Poetic Justice

nej

Hej,

Jeg havde den til årsprøve sidste år, så spørg løs. Jeg håber at jeg kan besvar dine spørgsmål (hvilket afhænger af, hvor godt jeg kan huske den).

Hilsen

Faha

Nu er jeg næsten færdig med den, men jeg vil da gerne høre om det jeg har skrevet er rigtigt.

Hvad har du svaret, da du skulle karaktesere Jed Cunningham, og hvad har du svaret ved det spørgsmål, hvor man skal finde ud af om fortælleren viser sig selv i historien, og hvordan hun viser sig?
Desuden har jeg et sidste spørgsmål om betydninger af deres ungdoms forhold? Jeg synes selv den var lidt svær.

Du behøver ikke at svare i sætninger. Det er helt iorden, at det bare er i stikord.

På forhånd tak

Hej,

1.

Jed Cunningham var en typisk oprørsk ung mand, der havde en idé om, hvordan verden hang sammen. Han ville ikke indordne sig i samfundets måde at definere, hvad der er rigtigt eller forkert. Hvis jeg husker rigtigt, var han klog, og chamerede lærerne (?), hvilket ville bevise, at han havde alt, hvad de andre unge "drømte om" og derfor havde tiden til at spekulere over ting, der skete i livet, som andre ville tage for givet eller overhovedet ikke lægge mærke til. Han er kynisk og en "prins charming", (hun beskriver ham med nogle flotte adjektiver!)og var, kort sagt, en fryd for øjet.

2.

Hun beskriver sig selv og sit live et par gange. Hun nævner bl.a. at hun tager sin datters tøj på, at hun køber og bruger alle de creme, hun kan finde, der kan få rynker til at forsvinde og træner som en sindsyg, hvilket fortæller os, at hun er en kvinde, der prøver at flygte fra realiteten. En anden ting, der påpeger dette er, at hun i det hele taget længes efter hendes ungdom, hvilket betyder (?) at der er noget i fortiden hun ikke har fået styre på. Ved at beskrive sig, få vi et indtryk af at hun har dårligt selvværed.

3.

Jeg har forstået deres ungdoms forhold, som det der ikke var afsluttet i hendes liv, det der holdt hende tilbage (en illusion hun havde bibeholdt gennem hendes udvikling, da det var en lykkelig og næsten drømmeagtig tid i hendes liv). Forholdet er også det der skubber hende i gang med hendes liv igen. Da hun begyndte at skrive, var hun trist og ked af sig selv (hun var ikke blevet til noget spændene, som hun havde drømt om dengang, og lever et normalt liv). Hun flygtede tilbage til ungdommen, men da hun opdager (erkender) at selve Cunningham har et liv, der ikke svare til den lykkelige ungdom de havde (og at han kun har sin hund at knytte sig til), indser hun at hun faktisk er godt stillet. Hun husker sine børn og lykker sig priset for at hun har nogen at dele livet med. Hun bliver voksen og tager ansvar. Hun indser at livet ikke er en dans på roser, men en udvikling, hvor hver sin tid har sine levemåder.

Jeg håber at det var til hjælp, og som sagt, så husker jeg ikke så godt, så jeg håber at du kan finde flere punkter.

Held og lykke

Faha

Mange tak for det fine svar.

Er også glad for dem, da jeg selv er igang med opgaven... ;)

oh tak faha
det var virkelig en stor hjælp

Det var nu ret godt:) Tak!

Men har i nogen idé om hvad titlen betyder? Udover "poetisk retfærdighed?" Og hvordan skal denne overskrift kobles til historien?

Poetic Justice

I have read the short story Poetic Justice by Diana Appleyard. The story is told by a first person narrator, and describes an episode in a middle age woman’s life. A woman whose name is not revealed but who possibly could be the writer herself, because of the family issues described in the text wich is similar to the actual Diana Appleyard. No matter the identity of the narrator the story presents the contrasts between those who is called ordinary people with ordinary lives and the ones who take risks, lives on the edge or as the story puts it “seize the day”.
In this case the ordinary people are symbolised by the narrator, who one day receives a mail from an old boyfriend which commences her on a journey to her past and makes her reconsider the choices she made along the way. As the story progress her current life is taking to debate on several angles. At one point you get the expression that she hates her life and deeply regrets how everything has turned out. She is unhappy, although it seems that she never thought of it until this moment. The moment where she suddenly wakes up and discovers a woman she does not know. A woman so different from everything she once was and everything she could have been. All of this is triggered by a simple email, therefore making it understandable why it makes her uneasy, and why she practically fears answering. It turns out that she finds the courage to engage in a chat with the old flame of her life. This however ends very sudden by her realising that it is simply not right to bring back the girl that once was just for a foolish dreams. Now she has a family and that is in her mind more important and fulfilling than anything he can give her.
In order for the memory of a boy to have such an impact on a grown up woman, it is obvious that it had to be quite an extraordinary boy. This boy was Jed Cunningham. In many ways a guy guys looked up to and girls admired. Never insecure, always the smarter one, even when facing adults, and most importantly never ordinary. He stated himself that one of the most important things in life is acting unexpected, and surely that is what he did. She describes him as an Irish poet, mostly because of his dreams of travelling to Ireland and write poetry, but also because there was some kind of intelligent poet feature to everything he did. She leaves no doubt that he was definitely a one of a kind.
Those two had a beautiful relationship worthy of admiration and envy. It appeared so strong as if it would last forever, and both of them seemed so mature that none of their fellow schoolmates could reach their unnatural level of intelligence and maturity. Still something ripped them apart, which was to strong a force for them to fight. It is quite simple actually. She was an ordinary girl destined to live an secure life, and he would forever be the Irish poet full of drive and dreams. Still there is no doubt that the break-up was hardest on her
The language however is not the least bit poetic, seeing as it is the brain activity of a middle aged woman wrote directly on paper. To clarify this, the writer uses a lot of repetitions and makes sudden disagreements between two sides and therefore arguments as if she is trying to convince some higher consciousness. All that in order to make it as doubtful as possible. Cause that is what she is, very doubtful.
The term poetic justice roughly implies when someone is either rewarded or punished for their actions in a story, and often in an for the story ironic way. In this story Jed abandons the narrator and everyone else who have loved him and supported him, while she chooses to stay and fulfil the expectations of her and thereby doing the right thing. In the end when she deletes his message she rejects him completely and probably sentences him to a life of loneliness. In that way Jed gets to feel poetic justice, and in the same time she feels more at peace with who she are and how she lives. She gets to feel poetic justice as well.

Kan det bruges?

Gode svar, jeg er i gang med at skrive den også og skal afleveres i morgen.. har dog en del problemer med disse spørgsmål:




4:Comments on the language and the point of view

5:The theme

6:The title

Jeg afleverede min i sidste uge og fik 12. Det jeg har skrevet i min stil til de overstående spørgsmål er kort:

4. The short story Poetic Justice, written by Diana Appleyard, tells us a story about a woman’s view of her own life, and how her life has developed from her young days till now.

At the beginning of the story we get a description of Jed Cunningham. The narrator’s name is not revealed in the story. The perspective is in 3rd person narrative with a limited point of view. It only lets the reader into the main character’s mind, and not Jed’s, which means that we know what the narrator thinks about herself, her life and Jed. The language in the story is formal. The narrator uses examples when she implies something and there is not much use of slang, if any. She uses long sentences with imagery language. For example when she talks about Jed and herself, when they were young:

“He wrote the most wonderful letters, unexpected, witty, dangerous”

She uses a lot of adjectives and it makes it more alive.

5.

The short story that the narrator is telling is about finding oneself. It is important to be true to whoever you are because it is impossible to live a life trying to be something you are not. You always have to follow your own dreams, and each individual finds happiness in different ways. Some might find happiness in a life with a lot of adventure, while another chooses to take the safer road and aim for a good future. “Poetic justice” gives a good example of this and it shows us how bitter and unthankful you can get, if you always think about what could have happened, but did not. Though in the end the narrator is satisfied with the person she has become. She is not a poet anymore. The poetic justice has appeared. She is no longer aiming for a life she knows she will never be able to get.

The story tells us how important it is to follow our own dreams, and not be jealous of somebody else’s life, because it will spoil our own life. We often dream about being someone else, because the grass will always be greener on the other side. But we do not have to be someone else to have a good life. We just have to find a life that it ours and a way of living that make us happy, no matter how we choose to live it.

6. the title står oppe i 5'eren. Altså;

[..] Though in the end the narrator is satisfied with the person she has become. She is not a poet anymore. The poetic justice has appeared. She is no longer aiming for a life she knows she will never be able to get [..]

håber det hjælper, ellers spørg. Jeg kunne selvfølgelig også bare uploade hele min essay her..

Du må meget gerne sende den til mig

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Mange tak :)

Det ville jeg bare blive glad for :)

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The story is told by a first person narrator, and describes an episode in a middle age woman’s life. The name of the women is not mention in the story, who could be the writer herself, because the problems that’s mentions in this short story is alike the Diana Appleyard.
The main character in this story is a middle-aged woman, who has a husband two children, two dogs and a cat. She works from home and lives a everyday life.'


Then one day the narrator decides to log herself into a school reunion website. A profile which contains instant messaging and email. While she is sitting in front of her computer, her first real love, a boy by the name Jed Cunningham joins the website.


Jed Cunningham was her first real love back in college. He was a boy who always stood outside the herd, but yet people were still considering him for being a cool person. He was Never insecure, and always the coolest one, even when facing adults, and most importantly never ordinary.

He stated himself that one of the most important things in life is acting unexpected, and surely that is what he did. The main character describes him as an Irish poet, mainly because he wants at the age of eighteen, wants to travel to Ireland and write poetry and lives there.

til whatever, kan jeg ikke få din email, også kan du sende din stil til mig? på forhånd tak

I følge Longmann's Dictionary of Contemporary English betyder "poetic justice" altså: "a situation in which someone suffers, and you think they deserve it because they did something"

hvilket måske ikke helt passer med kommentaren: "...Though in the end the narrator is satisfied with the person she has become. She is not a poet anymore. The poetic justice has appeared. She is no longer aiming for a life she knows she will never be able to get ."