My Featured Novel

Pride and Prejudice 

I. About the Novel

Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman, Mr. Bennet, living in Longbourn. Set in England in the late 18th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's five unmarried daughters after two gentlemen have moved into their neighbourhood: the rich and eligible Mr. Bingley, and his status-conscious friend, the even more rich and eligible Mr. Darcy. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy is disdainful of local society and repeatedly clashes with the Bennets' lively second daughter, Elizabeth.

Pride and Prejudice retains a fascination for modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of "most loved books". It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature, selling over 20 million copies, and receives considerable attention from literary scholars. Likewise, it has paved the way for archetypes that abound in many contemporary literature of our time. Modern interest in the book has resulted in a number of dramatic adaptations and an abundance of novels and stories imitating Austen's memorable characters or themes.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Pride and Prejudice." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 19 July 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice>.

Shmoop Editorial Team. "Pride and Prejudice Summary." Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 19 July 2016. <http://www.shmoop.com/pride-and-prejudice/summary.html>.

II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media

 Pride and Prejudice (1995) by BBC

 Pride and Prejudice (2005) by StudioCanal, Working Title Films

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Pride and Prejudice." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 19 July 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice>.
"Pride & Prejudice (2005 Film)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 19 July 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_%26_Prejudice_(2005_film)>.
"Pride & Prejudice Movie | Official Website | Trailers and Release Dates | Focus Features." Focus Features. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 July 2016. <http://www.focusfeatures.com/pride_and_prejudice>.

III. About the Author

Jane Austen was a Georgian era author, best known for her social commentary in novels including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, England. While not widely known in her own time, Austen's comic novels of love among the landed gentry gained popularity after 1869, and her reputation skyrocketed in the 20th century. Her novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, are considered literary classics, bridging the gap between romance and realism. 

Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 19 July 2016. <http://www.biography.com/people/jane-austen-9192819#synopsis>.

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - character

• An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story).
• Important characters in this story are Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Jane Bennet, Mary Bennet, Catherine Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Mr. Darcy, Charles Bingley, Mr. Wickham, etc...
• The characters of this novel include many individual people. There were a lot of characters and it was slightly difficult and was confused.

B. Reaction Point - setting

• the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event.
• There were few occupations that a woman could become independent, and, in the U.K. of the 18th century, it was assumed the happiness of the woman that I found a good marriage partner.
• Though five people are sister, it understands that the then marriage was tough that nobody is married.

C. Reaction Point - appeal

• It be attractive to.
• Elizabeth knows that oneself prejudiced against Darcy.
• Each other had Pride and Prejudice, but thinks that it was very good that I can understand it and was appealed.

D. My General Opinion
At first, Darcy and Elizabeth thought that it was not thrown off its reserve. However, Elizabeth whom I misunderstood could be identified as Darcy who had begun to become obedient and led to marriage.I love the scene holding a wedding ceremony with older sister and her husband very much. As for this novel, the development that I could not predict was interesting.

My Featured Fashion Show

Gucci  Spring Summer 2015 Full Fashion Show Exclusive  

 

 

I. About the Clothing Brand: Gucci

Gucci is one of the world’s preeminent luxury brands, recognised the world over for its fashion innovation and impeccable Italian craftsmanship.
Ever since Guccio Gucci founded the house in Florence in 1921, the brand has been a destination for the world’s most discerning men and women, representing at once contemporary glamour and traditional Made In Italy craftsmanship. Gucci designs and produces women’s and men’s ready-to-wear, handbags, small leather goods, travel accessories, footwear, fine jewellery, watches, eyewear, fragrances and cosmetics, children’s clothing as well as other timeless lifestyle items.

Every Gucci piece carries with it close to a century’s worth of artisanal quality and unparalleled design. To learn more about the brand’s 94-year history, visit The House of Gucci.

As Gucci enters the next century of activity, it’s taking a strong position on corporate responsibility. From sustainability to philanthropy, Gucci is committed to its role in the global community.

It voluntarily obtained SA8000 certifications, focused on working conditions and practices. Dually, it's actively involved in philanthropic initiatives that support both women's and children's rights and the arts.

In 2005, the House entered into a long-term partnership with UNICEF and since then has committed close to $20 million in support of the organisation’s women's and children's programs in Africa and Asia.

In 2013, Gucci founded Chime For Change, a global initiative dedicated to raising funds and awareness for girls' and women's empowerment.

Gucci also collaborates with the Kering Corporate Foundation in its efforts to combat violence against women.

On the cultural front, the company works closely with Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation to fund the digital restoration of cinematic masterpieces, such as La Dolce Vita and Once Upon a Time in America. For more information on these and other philanthropic efforts, click here.

 

  "Gucci - about Gucci." Gucci - about Gucci. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 July 2016.

<http://www.gucci.com/int/about/show>.           

 

II. About the Designer:Guccio Gucci

Guccio Gucci was born in 1881 in Florence, Italy. He opened the first Gucci shop in 1921 and became known for quality leathergoods and fine craftsmanship. His four sons also joined the Gucci firm. In 1953, the year Guccio Gucci died, they opened their fir.
 Fashion designer, founder of the Gucci firm, born in Florence, NC Italy. He opened his first shop in Florence in 1920, becoming known for his leather craftsmanship and accessories. His four sons joined the firm, and in 1953 (the year he died) the first overseas shop opened in New York City. His grandson, Maurizio (1949-95)oversaw the resurrection of the firm in the 1980s, and became group president in 1989. Following a series of legal and family disputes, the company was sold to the multinational Investcorp in 1993. 

Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 12 July 2016.
<http://www.biography.com/people/guccio-gucci-9322555#>.        

III. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - accessory

• something such as a bag, belt or jewellery that you wear
• scarf

• Most of models had a scarf around their neck. I think that accentuate of the fassion.

B. Reaction Point - bottoms

• clothing worn below the waist
• wide pants
•  The wide pants is trendy. Because there were many models who wore a skirt, the model who wore pants attracted attention.

C. Reaction Point - footwear

• shoes
• heel shoes
• All the models wore the shoes of the heel. I think that I am effective in showing a leg neatly.

D. My General Opinion

 I thought that the fashion of Gucci was very wonderful. A petty person trainer and coloration were fair and thought it to be good in spring and summer.I thought that form and the material of clothes were pretty elsewhere.Gucci wanted to check how it was different from other brands.

My Featured Film

The Mark of Zorro

I. About the Film

Zorro is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a fictional character created in 1919 by pulp writer Johnston McCulley. He is a Californio nobleman living in Los Angeles during the era of Mexican rule,although some movie adaptations of Zorro's story have placed him during the earlier Spanish rule.

The character has undergone changes through the years, but the typical image of him is a dashing black-clad masked outlaw who defends the commoners and indigenous peoples of the land against tyrannical officials and other villains. Not only is he too cunning and foxlike for the bumbling authorities to catch, but he also delights in publicly humiliating them. The character has been featured in numerous books, films, television series, and other media. Tiburcio Vasquez, Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and Joaquin Murrieta are cited as inspirations for Zorro.

In The Curse of Capistrano, Don Diego Vega becomes Senor Zorro in the pueblo of Los Angeles in California "to avenge the helpless, to punish cruel politicians", and "to aid the oppressed." He is the title character, as he is dubbed the "Curse of Capistrano."

The story involves him romancing Lolita Pulido, an impoverished noblewoman. While Lolita is unimpressed with Diego, who pretends to be a passionless fop, she is attracted to the dashing Zorro. His rival is Captain Ramon. Other characters include Sgt. Pedro Gonzales, Zorro's enemy but Diego's friend; Zorro's deaf and mute servant Bernardo; his ally Fray (Friar) Felipe; his father Don Alejandro Vega; and a group of noblemen (caballeros) who at first hunt him but are won over to his cause.

In later stories, McCulley introduces characters such as pirates and Native Americans, some of whom know Zorro's identity.

In McCulley's later stories, Diego's surname became de la Vega. In fact, the writer was wildly inconsistent. The first magazine serial ended with the villain dead and Diego publicly exposed as Zorro, but in the sequel the villain was alive, and the next entry had the double identity still secret.

Several Zorro productions have expanded on the character's exploits. Many of the continuations feature a younger character taking up the mantle of Zorro.

Although McCulley's stories were set in Los Angeles during the era of Mexican rule (between 1821 and 1846), some movie adaptations of Zorro's story have placed him during the earlier Spanish era.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Zorro." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 21 June 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro>.

II. Versions of the Film

American films
The Mark of Zorro(1920)

The Mark of Zorro(1940)
The Mark of Zorro(1974)(TV movie)

Mexican films
La Gran aventura Del Zorro(1846)
El lobo negro(1980)

European films

In addition to a variety of Zorro films, European producers also used a similar character called the Coyote.

Zorro contro Maciste(1963)

La marque de Zorro(1975)

Works Cited （参考文献）
"Zorro." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 21 June 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro>.

III. About the Author

Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 – November 23, 1958) was the author of hundreds of stories, fifty novels, numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro.

Many of his novels and stories were written under the pseudonyms Harrington Strong, Raley Brien, George Drayne, Monica Morton, Rowena Raley, Frederic Phelps, Walter Pierson, and John Mack Stone, among others.

McCulley started as a police reporter for The Police Gazette and served as an Army public affairs officer during World War I. An amateur history buff, he went on to a career in pulp magazines and screenplays, often using a Southern California backdrop for his stories.

Aside from Zorro, McCulley created many other pulp characters, including Black Star, The Spider, The Mongoose, and Thubway Tham. Many of McCulley's characters—The Green Ghost, The Thunderbolt, and The Crimson Clown—were inspirations for the masked heroes that have appeared in popular culture from McCulley's time to the present day.Born in Ottawa, Illinois, and raised in Chillicothe, Illinois, he died in 1958 in Los Angeles, California, aged 75.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Johnston McCulley." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 21 June 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_McCulley>.

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - costumes

• 定義 - Costumes are the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball.
• 例 - The character's visual is a flat-brimmed black hat. And he wears a black cloth veil mask with slits for eyes covers his whole face.
• 略 - I think his appearance to be very cool. I think that it might be assumed that it is Don Diego to totally different clothes not to come out.

B. Reaction Point - mood

• 定義 - Mood is the prevailing psychological state.
• 例 -  Though the Mark of Zorro is a thief, it is a hero of justice.
• 略 - I helped an oppressed Indian and faced one to one duel for fair mind, and he was a true gentleman. I like there of him. I think that the mood that he creates attracts the person of the circumference.

C. Reaction Point - scene

• 定義 - Scene is a subdivision of an act of a play.
• 例 - The Mark of Zorro is "Z" and the scene to cut.
• 略 - After he appeared, a letter of Z is cut by the wall. This is his trademark and thinks that it is the very impressive scene.

D. My General Opinion

Don Diego of the sluggard was surprised that it was real nature of marvel Zorro.He trained oneself by having watched oppressed people and became the strongest gentleman, the strongest thief.He was gentle at heart and thought that it was a hard worker.

My Featured Novel

Heidi

I. About the Novel

Heidi  is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: her years of wandering and learning and Heidi : How she used what she learned. 
It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children". Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature.

Heidi is a girl who has been raised by her aunt Detie in Maienfeld, Switzerland after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias and Adelheid. Detie brings 6-year-old Heidi to her paternal grandfather's house, up the mountain from Dorfli. He has been at odds with the villagers and embittered against God for years and lives in seclusion on the alm. This has earned him the nickname Alm-Uncle. He briefly resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl's evident intelligence and cheerful yet unaffected demeanor soon earn his genuine, if reserved, affection. Heidi enthusiastically befriends her new neighbors, young Peter the goatherd, his mother, Bridget, and his blind maternal grandmother, who is "Grannie" to everyone. With each season that passes, the mountaintop inhabitants grow more attached to Heidi.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Heidi." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 31 May 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi>.

II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media

A.Movie Versions
Heidi (1937) by motion picture




Heidi (1952)  film in Swiss German and German,  by Franz Schnyder, also starring Ms. Sigmund







B.Animation Versions
Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974)by zuiyo video production

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Heidi." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 31 May 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi>.

III. About the Author: Johanna Spyri

Johanna Louise Spyri was born in Swiss in 1827. She is author of novels and best known for her children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.

In 1852, Johanna Heusser married Bernhard Spyri. Bernhard was a lawyer. While living in the city of Zurich began to write about life in the country. Her first story, A Note on Vrony's Grave, which deals with a woman's life of domestic violence, was published in 1880; the following year further stories for both adults and children appeared, among them the novel Heidi, which she wrote in four weeks. Heidi is the story of an orphan girl who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, and is famous for its vivid portrayal of that landscape.Her husband and her only child, named Bernard, both died in 1884. Alone, she devoted herself to charitable causes and wrote over fifty more stories before her death in 1901. She was interred in the family plot at the Sihlfeld-A Cemetery in Zurich. An icon in Switzerland, Spyri's portrait was placed on a postage stamp in 1951 and on a 20 CHF commemorative coin in 2009.

In April 2010 a professor searching for children's illustrations found a book written in 1830 by a German history teacher, Hermann Adam von Kamp, that Johanna may have used as a basis for Heidi. The 1830 story is titled Adelheide - das Mädchen vom Alpengebirge—translated, "Adelaide, the girl from the Alps". The two stories share many similarities in plot line and imagery. Spyri biographer Regine Schindler said it was entirely possible that Johanna may have been familiar with the story as she grew up in a literate household with many books.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Johanna Spyri." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 03 June 2016.<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Spyri>.

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - character(登場人物)
An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story).

• It is the character of the story.This novel is the character that Heidi, Alm-Opa,Peter, Clara are main. The character is different, but thinks that I changed little by little by having met Heidi.

B. Reaction Point -appeal(～を引き付ける、魅力)
It be attractive to.
Heidi is appeal everyone. For example, Alm-Opa  who shut a heart with stubbornness having come to gradually open the heart to Heidi. I think that this is because Heidi has a character obedient brightly.

C. Reaction Point - setting(設定、背景、場所)

The state of the environment in which a situation exists.

As for this novel, a place is beautiful. For instance,it is an Alpine mountain and is the forest near the hut, and nature overflows.I think that Heidi was able to grow up at ease simply because there was this environment.

D. My General Opinion
I love this novel. I think that it is very good that Heidi learns various things through life here and is brought up. I want to live not discouraged by what after the example of Heidi brightly.
And I thought that it was interesting to express grandfather with "Alm-Opa". "Opa" knew that it was the meaning called the grandfather in German for the first time.