Blog #12- The Lesson

The Story by Toni Cade Bambara is about a class trip during the summer which the teacher takes them. The children are poor but there teacher is not like an African American they see in their towns. she went to college and she has one name Miss Moore. the lesson comes at the end of the story where the kids realize they do have the same oppertunity to be rich and to have money. the little girl Sylvia is a tough little girl who says wat she thinks. Shes an expressive and outspoken. Her friend sugar makes a smart comment about that equal chance in democracy and the teachers seems to praise her. But when she asks Sylvia she turns away and doesnt say anything. but she does realize something that nobody could be better which is wat she says. either she she could ignorant or she did really expect the lesson learned.

Blog #11- A&P

A&P byJohn Updke tells of a boy who shows and stands up in wat he believes in although its a minor thing. Such as 3 girls in bathing suit who shop in A&P. Even when they dont see wat he has done for them. He feels unsure of wats to come next but he confident that hes done the right thing in his life. This is the case in alot of teens but overall thru experience and thru your own choices you learn wats right and wats wrong for you. standing up for your values and wat you believe in.

Blog #10- Everyday use

The Story Everyday use by Alice Walker is about three different woman. A mother and her two different daughters. One stay living at the house with the mother while the other one is a high class who got an education and is in the city. Dee isn't happy to come back to her mother but feels more like a chore she has to do once in a while. Shes embarrassed by the house her mother lives in and doesn't want to bring any friends around. But she changed her name to Wangero. while the man she is with is named Asalamalakim although they are living in America. This shows they wanted to go back to their heritage in Africa but not in another because the name she was given Dicie. It was passed on from her family tree but she doesn't want to recognize the significance of the name of her background. When Dee comes to visit the mother describes her outfit as bright with orange and yellow, even gold earrings and bracelets. Which is an example of the African heritage that Dee is showing in her life while her mother forgot about it and thinks it is too much. Her mother said that shes a tough woman like a man because of the labor she could do and not how her daughter wants her to be. In a way shes hiden her feminine side and her heritage but didn't forget where she came from. While Dee is trying to forget where she came from but shes embracing the nationality.

Blog #9- A worn Path

The old woman goes on a path that perhaps she traveled in real life. she is walking a far path in which only at the end we find out why she took the long trip. She is also visited by dreams and reaches out to them but they fade. this could a clue to something missing in her life or something she is longing for and doesn't have yet. Color is present in this story as well. where the old woman is encounted by different people and things which she clearly recognizes color and there attitudes.

Blog #8- A Good Man is Hard to Find

The story is told by the grandmother who goes on a trip with the whole family. She wants to go to Tennessee to see plantations that she remembers from childhood. but the family wants to go Florida. the grandmother is a lady and always "acts" like a lady according to her, as well as dressing like one. On their vacations they encounter the Misfit. all the family members act in greed and with greediness during this trips where we find out about the characters. the family has the grandmother which is constantly talking and a selfish woman because she doesn't consider the rest of the family only herself. The mother doesn't discipline her children therefore causing more irritation for the family and disrespect. John Wesley and June Star are the kids who are both badly behaved children. they do no listen to the parents or respect the elders their grandmother. The Misfit himself is selfish for taking the away from the world although they could be consider bad but also good people...the central theme of greed is present in the story and throughout the characters actions.

Blog #7- A Hunger Artist

The Hunger Artist is about an artist who fasts for 40 days. the artist experiences isolation and isnt happy about the second time he does his fasting. he feels people are different this time and arent in tune with artistic work and design anymore. the first around he had human connections with the people even in the cage. but the second time they were too concerned with seeing the animal cages with lively animals instead of a lone artist. the artist goes into his head and starts to think about the people who arent stopping and the state of mind that is so different in how they think today.

Blog #6- Young Goodman Brown

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is about Brown a young guy who goes on a journey thru the forest. He is referred to as Goodman but his actions in the beginning of the story are anything but. He leaves faith his wife when she doesn't want him to. theres talk of Indians, witches, and the devil. In the forest he encounters a man who leads him to a witch meeting the people he knows from salem village where he is from. he says "laughing like demons" the people he hears around him. in the beginning he has faith literally and also in mind hes a young guy, ready to explore. after the forest though he got exposed to many things and basically his innocent broke bubble broke and he became gloomy and never the same because he didn't recover from what he witnessed.

Blog #5- The Purloined Letter

Edgar Allan Poe writes a mystery/ detective story of Dupin, himself as a character and the French police. There has been a letter taken and nowhere to be found. The letter is thought to be in a hotel but after a careful search no letter is found. The letter is later found because the character didn’t look in the smallest place or in secret spots but because they looked at the situation at whole. Therefore looking from a distance were able to identify the letter and obtain it. I guess this makes u consider when looking for something, stop looking. Take a step back perhaps rethink of the last place it was placed which is looking at the whole picture.

Blog #4- The Use of Force

"The Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams explains the concept of force and emotions that are involved agony, fury as well as enjoyment and pleasure. the doctor exposes the little girl who refused to open her mouth. with force the doctor opened her mouth and revealed her infected tonsils. he describes the force is he using as something will be benefit that girl because she could die if doesn't detect her illness. but since he becomes so furious such as the girl herself he says "but a blind fury, a feeling of adult shame, bred of a longing for muscular release are the operatives". which means he wants to overpower her. when you have blind fury you probably could do a lot of things and regret them in the end but not thinking clearly about them when in the act.

Blog #3- Hills Like White Elephants

Hills Like White Elephants wasn't an interesting story for me reading the first few lines because i didn't understand it. after reading the second time and the blogs i understood it. therefore the story didn't catch my attention at first and failed to capture my concentration. The story takes place at a train station. they seem to be on opposite sides. the woman wanting or unsure of the choice she should make and the man wanting her to do the adoption. Metephors like the clouds and the river also the colors described shows the atmosphere and sets a tone. the serious topic the two characters are talking about made me think that they are in a foreign country just for the operation just in case. they could have the option also they are Americans which indicts that probably it was not allow in the u.s.

Blog #2- The Yellow Wallpaper

The yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a very interesting story. Its about a sick woman although her husband shes has nothing to worry about and her brother who are both doctors. But in her mind she is unwell and doesn't really tell them so i don't think they fully understood her medical situation. I thought it was strange that she was always tired all the time. i thought she started to hallucinate because of her sickness but she actually saw patterns and wanted to figure them out on her whole. she believed her husband john and jennie were also tired to solve the mystery but it was all in her head. She writes a journal of events that happened when shes not weak and keeps it a secret. she desrcibes the wallpaper in her room in great detail. The wallpaper is yellowish in color, old and pealing it also has a smell. she sees a woman who is creeping. the woman ends up being her. the end of the story she rips the paper off and the woman is free from behind. which is saying that she is really free but not really because her husband faints and is laying in her path. Because of her weakness she was very limited to her activities and was restricted. Therefore all the metaphors of the traps and confinements were about herself.

Blog #1- Story of an Hour

In the story The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin describes Mrs. Mallard as not being in the best medical condition and then she gets the news that her husband Richard has been "killed". She begins to reminisce about her life. she begins to explain one side and another side all at once with contradicting sentences. while saying "patches of blue sky" and "spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own" in a different line. she realizes that her life is so much better and its a new beginning a new chapter in her life. with this in mind she opens the door for Josephine and began to go downstairs and in the door walks in her husband alive not dead as she thought and that is what killed her. the irony in this story is interesting and makes the story worth reading making the reader want to finish reading the story.