My Bedroom

I walked into my house and set my suitcase down in the living room. I’ve been in Florida for a week and I am exhausted with a capital E. I miss Florida a lot but it was nice to be home away from the scorching hot heat. I walk into the kitchen and grab a glass of water since there really is nothing to eat since we had to clear our fridge of all food before we left. I anxiously walk up my hard wooden stairs up to the level where my room would be on. I’m going to be honest; I forgot how I left my room before departing for the trip so when I walk in it is going to be a bit of a surprise. I approach my room and slowly turn the cold, hard metal handle. I open the door and flip the light switch and I notice the dim lighting I left my room with. My off-white elegant chandelier only has one light bulb working out of the three. I’ll have to change that after. I look around the room and notice all the clothes and random objects scattered around my room. There are books and shoes and makeup and all sorts of things on the floor. I must have forgotten to clean up after packing. Across the room, I see my bed neatly covered in a purple zebra print duvet. As I walk across the charcoal carpeted floor, I use as much caution as I can to not step on something that could hurt me but I still do. I feel like I’m walking across a pit of hot rocks. No matter how hard I try, there is always some hard or pointy object that happens to find its way under my foot. I reach my bed and flop into the soft and fuzzy duvet. I could’ve landed on a pile of clouds and won’t have known the difference. I can still smell the downy scented pillows as I bury my head into the heap of fluffiness. I flip onto my back and sit up observing the condition of the rest of the room. I realize that there is a lot of built up dust from things being untouched for a while. I look to my right where my desk with my makeup and hair supplies lay and seeing one of my two curling irons reminds me of when I was getting ready to go to downtown Disney for dinner at a fancy Italian restaurant with my family. That was my first time having bread dipped in oil and covered with garlic. I remember the crunchy crust of the bread and the soft inside of it. The oil added a rich taste to the bread and the garlic contributed a strong scent that added extra flavour to the natural bland bread. I flash out of my day dream and come back into reality, staring at the lavender coloured walls. I haven’t even been in my room for 10 minutes and I’m already tired of his colour. It’s not bright enough. As I sit on my bed I get this weird feeling, almost like I’m in a foreign place but I’m not sure why. It doesn’t seem right to me. Right then, I remember that is night time and I can’t hear the usual chirping of the birds or the constant swishing of cars. It’s very calm in the Groot household right now which is very usual. It must be because everyone’s so tired. I don’t hear the usual barking of my dogs either but that’s because they were at the kennels for the week. We’ll pick them up tomorrow, but for now I’m focused on getting to bed as fast as I can. I tip toe over to where my white makeup desk sits and grab a soft cotton pad out of the plastic, clear drawers where my cosmetics usually lay. I pick up the eye makeup remover, pour a small amount on the cotton and wipe the soft pad across my eye while looking in the dirty mirror. Looks like I’m going to have to clean that too. After I finish that and brush my hair, I take to little steps over to the tall, white wardrobe I keep beside m desk and open the first drawer. This drawer is relatively new so I can still smell the pine that the wood was made from. I pull out a pair of soft pajama shorts and a loose blue shirt and change into that before hoping into my bed once again. I pull the covers over me and I feel like I’m being wrapped in a burrito. The relaxing environment helps me fall asleep almost instantly as my head hits the pillows.

Literacy Blog #7

For the role of Puck I thought Owen Wilson would play him best. Owen Wilson has been in films such as Zoolander, Night at the Museum and Marley & Me. Puck is a jokester and tends to have a sense of humour. Owen Wilson plays a funny character in a lot of the movies he’s been in so I think this would be a good choice. For physical appearance, I don’t picture Puck as a jacked up muscle man, I think of him as kind of skimpy with a big of muscle. Owen Wilson is a great representation of just that and would definitely get the watcher engaged throughout the entire movie.

I thought Sandra Bullock would play Titania the best. When I picture Titania I imagine a grown up, beautiful but very assertive woman. This is exactly the role she played in The Proposal. She has lots of character and can do any role perfectly with a lot of emotion. She is old enough to look like she could raise a child and get married but not too old that she looks like she’s going to die of old age. She has a perfect mother figure and is beautiful enough to play a beautiful role. She would be perfect for the role of Titania.

Emma Stone would be a great actress to play the role of Helena because she has sass and also can play lots of different characters. In Easy A she was sassy, promiscuous, funny and also had rage in some parts. She would play Helena great because I imagine her as one of those types of girls who once they get the boys after them, she takes advantage of them and uses them. Emma Stone can do this well in her acting. She is also very good at acting like she’s ok when she’s not, but makes it obvious that she’s sad and Helena is like that because no guys like her or want her. When she was fighting with Hermia, she kept her class and sass but also had a lot of rage in her. Emma has sass and knows how to keep her class as well as be fighting and yelling at the same time. Emma has a young face like I imagined Helena but also has beauty but not absolutely stunning.

Literacy Blog #6

I chose this picture to represent the book because there are a lot of visuals that represent the book. The background and colours all have a meaning behind it that I am going to point out. First of all, we have Titania lying on the ground sleeping while Puck is above her dropping the magic juice on her eyes and this represents the confusion and conflict between the main characters. This is because with this love triangle going on between Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia and Helena there is jealousy which can cause a problem and eventually does. Now, with Oberon and Titania having their fight this also causes conflict because all the workers of the land aren’t working and they’re slacking off because they don’t have bosses to keep them in line. When Oberon notices Helena chasing Demetrius he wants to fix the problem and make him fall in love with her with the magic flower juice. He sends off Puck to retrieve the flower and to put some of the liquid in the boy’s eyes wearing “Athenian garments”.  When Puck goes to do so he put the juice in the wrong boy’s eyes and when Lysander wakes up and falls in love with her, it causes confusion in Helena and Hermia because Helena thinks he is mocking her and making fun of her because he was calling her ugly and disgusting the night before. Hermia is confused because when she wakes up she sees no Lysander sleeping where he was before. When she does find Lysander in love with Helena, she has no idea what’s going on. This is why sleeping Titania and Puck represent the book. Going on, the background is very dark, just like the emotions going on between the four. Obviously, Helena was upset before when no one wanted her and now Hermia is feeling betrayed by Helena because she’s taking Demetrius’ and Lysander’s side even though she is supposed to be Hermia's best friend. Meanwhile, Lysander and Demetrius are going to try to kill each other to see who gets Helena and as everyone knows, death isn’t a happy thing. The majority of the book is filled with sadness and loneliness which is why I think this cover represents this book the best.