Makes Me Wanna Holla POST4

In the story the characters does in fact remind me of people around me and in my society today.The same old violent situations is going on right now. I think thats where it all blossomed from. The crime taking place in the story I think movtivated or gave crime and gang violence its footprints for today. First it started with little gangs everyone just repping a little crew and than it grew bigger , stronger, more deadly, more seriously and out of control. Young tennage bodies dropping everyday just look they are today apparently for no reason.


In the beginning kids referring to teenagers just used their fist at one point of time.Sticks at one point was an option also.Everyone would fist fight until they knocked someone out or until they say blood. But it became more serious because thats when guns came into place. Alothough there a difference in this story. The teenagers would shot at their opponet but not in means to kill them.In society today teenagers shot at their oppents and try to blow their heads off.So the story does have quite few similarities today.

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The story is rageing in conflict. It started with racial profiling and class difference.Then later on lead to competion with everyone.Thats when violence, critisim, peer pressure, armed robbery and prison fell into place. Everybody wanted to be somebody. They wanted to prove that they had heart. They had to earn their reps. Violence thats when it came into play. See the people in Calvalier Manor uptown, downtown, midtown, and the other gang spots had beef with each other. So to prove they had nothing to lose all these gangs would have hood shootouts like they didnt have a care in the world.
Critisim played a major role in conflict too. If u werent fly if u didnt rock that last gear you would be critized kind of similar to whats going on today.Youngsters would kill to have the new fashion accessories. Even today no one wants to be critized. In this story they call that JONIN. It would cause lots of tension between 1 or more people.These characters really had some serious issuses.
Peer Pressure also took a turn in these characters fast life. Anything 1 saw there peers doing that was there Q to do it to. They saw the older hood guys selling drugs carrying guns they wanted to hang so the other guys pressured them in order for them to hang. So right now in this story things are raging out of control.

And Then There Were None -Agatha Christie #5

There are many different conflicts in this novel. The number one conflict is that no one knows who the killer is. It could either be someone hiding on the island, or one out of the ten strainers in the house. The only thing is the island is but so big. With it being an island, surrounded by nothing but water, and very hard to escape and a storm out side. I would think it would be very hard to hide. What makes the entire situation even freakier is, the people that are left on the island (or that are still alive on the island) walked around together to search if anyone (other than them) where on the island. And the scary thing is, they were the only people and the only house on the island. So, this means the killer has to be with in. This is really a huge mind game that the killer is mastering in!
At this point I would be so very scared! I don't know what I would do in this situation?....I probably would be the one to kill everyone left on the island to guarantee my life, but I don't know?

Obviously the characters in this novel have many qualities. They are cruel, angry, dishonest, and vengeful. All of the characters are being dishonest toward each other. (Remember: in the beginning, the voice that revealed every ones secret past of the murders they were responsible or convicted for). The killer is cruel, angry, vengeful (over something), and very dishonest. The killer has to be one of the stringers on the island, because if not, then who is? So, once the killer is revealed than that shows all of those qualities, especially being dishonest. But its not like he was going to confess to his victims that he was the killer.

I did not have to force myself to read this book because I wanted to find out what was going to happen to these characters on this mysterious (deadly) island.
I really did enjoy this book. I would also recommend it to my friends. If you like twisted murder mysteries, than this book is just right for you! Oh, and wait till you get to the end of the book. You will be so surprised, the ending is really good! Everything just falls right into place. The whole thing will make perfect sense.....I think the ending is what really what made me enjoy the book even more.

Clover-By Dori Sanders

I'm a very picky reader but for some weird reason this book caught my eye. This nine year old girl new how to grab my heart. Through the whole novel she would get flashbacks of times her and her father had. Her father was the principle of the school she went to and she rearly got in trouble but one day she had an assignment to do and she said she didn't feel like doing it the teacher tried to go to every resort except sending her to her fathers office but she kept acting out which wasn't normal of her so the teacher finally sent clover down their. She went in and she said the look her father had was a very disappointing look. He gave her a chance to explain herself she tried but their really wasn't nothing for her to explain. She was in the wrong, he knew it and she knew it. But her father loved her so much and she doesn't usually get in trouble so he didn't really know what to do being his little angel in all. He gave her a slight punishment she was said but she got over it and they both moved on. Clover was so use to having her father to herself so when her stepmother came along she really didn't like her much but after he died her new stepmother stayed around and clover started to like her she started to like her alot.

The Things They Carried

Certain parts of the book made me comfortable cause there would be time were you would be safe and times you wouldn't be safe.The reason I felt comfortable with this book is because that the way the characters expressed themselves was that they always talk about the Lieutenant Jimmy Crosses love life on how he to a letter or a picture to another level.No because I haven't read that many books.This book reminds me of the movie Platoon.The book and the movie are alike because the book talks about the things they carried and the movie showed what they carried.The book is different from the movie because the movie their was rain that was up to their chest and in the book they dont even talk about how much it rained and how long it rained.I don't know nothing about the author Tim O'brien.No the book is not an auto biography.The athor doesn't bring his life experience into the book.Yes its similiar to the other books he wrote.

And Then There Were None -Agatha Christie #4

I think this novel has alot of symbolism. The "poem" is maybe a clue of how each guest will die. Because there are ten guests, they all have a past in common (murder), and there are ten little Indians in the poem. Along with the poem, there's these ten little Indian figures on the dining room table. When someone dies or is "missing", one of the Indian figures goes missing. All of these clues are symbols in a way.
Who ever the killer is, is playing a mind game with the all of the victims.
Every ones pointing the finger at someone else, and they're all beginning to become very paranoid. Whale there blaming each other, there not paying attention to who the really killer could be.
This whole thing is a big mind game to me.
The killer was very smart when it came to the time and place (setting). He planned this so it would take place during a huge storm. With this storm, it prevents anyone from escaping the island. So, the violence of the weather symbolises the violence that is taking place on the island.
I think the killer's "mind games" (mentally) killed the victims more than the killer did (physically). I think your own mind can kill you faster than another person can.

Clover-by Dori Sanders

The thing that is so unique about the setting is that it took place in South Carolina with peach farmers, textile workers, drunks and crazy people, with newly middle class along with terminally poor.Now where I'm from (Buffalo,N.Y.) there's a few drunks,crazy people, middle class and the poor. But there is no peach farmers and every thing I named that I found unique about the setting is all going on kind of at the same time. This novel was written in 1990. I think this novel would still be a good book to read decades from now.I think this book could be a book that was written now in this time because there is still peach farming, textile working, drunks, crazy people, fireflies and that good old southern accent going on down in South Carolina. People around the time when this book was written had good moral values and was very appreciative and its still kind of like that down there but not as much as it use to be.

The Things They Carried

The experience they get is fun but the death part scares me even know I'm not afraid of death.The experience that makes them grow is that they get the extend training.I would change my fathers maybe they would help him with his drinking problem.I would change his life that he did not ever touch beer in his life.Maybe his life could be different.The reason i picked this person was so he would not die cause he has a heart problem.Dave Jensen i identify from the book because i would carry foot powder so i didn't catch trench foot.The time period this book is set in the Vietnam war.I know a little about the Vietnam war.I know that we should have never went there.I would have not wanted to live in that time period because it you would be scared to get bombed back in the day.The book called the things they carried was written in 1979.The things that I would like to learn about this book is that did the soldiers kill the vietnamese wrongly and hurt them in ways that people now days couldn't imagin.

Intoduction

I am reading a novel called Makes Me Wanna Holla about a young black man growing up in America. The book is about money,power,respect,war, and living the American life back in the day as a black person.
So far I like this book but there are a few floss on how the way they would handle things. I like how it speaks out on the black American life when they weren't treated equally and how they came around and made a big come up.

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In the story Makes Me Wanna Holler the author experiences does make him grow. Growing up where whites and blacks were still discriminant against one another was a big challenge.The author had to face new obstacles everyday in which indeed made him stronger. He resided in a neighborhood called Cavalier Manor in which only blacks lived until a street with whites separated them. The author took up a mean growth spurt from it. The authors parents sent him to an all white school because they wanted him to have the best education. Being the only black person in a school that was no longer segregated but still racist was something that helped the author grow.
He have to keep his head up everyday because he was among a group of people the doesn't honor him or see him as a human. They look at him as if he was some type of alien from another planet because hes black. He fought new battles everyday.He had to learn to go school and keep his head not caring what anyone thinks of him and this made him stronger and stronger everyday.

The Allure of the West

 Into the Wild ;, Jon Krakauer, pgs 144-207 (end)

<i>Death of a Salesman</i>, Arthur Miller, pgs 1-97

So, I finished <i>Into the Wild</i> and started rereading a book that I'm studying with my AP Literature class.  As I read the first act of the play I was struck by the similarity between Chris McCandless and many of the characters from <i>Death of a Salesman</i>.  The main character of this story, Willy Loman frets over a missed opportunity to accompany his older brother to Alaska to make money. Instead he is 60 and stuck in a dead end sales job.  Interestingly enough, Willy's father abandoned <i>him</i> as a child to also seek fortune in Alaska.  In a weird twist, Willy is disappointed in his son Biff because he is constantly seeking work outside of the norm of the day.  He's worked on cattle farms and other jobs that Willy does not respect.  Biff explains that he likes these jobs because he's not stuck inside at a desk and can be out in the open air.

In American culture the west has always been symbolic of the open frontier, a vast unexplored wilderness where a man could make his living outside of the realm of laws and societal constraints.  It's interesting that these two books, written 50 years apart, have such similar themes.

Does anyone else know of any characters who seek a life outside of society?  Anyone have a friend or family member who constantly wants to go out on the open road?  What do you think drives a person to feel like this?

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And Then There Were None -Agatha Christie #3

The novel is slowly starting to come together in chapter 3. Everyone in the house went into one room, and a voice came out into the silence. This voice went on to tell what everyone had in common. It turns out that everyone in the room was once charged with murder.

I'm assuming that they were not caught. Or they were charged unfairly in a trail.
Now that we know what they all have in common, we have to find out why they are all there and who is the "master planner" for this.

You can tell that what the voice was saying about the characters was true because they all were getting nervous. They all were asking who was that speaking, and they were all trying to plead their case. You can kind of tell when someone is lying, because after hearing the shocking truth, that person immediately tries to plead their case to persuade your opinion on them.

If I were one of the guests, I would be really nervous after hearing all of the disturbing information. I would then know that I was not there for what the "letter" said, but for something else. I then would assume that someone was going to die. I would just make sure that, that someone was not going to be me!

Anthony Marston just died by choking on his drink. The poem states: "Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine."
I think this is an example of irony. The author emphasized the poem in the beginning, and the first death just happened to match up with the poem.

Clover-Dori Sanders

If i could ask any character a question it would be Clover and my question would be after all this that has happened how does she really feel about the situation of her father dying and why didn't she or his wife cry? If i could ask the author any question it would be how did she come about creating this book? Does this novel has anything to do with her or someone she knew/know? I chose these questions because how can you not cry at your fathers funeral maybe shes to young and didn't get to have that father, daughter bond but the way she talks about him it seems like they did. That's why i want to how does she feel about the situation and how did she feel when she seen him laying in that casket. Same thing with his newly wed wife why wasn't she crying is it because she knows that he is in a better place because if something happened to the love of my life i would be crushed. And last but not least what made the author write such a deep, heart touching realistic book. Does it kind of relate to her or someone she know? Maybe ill find out at the end of this deep novel.

The Things They Carried

The things they carried were of the many.The characters do seem real and believable.I can not relate to their predicaments because i never went to war.The extent of memories is from all the war stories my grandpa use to talk about.It felt like i was there in the war zone fighting with my grandpa.The characters changed by the people they killed and their friends that died fighting with them .The things that triggered the change they had to deal with watching their friends die in front of them.Only one character tells the story.It doesnt color the telling because their was only one speaker.I sympathize the fact that i've never been to war and i feel sorry for the ones that went to war cause it was hard.They couldn't see their families.Yes they are because if i went to war i would do the same stuff they are doing right now.Troubling if you went to war would you act crazy.No their actions are not consistent because war is a consistent thing but death is also consistent.

The characterization was very realistic to me, the 10-year old girl clover also seems very smart and careful. The reason why the characterization seems so real to me is because how great in detail she goes when shes explaining her family members. She also explains their attitudes and how they always been that way or if they just start acting that way because someone new is around. She also does not trust or is comfortable around her new stepmother because she says she barely know her so she seems like a total stranger to her.
If i ever got a chance to meet clover i would because she seems so real and brave to me. I like her style just to be a 10-year old and every times shes saying something i understand her and feel where shes coming from. The actions that clover makes is plausible to me because like i said shes real and she does not wait on other people to get what she want or find out what she want.

And Then There Were None -Agatha Christie #2.

This book reminds me a lot of the movie Clue. You have a group of strangers, who don't know each other, and have never seen one another. They seem to have something in common with one another, but you can't really tell what it is. They all happen to be go to the same destination, to a place where they've never been. I feel that something will happen once they get to Indian Island. Another "clue" that's kind of creepy is, Indian Island is nothing but rocky cliffs and trees. There is one big house at the top of the mountain. With there binning nothing but rocks and trees, you have to remember that you're on an Island (surrounded by water). You wouldn't be able to escape if you wanted to (if something were to happen). No one would be able to escape death in this setting. The situation that these people are putting them selves into is so......just not a good feeling.

In chapter two Vera Claythorne found a poem or riddle that she remembered from her child hood days:

And Then There Were None (poem)

Ten little Indian boys went out to dine;
One choked his little self and then there were nine.

Nine little Indian boys sat up very late;
One overslept himself and then there were eight.

Eight little Indian boys travelling in Devon;
One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.

Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks;
One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.

Six little Indian boys playing with a hive;
A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.

Five little Indian boys going for law;
One got in Chancery (shot) and then there were four.

Four little Indian boys going out to sea;
A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.

Three little Indian boys walking to the Zoo;
A big bear hugged one and then there were two.

Two little Indian boys sitting in the sun;
One got frizzled up and then there was one.

One little Indian Boy left all alone;
He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

I think this poem that stood in front of the fireplace foreshadows what will happen further into the novel.

As I read more of the book, it seems like all of the strangers have something from there past to hide. Like Vera doesn't like to think of the sea for some reason. And Dr. Armstrong was very anxious to find out more about the people on the Island, and the people how owned the Island.

So, I don't know what to think about the story now because all of the charters seem as suspicious suspects (I kind of get an eerie feeling). This novel reminds me allot like the movie Clue.

Everytime A Rainbow Dies a novel by Rita Williams-Garcia

My book is called Everytime A Rainbow Dies by Rita Williams.The taste of this book is basically about a dude named thulani that loves birds .ever since he found her battered and raped in the alley near his home,thulani hasn't been able to think about anything but Ysa.the first time he gave thought about his mother dying along time ago.

I liked this book basically because it had a bird on it .but as soon as i started reading it. it was great the first couple sentences. but it still is a good book to read.

Clover a novel by Dori Sanders

I'm reading a novel called Clover, by Dori Sanders . Its about a 10year old African American
girl in a small town in South Carolina. In the beginning of this novel shes going to her fathers
funeral and for some weird reason she wasn't wearing black. Everyone knows your suppose to wear black to a funeral. The 10year old fathers death was tragic, it was a little bit after his wedding. The small town is filled with drunks peach farmers, drunks and crazy people. There's also wealthy families and poor.

So far her new stepmother seems alright but the death is kind of suspicious to me because it was right after his wedding. Weird right? Also her mother was Caucasian.

And Then There Were None -Agatha Christie

I'm reading the book And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. It's about eight strangers invited to Indian Island (off the English coast). The eight guests were told different things in a letter to get them to go to the Island.

Vera Claythorne, a former governess, thinks she has been hired as a secretary. Philip Lombard, an adventurer, and William Blore, an ex-detective, think they've been hired to look out for trouble over the weekend. Dr. Armstrong thinks he's been hired to look after the wife of the island’s owner. Emily Brent, General Macarthur, Tony Marston, and Judge Wargrave think they are going to visit old friends.

I love mystery books/stories! This book kind of resembles the book/movie/game, Clue. But this story seems to have a little twist to it.

-Elyse Woods
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Your 1st Post!

Today in class we will be posting to our blogs. To keep things simple, this
first post will be a kind of introductory thing. Here's what I'd like each
of you to write (make sure it is under your own display name):

1. In 2-3 sentences, give us a taste of the book. What is the title? Who
is the author? What is the "gist"? (It's about a girl who...)
2. In a separate paragraph of 2-3 sentences, finish this sentence: One
thing I like (or don't like) about the book so far is...

Welcome

Hello folks. I just wanted to give you a hearty welcome to the
blogosphere (the world of weblogs, according to my widget dictionary).

I'm going to send you more meaty information in the next few days
(right now I'm testing out the "mail to blogger" option I told some
of you about today).

But for now, I want to talk to you about grammar and conventions.
These are blogs for my English class, and I expect you to follow the
rules of standard English as best as you can. Some of our previous
rm305 blog discussions were replete with mistake after mistake. You
may IM your friends and write on Myspace one way, but on these blogs
we are going to assume a more academic diction.

Thanks for the help. If you have any questions, let me know.

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