PART III: CHAPTER 19-21

Part 3: How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Plot: The Grinch is a mean and grouchy creature that lives on a mountain near Whoville. His only companion is his loyal dog, Max. The Grinch has hated Christmas ever since he was young. From inside his cave, he can hear all the noisy Christmas festivities and he becomes annoyed by this so he decides to stop Christmas from happening by stealing all their presents, trees, and food for their Christmas feast. He disguises himself as Santa Claus.

How The Grinch Stole Christmas

• The Grinch hates Christmas and the Whos because he feels he's alienated from society due to his strange appearance. This is similar to Zits because he also believes he's different from everyone since he's half Irish and Indian and has a bunch of zits. Zits and the Grinch have a deep hatred for people because they view them as evil and untrustworthy. The Grinch and Zits both want to get revenge on those who mistreated them. Grinch decides to get revenge by stealing all the presents and Christmas related things from Whoville but in the end he finally realizes that Christmas isn't all about materialistic things, it's about family and love. The Grinch rushes to save the presents from falling down the cliff just like how Zits comes back to his original body and sees that he's at the bank where he is planning to shoot people and stops himself from doing so because he knows that killing people won't solve anything. They both have never received love from family and they've always felt lonely and so Cindy Lou helped the Grinch reunited with the Who's and made him feel loved and Zits new foster family also made him feel welcomed and part of a family. They both started a new chapter in their life.

Flight - Chapters 10, 11, 12

Part 1:

The internal battle within Gus' body (good vs evil)

Part 2:

The Flight of Anger (powerpoint slide)

In these chapters, the character Gus is fueled by the need for revenge against the Indians. His memories of the slaughtered settlers make him angry, forcing all of his hatred onto the Indians. They are known to him as evil savages and is going for revenge on his own accord. He never really considered how the Indians might feel, or even his fellow soldiers' feelings. Gus disregards the outcome of his violent acts and only worries about himself and what he wants.

Part 3:

Death Bell - Horror/ Thriller (Korean)

Plot: During the final week of midterms, an announcement sounds around the school saying that a person will be killed everytime the students fail to solve a riddle. Anyone that tries to leave the school will die. About a dozen kids are tortured before they died. In the end, we find out that all of the murdering resulted from a father's need to seek revenge for his daughter, who was killed by her teacher.

Because the Indians slaughtered the white settlers, Gus goes out to seek revenge and he ends up leading another huge massacre to kill the Indians. This relates to Death Bell in which a large chain of violence stems from another. Many lives were lost due to one violent act. Think of it as a domino effect: one act of violence triggers another and it keeps going on until someone learns to feel empathy and learn to respect each others point of views.

Chapter 7-9

PART 1:

While Zits considers whether or not to slash the captured white soldier's throat as an act of revenge for his own throat, he notices that the boy is around the same age as him. In addition, the boy looks scared, and obviously wants to live. Within these moments, Zits realizes how closely similar everybody is. We all want to live. Also, this boy had nothing to do with Zits' slashed throat, and he shouldn’t be blamed for the actions of another white man.

Everyone’s the same:

On Christmas during WWII, both sides decided that they should hold a temporary truce/ceasefire in celebration. They came together to play soccer, eat, and drink together. This shows that though they were on opposite sides of a war, they all felt the same way, representing, that deep down, we are all the same with the same drives.

Despite knowing that the opposing side will avenge their fallen comrades, both continue to seek revenge by killing and the hatred grows until one side is completely defeated. Today we fear Muslims because of the 9/11 incident and want to take revenge on them for what they’ve done to “our people”.

PART 2:

SLIDE 16

Birth of Violence and War

→ HUGE gap between “us” and “them”, “me” and “they”

→ “they” are different, “they” are harmful, “they” are out to get “us”

→ must destroy the “other” to help ourselves

In this situation, Zits always believed the whites were the criminals and the Indians were the harmless victims. However, when Zits sees what the Indians do after a victory, (tear their bodies apart, torture the ones barely alive), “they” are not so different from “us” because the other side stands on the same ground. Because both sides are so angry and vengeful, both target each other with no signs of empathy and continue to take it out on one another. Their lack of empathy prevents a peaceful solution to the anger thrown out by the two conflicting sides. When asked to murder the boy soldier, who was not directly the cause of the boy’s lost voice, Zits realizes that we are all the same in the end.

Part 3

Video clip/short story:

Ender’s Game

Trailer

Summary

The buggers have tried to invade Earth twice in the past, but after realizing that the humans were an intelligent species, they felt guilty and left them alone. Since there is a lack of ability to communicate with the other specie, the humans fear that they’ll invade a third time with even better technology than their first and second invasion, so they prepare a plan to wipe out the entire population of buggers. They recruit a young boy, Ender, to help with their massacre. Ender’s superiors and the people around him influenced him to think that buggers were evil. Only until Ender realizes that these “games” were reality did he begin to understand the weight of what he’s done to a population of peaceful creatures.

Analysis

The humans deciding to kill the Buggers based on their fear that they would be invaded again parallels how the white people and the indians attack each other constantly in Flight. They both think that the other side only wants to attack them, while in reality, both sides think that they are just defending themselves from the other. In Ender’s Game, the humans and the Buggers have no way to communicate with each other so they act upon what they think they know. This leads to the humans taking it upon themselves to attack the other side before they are attacked. The same thing happens between the white people and the Indians. They don’t understand each other, so they have to try to figure out what the other side is thinking, which usually results in thinking the worst, giving in to fear, not seeing things through, and killing each other. The humans killing the Buggers even after they were harmless is also like how the Indians continued to stab the corpses of the white men.

Chapters 13, 14, 15

Part 1

Mario uses Yoshi to benefit only himself and does not care for Yoshi, but acts like his friend.

Jim is on both sides of the knife. He is betrayed by Abbad, while betraying his wife.

Everyone has two sides: the fake outside, and the true inside.

The girl acts as if she is faithful, but is actually having relations with another guy.

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Part 2

Abbad was stereotyped as an evil terrorist. The situation is more complex. Abbad’s home was destroyed. Although what he did was evil, he isn’t pure evil. He was angry. Abbad narrows his view about Americans as all arrogant and evil. He thought about himself and not the people on the plane or ground in downtown Chicago.

Jim temporarily empathized with Abbad, which created trust between them. Jim trusted that Abbad would not live up to the stereotype, but he betrayed Jim to get revenge for his country.

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Part 3

-Brody felt strongly connected to his country, the United States, but he felt betrayed by them when the VP sent a missile down on a city that was innocent other than a terrorist that may or may not have been there. The missile killed 82 children and in the midst of them was a child that Brody befriended while held captive in Iraq. Brody held the burden of others’ actions by attempting to kill himself along with the VP through a suicide bombing. He felt that this actions was justice.

-Jim was betrayed by Abbad and as a result, held the burden of Abbad’s actions by killing himself. Because Jim felt that he betrayed his country by teaching a terrorist how to fly a plane, he killed himself, which is what he thought was the only fair thing to do.

-This relates to how hate brings more hate and how peoples’ stories are extremely complicated. There is no pure good or evil, for there is always multiple sides of a story. Like Brody in the confession tape, Jim had been through a tough life, which ultimately affected his relationships and point of view.

Lady Antebellum - Need You Now

Chapters 13,14,15: Timber

PHOTO ESSAY: The Book of Hearts

Left:

The black heart with the white shows how there can be good in bad, while the white heart with the gun shows that you can love someone but treat them badly (as Jimmy has to his wife.)

Right:

The blue hand represents Linda, who is trying to love him, but letting him go, while the skeletal hand is Jimmy's as he is dead but still loves his wife.

Left:

All lives are connected. When Jimmy is betrayed by Abbad, he takes it on himself to betray his wife.

Right:

Even in a world of black and white, there are many different patterns and shades of feelings, which can change depending on your point of view.

PART TWO: Relating to the PowerPoint

Linda, Jimmy's wife, after witnessing his little sexcapade with Helda, immediately goes home and throws out his stuff. She cannot focus on the happy moments when the betrayal lingers in her mindShe only thinks about the "I" because he betrayed her and he hurt her. The incident also taints all the other memories of them together, even the nice ones like their marriage and love causing her to remove all parts of it. . Furthermore, she even goes as far as threatening to kill Jimmy, in an attempt to get revenge on him, without realizing that Jimmy wants to die. Blinded by anger, she never stops to think about why Jimmy betrayed her and try to understand his side. She doesn't realize that Jimmy is hurting from Abbad's betrayal, which leads to him betraying his wife.

PART THREE: Jason and Medea

Medea was a devotee of the goddess Hecate, and one of the great sorceresses of the ancient world. She was the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, and the granddaughter of Helios, the sun god.

King Aeetes' most valuable possession was a golden ram's fleece. When Jason and the crew of the Argo arrived at Colchis seeking the Golden Fleece, Aeetes was unwilling to relinquish it and set Jason a series of seemingly impossible tasks as the price of obtaining it. Medea fell in love with Jason and agreed to use her magic to help him, in return for Jason's promise to marry her.

Jason fled in the Argo after obtaining the golden fleece, taking Medea and her younger brother, Absyrtis, with him. King Aeetes pursued them. In order to delay the pursuit, Medea killed her brother and cut his body into pieces, scattering the parts behind the ship. The pursuers had to stop and collect Absyrtis' dismembered body in order to give it proper burial, and so Jason, Medea and the Argonauts escaped.

After the Argo returned safely to Iolcus, Jason's home, Medea continued using her sorcery. She restored the youth of Jason's aged father, Aeson, by cutting his throat and filling his body with a magical potion. She then offered to do the same for Pelias the king of Iolcus who had usurped Aeson's throne. She tricked Pelias' daughters into killing him, but left the corpse without any youth-restoring potion.

After the murder of Pelias, Jason and Medea had to flee Iolcus; they settled next in Corinth. There Medea bore Jason two children before Jason forsook her in order to marry the daughter of Creon, the king of Corinth. Medea got revenge for Jason's desertion by killing the new bride with a poisoned robe and crown which burned the flesh from her body; King Creon died as well when he tried to embrace his dying daughter. Medea fled Corinth in a chariot, drawn by winged dragons, to isolate herself.

EXPLANATION:

The story of Medea is one of betrayal. It teaches us that "bad" causes more "bad", in a domino effect. The way Abbad betrays Jimmy, then he betrays his wife mirrors that betrayal just as how Jason betrays Medea, which leads to her betraying an array of people. Eventually both are unable to forgive themselves, leading to one isolating herself, and the other killing himself. These stories both show that people who do "bad" things are not all bad, but actually affected by happenstances in their lives which leads to them lashing out and causing more hurt. 

Flying High in Chapters 1,2, and 3 of Flight

PART ONE

“You’re not real,” he says.

Zits is the gunmen, but truly he is not real culprit, his anger is.

“‘You and me aren’t so different,” Officer Dave has said more than once. “We’re like the sun and moon, kid. Different bodies, but we’re orbiting in the same sky.’”

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The two sides of Zits. One side he feels that is live is horrible which is full of hate and is like a nightmare, to what he wants to have again like loving family, to have beautiful skin like a white man and to be a gorgeous human that is cared for.

PART 2 (JAIRA AND ZOE)

CORE CONCEPT: Anger causes oneself to only think about their needs. As one gets angrier, a person starts to find more reasons to feed their anger to enrage themselves more and more.

In Chapters one, two and three of Flight, Zits states how HE does not like rich people. He thinks that, “The rich and educated Indians don’t give a shit about me. They pretend I don’t exist. They say, The drunken Indian is just a racist cartoon. They say, The lonely Indian is just a ghost in a ghost story.”  When Zits states that others don’t care about HIM, it shows that he focuses his mind set on his needs and what he wants others to feel about him. He stereotypes himself into self loathing to demine himself to mask his real feelings about wanting someone to care about him. This is his internal anger crying for attention and he is feeding off of the idea of stereotypes to make his self more angry.  

Part 3 Jason, Ireland

"Since U Been Gone"

Here's the thing we started out friends

It was cool but it was all pretend

Yeah yeah

Since U Been Gone

You dedicated you took the time

Wasn't long till I called you mine

Yeah Yeah

Since U Been Gone

And all you'd ever hear me say

Is how I pictured me with you

That's all you'd ever hear me say

But Since U Been Gone

I can’t breathe for the first time

I'm so moving on

Yeah, yeah

Thanks to you

Now I get

What I want

Since U Been Gone

Since Zit's mother died, he has no one left and it kills him inside. He wants to move on and get a new start, but he has to get over the anger and frustration of losing a loved one. The mother had to carry on the roll as a father, so when she left, it's as if his whole life disappears.

How can I put it? You put me on

I even fell for that stupid love song

Yeah, yeah

Since U Been Gone

Zits has lived in twenty different foster homes, and has attended twenty-two different schools. Some of the foster homes tried to make him feel loved. However, his is lack of identity results from having been raised by too many different people.

How come I'd never hear you say

I just wanna be with you

I guess you never felt that way

Zits was angry at his father all these years for abandoning him and his mom. He viewed his father as someone who was a drunkard and a loser. His father never told Zits he loved him.

But Since U Been Gone

I can’t breathe for the first time

I'm so moving on

Yeah, yeah

Thanks to you

Now I get (I get) what I want

Since U Been Gone

You had your chance you blew it

Out of sight, out of mind

Shut your mouth I just can't take it

Again and again and again and again

Zits had a deceased Irish mother and an absent father. Ultimately, the most significant betrayal in his life came from his father, who abandoned him. This made Zits perceive his father as lousy, which caused him to initially push him out of his life.

Since U Been Gone

I can breathe for the first time

I'm so moving on

Yeah, yeah

Thanks to you (thanks to you)

Now I get, I get what I want

I can breathe for the first time

I'm so moving on

Yeah, yeah

Thanks to you (thanks to you)

Now I get (I get)

You should know (you should know)

That I get, I get what I want

Since U Been Gone

Since U Been Gone

Since U Been Gone

Chapters 4, 5, 6

Main Quote

[When Zits/Hank rests in the hospital talking to his wife]

"I suspect she sees Hank as her protector, as her children’s protector.

    Hank makes the world safe. He is good and loving husband and father. He is one hundred different versions of himself, and only one of them is a killer." (13)

If one version (the killer version) of Hank is destroyed, then his entire self will be destroyed. Hank would not be who is is.

(All the versions make up Hank as a whole. If the killer version of Hank is gone, then he will be unable to take care of his family and therefore the family protector version of Hank will also be gone.)

(Hank also has a good version of himself. Everybody has good and bad versions in themselves. They are not completely (100%) one or the other.)

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The different versions of Hank (the FBI):

The protector, killer, compassionate, and helpful versions of Hank are all part of him. Despite the versions being completely different from one another, they are all connected and intertwined with each other. If one version of Hank was missing, the other versions would be affected. Also, as a result, Hank will not be the same person he is now.

"The Flight of Anger" Relations

Most of the time, when people look at others for the first time, they tend to judge them and put them into one certain, stereotypical group. In order to truly understand others’ virtues and who they really are, people need to take time to get to know each other. They will eventually find that every person is actually very complex and cannot be characterized with only one trait. People should not judge others by just one look or encounter.

Hank and Art have been best friends for 12 years. It took more than a decade for Art and Hank to become this close and comfortable with each other, and for Art to share his true thoughts on the morality of their job. Before their talk in the hospital, Zits (in Hank’s body) thought that both Hank and Art were pure killers. When Zits watched Elk and Art torture Junior, the Indian boy, he “realized [Elk and Art] aren’t freedom fighters or anything like that…[Art] isn’t a lawman. He doesn’t protect our country. He just likes to hurt people.” (8-9) But when Art talked to him in the hospital, he realized that Art does NOT like to hurt people--that their is much more to him than just a killer. He saw Art’s compassion and realized that Art actually knows that killing is inhumane.

  

“And some of the things we have to do, they hurt us, you know? They hurt us inside.”

     Art’s eyes fill with tears. But he doesn’t even notice he’s crying. He just keeps talking.

    “In order to fight evil, sometimes we have to do evil things,” he says.

“I believe that what we did the other night was necessary,” he says. “Horrible and necessary.” (12)

In the hospital, Zits began to understand that people are more complex than they appear. People are not completely 100% one version or another.

Outside Sources & Connections

Explanation:

People do not only possess of one trait: peaceful, selfless, intelligent, honest, or brave. Everyone is a mix of all those traits. All those traits are necessary to make up an individual.

People are very complex. Without one trait, they will not be who they are. Nobody can be put into just one group that classifies their entire self--they belong to a whole bunch of different groups.