IRA: VOLT: FORT APACHE

In this short story a group of kids have just burnt down a bowling ally.  They then go into the movies by sneaking in the back door.  Walt decides to go get some food but gets caught by the manager and gets thrown out and the person who was supposed to keep them out gets fired.  Walt gets the job by getting all of the people that can with him out of the theater.  Everyone in town is gone to see a girl from their town sing so the town is deserted.  The group of kids destroy everything by throwing balls at glass.  Then they break into the dress shop and they all start getting naked or trying on dresses.  Then it ends with them walking off without getting into trouble.
I didn't get this book really, hard to understand.  First I thought it was about a boy growing up when he got the job, but then they were running around naked so I was completely lost.  They did talk about going out west but it was always shot down saying u had noone to back u up there.  Maybe it's about how family ties tend to keep people where they are and that oportunities don't happen often since u can't leave ur family?? idk

sorry I'm a day late with this post.

IRA: Volt: Furlough

The short story Furlough I really didn't get, it is about a man that is walking a lady through the counrty to go meet up with her boyfriend.  She asks him many questions and they talk about when is the guy going to ask her to marry him, and about his pet bird.  He seems like a nice guy and the girl offers to get him a date with a girl she knows.  Then it gets weird.  Once they arrive to the barn the guy has been worried about the corn which has been moving around which wasn't normal.  They open the barn door and right infront of them is a deer in a dress with a wedding veil on!!! Messed up right!  The lady takes off running, I think they are going to kill her but it never says.  All around a messed up story that I just didn't get, and their is no sparknotes for this book to help me get the underlying themes of it.

IRA: Volt: Peacekeeper

This short story takes place over three different timeframes, December 19th -20th, Christmas and Christmas Eve, and Sping of the next year.  On December 19th-20th a girl goes missing and a police woman finds her naked and dead.  She finds the murderer the same day and ties him up.  She also desposes of the girls body in a quarry to try to make it look like a accident.  Christmas (Eve) time the murderer is still alive and Helen (policewoman) is keeping him alive and figuring out what to do.  She ends up hitting him with her gun then shooting him through the scull with a shotgun to make it look like a suicide.  In the following summer a huge flood comes and she is saving people then she falls out of her boat and has to stay on a tree for a day.  She gets saved and is told they found a body, she thinks it is the girl but it's another person and she ends in a hysterical state bawling.
She tries to cover up the murder because it is very grevious for a small town.  The girl was always a good girl so she didn't want to break the mothers heart by telling her.  I think the girls body will never show up and that family will never get the closure they deserve.  Although Helen means well she should have just told she had found the body and got it over with and the man spends life in prison.  The book was predictable because I guessed the coverup and the death after like 2 pages.  It was still a great short story.

Loves Labours Lost final

This is all in all not a terrible play, not a fan of the crazy language, hard to understand fully.  Some good humor in it, like that they agree to not see women for 3 years and then break that within 1 week.  Then they have to wait a year regardless of the vow they broke, KARMA.  All these guys work really hard to woe the women and they take the words litterally, come on son, and in the end all their Love's Labour's are Lost.  But my favorite part of comedy in the whole play is still Costard being dumb and continually asking "Me??"

Love and Truth

I think that truth and love have to be put together.  If you are in love you have to be true to yourself and true to the one you love.  You can't tip toe around it by putting on costumes like in the play.  If you are truely in love you must act on it and take a chance.  Unfortunately I think of people not taking a chance as the ones creeper stalking outside someones house.  When in love you must be true not put on a costume and lie.

Love's Labour's Lost Prompts 4 and 5

Biron's Speach

In Biron’s big speech about Love he goes off on the three other scholars for swearing off women and then instantly falling in love.  He is found out to also be in love and goes on another tangent about how women are beauty and in order to do their studies of beauty and poetry the only way for them to be inspired is to fall in love and that is when they will learn the most.  I think they are just making up excuses to see women, but they do have a point, seeing women will inspire great works.  If they only did the scholarly studies like they said they would end up dry and dull like Holfernous, never knowing love so not to be able to use their skillz.  He uses many slick ways to say that men belong with women and they need not avoid it.

In their shoes

I can see me in Holfernous’s shoes, he is talking smack about inferior minds.  I can see me doing this, but never in English, more in Math I would talk smack about how they can’t do the simplest problems.  I would also sugarcoat it and not be entirely mean spirited about it.

lOvE'S lAbOuR'S lOsT more characters!

Holfernous - He talks very fancy but he isn't quite as bombast as some of the others.  He looks down on the less educated. 
"Most barbarous intimation! yet a kind of
insinuation, as it were, in via, in way, of
explication; facere, as it were, replication, or
rather, ostentare, to show, as it were, his
inclination, after his undressed, unpolished,
uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or rather,
unlettered, or ratherest, unconfirmed fashion, to
insert again my haud credo for a deer." TO DULL

Nathaniel - He is a bit easier to understand but I don't get any of them.  Doesn't talk as much though.
"Sir, I praise the Lord for you; and so may my
parishioners; for their sons are well tutored by
you, and their daughters profit very greatly under
you: you are a good member of the commonwealth."

Dull - like his name he is not as smart as the others but he is still a quite smart fellow.  He  is a follower and tries to copy the others excentric talk.
 
"HOLOFERNES

The moon was a month old when Adam was no more,
And raught not to five weeks when he came to
five-score.
The allusion holds in the exchange. 

DULL

'Tis true indeed; the collusion holds in the exchange.

HOLOFERNES

God comfort thy capacity! I say, the allusion holds
in the exchange.

DULL

And I say, the pollusion holds in the exchange"

Don Armado - He is a know it all he is always trying to use his slick words to impress people.
"

I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance; and,
in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this:
bear this significant

to the country maid Jaquenetta:
there is remuneration; for the best ward of mine
honour is rewarding my dependents. Moth, follow.

Jaquetta - very simple girl not all that eleguent of talk but not brutish talk.
"Good Costard, go with me. Sir, God save your life!"

Moth - Moth is short sweet and to the point, he doesn't care to be learned in eleguent talk or do it.
"By my penny of observation.
'The hobby-horse is forgot.'
Negligent student! learn her by heart."

Charactachure speach

THE KING:  The king is very noble and really speaks kingly, He says stuff nobably but doesn't try to be over bombast.     "Fair princess, welcome to the court of Navarre."

BIRON:  A super complainer he tries to get out of everything.  He also tries to elaborate his satement to where it can lose it's sense  "So study evermore is overshot: While it doth study to have what it would It doth forget to do the thing it should, And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, 'Tis won as towns with fire, so won, so lost."

PRINCESS: The Princess is quite smart and tries to show off using whitty banter.  "You do the king my father too much wrong And wrong the reputation of your name, In so unseeming to confess receipt Of that which hath so faithfully been paid."

COSTARD:  Costard is a fool, he gets by saying dumb funny things being a jester.  He is the least intellectual here.  "With a wench . . . I was taken with none, sir: I was taken with a damsel . . . This was no damsel, neither, sir; she was a virgin . . . If it were, I deny her virginity: I was taken with a maid."

ROSALINE: Rosaline is quite smart too, she uses her charm to pick up Biron.  Too me she seems kinda "bitchy"  "BIRON: And send you many lovers!   ROSALINE: Amen, so you be none."

IRA: VOLT: SMOKE

I have continued reading my IRA book and have completed the second short story so I will take this time to go over it. : )  What happens in this story is, a father kills a man and has his son help him clean in up.  I think the theme of this story is the afterlife and religion.  Throughout the story the father talks about he he is now damned and how he wounders about Hell and if it's real or not.  He wants his son to go to a church after this and tell what is father did so the church will raise him up right and use him as a symbol of God's saving might.
Also in this story they talk about how quick and easy it is to kill a man.  The father hit the dead guy one time with a tire iron and he saw the life flash out of him.  It wasn't like a fire where it kindles for a bit and then goes out and still leaves the smoke (this is the background of the title) once a man dies he is dead.

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Humor?!?! Love's Labour Lost

Well I didn't really get the lesson on if this is humorous or not but here is me winging it:
First part that could be construed as humorous is when the guy is argueing about what to call a woman, first he was like, I'm not with a woman I'm with a damsel, then a maid, then a mistress or whatever I don't really remember the exact names.  It doesn't matter what you call a lady she is still a lady.
Second would be the part where they were argueing about the rules and he kept argueing then signed it anyway.  Also, after they sign it they make a loophole because they have women that will be over soon. 
Thats the only two parts that I remember that could be seen as humorous.
#LOL