In the cuckoo’s nest, the mentioning of war and the implications it had on certain men intrigued my interest. For a man to come out of a war and be deemed “ok” as moments prompt us of the time period the book is set in. So the representation of fog makes for an abundance of visual material to work with as there is so much to be said about the fog. It could be the state of his mind being full from the pills & drugs. But I see so much that could be created from this scene as there is a calming bliss to it in my opinion. So the research I did on fog told me that fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air. ”Which I decided to go with a faded or not so drawn representation of the background because in his “fogged state of mind” everything he knows is suspended. But the things he sees in the fog as he tries getting past the pill’s effects makes for him to only end up in more fog which is why I put the machinery and control panels Bromden has seen through his times in the war and the ward which produce the combination in the art piece. We see as he doesn’t feel strong as he drifts in the fog that the ward has placed in the vents as the staff makes for reality to be shifted. Even as he wants to be above everything, he’s not there yet. That’s why I added his mind falling in the fog because of the ward’s readiness for him. “The numbers Murphy, THE NUMBERS ” this was something I acknowledged very early in the book as his involvement in the military was major. His mind is still there like it’s a switch, you can go there and be in the fog or be in reality as if you’re still lost in the world. So I added the split of activity in his brain, one side being in World war 2 still and then there is the careless nothingness of the ward. Two different worlds but they seem so far apart as there is no stopping his mind from wandering. More precisely as he’s stuck in the tradition of receiving the medicine and being gone he’s still the key to change. I included change in the visual piece because Mcmurphy is the one thing throwing the course of normalcy off as everything changed when he did. But Bromden picks this observation up as he doesn’t know what the staff may do with him and that’s why I included a blurry aspect that differs from the fog because you can see through fog, but you can’t see if your vision is just blurry.

The sounds of hysteria come full fledged that open up to an unknown kind of tension as everything isn’t meant to be ok. As the quote mentions this moment reading, “ The trouble was I’d been finding myself because I got scared of being lost for so long and went hollering so they could track me.” The combine has made him morph even as must get out. He looks at the option of fooling around, he looks to welcome the trouble bound to him. But things you try to figure out you can’t because you’re back to where you originated which is the fog. All that Bromden wants is to wake up fine but even as he doesn’t know how he survives he still doesn’t get to rock bottom even as he takes over his mind.

Reading the Handmaid’s Tale, we see the life of Offred and the few handmaid’s Offred references that live an exterminated life. This book has taken the idea of dystopian and made it a living hell for women quite literally having them be forced to act upon men’s will. With no questions asked there is nothing but submission to men in this world and they look to have no wonderful escape in this book. But the thing I often pick up from the book is the killing of many ideas, people, things and life before Gilead. A quote I want to bring up is from Chapter 22, pg. 133, that talks about power and that being stripped away. It reads.“Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.” It kills the thought and idea of something so small such as maybe wearing your skirt to a certain length or even saying something makes for Gilead to kill it. It’s hard to call this a society when things are running on questionable morals and ethics that you don’t believe in not one bit. The apparent reason we see Offred often going to the past and referencing her old life is because it was when she was alive and had fulfillment for the things she believed in. The visions of her are wiped clean when the power is gone and the republic you reside in is like plastic. No fate is a conspiracy, neither is there speculation for the people who may have killed the dream of the woman of Gilead.

Which is why I take note of the sanity of Offred, and I see a lot of parallels with me and her throughout chapters. I can see a fight for the system just like Offred can see but it’s promptly killed as the conscious thoughts of the society we live in take over. I need to be a better writer and learner but the things that stop me are the “smarter people” than me but I know I can just as or better than them. Which is why I feel I ask the question “Can you be?” I don’t know what that requires of me but the quest to let go of these voids consume me and I can’t seem to let them go as positive thoughts are killed very quickly. It often ends up with me going back to the glorious past and looking at the “good” times and it’s so hard because things were sunshine and rainbows as the material was simply easier. But the horizon of being better than I was years ago often leaves me jetlagged or having to recuperate. Even as the hard times pile up I think to the quote “I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own.” from Chapter 13, pg. 73, which touches on both of our struggles. Even though I’m not in a dystopian society run by men, it hurts to see someone stuck in their own head even as the life they need is a little distant. But the remedy is the peace in which the chaos of our own doubts brings, its beauty in the madness as in the end it will be rewarding. The quotes also bring up people who have expectations, but delivering is the thing you bring on your own even as other people expect them to be fulfilled just like you did. Who do you put the blame on when the people also put the blame on you and you’re right back to where you started which is in your own head? Looking at Gilead and reality, it’s a blame game and in the end you want to just go away for a little while. A quote about ending it all for good in Gilead touches on this as it reads “That was one of the things they do. They force you to kill, within yourself.” The dream is killed first and then with that the soul goes away with it as it just becomes too much to handle. The people in my life have great expectations for me and to deliver such expectations we have to force many things in order to get where we want. The expectation becomes both of our problems and once it’s forced it takes a toll on you as you want to succeed more than ever.

But even as this crazy feeling takes attachment to you have to not be afraid. This quote touches on this “Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse for some.” from Chapter 32, pg. 211. The things you experience or go through are often not forever and could be worse, even as there is no hope. Think about the past but don’t get stuck in it as it will take over you. But just know that there will be good times even in times of Horor…

                 Patience - Guns N’ Roses 

I feel like this song is the embodiment of Offred’s heart and soul as she looks out and wonders for Luke’s well being. But then there is the ever longing thought of if she can barely live like this not even knowing or having any attachment to the commander or Serena Joy. But with patience we as both the reader and her as the main protagonist have to have patience as she builds up her resistance for her chance at power. On pg 122. She touches on this with her words being “I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this is what I want.” She is alone in her new life as she has been rewired and made to think differently in this society that is meant to only keep her down. In the song “Patience” they get the message across that you merely need to have patience even in the hard times. The harmonious melody and soulful lyrics of “Patience” evoke the feelings of nostalgia, longing, and hope. The three feelings that race her mind in the book with her having many flashbacks such as her escaping, her life before being handmaid and Luke. Longing represents the everlasting effect she causes as she looks for something bigger and better than Gilead and it’s important because doesn’t communicate these desires at all. It’s unsimple as she meant concealing and can’t get these feelings off as she puts on a fake smile. But then there is hope instilled in her as she feels this as if dim light is flickering the dark waiting to be turned on. With her seemingly getting on the Commander’s good side as they play, scrabble and indulge in meetings more often than not creating the hope that one by one Gilead can be freed from the shackles of men. But first there must be patience as she perceives it coming as she deals with these emotions head on.

               Helmet - Steve Lacy 

Steve lacy creates the heartbreak anthem as he is expressing his frustration and dissatisfaction in a relationship that isn’t fulfilling them. “But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. “Being used as an animal in the story she wants to let go of her life in Gilead as she is stuck there without a choice. They realize they need to be true to themselves and let go of their partner. Despite the rewiring efforts to change her, she often remembers and comes to the realization that she will never get over him as she is presented with a new lover. In the song we get to see Steve Lacy go back and forth with these thoughts as he sings “You just gotta let me go as I’m tryna let go of you.” This verse is a representation of the emotions felt as it’s just her vs her fighting a mental battle as she tries to mix the old with the new.

              La Vida Es Fria - Josh Joshua  

Les via es Fria is the perfect song to fit the whole identity of Offred and her search for why the world is so cold. In her world Luke was still her lover and her child was still in her arms as it looked upon the sky but in this new world there’s no more Luke and there’s no more her baby as her life has been Stripped Away and she’s been rewired. With the song la Vida is Fria we get a longing lover still searching for the answers to why the world is so cold but as no one wants to work it out he is left stuck still yearning for love that is gone. As in the chapters that go on and on and on about her flashbacks and her Nostalgia trips the memories relay of her being happy and as her life in Gilead progresses she still wants something that is going and that’s something that makes her whole. In the song Jason Joshua sings “La vida es fria, Her heart is turned to stone, Nobody wants to stay together, Nobody wants to make it better.” As he sings these lyrics we can compare what life is like in Gilead to the lyrics in “La Vida Es Fria.” In Chapter 23 we see Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn’t really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. All the more as she recognizes the years of pain she has endured she still knows of the situation she is currently living in and that’s what makes her Fria to.

                  Somebody To Love - Queen

This song is quite the build up as a damaged, depressed and ultimately longing for love Freddie Mercury is leaving his sorrows. With the change of seasons and the book heading into the spring we will get with it spring weather. Cloudy, Rainy and most importantly the sun. For instance, Freddie finds himself experiencing dread when he wakes up in the morning and indeed can barely stand beholding his own image in the mirror just as Offred can’t either. With that triple threat we get Offred’s coming out party as she wallows from the depressed rains and eventually into the loving arms of the commander as she looks to create a power struggle. With her planting her seeds in the love triangle between herself, Serena Joy and the Commander it’s not like they’re going to get along better. So this is how Offred is embodied through the song ‘Somebody to Love” as it says,” They say I’m going crazy. They say I got a lot of water in my brain. I have no common sense. (He’s got.) I got nobody left.” As Offred is always in her own mind she’s in the Maze of Gilead as she doesn’t have any control over her own focus. As in chapter the seasons changing is touched on perfectly described as it reads “I once had a garden. I can remember the smell of the turned earth, the plump shapes of bulbs held in the hands, fullness, the dry rustle of seeds through the fingers.” We get this glimpse of her control being lost. Evans, she doesn’t have her original lover she still wants someone who is looking for love as she is not her own “self,”

               Wolves/Frank’s Track - Kanye West 

In this song, Kanye explores the complexities of human relationships and the raw emotions that come with them. “The Republic Of Gilead ” dapple with politics & godly traditions being the driving force for its success. As the melodic tune about love and loss makes the listener question what makes emotional attachment so important for a lover? Just as the Handmaid’s Tale brings up love and loss constantly as characters have scars of fear, hope, and love. A quote about the times being in love is expressed through this quote as it reads,”We thought we had such problems. How did we know we were happy?”As Offred and Kanye West don’t get to reminisce on what certain moments could have been or would have been as they look to the past to get something that is never coming back. Lines such as “Lost and found out” and “Cause I know God’s got us in for a greater plan” speak to a sense of resilience and hope in the face of adversity. Donda was Knaye’s Mother, and losing her was devastating to him as he was never the same and he can’t seem to forget the pain nor the loss of his mother.

           Introducción sobre la familia

¡Mi familia es muy sencilla! Susnombres son Ahmad, Kristin, Daryus, Tyson Tigger mi gato y yo. Es un buen grupo de gente. Mi hermano mayor Daryus tener dieciocho años y va a colegio de Workshop. También es increíblemente con los videojuegos ,y es bastante relajado. Mi hermano menor Tyson ama Roblox y mantiene eso bajo de control. Mis padres son casados y viven con nosotros en el Sur de Filadelfia. Mi tia y tio por parte de mi padre viven en Filadelfia, pero mis otros tíos y tía viven en Georgia.

                     Persona #1

Mi familia en su conjunto es muy compleja porque son diferentes. Mi hermano mayor Daryus es perezoso , pero al mismo tiempo trabaja duro, pero solamente cuando él quiere. . Mi hermano mayor es gordito con pelo negro y rizado . También tiene ojos cafés.

Mientras tanto, mi hermano menor Tyson es tranquilo. Le gusta Roblox. No me habla mucho. Él es with un poco alto pero tiene cabello negro y corto. Tiene ojos cafés.

                     Persona #2

Yo soy sencillo. Yo tengo pelo negro, con el corte arbusto y tengo los ojos cafés. Yo soy muy adecuado y bastante alto. Yo tengo una personalidad trabajadora . Me gusta el gimnasio, jugando los deportes y solo siendo yo. Pero mi personalidad más fuerte es la ética de trabajo. Sigo adelante y soy muy responsable.

                   Sobre mí

A mi hermano mayor y yo nos gusta nuestro momentos divertidos. Nosotros tenemos el pelo igual con rizado y nuestro estilo de moda. Me gusta estar activo pero mi hermano mayor le gusta dormir. Nos gustan los videojuegos (GTA, Call of Duty y Apex Legends). Nos gusta música de Hip-Hop. Me gusta Drake, pero le gusta Playboi Carti. Nosotros somos de la mismo edad. Tengo quince años y él tiene dieciocho años de edad. Uno cosa mi familia tiene en común es nuestro piel de color cual es morena.

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