Night --> Theme

One night can be the ending of so many things, and the beginning of so much more.


Throughout the story Elie constantly refers back to the word "night" right before he is to describe another horrid thing that occured in these camps. Not to mention that "Night" has to have some significance if Elie choose that for the title of his first book. Night is repetitive to display the presence of night, the darkness, the eerie feeling, the animals and insects that come out. The terrifying screams of the night, those who go missing in the night, those who never awake after one night, the resting of the sun and people while others are busy at work trying to kill. Night can be referenced to almost anything related to the Holocaust. The word night is rarely ever analyzed, and I believe that if we did so, we would find that so many of the things we used to describe it, are similar to those of the horrors of this genocide.

Night - Chapter 3 --> Writing Prompt

1. Paint a picture of the concentration camp using the images that have been described to you through the eyes of Elie. In other words, describe the concentration camp using specific examples.


Concentration Camps:

-the concentration camp has a smell of death that encompasses the whole place, and you are overwhelmed by its presence when you first arrive.
-Dr Mengele = in charge of the selection process
-sky hazy with smoke
-flames = crematoriums
-transformation in the prison garb
-gray and dark
-peoples faces turning into ash
-babies thrown into the flame
-nocturnal silence



Dehumanization:

-shave their heads
-all expected to wear prison garb
-made to stand in the mud
-tattooed numbers = lost name
-removed objects from people
-people were treated as objects = only of use for work
-detached from family
-make prisoners run = to be overocome by fatigue and cause loss of thought and sense of care
-had to deal with death themselves



Stein of Antwerp:

-Family member
-wanted to know if his family was okay [wife and children]
-elie lies saying that they are okay
-stein eventually dies because of loss of hope [finds out truth of death of family]

Night - Chapter 2--> Mrs. Schakner

Why is she so significant that she recieves a whole chapter to herself in this book? What is her role? What might the fire symbolize?

Mrs. Schaker is displaying to the people what they are all in for. She is showing them what they could turn to be and what their death could possibly be, fire. She could most likely be envisioning the rest of her family dying in the fire. She could be thinking that shes seeing fire because that what she truly wants to see. She wants to be warm and feel her husband and children by her side once more. It also foreshadows some of the other Jews death by the fire. She could be symbolizing the fear and the Jews will be facing in a short while, but noen of them realize it yet. The way the other Jews deal with her next to her is exactly how the Germans react towards the Jews.




Class List of Fire Symbolism

-upcoming danger
-burning of loss of faith
-unpredictable/fear of unknown
-fires of the crematoriums = death
-destruction
-chaos
-conflicts

Night - Chapter 1--> Foreshadowing

My Foreshadowing from Chapter 1:

1. Moshie the Beadle - shows the disbelief that this could actually happen.
2. Ghettos - think that this can't get any worse, but really its the best of the worst.
3. "(Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)"p11 - his father is going to die.




The Classes Foreshadowing from Chapter 1:

1. Moshie the Beadle - Warned the Jews of Sighet.
2. Ghettos - progression of the violation of rights.
3. Tzipora - given pack that was too heavy.
4. Jewish council leader could not speak up about future events - brutality.
5. Elie dsicusses the loss of valuables while on vacation - sarcasm.
6. Father's face pale when he found of the transports - knows the horror.
7. Elie's father's Hungarian police friend - came knocking at the window to warn them, but they could not open the window in time.
8. Yellow star - loss of identity.
9. Death of Elie's Father - he dies because hes a Jew.
10. Cattle Cars - no space, treated like foul smelling animals.
11. Wanted to move and not wait in line - Jews couldn't imagine anything worse than being thirsty waiting in that line.
12. Night - Night had fallen, darkness had fallen. Terribleness was upon them and they were in for something they never could've imagined.

Holocaust

What do I know about the Holocaust?

-11 million people total killed; 6 million Jews; 5 million others: gypsies, Polish, Handicapped, Sexual Preference, Political Preference,...ect.
-Adolf Hitler at first blamed the Jews for their loss of WWI and having to pay off all the debt they were forced to pay.
-As Adolf Hitler and his army began to take over the rest of Europe and Asia in WWII he also began to create Concentration Camps where Jews were processed and eventually slaughtered in some manner.
-Concentration camps consisted of burning, gas chambers, starving and disease by death.
-Many Jews converted or went into hiding to be kept from being taken away and put into one of these death camps.



What do We Know about the Holocaust?

-The Holocaust was started by Adolf Hitler.
-The Holocaust was considered genocide.
-The Holocaust happened in Europe during WWII.
-The book burning was an initial event that revoked the people's rights.
-Jews were expected to identify themselves with armbands.
-Jews lost personal rights such as not owning businesses, curfews, ect (Nuremberg Race Laws)
-Jews were placed into ghettos. Ghettos were a confined area within a town where one would be placed.
-Jews were then deported to Concentration Camps via cattle cars.
-The largest Concentratoin Camp was Auschwitz.
-There were gas chambers in the camps and they were disguised as showers.
-Prisoners were killed by starvation, disease, scientific experiments, shot, burnt, gased, worked to death.
-Anne Frank was a famous Holocaust victim due to her diary that was found.
-Some people doubt the existence of the Holocaust.
-Poles, homosexuals, Soviets, political opponents, gypsies, handicapped, and those who helped Jews were all targeted groups.
-6 million Jews were killed/11 million total.
-Survivors still exist today, but are slowly dying off due to age.

In-Class Essay Analyzing Characters Thesis

Brainstorm is on my paper...

Thesis: The change in life perspective of Tom Benecke in "The Contents of A Dead Man's Pocket" is depicted thought the significance of the yellow carbon paper, his self revelation, and the symbolism of the window.

Chrysanthemums Brainstorm

Setting: gray-flannel fog of winter closed the valley in (isolated)
-air is cold and tender
-fields seem bathed in pale cold sunshine
-no sunshine at all in December
-time of all quiet and waiting


Characters:
-Elisa: feels trapped in her life/surroundings, stays at the ranch, unhappy, settles for less
-Tinker: good salesman, charismatic, wanderer, wild, symbol of freedom, dark
-Henry Allen: simple, content, wants to make Elisa happy


Symbols:
-Chrysanthemums: hope, Elisa's self esteem
-Planters Hands: joy/strength (curse)


Conflict:
-P vs. self: Elisa vs. self
-P vs. P: Elisa vs. Henry/Elisa vs. Tinker
-P vs. society: Elisa vs. society


Climax:
Elisa sees the chrysanthemums crushed on the ground on her way to the hotel for dinner with Henry Allen.


P.O.V.:
third person limited [you see into Elisa's mind, which shows that shes a dynamic character]


Themes:
-False hope hurts.
-Foolish trust can crush your hopes.
-One's environment can effect ones actions.


Thesis:
The lifeless setting in "Chrysanthemums" paralells Elisa's perspective on life because setting's diction, Elisa's internal conflict, and the symbolic image of the flower.

The Chrysanthemums

Title: The Chrysanthemums
Author: John Steinback
Date: 11/05/08


Prereading: none


Plot/Reaction: Elisa was working in her garden when her husband Henry came home and asked if her she would like to go see a movie and have dinner that night at a fancy hotel. He told her that he'd be back around 5 so they could go out that night. She continues in her garden caring for her Chrysanthemums. A salesman stops by and asks her for directions, when really he just wants her ask for his service so he can get some money. He sees her love for her Chrysanthemums, and when Elisa continually refuses to need his services because she is perfectly capable of doing them herself. He then pulls at her heartstrings and tells her a story about a woman who would love some Chrysanthemums. She falls for it and gives him a pot with 2 sprouts in it. She also finds some work for him to do so that he can make his money. Once he gets his flower pot of Chrysanthemums and money for his work he leaves and is on his way heading in the way she told him to go. When Henry gets home and he and Elisa leave to go to dinner she gets all dressed up and looks beautiful. They take his car and on the side of the road are the Chrysanthemums she gave to the salesman. Elisa realizes he only told her that story so he could get something out of her, and she begins to tear up in the car. Elisa also realizes the many things she could do and become.


Questions: -Why was she hiding her true feelings?
-Where did Henry get all the money from that they can go spend some on dinner?


Quote: "Sand, ma'am?--Sand? Oh, sure. You mean around the chrysanthemums. Sure I will"(274). This is clear that the salesman is using her and does not care about these flowers in the way that she does. He is manipulating her so he gets something out of her, instead of the nothing she kept on proposing.

"She turned up her coat collar so he could not see that she was crying weakly--like an old woman"(278). The narrator is concluding the story here by telling the reader that Elisa is too trusting and loving. She has not experienced anything she wants and believes in people when they say they'll follow through. Here she is let down and realizes this. Elisa is comparing herself to an old woman who loves everyone and thinks the best of everyone.

The Lottery - Notes

"The Lottery"

Setting--June 27th, summer, clear and sunny, surrounded by rich green grass and blossoming flowers: symbolizes life

Children--gathering stones, boisterous play

Men--surveying children, speaking of tractors taxes weather etc.., smiled rather than laughed at the jokes

Women--gossiping, standing by their husbands

Old Man Warner--cranky old man, ensures tradition of the lottery is carried on, embodies the mindless violence of this society, symbolizes tradition and no change

Mr. Summers--conducted lottery and all other activities that went on in town [irony in name, life happiness but conducts the death]

Mr. Graves--postmaster (mailman), assists Mr Summers with lottery, helps the Hutchinson children pick out their slips of paper from the box [irony in name, graves=death]

Tessie--lighthearted and unconcerned in the beginning, frightened and distraught at the end [dynamic character]

Foreshadowing--children gathering stones at the beginning, the men not lauhging and being more serious, Mrs. Delacroix holds her breath, Mr Graves [name], black box [death]

Irony--Mrs Hutchinson is ironic because she entered happy and careless (expecting nothing will happen) while others are seroius and worrisome, but in reality she is the one who gets stone. Mr Summers has a joyful name but hes in charge of picking the death, the title of the story "The Lottery" which is usually depicted as winning something while in actuality youre losing your life not gaining anything if youre choosen

Conflicts--Person vx. Society (Tessie Hutchinson)

Exposition--children gathering stones/playing, woman gossiping, men talking, families getting together, Mr Summers entering with black box,community is gathering at town square for the lottery

Rising Action--men go up one by one, all families unfold paper, Bill Hutchinson receieves the black dot, Tess objects to firt round that its not fair, each family member picks a slip of paper

Climax--Tess wins the lottery, black dot on her slip of paper

Falling Action--community prepares to stone Tess by gathering stones and encircling her

Denouement--Tess states "It's not fair, It's not right" Then they were upon her

Point of View--Third Person Objective, you cant see into the mind of any characters, you learn about their actions from their dialogue

Themes--Traditions should be questioned and changed as people change
Family Loyalty: Self preservation can be put above family loyalty.
Human Nature: As human beings, we are capable of both good and evil.
Sometimes, we ignor injustices until they happen to us.

The Lottery

Title: The Lottery
Author: Shirley Jackson
Date: 10/30/08


Prereading: What is justice?
-Justice is when one recieves the freedom and rights that all others have and are able to have.
-Easter is always with my moms side of the family.
-Father's Day is spent working at St. Romans Festival while my dad golfs.
-Fourth of July is always spent with my cousin Rachel.
-Labor Day is spent with my cousins swimming and being the last out of the pool.
-Thanksgiving is always spent with my moms side of the family.
-Christmas Eve is with my dads sister and my moms family.
-Christmas Day is with my dads family.


Plot/Reaction: Theres a small town made of roughly 300 people and its the end of June. The of the citizens are all preparing themselves to go to the town center for some sort of meeting. The meeting consists of a long lived tradition with a black box and slips of paper that are blank or have black dots. Each head of family must pick a slip of paper out of the box and not look at it until all have choosen. Then the family that has the black dot must do the same choosing of slips within the family. The Hutchinson family has to do so and Mrs. Hutchinson ends up getting the slip of paper with a big black dot on it. The pebbles and piles of stones children had been putting together were ready for use. They all tell Tessie Hutchinson she gets to have a short lead, before they begin stoning her to death. Her youngest son, Davy grabs some stones and throws them at his mother.


Questions: -Why are they stoning someone every year? Why does someone have to die?
-Who came up with this horrid idea that someone has to be killed every year?


Quotes: "Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones"(9). This wraps the story around in full circle. At the beginning small boys were gathering stones and pebbles in piles, and now this is telling us that they are going to stone this woman to death.
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her"(9). Tessie Hutchinson is displaying to us what the 'new kids' and why other towns have gotten rid of the lottery, because it is not just.

Quotation Comdiments for By The Waters of Babylon

DAB

Claim: The leader, or founder of the People of the Hills must have known of the reality of who the 'gods' truly were and how they actually died.


Quote: The narrator states that, "It is forbidden to cross the great river and look upon the place that was the Place of the Gods--this is most strictly forbidden. We do not even say its name though we know its name." p1



DOLLOP

Claim: The leader, or founder of the People of the Hills must have known of the reality of who the 'gods' truly were and how they actually died.


Quote: The narrator helps introduce this soceity in the beginning of the story we learn that, "It is forbidden to cross the great river and look upon the place that was the Place of the Gods--this is most strictly forbidden. We do not even say its name though we know its name." p1



LOTSA SAUCE

Claim: The leader, or founder of the People of the Hills must have known of the reality of who the 'gods' truly were and how they actually died.


Quote: The narrator is explaining what many things are now allowed in the society of the People of the Hill. He or she is trying to display to us in examples how life is and has been since the start of their society by making these examples as descriptive as possible. An example that shows the seirousness is when the narrartor states that, "It is forbidden to cross the great river and look upon the place that was the Place of the Gods--this is most strictly forbidden. We do not even say its name though we know its name." p1

By The Waters of Babylon Quotation Sandwich

Claim: The leader, or founder of the People of the Hills must have known of the reality of who the 'gods' truly were and how they actually died.


Quote: "It is forbidden to cross the great river and look upon the place that was the Place of the Gods--this is most strictly forbidden. We do not even say its name though we know its name." p1


Commentary: Someone in their society knows what the Place of the Gods is, and who the gods were. They have to know in order to forbid it to be gone to and to not allow anyone to say the name of the place. Someone has to know what and who they were in order for them to be so caucious of letting others know also.

The Waters of Babylon

Title: The Waters of Babylon
Author: Stephen Vincent Benet
Date: 10/24/08


Prereading: Do you believe we process information too fast? What is your view on technological advancements?


Plot/Reaction: -Out of sight of the village
-Flat rock
-Edge of the Dead Place
-Dead house
-Banks of the great river
-God-road
-Open place at the top of a cliff
-Great river
-The river
-Great spike of rusted metal sticking out into the river
-The Place of the Gods
-Great temple in the mid-city
-On top of a stone
-Dead-house
-Small ante-room that looked over the great city
-Room with dead 'god'


Questions: - What caused the destruction of society?
- Why did the people fall so far behind and believe the past people were 'gods'?

Quote: "That is all of my story, for then I knew he was a man--I knew then that they had been men, neither gods nor demons." p. 8 This signifies the realization of the priest John who was a member of the Hillside people. It shows that he found the great secret of his people; the ones who they believed were gods, and they were the people who lived before them. These people had much technology but had killed each other off. John figured out the mystery all of his people never knew.

There Will Come Soft Rains

Title: "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950)
Author: Ray Bradbury
Date: 10/22/08


Prereading: What will the world look like in the year 2026?


Plot/Reaction:
7:00- Wake up
7:45- Breakfast time
8:10- School/work time
8:30- Breakfast not eaten thrown away
9:15- Robots clean the room
10:00- Sun came out from behind the rain
10:15- Garden sprinklers turned on
12:00- The front door lets a dog inside
2:00- The dog decayed and cleaning mice were released
2:15- The incinderator burned the dog
2:35- Tables and playing cards were set up as well as music being played
4:00- Tables folded back up and went away
4:30- The nursey came to life and animals moved and sang all around the walls
5:00- The bath filled up with water
6:00- Dinner dishes came out, a fire was started in the fire place and a cigar was lit ready to be smoked
7:00- ""
8:00- ""
9:00- The electric blankets turned out in the beds
9:25- A voice reads a poem to a nonexistant Mrs. McClellan
10:00- A tree crashed into the window and knocked over cleaning liquid into the kitchen stove which started the house on fire


Questions:
- How did all the people die?
- Was there an atomic bomb that this house is the only one standing?


Quotes: "Dawn showed faintly in the east. Among the ruins, one wall stood alone. Within the wall, a last voice said, over and over again and again, ever as the sun rose to shine upon the heaped rubble and steam:
"Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is..."." p. 4
This quote signifies what the world could come to if we had another world war. It creates an image in our mind for us to see how horrible the ending of that war would truly be.

Harrison Bergeron Movie Reflection Summary

We can learn from this that we need to treat each other as fairly as we possibly can as often as we can. We also should not strive for equality, we should strive for acceptance and understanding of all. Equality as the way it is displayed in Harrison Bergeron is not what would create happiness for all. Happiness for all would be a place where all realize that they can't be the best at everything and that when one loses they will win at something else, and not get jealous or envious because they lost. No one can always be happy, but you can be content and learn from the time you've been angry and have been betrayed. The best thing to take away from this is that we as a whole society will never attain perfection, or equality, but we as a society and work towards understanding of one another so we can accept one another.

Harrison Bergeron - Quotation Sandwich

Claim: Even though the beginning of the story states that everything and everyone was equal, as always, there is one person who has more power than others.


Quote: "It was then that Diana Moon Gldeampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor.

Diana Moon Glampers loaded the gun again. She aimed it at the musicians and told them they had ten seconds to get their handicaps back on." p. 26


Commentary: This statement shows that no one tried to stop the Handicapper General and no one was going to try to stop her. All the rest of the people were equal except for her; she had all the power and everyone was willing to give it up to her. The Handicapper General was unable to give up her power to be equal with everyone else, and this is a perfect example why Communism would never work.

Harrison Bergeron

Title: Harrison Bergeron
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Date: 10/16/08

Prereading: What is equality?
--> My belief: equality is when all people are treated equal and have the same oppoturnities no matter what race, gender, belief, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, or their history. Equality will never be reached because mankind is jealous and envious as a whole. Equality is what we should always be striving for, something to better ourselves and the world as much as possible.

--> Class list: -lack of discrimination for nay reason other than the reasons you bring upon yourself
-equal chances and opportunities for everyone
-no prejudice and everything is uniform
-treatment based solely on personal character
-no one above or below anyone else in society
-communism
-all people are treated equal and everyone has the same opportunities
-same rights and same treatment
-everyone gets the same respect

Summary/Reaction: Its far in the future and the U.S. has created a Communistic Government designed so no one gets their feelings hurt and no is more intelligent than anyone else. It is designed so no one can achieve more than others and no one will then therefore ever feel jealous because they are not as good as that other person. Hazel and George Bergeron had a 14 year old son named Harrison that was taken away and put in jail because he was dangerous. Harrison could not put to any limits no matter how many handicaps they put on him. The Handicapper General weighed him down with 300 pounds of lead balls he had to carry all the time, a buzzer that made noise every 20 seconds to ensure he never had any thoughts stay with him, and glsases that made him half blind and gave him horrible headaches. George and Hazels televison dance show was interupted by a news report that Harrison had escaped from jail and he was dangerous. Harrison was at this dance studio and told everyone that he was the emperor and he was going to become what he could potentially become. He then took off all his handicaps and choose an emperess, the prettiest and leanest dancer there. They had musicans play real music and danceed gracefully across the stage. Then the Handicapper General came in and shot them both dead, the spot. She gave the musicians 10 seconds to put their handicaps back on or to die. Then the television went black and George got a huge gun shot sound in his ear. Hazel was crying but couldn't remember, and George was trying to recover from the recent loud noise. One of the greatest things their country had seen in ages had just occured, and neither even remember what they saw.

Questions:
- If the society is equal, how is it that the government controlled the equality?
- Why is it that if you want equality do you focuz on outside characteristics?

Quotes:
- "And she had to apologize at once for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman to use." p. 23 This demonstrates that it is drilled in all of the peoples minds that you can not stand out and that you have to make yourself stupidier, or uglier or average so no one gets hurt or feels bad.
- "The music began. It was normal at first—cheap, silly, false." p. 25 This shows that when the musicians had their handicaps everything was boring and nothing differed from each other. It also displays that if they know the difference between good and bad music then something must be better and that is not equal as intended.

Quotation Sandwich - 2

2. Claim: In the middle of the story, Tom concludes that if he was to die, no one would evre know who he was or what happened to him. Ironicly, this is the exact opposite he was trying to do by retreiving this paper and creating this magnificint project.

Quote: "He understood fully that he might actually be going to die; his arms, maintaing his balance ont he ledge, were trembling steadily now. And it occured to him then with all the force of a revelation that, if he fell, all he was ever going to have out of life he would then abruptly have had." p. 18

Commentary: This realization of Tom's displays that if he was to die right then by falling off the ledge, no one would ever know what happened to him, because he had nothing to prove who he was. No one would ever remember him after his death and this is precisely what he was making an effort to stop from happening. Tom wanted to be remembered and known by as many people as possible.

Quotation Sandwich - 1

1. Claim: In this initial pages of htis short story, Tom Benecke's avarcious nature drives him to follow the yellow sheet of paper on the ledge of his apartment.

Quote: "They were the way to change from a name on the payroll to a name in the minds of the company officials. They were the beginning of the long, long clumb to where he was determined to be, at the very top. And he knew he was going out there in the darkness, after the yellow sheet fifteen geet beyond his reach." p. 9

Commentary: Tom's impulse to go retrieve this yellow paper is driven by his want to be promoted and rise his way to the top of the company he works at. By this paper eating up 2 months of his time it shows that hes doesn't care how long and time consuming it may take all he wants in the end is to be known and to have the money to prove it.

Contents of A Dead Mans Pocket - Plot Line

Exposition:
Tom describing the Yellow paper, himself, his apartment, his job, and his wife are all apart of the introduction. The conflict begins when he opens the window and explains what he intends to complete that night with the information on the paper.


Rising Action:
Tom's wife Claire leaves for a double feature at the movies.
His yellow paper flies out the window.
Tom mentally complains to himself about losing 2 months of hard work for all the information on that paper.
He runs on impulse and climbs out the window to retrieve his paper.
Tom gets to the corner of the ledge where the paper is and pick it up. He also accidently looks down and sees the street hundreds of feet below him.
Tom is frozen from fear and panic because of the realize of what he's doing up there.
He slowly talks himself in to gradually getting back to the window.
On the way to the window Tom realizes that he truly could die up there.
He also realizes how much time he's wasted on other things instead of being with his wife and doing the things he loves with her.
Tom tries to pull open the window but is unsuccessful.
Tom, then slips and is barely hanging on to the ledge now.
He shakely pulls himself up onto the ledge once more.
He clenches his fist and swings to break the window.

Climax:
Tom gets into the apart by breaking through the window.

Falling action:
Tom gets up from the floor right away and sets the yellow paper on the desk.
He then gets his coat on and leaves to go join Claire at the movies.

Conclusion:
The pen slips off the yellow paper and it flies out the window anyways.

Contents of A Dead Mans Pocket

Title of Selection: Contents of A Dead Mans Pocket
Author: Jack Finney
Date Read: October 8, 2008


Pre-reading: List top 5 priorities in my life
- Family
- Friends
- School
- Volleyball
- God


Plot/Reaction: [Summary of story, short and sweet]
-In the beginning of the story, the main character, Tom, says goodbye to his wife as she leaves for a double-feature movie. He is going to stay home and work on a project that he thinks could hopefully somehow promote him and get him a raise at his job. This paper has months and hours of studying and hard work put into it; if it was to be lost theres no way he could do it over because the timing of presenting the finished product would not be there. Then the paper gets blown out the window and it gets hooked to the corner of the outter ledge of the apartment building. He decides his paper is worth too much to let it go and redo it, even though he knows its crazy to climb out the ledge of the apartment building. Tom talks himself into getting out the window and on the ledge of his 11th floor apartment outter wall. While slowing stuttering his way to the edge where his paper lie, he realizes that the bricks aren't as thick as he thought they were. Tom gets to the corner and gets his paper. He finally sees the street below him and panics, hes on the ledge of the 11th floor of his apartment building. Finally he talks himself into getting himself back into his warm apartment. When he gets to the window, its not opened enough. He tries throwing his coins and things inside of his pocket to get the attention of people below him but no one realizes where it comes from. He tries breaking the window by tapping it. Tom figures out the only way is to either let go, and have no one know who he is because his wallet with everything is inside on his bed, or crash himself into his window. Tim pelts himself into his window and breaks the glass. All of that crazy nonsense for a paper. He gets up from the floor and sets the yellow paper on his desk. Tom then goes to join his wife at the movies.


Questions: what dont you understand?/what doesnt make sense
-What exactly is the on the paper that is so important to this project he wants to complete that night?
-What is his wifes reaction when she finds out he broke the window and was out on the ledge of their apartment building for a paper with such contents?


Significant Quotes: page number and explain quote
- "He waited, arm drawn back, fist balled, but in no hurry to strike; this pause, he knew, might be an extension of his life. And to live even a few seconds longer, he felt, even out here on this ledge in the night, was infinitely better than to die a moment earlier than he had to." p. 19
This quote shows how much Tom changed by being in a life threatening situation. Before he went out on the ledge, risking his life to get this paper didn't even matter because that paper was his whole life. By realizing how much he would lose by falling off and letting go of the ledge and splattering onto the ground, this is where he changed in his being.

-"In the back of his mind he knew he'd better hurry and get this over with before he thought to omuhc, sand at the window he dind't allow himself to hesitate." p. 10
This quote displays that even before Tom went out the window onto the ledge to get this paper he knew it was a stupid idea. He knew that the only way he would be able to successfully go through with this is if he did it on impulse and not by thinking about it like he should.

showing statements

Telling Statement : It was really hard.
Showing Statement : My brain was oozing of pus from so much usage. I had never thought so hard in my life. You could wring out my brain like a sweat towel and it would fill a gallon jug of milk. I had not done anything in my life that had ever been so difficult to complete.

Telling Statement : I liked it alot.
Showing Statement : "This is the best thing anyone has ever done for me!", I said to my friend. "I knew you would be overjoyed when you saw it. I'm relaly glad.", she replied. "I can't believe how spectacular this looks. It really is the the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I love this more than anything!", I replied in excitement.

specific life experiences

3 months - adopted :) :) :)
1 yrs old- getting tubes put in my ears because of my chronic ear infections.
2 yrs old-
3 yrs old- obbsessed with Barbies and pink.
4 yrs old- getting tested to go to Kindergarten
5 yrs old- Kindergarten Graduation
1st grade- pretty much dying at soccer practice with hope.
2nd grade- may crowning
3rd grade- making a club house in the summer
4th grade- stations of the cross
5th grade- pillow fight at recess
6th grade- first middle school dance!
7th grade- erin hitting me in the face with tetherball
8th grade- graduation
9th grade- my 5 year old fish died!!!!!!!!!!!
summer of 2008- PARIS! Le Tour Effiel

Interjections Comic Strip!

Birthday Party!

My birthday is in less than 9 days! I am so excited! I'm also trying to plan a birthday party but am having quite a few difficulties. I don't know when to have it and who to invite. I'm not sure if I want to have it on the Friday or Saturday before my birthday or the weekend after. This year my birthday just happens to be on a Monday, so that sort of sucks. But I'll be okay. So much to do in so little time. Ha ha. I can't wait to finally be 15! Everyone is turning 16 and I'll finally be 15. Won't that be great?

SEPTEMBER 8TH 1993 :)

My Weekend [8/22-8/24] :D

Friday night I went to see the Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants movie with my best friends from St. Romans. Saturday I wrote my english strengths and weaknesses essay, then went to Jak's birthday party for a short while. And after I left Jak's I went to the Marquette Dance where I met up with quite a few of my friends. That was full of fun. Sunday I went to church and then the Brewers game along with my parents and my girl Stephanie. After my mom and I dropped Stephanie off at home we went to hangout with my grandma at her house for awhile. My Grandma Rita is the coolest person ever and I love hanging out with her. Unlike most people, I actually have sleepovers with my Grandma, and enjoy them. That was my weekend in a nutshell. I hope you had just as much this past weekend.