Gooseberries

Ivan and his brother grew up as poor chlildren living with his dad. As him and his brother, Nikolay got older they both got great jobs. One as a government worker and the other as a vet. Nikolay wanted more and more on his journy to freedom. The central theme of the short stoiry was all Nikolay wanted was a farm. This farm was to be filled with goosberry bushes all around. This is allo the man wanted in life. Nikolay became so lost in his farm and the pursuit of happiness that he would eat the non-ripe gooseberries and talk about how delicious they were.

Good Country People

Through Hulga’s daily life there is much christian redemption seen. She lives her life as if she cares nothing of what anyone else thinks. Eventually Hulga met a boy who considered himself as christian. She starts to love him more and more but sh never will say it either. In a way Hulga’s non-believing led to her demise because the christian man she fell in love with took her leg while they were in the barn. Because she was not a believer this was coming to her for not believing.

Alice Walker

Alice Walker was born in the antastic year of 1944 in the hreat state of Georgia. At four years old she was pu into the 4th grade by her mother one year ahead of everyone else. The landlords didnt like her going to school because they wanted her to work in the fields. Because of Martin Luther King Jr. she went back to her home in the south and became a activist of civil rights. She was walking with the many other people during the walk on Washington. In 1965 she met a wonderful man by the name of Mel Leventhal who was also a civil rights activist but of the Jewish faith. In 2003 she was arrested for crossing the police lines in an anti war protest near the White House

Most Dangerous Game

In the begining thw two men are discussing hunting and the feelings the animals have. Whitney describes the animals as having feeling like the “…fear of pain and the fear of death.” When Rainsford meets General Zaroff and learns more about the man and his hunting ways, he starts to feel for the animals that are being hunted and a little remorseful towards them. At the end is when he actually feels like the animals who are running for their lives. He felt the fear of pain and death all right, he saw them face to face.

Flash Response

This class has enlightened me so far. I feel as if I am a different person because of the beautiful teacher I have.

tv makes you smarter

1. The author is assumig that everyone who reads this article watches tv which is mainly true

2. It shows that it is for something and not just for the heck of it

3. Trubey makes tv seem like it is unbeatable and will always overcome because it is and too many people watch it for it to ever be taken down

4. Johnson shows his counter argument and then soon after proves them wrong with much evidence.

5. WIth tv’s doing more and more these days tv is becoming more and more intellectual.

Cloning

Yes…1. Humans are playing god by creating life. Something we are not meant to do

2. Cloning one human would mean completely affecting the world with the people around them like friends and family and even enemies

3. Now getting married and having sex to reproduce is completely eliminated because cloning would be technology making human beings, not humans making humans

But….Cloning would be amazing for the technological world considering we feel they are not like humans so we can use them for the dirty work so that “real” humans are not being used. We can test things more easily now that we have these clones to be test dummys

Chapter 9. Finally!!!

1. Mr. Gatz talks about how his son is a very organized person and kept to his schedule even though it was a tough schedule to fill, filled with a lot of activities. He was a hardworking boy at the time and through his hard work he pursued and he came out of that lower class his family was in. He rose out of the cellar and went up through the ranks to gain fame and money.

2. Gatsby is not the man Nick thought he was. He now feels bad for the man after he realizies how many friends he doesn’t have. He was all in all a good man and Nick saw this but too late. He was dead but that is what it took for him to realize this about Gatsby. The audience finds out that he was a really organized person with his journal of what he does everyday. He was a good kid and a good man.

3. White is used often with a few girls like Daisy and Jordan. The white shows their beauty on the outside that everyone sees but on the inside they are really ugly with their lies and deception. They portray themselves as the perfect American girls but as we went through out the book we noticed how corrupt they really were.

I Have completed an assignment! i have many more to conquer with so little time to do it, but i will win! Good night

Chapter 8

1. In two chapters in a row the American dream is “acheived” but then when Gatsby wants more the dream ends. In a way Fitzgerald is trying to say that be happ with what you have and not to try so hard for somthing you proabably wont get. This causes the loss of that dream and in Gatsby’s case the loss of his life. He was trying so hard for Daisy’s love that in the end, the dream he had of the two of them was crushed.

2. Fitzgerald explains that Daisy was froced into her marriage with Tom because of his high social class. Daisy also is in that high social class so it would be forbidden to marry someone in a lower social class then her. Even though she obviously loves Gatsby more this Social ladder has taken over her life and caused her to marry a man she does not really love instead of the poor man she was madly in love with (Gatsby).

 3. “…That yellow car…” Yet again Gatsby’s car is mentioned again but as yellow. Usually if you have money you are safe from all. Money corrupts everything around us and this is what it has done to Gatsby. The thing is though that it shows that even if you have money you can finally be caught doing something worng just as Gatsby did even though Daisy was driving. She is also apart of that upper class that never thinks about getting caught. Wilson found his car and shot Gatsby right on the spot without confrontation. It shows that even the rich don’t always have a way out.

Chapter 7

1. Myrtle is dead!!!! She is the pefect example of the American Dream. She had the family and the pefect husband as she thought. But she was having an affair with Tom and she wanted him more than anything. This symbolizes that once you have achieved your own dream that you want more and more, if it is even possible to achieve your American dream because you seem to want more and more as you keep receiving what you had once wanted. She also tried to achieve all of this too fast and saw it all crash down. Well she didn’t really see it coming considering she was killed. The American dream can come so fast but lso be taken away just as fast if not faster.

2. Tom has finally let out all that built up anger and has showed the bull inside of him. He has generally been decent through out the book but he loses it all here. He is fed up with Daisy and Gatsby. He had one of those senses about him since the very begining. One of those feelings you get about someone and you know they are know good, this is what Tom has about Gatsby. He lets it all out on him and they go into a little shouting match. Tom does nothing to Gatsby because if he did she would run to Gatsby and take care of him while she would resent Tom and be very upset with him. This would definitely ruin their marriage that is already going down hill.

3. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly.

Nick finally realizes omething about Daisy that he has known his whole life but not relly known. It is thrown ou on the table that she is a gold digger and she is only in for the money which she married Tom for. She goes alongside with gold with her need for money. As my fellow classmate Robyn says,”Like money, she can make situations better or worse.” Thank you Robyn.

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