Me and Mrs. Jones

culture is when the majority of people in one area such as a country, a city or an island follows the same culture. For the minority group, they need to think if they should accept or reject the dominant culture. Prior to reading Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones, I did not realize that dominant culture could impact people and society in a negative way. However, after seeing majority of white people leave the island, the society system on the island was smashed down. I realized that literature can teach…

snow storm. Mrs. Jones-Smith: (enter stage right) Time for school! (She says calling out to school yard) No one answers because they are still walking to school in the snow. Mrs. Jones-Smith: Oh students! (She looks frantically around, thinking maybe they’ve frozen to death! She begins to mutter to herself) Ohhhhhh……what if they’ve died in the snow. (She returns to her desk to pack up and go home) (Frankie enters stage left) Frankie: Ayyyyy, Mrs. J-Smith. How’s it goin’? Mrs. J-S: …

In “I Want To Live” we meet Mrs. Wilson just as she is finding out she has cancer. It seems, on the face of it, a terrible idea for a story. Like it’s almost too easy to be good, a story about a woman who gets cancer and dies. But somehow Thom Jones pulls it off with perfect, beautiful minimalism. We rise with her highs and lows, though the dilaudid and the pain. We get brief, unexplained…

Dexter’s main goal is to be with Judy Jones. Fitzgerald adds “He had just lost something more, as surely as if he had married Judy Jones and seen her fade away before his eyes. The dream was gone” (Fitzgerald). The quote means that Dexter lost his hope and motivation to chasing his dream of…

No experience in my entire life has taught me to be myself as much as meeting my friend, Allauna. Me and Allauna are best friends, and we met the second week of school. We have had sleepovers, gone to dances as friends, and I don’t have a clue where I would be without her. We are bestfriends, and we have our ups and downs, but we always forgive each other by the end of the day. When I was in 5th grade, I didn’t really know a lot of people in my class because I had moved the past year. After a…

It relates to any revolution, but oftenly used to help describe the Russian Revolution, Nazi Germany and the French Revolution. There are many characters in Animal Farm but the most important would have to be Napoleon, Snowball, Old Major and Mr. Jones. Napoleon is the leader of Animal Farm after the revolution. Napoleon along with the other pigs has total control over the farm. Napoleon becomes a dictator along with his nine attack dogs. Snowball is the pig that fights Napoleon for…

Ch. 3 Writing Prompt: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” –Martin Luther King Jr., American activist in the Civil Rights Movement. This relates to me because when I was younger the worst thing I could was be hardheaded and dumb. If I were not like that before hand, I would have been doing great things right now but now it has been prolonged. I have seen so many people mess up or ruin their lives just by choosing to be ignorant, not willing…

The excerpt for ”He got game” relates to the animals' complacent attitude as the commandments change and the way of doing things on the farm change for the worse by complacency. In “He Got Game”,” Everything approved/ People used/ Even murders excused.” In the book Animal Farm the commandments were no animal shall kill another, then when Napoleon becomes leader after running Snowball off then he finds out that the hens and a few of the other animals have been helping Snowball in his revenge,…

the doorway and raised his index and thumb at me in the same fashion small children make guns out of their hands and said, “We need to talk…now,” and then backed out of the doorway into the hallway. Quickly and nervously, I instructed my students of their task as I made my way to the back of the classroom and into the hall. In the hallway, I stood face to face with…

true anymore, for a multitude of reasons. School, specifically Jones and 12-14, is very different from how I grew up having school, from levels 3-6 to 9-12. I don’t feel that even after 3 years of a differently structured school-life I’m still not used to the changes. This ‘new school’ is very structured (Jones even more so than 12-14) and has grades, higher levels of homework, separate teachers, specific classes, and specifically for Jones, a large amount of strangers and a difficult commute. …