Author: De-Quane

Tom Robinson can be a mockingbird because he was trying to be nice to the Mayella Ewell but he got accused of raping her by her dad and he has lost his innocense that is why he is a mocking bird.My understanding of a mockingbird is that a mocking bird is someone who harms noone and makes”pleasant music”.

The symbolism of the courthouse can be seen in the pillars holding up the courthouse its self. For example, on p.179, we read ‘The Maycomb County court-house was reminiscent in one respect,the concrete pillars is supporting its south roof were too heavy for their burden.’ This tells me that the who made the building was not good at making builders because they made the pillars stronger than the actuarial building. ‘when the building burnt down they built one around it in 1865.’ During the 1865 times was the american civil war and all that remained from the building was the pillars symbolise the burden the civalo was symboliase the black people fighting for their rights,there was also was a rusty,unreliable because they wanted to be connected to the slavery.

Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) has no name because he was raised as an orphan from birth by a shadow organization named the Agency, which is “known to all governments” and performs assassinations for hire. He has been trained in all the killing skills and never killed humans , which is why the young woman Nika (Olga Kurylenko) is such a challenge for him. A prostitute held in slavery by the drug-dealing brother of the Russian president, she follows him, obeys him, offers herself to him and, although he remains distant, 47 cannot remain indifferent.

Agent 47 is in Russia on a job: Assassinate Belicoff (Ulrich Thomsen), the president. This he thinks he does. Yet Belicoff appears in public almost immediately after the hit, alive and speaking. How did this happen? An alternative agent named Mike (Dougray Scott) to agent 47 he is an enemy.

How it happens is that Agent 47 is betrayed by the Agency and finds himself being pursued by both Interpol and the Russian secret police. As he and Nika move from St. Petersburg to Moscow, there is one shoot-out after another, close escapes, high-tech booby traps, and so on.

What I found interesting about the movie was the lonely self-sufficiency of Agent 47, his life without a boyhood, his lack of a proper name, his single-purpose training. When Nika comes into his life, he is trained to guard against her, but he cannot, because she is helpless, needy, depends on him and is a victim like himself. So he takes her along (which only increases her danger) while not making love. You know what? I think they trained him to make war, not love.

There is also intrigue at the highest levels of Russian politics, as the moderate Belikoff is apparently targeted for death. All of that is well done. Other scenes, which involve Agent 47 strolling down corridors, an automatic weapon in each hand, shooting down opponents who come dressed as Jedi troopers in black. The troopers spring into sight, pop up and start shooting, and he has target practice. He also jumps out of windows without knowing where he’s going to land, and that feels like he too works alone, is a professional, cuts off his emotions, seems lonely and cold. But the movie is more about him.

I recently read an article on the use of slang by Isabelle Kerr. In this, she talks about how slang is ruining the “great language” of English and how young people don’t use it anyway. Srsly though, what is she chatting?

Shakespeare made his own language so why can’t young people? Take the sentence ‘The blushing girl sat huddled in the bedroom, the lustrous moonbeams highlighting the radiance of her face’; though all of these words seem commonplace, in fact every one in bold was coined by Shakespeare. For example, moonbeam, a compound of moon and beam, was first recorded in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Shakespeare introduced 1700 new words into the English language. He drastically changed the way English evolved. People of my generation wouldn’t recognise pre-Shakespearean language, as his words are now commonplace. The younger generation wouldn’t know anything about this contribution or even what it means, but the older generation probably does know it better than us, mostly because language changes with every decade that passes. However, I guarantee not everyone in the older generation knows Shakespearean language, so the point I’m getting at is that there are words that can come in handy in the “young generation” of slang. Words like “can’t” and “don’t” all started as contractions. Before, they were “do not” and “can not” without the apostrophe replacing part of the word so it is shortened. Miss Kerr’s argument that “twerk” is destroying the English language even further by sitting “embarrassingly next to ’twere, an archaic word reminiscent of an era of great language and literary triumph” is ultimately flawed. “‘Twere” is a contraction of “it were” that was recorded in 1578.

Miss Kerr says that slang infects the way young people to speak or talk. In my opinion they make a decision to talk or speak it; they don’t use it all the time, they only use it with their friends etc – no one would really use it to their parents or a teacher. The reason being that the teacher or parents will not understand what we are saying.  By definition , slang is currency amongst the younger generation. They use slang to shorten words eg wuu2 (what you up too); another example is nm (nothing much). Isabelle Kerr goes on to say ‘Slang is mostly related to image, reputation and sex’. I disagree with this. Slang is not mostly related to image, reputation and sex – Miss Kerr has only given one example and that is ‘twerking’, a type of dancing in which an individual, usually a female, dances to music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low squatting stance. To me that is only one example and it has almost become a cliche, and I have not heard of anything else using image,sex and reputation. Also, if you went up to someone and you were talking, you wouldn’t say “Did you see that girl doing that type of dance to music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hips movements and a low squatting stance?” You would just say, “Did you see that girl ‘twerk’?” All you are doing shortening the word and saving time. Likewise, you wouldn’t go up to your friends and say, “Did you see your friend take a self-portrait photograph?”

Slang words are included in online dictionaries to help people learn them – not even I know a lot about slang, I just know the basics. So when someone mentions a “colloquial” word on social media and I don’t know the word, I just go the internet, type it in and it will give me an instant up to date answer. Kerr is correct in that not all young people use slang, but it is important that these words are added to the dictionary anyway to record how language  is changing and  evolving.