Portfolio: Analyzing Literary Text

Write a paragraph in which you summarize The Invisible Red String and Message in a Bottle and compare and contrast their structures.
Write a paragraph in which you analyze how the stories The Invisible Red String and Message in a Bottle update character types and story patterns from older stories. Explain how your analysis helped you understand the modern stories. Cite details from the stories to support your ideas.
Write a paragraph in which you identify and analyze the universal themes in the two stories. Cite specific universal themes and provide details from the two stories to support your analysis. Explain how knowledge of these universal themes can help readers deepen their understanding and appreciation of modern stories.

Ok. This is what I have so far.

(Message in a Bottle) I think this story is trying to say never be forgotten. I think that the way the story updates the character type or story pattern means he loves his mother a lot .(The Invisible Red String) I think this story is trying to say never have too high requirements or you will not get what you want. I think that the way the story updates the character type or story pattern means you must change.

(The Invisible Red String) I believe that the universal theme is renewal/rebirth, Even though the story is updated a bit to have a strong female character, the universal theme of coming-of-age or loss of innocence is unchanged. The story shows how Ju-Lin matures into an educated and confident young woman who is ready to marry. (Message in a Bottle) The story is a hero’s journey. Christy and Blackie are on a quest for a better life in a new land. They face obstacles on the way, including a monstrous storm just as they are within sight of land.

If this helps you guys, here's my essay:

The first story I will mention is called Message in a Bottle. The story starts by telling the story of a ship called the St. John; a ship that sank on the Boston Harbor. Next the story focus shifts to a fifteen year old boy by the name of Christopher Dooley. Christy faces challenges like being poor and having a crooked spine and a cruel father. Cristy escapes his home and boards the mentioned ship, St. John, going to America for Ireland with the help of Blackie. Then, the story jumps forward to when the ship was sinking as Blackie and Chisty are fighting to stay alive on the sinking vessel. In the midst of the chaos, Christy managed to fling a bottle containing his St. Christopher's medal and a flier advertising the St. John. A year later, the bottle is found by his sister and her friends, they bring it to the townspeople who ponder over the mysterious bottle, they eventually give the medal to the sister and the flier to one of her friends. Ten years later, while the sister is in America she meets a person by the name of Christopher Dolley, they talk and then they marry.
The other story I want to mention is The Invisible Red String, The story starts with her father selling his only daughter into slavery in order for his famliy not to starve. The daughter Ju-Lin is obviously distraught with this decision. Then the matchmaker Moi-Yun arrives at their farm in the night, Moi-Yun offers to help by buying the daughter to be an apprentice. Next Ju-Lin is whisked to the old matchmaker’s house, and she sets the ground rules for Ju-Ling. After a while, Ju-Lin asks Moi Yun how she gets the perfect matches, and Moi Yun explains that when a boy and a girl are born an Invisible Red String is tied around their foots and every year it gets shorter and shorter until the couple met, and the her job is to be a facilitator of the string and shorten it down so that the couple met. And she also tells her what she wants her to learn, “not to listen with your ears but with your heart”. Over a period, he learns how to read and write but also to keep records of clients. One spring morning, a wealthy matron named Madam Yuen comes to the house, she’s tired of her son's unwillingness to marry and she comes to the house for assistance. Ju-Lins takes down notes on what would make a good match for the son. The matchmaker suggests that Ju-Lin should go to “compromise his decisions' '. The next day the journey Ju-Lin sets out to tell the son that there is no match to his liking. When she gets there she tries to tell him that his expectations are unreasonable while he admires her for her smarts and looks, just then she realizes what the matchmaker meant by those words. After this Madam Yuen comes back to introduce Ju-Lin to his son, she sees that Ju-Lin and her son are hitting it off. She then prepares for the wedding.
Both stories are started with the character in some sort of poverty; but while Christy's poverty was caused by his drunk father and his low paying job, Ju-Lin’s poverty was based on a drought. They're stories are a variation on the rags to riches story; while it’s ambiguous that the Christy in the ending is the Christy that was on the ship, St. John. While Ju-Lin’s story isn’t ambiguous about the fact that she marries into her money.

The story is a hero’s journey. Christy and Blackie are on a quest for a better life in a new land. They face obstacles on the way, like personal and environmental obstacles. Christy is the hero of the story on his quest to start a new life for himself and his family, Blackie plays the mentor figure keeping Christy out of trouble. Christy’s Da, although brief, plays the villain, being the catalyst for Christy’s quest. It updates the hero’s journey transforming the goal from finding an object or defeating the villain, to a personal one which is to be rich enough to get his family out of Ireland to live a life of luxury away from his father. This update on the hero’s journey tells readers to focus on the characters more than on the adventure. The Invisible Red String resembles a fairy tale in structure. Ju-Lin is the hero, and her challenges include leaving her family and serving in the matchmaker’s place. Her story has a fairy-tale ending, for she marries a handsome young man. However, her intelligence, not her beauty, wins his heart. I think this updated story, with its strong female hero, sends a better message than traditional fairy tales. It encourages girls to be strong and smart.

The universal theme of Message in a Bottle is about fresh starts and never forgetting his past. Christy and Blackie face obstacles on the way, including a monstrous storm just as they are within sight of land on their way to a better life. Even when he is on his journey to America, he still remembers his past. A good example is when he decides to send a message in a bottle to indicate where he is to his Ma. The universal theme for the Invisible Red String is coming-of-age/loss of innocence even though the story is updated a bit to have a strong female character, the universal theme of coming-of-age or loss of innocence is unchanged. The story shows how Ju-Lin matures into an educated and confident young woman who is ready to marry.

But do me a favor, don't make mine solely your version. Read the stuff, and make your own opinion. But you're free to take notes from this.

Some of you are using this as your unit 10 portfolio....double check that this is what your teachers are asking you to complete... I have a feeling it isn't and many of you will receive a zero.

not really i use a app called paraphrasing tool heres the link or something paraphrasing-tool.com if its not blue just put it in your search bar and use that for when ever you wanna use a answer cause you cant come up with anything and just make sure to use a check my work thing so then you can fix if its too close to something else i always get A's when i do work with it

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This is what I had on my (Word) document and I got 100%! God Bless Happy Easter!

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The Invisible Red String:

Ju-Lin (Main Character) – Hero
Moi-Yun (Matchmaker) – Mother Figure/Mentor
Poverty – Villain

The story pattern would be a mix between Ju-Lin venturing far from home on a ‘quest’ and her losing everything. She would have lost everything because she would have lost her family due to them going to sell her away. Ju-Lin’s family did not want to do this, but they had no food and needed money, and she was the only girl child. Her parents were seriously thinking about sending her away, but a matchmaker by the name of Moi-Yun came and made Ju-Lin a sort of an apprentice. She traveled far from home because she was in the care of the matchmaker and the matchmaker traveled places.

THEME: The theme of the story is the power of destiny and fate, which brings people together regardless of how far apart they may be.

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Message in a Bottle:

Christopher (Christy) Dooley (Main Character) – Hero
Clare Dooley (Ma) – Mother Figure
Patrick Dooley (Da) – Villain
Blackie Mcclure – Mother Figure

The story pattern would be venturing far from home because Christy is a stowaway on a ship to America. He wants to go to American to make lots of money and then come back for his Ma and siblings. “He figured 15 was old enough to do something about it.” (pg. 5) Whatever his Da made for money, he used the money to buy stuff in the pub. Christy did not like his Da because his Da mistreated his Ma and insulted and physically abused Christy. When Christy left for America, he never told his Ma about his plans, because he claimed it would worry her. (pg. 7)

THEME: The theme of the story go for your dreams and more than you could have ever wished for could happen. This is because Christy had the dream to go to America and get lots of money, but he ended up getting more of that. By sending that message in a bottle, he soon found his future wife and had struck gold in the California Gold Rush.

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plus you can also just post your work after it gets graded. They won't be able to tell the difference because its not like they will repeatedly grade the same assessment

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It's good that you started writing your own paragraph, but it's important to proofread and make sure there are no errors or typos. It's also important to expand on your ideas and analyze the structure and themes of the stories in more detail. Don't rely on other students' responses, as they may not be accurate or well-written. Keep working on your own analysis and seek help from your teacher or other resources if needed. Good luck!

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Patrick lived in Emoryville, but every Saturday morning he rode two city buses to his uncle’s bookstore in Northview where he worked. He didn’t mind the commute because he loved his job. He loved spending time with his uncle, but he also loved going to work because he had become friends with Andrew, one of his co-workers. The boys would talk about everything from baseball scores to movies to favorite pizza toppings.

So this Saturday, when Patrick got to work, he and Andrew got to talking as they always did.

“Hey, Pat,” Andrew said casually.

“Hey,” said Patrick. “Did you have a good week?”

“Yeah,” he said. “Great week. My basketball team made it into the semifinals. The game is tonight. We’re playing Emoryville, our nemesis.”

Before Patrick could say another word, Andrew continued. “I don’t like Emoryville. I don’t think I could ever be friends with someone from that town. Our schools are such rivals.”

Patrick was speechless.

“Where are you from, Pat? I can’t believe I’ve never asked you that before!”

Patrick fumbled over his words. “Not too far from here,” he said before he quickly changed the subject to the new shipment of graphic novels.

Write a paragraph explaining the structure of the story and how the structure contributes to the meaning of the story.

The structure of the story is presented in a clear and concise format, with a well-defined plot that follows a linear narrative

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Little Black Bird is correct. I basically took everything he said and made it my own until the plagiarism checker I use says it is 100% unique. The paraphrasing tool part is really bad and changes some words to ones I can't even read, let alone understand. but here is a link to mine but in binary code so you just have to look up a translator. :p 01101000 01110100 01110100 01110000 01110011 00111010 00101111 00101111 01100100 01101111 01100011 01110011 00101110 01100111 01101111 01101111 01100111 01101100 01100101 00101110 01100011 01101111 01101101 00101111 01100100 01101111 01100011 01110101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 00101111 01100100 00101111 00110001 01101111 01000100 01110001 01110001 01100101 01010110 01000001 01001100 01000111 01110011 01100111 01010111 01101100 00110101 01010000 01101000 01011001 01101010 00110010 01100100 01000110 01000110 00110010 01110111 01000011 01011010 01001110 01101100 01110110 01010000 01001011 00110000 01100001 01101110 00110101 00111000 01101101 01100010 01101111 01001101 01010111 01010111 01000101 00101111 01100101 01100100 01101001 01110100

Someone please just give me theirs so i can put it in my own words im abt to fail this year and ima cry😰

here is my first paragraph. Sorry if there's any typos, I'm using voice text. "the invisible string tells of a girl named Ju-lin who was sent to deliver a message to master Yuen by his mother. This message was about her, but she was unaware of it until master Yuen made it clear that his mother had sent her to him for a reason. The story ends with him asking Ju-Lin to be his wife, and that is the real reason that his mother sent her. The story is set up in a typical format, with paragraphs, and it was written in third person limited. The prompt doesn't show the story message in a bottle, so I'll just compare the students responses to instead. This is formatted much differently as it is a conversation rather than a story. The students don't give much detail surrounding the plot to message in a bottle, but the theme of the story is a main topic of the conversation. Elly mentions that the main characters, Blackie and Christy are on a search for a new and better way of life. Supposedly their ship wrecks in a storm and they thought to be dead, but are found alive years later "

I'm sorry, but copying someone else's work is not the right way to succeed. It's important to understand the material and learn from it in order to do well. If you're struggling, try reaching out to your teacher for help or finding resources that can assist you in your studies. It's never too late to improve, so keep trying and stay motivated. Good luck!

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