Sides

Each side has one objective in this game. ”Win for my kingdom.” I am a knight. I glance to my right, I see our bishops, The King and Queen, my brother who is also a knight, and the rook. To my left is another rook. Most of the player’s names in this game are self-explanatory, the rooks are not. They are actually thieves, we use thieves because they’re quick and light-footed. We call them “rooks” instead of “crooks” because of how the King mispronounced “crook”. It stuck. I glance down at the startled villagers on the front line. This is sick. The King orders “ volunteers” to fight in battle. I don’t approve of them being used as pawns in this game. I urge my horse to leap over one of the “pawns” to protect a young one. I see the enemy push a pawn forward. I focus my attention on protecting this pawn. I forgot what was happening around me. Because of that my horse was slain. The beast fell over and kept me pinned to the ground. I don’t know what’s worse, being pinned by a large horse corpse or seeing the other corpses lying around the field. I notice my Queen rushing toward the knight that killed my steed, I try to warn her that they were setting up a trap , but my voice failed me. The enemy Queen rushed to slay my Queen. I watched in horror as she fell. The death still in my mind, I failed to notice the enemy advances toward the King. He knelt to the enemy. We lost the battle. The enemy searched for survivors, they found me along with the pawn I was trying to save. We were taken prisoner. We’ve lost the battle, at least until our swords clash again.

The Phantom of the Opera: Post 4

Christeine has been kidnapped for the second time. This time however Raoul and The Persian, are going after the Phantom, the Phantom's real name is Erik and the Persian is someone who watches after Erik's secrets, one of them being that he isn't a ghost, or Phantom or angel. He is just a man who lives under the opera, in the cellar on the third story below, in a house across the lake. The Persian tells Raoul that they can't go across the lake to get to Erik, because he himself tried and almost drowned trying to get across. So they take hidden passages and get to the dungeon of Eriks house.



The Persian can be found around the opera in different places trying to cover up any traces that Erik has been there. I'm not sure if the Persian is a trustworthy character or not because he saved Erik and now he's helping Raoul save Christeine. I feel conflicted about him because of him helping both Raoul and Erik, although he brought guns with him in search of Christeine so I'm not sure.

The Phantom of the Opera: Post 3

Christeine has met Raoul after she passed out on stage from being too happy from her first triumph. He reminds her of who he is and she laughs at him because of his explanation. Raoul was hurt that she laughed at him and left. Christeine has a flash back of when she was younger and she was traveling with her father who was a famous fiddler. She would sing while her father played his violin, her mother died while she was still very young. So she and her father traveled until they met Raoul and his mother, they stayed there for good until Christeine's father died. He claimed he would send The Angel Of Music to Christeine after he was gone. Soon after his death Christeine left and found the opera house.


If Christeine's room is secluded from everyone else's then is there just a lot of empty space for the Phatom to roam around in?

The Phantom of the Opera: Post 2

In the story someone has been found dead in the cellars, he was hanged. Everyone again suspected the ghost, but no one knew the motive exept for the managers, the reader, and the Phantom. The reason was that they refused to pay the ghost his monthy allowence os 20,000 francs, and they also sold the Phantom's box. Those were his only rules. Later worse thins started to happen to them for not following the Phantom's rules, one of these thins includes the star of the opera, Carlotta having a frog-like sound emmit from her mouth, Christeine was the understudy.



Incase you were wondering, a box in an opera is one of the high up seats so that you don't have to look at the back of someone else's head while you are watching the play, they can be bought and rented. One thing that has been bothering the back of my mind is how big the opera is, the book decribes it to be huge. The cellars alone are five stories deep. Later in the story, Christeine (one of the main characters) shows Raoul (another main character) around the opera and is is described as being stories and stories tall, so I guess to actually understand how big it is you would have to go there and see it in real life.

The Phantom of the Opera: Post 1

The book that I am reading is called The Phantom of the Opera. The book is set in a Paris opera house in 1870. The book begins by telling the reader that the Phantom was real. The author claims to have done research on the opera house and the Phantom. The story however starts off with the managers of the opera house getting ready for a production, the young girls who sing and dance in the production run into the room screaming "IT'S THE GHOST". While the managers are trying to calm down the girls they ask them what happened. The girls claimed to have seen the Opera Ghost, this night was the managers last night of being the managers, because they had previously sold the opera to two new men. Suffice to say that they were not happy to hear talk of the Phantom on their last night (the phantom had first been heard of by these managers early when they started running the opera).



When I started reading this book I first thought that I wouldn't like it as much as the musical but as fate would have it, I honestly like the book more. Althought the names confuse me slightly, most likely because the book is set in Paris.

Triangulation Essay

        Triangulation Essay

In a dystopian society the government is unfair, people are often treated as forced ‘equals’, and there is always some sort of ‘hero’. Also intelligence is monitored, thoughts are controlled, and the government is feared. Technology helps with monitoring thoughts and reinforcing fear into individuals. In these dystopias, making people equal by force can make them submissive to the government. This form of obsessive control makes people do what they are told without the people questioning what the government is doing. This is portrayed in the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, the short story “Harrison Bergeron”, and the movie ANTZ.

The book Anthem by Ayn Rand is the story of a young man who is called ‘Equality 7-2521’, his name is later changed. The leaders in his town claimed that everyone will be forcefully equal, they do this by arresting someone doing something alone and deciding the lives of everyone else. The government wants people to conform, so is told to be like everyone else, anyone who wants to be different is put to death. Everyone in Anthem feels unimportant alone.

The government is similar in the short story of “Harrison Bergeron”, although the government goes to more extreme ways to make people ‘equal’. People that are above ‘average’ have to wear handicaps. The handicaps. The handicaps include but are not limited to, radios in people’s ears so that the person will not use their higher intellect against someone else, masks if they are exceptionally beautiful (clown noses and wigs are included), weights so they won’t be stronger or faster than anyone else, ect.

ps include but are not limited to, radios in people’s ears so that the person will not use their higher intellect against someone else, masks if they are exceptionally beautiful (clown noses and wigs are included),weights so that they won’t be stronger or faster than anyone else.

In the movie ANTZ by Pixar and Disney, the government again went to even more extreme ways to control the citizens. The government sent the ants loyal to the queen to war against the termites to have them killed, the worker ants were told to build a tunnel through the ground up to a lake, to drown both the workers and the queen. Every ant was told that everything they did was for the colony as well. They went to work every day, not for money but for the colony . Every ant was told where they could eat and if they could eat that day.

In each of these dystopias there has been some element to obsessive control. The government has killed citizens in each of these stories, and has made the surviving ones feel like they were dead if they weren’t with other citizens. Or handicapped them until they were nearly dead, even then they were only mostly dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.