Roger looked at the door—looked at the woman—looked at the door—and went to the sink.
Authors Note This is a response to "Thank You Ma'am" by Langston Hughes, abut the importance of the above quote and how big of deal it was to the story.
This quote is very important to the story because it shows an act of trust. This is when the boy starts to realize that the woman is placing trust in him so he has trust in her to trust him and he doesn’t want to be mistrusted.
When that happened I was surprised at what the boy did It made me think of what I would do in the situation. I Probably would have ran just out of pure awkwardness, but this is a story that takes a different mind set to understand. Most people might think about how awkward that would have been, but you have to think of it from a different point of view which is hard to reach.
This also shows the boys impulse, he sees a way out, but the woman put him in his place and he listened to her. At first he seemed he only wanted a way out. When he sees his chance, instead of ceasing the opportunity he thinks and he realizes the woman trusts him and he doesn't want to let her down.
Besides the boys impulse that made him decide to listen, the woman's confidence played a big roll. She didn't stand there and keep a close eye on the boy or look at him suspiciously as if he would run. She simply told him to do something, and acted as if she had no doubt he would do it. That made Rodger think that she was a good person and didn't immediately lose her trust and investigate him like a "CSI" member would search a room for clues. This quote basically began the climax of the story and may be the most important piece to this story.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Responce for Dead Man's Path
Key Changes
Authors note: This is a response to Dead Man’s Path for goals for reading.
Obi is a character that didn’t change, but as the story goes on you start to think different of him. When the book starts out he seems very innocent. The development of the story ties in a major theme of the story which is loss of innocence.
At the beginning of the short story they introduce Obi as a hard working nice man that is assigned a school that he is to improve. The story goes on about how he is educated and how the school hasn’t been making any progress, and about how Obi can fix that.
Near the middle we start to see a different side of Obi he starts to think about all the recognition he’s going to receive and he is thinking all about himself and not the children out the village and the school which he is to improve. He starts to come off as a very inconsiderate.
When the story starts to wrap up Obi does something very inconsiderate. He cuts of a very religious path which is said to be the path souls of dead men walk. The priest comes to talk to Obi and tells him to re-open the path so the souls can pass on. He refuses and the path is torn up. This shows that the society is also now against him.
Authors note: This is a response to Dead Man’s Path for goals for reading.
Obi is a character that didn’t change, but as the story goes on you start to think different of him. When the book starts out he seems very innocent. The development of the story ties in a major theme of the story which is loss of innocence.
At the beginning of the short story they introduce Obi as a hard working nice man that is assigned a school that he is to improve. The story goes on about how he is educated and how the school hasn’t been making any progress, and about how Obi can fix that.
Near the middle we start to see a different side of Obi he starts to think about all the recognition he’s going to receive and he is thinking all about himself and not the children out the village and the school which he is to improve. He starts to come off as a very inconsiderate.
When the story starts to wrap up Obi does something very inconsiderate. He cuts of a very religious path which is said to be the path souls of dead men walk. The priest comes to talk to Obi and tells him to re-open the path so the souls can pass on. He refuses and the path is torn up. This shows that the society is also now against him.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Family Effects Life
Family Effects life
Authors Note: This is a comparative essay that shows the similarities and differences of broken families in The Outsiders, and Johnny Tremain.
Johnny Tremain, from the 1700’s, and Ponyboy, from The Outsider which is based in the 1950’s sound way different form the way they dress and how they act, but they have a lot in common. They both come from broken families and are affected severely by it. They both come from broken families, but they have their differences.
In the first place, both novels exhibit the main character is greatly effect by it. Johnny has to go and live with a family that makes him work to get food and shelter. Ponyboy lives with his two brothers and his older one yells because he loves him, but Ponyboy doesn’t always understand and he takes it offensively. Johnny had to deal with the other children who either make fun of him, or sabotage him.
In addition’ both of the broken families have death involved. I figured that was why the main character was affected the most. Ponyboy’s parents died in a car crash without warning so now he lived with his brothers. Johnny Tremain had his mom die and the book never talked about a father figure, but he has no relation he lives with or even ever see’s
On the other hand Johnny has no family he lives with or even hardly knows. Ponyboy at least has his brothers and a bunch of really close friends he can talk to and share feelings with. Johnny has no one really close see he remains a solitary figure bottling everything up until, at one point I predict it will all blow.
To conclude with, broken families are shown in both Johnny Tremain, and the Outsiders. The books may sound very different and one being about a 1950’s Texas gang, and the other a 1700’s boy working as a silver smith they have their similarities. Broken families are displayed it similar ways with some differences.
Authors Note: This is a comparative essay that shows the similarities and differences of broken families in The Outsiders, and Johnny Tremain.
Johnny Tremain, from the 1700’s, and Ponyboy, from The Outsider which is based in the 1950’s sound way different form the way they dress and how they act, but they have a lot in common. They both come from broken families and are affected severely by it. They both come from broken families, but they have their differences.
In the first place, both novels exhibit the main character is greatly effect by it. Johnny has to go and live with a family that makes him work to get food and shelter. Ponyboy lives with his two brothers and his older one yells because he loves him, but Ponyboy doesn’t always understand and he takes it offensively. Johnny had to deal with the other children who either make fun of him, or sabotage him.
In addition’ both of the broken families have death involved. I figured that was why the main character was affected the most. Ponyboy’s parents died in a car crash without warning so now he lived with his brothers. Johnny Tremain had his mom die and the book never talked about a father figure, but he has no relation he lives with or even ever see’s
On the other hand Johnny has no family he lives with or even hardly knows. Ponyboy at least has his brothers and a bunch of really close friends he can talk to and share feelings with. Johnny has no one really close see he remains a solitary figure bottling everything up until, at one point I predict it will all blow.
To conclude with, broken families are shown in both Johnny Tremain, and the Outsiders. The books may sound very different and one being about a 1950’s Texas gang, and the other a 1700’s boy working as a silver smith they have their similarities. Broken families are displayed it similar ways with some differences.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Keep you Enimies Closer.
Authors Note: Having enemies is a major setback when they interfere with you life, for Johnny it cost him his career.
Johnny Tremain a rising star in the silversmith world you could say. He knows almost every boy in town, weather friend, or enemy. There is one boy who absolutely wants to get rid of him and take his place. They call him Dove because no one knows his real name or will ever find out. When you create such mortal enemies and don’t worry about fixing the grudge it can cause major conflict and disruption.
Johnny is working and the most important build of his life. His master and caretaker allows him to work on a Sunday, back in the 1700’s it was though a mortal sin and against the law to work on the lord’s day. He needs everyone to help because he needs to finish, even Dove. Johnny asks for a metal pan type thing so he can melt the silver on the furnace. Dove deliberately hand him a cracked one. “Johnny took it into his trusting hands and placed it over the furnace” as the book describe it. He melted the silver and when he went to pick it up the molten silver split onto the furnace Johnny jumped back quickly, but he fell forward his hand and part of his head hit the silver. He woke up with his thumb attached to his palm.
After the unpleasant incident with his sworn enemy Johnny will never be a silversmith, he is heartbroken. His caretaker, are basically kicking him out onto the street, because he can’t do the work they need him to do anymore. He has no other training in anything else and will be hard to find something he can do. All because he never made time to resolve the problem between him and Dove.
Johnny Tremain a rising star in the silversmith world you could say. He knows almost every boy in town, weather friend, or enemy. There is one boy who absolutely wants to get rid of him and take his place. They call him Dove because no one knows his real name or will ever find out. When you create such mortal enemies and don’t worry about fixing the grudge it can cause major conflict and disruption.
Johnny is working and the most important build of his life. His master and caretaker allows him to work on a Sunday, back in the 1700’s it was though a mortal sin and against the law to work on the lord’s day. He needs everyone to help because he needs to finish, even Dove. Johnny asks for a metal pan type thing so he can melt the silver on the furnace. Dove deliberately hand him a cracked one. “Johnny took it into his trusting hands and placed it over the furnace” as the book describe it. He melted the silver and when he went to pick it up the molten silver split onto the furnace Johnny jumped back quickly, but he fell forward his hand and part of his head hit the silver. He woke up with his thumb attached to his palm.
After the unpleasant incident with his sworn enemy Johnny will never be a silversmith, he is heartbroken. His caretaker, are basically kicking him out onto the street, because he can’t do the work they need him to do anymore. He has no other training in anything else and will be hard to find something he can do. All because he never made time to resolve the problem between him and Dove.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
From a Different Eye
Authors Note: Johnny Tremain a poor boy works as a silversmith for a rich family and one of the girls isn’t feeling well so they take her the sea side to get fresh air. They ask Johnny questions that he never wanted to answer, but he answers for an un-described reason.
Johnny Tremain is a poor young man who works as a silversmith for a rich guy for a place to stay and food. One of the daughter’s of the guy is having a heat stroke so they take her by the sea to cool down and they ask the story of his middle name and why he never talks about his dead mother. They ask if it’s because he hated her or loved her so much and he said he loved her so much.
On top of that Johnny really wanted to keep all of his personal stuff bottled up, so the narrator describes it as if the girls bugged him enough so that he told them about everything his mother told him even though he really didn’t want to. The girls might have thought they were being carful of what they uncovered, but Johnny really doesn’t think so.
Isannah thought about it as just Johnny being nice, but the narrator describes it as Johnny needing to get up with a moan and down and help the little girl so his master doesn’t get mad at him. Then Isannah starts to ask Johnny about his past and he doesn’t want to tell them, but she thinks it’s him being nice and Johnny is just a little annoyed. The way the narrator describes it it’s like Johnny always wants to get out away and done with everything and that he doesn’t care.
Authors Note: Johnny Tremain a poor boy works as a silversmith for a rich family and one of the girls isn’t feeling well so they take her the sea side to get fresh air. They ask Johnny questions that he never wanted to answer, but he answers for an un-described reason.
Johnny Tremain is a poor young man who works as a silversmith for a rich guy for a place to stay and food. One of the daughter’s of the guy is having a heat stroke so they take her by the sea to cool down and they ask the story of his middle name and why he never talks about his dead mother. They ask if it’s because he hated her or loved her so much and he said he loved her so much.
On top of that Johnny really wanted to keep all of his personal stuff bottled up, so the narrator describes it as if the girls bugged him enough so that he told them about everything his mother told him even though he really didn’t want to. The girls might have thought they were being carful of what they uncovered, but Johnny really doesn’t think so.
Isannah thought about it as just Johnny being nice, but the narrator describes it as Johnny needing to get up with a moan and down and help the little girl so his master doesn’t get mad at him. Then Isannah starts to ask Johnny about his past and he doesn’t want to tell them, but she thinks it’s him being nice and Johnny is just a little annoyed. The way the narrator describes it it’s like Johnny always wants to get out away and done with everything and that he doesn’t care.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Final Essay for the Outsiders
Stereotyping Epidemic
Authors Note: This piece is a reflection on the stereotyping in the book "The Outsiders" and how bad the effect is.
“The Outsiders” is a book that depicts two sides of life you are a Greaser or a soc, and if you fall into a category you are immediately assumed to have the bad traits and all the good ones. In other words that’s just stereotyping. Maybe a greaser has money and can sustain they just choose to hang out and act different. Maybe a soc is poor and made friend with other socs and lives on the south side.
Where you live, how much money your parents have, and what you like shouldn’t play a roll whatsoever on how you are ranked socially in the community and how much respect you get. Those are things you can’t control and because of those people assume you have other traits that are bad that you can control when you are nothing like that.
This kind of stuff happens all over the place in schools, sports, and even adult work environments. When a football coach goes to pick a position he might look for someone tall and slim, but firmly built which are two thing genes control, but he stereotypes and thinks that he will be better than everyone else. Maybe the short weird looking kid has better skills, but you never gave him a chance because you stereotyped and it could cost you a bunch of games.
The girl who wrote the book had to have some experience of this happening to her or around her. The deep thought in the book about how the greasers can’t control. They get a bad rep about being thugs and criminals that just don’t care what happens to them. When really they care deeply about how people use the greasers like a doormat and stomp all over them because they are better at things no one can control.
Next time you think about judging someone from a different walk of life because they are short or their nose is weird, or whatever reason, you are hurting that persons feelings because of things they can’t control .That is ridicules, how would you feel if someone said you can’t because of things you can’t control/ fix you will never be able to do what you want because of height, or appearance if stereotyping continues.
Authors Note: This piece is a reflection on the stereotyping in the book "The Outsiders" and how bad the effect is.
“The Outsiders” is a book that depicts two sides of life you are a Greaser or a soc, and if you fall into a category you are immediately assumed to have the bad traits and all the good ones. In other words that’s just stereotyping. Maybe a greaser has money and can sustain they just choose to hang out and act different. Maybe a soc is poor and made friend with other socs and lives on the south side.
Where you live, how much money your parents have, and what you like shouldn’t play a roll whatsoever on how you are ranked socially in the community and how much respect you get. Those are things you can’t control and because of those people assume you have other traits that are bad that you can control when you are nothing like that.
This kind of stuff happens all over the place in schools, sports, and even adult work environments. When a football coach goes to pick a position he might look for someone tall and slim, but firmly built which are two thing genes control, but he stereotypes and thinks that he will be better than everyone else. Maybe the short weird looking kid has better skills, but you never gave him a chance because you stereotyped and it could cost you a bunch of games.
The girl who wrote the book had to have some experience of this happening to her or around her. The deep thought in the book about how the greasers can’t control. They get a bad rep about being thugs and criminals that just don’t care what happens to them. When really they care deeply about how people use the greasers like a doormat and stomp all over them because they are better at things no one can control.
Next time you think about judging someone from a different walk of life because they are short or their nose is weird, or whatever reason, you are hurting that persons feelings because of things they can’t control .That is ridicules, how would you feel if someone said you can’t because of things you can’t control/ fix you will never be able to do what you want because of height, or appearance if stereotyping continues.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
What will arise
“The Outsiders” What will arise
The knowledge I’ve acquired from the book “The Outsiders” so far something big is going to happen to Johnny, Ponyboy, and probably Cherry. These three characters reach out to and hint me off the something big will happen between them they could change the views of each social group.
My first hint was when Johnny and Ponyboy sat next to Cherry and she didn’t reject them she welcomed them, and said “You two are too sweet to scare anyone.” That really showed me that she wasn't a normal soc she didn’t think that because they were greasers they were bad people she seemed to understand the whole situation. That led me to think that her a Ponyboy will fall in love because she really seems to like him.
Johnny is the one who killed Bob, but that was the guy who beat him up. That seems odd to me because the author made sure to mention it so it makes you think Johnny was thinking more about that than he was drowning Ponyboy. It makes me think something big will happen with Johnny he will get hurt or even die.
This book has some really suspicious hard prediction that you really need to pay attention to get. Cherry was nice unlike the other socs then at the end of chapter five she becomes a spy. If you didn't realize she was different than the other socs you would have thought nothing of it.
The knowledge I’ve acquired from the book “The Outsiders” so far something big is going to happen to Johnny, Ponyboy, and probably Cherry. These three characters reach out to and hint me off the something big will happen between them they could change the views of each social group.
My first hint was when Johnny and Ponyboy sat next to Cherry and she didn’t reject them she welcomed them, and said “You two are too sweet to scare anyone.” That really showed me that she wasn't a normal soc she didn’t think that because they were greasers they were bad people she seemed to understand the whole situation. That led me to think that her a Ponyboy will fall in love because she really seems to like him.
Johnny is the one who killed Bob, but that was the guy who beat him up. That seems odd to me because the author made sure to mention it so it makes you think Johnny was thinking more about that than he was drowning Ponyboy. It makes me think something big will happen with Johnny he will get hurt or even die.
This book has some really suspicious hard prediction that you really need to pay attention to get. Cherry was nice unlike the other socs then at the end of chapter five she becomes a spy. If you didn't realize she was different than the other socs you would have thought nothing of it.
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