I really don’t know about Emily Dickinson, I have heard about her. This is the first time I had read one of her poems and I feel kind of connected to her and her poems. Like the one where she talks about her grandfather. I liked all her poems because it feels as though you go through the experience with her as she talks about her past. I kind of didn’t like the poem about morning because I fully didn’t understand what she was implying, or trying to tell the reader. What I did like about the poem is that she made nature have some human characteristics to it.
The poem that I did really like is you are my light. This relates to my life because when you find that one special person that you trust to help you along the way, things just seem so much better and easier to do, because you’re not alone. My personal definition of poetry is something from the heart. It’s when you put your soul into what you do. An experience that you went through, or that someone else went through and you want to let people know.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
# 5 Friendship
The video is about how the man and the woman used to got together, and were very much in love with one another. As time had prgressed they grew apart. So when they see each other later in life, all their old feelings start to suface. They feel like, how can we be so formal when we were once in love? So they put it as if they can't be together again, then they don't even want to be friends. Because they can't bear the feeling of being friends if they love each other so.
I like this song because it shows you what a real loving friendship is. Also it shows how great a bond people have between one another because of what loves does to people who really feel it for the other person.
This video kinda connects to my life because i can understand where they're coming from. I don't want to be friends with someone I was madly in love with. The heart can only take so much. Just the thought of someone you loved used to say "I love you", then all of a sudden they start saying "What up buddy!"it hurts.
I like this song because it shows you what a real loving friendship is. Also it shows how great a bond people have between one another because of what loves does to people who really feel it for the other person.
This video kinda connects to my life because i can understand where they're coming from. I don't want to be friends with someone I was madly in love with. The heart can only take so much. Just the thought of someone you loved used to say "I love you", then all of a sudden they start saying "What up buddy!"it hurts.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Moral Dilemmas in Huck Finn
In The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, Huck faces a number of moral dilemmas which reveals much about the characters. A moral dilemma is a situation where there is no clear thing to do. It also says when you have a problem that doesn’t have a right or wrong answer. To me moral dilemmas are good and bad at the same time. Either way you go you can still be screwed. So you might as well go for it.
The dilemma in that story that stuck out most to me was when Huck lies about Jim’s whereabouts. This to me was really a dilemma because even if Huck did rat out on Jim or even if he didn’t rat out on him, he would still feel bad because either way he’s letting someone down. The relevance of this to Huck’s character is that he’s a good person but because I of the situation he was in he thought that he might as well tell the men he hasn’t seen Jim. If he had told them about Jim, he would still feel bad because he lost a friend. “He’s white ….Because its Pap in there and maybe you’d help me to tow the raft a shore where the light is. He’s sick—and so are Mam and Mary Ann.” (ch14, par.2, pg.68).
I favor in what Huck did because even though he knew it was wrong to lie to those two men, he still got something out of it for his troubles. If he had rated Jim out he would not have gotten the 40 dollars from those guys. After Huck thought about it he must’ve thought it wasn’t too bad to lie if he got some money. He could’ve told them that Jim was in the boat, and not Pap but being a good person took over him. So he did what he had to do in order to protect Jim even though he didn’t want to. “ Here—I’ll put a twenty dollar piece on this board, and you get it when it floats by…. Here’s a twenty to put on the board for me…” (ch14, par 1, pg.69).
My support for Huck is that he did do the right thing. So let’s say this. Huck tells them that Jim is in the boat. They think that he’s on of those five slaves that ran away. They end up killing Jim, and Huck would be punished for lying, and people would probably find out he’s not dead if someone recognizes him. So if he ended up going that way the situation will be worst that the little white lie Huck had told. I guess you can say that lie was nothing compared to what could’ve happened. “ They went off, and got aboard the raft, felling bad and low, because I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn’t no use for me to try and learn and do the right thing…” (ch14, par2, pg. 69)
All in all I think this moral dilemma really explains a definition. There really isn’t a right or wrong answer. It’s like an either way it goes your going to get it, but you never know you could get something out of it. I think that if your in a situation like this you should think out the possible outcome of the decision that you make and see which one is the best or the worst. Also see what you’ll get out of it.
The dilemma in that story that stuck out most to me was when Huck lies about Jim’s whereabouts. This to me was really a dilemma because even if Huck did rat out on Jim or even if he didn’t rat out on him, he would still feel bad because either way he’s letting someone down. The relevance of this to Huck’s character is that he’s a good person but because I of the situation he was in he thought that he might as well tell the men he hasn’t seen Jim. If he had told them about Jim, he would still feel bad because he lost a friend. “He’s white ….Because its Pap in there and maybe you’d help me to tow the raft a shore where the light is. He’s sick—and so are Mam and Mary Ann.” (ch14, par.2, pg.68).
I favor in what Huck did because even though he knew it was wrong to lie to those two men, he still got something out of it for his troubles. If he had rated Jim out he would not have gotten the 40 dollars from those guys. After Huck thought about it he must’ve thought it wasn’t too bad to lie if he got some money. He could’ve told them that Jim was in the boat, and not Pap but being a good person took over him. So he did what he had to do in order to protect Jim even though he didn’t want to. “ Here—I’ll put a twenty dollar piece on this board, and you get it when it floats by…. Here’s a twenty to put on the board for me…” (ch14, par 1, pg.69).
My support for Huck is that he did do the right thing. So let’s say this. Huck tells them that Jim is in the boat. They think that he’s on of those five slaves that ran away. They end up killing Jim, and Huck would be punished for lying, and people would probably find out he’s not dead if someone recognizes him. So if he ended up going that way the situation will be worst that the little white lie Huck had told. I guess you can say that lie was nothing compared to what could’ve happened. “ They went off, and got aboard the raft, felling bad and low, because I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn’t no use for me to try and learn and do the right thing…” (ch14, par2, pg. 69)
All in all I think this moral dilemma really explains a definition. There really isn’t a right or wrong answer. It’s like an either way it goes your going to get it, but you never know you could get something out of it. I think that if your in a situation like this you should think out the possible outcome of the decision that you make and see which one is the best or the worst. Also see what you’ll get out of it.
Huck Finn Reader Response #3 (ch.14-18)
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What impresses Huck about the Granderford’s house is that he thinks it’s unusual for people in the country to have a nice house. “it was a mighty nice family, and a mighty nice house, too. I hadn’t seen no house out in the country before that was so nice and had so much style.” (pg.75, ch.17, par.3) What this says about Huck’s view of happiness is that it doesn’t matter where you live at you can still have nice things if you work hard for them.
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The thing that’s so special about the books in the house is was they all had some meaning to them. “There were some books too; piled up perfect and exact…one was a big family bible, full of pictures. One was “Pilgrim’s Progress,” about a man that left his family…Another was “Friendship’s offering,” full of beautiful stuff and poetry; another was Henry Clay’s Speeches, and another was Dr. Gunn’s Family medicine, which told you all about what to do if a body was sick or dead. There was a hymn book and lots of other too.”(pg.76, ch.17, par.2) What this says about Huck’s education is that he is probably real passionate about books. Also it seems that he’s really open to anything. Twain’s view of education seems to be important no matter how you live, or what you do.
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What’s unique about all the drawings and poems and the scrapbook is that they all seem of sadness or someone dying, or crying. “she was leaning pensive on a tombstone on her right elbow, under a weeping willow, and her other hand hanging down her side holding a white handkerchief and reticule, and underneath the picture it said “ Shall I see thee more alas.”…She was crying into a handkerchief and had a dead bird lying on its back in her hand with its heel up. Underneath the picture it said “I shall never hear thy sweet chirrup more alas.”…. (pg 76-77, ch17, par.3) What the girl is obsessed with is death because all her drawings and poems consist of it. The significance of the painting of the girl on the edge of the bridge with the arms is that she’s deciding how her arms should be. Stretched out (reaching for someone), crossed over her chest (hugging herself) or reaching up (to God). Twain describes it so specifically because he wants the reader to visualize what the girl is doing and what she looks like. What this says about death is that you have a choice of how you could die. What it says about suicide is that you don’t have the choice to take away your life. What it says about art is that it makes you want to think about things, and take time to do it, to plan it out. Huck’s was touched by this girl’s art and life because even though she was died she made a memory of herself by talking about other people’s deaths. So it seems like she could relate to those people and it also would relate to how people would feel when she died.
What impresses Huck about the Granderford’s house is that he thinks it’s unusual for people in the country to have a nice house. “it was a mighty nice family, and a mighty nice house, too. I hadn’t seen no house out in the country before that was so nice and had so much style.” (pg.75, ch.17, par.3) What this says about Huck’s view of happiness is that it doesn’t matter where you live at you can still have nice things if you work hard for them.
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The thing that’s so special about the books in the house is was they all had some meaning to them. “There were some books too; piled up perfect and exact…one was a big family bible, full of pictures. One was “Pilgrim’s Progress,” about a man that left his family…Another was “Friendship’s offering,” full of beautiful stuff and poetry; another was Henry Clay’s Speeches, and another was Dr. Gunn’s Family medicine, which told you all about what to do if a body was sick or dead. There was a hymn book and lots of other too.”(pg.76, ch.17, par.2) What this says about Huck’s education is that he is probably real passionate about books. Also it seems that he’s really open to anything. Twain’s view of education seems to be important no matter how you live, or what you do.
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What’s unique about all the drawings and poems and the scrapbook is that they all seem of sadness or someone dying, or crying. “she was leaning pensive on a tombstone on her right elbow, under a weeping willow, and her other hand hanging down her side holding a white handkerchief and reticule, and underneath the picture it said “ Shall I see thee more alas.”…She was crying into a handkerchief and had a dead bird lying on its back in her hand with its heel up. Underneath the picture it said “I shall never hear thy sweet chirrup more alas.”…. (pg 76-77, ch17, par.3) What the girl is obsessed with is death because all her drawings and poems consist of it. The significance of the painting of the girl on the edge of the bridge with the arms is that she’s deciding how her arms should be. Stretched out (reaching for someone), crossed over her chest (hugging herself) or reaching up (to God). Twain describes it so specifically because he wants the reader to visualize what the girl is doing and what she looks like. What this says about death is that you have a choice of how you could die. What it says about suicide is that you don’t have the choice to take away your life. What it says about art is that it makes you want to think about things, and take time to do it, to plan it out. Huck’s was touched by this girl’s art and life because even though she was died she made a memory of herself by talking about other people’s deaths. So it seems like she could relate to those people and it also would relate to how people would feel when she died.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Reader Response 2: Huck Finn (7 - 13)
DUE: END OF THE HOUR TODAY
For today's response, you are to write 4-6 paragraphs in which you answer the following questions:
How is Huck influenced by the following people: Tom Sawyer, Widow Douglas, Pap, and Jim? Who do you think has the most positive influence on Huck? Negative? Why?
You must write at least one paragraph about each person and include the quote, chapter, page, and paragraph number for each quote. (CHAPTER, PAGE #, PAR. #)
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Huck is influenced by Tom Sawyer in a negative way because even if danger is coming their way Tom would tell Huck not to get chicken. The quote where this shows how Tom is a negative influence is “Tom Sawyer wouldn’t back out now, and so I won’t either; I’m agoing to see what’s going on here….”(ch. 12, pg.51, par.3) But if Huck never met Tom he wouldn’t even be in that situation he’s in now. He just would’ve listened to Jim, and not go one the boat. The positive affect that Tom has on Huck is that Tom told Huck that he was one of the smartest people.
The positive influence that Widow Douglas has on Huck is that she wants him to do well, and be proper and get a good education. Not to grow up and be like his father. A quote that was stated by widow was “Take your hands away, Huckleberry- what a mess you are always making.” (ch.4, pg.12 par. 1) After reading what she said to Huck she only wants the best. A negative affect is that she is always nagging at Huck and he’s tired of it. The only reason why she puts up with him is because she wants that six-thousand dollars.
The negative influence that Pap has on Huck is really bad. He doesn’t even want Huck to go to school and learn new things because he didn’t go to school. And Pap doesn’t want Huck to know more than him. And he also teaches him to steal and says its borrowing. “Pap always said it warn’t any harm in borrowing things, if you was meaning to pay them back, sometime;..” (ch.12, pg.49, par.3). The positive influence that Pap has on Huck is that he took him from Widow Douglas so that she wouldn’t harm him for the six- thousand dollars. Even though, Huck didn’t like it at first.
The negative influence that Jim had on Huck was that, he basically told him to keep running away and not tell anybody that he was dead. And to keep the lie going, because Jim was on the run too, as an escaped slave. The positive influence that Jim had on Huck is that he looked out for him in time of trouble. “I don’t want to go foolin’ ‘longer no wrack…Like as not dey’s a watchman on the rack”(ch12, pg. 50, par.3)
Reader Response 2: Huck Finn (7 - 13)
DUE: END OF THE HOUR TODAY
For today's response, you are to write 4-6 paragraphs in which you answer the following questions:
How is Huck influenced by the following people: Tom Sawyer, Widow Douglas, Pap, and Jim? Who do you think has the most positive influence on Huck? Negative? Why?
You must write at least one paragraph about each person and include the quote, chapter, page, and paragraph number for each quote. (CHAPTER, PAGE #, PAR. #)
skip lines between paragraphs
Huck is influenced by Tom Sawyer in a negative way because even if danger is coming their way Tom would tell Huck not to get chicken. The quote where this shows how Tom is a negative influence is “Tom Sawyer wouldn’t back out now, and so I won’t either; I’m agoing to see what’s going on here….”(ch. 12, pg.51, par.3) But if Huck never met Tom he wouldn’t even be in that situation he’s in now. He just would’ve listened to Jim, and not go one the boat. The positive affect that Tom has on Huck is that Tom told Huck that he was one of the smartest people.
The positive influence that Widow Douglas has on Huck is that she wants him to do well, and be proper and get a good education. Not to grow up and be like his father. A quote that was stated by widow was “Take your hands away, Huckleberry- what a mess you are always making.” (ch.4, pg.12 par. 1) After reading what she said to Huck she only wants the best. A negative affect is that she is always nagging at Huck and he’s tired of it. The only reason why she puts up with him is because she wants that six-thousand dollars.
The negative influence that Pap has on Huck is really bad. He doesn’t even want Huck to go to school and learn new things because he didn’t go to school. And Pap doesn’t want Huck to know more than him. And he also teaches him to steal and says its borrowing. “Pap always said it warn’t any harm in borrowing things, if you was meaning to pay them back, sometime;..” (ch.12, pg.49, par.3). The positive influence that Pap has on Huck is that he took him from Widow Douglas so that she wouldn’t harm him for the six- thousand dollars. Even though, Huck didn’t like it at first.
The negative influence that Jim had on Huck was that, he basically told him to keep running away and not tell anybody that he was dead. And to keep the lie going, because Jim was on the run too, as an escaped slave. The positive influence that Jim had on Huck is that he looked out for him in time of trouble. “I don’t want to go foolin’ ‘longer no wrack…Like as not dey’s a watchman on the rack”(ch12, pg. 50, par.3)
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Reader Response 2: Huck Finn (7 - 13)
Huck is influenced by Tom Sawyer in a negative way because even if danger is coming their way Tom would tell Huck not to get chicken. The quote where this shows how Tom is a negative influence is “Tom Sawyer wouldn’t back out now, and so I won’t either; I’m agoing to see what’s going on here….”(ch. 12, pg.51, par.3) But if Huck never met Tom he wouldn’t even be in that situation he’s in now. He just would’ve listened to Jim, and not go one the boat. The positive affect that Tom has on Huck is that Tom told Huck that he was one of the smartest people.
The positive influence that Widow Douglas has on Huck is that she wants him to do well, and be proper and get a good education. Not to grow up and be like his father. A quote that was stated by widow was “Take your hands away, Huckleberry- what a mess you are always making.” (ch.4, pg.12 par. 1) After reading what she said to Huck she only wants the best. A negative affect is that she is always nagging at Huck and he’s tired of it. The only reason why she puts up with him is because she wants that six-thousand dollars.
The negative influence that Pap has on Huck is really bad. He doesn’t even want Huck to go to school and learn new things because he didn’t go to school. And Pap doesn’t want Huck to know more than him. And he also teaches him to steal and says its borrowing. “Pap always said it warn’t any harm in borrowing things, if you was meaning to pay them back, sometime;..” (ch.12, pg.49, par.3). The positive influence that Pap has on Huck is that he took him from Widow Douglas so that she wouldn’t harm him for the six- thousand dollars. Even though, Huck didn’t like it at first.
The negative influence that Jim had on Huck was that, he basically told him to keep running away and not tell anybody that he was dead. And to keep the lie going, because Jim was on the run too, as an escaped slave. The positive influence that Jim had on Huck is that he looked out for him in time of trouble. “I don’t want to go foolin’ ‘longer no wrack…Like as not dey’s a watchman on the rack”(ch12, pg. 50, par.3)
The positive influence that Widow Douglas has on Huck is that she wants him to do well, and be proper and get a good education. Not to grow up and be like his father. A quote that was stated by widow was “Take your hands away, Huckleberry- what a mess you are always making.” (ch.4, pg.12 par. 1) After reading what she said to Huck she only wants the best. A negative affect is that she is always nagging at Huck and he’s tired of it. The only reason why she puts up with him is because she wants that six-thousand dollars.
The negative influence that Pap has on Huck is really bad. He doesn’t even want Huck to go to school and learn new things because he didn’t go to school. And Pap doesn’t want Huck to know more than him. And he also teaches him to steal and says its borrowing. “Pap always said it warn’t any harm in borrowing things, if you was meaning to pay them back, sometime;..” (ch.12, pg.49, par.3). The positive influence that Pap has on Huck is that he took him from Widow Douglas so that she wouldn’t harm him for the six- thousand dollars. Even though, Huck didn’t like it at first.
The negative influence that Jim had on Huck was that, he basically told him to keep running away and not tell anybody that he was dead. And to keep the lie going, because Jim was on the run too, as an escaped slave. The positive influence that Jim had on Huck is that he looked out for him in time of trouble. “I don’t want to go foolin’ ‘longer no wrack…Like as not dey’s a watchman on the rack”(ch12, pg. 50, par.3)
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Reader Response 1: Huck Finn (1 - 6)
The theme that i want to focus on is racism from the book Huck Finn. "Oh yes this is a wonderful government, wonderful. Why, looky here. There was a free "n" there,from ohio; a mulatter, most as white as a white man... had fine clothes and he had a gold watch and chain and a sliver headed cane-the alfulest old gray headed nabob in the State.... It was lection day, and i was just about to go vote myself, if i weren't to drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in the country where they'd let that "n" vote, i drawed out." The character that stated this quote was pap, who is Huck's father. It is located in ch. 6, p. 20, par 2. Basically pap was saying that he was mad that they let thje black man vote because he was a professer at a college. Then he tried to make up the excuse that he just left because, he was mad a bout the black man voting, but he was actually too drunk to vote.
What i think about this quote is that people don't like change. Since its been racial conflict that long people just won't accept that things are going to be changing for the better. Epecially pap, he needs to relize that things aren't ever going to be the same and they don't always go your way. I don't know maybe pap just jealous that he can't read and write and speak different languages. So he just blames it on his drinking problem. This really relates to the theme because he's being racist because someone of a differnt color is doing better than he is. This relates to my life a little, because at my old school people thought just cause I was african american that i wasn't smart but i proved them wrong.
What Mark Twian thinks about this qoute i he doesn't like it. He doesn't appove of people talking down about other people, if they're not up themselves. But when the quote was written by Mark, he didn't make it seem like the black man was like, just that poor and didn't have anything. This relates to Twain's life becaus he lived in those days and he seen these things that were happening around him.
What i think about this quote is that people don't like change. Since its been racial conflict that long people just won't accept that things are going to be changing for the better. Epecially pap, he needs to relize that things aren't ever going to be the same and they don't always go your way. I don't know maybe pap just jealous that he can't read and write and speak different languages. So he just blames it on his drinking problem. This really relates to the theme because he's being racist because someone of a differnt color is doing better than he is. This relates to my life a little, because at my old school people thought just cause I was african american that i wasn't smart but i proved them wrong.
What Mark Twian thinks about this qoute i he doesn't like it. He doesn't appove of people talking down about other people, if they're not up themselves. But when the quote was written by Mark, he didn't make it seem like the black man was like, just that poor and didn't have anything. This relates to Twain's life becaus he lived in those days and he seen these things that were happening around him.
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