Ferris Bueller Conversation

Ferris Bueller’s Day off Dialogue

Tom (U)

 

What's the matter? (U, /, U/)

 

It's Ferris Look at him (U, U/, U, /, U)

 

Ferris? (U/)

 

He doesn't have a fever, but his stomach hurts and he's seeing spots (U, U/, U, U, /U, /, U, /U, /, U, U, U/, U)

 

What's the matter, Ferris? (U, /, U/, U/)

 

Papa? (U/)

 

Feel his hands, (U, /, U)

 

They're cold and clammy (/, /, U, U/)

 

I'm fine I'll get up (U, /, U, /, U)

 

No! (/) (because of voice infliction with exclamation mark)

 

I have a test today (U, I, U, /, U/)

 

No (U)

 

I must take it I want to go to a good college, so I can have a fruitful life (U, /, U, /, U, /, U, /, U, /, U, /U, U, U, /, U, /, /U, U)

 

Honey, you're not going to school like this (U/, U, /, U/, U, U, /, U)

 

What's his problem? (U, /, /U)

 

He doesn't feel well (U, U/, U, U)

 

Rainy Night Drive

                                     Rainy Night Drive

The dark dulled over objects seen through the window
Cold dew smothering paper

Christmas Sonnet

Today is the day we’ve waited for,

Where we all get to open up the gifts

One after another, laying on the floor

We pick them up and shake and shift.

 

What could it be wrapped up inside?

Anything from socks to a ball

It cannot be seen the wrapping paper hides,

Whatever lies beneath the cardboard walls.

 

Beginning to rip and tear,

All the paper is now absent

The tape’s left as everyone stares

And the gift is now present.

 

He held up a pack of white socks,

To go along with his stocking full of rocks.

Wind Chime Sestina

It was one of those cold, dusky evenings

Where you hear nothing but the wind,

The wind that is so frequent

It makes those old wind chime objects

Rattle around nonstop every minute

And along with the wind they make a deep bass

 

This eerie sound, the deep bass

On this particular one evening

Was so spooky, even the most minute

Sound was enough to make your mind wind

And all your mind wanted to do was object

That one eerie sound that was ever so frequent

 

As he walked with a quick frequency

Smooth down the sidewalk is if a bass

In the water, swimming towards the object

A fisherman is reeling in on a summers evening

Up and down, around and across he winds

It seems as if years upon minutes

 

Continuing to walk with every passing minute

The dreaded sound becomes more and more frequent

This startles him because the wind

Has started to die down and the bass

Is still loudly playing through the evening,

Coming from that same wind chime object

 

And it continues it becomes impossible to object

Because now it gets louder every minute

And now during this pitch-black evening

The boy’s head is filled with the frequencies

Of the chimes deep and repetitive bass

Sounds that were created by the wind

 

But it is gone, no longer is there wind

But it continues, that sound from the object

The sound he has heard all night, the bass

 It keeps growing louder, anything but minute

It is all that he hears it is so frequent

And he is overcome on this cool, dusky evening

 

And then the wind stops and is so minute

Nothing is heard from the object that once frequent

Loud and deep bass is lost in the evening.

Ode to TV

You get me through

Every single day

Because I’m so bored

In every single way

 

Your neither huge

Nor are you small

26 inches is perfect

To watch a little ball

 

I lie in bed

You’re all that I require

Consuming my time

As sleep transpires

 

I am able to get lost

In that extensive screen

Breaking Bad or the Clippers

I’m able to switch between

 

You are my Panasonic

TV

A high definition

TV

A&P vs. Orientation

In both stories, A&P and Orientation, the bosses are assertive with their actions. In A&P when the girls come into the store to buy their item, the boss rejects them service and says, “We want you decently dressed when you come in here.” When Queenie replies Lengel again lays down the law and says, “Girls, I don’t want to argue with you. After this come in here with your shoulders covered. It’s our policy.” In the story orientation it is also easy to see that the boss is assertive. Throughout the text the boss is always saying don’t do this or you may be let go. An example is when the boss says, “But were not supposed to know any of this. Do not let on. If you let on, you may be let go.” This shows a typical role that a boss takes in the workplace. They have the power to enforce their policies, and make decisions on things such as kicking people out of their store or firing employees.

Also, in both of these short stories the bosses warn of consequences related to their jobs. In A&P, Sammy quits. Lengel warns of the consequences by saying, “You’ll feel this for the rest of your life.” There is also a sense of consequences in the story Orientation. If you do something wrong you will be let go. The boss says, “If it interfered with her work, she might have to be let go.” By saying this, the boss is warning the new employee of situations to avoid that could happen to him and end up with the loss of his job.

Another thing both of these stories represent is that the boss has the power, not the customers or employees. In A&P, it shows that the customers, the girls, don’t get to do what they want to do. Queenie says, “We weren’t doing any shopping. We just came in for the one thing.” Even though she argues and makes a valid point, she still doesn’t get what she wants because she doesn’t have the power to. In Orientation, The boss says, “You are allowed to join the coffee pool of your choice, but you are not allowed to touch the Mr. Coffee.” This again shows the power that the boss has over the employee. The boss could touch the Mr. Coffee if he wanted to, but he is able to tell his employees that they can’t. This elevates him, showing he has more privileges and power than his staff.

A&P Female Criticism

Throughout the short story A&P, John Updike refers to women in a stereotypical men’s point of view. The three girls that walk into the store are characterized in a demeaning way. The way that Sammy refers to the girls is judgmental and sometimes even rude. For example, the first girl he sees, the one in the green two piece, he refers to her as “chunky”. He also goes on to describe girls in this way, “You never know for sure how girl’s minds work (do you really think it’s a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glass jar?)…” (Updike 599). We also see the typical pack of girls. There is the leader, and then her two followers. The leader is confident, walks with her own sort of persona that seems to show she thinks she is better than others. Her two followers on the other hand are complete opposites and they seem almost lost, and are very submissive. This is the stereotypical group of girls that are seen all over movies. We also see female criticism in the way that males talk to females, or the way they talk about them in their heads. First off, the way Sammy described the old lady as a stereotypical mean grouchy lady that will jump on anything you do wrong and raise hell over it. The way he describes her is very judgmental. Then finally when the girls get to the cash register and Lengel comes out he talks to the young girls very disrespectfully. He handles the situation in the wrong way by saying, “girls this isn’t a beach” (Updike 602). He could have simply let them buy their one item and maybe mention the store policies instead of saying it in a sarcastic snobby way. Also he goes on to say, “We want you decently dressed when you come in here” (Updike 602). This is not the way a middle aged male manager should talk to these girls, and when Sammy sticks up for them about Lengel embarrassing them, Lengel says, “It was they who were embarrassing us” (Updike 603).

            All of these examples show the ways that John Updike incorporates female criticism into his story. It is probably unintentional the way he writes about women, and could just reflect his personal thoughts on women, and the thoughts of women during this time period.