TKAM Final Blog

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          The book To Kill A Mockingbird is one of the greatest books I have ever read, but of course it is not with it's flawless. Let us start with the good; the description of the city of Maycomb are some of the greatest piece of writing I have ever seen. An example of this can be seen on page 6 where Scout narrorates "In rainy weather the streets turned to red slope; grass grew  on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square."  After I read this I had one of the clearest pictures of a city described in a book because of the great level of detail. As well as the way that not everything is clearly stated as she does not say the roads are made of clay, but you can assume that.  The way that the character are described is also great with out stating the obvious. This is shown on page 362 where Scout says "They were white hands, sickly white hands that had never seen the sun..." This shows that this character is rarely outside do to the lack of dark skin color.

           Another reason that this book is great is the way that the character talk and aged in the book is realistic.  For example Atticus is always trying to teach his children a life lesson that will without doubt helping them in the future.  This is shown on page I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. This is something that I could see a father telling her kid to show him/her that someone having a weapon or power does not make them have true courage, but someone that does not stop even when you known you will fail.

           Another reason that this book is great is the way that the character talk and aged in the book is realistic.  For example Atticus is always trying to teach his children a life lesson that will without doubt helping them in the future.  This is shown on page I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. This is something that I could see a father telling her kid to show him/her that someone having a weapon or power does not make them have true courage, but someone that does not stop even when you known you will fail.




                The theme of the book of prejudge has stood the test of 50 years and states relative to this day. As now a days people are starting to show that some and not all law inforcements can be racist and attack those that they do not see as equal just the same as Tom.  As well the message of treating others with respect as now anyone can be the difference with a good choice or a bad choice to lead down a path.




                 Of course no book is without a few flaws and this book is no different. As Harper Lee tries to have different plots as the first plot starts to happen it developed until the second plot comes in over shadows the first for a big chunk of the book until the second plot climaxes and the first come in once again. Even though done to an extreme well sometimes the plots can lose a little amount of focus. As well the book can be very verbose and can be sometimes confusing. Due to the second plot and the amount of verbosness of the book.

To Kill A Mockingbird 11/30

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I will juxtapose Dill and Francis





              Francis and Dill both change the live of Scout: Francis makes Scout feel hatred towards Atticus side of the family because he gets her in trouble and taunters her. Dill causes love in Scouts heart and makes her feel good about herself. Francis and Dill as well their dad does not seem to have a big impact in their live does not cause them to make live choice off the way the dad raised them. Francis and Dill both create conflict with Scout as Dill wants to Marry Scout and have a family with her. Francis tries to make Scout's live a living hell and by doing that she resents him.

               Francis is trying to make Scout feel bad and makes fun of her to get a reaction and then get her in trouble. While Dill wants Scout to be happy he tries to brighten her day and he even propose her to. Dill is more kind and is nice to everyone he meets and has a good attitude. Francis is a more spoiled kid that wants to make the live of those he does not seem fit harder even if they are not doing anything to him.  Dill see Scout every summer for two summer in a row, while Francis is only visited during holidays and other events.

               Francis is Scout's aunt Alexandra's grandson from Atticus side of the family. Francis is a big rival to Scout as he tries to annoy her by taunting her in many ways including name calling and falsely accusing her of being a rude distrubense to him.  Dill is a friend of scout that she meets in the year of 1933 with her brother. Eventually the next summer Dill propose to and Scout she accepts, he says the will marry when they are old enough.  Both of theses characters are the foil of each other as they are complete opposites of each other as one loves Scout and the other more of the line haters her.

                  Dill wants Scout to be a happy and light heart person that he is in love and that he cares about. Scout as well loves Dill to the point where she accepts marrying him once they are old enough. Francis really despises Scout he make fun of her her father and gets her in trouble when she did nothing. Scout as well does not like Francis and hates having to visit him because she is annoyed by Francis and the fact that the family does not respect Scout as much.

       

                                        

 

To Kill a Mockingbird 11/24

Evans, Walker. Sidewalk Scene in Selma, Alabama. 1935. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Selma. 

                    I believe that the picture that I chose is a good representation of the city of Maycomb from the book To Kill a Mockingbird. The first reason that I believe that this picture represents Maycomb is the way the streets is, the street appears to be smooth as though it was made by clay. A quote on page six where Scout says "In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop..." The red slop is describing streets made out of clay that can be extremely smooth.  Another reason that I believe that this picture represents the city of Maycomb is that there is a poster in the middle building that says all you can drink 5 cents. This is shown on page 25 Miss Caroline said "Here's a quarter," "Go an eat down town..." This shows the reader that many of the amenities of the country were cheap compared to now.

                     Another way that this picture resembles the city of Maycomb in the book To Kill a Mockingbird is that this town seems to be running at a slow rate. An example of this can be found on page six where Scout says "People moved slowly then." "A day was twenty-four hours long, but seemed longer." This is shown in the picture because many of the people in the picture are just sitting down and seem to be in no worry. My final reason that this picture is a representation of Maycomb is as well on page six "Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day..." On the picture many of the people are wearing dark clothing on what appears to be a hot day so a hot would not be out of place and be more common.  

Ripper 11-16-15

Prompt; Theme

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The theme of the book Ripper is that the main character is coming of age. This is shown through out the book for example Carver our protagonist becomes a detective even though he was originally an orphan. This is shown on page 12 were it is stated " The board has also decided we can no longer house residents past age thirteen."  and on page 13 where it is stated "...focus on making the best-possible impression on net week's Prospective Parents Say."  This shows that no matter were you come from you can still do great thing with your live. 

            Carver action also show that the theme of the book is coming of age because at the beginning of the book Carver is petty and steals for his personal gain. This is shown on pages 6 and 7 where Carver thinks Of course this would be the only lock in Ellis Orphanage that ever gave him trouble. It wasn't his first crime, but it was the only that could change his life." This showed me that Carver still hasn't learned his moral because he still has not matured yet.   As the story progresses Carver begins to mature as he accept a job to help solve crimes so the law-breakers can be sent to justice.

    

          The setting of the book Ripper also affects the themes because the story takes place in the early 1900's in New York.  The city can be seen as a symbol of coming of age at that time because this is when new York started to hit its strides finically to be come the city we know as now. This is the same thing that Carver is doing as he is maturing  and becoming a "well oiled machine" in his work. The setting also helps show how Carver has to learn how to live in this "new world".

End of the Quarter Reflection 10-29-15

1.) What strategies have benefit you 2.) How have your research skills improved 3.) What have you learned from the world 

One of the strategies that I have used to help me is going over the list of things that I had to do for homework every night before I go to sleep so that I do not forget anything. This has helped me by limiting the times that I forgot things at home. It has also help not to forgot to do  my homework. This has also helped me with my organization because I have to keep everything in different sections so the process is much easier than if the papers and work were discombobulated. This strategy has also helped me see that preparation and organization can help you have everything you need and that it can help you be ready for what you needed.

   My research skills have improved in many ways the first being that I have founded easier to find information that is more accurate. I do this my finding the web address and seeing if the website is a .com, .org, or .net if the website is .org it is the most trust worthy while a .com is the least trust worthy. I as well get information from more than one website to compare and see which information appears the most.  I also make sure not use website like yahoo answers and I only use wikipedia if needed for extra information. By doing this I have been able to use better information and have the most accurate work I can do. 

My blogs have been steadily improving since August in a few aways the first being that it has become second nature once again. Since for over a month I had not done a blog I had trouble having ideas on how to write because it had been so long since I had written a blog. I have also been able to incorporate the vocabulary words into my writing even more so it become easier to diction. I have also started to read over my work so it become increasingly better and there are less grammatical errors.  These are some of the way I have been able to increase the quality of my blogs.

 

Ripper 10/14/15

Prompt 1.)  What have you found boring about what you’ve been reading? What made it

boring? If you were the author 2.) Describe the most important event. Give at least three reasons why you think it is the most important event. 3.) Describe a character that you would like to meet (which doesn’t mean that you think you would like the character, but that you think the character would be

interesting). List 4 questions that you would ask.

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                    In the book Ripper most of the chapters are very intersting, but their are a few were our many character Carver is just looking for clues in a library and they can turn out to be boring. In chapter 19 where Carver goes to the Federal Immigration Station where records of immigrants that came to the country, are stored. Carver enters the building and he asks a worker if he can help him find the document where the names of the immigrants that came in the 1889 to lower the number of people that the counter literally pulls strings. This concept seems intersting, but the idea was not used to it's full potential making it seem dull intested of intersting.

                     I believe that the most important event to have happen in the book so far is Carver finding a letter from his father in the orphanage's file storage. The first reason I believe that this is the most important event in the book do to the fact that finding the letter makes him want to become a detective even more.  The second reason that I believe that this is the most important event in book do the fact that finding the letter propels Carver to join the Pinkerton detective agency. The third reason that Carver finding his father's letter because he uses the Pinkerton resources to find his father which leads him to get caught between a killer and the Pinkston.  

                     The character that I would like to meet is Hawking because is the mentor to the main character Carver which means he has the most experience in being a detective. My first question that I would ask to Hawking would be what would intersted him in being a detective? Then I would ask: What was the most intersting case that you have worked on and how did you solve it if you could? Next I would ask if Carver was the first person he had "taken under his wing" if not than who was it before him?  I fould finally ask him how many cases has he solved and what was his hardest case to solve?

                      

Comin Home

"Comin Home"

It hurt my brother and me too

 see our parents struggle

Living in a desperate time, 

among a desperate people, 

among war 

among famine, 

among epidemic

There are only a few of them left now

thirty years of war made sure of that

My father started to wonder

DOES GOD HATE ME?

DID HE CURDSE ME BEFORE BIRTH?

I went back to the homeland recently

 to my family,

 to help

our separation was over.

"For today, 

we are not refugees, 

we don't live in adobes. Now we live back

 home among our people

 and we celebrate our 

new year,

and we dance.

They talked "Even stories fail

 me as I tried recall

I told them "Here, too, is money

With Money, you can do much. 

But exercise great care

 As I left my father told me 

remember your country remember us