Well I finally finished reading the story, and the ending was not a happy one. I can't say that i am surprised, or that i care because really the invisible man had it coming. After finding his old college friend, Griffin was in a lot of pain and needed some rest and most importantly he needed help. It was obvious that he was getting grazer by the minuet. For a few chapters he discussed what he has gone through, his new life as an invisible man. He discussed how he wasn't being seen by any one, how he had to struggle for food, and how he found a way to cover himself up in a way that allow people to see him and not know. Then he went a head and started to talk strategy with his friend Dr. Kemp a way to try and make himself visible a gain. The last characteristics that i was able to observe from reading that book, was the being invisible had created not only a new identity for Griffin but also a new personality. Griffin was this well educated chemist, who was smart and could do almost any thing. Then there is the Invisible Man this new person who wants to go back to be himself again, however at the same time he is willing to do what ever is necessary to accomplish that goal and that includes killing. One of the last chapters in the book is called The Plan That Failed. In chapter Kemp knew that Griffin was willing to kill once he remembered an important detail that could help him be visible again. The problem was that this particular person was in jail. Dr. Kemp wanted to help Griffin, only he was not willing to kill and that is what he tried to prevent. To prevent him from leaving and going after this person. Yet he failed, to do that, which lead to the death of the Griffin. At the end of the story it was Griffins ego and second personality that lead him to his death. That is how the story ended.

Conflict for the invisible man

To day in class we discussed different types of conflicts: man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self, man vs. god/fate, and man vs. society. in the book that i am reading The Invisible Man some of the conflicts that i have been able to find is man vs. self, man vs. society, and man vs. nature. the main character in the story Griffin he is dealing with a lot of issues with him self. I consider him to be someone who is a complete genius and a fool for coming with a way to make yourself invisible, and stupid for not creating an antidote. from reading the book, being invisible has lead Griffin into madness and being driven into murder. That is what i mean when i say man vs. self. being invisible has lead him to having anger issues, confusion, and having multiple personalities. He could be dangerous at one time, and clam the next minute. The second conflict that i found in the story was man vs. society. Because, the main character is invisible the conflict in this book is for the Griffin to be excepted by society. The final conflict presented in the book was man vs. nature. Griffin in this story is not facing nature as animals or surviving a forest, instead he is dealing with materials from nature. I would call this man vs. science; because, Griffin was able to use some chemicals to turn himself invisible, and was left with a course of not coming up with an antidote to the formula. The reason why i believe that this is man vs. nature is because the chemicals that were used came form nature, its science.

Final Thoughts on Star Wars Episode V

To day in class we finished watching the last 20 minutes of the movie. me personally i am not a big star wars fan, i jest watched some of the movies and i know about them. my final thoughts are that this was a good movie for its time and it was entertaining. What i noticed in the was that know that we know that Vader is Skywalkers father, it seemed to have changed the mood of the movie. It showed Vader's not being as violent or aggressive as we know him. For example every time one of his commanders failed him or disappointed him his response was killing them, or choking them. At the end Vader offered Luke to join him and work together as father and son. they were communicating telepathically, and Vader trying to convince Luke that this is his destiny and he should join him. I think that now, because this was such a big surprise for Luke that it will change his views. Some of the other themes that were discussed in class were student and teacher, good vs. evil, family connection with in the movie it self, how are emotions are being presented in this movie which is a Si-Fi and how emotions are not really suppose to be shown, through robots, and the Jedi's.

Episode V

In class today we continued to watch star wars Episode V. Our assignment was to write about star wars the movie as a text. Some of the themes that were shown in the movie were the constant battle between good vs. evil. In the movie we have the empire vs. the rebellion. The empire being the evil group lead by the Saith and his apprentice Dark Vader. Then you have the rebellion (good side) lead by Princes Leia and Luke Skywalker. Each side fighting for what they believe in, using what ever methods are necessary to win. As always there is always going to be some kind of love connection between two characters in this case it seems to be the most unlikely couple. on one side we have Princes Leia and on the other a space pirate named Han Solo. Both have feelings for each other only Leia is in denial. Han Solo is a complicated character being a space pirate he seems to only care about himself and not others. Yet some of his characteristics that he has shown are of loyalty and friendship. For example: in the beginning he said that he needs to leave because he had some one after him because he owed him money, if he doesn’t pay he will die. However, because Skywalker was in trouble, and he choose to go out and save him instead of leaving. The last element that I saw in the movie was the since of obsession from Dark Vader. His obsession is in trying to get Luke Skywalker. To day when i was watching the movie I noticed that he killed one of his officers for failing him, and disregarded some of the dangers that his ships were facing all to get Skywalker, and his crew.

TIM maddnes

After exposing himself to every one the invisible man no longer called the stranger has gone made. When i said that he maid a mistake exposing himself i was right. when he exposed himself he scared everyone hand got him self chases out of the town. from then on everything only got worse. For three days the invisible man has been on the run and getting into trouble. In my opinion his mistake in becoming invisible was not creating an antidote. That small detail i believe has led him to get made and commit murders. The killing and the threatening that he has done, is his way of asking for help. Because he does not know how to turn himself back to normal, has made him go crazy. However, now there is new hope for him, and something that i have been weighting for his name. The hope is that he found an old friend of his from college Dr. Kemp. Who might be able to help him. The best part is that his name has been exposed the invisible mans real name is Griffin from College University.

faith on TIM

While i was reading the invisible man i have not though about how might this relate to religion, because most of the time i can separate the two and only concentrate on the book it self and see what is going on. However, that does not mean that there is nothing there that would be challenged or argued about form a religious perspective. If you are Jewish you would know that if you put a tattoo, or any kind of marks on your body that will have you hanged why i don't know but that is jest how it is and lets leave it at that. In this case the stranger through some kind of a scientific experiment made a huge mark on his body which cannot be seen because he is invisible. I don't yet know what his fiat will be yet in the book; however, i do know that if he was Jewish he would be hanged for marking his body.

TIM cont.

last time i posted on The Invisible Man i mentioned that Mr. Cuss was the fist to discover that the stranger was invisible because he could not see his hand. after that interview the stranger jest exposed him self to every one by removing his cloths completely and showing everyone that he is invisible. After reading that section i realised that he did not think this all through. because they although that he committed a robbery, because the man who was stilling was unseen. None the less i think that all the characters in the book are stupid, it took them too long to realise that he was invisible, and the stranger himself for not having a name, and for exposing him self to everyone.

I still have some reading to do yet i hope that book will continue to get exciting and for the main character to have a name.

The Star

The discussion that we had in class on Thursday help to clear some parts of the story for, the one area that is still not clear for me was the question that i posted last time: why is there always a conflict between science and religion? regardless of what we think the answer might be I truly don't believe there is one. Because we always try to separate science and religion so why do we try and solve the mysteries behind the stories in the Old Testament, or the Bible? Why not jest let those stories be, and move on with it. Religion can sometimes really help people! because as we said in class if you can solve some thing scientifically then what is the point of having differnent religions?