Well the year is finally coming to a close for real now ad this is the last blog I'm required to do. Last week was spent watching movies such as Death of a Salesman and The Importance of Being Earnest while our teacher was convalescing. I spoke about Earnest last week and how it rose above my expectations and that i actually found it rather humorous but i want to elaborate a bit more on it. What i was most surprised about this movie was the fact that it seemed so modern. You never would have guessed that it was written by the same guy that wrote The picture of Dorian Gray in the 1800s. The humor is modern and seems slightly dirty for someone from that era and it was the polar opposite of the tone of Dorian Gray, Wilde's other book. You wouldn't believe the same person even wrote it if you didn't already know that he did.
The other movie we watched, Death of a salesman, was also very good if a bit depressing. This was not the fault of the Movie producers or actors however as it is a slightly down play. Willie was played very well and the writers did a very good job of portraying his insanity to the viewer's by having asides with characters that aren't there and flashbacks of events that didn't happen with him and his boys. The play shows the slow decay of willie and how biff and the other family members do a poor job of helping him cope with it. He is slightly unreasonable however as he yells at his wife unnecessarily and gets unreasonably mad at his sons and other people around him. The play essentially shows the death of a salesman since willie is no longer capable of being a good salesman and traveling around so his employer has no choice but to fire him.
Its been a good year and a good four years in high school but its time to move on to bigger and better things as i move forward into college and beyond. All the books i read in this class and the essays i wrote will help me succeed in the future in english classes and hopefully in the rest of my life.
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