Princess Ishtar of Pheliosta (
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towerofanimus2013-03-28 08:57 pm
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Time to get working!
Characters: Ishtar (AU1) and All the teachers/interested students that want to learn!
Setting: Big Library + branches out depending on what the teachers want to do with the lessons. Note that the library is only a starting point so feel free to take it beyond the library!
Format: Up to You
Summary: Ishtar sets up the program that Hei wanted to set up for a while, but he was feeling unwell, so she took over.
Warnings: TBA
[ As promised. In the library, there were signs giving off the subjects of the teachers and what they were teaching along with the name of the teachers. Ishtar tried her best to organize it so that the hug library was of good use. She spaced the areas off so that there weren't too many noises coming from one professor, and she even made sure to provide them information if they so need it.
She stretches a bit and prepared herself for what will happen next. She knew Hei was a lot better at this than she was, but she did her best. She hoped it would work out. ]
[ ooc: general mingle log for the teachers that volunteered for Hei's Teaching Program/School Program. For those who volunteered, there's a spread sheet provided here and for new teachers interested, just sign up at post here. Once you sign up go ahead and tag your subject line, or if it's not there feel free to create the subject like etc. For organizational purposes, I will link the specific threads later when they become too hard to find. Enjoy and I hope everyone has a blast. If any other questions needed, feel free to direct them to me or Final! ]
Setting: Big Library + branches out depending on what the teachers want to do with the lessons. Note that the library is only a starting point so feel free to take it beyond the library!
Format: Up to You
Summary: Ishtar sets up the program that Hei wanted to set up for a while, but he was feeling unwell, so she took over.
Warnings: TBA
[ As promised. In the library, there were signs giving off the subjects of the teachers and what they were teaching along with the name of the teachers. Ishtar tried her best to organize it so that the hug library was of good use. She spaced the areas off so that there weren't too many noises coming from one professor, and she even made sure to provide them information if they so need it.
She stretches a bit and prepared herself for what will happen next. She knew Hei was a lot better at this than she was, but she did her best. She hoped it would work out. ]
[ ooc: general mingle log for the teachers that volunteered for Hei's Teaching Program/School Program. For those who volunteered, there's a spread sheet provided here and for new teachers interested, just sign up at post here. Once you sign up go ahead and tag your subject line, or if it's not there feel free to create the subject like etc. For organizational purposes, I will link the specific threads later when they become too hard to find. Enjoy and I hope everyone has a blast. If any other questions needed, feel free to direct them to me or Final! ]
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"That's horrible! I'm sorry to hear that..book banning is a terrible thing to do..but it is good that you've been given an opportunity here to read a lot. However! Since you haven't read The Master and Margarita yet, we should probably do a quick history lesson so that you and fully appreciate the satire. What, if anything, can you tell me about Mikhail Bulgakov?"
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"I'm afraid nothing. Even if the history of our worlds were the same the study of history was also mostly banned in my city, we only learned about the formation of the city and only the version they wished us to learn. With there being no history books here... it's one subject I know nothing of at all."
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"I see..I'm sorry to hear that then. It's never a good thing when information is restricted and regulated like that. I'll tell you all I know about Mikhail Bulgakov's life at the point where he started writing The Master and Margarita, as it's important to know. It will help you understand one of the main characters.
First, Bukgakov's writing career started at about 1919, and he shortly moved to Moscow after publishing his first almanac. While he still wrote a few after that, his main body of work included plays and novels, such as The Fatal Eggs and The Turban Brothers. While the public loved his work, the critics hated it, as he used a lot of satire in his works that criticized the government and it's policies. The only reason he was able to keep writing was because Stalin, the government's leader, actually liked him and kept finding work for him. You do see the irony here, don't you?"
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"The critics did rip into him quite frequently, and getting a lot of money for his work was difficult at the best of times. It got so bad that Bulgakov, in his despair, burned his first draft of The Master and Margarita when it wasn't accepted. He had to rewrite the whole thing from memory later on."
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"He did. While he died while rewriting the novel for the fourth time, he got it all down on paper, and it was eventually published. While it was heavily censored when it first came out, eventually, it was republished and restored."
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"Lidiya Yanovskaya published the final canonical version of the novel in 1989. And don't worry. No one got in trouble. The critics that had held Bulgakov back had moved on or died, and his final work is now considered one of the best novels in Russia."
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"It is a little sad..but that's not quite true. Bulgakov got married two times, and his second wife was with him when he burned his manuscript. She loved the story and encouraged him to re-write it and ignore the critics. The Margarita in the story is based on her a little."
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"Well, now that you know the backstory to The Master and Margarita, your homework is to read chapters one through three and explain why Bulgakov chose to talk about religion and whether it helps or hurts his satire. For now though, you just have to write a two-page original story all on your own. If you don't have paper or pens, I'll give you some time to get them."
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He had heard such a question before, Explain the use of satire and irony in Jane Austin's Pride a Prejudice right before a knife had been plunged into Rat... Because Shion didn't know. He didn't know the answers, it wasn't like maths... or ecology.
He tried to control his breathing but Tohko was still talking, something about him writing... a story. He couldn't do that either...
He was physically trembling by now, and he had to get away, he couldn't do any of that, he would fail, he always failed.
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"Shion? What's wrong? Are you alright? You don't have to do the assignment if it bring up bad memories, alright? Just read the chapters, write the story and we'll discuss it next time."
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"I... I can't... I've never written..." How would he write a story? Him? The task wasn't one that made him panic like the question had, but the fact remained he didn't even know how to start.
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"Shion..all writers, before they became writers, had never written a single word on the page. They had to start somewhere, whether it was for good or ill. It doesn't have to be a good story..just..try and write."
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