Don't try to wake me up Even if the sun really does come out tomorrow Don't believe anything you say anymoreIn the mourn, in the morning Bricks to this old house are breaking Steel would have weathered, but now forlorning It's alarming how loud the silence screams No warn, no warn, no warning Addictions fill the table where the family used to sitAnd conversate to the sounds, to the sounds of the record playerWith its jumping needle and the lights that grew dim over time, with downcast eyesThere's more to lving than being aliveAre you where you thought you would be?So beautiful and only 23Opposition rests in the hearts with no oppurtunityIt's not that we don't talkIt's just no one really listens and honesty fadesLike a politician who lost in the courseAll smiles but no one remembers our namesWith downcast eyes, there's more to living that being aliveDon't try to wake me up even if the sun really does come out tomorrowDon't believe anything I say anymoreIn the mourn, in the morningWith downcast eyesThere is more to living than being alive
This song is by anberlin the name of it is alexithymia I like this song a lot because I can relate to it, it makes me feel like I’m not the only person in the world who feels this way about life and people, It say’s a lot with out actually saying it. The first time I heard this song and actually listened to the words I got the meaning and it was as if it was just singing out my life, I guess it just has so much meaning to me and that’s why I like it.
The poem connects to my life it’s pretty much about family and friends to me its about living in a world with people who don’t understand they listen to you but don’t actually hear what your saying its just words that mean nothing, Things that once meant everything to you slowly change and drift away and its hard getting used to it, It also says that there is more to living then being alive and that’s something that I believe in strongly that there really is, you need a lot living you need people friends family education, can you imagine being alive and not having any of that these things keep you living and sane without them is there really a point in living. People take being alive for granted they never actually think about what they have and what’s keeping them alive.
My personal definition in poetry is something special and creative just because you make it up, It’s the way you feel and your thoughts and way of thinking, the way that you see things and picture them in a way that know one else does, it’s the way of letting out things like anger and sadness I think poetry is something that comes from the heart.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
blog #5 Friendship =]
http://artists.letssingit.com/disney-channel-circle-of-stars-lyrics-best-of-friends-rhmq96l
(From Walt Disney's "The Fox and the Hound") When you're best of friends Having so much fun together, You're not even aware You're such a funny pair. You're the best of friends. Life's a happy game, You could clown around forever. Neither one of you sees your natur'l boundaries. Life's one happy game. If only the world wouldn't get in the way, If only people would just let you play. They'll say you're both being fools, You're breaking all the rules. They can't understand Your magic wonderland. When you're the best of friends, Sharing all that you discover, When these moments have passed Will that friendship last? Who can say if there's a way? How I hope, I hope it never ends, 'Cause you're the best of friends.
This song has to do alot with friendship Its from Fox in the hound, I like this song because I can relate to it. I have many friends that are crazy and different from me, But yet we get along great, You feel like you don't need anybody but them because you just have so much fun together, you dont care about the rest of the world you get in trouble and have no limit on what you say and dont say, And what you do, Until your parents stop you, You share so many memorizes and create a inside joke every single time your together, And you hope you never loose each othe cause your the best friend i've ever had
dedicated to -Angel Colorossi my best friend <3
(From Walt Disney's "The Fox and the Hound") When you're best of friends Having so much fun together, You're not even aware You're such a funny pair. You're the best of friends. Life's a happy game, You could clown around forever. Neither one of you sees your natur'l boundaries. Life's one happy game. If only the world wouldn't get in the way, If only people would just let you play. They'll say you're both being fools, You're breaking all the rules. They can't understand Your magic wonderland. When you're the best of friends, Sharing all that you discover, When these moments have passed Will that friendship last? Who can say if there's a way? How I hope, I hope it never ends, 'Cause you're the best of friends.
This song has to do alot with friendship Its from Fox in the hound, I like this song because I can relate to it. I have many friends that are crazy and different from me, But yet we get along great, You feel like you don't need anybody but them because you just have so much fun together, you dont care about the rest of the world you get in trouble and have no limit on what you say and dont say, And what you do, Until your parents stop you, You share so many memorizes and create a inside joke every single time your together, And you hope you never loose each othe cause your the best friend i've ever had
dedicated to -Angel Colorossi my best friend <3
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Moral Dilemmas in Huck Finn
Heather Clark
Mr. Hughes
English 10 6th hour
31 October 2007
Moral Dilemmas in Huck Finn
Moral Dilemmas in Huck Finn In the adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck faces a number of moral dilemmas which reveal much about this character.
One of the many Dilemmas that Huck comes about is having to lie about his name and who he really is, Huck lies to many people about who he is because If people found out he was really Huck Finn he would be in a lot of trouble and have to go back with his dad, Huck lies to two people about his name he uses secret idenetys such as when he dressed up as a girl when he went back to his town and pretended to be Sarah Williams (page 41 chapter 11 paragraph 1 “ come in says the woman, and I did. She says: “take a cheer.” I done it. She looked me all over with her little shiny eyes, and says: “what might your name be?” “Sarah Williams”. Another time that Huck lied about his name was when he fell off the steamboat and found that family and said his name was George Jackson ( chapter 17 paragraph 1 “Oh you did, did you strike a light there, somebody what did you say your name was? “George Jackson sir, I’m only a boy”.
It seems that Huck Lying about his name is a good idea, Because if someone found out he was Huck he would be in a whole lot of trouble, and have to go back with his dad also have to deal with all the drama and the people’s reactions and disappointment at home, Telling the truth about his name would be a bad idea because eventually it would get back to his town because everyone knows about it and thinks Huck is dead, He would have to hide from people because he would have people searching for him.
Huck is doing fine with lying but should keep his story straight about his name and his whole life background He shouldn’t keep changing it like in chapter 17 when he forgets what he pretended his name was so he has Buck spell it out for him. (Chapter17 paragraph 2 “I bet you can’t spell my name”. Says I” “I bet you what I dare you I can.”
“All right,” “says I,” “go ahead” “G-E-O-R-G-E J-A-C-K-S-O-N there now he says” also when he goes back to his town and to see what’s going on he gets his story confused with the woman (chapter 11 paragraph 1“Well I reckon you have lived in the country. I thought maybe you were trying to hocus me again. What’s your real name now?” “ George peters, mum.”
Huck’s running away causes many dilemmas that he has to be aware of, after a few years Huck probably won’t even have to hide his name; Huck hiding his name is a good idea and just one of the many dilemmas he is going through.
Mr. Hughes
English 10 6th hour
31 October 2007
Moral Dilemmas in Huck Finn
Moral Dilemmas in Huck Finn In the adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck faces a number of moral dilemmas which reveal much about this character.
One of the many Dilemmas that Huck comes about is having to lie about his name and who he really is, Huck lies to many people about who he is because If people found out he was really Huck Finn he would be in a lot of trouble and have to go back with his dad, Huck lies to two people about his name he uses secret idenetys such as when he dressed up as a girl when he went back to his town and pretended to be Sarah Williams (page 41 chapter 11 paragraph 1 “ come in says the woman, and I did. She says: “take a cheer.” I done it. She looked me all over with her little shiny eyes, and says: “what might your name be?” “Sarah Williams”. Another time that Huck lied about his name was when he fell off the steamboat and found that family and said his name was George Jackson ( chapter 17 paragraph 1 “Oh you did, did you strike a light there, somebody what did you say your name was? “George Jackson sir, I’m only a boy”.
It seems that Huck Lying about his name is a good idea, Because if someone found out he was Huck he would be in a whole lot of trouble, and have to go back with his dad also have to deal with all the drama and the people’s reactions and disappointment at home, Telling the truth about his name would be a bad idea because eventually it would get back to his town because everyone knows about it and thinks Huck is dead, He would have to hide from people because he would have people searching for him.
Huck is doing fine with lying but should keep his story straight about his name and his whole life background He shouldn’t keep changing it like in chapter 17 when he forgets what he pretended his name was so he has Buck spell it out for him. (Chapter17 paragraph 2 “I bet you can’t spell my name”. Says I” “I bet you what I dare you I can.”
“All right,” “says I,” “go ahead” “G-E-O-R-G-E J-A-C-K-S-O-N there now he says” also when he goes back to his town and to see what’s going on he gets his story confused with the woman (chapter 11 paragraph 1“Well I reckon you have lived in the country. I thought maybe you were trying to hocus me again. What’s your real name now?” “ George peters, mum.”
Huck’s running away causes many dilemmas that he has to be aware of, after a few years Huck probably won’t even have to hide his name; Huck hiding his name is a good idea and just one of the many dilemmas he is going through.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Huck Finn reader response # 3
Huck Finn reader response # 3
1. I think the whole house in general impressed huck everything that was in it and how much detail there was ( page 75 paragraph 3 " It was a mighty nice family and a mighty nice house too I hadn’t seen no house in the country before that was so nice and had so much style" there was, One thing Huck seemed most interested in was the clock with the picture of the town painted on it and the sun, The clock had two parrots on each side with a cat by one and a dog by another, He seemed to think it was weird that when the parrots made nosie they didn’t open there mouths or move, Some other things that huck seemed impressed about was the brass door handles and the big brick fire place also the table cloth with the eagle painted on it.(pg. 76 paragraph 2 "The table had a cover made out of beautiful oil-cloth with a red and blue spread-eagle on it and a painted border all around." I don’t think huck is used to being around people and things that are so close and have so much meaning these people put so much work into making there home nice and welcoming, I think Huck is seeing how happy and put together there people are and how successful they are.
2.Huck seems very interested in the books In the Grangerford’s home. How perfect they were stacked up and how they were all together, There were a lot of books of all different kinds in one place ones about god, bibles, pilgrims, poetry, speeches, books on medicine and more, I think Huck wasn’t used to this much of a choice in books with the window the only thing he ever read and learned about was the bible and his dad never threw a book at him and said hey you read. So he didn’t even no there were these many books about all these different things and he was interested in just what all of them were about. (Page 76 paragraph 2 "I read considerable in it now and then" Huck’s view of education and Mark Twain’s are both similar and different Mark grew up getting a good education and knowing he would need one and it was something he probably wanted, Huck He probably doesn’t take education as seriously as Mark does but he’s slowly but surely finding out that it’s a good thing to have.
3. The thing that is so weird and unique with the poems and the scrap books were the poems were always sad and really deep in a depressing way and the scrap books had pictures of accidents and people suffering, It seems the girl was obsessed with death, The one painting of the girl with six arms about to jump off the bridge probably had a lot of meaning in it. Twain describes it so specifically because it was her last drawing and probably one of the scarier ones It was the one that people weren’t so sure about because they didn’t know what the girl way trying to say or feeling with all of her arms. If the arms down meant hell or the arms up meant heaven no one knew because she never got a chance to finish it.( Page 77 paragraph 1 "These were all nice pictures I reckon but I didn’t somehow seem to take to them because if ever I was down a little they always give me the fan-tods" I think Mark twain’s view of death was complected he wasn’t sure of it He wasn’t quite sure in what he believed in when you died., He Knew suicide was something that people felt strong upon but not so sure why people did it. Mark probably thought art was a beautiful thing and pictures of death had so much feeling in it but yet so unknown he is amazed by it. Huck was so touched by this art cause it was unlike a lot of others not many people have the courage or the right pain and feeling to draw death and it actually have an affect on people and her drawings I think had an affect on Huck.
1. I think the whole house in general impressed huck everything that was in it and how much detail there was ( page 75 paragraph 3 " It was a mighty nice family and a mighty nice house too I hadn’t seen no house in the country before that was so nice and had so much style" there was, One thing Huck seemed most interested in was the clock with the picture of the town painted on it and the sun, The clock had two parrots on each side with a cat by one and a dog by another, He seemed to think it was weird that when the parrots made nosie they didn’t open there mouths or move, Some other things that huck seemed impressed about was the brass door handles and the big brick fire place also the table cloth with the eagle painted on it.(pg. 76 paragraph 2 "The table had a cover made out of beautiful oil-cloth with a red and blue spread-eagle on it and a painted border all around." I don’t think huck is used to being around people and things that are so close and have so much meaning these people put so much work into making there home nice and welcoming, I think Huck is seeing how happy and put together there people are and how successful they are.
2.Huck seems very interested in the books In the Grangerford’s home. How perfect they were stacked up and how they were all together, There were a lot of books of all different kinds in one place ones about god, bibles, pilgrims, poetry, speeches, books on medicine and more, I think Huck wasn’t used to this much of a choice in books with the window the only thing he ever read and learned about was the bible and his dad never threw a book at him and said hey you read. So he didn’t even no there were these many books about all these different things and he was interested in just what all of them were about. (Page 76 paragraph 2 "I read considerable in it now and then" Huck’s view of education and Mark Twain’s are both similar and different Mark grew up getting a good education and knowing he would need one and it was something he probably wanted, Huck He probably doesn’t take education as seriously as Mark does but he’s slowly but surely finding out that it’s a good thing to have.
3. The thing that is so weird and unique with the poems and the scrap books were the poems were always sad and really deep in a depressing way and the scrap books had pictures of accidents and people suffering, It seems the girl was obsessed with death, The one painting of the girl with six arms about to jump off the bridge probably had a lot of meaning in it. Twain describes it so specifically because it was her last drawing and probably one of the scarier ones It was the one that people weren’t so sure about because they didn’t know what the girl way trying to say or feeling with all of her arms. If the arms down meant hell or the arms up meant heaven no one knew because she never got a chance to finish it.( Page 77 paragraph 1 "These were all nice pictures I reckon but I didn’t somehow seem to take to them because if ever I was down a little they always give me the fan-tods" I think Mark twain’s view of death was complected he wasn’t sure of it He wasn’t quite sure in what he believed in when you died., He Knew suicide was something that people felt strong upon but not so sure why people did it. Mark probably thought art was a beautiful thing and pictures of death had so much feeling in it but yet so unknown he is amazed by it. Huck was so touched by this art cause it was unlike a lot of others not many people have the courage or the right pain and feeling to draw death and it actually have an affect on people and her drawings I think had an affect on Huck.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Huck Finn response 2
Reader Response 2: Huck Finn (7-13)
Huck is influenced by Tom Sawyer Huck seems as if he idolizes Tom and the things that he does. But sometimes all the stuff Tom does isn’t the best influence’s on Huck. such as going on the boat with Jim. (pg. 50 paragraph 4 "do you reckon Tom Sawyer would ever go by this thing? Not for pie, he wouldn’t he’d call it an adventure- that’s what he’d call it and he’d land on that wreck as if it were his last act" Jim knew it wasn’t a good idea, Huck Knew as well He knew he could be putting his life in danger by doing it and he knows the consequences but then thinks "what would Tom Sawyer do? So Huck does it anyways and usually gets in trouble or in a predicament for what he does it.
Huck is influenced by Widow Douglas as well. The widow is a good influence on Huck she took him in and actually cared for him she tried to give Huck an education and teach him from right from wrong. also When pap took Huck away she tried to get him back so she must have cared if she wanted him and you could tell that she was worried when Huck faked his death, As much as Widow Douglas was a good influence Huck didn’t think so after he lived with his dad though (pg.18 paragraph 3 "It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing no books nor study. Two months or more run along and my clothes got to be all rags and dirt, and I didn’t see how I’d ever got to like it so well at the widows, Where you had to was, and eat on a plate, and comb up, and go to bed and get up regular and be forever bothered over a book"
Pap is actually probably the best influence on Huck even through what Pap is doing is not right Pap shows Huck what Whisky does even though he doesn’t mean it (pg 22 paragraph 3) "by and by he rolled out and jumped on to his feet looking wild and he see me and went for me. He chased me round and round thee place with a clasp-knife calling em the angel of death and saying he was kill me then I wouldn’t come for him no more" It shows how stupid and crazy it can actually make a person to actually try to harm you own son, Also the way that pap beats Huck (pg.18 paragraph 4 "by and by pap got too handy with his hick’ry and I couldn’t stand it. I was all over in welts" Huck see’s the person that pap is and doesn’t want to be like that.
Jim is a good influence on Huck He follows directions and doesn’t like to get in trouble. When Huck pointed out the wreck Jim thought it was a bad idea to go on it (pg.50 paragraph 3 "I doan want to go fool’n long er no wrack. We’s doin blame well en we better let blame well alone as de good book says like as not dey’s a watchman on dat wrack" Jim sets good examples for Huck as an adult he knows what best and Huck should look up to that. Also Jim is helping Huck and Huck is helping him he could show huck that blacks are people too.
Huck is influenced by Tom Sawyer Huck seems as if he idolizes Tom and the things that he does. But sometimes all the stuff Tom does isn’t the best influence’s on Huck. such as going on the boat with Jim. (pg. 50 paragraph 4 "do you reckon Tom Sawyer would ever go by this thing? Not for pie, he wouldn’t he’d call it an adventure- that’s what he’d call it and he’d land on that wreck as if it were his last act" Jim knew it wasn’t a good idea, Huck Knew as well He knew he could be putting his life in danger by doing it and he knows the consequences but then thinks "what would Tom Sawyer do? So Huck does it anyways and usually gets in trouble or in a predicament for what he does it.
Huck is influenced by Widow Douglas as well. The widow is a good influence on Huck she took him in and actually cared for him she tried to give Huck an education and teach him from right from wrong. also When pap took Huck away she tried to get him back so she must have cared if she wanted him and you could tell that she was worried when Huck faked his death, As much as Widow Douglas was a good influence Huck didn’t think so after he lived with his dad though (pg.18 paragraph 3 "It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing no books nor study. Two months or more run along and my clothes got to be all rags and dirt, and I didn’t see how I’d ever got to like it so well at the widows, Where you had to was, and eat on a plate, and comb up, and go to bed and get up regular and be forever bothered over a book"
Pap is actually probably the best influence on Huck even through what Pap is doing is not right Pap shows Huck what Whisky does even though he doesn’t mean it (pg 22 paragraph 3) "by and by he rolled out and jumped on to his feet looking wild and he see me and went for me. He chased me round and round thee place with a clasp-knife calling em the angel of death and saying he was kill me then I wouldn’t come for him no more" It shows how stupid and crazy it can actually make a person to actually try to harm you own son, Also the way that pap beats Huck (pg.18 paragraph 4 "by and by pap got too handy with his hick’ry and I couldn’t stand it. I was all over in welts" Huck see’s the person that pap is and doesn’t want to be like that.
Jim is a good influence on Huck He follows directions and doesn’t like to get in trouble. When Huck pointed out the wreck Jim thought it was a bad idea to go on it (pg.50 paragraph 3 "I doan want to go fool’n long er no wrack. We’s doin blame well en we better let blame well alone as de good book says like as not dey’s a watchman on dat wrack" Jim sets good examples for Huck as an adult he knows what best and Huck should look up to that. Also Jim is helping Huck and Huck is helping him he could show huck that blacks are people too.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Huck Finn 10/10/07
Page 15 paragraph 4
Quote from book
"Ain’t you a sweet-scented dandy, though? A bed; and bedclothes; and a look’n-glass; and a piece of carpet on the floor- and your own father got to sleep with the hogs in the tanyard. I never see such a son. I bet I’ll take some o’ these frills out o’ you before im done with you. Why there ain’t no end to your airs- they say you’re rich. Hey?- how’s that?"
Quote in own words
Look at you all cleaned up and handsome, you have a bed to sleep in and clothes to sleep in, a house and windows, and you even have carpet on your floor but me your own father has to sleep out on the streets, I’ve never seen my son so joyful But I’ll take some of that out of you when I get custody of you, there isn’t no end to your joyful life, they say your rich now How is it?
Personal response
This theme is related to relationship with parents Huck Finn is seeing his dad for the first time in years and that quote is one of the first things he says to him he says it meaning look at you after all these years your rich, in clean clothes and have a better life then I did when I was growing up and you even have a better life then me now but once I get you ill treat you and raise you how I was raised cause you’re my son. I think Huck’s dad is jealous oh Huck’s life because its better then his ever was. I can relate to Huck Finn cause I know what its like to have this really nice life and someone just takes it away, like how I lived with my mom till I was fourteen years old then one day I just started living this whole other life with different rules and aspects with my dad and not to sure if I was going to like it.
Literary Analysis
In the quote I think Mark Twain was trying to point out that Huck’s dad had a very harsh life growing up as a kid. Maybe his own father beat him or something happened to him when he was little, He’s one of those greedy people who only think of them selves and think if they never had it either should anyone else, Marks theme was to get an evil first impression of this man, show he was not friendly. I mean who wouldn’t want the best for there kid. What parent wouldn’t want there child to have an education and wouldn’t want them to be able to read and write?, I relate to Mart Twain because I have meet some pretty greedy people growing up my uncle Dave used to steal money from my cousins (his two daughters) and I thought it was just mean and Horrible that a dad would do that.
Quote from book
"Ain’t you a sweet-scented dandy, though? A bed; and bedclothes; and a look’n-glass; and a piece of carpet on the floor- and your own father got to sleep with the hogs in the tanyard. I never see such a son. I bet I’ll take some o’ these frills out o’ you before im done with you. Why there ain’t no end to your airs- they say you’re rich. Hey?- how’s that?"
Quote in own words
Look at you all cleaned up and handsome, you have a bed to sleep in and clothes to sleep in, a house and windows, and you even have carpet on your floor but me your own father has to sleep out on the streets, I’ve never seen my son so joyful But I’ll take some of that out of you when I get custody of you, there isn’t no end to your joyful life, they say your rich now How is it?
Personal response
This theme is related to relationship with parents Huck Finn is seeing his dad for the first time in years and that quote is one of the first things he says to him he says it meaning look at you after all these years your rich, in clean clothes and have a better life then I did when I was growing up and you even have a better life then me now but once I get you ill treat you and raise you how I was raised cause you’re my son. I think Huck’s dad is jealous oh Huck’s life because its better then his ever was. I can relate to Huck Finn cause I know what its like to have this really nice life and someone just takes it away, like how I lived with my mom till I was fourteen years old then one day I just started living this whole other life with different rules and aspects with my dad and not to sure if I was going to like it.
Literary Analysis
In the quote I think Mark Twain was trying to point out that Huck’s dad had a very harsh life growing up as a kid. Maybe his own father beat him or something happened to him when he was little, He’s one of those greedy people who only think of them selves and think if they never had it either should anyone else, Marks theme was to get an evil first impression of this man, show he was not friendly. I mean who wouldn’t want the best for there kid. What parent wouldn’t want there child to have an education and wouldn’t want them to be able to read and write?, I relate to Mart Twain because I have meet some pretty greedy people growing up my uncle Dave used to steal money from my cousins (his two daughters) and I thought it was just mean and Horrible that a dad would do that.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
October 3rd 2007
Q- do you think african american and white americas talk different
A- Yes I do i think most african american speech and white american speech is different from each other.
Q- if so do you think one is wrong?
A- In some ways yes and in some ways no, I think the way some white people talk is the correct way, black people speek correct but use more slang and sometimes when people use alot of slang it makes them seem un educated, both are correct most people speek how they were brought up to speek though. so what sounds right to one person might sound wrong to another.
A- Yes I do i think most african american speech and white american speech is different from each other.
Q- if so do you think one is wrong?
A- In some ways yes and in some ways no, I think the way some white people talk is the correct way, black people speek correct but use more slang and sometimes when people use alot of slang it makes them seem un educated, both are correct most people speek how they were brought up to speek though. so what sounds right to one person might sound wrong to another.
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