My Featured Film

HEIDI(1937)

I. About the Film

　Heidi is a 1937 American musical drama film directed by Allan Dwan. The screenplay by Julien Josephson and Walter Ferris was based on the 1880 children's story of the same name by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. The film is about an orphan named Heidi (Temple) who is taken from her grandfather (Hersholt) to live as a companion to Klara, a spoiled, crippled girl (Jones). The film was a success and Temple enjoyed her third year in a row as number one box office draw.
Adelheid, called Heidi (Shirley Temple), is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather (Jean Hersholt). She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara (Marcia Mae Jones), a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair. Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather. When Klara's body and spirits mend under Heidi's cheerful companionship, the housekeeper (who has tried to keep Klara dependent upon her) tries to get rid of Heidi by selling her to the gypsies but she is stopped by the police. Heidi is rescued and reunited with her grandfather.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_(1937_film)

II. Versions of the Film

HEIDI(2005)

 Heidi (not to be confused with the animated film released in the same year) is a 2005 British family film directed by Paul Marcus. It is based on the iconic novel Heidi by Johanna Spyri, and stars Irish child actress Emma Bolger in the title role, alongside Max Von Sydow and Diana Rigg.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_(2005_live-action_film)

III. Lead Actor ~ Shirley Temple~

Shirley Temple was easily the most popular and famous child star of all time. She got her start in the movies at the age of three and soon progressed to super stardom. Shirley could do it all: act, sing and dance and all at the age of five! Fans loved her as she was bright, bouncy and cheerful in her films and they ultimately bought millions of dollars worth of products that had her likeness on them. Dolls, phonograph records, mugs, hats, dresses, whatever it was, if it had her picture on there they bought it.

 Shirley was box-office champion for the consecutive years 1935-36-37-38, beating out such great grown-up stars as Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper andJoan Crawford. By 1939, her popularity declined. Although she starred in some very good movies like Since You Went Away (1944) and the The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), her career was nearing its end. Later, she served as an ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. It was once guessed that she had more than 50 golden curls on her head.

Works Cited （参考文献）

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000073/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - Characters

• Characters is persons - or animals or natural forces represented as persons - in a wor k of literature.
• This film's main character is Heidi who come grandfather's house. Besides, there are her grandfather, Klara who is delicate in health and Peter who is Heidi's friend.
• Heidi is very kind. That kindness changes many people' heart.

B. Reaction Point - Mood

• Mood is a story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes.
• Mood in this film is very warm. Because Heidi who is main character is kind girl and the stage of this film is rich nature. These make us feel warm.
• Heidi's character matches rich nature in this film. I think her character create this film's mood.

C. Reaction Point - Message

• Message is the central idea or statement of a story.
• This film is story of a girl who is honest and kind.
• I think one of the message of this film is kindness.

D. My General Opinion

   This film is heartwarming story. For example, thanks to Heidi, Klara who is delicate in health could walk little by little. Also, Heidi's grandfather was quiet and didn't talk with Heidi at first, but he became kind person and he cared about Heidi. Heidi's character is liked by many people and changes things. I like Heidi. And her character will make us happy.

My Featured Novel

 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

I. About the Novel

Written in 1847, this novel remains a favorite, especially among younger readers and listeners who continue to be entranced by the young Jane and her mysterious Mr. Rochester. The story of an unhappy orphan and her life as a governess at Thornfield is filled with difficulty, including a shocking revelation on her wedding day. The happy ending finally arrives, though, and Jane and Rochester are united forever. Long criticized as being melodramatic and contrived, Jane Eyrehas nonetheless become a romantic classic and is often the book that introduces students to serious literature.

 The plot of Jane Eyre follows the form of a Bildungsroman, which is a novel that tells the story of a child’s maturation and focuses on the emotions and experiences that accompany and incite his or her growth to adulthood. In Jane Eyre, there are five distinct stages of development, each linked to a particular place: Jane’s childhood at Gateshead, her education at the Lowood School, her time as Adèle’s governess at Thornfield, her time with the Rivers family at Morton and at Marsh End (also called Moor House), and her reunion with and marriage to Rochester at Ferndean. From these experiences, Jane becomes the mature woman who narrates the novel retrospectively.

Works Cited （参考文献）

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/jane-eyre-charlotte-bronte/1116670758?ean=9780141441146

"JANE EYRE." SparkNotes. SparkNotes, n.d. Web. 06 Dec. 2016.

II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media

・Movie Version
　Jane Eyre (2011)
Jane Eyre is a 2011 British romantic drama film directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. The screenplay is written by Moira Buffini based on the 1847 novel of the same name by Charlotte Brontë. The film was released on 11 March 2011 in the United States and 9 September in Great Britain and Ireland.

Mia Wasikowska starred as the title character and Michael Fassbender as Edward Rochester. Fukunaga and the producers wanted an actress close to Jane Eyre's age in the novel, in contrast to many previous versions. Fukunaga liked Wasikowska's "sense of observation in her eyes" and that "[she] could communicate [Jane's inner turmoil] in a way that didn't feel theatrical".  He felt her looks could be played down as required for the role. On casting Rochester, the director stated that while there were actors closer in appearance, he felt Fassbender had the spirit of the character.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre_(2011_film)

III. About the Author

Charlotte Brontë (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest sister of the remarkable Brontë family, which also included the novelists Anne and Emily Brontë. Along with her sisters, Charlotte Brontë was one of the foremost Romantic novelists to write in English. While the realism of Honore de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert was still developing, English writers continued writing in the vein laid down by such fanciful and melodramatic authors as Charles Dickens and Walter Scott. The presence of the supernatural and the melodramatic in Brontë's novels most owe their debt to this tradition as opposed to those of her close contemporary Jane Austen, who attempted to stay as far from sentiment as possible. But she is, in many ways, a much more fascinating author than many of those same Romantic novelists from whom she learned her craft. Charlotte Brontë is, like her sisters but unlike most other authors of early nineteenth-century England, acutely aware of the limitations of Romantic thought and her novels attempt again and again to place her characters in situations of extremity in order to expose all the problems and paradoxes of the society in which they exist. Her most famous character, the eponymous Jane Eyre, does not fit the heroine mold. "Plain" Jane is not a striking beauty, but has a strength of spirit that may be unparalleled in its time, save for some of Austen's characters. Charlotte's characters in this regard are remarkably similar to Jane Austen's despite their sharp differences in tone and style. Like Austen, Brontë is one of the most important and most powerfully insightful authors of the early nineteenth century.


http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - Setting(設定、背景、場所）

• Setting is the time, place and / or situation in which a story take place.
• The time of story is early 19th century. The place is mainly Thornfield. The situation is a love story between Jane and Mr. Rochester.
• I think Thornfield is mysterious atmosphere, so it match this story.

B. Reaction Point - protagonist（メインキャラクター）

• Protagonist is main character.
• This story's main character is Jane Eyre. She is young orphen because she was kicked out by her cruel, wealthy aunt. Afterthat, she work as a governess at Thornfield. And she fall in love with Mr.Rochester there.
• I think she haven't loved someone because of her painful experience. But by meeting Mr. Rochester, her life changed and she could love him.

C. Reaction Point - Theme（主旨、主題）

• Theme is the central message or moral of a story.
• This story's theme is new image for women. There was a difference of rank or property, but they were able to marry.  This free marraige is epochal thing in literature of Victoria dynasty.
• I think Jane Eyre who is main character is the admiration of women of the day.

D. My General Opinion
I think this story has both tragic and comic factors. For example, the tragic factor is that Helen Burns who is Jane's best friend in Lowood Institution died of tuberculosis. This model is the author's older sister. And comic factor is that Jane and Mr. Rochester married. In this way, a part of this story based on the author's experience, particularly, there are in tragic factors. So, Charlotte Bronte wanted to make happy ending. I think this story is the best love story.

My Featured Song

Mine by Taylor Swift

Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh

You were in college, working part-time, waiting tables
Left a small town, never looked back
I was a flight risk, with a fear of fallin'
Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts

I say, "Can you believe it?"
As we're lyin' on the couch
The moment, I can see it
Yes, yes, I can see it now

Do you remember, we were sittin', there by the water?
You put your arm around me for the first time
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
You are the best thing, that's ever been mine

Flash forward, and we're takin' on the world together
And there's a drawer of my things at your place
You learn my secrets and you figure out why I'm guarded
You say we'll never make my parents' mistakes

And we got bills to pay
We got nothin' figured out
When it was hard to take
Yes, yes
This is what I thought about

Do you remember, we were sittin' there, by the water?
You put your arm around me, for the first time
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
You are the best thing, that's ever been mine

Do you remember all the city lights on the water?
You saw me start to believe, for the first time
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
You are the best thing, that's ever been mine

Oh, oh, oh, oh

And I remember that fight, two-thirty a.m.
'Cause everything was slipping right out of our hands
I ran out, crying, and you followed me out into the street

Braced myself for the goodbye,
'Cause that's all I've ever known
Then, you took me by surprise
You said, "I'll never leave you alone"

You said, "I remember how we felt, sitting by the water.
And every time I look at you, it's like the first time.
I fell in love with a careless man's careful daughter.
She is the best thing that's ever been mine."

You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
You are the best thing, that's ever been mine

Do you believe it?
We're gonna make it now
And I can see it

I. About the Song

"Mine" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Produced by Swift along with Nathan Chapman, it was released as the lead single from Swift's third studio album, Speak Now (2010) by Big Machine Records. Following an unauthorized internet leak, the song was released on August 4, 2010, two weeks earlier than the intended release date. 

Swift revealed that "Mine" was inspired by an unnamed crush in mind, saying "I was reflecting back on a boy I liked at a certain time." She also told MTV that the song is about what it would be like if she actually let her guard down. During a liveUstream chat with fans on July 20, 2010, Swift explained that the song is about "her tendency to run from love" after seeing many relationships end in goodbye and breakups. She continued, "I think I've developed this pattern of sort of running away when it comes time to fall in love and to stay in a relationship. The song is sort of about finding the exception to that and finding someone who would make you believe in love and realize that it could work out."

Critical reception for "Mine" was mostly positive. Swift was praised for her ability to show a mature perspective on love, although some critics called the song "formulaic" for resonating her earlier works, notably "Love Story". The song was commercially successful, as well; it became a top ten hit in Australia, Canada and Japan. The single was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). In the United States, the song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number three, making Swift the second female artist in the history of the Hot 100 to debut multiple tracks in the top five during a calendar year after Mariah Carey did so in 1995.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_(Taylor_Swift_song)

II. About the Songwriter

Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. One of the most popular contemporary female recording artists, she is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which has received much media attention.Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the suburban Philadelphia area. When she was 9 years old, her family rented a house in the suburban town of Wyomissing Pennsylvania, and she spent her elementary, junior high and high school. Also, she interested in musical that time, and she took lessons in singing, performing in Broadway regularly. Thereafter, she was affected by her grandmother who is a professional opera singer and LeAnn Reim who is a country singer, so she decided to become a country singer.  And she signed a contact with Big Machine Record and make album "Taylor Swift". The album was released on October 24, 2006. It recorded the prime fifth place.

Taylor Swift is a ten-time GRAMMY winner, the youngest recipient in history of the music industry’s highest honor, the GRAMMY Award for Album of the Year and she is the only female in the history of The Grammy's to win Album of the Year, twice. Taylor is the only artist in history to have an album hit the 1 million first-week sales figure three times (2010’s Speak Now, 2012’s RED and 2014’s 1989). She’s a household name whose insanely catchy yet deeply personal self-penned songs transcend music genres, and a savvy businesswoman who has built a childhood dream into an empire.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%95%E3%83%88

http://taylorswift.com/about

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - Theme（曲の歌詞の中心的な考え）

• Theme is the central idea of a song's lyrics.
• This song's theme is " You are the best person that I've ever met." because it sing " You are the best thing, that's ever been mine." over and over again.
• I think that the main character in this song have never met nice person in her life. But by having met " You" in the song, her life is change.

B. Reaction Point - Song chorus （繰り返される曲のセッション）

• Song chorus is sections of a song that is repeated.
• For example, it repeat " Do you remember~" in song chorus.
• I think Taylor sing song chorus as if she talk to "you".

C. Reaction Point - Lyrics（歌の歌詞）

• Lyrics is the words to a song.
• The first lyrics ( You were in college~that's ever been mine ) use mainly the past tense,snd the second lyrics (Flash forward~) use the present tense or future tense.
• I think this song express that the memories of "I" and "you" and the future of two.

D. My General Opinion
       I like this song because there is lyrics that we sympathize with in her song. Most of her songs are written based on her experience. So, we sympathize with her songs. When I want to relax, I listen to this song. It makes me feel happy. Also this music video matches this song, and it makes view of the world of this song. From these things, I like her song, and she is very popular singer all over the world.

My Featured Poem

Remember Me by Christina Rosetti

Remember me when I am gone away,

Gone far away into the silent land;

When you can no more hold me by the hand,

Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.

Remember me when no more day by day

You tell me of our future that you plann'd:

Only remember me; you understand

It will be late to counsel then or pray.

Yet if you should forget me for a while

And afterwards remember, do not grieve:

For if the darkness and corruption leave

A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,

Better by far you should forget and smile

Than that you should remember and be sad.

I. About the Poem

‘Remember’, written by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) when she was still a teenager, is a classic Victorian poem about mourning and remembrance. It was written in 1849 but not published until 1862 when it appeared in Rossetti’s first volume, Goblin Market and Other Poems. Here is the poem, along with a few words by way of analysis.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://interestingliterature.com/2016/01/25/a-short-analysis-of-christina-rossettis-remember/

II. About the Author

On December 5, 1830, Christina Rossetti was born in London, one of four children of Italian parents. Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti; her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti also became a poet and a painter. Rossetti’s first poems were written in 1842 and printed in the private press of her grandfather. In 1850, under the pseudonym Ellen Alleyne, she contributed seven poems to the Pre-Raphaelite journal The Germ, which had been founded by her brother William Michael and his friends.

Rossetti is best known for her ballads and her mystic religious lyrics. Her poetry is marked by symbolism and intense feeling. Rossetti’s best-known work, Goblin Market and Other Poems, was published in 1862. The collection established Rossetti as a significant voice in Victorian poetry. The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems, appeared in 1866 followed by Sing-Song, a collection of verse for children, in 1872 (with illustrations by Arthur Hughes).

By the 1880s, recurrent bouts of Graves’ disease, a thyroid disorder, made Rossetti an invalid, and ended her attempts to work as a governess. While the illness restricted her social life, she continued to write poems. Among her later works are A Pageant and Other Poems (1881), and The Face of the Deep (1892). Rossetti also wrote religious prose works, such as Seek and Find (1879), Called To Be Saints(1881) and The Face of the Deep (1892). In 1891, Rossetti developed cancer, of which she died in London on December 29, 1894. Rossetti’s brother, William Michael, edited her collected works in 1904, but the Complete Poems were not published before 1979.

Christina Rossetti is increasingly being reconsidered a major Victorian poet. She has been compared to Emily Dickinson but the similarity is more in the choice of spiritual topics than in poetic approach, Rossetti’s poetry being one of intense feelings, her technique refined within the forms established in her time.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/christina-rossetti

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - Rhyme (韻）

• This poem use rhyme. Rhyme mean the repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
• For example, 'land' and 'hand', 'stay' and 'away',' grieve' and 'leave'.
• These rhyme make a deep impression on the reader.

B. Reaction Point - Theme (主題）

• Theme mean the central idea of a work of literature.
• This poem theme is 'Remember' no matter when, no matter where because this poem use 'remember' over and over again.
• I think the writer want to remember her if she goes away.

C. Reaction Point - Character (登場人物）

• Character mean a fictional personality created by an author.
• For example, I think there are two person, 'I (author)'and 'you' in this poem.
• 'You' in this poem is important person for author.

D. My General Opinion
I like this poem because I was impressed by how deeply the author thinks of 'you'.I think she wants to remember whatever happens. This poem makes readers feel painful.