Intro to Lit
Question # 5 part A
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Q- what is the families social economic- Past, Present, Future?
A- In the story “Greenleaf” the family is depicted as having a poor economic standing they don’t have enough money to fit them.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
Alex Bergsma
Intro to Lit
Block F
October 29, 2007
In the story “Greenleaf” the main character; Mrs. May is a mean old women who is tired of working because she just knows that the work she does will not be used in the future. She is also mean because the people around her are very self-centered. Also the bull in the story might represent the Mr. May when he is not there, like when Ms. May always thinks of him saying something like; "If it had been my boys," he would have said, "they would have cut off their right arm before they would have allowed their maw to . . . .".
Intro to Lit
Block F
October 29, 2007
In the story “Greenleaf” the main character; Mrs. May is a mean old women who is tired of working because she just knows that the work she does will not be used in the future. She is also mean because the people around her are very self-centered. Also the bull in the story might represent the Mr. May when he is not there, like when Ms. May always thinks of him saying something like; "If it had been my boys," he would have said, "they would have cut off their right arm before they would have allowed their maw to . . . .".
Friday, October 26, 2007
To Take Life
To Take Life, To Kill
Main character- Seek
Story begins With- Seek’s uncle
1. “If one bird finds on flower too few, whole centuries of flocks won’t never get born.”
This statement by Seek’s uncle means that if a ‘hummingbird’ finds one flower too few than he will die shortly, either by mal nutrition or if he has offspring they will not be strong enough to survive.
2. “See, now, child dead, man born.”
This statement by Seek’s uncle, again, means that if a child dies then shortly a new man is born.
3. “To kill, to take life, they’s a difference, they’s a world, a whole, big world of difference.”
This quote again is by Seek’s uncle who describes that the to kill, is different then to take life.
Connecting-
Humming bird/seek
Seek→ vision quest
Deaths-
-Childhood
-Bomber
-Peace, solitude, nature, way of life.
-Independence
-Bear
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Main character- Seek
Story begins With- Seek’s uncle
1. “If one bird finds on flower too few, whole centuries of flocks won’t never get born.”
This statement by Seek’s uncle means that if a ‘hummingbird’ finds one flower too few than he will die shortly, either by mal nutrition or if he has offspring they will not be strong enough to survive.
2. “See, now, child dead, man born.”
This statement by Seek’s uncle, again, means that if a child dies then shortly a new man is born.
3. “To kill, to take life, they’s a difference, they’s a world, a whole, big world of difference.”
This quote again is by Seek’s uncle who describes that the to kill, is different then to take life.
Connecting-
Humming bird/seek
Seek→ vision quest
Deaths-
-Childhood
-Bomber
-Peace, solitude, nature, way of life.
-Independence
-Bear
-
The Rocking-Horse Winner
Paul is the main character in this short story; he is presented in such a way that the author gets the idea that he is actually crazy. The main motive for him to win these races is that he wants to make not only his mother, but also the whole family, impressed, and to be “excepted.”
A&P
Question: Explain what the author means by this quote; “…My stomach kind of fell as felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter.”
Answer: this quote is said bye the main character explaining about how the world will be so hard to the main character; since he quit his job just because he thought that the manager was treating a girl that he liked badly, and he kicked her out.
Answer: this quote is said bye the main character explaining about how the world will be so hard to the main character; since he quit his job just because he thought that the manager was treating a girl that he liked badly, and he kicked her out.
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