My Featured Film

The Art of Love （2013）

I. About the Film

　

The theme of this film is ''Do you believe in love at first sight ? ''
During a stroll though a park, a lonely photographer meets the love of his life. Though a series of unfortunate events, he must find a way to her heart before his luck runs out.

Works Cited （参考文献）

Farinella, Lewis. "The ART of LOVE - Short Film." YouTube. Ed. Lewis Farinella. YouTube, 18 July 2013. Web. 21 Dec. 2016.

II. About the Lead Actor

Michael Kyle Mills

Recent graduate from University of North Florida's College of Computing, Engineering and Construction with a Bachelor of Science Computing and Information Sciences. Made Dean's List, as well as, earned two honorable mentions at the UNF Symposium. Also a past graduate from Florida State College at Jacksonville with an Associate in Arts. 

He is currently employed at FIS and interested in expand his knowledge and skills in the Information Technology field. 
Processes customers’ orders in a timely fashion, while keeping the Photo Center work area safe and zoned for customers. Receives cash from customers in payment for goods and services, assists customers and maintains modular and feature presentations.
  Full knowledge and software of electronic devices; televisions, computers, tablets, routers, modems, media players, cellphones, video games consoles and games. Properly zones assigned Electronics, assists Customers and maintains modular and feature presentations.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Michael Kyle Mills." Linkedin. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Dec. 2016.

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - mood (物語の雰囲気)

• Mood means that a story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes.
• This movie is love story which begins to fall in love.
• I feel that this film gains the sympathy of many people who watching it by describing every life.

B. Reaction Point - soundtrack (音声、音楽や効果音)

• Soundtrack means that voice, music and sound effects.
• Nothing human's voice and only music.
• Music makes viewer relaxed and there is effect to concentrate this film. I think that viewer will not be charmed by it if there are human's voice on this film.

C. Reaction Point - characters(人物)

• Characters means that persons - or animals or natural forces represented as persons - in a work of literature.
• a photographer and a women which sketches at the park.
• Main characters in this film are a photographer and a women who sketches at the park. A photographer falls in love with her and tries to make a contact. I think that someone in love will experience it.

D. My General Opinion
This movie,'The Art of love' is a short story and easy to see for many people. In spite of there are no human's voice, it makes people who watching this movie happy little by little. sketch book which connect with them is an important key for this film. I like the scene in the end, so many people will sympathy it. So, I want many people to know this film.

My Featured Novel

I. About the Novel：Jane Eyre

 Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.

Primarily of the Bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the Byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalisation of the action—the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility, and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry—Jane Eyre revolutionised the art of fiction. Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust.The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel's exploration of classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre

Brontë, Charlotte, and Ann Ward. Jane Eyre. Harlow, England: Penguin, 2008. Print.



II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media

Movie Versions

Ⅰ. Jane Eyre(1996) by Dyson Lovell

Jane Eyre is a 1996 American, British, French and Italian romantic epic and dramatic feature film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name. This Hollywood version, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, is similar to the original novel, although it compresses and eliminates most of the plot in the last quarter of the book (the running away, the trials and tribulations, new found relations, and new job) to make it fit into a 2-hour movie.











 Ⅱ.Jane Eyre(2011) by BBC filims

Jane Eyre is a 2011 British romantic drama film directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. The screenplay is written by Moira Buffini based on the 1847 novel of the same name by Charlotte Brontë. The film was released on 11 March 2011 in the United States and 9 September in Great Britain and Ireland.
  The film begins with Jane Eyre running away from Thornfield Hall in the middle of the night and finding herself alone on the moors, in the pouring rain. She manages to reach the doorstep of Moor House, the home of Mr. St. John Rivers, a clergyman, and his two sisters. They take Jane in, saving her life.



Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre_(1996_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre_(2011_film)

III. About the Author：Charlotte Bronte

     Charlotte Brontë was born in Yorkshire, England on April 21, 1816 to Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë. Because Charlotte’s mother died when Charlotte was five years old, Charlotte’s aunt, a devout Methodist, helped her brother-in-law raise his children. In 1824 Charlotte and three of her sisters—Maria, Elizabeth, and Emily—were sent to Cowan Bridge, a school for clergymen’s daughters. When an outbreak of tuberculosis killed Maria and Elizabeth, Charlotte and Emily were brought home. Several years later, Charlotte returned to school, this time in Roe Head, England. She became a teacher at the school in 1835 but decided after several years to become a private governess instead. She was hired to live with and tutor the children of the wealthy Sidgewick family in 1839, but the job was a misery to her and she soon left it. Once Charlotte recognized that her dream of starting her own school was not immediately realizable, however, she returned to working as a governess, this time for a different family. Finding herself equally disappointed with governess work the second time around, Charlotte recruited her sisters to join her in more serious preparation for the establishment of a school.

Works Cited （参考文献）
"Jane Eyre." SparkNotes. SparkNotes, n.d. Web. 07 Dec. 2016.



IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - Protagonist (メインキャラクター)

• Protagonist is main character.
• Jane Eyre / Mr Rochester

• "Jane Eyre" is a love story between Jane,the governess and Mr Rochester, the owner of Thonfield Hall. Their relations change from an employment relationship first to friends, and a couple in the end as chapters make steady progress. I recommend many people not to be able to keep an eye the change of their relations.

B. Reaction Point - Point of view (観点)

• Point of view is the viewpoint from which a story is told.
• I = Jane Eyre.
• This novel is written by Jane's view and plays an important part as a narrator. In short, this story is an autobiographical novel. By using her narrator,I know that Jane's strong feeling can represent clearly and is easy to understand for many readers.

C. Reaction Point - symbolism (象徴的表現)

• Symbolism is the greater or deeper meaning of a character, object, setting or event in a story.
•  There are three symbolism in this story.

　　　・Then I heard a laugh. It was a terrible, cruel Laugh! (p.10 L9)

　　　・It grew dark. The wind began to blow, and it started to rain,
              so we walked together back to the house.(p.21 L5~L6)
           
            ・The wind made a strange sound.(p.21 L9)

• This three symbolism show an omen what happens. In particular, 'laugh'  represents  when Jane's feelings changes, this story is the best important keyword. I felt that they make many readers interested and excited.

D. My General Opinion
    I read 'Jane Eyre' which is translated by Japanese before. When I finished the novel in English though CALL class, I thought the each of characters who appear on this novel is charming definitely. Then this story includes not only a love but also Gothic and mystery. The reader many times, the more I can understand this novel's essence. I want to read it for many classmates.

My Featured Song

Red by Taylor Swift

Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street

Faster than the wind, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly

Loving him is like trying to change your mind once you're already flying through the free fall

Like the colors in autumn, so bright just before they lose it all

Losing him was blue like I'd never known

Missing him was dark grey all alone

Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met

But loving him was red

Loving him was red

Touching him was like realizing all you ever wanted was right there in front of you

Memorizing him was as easy as knowing all the words to your old favorite song

Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer

Regretting him was like wishing you never found out that love could be that strong

Losing him was blue like I'd never known

Missing him was dark grey all alone

Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met

But loving him was red

Oh, red

Burning red

Remembering him comes in flashbacks and echoes

Tell myself it's time now, gotta let go

But moving on from him is impossible

When I still see it all in my head

In burning red

Burning, it was red

Oh, losing him was blue like I'd never known

Missing him was dark grey all alone

Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met

'Cause loving him was red

Yeah, yeah, red

We're burning red

And that's why he's spinnin' 'round in my head

Comes back to me, burning red

Yeah, yeah

His love was like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street

I. About the Song

"Red" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter, Taylor Swift.
 It was released on October 22, 2012 in the USA and on October 24, 2012 in Japan. So it served as the album's fifth single on June 21, 2013 in the USA.The album was a critical and commercial success, and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 1.21 million copies. This marked the highest opening sales in a decade, and made Swift the first female to have two million-selling album openings, a record recognized by Guinness World Records.
It was part of the tracks released during the four weeks preceding the release of the album. Musically, "Red" is a country song, and its lyrics uses colors and metaphors to describe an intense and tumultuous relationship.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_(Taylor_Swift_song)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89_(%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%95%E3%83%88%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%A0)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift

II. About the Songwriter: Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the suburban Philadelphia area.

At the age of nine, Swift became interested in musical theater and performed in four Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions. She also traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons.Swift later shifted her focus toward country music inspired by Shania Twain's songs, which made her "want to just run around the block four times and daydream about everything". She spent her weekends performing at local festivals and events. After watching a documentary about Faith Hill, Swift felt sure that she needed to go to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a music career.

She has many friends and is called "She has a sweet heart" by many people,So she was chosen as the first place of "100 women who are the hottest in 2015" that British MAXIM announces. So, she laid emphasis on contribution to society activity and, in May, 2012, according to RBBTODAY, contributed 4 million dollars (approximately 320 million yen) to "country music palace Museum" in hometown Nashville.

In addition, she takes office as a global welcome ambassador (sightseeing ambassador) of New York in the autumn of 2014 and contribute all the profit of single "Welcome to New York" to the public school building in the city. It is picked by "The star who contributed to charity most" whom organization "Do Something" supporting a youth chooses.




Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - Point of view （物語は曲の歌詞に語られ、そこからの視点）

• Point of view is the perspective from which a story is told in a song's lyrics.
• The point of view is 'loving him', that of a woman in love.
• From this song, the word appears on lyrics many times. It understands that it appears her intense heart for him. I felt whether Taylor wanted many people to tell strong love song that all women have.

B. Reaction Point - Lyrics （歌の歌詞）

• Lyrics is the words to the songs.
• Losing him was blue like I'd never known

  Missing him was dark grey all alone

  Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met

  But loving him was red

  Loving him was red
• In this song, there are many colors. By using color, it expressed the emotion in love clearly. From this thing, I knew that it songs the regret for parting him and the good old memory with him in contrast, so color show it too.

C. Reaction Point - Song genre （ソングが作成され、実行されるスタイル）

• Song genre is the style in which a song is created and performed.
• country song and love song
• Taylor Swift is famous for song that compose it based on her experiences. "Red" is disappointed love song. I thought she expresses heart's voice for things she liked a boyfriend very much but parted him. It will make many people,in particular women in love sympathize.Her song's charm is to gain the sympathy of many in the audience.

D. My General Opinion

The clue that I listened to this song for the first time and liked it is because my favorite color is red. When I knew the lyrics is word related to disappointed love because the music is pop, I was surprised. I think that this contrast is very good and I like it. I recommend many classmates to listen "Red" in this season because there is a word of season, fall.

My Featured Poem

I’m Nobody! Who Are You?
by Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there's a pair of us -don't tell!

They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!

How public, like a frog

To tell your name the livelong day

To an admiring bog!



Audio Version
From the website, Pearls of Wisdom

I. About the Poem 

The poem was first published in 1891 in Poems, Series 2, a collection of Dickinson's poems assembled and edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. It is composed of two quatrains and with an exception of the first line, the rhythm alternates between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, so it employs alliteration, anaphora, smile, satire, and internal rhyme but no regular end rhyme scheme. However, lines 1 and 2 and lines 6 and 8 end with masculine rhymes. The poet incorporates the pronouns you, we, us, your into the poem, and in doing so, draws the reader into the piece. It suggests anonymity is preferable to fame.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Nobody!_Who_are_you%3F

II. About the Author

In 1830, Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but only for one year. Throughout her life, she seldom left her house and visitors were few. The people with whom she did come in contact, however, had an enormous impact on her poetry. She was particularly stirred by the Reverend Charles Wadsworth, whom she met on a trip to Philadelphia. He left for the West Coast shortly after a visit to her home in 1860, and some critics believe his departure gave rise to the heartsick flow of verse from Dickinson in the years that followed. While it is certain that he was an important figure in her life, it is not certain that this was in the capacity of romantic love—she called him "my closest earthly friend." Other possibilities for the unrequited love in Dickinson’s poems include Otis P. Lord, a Massachusetts Supreme Court Judge, and Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican.

By the 1860s, Dickinson lived in almost total physical isolation from the outside world, but actively maintained many correspondences and read widely. She spent a great deal of this time with her family. Her father, Edward Dickinson, was actively involved in state and national politics, serving in Congress for one term. Her brother Austin attended law school and became an attorney, and lived next door with his wife Susan Gilbert. Dickinson’s younger sister Lavinia also lived at home for her entire life in similar isolation. Lavinia and Austin were not only family, but intellectual companions during Dickinson’s lifetime.

Dickinson's poetry reflects her loneliness and the speakers of her poems generally live in a state of want. Her poems are also marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving and suggest the possibility of happiness. Her work was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England, as well as her reading of the Book of Revelation and her upbringing in a Puritan New England town which encouraged a Calvinist, orthodox, and conservative approach to Christianity.

She admired the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as John Keats. Though she was dissuaded from reading the verse of her contemporary Walt Whitman by rumor of its disgracefulness, the two poets are now connected by the distinguished place they hold as the founders of a uniquely American poetic voice. While Dickinson was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. The first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890 and the last in 1955. She died in Amherst in 1886.

Upon her death, Dickinson's family discovered 40 handbound volumes of nearly 1800 of her poems, or "fascicles" as they are sometimes called. These booklets were made by folding and sewing five or six sheets of stationery paper and copying what seem to be final versions of poems in an order that many critics believe to be more than chronological. The handwritten poems show a variety of dash-like marks of various sizes and directions (some are even vertical). The poems were initially unbound and published according to the aesthetics of her many early editors, removing her unusual and varied dashes and replacing them with traditional punctuation. The current standard version replaces her dashes with a standard "n-dash," which is a closer typographical approximation of her writing. Furthermore, the original order of the works was not restored until 1981, when Ralph W. Franklin used the physical evidence of the paper itself to restore her order, relying on smudge marks, needle punctures and other clues to reassemble the packets. Since then, many critics have argued for thematic unity in these small collections, believing the ordering of the poems to be more than chronological or convenient. The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson (Belknap Press, 1981) remains the only volume that keeps the order intact.

Works Cited （参考文献）

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155#sthash.ihanBD0D.dpuf

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - rhyme（韻、言葉の端部で音の繰り返し）

• Rhyme means the repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
• For example: "you" and "too" or "frog" and "bog".
• Lines 1 and 2 and lines 6 and 8 end with masculine rhymes. In this poem, I think that there is no regularity in each of lines end.

B. Reaction Point - alliteration（頭韻の繰り返す） 

• Alliteration means repetition of initial consonant sounds.
• For example: "I" and "Are" of lines 1 and 2, "Then" and "They"  of lines 3 and 4, "How" of lines 5 and 6 and "To" of lines 7 and 8.
• It understands that the beginning of a sentence becomes the same word and rhyme when I watch this poetry by each two lines.I felt that this poem's rhythm is good by repeating initial consomant sounds and easy to read.

C. Reaction Point - metaphor（異なる種類の別のもので、一つのことを直接比較する、比喩）

• Metaphor means the direct comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind.
• For example: How public, like a frog
• The second stanza differences the first stanza's meaning. In short, lines 1 and lines 5 compare between "somebody" and " frog". So I think that Emily Dickinson may be compare specific someone to a frog and wants to tell that somebody can be a frog.

D. My General Opinion
    When I read this poetry for the first time, I thought this poem to sing the cry of the heart of the author. However, as I read it many time, I felt whether this poetry was singing about love. When I examined about Emily Dickinson, I found that she wrote a lot of poetry of the love. At the same time, I want to read other her poetry. I like "I'm Nobody！Who Are You？" now.