Tuesday, June 1, 2010

To Kill A Mockingbird

Chapters 18-23
Choice c: So far, is this a novel about race? Class? Gender? Coming of Age? Place? Select and defend your answer.

So far I think that the book has been a mixture of race and class. I think that it has to do with class because all of the different class levels in Maycomb. The rich is the highest, middle class is second, the Cunninghams are next, the blacks are after, and the Ewells are on the bottom. This has alot to do with the community of maycomb and the book. Because aunt Alexandria is a Finch she thinks that she is the highest and richest family in all of Maycomb. She thinks that it is bad that Atticus is defending Tom Robinson she thinks it looks bad on the finch's name.

The reason that this book has to do with racisim is because in the town of Maycomb most of the white people hate the black people, just because they are black. A big reason for that is because they are in Alabama witch is in the south, and the south is was for racisim in the civil war. An example of racism in Maycomb is how the jury in the court were only going to let the Ewells win the case because Tom was black and the Ewells were white.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

post # 5

Blog #5
Chapters 12-15
Perspective: Aunt Alexandra
It hasnt been really good since I have moved in with Atticus. I have a compensation for Calpurnia. I dont like her taking care of the kids because you cant really trust her because she is a nigger. I was really Pensive, and I think that we should emerge Calpurnia. I should be the mom figure for Jem and Scout,I Should be the one that antagonizes them. It kind of bothers me that she took them to church the other day.I dont feel mad that I made Scout cry.

It was pretty funny that dill was trying to find out what the word rape means. I think he is starting to become kind of curios because he was in bed with Scout, and was under Scouts bed.

I am mad with the fact that the kids ran away with Atticus. I should have never gone to sleep knowing that they were asleep. When they got to the Jail Atticus was there so that Tom Robinson wouldn't get hurt. Mr. Tate lived in the Maycomb Tribune right next to the jail. Mr. Tate had a gun from the Maycomb Tribune just for preoccupation. It was really good that Scout made Mr. Cunningham feel bad about what he did to Tom Robinson. She was jus telling him that his son was a good kid, and that a lot of kids make fun of his son but She invited him to lunch. I think this will have an affect on the trial tomorrow

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Atticus

Blog #4
Chapters 9-12
Perspective Atticus

Lately has been really rough. My kids have been fighting with people just to defend me, our neighbors house burned down, and our other neighbor died. Misses Maudie handled her house being burned down pretty good. She actually was pretty happy that it burned down. She said that if it wouldn't have burned down by it self, she would have burned it down her self. She told jem and scout that she was going to build a new house and she was going to expand her garden.
Miss dubose was talking a lot of trash about me defending a black man. When jem and scout went down town, they bought a baton. When Jem found out that miss dubose was talking about me, he went into her yard with his baton and ruined her whole garden. We then later found that miss Dubose had past away.
I have been trying to teach my kids right from wrong but its really hard because they are so protective and territorial, like mockingbirds. I feel bad that I had to shoot that dog and have my kids find out that that I had a skill that was not really good and I am not proud of it. I'm glad that Calpurnia took the kids to the negro church. They got to see another side of Calpurnia and find out more about her and her culture.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

BLog #1
chapters 8-9
perspective scout
Today was another wierd day in maycomb. It rained for the first time in a long time. Me and jem didnt have school so all day at home we were trying to build a snowman. That night was horibble, Misses Maudies house burned down and everybody was trying to help her as the fire was maligent. I think something got into Misses Maudie after her house burned down, because she was acting really nice to me. She was actually talking to me and telling me how she wanted to make her garden grow bigger.
I am so angry about every body talking about atticus and how he is helpng out a black person with his case, even though it is part of his job. Atticus even asked me if I cannot fight at school and to just calm down about the whole situation. For example like when we went to finch landing with uncle jack and Aunt Alexandria. I got in trouble because aunt Alexandrias grand son a kept on tormenting about Atticus and defending a black man, and I attaked him. It should have been unanimous about what was going on with atticus. It was so tryanny How uncle jack got me in trouble.

Too KIll A Mockingbird

blog entrie # 2
chapters 4-7
Perspective jem
Today Was a really wierd day. Me and scout passed by the radleys house. I was daring her to touch the house but we were both too scared. After that me dill and scout were, playing a game where we try yo copy the radleys . Atticus got mad at us and told us to stop. Me and dill were trying to get boo out of his house by using a fishing pole to put a note in front of his house. The note was asking him if he wanted to come out and play with us,and that we would by him ice cream. Atticus got mad at us and told us to stop messing with boo radley.
After all of this dill went to miss rachels house because it was going to be his last day in maycomb. Me and dill also ent to boo radleys place at night to peek at him through the curtain. After all of this me dill and scout went up into the tree and found two peaces of gum, a clock, soap figures of me and scout, and a ball of yarn.

Monday, May 10, 2010

To Kill A Mockingbird

Blog Entrie # 1
To Kill A Mockingbird
Scout
Today wasnt such a good day. I kept on getting in arguments with ms. caroline about atticus teaching me how to read.Ms. caroline didnt like the fact that I already knew how to read and write. She told me to tell atticus to stop teacing me how to read because that was her job. I also got in trouble by calpurnia because I kept on judging and talking about the cunninghams when walter was over for dinner.

The cunninghams are a really poor family. They live on a farm and only live off of what they have. Walter never brings school to lunch because he never has money or food at his house. Thats why me and jem invited him to eat at our house. Ms. caronline was embaressing him in class today. She wanted to let him borrow a quarter to go get him self something to eat downtown. After he said no she kept begging him to take the quarter. Everybodt knew that he wasnt taking the quarter because he wouldnt have been able to owe it back.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

post #4

Were You scared About What happen to Joetta?
I was kind of scared because I didnt know what was happening to Joetta at the time. It was really scary. If I was Kenny I would be scared too. I mean who would want to see their sister dead even though she wasnt. I think that if I was in that situation I would be really scared too because I love my sisters.
What Happen With Joetta?
Joetta was fine after all that happen but it gave everybody in her family a fright. She had woke up really early on a Sunday morning to go to church. Kenny woke up to late so he didnt go, he regret it though. When Joetta was at church he Kenny was really hot so he sat under a tree in his backyard and just sat there to keep cool. Then something un expected happen. While Kenny was sitting down he heard and saw an explotion in the distance. It was joettas church. He got so scared that he ran to the church. It was the k.k.k. They had bombed the all black church because at that time there was racism. When kenny got there he ran inside the burning church to find joetta. When he got inside he found a little girl on the ground that was wearing the same exact thing that Joetta was wearing. She was dead and this scared Kenny. When he ran back home everything around him was really quiet. He was in shock because he thought his sister was dead. Then when he got home she was alive. He couldnt belive it.

Friday, February 12, 2010

book entrie #3

What is happening so Far

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

book entrie #1

book entrie #1
Watsons go to Birmingham
2-3-10
What did you like about the book?
The thing I liked about this book was about how all of the family sticks together except for the older brother that is 13 years old and is a official a juvenile delinquent. The reason i like this is because he is kind of like my oldest sister. I can relate to this family alot because all my family sticks up for eachother as well as the watson family
What is the book about?
The book is about a black family of five that live in Flint Michigan. All of them go to a school called Clark Elementry.The school bully is Larry dunn, he is the "king" of the scool. Byron the brother of Kenny and Joetta is the god of the school because he is the oldest and the strongest in the 6th grade and all of the school.
The part where I am at right now is when Kenny finds a dollar on the ground and gets to excited and shows everyone. Larry grabbed the dollar from him and said he had lost fifty cents. They went to the store and changed the dollar for fifty cents. After Kenny says that if Byron want at that school larry would have took the whole dollar.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

My book

The book I wan to read is called number the stars. The reason I want to read this book is because it looks like a really good book about the holocaust.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

CHAPTER 11 CASTLE ROCK

In the beggining of the chapter, ralph tells piggy to use the conch to call a meating. The reason


that Jack is willing to give piggy back his glasses. Is because piggy cant see without his glasses.


When ralph goes and approches jack he wants yo look normal again and not like jack and his


tribe looking all trucently. On the appoach to castle rock ralph roger gets in the way, and makes


everybody elsecessation. What provokes jack to fight is that he calls him a thief. When Jack


appears, he is delirius because hes been hunting and he caught a pig. After the fight sam and eric


get caught and tied up by the hunters. While Jack is talking to piggy roger throws rocks at piggy


but misses on purpose.


The person who is responsible for piggys death is jack, If he wouldnt have influenced all of his


cordon to be so vicious and to be like wolves and for them to be uluation. Roger was the one who


pushed the rock but jack is probably the one who told him too. This forshadows alot more killing


on the island.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Chapter 10 The Shell And The Glasses

Im Simon and I am dead now. I want to talk about whats going on, on the island since I have


been gone. ALot of people are sad that I am dead. Then there are people like Jack that dosent


even care. I kind of like that Jack doent care hat I am dead. When I was alive I liked people


happy and nice to eachother. Not like they are right now with all of the fighting that jack and


ralph are doing. Another thing I dont like is what Piggy said about me. He is trying to blame it on


me about what happen to me. Ralph is the other way around though he said it was an accident


too, but hes talking about murder and hes putting himself down too much .Jack is saying that I


was the beastie though, and thats making me the most mad. Another thing that I dont like is


how jack made his own tribe. Now they think they are all tough and are planning on attaking


Ralphs tribe.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Chapter 8 and 9

In this chapter there was allot of violence and commotion. Since the kids made the pole with the


pigs head on it( Lord Of The Flies ), everything has gone crazy. First of all Simon thinks hes


hearing the pig speak to him and Jack thinks that the Lord Of The Flies should be gift for the


"beastie". Simon has gone a little bit crazy and think lord of the flies is talking to him. Simon says


that the pig is haunting him. It is saying that " He is still inside of all of the kids and he is not

dead yet. Another thing that happen in chapter 8 is that Simon finds out about the dead aviator


and trys to tell Ralph and jack about it. The whole group is falling apart now. Jack and Ralph split


Tribes and they are still fighting over who's leader. All of these are really kind of scaring the


whole tribe because of all the fighting and stuff. This is not how they wanted it to go. They might


not survive or get rescued if they keep acting like this. I think that Simon's death was very


brutal. I also think it was an accident though. It was kind of his fault. Like Piggy said he had no


business running out of the woods like that and screaming, of coarse they are going to react like


they did. It also is sad though how Jack is showing no pity whats so ever towards Simon's death.


I think that this is mainly jacks fault for what happened to Simon because he encouraged it. If he


Had said get the beastie and start killing him maybe he would still be alive.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Scary Shadows humangas Trees

CHAPTER 7
SHADOWS AND TALL TREES
CHARACTER: PIGGY
Dear diary,


Today on the island there was allot of commotion. Everybody was so crazy about Ralph hitting

the pig, I think that he is going to start to act like jack because he knows how he fells with all of

the adrenalin. The game that the boys are playing is not really sagely and windy because they


could have poked Robert and hurt him. Rugger was more safe than that. Everybody was acting

all crazy and I was dun. That was really stupid what Jack suggested we should do to the

littleuns. I think that this foreshadows that there is going to start to be some killing and

cannibalism. The evidence that they found that there was a beastie was that the animal had

sharp teeth and sharp claws. Jack was acting really bravado. Simon has also been stupid about

going to the moors. I just want to get off tis island already.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

aviator from the sky: Piggy

Today on the island the aviator came from the sky. The reason we did int notice that there was a war

going on was because first of all we were sleeping and second of all was because we are thinking about

surviving. I don't know why Ralph and everybody would believe sam and eric I mean they re littleuns.

Threre is no such thing as a beastie. They described it as a big creature with claws wings and sharp teeth.

I am with Ralph on the making a plan thing because I think we should be calm about this kind of thing

because we might get into embroiled with the thing. Not like jack wanting to go out and kill it waxy. .

There is no such thing as a leviathan its just an aviator.If it is a dead aviator then the guano would get

to them. Because of whats happening I feel so mutinously.

Monday, September 28, 2009

painted faces

The things that I have had problems on the island so far thats different then engand is that
everybody keeps getting mad at me after I had got them their food. Just because I let the fire go
down everybody was very blatant. I do like the littleuns. They are the only ones that help me
hunt, even though during the day they just play around and stuff. Simon, Piggy, and Ralph are
just sitting at the sand doing girl work while me and the littleuns are killing pigs. The reason that
me and all of the littleuns painted our faces was becaus I feel that the pig was able to see us.
This basiclly foreshadows the hunters and the non hunters spliting up. When I have the
paintings on my face I feel very brave and wild. The reason that the ship could not see us was
because Me and Maurice couldnot keep the fire going. After Killing the pig I was so tierd I just
needed gouts of water. When I killed the pig I was impalapable. Nobody was going to make me
feel sad for the pig because I really wanted to kill that pig. I did not need a balm or anything I
just needed myself. Even though I was acting belliferance I felt good about it. I feel like me and
ralph are going to be malevolenty

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Piggy



I think that this is a pretty good island because we have good vegetation,

food and water. I don’t know why that little kid went into the woods I mean if

he saw the snake, or what he calls it the beastie. The beastie basically

symbolizes fear and caution to the island This doesn’t really scare me it just

makes me feel more cautious of where I step, but I am scared that the other

kids might get bit. I really don’t have a plan for getting rescued but I just

want everyone on the island to be safe and to act more mature. For example

today in when jack Simon and Ralph went on the expedition all the kids went

to the forest and the one little kid might have died because the beastie. I do

want to get rescued bur before that happens I have to be mature and I have

to be officious. I think it was a a pretty good idea to make a fire and I helped

because I used my specs. The kids were acting really crazy though when they

went to go get the wood all at once. Hopefully I can get Ralph induced to

make the kids more mature. I think I am the smartest kid on the island

because I am more mature. When I go to sleep I am scared but I don’t panic
because then I wont be able to live in this Island.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Ralph

The Island was very tropical and beutifull. That didnt matter right now though. Right now what

matters is doing my best job at being leader of the island. By doing this I have to know every

single area on this island. Next to us there is the jungle, in front of us is the lagoon, and out in the

distance is the coral reef.

It was really crazy when we crashed off of the plane. Thats the main reason we are here. It was

kind of scary when we crashed, I didint know where we were at until I mett piggy.

My name is ralph, and my dad is in the navy. I am 12 year old and, people say Im pretty well

built for my age. So far I have mett piggy jack and simon. Piggy the guy I mett first, is a pretty

nice guy. Hes fat, has ashmat, and is not to confident about himself. Jack on the other hand, is

the leader of the choir, hes a jerk hes bossy, and hes the leader of the hunters because he has a

knife. Simon is kind of weird. Out of nowhere sometimes he just faints.

The reason there are no adults on the island is because it was a boys childrens choir.

When you have the conch you have alot of power. Whoever has the conch has power because you

are the leader and you can call the meetings and stuff.

The choir is basiclly a group of boys that are trying to set up there own government. Jack is the

leader of the hunters because he has the knife and I am in charge of the whole choir because

I found the conch shell. I think the good qualities that I have with the choir is im built and I

wont get tierd.