Nynorske Novelleøvinger

«OPPGAVE A: Skriv et blogginnlegg der du forstørrer ett av følgende to øyeblikk:

Øyeblikk 1: Du sitter på bussen på veg heim fra skolen en ettermiddag. Du er trøtt etter en slitsom dag på skolen, og du ønsker at det skal være stille rundt deg. Men så kommer to eldre damer på, og setter seg på setene rett bak deg. De er av den meget pratsomme sorten.»

Eg lente hovudet mot vindauget og hadde nesten duppa av da to eldre damer i midten av femtiåra kom på bussen, og som dei skravla! Kjeften gikk opp og att i eitt på ho eine, mens ho andre berre lo og lo, og eg kjende eg blei sliten berre av å høyre på. No sat dei seg ned på seta rett bak der eg sat, og fortsette å snakke og skravle i kjeften på kvarandre og viss ein lukka auga og prøvde å sove var det nesten som to kråker kraka og gneldra. Eg prøvde å lukke ørane mine men skravlinga nådde framleis inn, ei susande gneldring i bakhovudet mitt, og etter kvart innsåg eg at eg berre kunne gløyme å sove på bussturen her så eg sat meg opp for å høyre på musikk i staden, skrudde på fullt volum og endeleg klarte eg å stenge alt gnelderet ute.

«OPPGAVE B: Skriv et blogginnlegg der du ”viser” en av følgende tre ”fortellinger”:

a) Mikal er svært interessert i musikk.

b) Jeg sitter ute på en holme. Det blåser kraftig, og jeg er svært redd.

c) Pizzaen smakte godt.»

Bølgjene trefte skjæra under meg med slik kraft at eg nesten var redd heile holmen skulle rase ut i havet. Vinden og havsprøyten slå meg hardt i andletet, og blåste gjennom alt eg hadde på av tøy heilt til eg var iskald inn til beinet. Eg hadde prøvd å beskytte meg frå vinden med å leggje meg ned bak ein stein og leggje den tynne vindjakka over hovudet, men det hjelpte lite. Med jamne mellomrom reiste eg meg nok til at eg kunne sjå over steinen, og der låg den vesle jolla mi og dyppa uti vatnet, så lita og forsvarslaus, for ho var berre laga av tre og det var bare eit spørsmål om tid før ho blei knust til ved av dei svære bølgjene som heile tida slo mot skjæra. Eg angra som ein hund på at eg hadde dratt ut i båten utan å sjekke vêrmeldinga, men det var lite eg kunne gjere no, og det var ikkje snakk om å gå ned til båten igjen, det var vel betre å berre liggje her og enten håpe på å bli funnet eller håpe på at uveret ga seg.

«OPPGAVE D: Husker du Hemingways seksordsnovelle ”For sale: Baby shoes, never worn”? Skriv to ulike åpninger på historien om dette: én hvor du bruker en presenterende start, og én hvor du bruker ”in medias res”.»

 «Dei hadde lengje gleda seg til barnet deira skulle komme og no, berre to veker til termin, var alt klart til at ein liten baby skulle flytte inn i den vesle leilegheita. På badet sto eit stellebord, dei hadde skapet fullt av babytøy og bleier, og på soverommet sto ei bitte lita voggeseng med gult og kvitt sengetøy og eit par små, lyserosa babysko ved sengekanten.»

«Plutseleg skreik ho ut i smerte, og krøka seg saman til ein ball der ho satt i ein av stolane på kjøkkenet. Da mannen hennar kom inn og fant henne rann det tårar nedover kinna hennar, og ho satt krøka og heldt ei hand hardt rundt den store kulen på magen, og den handa heldt ho under skjørtet og når ho tok den opp var ho full av blod.»

Tasks to the article "Last Words"

·         Which of these last words made most of an impression on you? Why? What do you think this person was feeling at that moment?

·         “I deserve this.” The person sentenced to death admits and regrets what he did, he is sorry and he acknowledges that he deserves to die to. He regrets what he did so much that he actually wants to take the death penalty, and In some way make up for what he did.

·         Death penalty – pros and cons. Make a list. Are you for or against the death penalty, personally? Explain.

·         Pros:

-         “An eye for an eye”: The murderer is killed to make up for what he did, so maybe the family feel like the murder has been justified in some sort of way.

-         The government don’t have to use any resources to keep the sentenced people in prison for a lifetime.

-         Some people might actually think it’s better to die than to take a life sentence.

·         Cons:

-         It creates more victims, because the families of the death sentenced also lose a family member, it’s unnecessary to hurt more people than those who are already hurt.

-         It’s too easy to kill innocent persons, and a lot of juries are prejudiced, especially against black people. If they find out that people are innocent after they are killed, it’s too late to change their sentence.

-         Some people claim that it actually cost more to give a death sentence than a life sentence, because of all the extra rounds in the court that often follows a death sentence.

·         Read this article: http://ndla.no/nb/node/55468. Answer the questions at the bottom of the page.

1. What is another word (synonym) used in the text for the death penalty? Capital punishment
2. How many states in the US have a law permitting the death penalty and what percentage of the total number of US states does this represent? 35 states allow the death penalty, half of them practice it.
3. Which method is used as the primary form of execution? Lethal injection.
4. What are some of the arguments mentioned that support capital punishment? They don’t have to use resources to keep them in jail for years, and the families of the victims get their justice.
5. What are the arguments expressing opposition? There are a lot of prejudiced courts, especially prejudice of black people, and innocent people might get killed. It also cost more to give someone a death sentence than a life sentence.
6. Why are many of the prisoners on death row black? Because there are a lot more prejudice against black people, for many people it’s easier to believe that a black man is a murderer than a white man. 

What I love about dancing

To be honest, I don’t really care much about sports. Of course I always support Norway in big sport arrangements such as OL, or the World Championship. And of course I am just as proud as the rest of Norway when Petter Northug flies ahead of his competitors, but other than that, I do not really care much about sports at all. I played football for 6 months in 7^th grade, but I don’t really understand why because I spent every match either on the bench, or out on the field trying NOT to hide from the ball as much as possible. It’s not like I hate sports either, I just never got really good at it or interested in any kind of sports at all, except from running and working out in a studio I guess.

But even though I’m not a sports person, I have always loved dancing, and I would characterize that as a sport as well. I have been taking balletlessons since I was 4 years old, until very recently when I injuried my knee and I had to quite. I still love ballet though, and hope that maybe one day, if I get an operation, maybe I can come back and start dancing again.

Even though it doesn’t involve running after a ball for hours, you still have to be incredibly strong and skilled to perform it, and to become a professional takes years of hard practice, and a lot of sweat and tears. I love ballet so much, first of all because of the great feeling it is to dance, and because of how beautiful it is to watch people perform it. I also like that it’s not about the competition, it’s not about being the best or winning the championship; It’s about performing something beautiful and artistical, about creating something unique and special and to perform it and make it mean something to the people who are watching. 

The curious incident of the dog in the night time

"What things does Christopher hate and why?"
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Christopher dislikes a lot of things, such as being touched, having different foods touching each other at the plate, lies, and when things do not go exactly as planned.

The one thing he hates that is repeated most in the book however, is the color yellow. He believes if he counts four yellow cars in a row on his way to school, it’s a black day, and that means that it Is a really bad day and he can’t do anything or take any chances. This is not rational thinking, but in Christopher head it makes sense because he needs certain specific rules in his life to keep him calm.

Here’s a paragraph from chapter 131 p 105, where Christopher explains some of the reasons for why he hate yellow so much.

“4. Yellow Fever (which is a disease from tropical America and West Africa which causes a high fever, acute nephritis, jaundice and haemorrhages, and it is caused by a virus transmittedby the bite of a mosquito called Aëdes aegypti which used to be called Stegomyia fasciata; and nephritis is inflammationof the kidneys)

5. Yellow flowers (because I get hay fever from flower pollen, which is one of the three sorts of hay fever, and the others are from grass pollen and fungus pollen, and it makes me feel ill)

6. Sweetcorn (because it comes out in your poo and you don’t digest it so you are not really meant to eat it, like grass or leaves)”

Christopher always look for the logic in things, and he needs things to be in a certain order so that he feels in control of what is going on, and he knows what is going to happen. The background for most of the things that he hates, which are listed above, is that they are disturbing the perfect order in all things around him that he needs to keep him calm. Things has to be planned, he needs to know what is going to happen.

 I think his urge to understand things and know how things work is somehow his brains way to compensate for the lack of social skills, ability to feel empathy and read peoples feelings and facial expressions, apart from being one of symptoms of his autism. 

Bildeanalyse --> "Fengslet kjærlighet"

Bildet vi har tatt er av to hender som former et hjerte bak to jernstenger. Bakgrunnen er murveggen.

Temaet i bildet er fengslet kjærlighet, fordi hjertet symboliserer kjærlighet og de vertikale jernstengene symboliserer et fengsel. Bildet symboliserer også skjult kjærlighet, siden i noen land er det blant annet forbudt å vise kjærlighet mellom to menn. Da må de holde kjærligheten skjult og da blir den fengslet.  

Hjertetformen er ganske like sirkelformen, som fremstår som samlende i bildet.

De vertikale linjene symboliserer uro, spenning og usikkerhet, dette er med på å skape kontraster i bilde.

Vi brukte normalperspektiv for å få motivet til å framstå som det er. Normalperspektiv gir en nøytral synsvinkel for mottakeren av bilde. 

Dette er et stilleben bilde, fordi det er et oppstilt og abstrakt bilde.

Bildet er av et objekt og bakgrunnen/omgivelsene, men fokuset i bilde ligger på objektet.  

Tasks to the article «Looting ‘fuelled by social exclusion’»

• What is the difference between looting and rioting?

-          The definition of looting(plyndring) is taking or stealing things, but it’s not the same as stealing, it’s more like stealing things during war or after a natural catastrophe.

-          Rioting(opptøyer/opprør) is defined as a big disturbance of public peace.

-          More people participated in the lootings than in the riots, because it was somehow easier to take goods that were inside broken stores than breaking the stores yourself.

• Define the underlined (blue) words and phrases. Also note down other words you find difficult, and find out what they mean.

-          Social exclusion: Means that people are blocked from some opportunities that the rest of society have acces to, and that are essential in some social context

-          Disregard social terms: Do to something that is not expected from you, and is not socially accepted to just do.

-          High-unemployment: Big percent of people able to work do not have a job(10%?)

-          Criminologist: A researcher of crime, some kind of professor of crime.

-          Opportunism: The practice of taking selfish advantage of the circumstances, ex; looting demolished shops because the police can’t stop you.

-          Lack of intervention: To not have enough resources to do something about the situation, not being able to intervene.

-          Consumerism: The use and dispose society.

-          Catalyst of unrest: A person or thing that precipitates an event or change.

• Could this happen in Trondheim? In Oslo? Why/why not?

-          I don’t think this would happen in Trondheim beacause this happenings are results of cultural and social conditions and class distinction in Great Britain. The differences between people in UK are much larger than in Norway, and I think the unemployed rates are much higher in Britain.

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• What can this say about the social conditions in England? How may this be connected to the traditional class system?

-          The reasons to why this could happen is because some parts of the class system feel undermined by the rest, and there’s also some understanding that the upperclass and the stores they broke had more money than themselves and they were able to afford it, some way of justifying the riots and the looting. It was a big demonstration and anger and frustration, and a demonstration against the British government. They wanted the attention in their case and they wanted the government to hear them saying “something has to change”.

Barbados #2

The Rihanna concert was wild! I loved everything, the show, the music the dancing and last but not least the woman is fantastic. Very cool to see her perfom in her own homecountry, and it was very clear that it was special for her too. The audience waas great as well, and the atmosphere was great and the mood on top all the way through the concert. It was great!

Anyways, I think it's been a bit too long since the last time I updated you so here comes a little summary of the last days. We put of one whole day to hiking and we joined a touristgroup that took us for a walk through the very famous limestone caves. The limestone caves were overwhelming to walk in to, I have never seen anything like it. The tour guide showed us around, and then we got to walk around on our own for a little while and take pictures. Here are one of my own pictures and one i found just to illustrate what such a cave can look like from the outside:

We also went on a touristguided tour to the Barbados museum yesterday, to learn a bit of both culture and language. Did you for example know that Barbados has it's own englishinfluished language? Because of the parents trying to teach their children a new language, some of the loqals at Barbados speak english with some kind of West-African accent. The language is called bajan, but really it's just  another form for twisted/different english. We also learnt that the Barbadosflag is is blue, yellow and black, which stands for the sands, the oceans surrounding the island and the trident is from the colonial badge. It's starting to get late in Barbados now, so we'll take the history part i've learned later. Bye!

-Raggie