To Kill A Mockingbird: assignment 2

My first impression of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, was oh great this is going to be the slowest book I've ever read.  Luckily it turned out to be the best book I have read this school year so far.  I am keeping up with the reading at good times and I am annotating well.  I have found everything in the syllabus for the chapters I have read so far, the annotating helps me understand a little bit better about the material but I get it quite well right now.

                I remember when it was the first time I got sent out of the class a was a good kid but I made one wrong move and it's the most embarrassing thing ever.  To be sent out of class in front of everyone and be clearly talked to by the teacher and then come in to laughing snickers on the faces of others.  "A storm of laughter  broke loose when it finally occurred to the class that miss Caroline had just whipped me."

To Kill A Mocking Bird: Presumption(Depression)

                I learned many interesting things about the Depression during the researching for my project.  And i know one thing for sure I would not have been happy to have grown up in this time.  There wasn't enough jobs for everyone and even if you had a job pay was too low to support a family.  Most children weren't able to wear clothes because their families couldn't afford it and most people went days without eating.  I would most defiantly not want to live in that time period and I'm glad I didn't.

                I think that living in the Depression is going to make the family be poor.  I think that with the main character in the novel being a young girl she is going to see life differently than how the parents do.  I also think that someone in her family is going to be injured because of the tough times at work.  I think that the story is going to be about her life during the Depression and how she survives and understands the real problem of the world.

Blog Assignment Three

How the leopard got his spots:

                This story stands out for its peculiar word choice and how the leopard got his spots, with the changing of skin and all.  It is an old classic and old classics are quite popular short stories from personal experiences.  I prefer the old classics way over the new short stories made in 1990 and up, they just aren't very interesting.  Why I remember this story so much is because of the characterization; Leopard and the Ethiopian as the superiors because of their blending skills.  Then the lack of blending by Zebra and Giraffe, because of their color, really gives an interesting view of the relationship between the characters.  The elements made the story more understandable than the usual old time classic, and I would love to read more short stories like this in class.

                What I have learned about stories so far in this class is mostly just the diction levels between high, low, and neutral.  Short stories are my favorite subject in English and we spent most of our time on them in eighth grade.  I learned most about short stories in eighth grade and I'm not really sure if I have learned anything new from then.  I noticed that both short stories we read this week had at least two characters who were main, round characters.  Plus there were many characters that were very flat and were almost never explained but just appeared in "Uncle Marcos".  In "The Cask of Amontillado" there was a lot of use of elements, which I assume is in every short story.  I believe that is all and that is about all I've learned this week.