Second Semester Reflection

Henry Huang 85-1330 Waianae Valley Rd. #C Waianae, HI 96972 T 808 696 8798 M 808 386 3368 henryguohuang@gmail.com www.that0neasian.blogspot.com

	SUMMARY My time during Honors British Literature has been an interesting and challenging experience. An online class was very different from a regular class but also rewarding. This class has taught me a lot abou not only literature but online skills.		EDUCATION Hanalani Schools Class of 2015
	EXPERIENCE Student,Henry Huang Waianae, HI 1997-Present Accomplishments Creating my own blog Learn about various British authors Create various multimedia productions Be challenged to do more in my assignments Learn how to use various online website tools Finished an online class		SKILLS Hyperlink Paint Infographs HTML coding Audioboo Prezi Twitter posts REFERENCES www.hanalanihbl.blogspot.com

Lewis Books

The Chronicles of Narnia

I'd not only recommend The Lion, The Witch, and the The Wardrobe but the whole series. The whole series consists of a group of children stumbling into a whole new realm with fantasy and also has some biblical aspects. The thing I like about this book is that isn't just one main character but four brothers and sisters. As the series continues these group of siblings mature a lot compared to the beginning. Overall, The Chronicles of Narnia is always a classic to me and has many good aspects to it. Although there are movies, a book has much more to tell and this is also true to this series of books.

Truisms

Symptom of Love Song

listen to ‘dasd’ on Audioboo

A Haunted House by Woolf

The title of this story seems very deceiving. People may look at it and think of a horror story about ghosts but in reality it's a very light hearted story. It starts off in the view of two ghosts who are observing a living couple as they try to figure out what is making the noise in the house. It goes on and the couple gets closer and closer to this so called treasure in the house. At the end of the story we find out the treasure was the happy memories the old ghost couple had when they owned the house. I found it very interesting that this "ghost story" was through the viewpoint of the ghosts instead of the people. It made it different and a unique reading experience. I would enjoy these kind of stories where it twists the normal standard into a differnt point of view.

Response of Hope

Dear Virginia,

Jeremiah 29:11 says "For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. It is the low points of our lives that we tend to lose hope in ourselves. Your letter was touching and heart warming but your fear is holding you back. You have a husband that loves you dearly for who you are. You should not be afraid of this terrible disease but fight through it. Live through this trial and live for happiness with the ones you love.

Sincerely,

Henry Huang

A Poem Inspired by Kipling

Trials

If you can keep calm when all is wrong,

If you can continue with the faintest breath,

If you can believe when all hope is lost,

If you can face the toughest fears

And not fall into despair,

But come out with hope and faith,

You will become much more than great.

Thompson's Hound of Heaven

listen to ‘The Hound of Heaven’ on Audioboo

Two of Dickens' Novels

A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge

I hate Christmas and happy people.

Jacob Marley's Ghost

Three ghosts will visit you.

Three Ghosts

You have a sad life and will die lonely.

Ebenezer Scrooge

I'm a happy man now and love people.

THE END

David Copperfield

David Copperfield

I love Dora Spenlow.

Agnes Wickfield

I wish I could marry David.

Dora Spenlow

I'm a bad wife and died.

David Copperfield

I actually love Agnes.

THE END

http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml

This website retells classic novels to a very concise manner and these are my renditions.

Hopkins

Alliteration examples are in blue.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings

listen to ‘Pied Beauty’ on Audioboo

Arnold Audioboo

listen to ‘Arnold Audioboo’ on Audioboo

Crossing The Bar

The Charge of the Light Brigade

My Last Duchess

The main thing I got out of hearing the poem was the duchess' face. It consistently talked about her eyes and smile. "How such a glance came there" was one of the phrases that stood out to me. I then realized that the duchess was a high class woman and paid no great attention to anyone with her same smile. I concentrated on drawing the face to show the characteristics that stood out to me in the poem.

Carlyle Hero

"He could not sing the heroic warrior too, unless he himself were at least a heroic warrior too. I fancy there is in him the Politician, the Thinker, Legislator, Philospoher; in one or the other degree, he could have been, he is all these..."-Thomas Carlyle

I made a "hero" that wanted to become the ideal hero of people. He has fought his way to become a strong individual and has many strengths. Through his journey he has become wise and old but still retains his strength.

The Uncommon Friendship

 A long time ago there lived a heroic Magician named Freud. He delved into many different areas of magical research, but chief among his interests was the study of the Onyx Dragons. His greatest desire was to find a way for humans and dragons to live together in peace. After many years of study and exploration, this desire would bring him before the greatest of Onyx Dragons, the Dragon King, Afrien.

Now Afrien, as King of the Onyx Dragons was the greatest of his kind. Despite their many differences, Afrien loved humans as he loved all life. When Freud appeared before him, he found a kindred spirit, a human who shared his philosophical love for all lifeforms. Not wishing to miss out on this opportunity, Magician and Dragon pledged to each other a Spirit Pact of mutual defense and understanding. They bound themselves together using many powerful rituals and spells, creating the first Spirit Pact, the forerunner of the many that would come later. Under the pact, two spirits would become one and the resulting bond would be unbreakable, even lasting past death.

Byron Poem

Growing Love

Every moment we spent together
Has touched our lives, our souls forever
The things that we shared and learned
Is permanent growth that we've earned.

The person that I have grown into today
Did not get there by chance, no way
I am who I am partly because of you
And you are YOU because of me, too

We are connected on such a deep levels
That no one can remove that, not even the devil.
Our feelings might be different a year from now
But you are part of me forever somehow

A part of me will always be you 
and a part of you will always be me. 
no matter what happens ,that much is certain 
our souls are one until life closes the curtain.

This poem shows the idea of natural over artificial. When people commit their lives to each other through love and marriage, there should be a growing sensation of love towards one another. Love is not something that people just stumble upon but rather it is something that grows between two people.

Mary Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Common Things in an Uncommon Light

This is a picture of a water caltrop a.k.a the buffalo nut. Although it's named after the shape of a buffalo, when I looked at it again through a different perspective it looked like a skull of a cartoon devil of some sort. I used Fotosketcher to further show how this can be seen through a different perspective as how I saw it. Wordsworth is a great example of how things may seem like one thing but can have a completely different meaning in many of his works. He was heavily influenced by the French Revolution and it shows through his poems and sonnets.

Water Caltrop

Modeling Burns

The Perfect Sleep

The Perfect Sleep, so lovely and sweet,

When night falls

Dreams are recalled

To be apart of such greatness.

So relaxing and comforting,

Such warmth and awe.

It comes and goes,

The Perfect Sleep, so joyous and sweet!

The Perfect Sleep, so short and simple,

So quick and refreshing,

As if for a moment,

Time had passed.

Every moment is so faint,

But never forgotten,

Nothing gives such greatness

Except The Perfect Sleep!

John Anderson, My Jo

John Anderson, my jo, John,

When we were first acquent,

Your locks were like the raven,

Your bonie brow was brent;

But now your brow is beld, John,

Your locks are like the snaw;

But blessings on your frosty pow,

John Anderson, my jo!

John Anderson, my jo, John,

We clamb the hill thegither;

And monie a cantie day, John,

We’ve had wi’ ane anither:

Now we maun totter down, John.

And hand in hand we’ll go,

And sleep thegither at the foot,

John Anderson, my jo!

Cowper and Mental Illness