A Shocking Accident

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A Shocking Accident is a short story written by Graham Greene.

The story is about Jerome, when he was nine-years-old his father died. Jerome worshiped his dad, he admired him a lot and liked to imagine him being a secret agent, although he was an author Jerome heard about it when he was at school, his headmaster Mr. Wordsworth told about it. His father died when he was in Naples; he was walking to the Hydrographic Museum and suddenly a pig fell on him. During the next few years Jerome thinks about the death of his father, especially the way he died and they way he explains it to different people. When he is about to marry Sally he is worried because he hasn’t told her the way his father died.

The school Jerome went to seemed a little bit cruel, but probably the main reason of the cruelty and harshness wast to give the boys a disciplined education environment and in hope that they would behave well and properly when they were older. When it’s told that Jerome is about to get married the reader finds out that he hasn’t told Sally about the way his father died. This pretty much means that Jerome is a little scared of Sally’s reaction. He has told different people the way his father died, and people often have responded in a comical way. But when Sally finally finds out and is shocked Jerome is relieved and happy. It really meant a lot to him that Sally didn’t laugh, because Jerome’s love towards his dad was really strong and it would’ve made him upset if Sally had laughed.

I think the pig died after falling on Jerome’s dad, but I think it died on the scene of the accident and it didn’t suffer a painful and a long death. Also I think it was probably eaten afterwards by the pigs owner.

The Holiday

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The Holiday (2006), is a romantic comedy film. It was written and produced by Nancy Meyers. Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jack Black and Jude Law starring the movie. The theme of the movie is falling in love with a total stranger.

Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz) and Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) are both in their thirties. They have a lot in common, they both work hard and have a past in a failing relationship. Amanda lives in Los Angeles and Iris lives in Surrey. Just before the beginning of the Christmas break Amanda wants to get out from L.A. and decides to sign up in a house exchange. She and Iris exchange their homes, which means Amanda will be living in Iris’ home in Surrey for two weeks, while Iris is staying in L.A. for the same time. While living in Surrey, Amanda meets Iris’ brother Graham (Jude Law) who is a widow and has two children. After a while Amanda and Graham fall in love. While in L.A. living a glorious two week period, Iris meets Miles (Jack Black) a friend of Amanda’s ex-husband. Miles is dating an actress, but soon find outs she is cheating on him. Miles and Iris start spending time together and eventually fall in love. Nearing the end of the exchange period, the two couples start thinking about their future and how they will work everything out.

The soundtrack of the film was mainly produced by Hans Zimmer. While watching the movie you really don’t pay any special kind of attention to the music. The music is calm and quiet, basically it is just played on the background to help to set mood in movie and making a romantic atmosphere.

I think the cast was chosen well for this movie. Both Winslet and Diaz act the role well as two women with middle life crisis. Law and Black also act their roles well as two men who have had their problems in life too.

Reflecting on the course

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English 5 is now over. The students have danced their Seniors’ Ball and are enjoying the winter break.
As a teacher I am enjoying reading students’ blog entries. Calling it enjoyment sounds ironical, but I mean it. Quite sincerely, now that deadlines aren’t pushing, I can read the articles in peace and with thought, reflect on the process of producing our blog content from various points of view, and enjoy my own meditations on the whole.
The very fact that our students were writers of the same blog at the same time, while they taking course ENA5, hopefully created a shared learning environment for the four groups involved. The fact that they were blog editors/writers and not just commentators, hopefully , likewise, helped them get new insights to the blogging world.
Using web resources to write the articles was the kind of language learning that we would strongly like to see promoted. It is integrating content and language, and making language learning a natural process of acquisition while processing content (CLIL and ESL). Our teenagers are screenagers (see link to a book by Richard Watson) and are in a fair way of learning English just like that, as a by-product of living a life online in the English-medium Internet.
It’s not plain sailing though. There are still problems with the language. The main problem is grammatical accuracy. Students simply make mistakes with grammar and usage. But this problem can be addressed in their classroom studies. What’s more, we have sanguine expectations as to the reduction of language errors both through exposure to language and trough producing language oneself.
It was not plain sailing with using web resources ethically. Students had obvious difficulties to draw the line of creating their own text drawing on the resources used and between plagiarism and misuse of intellectual property. But if the process of researching and writing , together with the feedback from the teachers helped clarify this issue somewhat, valuable learning has taken place.
A link here to read more on the topic cyber ethics.

In conclusion, we, the course teachers, would like to thank the students on making this blog work!

V for Vendetta

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V for Vendetta is fantasy thriller movie whitch is written by The Wachowski Brothers. It is based on a comic book with the same name. These episodes happen in a near-future dystopian society London. The mysterious man, V, is going to change the whole society system with his own way, while he is executing his private vendetta.

The main character, Evey Hammond is a young lady, whitch Mr. V saves from secret police, and after that Evey is proving V’s destruction of Old Bailey. The government says that is was only emergency demolition, but the lie comes esposed by V who talks over BTN. Evey tries to help V to escape, but same time gets herself in danger. This movie is also some kind of lovestory, but different one. The most remarkable moment in this movie, also in my mind is the line where the secret police chief Creedy asks for V that ‘’Why won’t you die?’’ and then V answers ‘’Behind this mask is more than bones and blood, behind this mask is an ism, Mr. Creedy, and isms are bulletproof.’’

And some special day, all the dead people will be seen walking with others who live.
V for Vendetta is maybe one of the best movies I have ever seen since Avatar. The meaning of this movie is very intelligent and after it I have been hoping many times that there should be person like V, who will do those same things to this world too. I really would recommend this movie to everyone. It has very good effects and thrill, so you should absolutely watch that movie!

Written by Emilia R

Why, Honey?

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Why, Honey? by Raymond Carver is a short story written in letter format, where mother (the narrator) tells of his son.

When mother’s son turned 15 she started to be more considered of his son behavioral. Before teenage years her son was a normal child, but suddenly he started to behave oddly.

First time, when mother find out of his son’s weird acting was after Fourth of July, when their cat Trudy gone missing. Cat was found dead from neighbor’s backyard. Neighbor told the Mother that he’d seen his son torturing their cat to death. – First mother couldn’t believe it but as the time has gone, she started to believe it.

Her son started lying and things between them got worse. Son lied about his salary which he said was 80 dollars, but his mother found out that the real salary was 28 dollars. Mother just couldn’t realize why her son would lie such a thing.

Next odd act from her son was when he lied again this time son lied of his free time. He said that he’d be watching some show, but in reality he were in school dance or riding with somebody in a car.

Mother started to be real considered of his son when he started laying of school field trips and when she found bloody shirt at back of his trunk with his knife and shotgun. Son told her that he had a bloody nose that day, but the Mother didn’t know either believe his son or not.

She started to get real nervous around his son. One day she tried to ask why he was acting so weirdly and why he wasn’t telling the truth. He son told her to kneel, but instead of kneeling to her son she just ran to her room, locked the door and never said anything to his son ever again.

Mother still knew what was going on in her son’s life, even though they really didn’t meet. She read things of her son from the paper and hear what he was doing.

I think that the mother had right to be considered of his son. I think every mom would be when they find out that their child is lying and ’playing’ with them.
Last paragraph suggest that mother didn’t want to be recognized or known or find, she didn’t want to be known as a mother of his son or she didn’t wanted to be contacted with anybody from the past. I think mother was quite reliable. I don’t know why she would lie of his son in the way she wrote.

I think the mother is writing to son’s father.

Jaws- Fan-fiction

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This fan-fiction is based on the film Jaws. It´s a horror movie directed by Steven Spielberg. In the story a giant white shark attacks beachgoers on fictional Armity Island.

Police commissioner Martin Brody answered his phone. He was told that in the beach have been founded a dead girl. Martin went to the beach where he met the marine biologist Matt Hooper. Matt was investigated the body and was sure that the death was caused by shark attack. Martin asked the mayor to close the beach but mayor refused.

The city wasn´t afford to keep the beach closed for the tourist season. Incident framed for a boat accident. But next day in the beach was founded two dead person more. The city hired shark hunter called Quint. He, Martin and Matt went out to sea to kill the shark. But the shark is more than nine meter long. It easily destroyed their boat.

Two weeks after they had left to sea Rescuers began looking for them. Rescuers found only parts of their boat. Shark seemed invincible. Immediately after this the beach was closed for entire summer. Despite this the shark got five more victims in that summer. A lot of people moved to another city caused by fear of a killer shark. Great coastal city had become a small village. But still the story about the killer shark has only just begun.

Napapiirin sankarit

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Napapiirin sankarit (Lapland odyssey) is a finnish comedy film. The film is directed by Dome Karukoski and it was published in 2010.

The story tells about a man who doesn´t get anythig produce. Finally his girlfriend gets tired of her lazy boyfriend. The man must bring digibox or his girlfriend is going to leave him. He and two friend of his go to buy a digibox. But they must first earn money for the digibox. Here begins amazing adventure with all kinds of funny incidents.

The actors were succeeded to keep their characters plausible through the film. Viewer understand easily the nature of the characters. It was for example  fun to watch how desperate they were when they try to get that money for digibox. It seemed very plausible. Actors weren´t so well-known but it didin´t hampered.  Great work by actors!

Special effects weren´t so much but enough. It´s easy to notice that the movie hasn´t  been made in Hollywood.  Special effects aren´t so realistic compared to effects which is made in Hollywood. But this doesn´t mean that special effects were bad. Those were still quite good. In particular noise of special effects sounded realistics. For example it sounded really realistic when the car went off the road.

Soundtrack was Kristiina Wheeleer´s song, ”Kiitos kun muistit”. It was adabted to the film very well. Other songs were also well chosen. All the twelve songs fit into their places. All  the songs were made by Finnish bands.

It´s nice to see that here in Finland know how to make movies. This movie was the best Finnish film in my opinion. The reason why I liked the movie so much was that it was funny and it was also a good plot. Lapland´s beautiful nature is shown on the film nicely. I could recommend this film for all.

 

 

A Shocking Accident

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I read a short story called A Shocking Accident. Writer of this story is Graham Greene. It have writed on 1967. The story is tradegy about of Jerome`s being killed by a falling pig.
The story starts when protagonist has called into his housemaster`s room. In room housemaster tells to Jerome that his father has died by accident. When she tells that she looks out of the window. Jerome thinks that she is doing it becauce she is lieing but the truth is she is doing it becauce she can`t look into Jeromes eyes and say that his father is died. Reason of dieing is incredible. He died because a pig falled on his neck! Jerome doesn`t believe the reason because he has always beliewed that his father is secret agent or something like that because he travelles so much.
Jerome has big problems with telling all people that how his father died. He doesn`t want that people start laughing when they hear that incredible reason. He has two methods how to tell it. First one is just telling straight how it happened and second one is a bit more complicated. When Jerome is older he has big problems on telling his fiancèe about his father. He scares at how his fiancèe called Sally takes it. That is the reason why Jerome hasn`t shown Sally to his aunt. But when the wedding day is coming he has to show Sally to his aunt. In aunt`s place Sally finally hears about Jerome`s father and on big Jeromes surprise she tooks it really well. Only what she asks is what happened to pig. Probubly the pig died because it falled on fifth floor and no one can survive it.
Short story was pretty good. Plot was easy so it was easy to catching up with it. I recommend this for anyone.

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Why Honey?

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We got this assignment with different variations and I
chose to read short story Why, Honey? by Raymond Carver
from our English text book. I decided to pick this one
because I enjoy reading this kind of mysterious stories
which let the reader use his/her imagination at intervals.
The story is written as letter from a mother to some man
who asks about her son. In the letter mother tells her and
her son’s story how they got apart.
The mother thinks that everything beganat her son’s
roughly 15th Independence Day when their cat, named
Trudy, got lost. Their neighbors told her that some boys
brutally tormented Trudy at nearby field and they were
pretty sure that one of the boys were her son. The son did
act caring but after he was neutral about Trudy.
This event was just the beginning of his odd behavior.
The mother isn’t able to understand why he had to lie about
everyday things like his earnings. This lying thing continued.
Mom got permission ask for field trip from the school, but
weird thing was that last day son had told her how amazing
things he saw at field trip that day.
As son grew up, so did distance between mom and son.
He bought a car and started hunting. One night son didn’t
appear back home from hunting trip. Mom spent whole
night worrying and finally at the morning he came back. But
he didn’t answer exactly where he had been, just laughed
at his mom’s worry. Mom decided to check son’s car trunk
while he was in the shower. She found hunting stuff from
the trunk, but bloody t-shirt made it impossible to keep
questions inside her. She couldn’t sleep for couple of nights.
One night she went to son’s room, but answer was furious.
Son blamed her on stalking etc. and next day he left the
apartment.
Rest of the letter tells how mother didn’t see her son ever
again. She just heard how he had continued his life, became

marine, got married and also got into politics. She became
scared of him which made her change her name, move, get
unknown phone number. Mother never got to know what
she did wrong and what made son hate her so much. She just
keeps wondering; ”Why, honey, why?”

Written by Robert

A Shocking Accident

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A Shocking Accident
Short story “A Shocking Accident” by Graham Greene tells about Jerome whose going through a tragedy (his father was killed by a falling pig). Jerome get engaged with Sally and she will chance Jerome’s world. Jerome becomes a different, happier person in the end of the story.
In the beginning Jerome was quite young when housemaster, Mr Wordsworth tells to Jerome that his father is died in accident. Mr Wordsworth tells him the incident of his father with the pig falling on him. Why Mr Wordsworth went to the window and turned his back on Jerome? maybe because he started laughing and he didn’t want show it to Jerome.
When Jerome was a child he believed that his father either “ran guns” or was a member of the British Secret Service. He thought his father is a kind of hero, as many of children are thinking about their parents. When he grew up he understood his dad was a common man who wrote books.
Soon, Jerome realized that this incident was a comedy to other people. Jerome rehearsed the method of recounting his father’s death because he wanted to reduce the comic. He was scared how people would relate. He had two possible methods. The first method led gently up to the accident, so it was described the listener was so well prepared that the death came really as an anti-climax. This method was good because people didn’t usually laugh him and they believed the story was true. The other method had virtue of brevity. In this way the main thing came up immediately so the listener was surprised and he didn’t understood story so he didn’t laugh. Jerome scared that his fiancée, Sally, would laugh when she will hear the story of his father’s death. He can’t tell that her himself. He knew that his aunt will inevitably tell how Jerome’s father dead for his fiancée, and that’s why he was very anxious about Sally meeting his aunt. Jerome’s aunt come to visit week before wedding and tell the story quickly and briefly to Sally. She was surprised but she didn’t laugh. Jerome was amazed because Sally didn’t laugh and that’s why Jerome feels his heart sang with joy and that his had appeased for ever!
Jerome and Mr Wordsworth’s dialogue tells little bit about them: Mr Wordsworth didn’t really know how to tell about death, he just shilly-shally. Finally he told it to Jerome and Jerome wasn’t so sure what to feel then. Maybe Wordsworth scared how would Jerome react. I think Mr Wordsworth is careful man, maybe little base (he almost laugh when said “a pig fell on him”. In dialogue Jerome was a silent, typical little boy who was just surprised by father’s death.
Sally’s final comment was very important for Jerome. The comment means that she understood how painful and dramatic father’s death was. She didn’t laugh, she was horrified. And that comment had appeased Jerome’s fear for ever. Sally’s great personality changes his life!
But what happened to pig? I think that pig is alive but he had hurt himself when he fell on Jerome’s father. Maybe the pig has now his own family and his living a life full of joy…… or maybe somebody have ate him. Who knows?

Written by Emma