Novel Research

Kathryn Stockett is the author of the novel 'The Help' she grew up in Jackson , Mississippi where the scene is set for the book. She graduated with a degree in English and Creative writing from the University of Alabama. The Help is her first novel and it has been greatly succesful she published it in New York and stayed there for nine years. Kathryn currently lives in Atlanta with her family. Her book spent over 30 weeks on the New York Times best sellers list this was greatly unexpected for Stockett. Her inspiration for the book came from being homesick growing up as a white girl in the south she had a maid who was the base of the main character in the story , Aibileen. Throughout writing the novel she had many rejection letters from literary agents and was worried about being so young and writing about the dialect of African Americans.She is currently writing a second novel and there is to be a movie of The Help coming out in summer 2011.



http://www.kathrynstockett.com/

Perception Is Everything

The theme of Beau Ottos presentation on optical illusions is he shows how everyone perceives everything differently. I may see a red poster but that's because Ive always learned that the colour red is red but my colour red could be someone elses perception of blue. In my own life I encounter many moments like this one imparticular sticks out. I was at a friends hockey game and at the end I was waiting outside for him afterwards and one of his team mates came out. All these boys ran up the stairs in matching yellow livestrong shirts and i asked him "what are the boys doing?" and he said "oh the guys in the orange shirts" and I started laughing and asked if he was blind and he shook his head in confusion. To me the shirts were yellow but to him the shirts looked orange. Everyone perceives everything in the world differently not only with colours but signs building actions people usually not one thing is the same to more than one person.

The Perils of Indifference

1) The Perils of Indifference in my perspective means that being ignorant to evil can be worse than the actual source of evil itself. Example being any sort of genocide or human massacre throughout history. The Holocaust wouldn't of occurred or been as bad if more people would of stood up and changed the way Germany was.

2) What you learn when you grow up and what you are surrounded by is what you grow up to know. In "The Lottery" at a certain point in the year the whole town stones someone to death simply based on a coloured dot on a piece of paper that you pick.In history alone there is many comparable situations to this. In the movie "Taken" a young girl goes to Europe with her best friend and they both get kidnapped into the sex trafficking circle. Throughout the world there is many sex trafficking rings and its a very underground business but the things that are done to the women who are taken into it are horrifying. This circle of terror could easily be stopped if someone we're to realize how wrong they are being. It takes a lot of workers for this to happen and work properly in the movie it shows the people who are "attractors" and than the people that pay to have sessions with the females and than the business men who buy and trade the women. Even the people who are going in to have sessions with the women are apart of this horrible event. Also in the movie it showed that the people working in the airport and bus depot new what was going and who the attractors were. Without anyone standing up or doing anything more women and girls will be taken each year and put into a sex trafficking world.


3) In both texts the link that I noticed was that they are both showing how being ignorant is equal to being the ring leader. In "Perils of Indifference" they talk about many of the political events that have happened and how it could of been different and in "The Lottery" in the end it surprises us with the whole town stoning someone to death and the townsfolk being so humble about it. Ignorance is no excuse , watching evil happen is just as harmful and it can spin out into massacre just like the holocaust.

Creative Pursuit #6 "write about a weird day in your workplace"

Basically I am a modern day clown. It is hard to pick just one day that's a weird day in my workplace. I work for a party company and have learned the ways of entertaining children. I can face paint , make balloon animals , run bouncy castles and of course I dress up in any costume I'm told to. One day stands out too me though. It was one of my first events with Par-T-Perfect. We were doing an event up in Kelowna and I was running the face paint station and my friend Amy was running avalanche mountain , this bouncy castle has a fake blow up helicopter on the top of it just for show. As I'm doing my job these five boys come up all asking to be painted as princesses , a little out of the ordinary but i wasn't one to judge. I stamped the boys tickets and off they went. About fifteen minutes later I can hear Amy yelling "get down from there!" so I run over sure enough the five boys have tried to climb to the helicopter which is not only not allowed but its really dangerous because it's super high up. The boys scatter down the castle quickly and try to run off while yelling "attack of the princesses!". So we laugh it off and get back to work soon enough the day is over and nothing I had thought had happened after the once incident we all meet with out bosses and the other two workers and every single one of us asks if any of us had trouble with the five princess boys. Discovering that they had raised trouble at every station in all different forms. Now all of us joke and call it the "princess day" and I do not think I will ever face paint a group of boys princesses ever again.