If I Told Him

The poem was pretty confusing for me. I didn't understand why she wrote that for Picaso. I also don't know how it relates to him. Is it because hes repetitive and confusing? Everything in the poem was very repetitive and it was long. When we listened to it, it actually sounded better than how we did it. But I still didn't understand what went through her head because it was a portrait of Picaso. I guess it was a good poem if it did fit Picaso's personality and how he is. 

Chapter 3 of: THE ISLAND OF DR. MONREAU

In Chapter 3 of the book of The Island of Dr. Monreau the main character Edward Prendick was walking around the boat and he saw something that was very odd to him. He was startled when he saw a "black face". Prendick said "It was a singularly deformed one. The facial part projected, forming something dimly suggestive of a muzzle, and the huge half-open mouth showed as big as white teeth as I had ever seen in a human mouth. His eyes were bloodshot at the edges, with scarcely a rim of white round the hazel pupils." (9) He was explaining it like what he was seeing a beast or a creature he had never seen before.  Than as they got up to him, Montgomery had startled the man and had called him a devil then told him to get out the way. Montgomery was telling the man with the black face "...You have no business here, you know.... Your place is forward." He was talking to him like he didn't belong on the ship with everyone and that they didn't want him but the man with the black face seemed scared and had told him that they wont have him forward. (9) Than after that Prendick and Montgomery had walked to the captain of the ship because the man with the black face was being terrorized by men on the ship. The man who was terrorizing him started to laugh and Montgomery went to the Captain to defend him. The captain was in no need of help because the man was drunk. "That man's a passenger", said Montgomery. "I'd advise you keep your hands off him" "Go to hell!" said the captain loudly. He suddenly turned and staggered towards the side. "Do what I like on my own ship," he said. (12) Since the captain was so drunk him and Montgomery started to argue and almost had a fight but Prendick prevented that from happening.

350 Word Description

The artist I chose is David Alfaro Siqueriros. He is an Mexican painter from 1896-1974 and the painting I had chosen from him is called Proletarian Victim which was made in 1933. The painting is enamel on burlap and is 6 '9" x 47 1/2". The picture is a woman strapped up by rope her hands, stomach, legs and ankles. Her hands are behind her wrapped up and her head is down. You can see blood on her head and see how tight the rope is on her naked body. She seems to be a old women because of the gray hair. The colors that David used gives off this feeling of sadness and pain. Like you are watching someone getting tortured right in front of your eyes. Makes you think about how mean people can be and how twisted people are to even want to torture others. I know she was getting hit because she is bleeding from her head that is dripping down her naked body. She can't even do anything about it because she is tied up so tightly by rope. The artist used dark colors to give off a feeling of sadness or pain.

I chose this painting because of how it catches your eye and how it makes me feel. It makes me remember that life is not all fun. Life can be mean and torturous. It shows us that people do hurt others and make their life a living hell. Makes you wonder why? Why would you do that to someone? Why would you even want to hurt an older woman? She seems helpless and it breaks my heart knowing that their really are people out there that hurt others just because they want to. I think David made this painting to show us that the world that we live in is filled with others that could hurt us. That life isn't as perfect as we want it to be and that no matter how helpless you are they wont see what they are doing wrong.