Good Country People
How does the story deal with the theme of the human inability to see clearly thus name clearly?
I don’t really get the question but I will try. The story deals with the theme of human inability to see clearly by showing Joy changing her name. When Joy picks the name Hulga as the name she wants to change hers too. You can already tell that she didn’t do this cause she wanted to. She did this to make her mom mad at her. He appearance changed after that too. She became bulckier and meaner. Her mother coulding believe she did this. This is why I think she did but I don’t really get the question.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Raeanna Lucey
The Lottery
1. You think the story is going to be about just a person winning the lottery. The lottery is when someone buys a little card and trys to get numbers to win a bunch of money. In the story there is a person who won the lottery and it was different because his family got to pick a share of the money. So in the end he ended up with the lesser amount of money.
8. Its presented in an objective point of view because he is surprised and angry that his family gets a share of his lottery winnings. The dispassionate makes it so effective because it shows and tells you that he doesn’t care but if you really pay attention he does care.
The Lottery
1. You think the story is going to be about just a person winning the lottery. The lottery is when someone buys a little card and trys to get numbers to win a bunch of money. In the story there is a person who won the lottery and it was different because his family got to pick a share of the money. So in the end he ended up with the lesser amount of money.
8. Its presented in an objective point of view because he is surprised and angry that his family gets a share of his lottery winnings. The dispassionate makes it so effective because it shows and tells you that he doesn’t care but if you really pay attention he does care.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Hills Like White Elephants
Question #2: What is indicated about the past life of the man and the girl? How? What happened to the equality of their relationship? Why? How do we know? How accurate is the man’s judgment about their future?
Answer: I think that the man and the girl used to be in love. In the middle I feel like he was wanting to but she didn’t want to and he said that was fine as long as she felt comfortable. He was asking he to do it and she said she didn’t want to and he was cool with that. She starts getting irritated with him and he just wants everything to be like old times. His judgment on the future is like 50 % accurate because he thinks they will get back to old times and she just gets all mad at the end.
Question #5: Much of the conversation seems to be about trivial things ( ordering drinks. The weather. And so on.) What purpose does this conversation serve? What relevance has the girls remarks about absinthe?
Answer: The purpose of the conversation is that they are trying just to pass time and then get on the train and they don’t know what else to do so they just keep drinking. The relevance to absinthe is when she talks about it tasting like licorice.
Question #2: What is indicated about the past life of the man and the girl? How? What happened to the equality of their relationship? Why? How do we know? How accurate is the man’s judgment about their future?
Answer: I think that the man and the girl used to be in love. In the middle I feel like he was wanting to but she didn’t want to and he said that was fine as long as she felt comfortable. He was asking he to do it and she said she didn’t want to and he was cool with that. She starts getting irritated with him and he just wants everything to be like old times. His judgment on the future is like 50 % accurate because he thinks they will get back to old times and she just gets all mad at the end.
Question #5: Much of the conversation seems to be about trivial things ( ordering drinks. The weather. And so on.) What purpose does this conversation serve? What relevance has the girls remarks about absinthe?
Answer: The purpose of the conversation is that they are trying just to pass time and then get on the train and they don’t know what else to do so they just keep drinking. The relevance to absinthe is when she talks about it tasting like licorice.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Cathedral
Question: Why is significant that the narrator can't describe a cathedral to the blind man? What does this tell the reader about his charactor?
Answer: I think that it is significant because you know how the character feels being blind. So if he doesn't know why should we. It tells the reader that the man is blind.
Question: Why is significant that the narrator can't describe a cathedral to the blind man? What does this tell the reader about his charactor?
Answer: I think that it is significant because you know how the character feels being blind. So if he doesn't know why should we. It tells the reader that the man is blind.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Lesson
Question #3: What is the relationship between Sylvia and her cousin Sugar? How are they contrasted?
Answer: To me it seems that Sylvia and Sugar aren’t very close. They can have fun together, but most of the time they are mad at each other or jealous of each other. I find that they talk to each other but most of it is that Sylvia is thinking in her head about Sugar. I think they are contrasted by Sylvia always kind of being jealous and Sugar isn’t jealous a lot.
Question #4: Sugar states the lesson that she has learned in paragraph 51. How does the sorrowful look that Miss Moore gives Sylvia in that paragraph suggest that there is more to the lesson? What more? Explain the effect of Sugars definition of happiness as “an equal crack at the dough” on Miss Moore and on Sylvia.
Answer: It suggests that there is more to the lesson cause she probably looks disappointed and its like a look for help. That is when Sylvia states that she can feel there is something more to it deep in her chest. Like it takes more that just like a piece of the happiness its not just going to be given to you, you have to earn it. I feel like Miss Moore was trying to get the point across and she finally thought she did and then she is disappointed that she didn’t, it made Sylvia think that if that’s not it than what is it and maybe she will come up with the right answer.
Question #3: What is the relationship between Sylvia and her cousin Sugar? How are they contrasted?
Answer: To me it seems that Sylvia and Sugar aren’t very close. They can have fun together, but most of the time they are mad at each other or jealous of each other. I find that they talk to each other but most of it is that Sylvia is thinking in her head about Sugar. I think they are contrasted by Sylvia always kind of being jealous and Sugar isn’t jealous a lot.
Question #4: Sugar states the lesson that she has learned in paragraph 51. How does the sorrowful look that Miss Moore gives Sylvia in that paragraph suggest that there is more to the lesson? What more? Explain the effect of Sugars definition of happiness as “an equal crack at the dough” on Miss Moore and on Sylvia.
Answer: It suggests that there is more to the lesson cause she probably looks disappointed and its like a look for help. That is when Sylvia states that she can feel there is something more to it deep in her chest. Like it takes more that just like a piece of the happiness its not just going to be given to you, you have to earn it. I feel like Miss Moore was trying to get the point across and she finally thought she did and then she is disappointed that she didn’t, it made Sylvia think that if that’s not it than what is it and maybe she will come up with the right answer.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Everday Use
Question #4: Does the mother’s refusal to let Dee have the quilts indicate a permanent or temporary change of character? Why has she never done anything like it before? Why does she do it now? What details in the story prepare for and foreshadow that refusal?
Answer: It indicates a temporary change of character because she goes back to the same again. Because she felt bad for Dee. Because she is setting ground rules because now Dee is ready for the. When her mother thinks about it for alittle and then gets mad at her and that is when she says no.
Question #4: Does the mother’s refusal to let Dee have the quilts indicate a permanent or temporary change of character? Why has she never done anything like it before? Why does she do it now? What details in the story prepare for and foreshadow that refusal?
Answer: It indicates a temporary change of character because she goes back to the same again. Because she felt bad for Dee. Because she is setting ground rules because now Dee is ready for the. When her mother thinks about it for alittle and then gets mad at her and that is when she says no.
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