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1. Painless was a good word to pick. You were right about how his lif, at any given point, could never be painless.
2. You are right about that. If he ever gets clost to people, anyone, he always will get hurt.
3. He doesn't really decide to take pain away fro the people he cares about. I truly just happens. (where i am at in the book) It is very true that he comes across a lot of hard places where he does have to dacide if he is going to stay around to help others, or not.
4. I loved the way Brewster talked too. He was always making me feel so much more into his life and the book.

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#2 I completly agree with you. That would be a perfect inbetween in order to not be left out, but also not be hurt all the time.
#4 I really felf the same about the way the book was presented. Reading Brewster's poems were, by a land slide, my favorite part.

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#1 I personally thought the word "stuff" used by Brewster's brother everytime was a very easy word that I could relate to. :D revelation works too. :)
#3 Im sorry you hadn't read that far. It is a really good point in the book. It truly changed things... :D

Bruiser Q and A -Don't read if you don't know what happend to the uncle yet!!

1.) My personal favorite power word was said by Cody. In chapter thirty Cody deems the title to be, stuff. I loved this word because everyone around him, that is telling their story, is stating larger, power, words. Cody kept it simple with just saying "stuff".

2.) Brewster's upbringing has protected him from taking the pain of others and made sure he didn't take death away from someone else earlier. This upbringing also has hurt him though. Living with his uncle only caused him to not understand how people should feel toward others. I feel that Brewster should try not have two many friends, though have a few. Not get to connected to others but still be friendly. This way he isn't alone, yet he isn't always being hurt for others.

3.) Brewster has been threw a lot at the hands of his uncle due to his "gift". He hasn't been allowed to
make friends because he was afraid to care for them to much and get hurt for them. Luckily the "gift" has a limitation when it comes to how far he can be from another hurting person before he is "able" to take it from them. It is what really saved him from his uncle who tried to kill him when Uncle Hoyt was suffering from a stroke. Because he could never stop caring for his uncle, he had to get far enough away so that he could keep his life. It was his first personal act of getting in control.

4.) I liked how the story went from person to person. Taking in a lot of point of views. It allowed me to know things that other people, in the story, didn't know. For example, how Bronte really feels about Brewster. Then also alowed me to see how Brewster really feels about everyone.

Independent reading

For my independent reading I will be reading Bruiser. As far as I can tell it is about a boy who is out casted by his school and the only one that really understands what he is going threw is his girlfriend. Bronte, his girlfriend, seems like a loyal girlfriend that always wants to help Bruiser. Bruiser is out casted by people, she feels, because he can't care for to many people at once. When he cares for someone things happen. Things that should be completely imposable.
I'd like to read this book because I am fascinated by what the "imposable" is. I want to find out what is happening to her then find out, why?

 

 

 

My second choice, in case I can't read Bruiser, would be Lockdown. Another more paranormal book, this book is about a young boy that was wrongfully convicted and sent to a prison that is actually underground. In most prisons the problems arse by other inmates. In this book the "problem" here is that the prison is actually pure evil. People are carried off in the middle of the night by creatures in gas masks. Alex has two choices, escape, or most likely be killed gruesomely as he is trying to rest.

I would like to also read this book because I want to find out if the young boy gets out alive, or is another victim of injustice and murder.

 

 

 

rebecca ZangMay 2, 2013 at 9:13 AM on Tayzia's Blog

The way you ended this book would have been much more interesting. Instead of just killing him off they would be forced to go down the path of why the Ewells lied. Then maybe they wouldn't have gotten away with it and Jem woulod't have broken his arm.



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I like your questions. They seem like they really would fix those loose ends that were left out there. Clearly pointing to whom actually gave Mayella those bruises.

Post#4 Alternate Endings

Starting in the court room before the verdict was given:
 Looking around it was silent. Everyone was anxious to hear what they would declare. I couldn't take my eyes off of Tom Robinson and he off his table. The judge finally asked "What is the verdict?" As the person on the end rose to tell us all my heart beated faster. I don't exactly know why seeing how it wasn't my life that could be ending right now. Although I couldn't see his face tom seemed to be anxious also, yet like he didn't want to know what everyone else thought of him. I looked to Atticus and he was looking toward the man standing.
  Silence filled the air around us. Pure silence. The man on the end opened his mouth and........
"We find Tom Robinson.......... Not guilty for the auction of rape." The court house roared! The people around us were so loud I couldn't hear the white folk below us who were yelling also. People jumped and yelled and screamed! Dill grabbed my hand. Everyone was smiling and screaming. No one could hear one another yet that didn't stop people from yelling over one another. People stormed out of the court house. Some, like the Ewells, were furious.
The next day someone came to the house and threw a brick threw a window, I suspected the Ewells but Atticus said it could have been anyone. On the note attached to it it read....
"Y'all better watch ya selvs. Ima find a way to get back at you."
Atticus spent the next few days running around town. It seemed like he was always busy, more than before. The case blew over and after a few months everyone who had been obsessed with the case now was back to the regular "hum." Dill and I would stay together till we were ripped apart. Some nights he would even sleep in my room by my bed. Holding hands as we fell asleep Dill said, "When are we going to have that baby?"

Post#3 Qusetions

To Bob Ewell, have you ever seen Tom Robinson around your  residence? When did you see him? How often did he come around? What was he doing as he came by? I would ask this to set the mood that Tom had gone by Mr. Ewell's house many times. How long was your daughter left alone as you ran for help? Setting that he was very careless when it came to her well-being, gos with doctor questions he was asked.

Heck Tate, Where were the rest of the bruises on her body exactly, if you saw any of course? Why is it that you did not call for a doctor exactly? See if he really thought of her well being.

Mayell Ewell, How are you feeling right now? Confert. How often did Tom come by your house if ever? What did he do as he passed? once again trying to bring up that they might have known each other more that he is leading on. If at all, how did Tom Robinson hold you down? When she is on the floor, stating how it would be hard for this man to have raped her and hold her down at the same time.

Tom Robinson, Is is hard to do things with only you one good arm?Can you do any heavy lifting for long distances? Asking more about balance when stuck in a harder to maintain situation.


Comments: I really love what you find as courageous. I like that you pointed out that Mr. Finch did what he did because he had to, not because he just wanted to. :)
~ on "Me Me ME", Trey Rush's blog.

Post #2 Bravery

What do I think makes a person brave? I feel that someone is extraordinarily brave when they do things, not for themselves, but for someone else even in the face of danger. If someone were to risk their life just to help or keep someone else safe, I would consider them brave. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird I personally find Atticus to be the most brave. Not only did he save the neighborhood from a risky dog that was coming down their street, straight for them, but he is risking his reputation to defend a black man everywhere he goes. He is a single parent of two and faces every situation head on. He is willing to do anything to protect his honor with God and would never do anything to go against him.
In real life, I know a man. He is my boyfriends dad in fact. Right now, at this moment he is deployed in the army. He has three kids and loves them all. Along with his three kids he left behind a loving wife. He is in Korea protecting our country. Without going further in depth he is protecting our country from missile attacks that if he did not do his job one day the world as we know it would cease to exist. At home he is a caring father, good friend and a loving husband that would lay down his life for what he so strongly believes in. I find this man to be extreamly brave for everything he would do with/ for his country.

Post #1 Depression

Black Tuesday was the worst stock market crash in our history. It started as the real estate industry slowly began to declined in in the stock market. Due to this the stock marked in all declined. You see, the stock market and real estate industry are linked together because as one goes down, the other does too. People had been investing and doing things with money the didn't have, as a result it started the chain of events that led to the Great Depression. Brokers were loaning out nearly two thirds of the money being invested. Total this loan was over 8.5 billion dollars. The major problem with this, stated in the article I found is that the United States in total didn't even have 8.5 billion dollars yet. There was people hoping that the market would go up and they incuraged others to invest too but it was to late. The stock amrket was on a down fall.
The stock market hit it's all time low on April 27, 1930, the end of the stock market. in July the Dowl finally closed at  41.22. The market was completly colasped and lost 89% on Black Tuesday, to this day.

http://www.blacktuesday.org/

Comment:  "I'd forgotten when Monopoly had come out and why for. Amazing research on the Great Depression." On "Emily Blog"

Post #6

In the Elizabethan era they played a selected amount of sporting games that were known of. They would do things like archery, soot ball ( a relative of cricket), dice, Colf ( an ancestor of golf) , Gameball (football), wrestling and more. A lot of the time things would become what they called, blood games. This included things like fighting to the bloody death.
They didn't just play sporting games though. They also played card games, board games, dice games, and more.They players a game that is an ancestor of the


http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-games.htm

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It was really easy to guess deception with your pictures. I thought the second one was the best. :)
This was on Lolo's Bloggy- Thing a ma bob.

Post #5 Love & trust

These feel pictures represent love and trust. Each picture has two people together and seemingly in love. These pictures have two people who trust each other, such as in the last, truly and always. These two people are together and showing their affection though some way. Although, ust because you're not together doesn't mean you're not in love, I just couldn't find any pictures of it. When you are in love, it shows, like these pictures there are no hiding it when you're seen by others.

~Lolo's Bloggy~ Comment Post # 4

From your writings i can tell you took your time with understanding what each link had to offer, I like it. :)
On Londyn's Blog.

Links for Shakespeare- Othello

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/othello/ This link is exactly what you could hope for. It has everything from characters to notes one each scene and even a quiz to text how you are understanding it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello A great sight with a lot of information on Othello. On the other hand, it is a lot to read when you are trying to find a simple answer.
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/ From the same general place as the first link, this link has quizzes to help you text on how well you know the play. Differing from the first link , this link is one every play shakespheare wrote (that we know of).
http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/playmenu.php?WorkID=othello This link is short and to the point, sweet, not so much. It has all the plays but when you are selection one like I did with "The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice (1604)," sadly it only has a list of the characters and who they were then the scene of each act. (That is it.)
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/othello/play-summary.html Finally this link has a summary of what happened throughout the play followed my a quiz. The summary is long but I would much rather have a long reading and know all about something than not know anything about it because the reading was to short.

After finding all of these sights, I would personally use the first link for Othello because it was good at giving information I felt would be needed and more. The first link was helpful and seems it would be easier to navigate than some of the others. Not only wold it tell you what did happen but you could take a quiz that would make sure you understood what they were telling you.

Post #3 comment

On Adriana Godinez's blog I wrote,

You have a very nice dream that is short sweet and to the point of being happy. :) What would your son's name be??

January 24, 2013 at 9:03 AM

Post #3 This... boy I knew

I know this boy, his whole life he has been treated like he was nothing. His mother threw him out and a serves called D.C.F.S would take him in when and if they found him. He used to ask everyone he knew if he could stay with them for a few days so he wasn't out alone at night. All this boy wanted to do was be with his mother and have a home. The last time i saw this boy he informed me that his mother kicked him out for the last time and he would never be allowed to go back to her. I didn't notice it then but I realized soon there after.  He was badly hurt. Not just physically though, from all the times he was beaten by her, but mentally also. This "boy" only wanted to be with his mother and live happily. She wanted nothing from him, ever. I think that if she had a choice to go back and not have him, sadly she would. He changed my view on the world. Before him I lived in a bubble where parents had to love their children and take care of them no matter what. He just wanted to be home, and be loved by his mother. His dream for love from her was never reached. She still lives around here. He has been moved away from her so she can not hurt him anymore.

Throughout A Raisin in the Sun they are talking about how Walter's dreams are never going to come true for him. They talk about dreams and how they were crushed time and time again, how they would finally get a chance to do something and then it was stripped away from them at the last moment. Walter's dream of becoming a liquor store owner was broken and crushed right upfront of him just like my friends was of being with his mother (although my friends was actually worse than Walter's). I find that nothing is worse than a broken dream, even more so the ones involving bettering your family.

Post #2 My Dream

My dream? My dream is that there are no pointless wars all over like there is now. Men and women aren't deployed from their families to serve in some far off place where they can not only hardly talk to their families but they have a very high chance of being killed just for wanting to protect their country. If I had my personal dream come true I'd be living in a warmer place, that still has seasons though, in a average sized house with another building in the yard where I would run my daycare center from. Id have two kids, one boy named James and a girl named Abbigale, and a husband that would love his job and wouldn't feel the need to complain about or be upset about. My friends would be the parents of all the children that I'd take care of during the day and my neighbors plus the people I would have gone to collage with (maybe) and i might also keep a friend or two from high school.

If I was able to have all this, it would make me extremely happy. I wold have everything i have ever wanted and wouldn't have to worry about the next thing in life or if my family was safe. Having this would in return give me everything I have ever wanted out of life. I would have an understanding with everyone and there would be no worry about if something was out of reach for my children or myself. The world would be happy and in return as would I be. Every day I'd be able to wake up, send my kids off to school and mt husband off to work. I'd take in kids when parents need my help and have fun all day teaching them and working on each child's social skills.

Post #1 American Dream?

Q1.I thought the author of the first article was trying to define the American dream as equality among the rich and regular people, although he never very clearly stated what it was that he wants. I think he wants to have everyone be equal among each other due to the writings he quoted. On the other hand, the author of the second article, although he might nit think the at it is right, explains that the modern American Dream differently. He says it is more about money in order to have happiness instead of equality compared to the first.

Q2. The first author quotes a few writings of other people through out history. i believe trying to prove that he isn't the only one to think the way he thinks of the American Dream. He quoted Adams in saying  "steadily increases the gulf between the ordinary man and the super-rich," and by saying "We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities for the supply of others' necessities," he then quoted Winthrop. Then the author of the second article used examples such as when he referred to the lawyer ans the worker at McDonalds. In his own words he explains that to most people  "greed is good".

Q3.After reading the articles I believe that the first author knew more of what he was talking about due to the research he had to have done in order to get his quotes. The second author only stated what he thinks instead of getting facts about the subject.

Q4. I agree with the first author in that i want the American Dream to be about everyone being equal, money or not. We have the same basic idea that we should all be equal because the fact that we are all equal. The second author is to be agreed with also. I feel that now people are mush more concerned about money and having it compared to not than being free from racial stereotypical comments or not being allowed into a building or home because of who you are (genetically). In all i feel America as a whole has fallen backwards.

Q5. To make their point come across the second author's approach, I believe, worked best. It was strong willed compared to the first that was laid back assuming that you knew who the people he was quoting were and that you could assume what they meant. How the first author was so sure about his argument and didn't use so many quotes to get his point across helped me better understand what he was saying. I believe this was do to that there was more flow within the article.