Lexie Who

This week we read Atonement. Our first destination was the British Library. Briony, the narrator of the story came of age as a writer. If her story was real it would have been with the other Literature. Briony seeked atonement through her writing. If you haven't read, go read Atonement  to find out what crime she committed and why she must seek atonement. There's a huge plot twist... Here is an image of How I Love Thee  by Elizabeth Barret Browning found in the Literature section.  Our second destination was the Imperial War Museum. Part 2 of the novel takes place during wartime.  Here is Graham Zeitlin. He was 10 years old during WWII and had to seek shelter in the Morrison shelter like the one pictured below. Meeting him was the best part of my week by far. He told us stories of his childhood and said it was wonderful. He never missed school except for five days when it was bombed, he could make his own ice cream because he could not easily go to the store and

This week we read E.M. Forster's A Room with a View Statue of Aesculapius Roman, After a Greek Original Second Century A.D. Our first location was the Sir John Soane Museum. It was beautiful collection of architecture and art in his home. By viewing the collection you have a window into what cultures he valued and what he considered beautiful. I mainly saw works from Greece, Rome, and Egypt. Mainly Rome, Venice, and Greece were places the wealthy English men went on their Grand Tour to see beauty, history, and culture. Canaletto Venice: The Basin of San Marco on Ascension Day , about 1740 Our second location was the National Gallery. Here is a close up of a particular portion of the painting. At the bottom sitting on a boat you can see what could be tourists. You have boats on the canal, but this is a much messier depiction and not the image Lucy was imaging. Lucy Honeychurch is the main character in the novel who goes to Florence strictly as a tourist.

This week we read Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Our first destination was Christ Church, Oxford. Here is an image of the great hall which signifies the excellence that dined here. The characters, Charles and Sebastian, in the novel went here. Fun fact: Harry Potter was also filmed here. This was taken in Christ Church at a fountain in the center. Water can be interpreted many ways, but the lotuses and lily pads are peaceful and can resemblance hope and purity. The ripples show how when you toss something into this water it causes a long term effect. The actions of the characters in the novel we read made choices that lead to their ultimate rise or downfall. Our next destination was the Eltham Palace. Here I am inside the beautiful garden attempting to become one with nature. The garden was so vast, and this doesn't even begin to capture the beauty of what I saw. Here is an image of mother and child in the Italian Drawing Room. Many of the characters

Our first destination was the Foundling Museum. Here is the image of a scared Moses whom his wet nurse (his actual mother) who had raised him was returning him back to his adopted mother, the Pharaoh's daughter. This image represents the experienced faced by many orphans and why it was important for the Foundling to receive donations to take in more orphans. Who knows, maybe saving the life of one poor orphan is important, he/she will take people to the promised land.  Here are actual tokens that parents would give to identify their children if they can one day return for them. This is a piece done to show some of the cruel words the orphans heard from their teachers and parents. Jane Eyre was also told she is a liar. This painting in the Foundling Museum is showing a sick child in the Foundling Hospital being cared for. Our second destination was the Geffrye, there we were able to see the decor of a middle class home in various time periods. Here I am sitting i