Legends are stories that have been handed down from generation to generation and usually include information about the past. Why do you think legends are important to a culture?
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The purpose of this blog is to share opinions about the Anglo-Saxon literature.
I will post some comments and questions about the topics discussed in class and you have to participate expressing your own points of view. You need to check the blog constantly 'cause depending on your classmates' opinions or ideas, you will answer. It means that you must participate more than once for each comment I post. Make the blog a dynamic window where we can share links, ideas and opinions that can help us learn more about the British and American Literature.
I will post some comments and questions about the topics discussed in class and you have to participate expressing your own points of view. You need to check the blog constantly 'cause depending on your classmates' opinions or ideas, you will answer. It means that you must participate more than once for each comment I post. Make the blog a dynamic window where we can share links, ideas and opinions that can help us learn more about the British and American Literature.
I consider that the legends are important because they not only enrich us culturally also allows us to leave our everyday life and the stress that we have every day. With the help of these stories tend to be mostly imaginary, shows a different way that we seeing things. :) lucy
ResponderEliminarOk Lucy! Can you tell us about a legend you know from the Anglo-Saxon culture?
ResponderEliminarHello Teacher!!...I think the legends are important because they identify the true beliefs, cultural heritage and idiosyncrasy of a people. Every legend enriches a given culture and that they are responses of the origin of a people who do not always obey reason, they are directed to the faith and credulity of man in a given context.
ResponderEliminarThe legend is important because it promotes the traditions of a people and it promotes a culture traditions.
ResponderEliminarThe legend is part of culture because it is the people who created as a historical fact repeated from generation to generation. It is rooted in the customs of a country and its identity. Claret
well teacher I know one, that is very popular not only in Anglo-Saxon culture :\ is Robin Hood who go for the forests with her partners and steals money to rich people and then give to poor people :)
ResponderEliminarI think the legends are important to the culture, because joining the society through the beliefs, they represent the past generations and over time the legends may be exaggerated by the new generations to give them a little bit of credulity to them. In all countries of the world there are legends for example, Venezuela's La Sayona, which can also be a myth. Florentino el que cantó con el Diablo, María Lionza.
ResponderEliminarThe legends are very important because they define the very essence of the people.
Legends in Literature, legends in music, in movies and even in real life are very important in a society of an especific country. Romeo and Juliet is considered a legend in Anglo-Saxon Literature for almost every people in the world. But just like many legends that we know from novels and movies, in real life there are many legends which have been surrounded from generations to generations. In my birth town Venezuela, for example, Doña Barbara, the hard short-tempered woman who killed men since she was raped and abused, people used to call her “Men devourer”. However in the United States, there are legends that people remember always, for example the Werewolf”, people in U.S.A. remember a man who became a wolf. Anyway, all those legends that will remain in the memories of people.
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I think legends are important because they form part of people's culture, and help us to know more about people and their customs, besides many legends even when they are based in imaginary facts more tradicionals than historics, pretend to explain the origin of the some town or comunity, and to everybody like to hear some good legend because they are entertaiment and weak up the interesting of people.NORMEDYS...actitud actitud
ResponderEliminarI think are very important because they help identify the legends of different cultures and beliefs of each Town, City or Country. And so do differences between each other.
ResponderEliminarNice comments! It is interesting to know that
ResponderEliminar"The Sleepy Hollow Legend" was made popular by Washington Irving. However, the legend is based on a German folk tale written by Karl Musaus (1735 - 1787). Nowadays, Tim Burton has taken such legend and put it on the screen. Are all the versions similar or different?
each legend is interesting, and we know some of them, or at least have heard about them, this is part of our cultura, it is generally assumed that every legend comes from generation to generation, in Venezuela exist a lot of legends like "la llorona" “el silbon" and an others, I don't know if they are true, but they are very interesting, I like to read all these legends.
ResponderEliminarin my personal opinion, i think.... hahaha im joking.
ResponderEliminarAccording to my classmate`s answers I can say that legends are extremely important because this kind of stories make us imagine an old world of even a mistic world with fairies, elves, dragons, magic, and so on. But its good to quote that: LEgends also transfer antique words, believes, and relate the way people used to live and deal with the diary routin. one of my favorites legend is "MERLIN" I dont know if you guys have ever read/hear about it. It`s a tale full with magic and mistisism and at the end of all, it show us a moral: and it is that when someone stops believing in you, you would disapear. ( that`s what happened with the old queen Mab, the bad woman of the tale xD) any suggestion about this? or any kind of commenT? let me know it at: dhiegocampos@gmail.com =D
of course. isnt the only moral. there are anothers =D
ResponderEliminarThe legends are important because the main reason to pass from generation to generation is keeping alive the culture and tradition of the population. This allows us to relive and practice our own history.
ResponderEliminarAlso legends shows the origen of our race and the traditions of different regions that conform our country.
ResponderEliminarAbout Are all the versions similar or different? In the case of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow I used to assumes that the film will be like the book but it is a big mistake because both versions are different:/ Lucy
ResponderEliminarMoreover of the legend also exists the myth both are important because they give us a cultural identity. for example, poseidón (Greek mythology), la bola de fuego, el hachador are mythology own of Venezuela specificaly state falcón.
ResponderEliminarThe legends are important because It is part of the culture, the legends explains and maintains a particular culture, legends are events that have not been tested, or creatures that we don´t known if It really exist, but It is passed from generation to generation. For example the sirens. Is important because It make a great contribution to our beliefs and the intellectual knowledge of our people. Thanks to the legends we can know customs, ideals and the form of life a society through time.
ResponderEliminarI consider that the most important in the culture is diversity. In our country Venezuela, there are a variety of legends such as the Repano Guaraira: says the story that the city of Caracas is nestled in a beautiful valley. The Avila is the name known to the mountains that bordering the north of the metropolis. In pre-Columbian times was called Guaraira Repano, which means something like "the wave that came from afar" or "the sea made land." According to the myths of indigenous Venezuelans, in ancient times there was no mountain. Everything was flat, you could see into the sea. But one day the tribes offended the great Goddess of the sea, and she wanted to end all the people. Then there arose a great wave, the highest she had seen and all the people knelt and begged for mercy with all their heart to the Goddess and just when the tide was going to descend upon them, became the great mountain that now exists. The goddess had taken pity and had forgiven the tribe.
In conclusión the legends are important in the culture, as it is part f our culture. The legends can identify a town, region or place, the legends are part of our locals traditions and therefore we have to keep it.
Osmelys Pachano
the legend are very important, because it give us many literary resources that provide interest in the story who is reading and that legend puts the reader on a time and determinate space
ResponderEliminarIn relation to the movie and the written novel, which is the biggest difference and similarity between them according to you?
ResponderEliminarThere are some differences, because in movies, the story change in the trama, because is hard, but I think a half hour film can not express in the same way that in the book, of course, a book is more personal because it depends the degree to which the reader is immersed in it, the impression and opinion about what you read. But the plot of the film is tough and reailidad the end is more accomplished in the film in the book, it is more dramatic in fact see that the end to read it.
ResponderEliminarbut the story and the intention are the same.
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ResponderEliminarwell let me see... there are some things in the movie were not changed from the text. For example In both,when Ichabod first walks through the woods, he hears strange noises around the trees which really scare him.
ResponderEliminarA difference is that in the book you have to created your mind an end itself, in the movie all happy ending. T-T Lucy
I agree with lucy because all the time there are some thing that not change from the text, but all the time in the movies the end is no the same to the boock, but the drama of the story is the same in both.
ResponderEliminarwhen you read you have to be more created while when you see the movie you only imagine what in the next fragment or at the end.
when you read you have to be more created, while when you see the movie you only imagine what happen in the next fragmen or at the end
ResponderEliminarfor this reason is important that the reader stablish a comparison between the movie and the book, and so soon to know what the differences between one and the other
ResponderEliminarI think the use of dialect in the film is different from that we read. Moreover, the drama feels seeing is the same that you feel when you read, obviously has to go in the plot to feel different emotions.
ResponderEliminarI think the big difference between the novel and the movie is the type of receiver to whom it is addressed to the legend, because it is not the same to be a passionate reader understand the novel for several days and a viewer can enjoy it in an hour or two hours maximum. Therefore there must be an adaptation of the plot and the movies usually have happy endings to be more commercial. On the other hand, there is similarity between the characters in the novel and film, as well as the existence of a fantastic character as a central fact of the legend.
ResponderEliminarwell. the legends are a way to pass infomartion about believes and history. as my partners said. would you imagine our lives without the legend of "El Silbon, El coco, La llorona, Las 5 aguilas blancas, animas d guasare" and so on. i dont know about you. but for me would be sad. because this kind of legends make us rich in culture, and put that little something to make our country/city/state diferent from others :)
ResponderEliminarmy favorite anglo-saxon legend? hmmmm it could be that about the wizards and witchcraft in england. also i know that Harry Potter isnt a legend. but what if what J.K Rowlling is true? what if the Diagon Alley exist? and so the diferent kind of mounsters and faries exist? couldn`t it be awsome? =)
ResponderEliminarand according the comment about th diference i think that the most notable diference is about Ichabod Crane. i dont have anything against my Dear Johnny but. FOR GOD`S SAKE in th movie ichabod was a lazy and kind of stupid man, in the book Ichabod was soo WOOW.... Brave, FearLess, maybe handsome =D.... dont u think ? :)
ResponderEliminarduuude. too many comments since mi last post T_T. its kinda boring reading `em all =D....
ResponderEliminari have been talking to my german friends and one of them told me about one especific german legend. the legend of Siegfried. it is about a knight who fought a dragon and killed it and showered in it's blood... he has been invulnerable since then except for a spot on his shoulder where a leaf fell when he showered in the Dragon's blood, =D kinda interesting because i like those stories with dragons *-*
well about the diferences between the book and the movie..... ichabod`s likes. i mean you know that he LOVES eating(in the book)but in the movies he didnt seem a hungry guy ^^,
ResponderEliminarAnother diference is that at the end:
in the book we SUPPOSED that ichabod crane is dead.
int he movie at the end ichabod and Katrina lives happily everafter
and now the similaryties:
the main characters (Duuuh)
the love that ichabod feels for Katrina
the love triangle between Brom, Katrina and Ichabod....
I think that one of the major differences that exist is the time, because a movie can develop in a short time; one, two or three hours, while a novel can last from months to years. I think that novels have a plot more complicated and intense and it is richer in detail. And the greatest similarity is that both tell a fact to reach the attention of viewer or reader.
ResponderEliminarI like both literature and film, I think they are two different forms of narrative and both completely full of resources. The cinema has been associated with literature almost since its inception. Given the public's taste for documentaries, literature is used to solve the problem of arguments and raise the film to an art form. From then until today, among all the arts are produced deep mutual influences and techniques, to which a large number of literary works of all types are adapted to the cinema with mixed results that cause sometimes little controversy.
ResponderEliminarThe problem of literary adaptations to the movies is that they are two different languages to tell the same story.
I think that the Literary works and films are called to be supplemented. Being different forms of artistic expression, comparisons arising between them, their similarities and their differences, will cause the reader-viewer is to offer new and greater possibilities of meaning and suggestion.
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each one of them is different, the biggest difference I think is the end, beacuse in the movie the end is happy, but in the writen legend it is a little strange or sad I do not how to say it, beacuse Ichabod Crane disappeared.the way in how happen the facts are really different, the movie is really exciting beacuse you can watch when the headless horseman is cutting heads, but in the writen legend you can not, it is boring. jeje
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ResponderEliminarFor me the legends are not important are just legends. In some towns and cities say they have seen things but they are only myths, but in every culture there are these legends that unfold from generation to generation ...
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ResponderEliminarin my town there are several legends that are true but in my opinion, I do not believe in legends, Legends are important for many people but not for me ... These legends have been used for many writers and movies movie makers. they have filled uswith those stories when we read or see them .. the difference between a book and a movie on the boo: the author reflected in more detail whath her wanted to express , while in the movie: there is just only a short time and we appreciate the most importants facts of these stories and legends ...
ResponderEliminarin the movie, the german mercenary his head was cut by his own sword, while in the novel the german mercenary his head was torn off by a cannonball. another difference Ichabod Crane was a detective in changed in the novel was a shool-teacher.
ResponderEliminarsimilaryties:
the german mercenary fighting in a battle during a war.
the love that Ichabod has with katrina.
* in the movie, the horse of the horseman headless is called recklees. while Abraham van Brunt (Brom bones) had several horses, but his favorite was a horse called recklees.
ResponderEliminar* the headless horseman came out inside of a dry tree of the forest. while the ghost came out of the churchyard rode to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head,and get back to the churchyard before daybreak.
* the end of the story the movie Ichabod Crane and katrina stayed together and they left the village for the city. while in the novel Ichabod Crane disappears. we don´t know if he is married maybe he went to live in another city or he went mad.
* in the movie the body of german mercenary was buried in the forest where they cut his head. in changed in the novel, the body of the trooper was buried in the churchyard.
similaryties
* the love that feel Abraham Van Brunt toward katrina.
* Baltus Van Tassel was a rich farmer.
Nice comments! I'm so happy to see that most of you participated!Remember you can listen to the audiobook of the novel on the web! Just click on the link I put on the left!
ResponderEliminarVery interesting comments and really good participation! There are two very interesting topics to talk about; the legends and the differencs between the book and movie of this story. So well, let me ask you something that called my attention when I was reading your comments, Does the legend of sleepy hollow is German or Holland? because I read in some on-line magazines it is holland.
ResponderEliminarNow to continue with the topics discussed, the legends are part of the idiosyncrasy of a publación, its importance lies in the conservation of their costumbes and traditions, which not only refer to clothing or food, but the ideas in common, beliefs in particular, plays a key role. In this sense, the legends make up the way they kept the beliefs of a particular region.
The differences between the movie and the written story were very well detailed by my friend Carmen. The most important differenc for me as my friend sayd:
* the end of the story the movie Ichabod Crane and katrina stayed together and they left the village for the city. while in the novel Ichabod Crane disappears. we don´t know if he is married maybe he went to live in another city or he went mad. * Carmen
And of course the type of language managed in both are very difference because each one was created in diferents situation and for diferent public.
The legend is a story that has happened over time and lasts through its effects, giving rise to religious beliefs and inherited knowledge, which also often associated fantasy with reality and is transmitted orally.
ResponderEliminarLegend can be classified into: etiological, religious, cultural or historical, and supernatural or mythical.
about the end of the story of Sleepy Hollow should be taken into account that the stories told through the audio-visual movies are so many details such as: gestures, clothing, environment, feelings, and many others are perceived through the senses, whereas in the books the writer develops the sense and the imagination that the reader can get through words, giving the freedom to imagine what could be the end of the story.
ResponderEliminarRemember you're taking a final test about the interesting legend of Sleepy Hollow next Friday! I hope you've already started reading "Desperation". You´ll take ideas from both novels and create your own! REMEMBER THE FINAL PROJECT!! THE MOVIE!!!! Time is short! So Hurry Up!!
ResponderEliminarNext Friday we`ll watch a movie: "Desperation" by Stephen King. Remember to take popcorns, cookies, coke, etc etc etc! And a huge fabric to cover the window! :-)
ResponderEliminari can lend you one of my t-shirts to cover the window =)
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