A PARODY OF JANE EYRE

A Parody of an Easy Reader

Jane Eyre

This is Jane.

Hello Jane.

Jane is poor.

Her dress is poor.

Her shoes are poor.

Her hat is poor.

Poor Jane.

This is Mr. Rochester.

Hello Mr. Rochester.

Mr. Rochester is rich.

He has a big house.

He has a big dog.

He has a big horse.

He has a big secret.

What is Mr. Rochester's secret?

Jane cannot guess the secret.

Can you guess the secret?

This is Mrs. Rochester.

Hello Mrs. Rochester.

Mrs. Rochester is crazy.

She has a candle.

The candle is lighted.

Mrs. Rochester can laugh.

She laughs: ha ha ha.

RUN JANE RUN

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-Anonymous

Have you hugged your metaphor today?

I love metaphors! Love, love, LOVE them!

They are everywhere - in movies, works of art, music, poetry, writing. There's something about sharing that creative image or scoopful of words with the writer and fellow readers. I love to watch a movie and pick out all the metaphors....."see the character open the unexpected present? That's symbol of the sacrifice someone is going to make for him later in the show....."  I must really be annoying to watch movies with!




What about similes. Similes are like windshield wipers on a stormy day - revealing what you couldn't see without them, like a thesaurus of the middle of your brain-a paper copy of your descriptive thoughts and interpretations, like an image played out with interchanging scenes all depicting the same meaning - a busy person compared to a "bug on a hot rock"

So now that we have a simile for similes, here's a simile for metaphor - It's like a supersized #3 cheeseburger meal at McDonalds given to you on a day when you've had plain oatmeal for breakfast.

Those who master similes and metaphors are the most creative and thereby most desired people to listen to: Jesus, Spielberg, Gaga, Shakespeare: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate:" – William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

What's a metaphor for metaphor?

Have you hugged your metaphor today?

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Dystopia - where did it start?

      Everybody loves a catastrophe - why is that? Why is it that most of the hit movies in the past few years have been about surviving major changes in things like environment, alien invasion, government restructuring, etc. For some reason it really gets peoples attention and gets people to read and buy movie tickets.
    Previously, I linked to a YouTube video  made by a high school student about the Hunger Games .  I found that video after I made this one for my Technology class. Eerily similar. I got stuck using MovieMaker on PC rather than the fancy-schmancy Imovie on the Mac - hence the distorted sound. If it bothers you, turn it down and just enjoy the video. It was a challenge to make, but oh, so cool!


 Introducing my "get kids to read by hooking them on a genre" video:

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