Freytag's Triangle: Dune

The book dune follows the triangle nicely except for the "middle" part because the book is so long it is somewhat hard to pinpoint the middle.

For the Begining it would be the first book, Dune... It sets up the scene of the book it also introducses the main characters and sets up the conflict.

The middle section is harder to determine were it begins, but probally around the part were the Duke is killed and paul basically becomes leader and begins his journey. Mainly set in the 2nd and some of the 3rd book.

After the conflict is pretty much over witht the Harkoneans due to Paul's workings, the Ending begins. The conflict is finished and most loose ends are tied up in the book.

Dune

As I rap up the book "Dune," i try and think up of the themes that are portayed in the novel. The main one is the character roll that Paul plays. He first starts off as a young, nieve boy who is destined to lead. He later on become extremely wise to an unatural extent, for he can predict outcomes of the future. He then gains the trust and respect of the freemen and becomes leader and duke. It shows the main character change dramtically in the book, which is a common theme in most text.

Star Wars: TESB

For the past two days we have been watching the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. First of all I must say that Star Wars series use to be my favorite movies ever as a kid, so i have seen this film and the other ones a couple hundred times. But now that we are looking at the movie in a "text form" i have noticed things that i havent really bothered to notice before. Such as how the evil guy is obssesed in catching the good guy theme. In Star Wars, Vader is risking everything to catch Luke or his friends atleast. Such as when he endangered his ships and crew to chase the millenium falcon in the asteriod field or how he kills his higher ranking officers when they fail him. Another theme that stood out to me is the crazy hermit/wise man theme. Yoda seems to be crazy and somewhat of a goof ball but he is actually a very wise and important being.

Religion/Faith

Today we discussed Religon/Faith in class. The book Dune definately has a form of religon/faith in it. One of the obvious ones is the sister hood. Somewhat like nuns in our time, which serve for a greater cause than there own life. From what i have read so far, There are two schools or Acadameys that the sister hood works for or something of that sort. Both are revolved around Blood Lines of two men, who seem to be more important than ordinary beings. Another form of religion in dune that stands out to be is the Orange Catholic Bible that is mentioned now and then. Its a book that holds ancient myths or something, but i havent read far enough to fully understand the meaning of the Orange Catholic Bible.

The religon in the book dune helps tie dune in our present world together for me a little bit better, making the book seem closer to our real time than some made up fantasy book.

The Star

In class we discussed the short story "The Star" to a further extent. Aot of my questions were awnsered like how it seemed God destroyed a star to make a beacon to guide the kings to Bethlaham. The story seems to make a lot more sense to me. But another question is raised in my mind. Was it God that destroy the solar system to make a signal, and if so, why did he have to destroy that solar system and maybe even do the same to our sun for another planet. Or was it just a coinecidnce that the star was turned into a super nova during that time period.