Weekly Post #2

We can analyze culture by reading its literature. This is because literature most of the time reflects how the culture of their author is, their customs, principles and ways of living. Also, according to my opinion, popular literature is legitimate to study in a literature class, because, popular literature is directed to most of the people without having to know special terms or having certain education. Besides this, since popular literature is not directed to any group of people in specific, as I said before, this kind of writings contain many elements influenced by the society such as, it's dialogue types, manners of speaking,  some customs, traditions and beliefs.
In Naruto we can identify certain elements like the ones mentioned before. First of all, we can find the action of having a nosebleed when a character gets sexually excited. This is a visual euphemism for describing a sexual disturbance of a person or character instead of drawing a "boner".
We can also find different food types that reflects a little bit of japanese culture just as ramen, that is basically noodle soup but it may have beef, chicken, egg or many other complements.
This is a really limited list of examples, but it helps us give ouselves an idea of how can the literature influence different cultural aspects of the author, or country.

Activity 3 - Essay

One of the most serious problems that concerns worldwide literature is the alteration that the works suffer through a translation process, this is because most of the times the sentence's sense changes when these are translated as a consequence, this has important effects in the message's sense, even though most of the times it doesn't cause major changes in the understanding of the storyline. This fenomenom is also present in works related to different genres of art and daily human duty. It is well known that in film dubbings most of the time because of cultural and social situations, the message transmited it's not the same as if it was in its original language. It is also true, that as I said before, this doesn't causes much of an effect to the original plots but it does affect to the secondary plot and the connotation sense that some of the words have in its original language and they lose in an almost inevitable way in its dubbing or translation process. 

Weekly post #1 - First week

During the first week of having literature class I've found it quite interesting because of some aspects that I like about it.

When teacher Wilhelm told us we were going to read Naruto, I liked it because it's a manga and anime that I like especially because of all the battle and the attitude of most characters trying to surpass themselves. 

What I liked even more about it is that the teacher didn't just told us to read, like in my last English class, but instead, we discuss what we read and our different points of view. 

Personally I found the class quite interesting and definitely not boring. I also feel enthusiastic because of the excitement that causes the fact of reading new books and new storys. 

Activity 2 - Naruto

By what I've read so far I can see that Naruto is a kid that even though most of the people in the Hidden Village of the Leaf think he's nothing more but a stupid, hyperactive, trouble-maker kid. They just don't understand the what it feels like having to get home tired and realize there isn't a hot meal ready for you. 

People just tend to criticize without seeing deeper into the core. They just don't realize that if it wasn't because of Naruto and the sacrifice of the fourth hokage, the Kyūbi would have destroyed even more of the village and kill even more people or even in the worst case, he would be still free.

Anyways, I think Naruto would be acknowledged, because he works very hard to be a decent ninja, and struggles even more so that the people that often criticize him can change their point of view towards him.n

Activity 1

Reading is very important in life because of all the good consequences this makes, such as increasing your vocabulary and decreasing the amount of grammar and spelling errors. 

A disadvantage and what I don't like of reading a good book is that you may get too hooked to it  when you don't have enough time to read it.

What I like about reading is that if you find the correct book it literally teleports you to the setting the author describes.