Halloween II

Written by Chris Beaumunt, Halloween II is one of the best, if not the best horror movies to ever hit the movie theatre. It is about a killer named Michael Myers who kills to get what and who he wants. Of the reasons I think this is the best is because: it has reasons for what charters are doing; it has great graphics; and also it has a moral or theme, something most movies do not have.

Previous Halloween movies always seemed to start from a really random place that has no relation to the ending of the last movie. Chris Beaumunt takes viewers twenty years back to the beginning to show viewers how everything got to the point when the movie starts. For example; before I saw the movie I thought Michael Myers killed his mother, but really his sister killed their mother.

Halloween has had many movies that all have been pretty good with the exception of a few things that Michael Myers had the ability to do—for example when Michael Myers was trying to kill someone they would be running full speed for periods of time and Michael would be walking and he would just pop in front of them. This really made the movie unbelievable and hard to relate it to a real life situation. Halloween II has many scenes and situations that are all believable – the fact that everything that Michael Myers does can be done in real life is what made it really good.

Graphics in this movie are great. Viewers can see everything just as it is. Blood looks real and the injuries are realistic, unlike the other Halloween movies. For example, in the old Halloween, Michael Myers and this black guy were fighting on the roof, and Michael Myers hit the victim’s head right off his shoulders—now how many people can hit heads off of people’s shoulders. Now Halloween II has a scene where Michael Myers stomped a trash talking individual in the face. Viewers could see all the cuts and bruises caused from the stomp out.

A theme is what a lot of movies lack. Michael Myers was not killing for any reason; he was killing to get to his sister Angel Myers. He wasn’t trying to kill her, rather he was looking for her to let her know who she was. She was in an adopted family, and she did not know her family because she killed her mom when she was a child .They blamed it on her brother, Michael since he was already killing people. Michael Myers was getting to old so it was time to let Angel take it place in killing.

Having a moral, meaning and a strategy are all of the main factors of having a great movie. Chris Beaumont put all of these factors in this movie, therefore Halloween is one of the best movies to hit the movie theater. Having real life experiences that enable the audience to put themselves in Michael Myers’ place allows them to think and have a good guess about what he is going to do next. For example, a clip from the movie was behind a strip club where Michael beat up the bouncer and walked in and killed the workers. People can do this in real like because he did not have any powers, and he wasn’t doing anything outrageously complex.

Several horror movies do not really stand up to Halloween II in many ways. Other movies lack morals and meaning like Pulse. Pulse is based on a computer virus but it have no real meaning; like a virus kills a lot of people but it doesn’t tell the watchers why. Halloween II has everything that horror movies need to be on top. Suspense, moral, actuality, and graphics are the biggies that all good horror movies have.

The Transcendentalists

~Response to the story is that I don’t really agree whit him when he say the when you go out the house to somewhere else by yourself you feel better I thank when you go somewhere to get over some thing you should be around someone that can help you with things that you are feeling. I really think playing a sports or a fun activity that will make you feel better. I agree with him when he says that nature don’t always make you feel better. "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire much from his chamber [room] as from society.

This is a good piece of Transcendentalists because they talk to GOD and take a great joy in nature. They believe that GOD spoke to the through there body and work. They also believe that nature was a cheerer upper…lol. He was changing from one person to a being that what was part God. He says “I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.”


~Response to Self-Reliance it is about a man being influenced in ways that are not good because GOD want you to do and be one thang but you are influenced into doing other things. I am not influence because i like being different and the way i act and dress is my main way of being the one and only Roc Swain. This was the main argument because people do get influenced easily because people worry about what others are going to say, so they change to look good in other people eyes.

This is a good example because GOD speak to people through their mind and work. God tells you how to act and how not to act but people can get easily disturbed and go another way by acting the way others want you to."a man is relieved and gay when he has put heart into his work and done his best, otherwise shall give him no peace.


~~~POST The Video


"the request is most request is conformity. self-reliance is its aversion."
this is true statement because Dick do not try to fit in by doing what others are doing he relie on his self.
In the movie the old man went by his self to the middle of nowhere and spent about 35 years of his life. Where he learned to depend on his self by having to build his own house and have to catch and cook his own food.

ELAALRL2

1) ELAALRL2--Student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in a work of American literature and provides evidence from the work to support understanding

~This says that you will have to break the subject down and learn about it, you will also have to apply knowledge in your work using evidence to go with what you have already.

~Theme is basically the moral or the meaning of the story.


2) What about the story did you find particularly Romantic?

~That fact that Rip Van Winkle is a regular person and he acheives greats things....."I
have observed that he was a simple good-natured man; he was, moreover,
a kind neighbor, and an obedient hen-pecked husband."

~And when Rip slept for 20 years straight...."One taste provoked
another; and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often that at length his
senses were overpowered, his eyes swam in his head, his head gradually
declined, and he fell into a deep sleep.--On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen."

3) Does this poem illustrate all three of the main themes of Romanticism?





Focus on Imagination
~ Imagining that your beard can kill you

• “Bryant died in 1878 when his beard swallowed him while he was sleeping”

Celebration on Nature
~ Saying how beautiful nature really is

• “The golden sun,
  The planets, all the infinite host of heaven,
  Are shinning on the sad abodes of death
  Through the still lapse ages.”

Promotion on common people
~they are all real people they get sick and die





4)Take a moment to review the Georgia Performance Standards we have studied so far:



ELAALRL1 The student demonstrates comprehension by identifying evidence (i.e., examples of diction, imagery, point of view, figurative language, symbolism, plot events and main ideas) in a variety of texts representative of different genres (i.e., poetry, prose [short story, novel, essay, editorial, biography], and drama) and using this evidence as the basis for interpretation.

• I had to comprehend/ understand the videos to get evidence to prove the theme of it.

ELAALRL2 The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in a work of American literature and provides evidence from the work to support understanding.

• breaking the
  

ELAALRL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods