Friday, February 13, 2009. 1:05 a.m.: Mr. Jones couldn’t sleep. The streak of bright moonlight slashed on his blanket like a knife. He got up to close the curtains when he heard a sickening squawk downstairs.…
Cruisers are an eclectic lot. We're a strange mix of business owners, plumbers, homemakers, Vietnam vets, academics, nurses, computer geeks... and the list goes on. What's magical about our chemistry is the fusion of random knowledge, binding us together like a single central nervous system. In addition, we've got grit. And, we needed it all when the strongest cyclone to ever make landfall in the southern hemisphere headed towards Fiji.…
The latest part of the reading has gone by really slow as the past 5 chapters only seem to be in to two different settings during a single night. It seems like Holden is recollecting way more than a real human being would be able to recollect. He is telling us every single possible detail about where he is and what he is experiencing. I have also found it hard to connect to this portion of the book as he his dunk for a good bit of it. The part I was able to connect with the book is Phoebe as she acts similar to my younger brother.…
Context- In this quote Hawthorne has explained the issue that Hester is having, Hawthorne then takes a break from the story line of Hester and describes how Pearl (Hesters child) is developing in the world that has been filled with evil ,deception and judgement. The importance of this quote is that it described how pearl acted and how she acted alone, versus how she acted with other children her age and how her attitudes and misbehavior are a symbol of the misbehavior of Hester and the town. The author is intending on progressing how she is a symbol of the sins of this adultery. The author is tells us this quote to move the plot of the story from a child who has temper issues to a child who is peculiar just as how the towns overall behavior…
1. John, one of the main characters, feels guilty because he masturbated in the boy’s bathroom at school. Masturbating, is not something John should be ashamed of, it’s a natural occurrence that shouldn’t be frowned upon. It lets out sexual frustration by yourself instead of on another man or woman. Throughout the book, John struggles with religion, his religion forbids a man and woman to conjugate before marriage, as demonstrated in the beginning of the book with the Elisha and Ella Mae scandal.…
Within this journal, I will be evaluating the themes in To Kill A Mockingbird. To begin, one of the themes displayed in the novel is the coexistence of the innocent and evil. One way the book conveys this is when the evil jury kills an innocent black man, Tom. I say this figuratively because the prison camp actually killed him, but the jury got him there. The jury knew Tom was innocent but back then, blacks were always guilty no matter the situaton.…
I think that the novel is very important because it teaches us about what we do as a reaction. We take things too far we could of just sent military over there and took over them or bomb their most valuable resource. But we nuke the whole city we already knew we was more powerful than them but we had to take it to the next level.…
After witnessing the murder of Dr. Robinson Tom and Huck oath that they will never tell anyone. Tom gets put in a situation that could be life changing. He is stuck in a battle with his conscience and doesn't know if he should tell or not. Even though he doesn’t want to lose a friend he should tell because it will keep him at rest with his conscience, he will save an innocent man, and keep a dangerous man off the street. Keeping at rest with your conscience will help his health tremendously.…
I am reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The chapter is about two kids, the finches and they meet Dill. The kids are trying to get Boo Radley to come out of his house. In this journal, I will be predicting and characterizing.…
“... Robert E. Lee Ewell!”(227) The clerk said loudly. I Stand up slowly and confident. I was ready to take that black man out of my life. As I am heading over to take my oath, I thought of what type of man would defend a black person.…
We have been hiding in our annex for two years. We had two families, us, the Franks, and the van Daans. Life is hard in hiding, but it is about to get a lot worse. The Nazi police yelled at us to get only a small bag of clothes, and anything else was to be considered as a threat. We were pushed down the stairs, and I heard a gunshot from upstairs.…
July-Day 18 I can barely pull myself out of bed today, it's cold outside the blankets that have kept me safe since my descent to dreamland where I have been since 6:30 PM. I've slept for 12 hours and I want to keep sleeping. I want to stay in bed where nothing happens to any extremes. I dreamt of lighthouses and the light it casts out over the clear blue gulf sending a signal of safety to those passing by. I wonder about all the things that are like lighthouses to me.…
Prologue The stench of the trash was absolutely nauseating. Even though my brain was screaming at me to get rid of the repulsive gunk on my shirt, my legs couldn’t stop running. Winston was just a limp ball of fur in my shaking arms. I had to hold on to him, otherwise I would be lost in this cold world of darkness that was embedding itself with steel claws into my heart.…
In Stephen Mays article “Great Sexpectations: What About Gender Roles in Same Sex Relationships” he argues that there does not have to be a male and female role for a relationship to work. As the reader goes through his article they can see Mays state “As clear as you would think it is to see, I’ll spell it out for you: neither of them are the girl. They’re both boys.” While most people look at a same sex relationship and ask the question “who is the boy and who is the girl?”, Mays states that neither, the couple are either both female or both male. Though traditional roles may still apply in same-sex relationships; they just may not be as strong.…
Scarlet Letter Journal Analysis Journal #2: In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the scarlet letter negatively affects Hester because it excludes her from society, labels her as the embodiment of sin in the town, and grants her a lot of disrespect among the people. Hester lived in a cottage that was far away from the whole town and completely surrounded by woods, which already made her feel separate from the community. Not only that, but every time she went to the busy Boston area, her contact with society made her feel “banished, and as much alone as if she inhabited another sphere” (Hawthorne 78). Hester is obviously suffering from isolation already, due to her sin and the scarlet letter setting her apart from everyone…