martes, 25 de noviembre de 2014

domingo, 23 de noviembre de 2014

Literary Essay

We wrote a Literary Essay analysing rhe novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", by Robert Louis Stevenson, which had to have between 350 and 400 words aproximately.


The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, talks about a man called Dr. Henry Jekyll who wants to discover his other personality. He makes many experiments to achieve his aim. Finally, he discovers that he has an evil personality, called Mr. Hyde. At the end, Dr. Jekyll kills himself. This essay contains an analysis on the primary character Mr. Hyde, his personality, physical appearance and the symbolism related to him.

In connection to his physical appearance, Mr. Hyde is presented as “the picture of disquietude”, that might be because of his physical ugliness, repulsiveness and the shocking effect he leaves on people: “Then he began slowly to mount the street, pausing every step or two, and putting his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity”. Likewise, the fact that he is hairy and dwarfish, in addition to the impression of deformity Hyde gives, makes him look like a beast, what could express his lack of humanity.

Talking about his personality, Mr. Hyde is portrayed as an animalistic creature, as he is uncivilized and immoral. Hyde, in addition, kills for no reason but the joy of it, what proves he is no entirely an animal, as animals do not do that. Moreover, Mr. Hyde has a cruel and violent personality: “And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot, and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jump upon the roadway”.

In relation to the symbolism connected to Hyde’s physical appearance, his ugliness and deformity symbolize his lack of moral and ethics, while his small stature the fact that he has been repressed for years and his hairiness, that he is Dr. Jekyll’s animalistic side. As it can been seen in the next quote, Mr. Hyde was growing: “The powers of Hyde seemed to have grown with the sickness of Jekyll”.

In conclusion, Mr. Hyde is an animalistic creature who is really cruel and violent, and we can appreciate that throughout the whole novel, in which this character is developed all along the plot. Personally, I think that Mr. Hyde is a great, very interesting character and one of the best characters to analyse. He symbolizes the evil part of the society and humanity, as he is the evil part of a very well-known man.

miércoles, 19 de noviembre de 2014

jueves, 30 de octubre de 2014

Short Story

We wrote a short story which had to have between 450 and 600 words and had to finish with the sentence "That was the last time he/she ever saw...".

The Street

Sophie was a 17-year-old, short, thin girl. She had long, black hair and big, round green eyes. She was a very good and generous girl who had lots of friends .Sophie lived in a spacious and luxurious house in the city of London with her father, her mother, her older sister and her little brother.
One night, she was walking down the avenue with a friend of her called Lucy. Lucy was 17 years old as Sophie and she was a tall girl, she had short, blonde hair and blue eyes. After going to the shopping centre, they were going to a party which was going to start in ten minutes.
“We are going to be late!” complained Sophie
“No! It´s early.” answered her friend
“We have ten minutes left!” Sophie screamed “We have ten minutes to arrive there! And the party is far from here!” She kept on complaining.
“Ok, calm down.” answered Lucy “I know a shortcut, follow me.”
“OK” Lucy answered.
They kept on walking down the avenue for one more block and then they turned left and entered to a deserted, shabby little street. They walked through that alley as they talked.
“The party will be great! I can’t wait to get there!”, Lucy said, they were very excited because of that party.
“Yes, me too! How much time have we got to get there?”, she asked.
“Five minutes.” answered the other girl.
“Ok.”, said Sophie.
They kept on walking for two or three more minutes when they passed through a darker part and Sophie said:
“Hey, Lucy, I don´t like this street.”
“But, if we don´t come through here, we will be later.”, answered Sophie´s friend.
“Yes, I know, but I just don´t like it. I don´t know why.”, answered the black-haired one.
They walked, walked and walked until they saw a man coming in front of them. He was more or less a block ahead of them but they could perfectly see him.
“I don´t like that man”, whispered Sophie, “Can we cross the street?”
“Ok.”, answered her friend.
They crossed the street, but the man also did that. That happened two or three times until they realized that that man wanted to do something to them. They kept on walking, frightened, until they faced the tall, filthy man.
“Give me everything you have!”, he said quickly as he looked at them.
“Why?”, asked Lucy while Sophie hit her and told her to shut up.
“Shut up and give me everything! Or I’ll shoot you”, said the man as he took a gun out of his jacket.
The girls were really scared now, “Okay, okay”, they said as they gave their bags and their cell phones to the man.
“Now, you will go and you won’t look back”, the robber said.
The girls went away in the opposite direction. They walked for more or less thirty meters when Sophie made the mistake of turning around. She was only able to see the robber, and to hear Lucy screaming when she heard a powerful sound and all turned black.
That was the last time she ever saw the robber. That was the last time she ever saw Lucy. That was the last time she ever saw anyone. 

lunes, 27 de octubre de 2014

News Report

Train destroys station

The accident took place in Lomas de Zamora, at 7:58 am., when a train crushed the city’strain station, which was full of people. Unfortunately, 52 people died.

75 people suffered the accident. Unfortunately, 52 of them died. 35 of them, were inside the train when the accident took place, and 17 were on the platform waiting for the train to arrive.

The wagons that hit the platform were the first and the second one, but the ones destroyed were from the first to the tenth one. Apart from the 52 casualties there were 23 people injured, but only 7 of them are in major danger.


“It was terrible!”, said a woman who was there “We were waiting for the train and in a blink of an eye it was above us!” The city mayor said that the train and the station will be repaired and the authorities will send people to investigate cause of the accident.