Thesis

The grandma plays the most important role in Jeanie’s life, before she dies her words set Janie down the right path.

chap. 7-12 6-8 sentences response

Chapter 10 was a blast for me, I loved the meeting of Tea Cake and how you see the two of them react:

"Why ain't you at de ball game, too? Everybody else is dere."
"Well, Ah see somebody else besides me ain't dere. Ah just sold some cigarettes." "They Laughed again."

Ever since he walks into the store it is nothing but good news. She thinks he looks fmailiar, he knows her name, and they end up playing a game of checkers. They don't go to the game, she doesn't close up they end up laughing with each other. After the game of checkers and the bits and parts of their flirtatious conversations, he stops and says, "Anyhow it's time for a Coca-Cola,..." He wants to treat her now. Just reading this short little chapter it is oone of the merrier ones, and for a memory retell, this is obviously one that stood out to me in the book hence far.

FIRST RESPONSE

The first quote I beleive starts off discussing a bit of the ignorancy out there of men. And back in her time I beleive women were treated with less respect. "The dream is the truth" That is a significant line, the dream is what matters to all the people in general. That is what they all look foward to no matter what things they need too forget or remember.

The second quote is discussing a sweet moment with Janie. "..the thousand sister-calyxes." Which I am guessing has something to do with flowers coming together. It is the beauty in her marriage, the beginning of her marriage. This whole quote is about how she feels about the marriage. "She has summoned a revelation."

Quote response 3 huck finn P. 197-214

""Sold him?" I says, and begun to cry; "why, he was my nigger, and that was my money. Where is her?-I want my nigger.""
(P.206)

Huck has realized that the men were con-men and he has been tricked. He is worried sick that his partner - Jim, has been taken, and they have been getting tricked this entire time. Despite their precautions, and Huck using his chance to escape, he finds out Jim has been sold. The man who orignally was going to sell him for the reward of 200$, sold Jim to another man for 40$, and now someone else has him.

"We blowed out a cylinder head."
(P.211)

Since Huck has arrived at the house where Jim is supposedly being held, he meets the white lady of the house. Her name is Aunt Sally. She thinks that Huck is her nephew, and he starts to play along with it all to secure being safe. She is wondering where he has been, and he tells her that something on the boat-(the cylinder head has broken.)

number two huck finn

"I read considerable to Jim about kings and dukes and earls and such,..." (P.83)

Huck tells Jim a whole lot about kings and dukes, and he tells him stories. Jim doesn't know anything about the stories at all. It's interesting the questions he asks to Huck, because he seems confused all the time, but almost gasped at the fact of some of the parts of the stories.

In chapter fifteen, the fog comes in when they are drifitng, but Jim and Huck drift different directions. They end up finding each other, but JIm flips out and gets angry. He than makes up with Jim, but he feels bad about hurting Jim with the things he said to him. "...and I wouldn't done that one I'd 'a' knowed it would make him feel that way." (P.91)

First Huckleberry Response

"He said he reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way."

The pap in this previous chapter (V,) has obviously shown that he is a drunk still. He has stolen Huck's dollar to buy whiskey, an dhe has ended up injail on a "drunken spree." Throughout the return of Pap, Huck is scared. He used to be beat by him even when he wasn't drunk. After this drunk incident, Pap is sent to stay with the judge-hopefully to beome a chnaged man, but it doesn't seem to work.

"Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath, and asked Tom if he got it out of his own head. He said, some of it, but the rest was out of pirate-books and robber-books, and every gang that was high-toned had it." (P.19)

Now that they are starting the gang, and what they expect out of it, you see the group of kids do not really know what they are getting into. Obviously, Huck is influenced by what he reads, and now shares it with the whole gang. I thinkt his line might be of some foreshadowing that because he doesn't know much, and they are all talking tough about what to do, that somethign real bad could end up happening to the group of them.

Emily Dickinson response #1

"There's a certain slant of light, on winter afternoons, that opresses, like the weight of cathredral tunes."

I picked this quote because I didn't really understand it. Opressor means to keep down severly with unjust force, but Emily Dickinson compares this to cathedral tunes, which are happy, and fill up the church with a loud melodic tune. The oppesion n this context though, is the "slant light," on winter afternoons. The beauty-maybe-of the light in winter afternoons are as powerful in sight, as oppresive a cathredal tune will take on you in a church.

"This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,"

This is a quote form the same poem actually-But this quote set the tone of the poem for me. It is kind of depressing and angry. She is angry throughout the course of this poem. She is ticked off at life, and using metaphors to express her problems at hand.

Young Goodman Brown Response

"Faith kept me back a while."

The traveler man is telling Goodman Brown that he is late. Young Goodman Brown simply replies witht his quote. He is nervous, this random man is suddenly speaking to him, and Brown doesn't knwo who it is at all, he thinks it might be the devil.

" 'The devil!' screames the pious old lady."

The old ladyw ho wee all know is bad in her ways, gets very scared. She sees the devil, but she already supports him and knows of him. He replies by asking her if he knows her,w ith an obvious hint of her worshiping him. She than gives in fast, and explains to him that she is kind of evil, and goes the evil ways. But the fact that she was startled to beign with struck me as a bit of irony, seeing as how she supports him, it would be weird that she would be so afraid to see him-almost as if to have not really beeleived in him in the first place.

paper topic choice

3. Look closely at either “Young Goodman Brown” or “The Minister’s Black Veil” and identify the dominant tone (the author’s attitude) of the short story. Then set about answering how Hawthorne goes about achieving this tone. When writing this paper, you may find it helpful to discuss literary devices and techniques such as foreshadowing, irony, figurative language, narrative pace, etc. Please include a number of quotations to back up your answer.

#1 #51 AND #52 Walt Whitman

"The Spotted Hawk Swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering."

I think the hawk represents some aspect of Nature. The Hawk complains of his pointless talking and his just hanging around, as opposed to doing things mroe important. He is talking about the useless points in his life I htink. (?)

"The past and present wilt - I have fill'd them, emptied them. And proceed to fill my next fold of the future."

He has done a lot in life, he has dealt with past problems and future problems. H ehas to keep working in order to have a good future, and he has to deal with his problems. He makes mistakes, but he fixes them.

Hawthorne #1

The Minister's Black Veil

1st quote- "...kind and loving, though unloved , and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and joy."

This quote kind of struck me. It is a bit sad. It is discussing Mr. Hooper's life and how thigns have been since the murders. He never really is able to come back to the real world. This black veil hides everything. People do not really beocme his friends, he doesn't have a wife, and his life is quiet and full of solitude.

2nd quote- " 'If I hide my face for sorrow, there is cause enough,' he merely replied; 'and if I cover it for secret sin, what mortal might not do the same?' "

This quote was interesitng to me because he kind of lets the girl know that he has his veil on for a good reason. It might be something sinful in the past but any man would do it if he had the experience that he did. It is on for a good reason, and not for attention or for annoyance.

quotation response #2

"To set down such choice experiences that my own writings may inspire me and at last I may make wholes of parts." (P.46-Jan.22)

I like when he starts explaining about his influences and his writing experiences. Instead of jsut writing everything he keeps everythign updated, and your in his brain. All the influences and differnt things that make him want to write, come together and create a "whole."

"How few who advise you to lead a more interior life! In the one case there is all the world to advise you, in the other there is none to advise you but yourself."
(P.47-April,16)

People cannot rely on society to alwasy lead them in the right direction, you have look inside yourself and figure things out for yourself. You will rarely find peple who are going to motivate you and help you lead a more "interior" life. Advising yourself is what is really important. People will not always be there for you.

my paper topic

2. Comparison. Emerson and Thoreau are the most recognizable proponents of

Transcendentalism, but each emphasized different features of the movement. Take some

aspect of their thought or writing and explore the similarities and differences their

works exhibit. In the process, you should arrive at a clearer understanding of

Transcendentalism in general and these two writers in particular. Topics to consider

include self-reliance, individualism, and the importance of nature.


[first paragraph due monday september 24th]

Conclusion - quotation response

"I am freer than any planet; no complaint reaches round the world. I can move away from public opinion, from government, from religion."
I liked this quote a lot. He is saying the different thigns he is during the time periods of the world. "No complaint reaches around the world." He doesn't have to deal wiht all the mainstream chaos or society and all of the mess in the world, he says. He doesn't have to be involved with all the controlling thigns in the world.

"Nature never makes haste; her systems revolve at an even pace."
Her is the nature. Nature doesn't slow down it keeps doing what it does at it's normal pace. It's regular ways, metamorphosis, etc. You have to take nature for granted, and love it in it's every way. Because it is always moving and changing fast, so love it while it is around. Take notice in it.

paper topic

#2

"Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"

First quote: "I was much affected by the faint hum of a mosquito making its invisible and unimaginable tour through my apartment at earliest dawn,..."

I chose this quote because I really like it. The author is discussing the morning routine of this character, and the morning how it brings back "the heroic ages." The thigns aorund the house such as the mosquito are bringing thoughts to the characters head about past times. The Iliad and the Odyssey. Homer, past moral values to learn from, etc.

"Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but the mechanical nudgings of some servitor,..."
This quote is talking about man kind and that humans are lazy now days and we do not spend our days well. We spend them doing a lot less than we really could be doing.

Quotation Meanings

My first quote: From Nature- "The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will seperate between him and what he touches." I liked this quote a lot. The stars and the universes, and planets out there, are the aspects of nature. The real goodness out there. I think that this quote is stating that that will come between men and their real good side and nice behavior. Man cannot really be what they are, they are too into the majority of the society. That nature represents the side that man doens't seem to accquire.

My second quote: From Nature- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men beleive and adore;" This quote is my favorite because it's very similar to a saying. It means that nature is such a huge party in our everydays life. For example, the stars are so beautiful to look at, and they giuve people hope and something to "adore," and love. So it gives them hope but without aspects of beauty/nature like this in the world than mankind wouldn't be very pleased and satisfied.

My third quote: From Self-Reliance- "I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names." I chose this quote because I don't really agree with it, but it is a quote I hear a lot and ponder on. What it means-is that society is very easily manipulated by what is out there, propaganda, whatever the majority is into, or groups people make so that if one joins they would be considered as a part of a group or a someone as opposed ot being a noone outside of the group. I disagree with it because for someone to really mak the inference that people just do it to be cool or to be apart of something-to become a "someone," is not wha tit is all about at all. For example, I am a kid whoi s really into expensive and exclusive sneakers. But I buy them because I love them, because I am attracted to them. I don't care if people don't like my outfit I have picked out iwht my shoes, or the shoes themseleves. I buy them because I like them. When one learns to not care what others think of him/her than they can really be themselves. At that point I don't think it will matter what you buy or wha tyou join, what you conform too, just that your not doing it, afraid of what the opinions from others would be if you didn't do whatever it was. People who label these people being different than him, is being ignorant and I think that this author is a very judgemental person, (also based on the rest of the reading.) When people buy designer clothing, or joing a gang, or become a member of a popular group, I beleive that they do it because it makes them happy inside. When they do whatever it is they feel good about themselves and it helps their day go well too. It gives you hope and satisfaction. Yes, there are people out there doing it because they are feeling uncomfortable or because they are insecure about themselves, but eventually I think hey get over it and that it becomes somethign they enjoy for their own selves.

My fourth quote: From Self-Reliance- "Trust thyself" This is small but it is very big and expansive. Trust thyself is to beleive in yourself, and not hsutdown your inner strengths. Really beleiving in yourself and making sure you know wha tyour capable of. You can do what you want but make sure that you know what your getting into and what kind of person you really are. Make sure you beleive what your getting into, and it doesn't get into what you do not concide with.

-TeddyOut

The first one.

This year in my english class, I wan't a lot out of it. I wan't to really grow as a writer, I wan't to sound somewhat more proffesional when I write. I wan't a more complex understanding of how to be a better writer. If we're are going to be working on poetry at all than I definitley wan't to work on my poetry skills, and not neccesarily things like rhyming but better topics, or better "motivation ideas." I wan't to have a good relationship with my teacher as well and my classmates. This year I would also like to have fun with inspiration and the type of topics that i decide to bring forth to the classroom.