Step 1: You will post two blogs. The first one is due on Monday 4/2 and the second one is due on Friday, 4/6. Your blog should be a reflection of what you have been reading for the current week and include characters and events, plus any predictions or inferences you have made. MAKE SURE YOU TYPE YOUR NAME!!!
Step 2: You need to comment on at least ONE other classmate's post. You should not mention anything about the writing quality, but on any connections you might make with their story.
Kyle Dodds
ReplyDeleteIn "To Kill A Mockingbird" Miss Caroline plays the role of a sterotypical (at least what I think of when I think of stereotypical teacher) teacher who is very nice to all the other kids but has some problem with the main character leading to conflict. For instance the first time Scout (the main character) and Miss Caroline speak, Miss Caroline asks Scout to read the alphabet. Once Scout does so, Miss Caroline asks her to read to other things. She is very distasteful towards Scout, saying that she has had damage done to her learning because she already knows how to read. As well as that she's afraid of a mouse something else that kind of push's me towards that stereotype.
I am also reading "To Kill A Mockingbird", and I fully agree with you that Miss Caroline is the stereotypical nice teacher. I also feel like Harper Lee(the author) is showing us another stereotype about how in every classroom, there is at least one student that always annoys the teacher, or is a troublemaker throughout the whole school year. From the first day of first grade, Scout already is getting on Miss Caroline's bad side just because she can read and write as well as a third grader. That just isn't right, and the author is trying to portray that through the book.
DeleteI am reading to "to kill a mockingbird" as well and i agree about what you said about miss Caroline and she can be really selfish because she doesnt let a kid that is a young age learn more that she is suppose to, but i think that is wrong and she should be able to learn beyond her grade level to help improve herself for the following school years that she is gonna have to overcome. So, what i think, is that if she doesnt let scout read and learn beyond what she is suppose to, then the teacher shouldnt be a teacher at all, and should actually be fired from her job.
DeleteI am reading the book called "Black Like Me"and from what I have read so far it is an interesting story with a great story line. The main character,John Howard Griffin toke a risk and did what no other white man would dare to thing about or want to do for fear of the result. He was a journalist who lived in Texas and is a specialist in racial issues.On October 29,1959 he decided to disguise himself as a negro by taking medications to darken his white skin to dark brown, then he would go and travel around the south for six weeks and see what it's like to be a negro in the south and would write about what he endured and encountered while he was there. I feel like Griffin is very brave and bold for doing a project he knows will not benefit him in the slightest but for the negros in the south that do not have a chance or are suffering. While he was In New Orleans as a white man he used to visited a shoeshine stand that was occupied by a guy named Sterling Williams who seems very nice and was helpful to Griffin when he was a negro and needed a place to work and understand how things work for him now.
ReplyDeleteMr Griffins attempt to discising him self with his skin color he might not get rewarded physicaly but he will get rewarded mentally knowing what its like on the other side of segregation
DeleteI am also reading “Black like me” and Mr.Griffin is a white man who took a risk just to see the difference of life between a white man and a black man. So far he has seen the difference of life of a black man and a white man.
DeleteJust like You guys, I am also reading this autobiography. I think its so insane he would change his pigmentation in order to study and understand the racism over black people. Although there is a good purpose to why he is doing it I don't believe the consequence is good. I have a feeling he would regret it.
DeleteIn the book I am reading "Columbine" ,There are two main characters Eric and Dylan. They had just been the shooters at one of the biggest school shootings ever. The book "Columbine" is unlike any book I have ever read before. The structure of "Columbine" is very different one because the book is non-fiction, and two because the whole book is just facts and analysis. What really surprises me is how interesting the author made the book even though the whole story already happened in real life. Another thing that is interesting is that the book goes in chronological order but sometimes skips back to talk about something or skips ahead and gives you a teaser. So far "Columbine has been an amazing book and I really enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteIn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, there are a couple stereotypical characters, but the character that stands out to me the most is the widow who takes in Huck Finn after his father (Pap) is considered to be dead.. The widow is never named, which further institutes the stereotype of the overbearing, stern, uptight, caretaker of the main character. She does what she does in Huck's main interest, but she does it her own way. She educates him, teaches him manners, and clothes and feeds him properly,which is very different from what Huck is used to, so his gratitude isn't always noticeable. Unfortunately for Huckleberry, she is also strict and extremely overbearing. While Huck is obviously overwhelmed by the extreme change in scenery, if you look closely, he is very grateful to the widow.
ReplyDeleteI am also reading Huck Finn and I absolutely agree that the widow fits the stereotype of being the overbearing and stern caretaker of Huck Finn, but I think a character that fits into a stereotype even better is Jim. (Miss. Watson's slave)
DeleteIm reading the book Black like me. The book is a real story about John Griffin a Journalist who wants to see what would happen if a white man turns black.
ReplyDeleteIn Black like me it gives the reader a view of what its like changing skin color around him and his thoughts. With Mr Griffins Notes he explains whats happening him around him so much that some times i get lost while reading getting in a trance of facination and conffusion. It was also seeing the diffrences in attitude tords people of darker skin color in diffrent places when Griffin goes from orleans to missipi seeing a major diffrencde. So far Griffins geting use to his new life until the skin tone wears off and he goes back home.
I am also reading Black like me, and its cool how people find out how to make a white man a negroe and then turn them back with medication. I agree that at some points it gets confoosing oof.
DeleteI am reading the book "To Kill A Mockingbird", it is a book about a little girl named Scout Finch and how her slow, calm, peaceful life in Maycomb County(a little county in Southern America) changes. I believe Scout, Jem(her brother) and Dill(a friend) have a superstition of the Radley Family. The whole town in fact, believes that something strange is going on in that house, just because that family keeps their curtains closed all day and all night, and that only Mr. Radley(the father) comes out of the house once a week to get groceries. Nobody has any proof though, so it's just a superstition that everyone in the county has.
ReplyDeleteI am reading “To Kill A Mocking Bird” too. I agree that they could have a superstition. The Radley’s do seem to have something foreshadowing going on in their house. I find it strange that they aren’t seen, and Mr.Radley being the one who’s seen, but that’s not often. The book has been very keen on showcasing and foreshadowing abnormalities, I however enjoy this because it adds a sense of wondering for the reader. It leaves us to ponder the possibilities of what might happen next in the book.
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In Columbine by Dave Cullen, Dylan fit into the "School shooter" stereotype nearly perfectly. From physical characteristics such as being a white male. To more psychological characteristics such as being a "loner" and having suicidal thoughts. He also showed signs of depression and sociopathic behavior. Dylan's partner, Eric, the one who convinced Dylan to help shoot up the school also showed signs of sociopathic behavior but contrary to the widely believed stereotype Eric was actually fairly popular. And Dylan feeling the need to be accepted agreed to shoot up the school.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Dylan didn't look a shooter. He was depressed and was very smart. It was sad to see that Dylan agreed to help because he wanted to be accepted that was just sad he definitely had a bright future. Eric was smart too thankfully not smart enough to connect the bombs. Both boys were weird, Eric left a book with reason and plans of how he was going to shoot the school and Dylan just did everything Eric told him to do.
Deleteam reading The Adventures of Huck Finn and I noticed that there are plenty of people in this book that could snugly fit into multiple stereotypes. One character that fits into a stereotype was Jim, Ms. Watson's slave. The stereotype that Jim represents is that slaves cannot talk or think right and that they aren't as smart as everyone else. Just look at Jim's dialogue/dialect "Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn' hear sumf'n." If that doesn't fit the stereotype then what does?
ReplyDeleteI am reading ¨To Kill a Mockingbird¨ and I can relate to what you have wrote about because my characters, Jem, Scout, and Dill all like to claim a man that lives next door who never sets foot outside named Boo Radley is a psycho without knowing much about him. The stereotype that both of our books demonstrate is that people who don´t know much about people who are not ordinary are automatically weird and don´t belong. This is a stereotype because our main characters know little to nothing about these ¨non-ordinary¨ people and claim they are weird and almost make fun of them.
DeleteHi it's Jeff. I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. So far in my book two siblings, a girl named Scout Finch and a brother named Jem Finch who live in Maycomb County, Alabama develop a great suspicion of the Radley household. They're main focus is on a man named Boo Radley who lives in that house. Jem and Scout's reasoning for being suspicious about Boo Radley is because they have have never seen him set foot outside once and even claim that he could have been dead. Jem and Scout, along with Dill, a young kid who visits his aunt Miss Rachel in the summer who the Finch's met and became friends with, like to fantasize about all of the weird things they think Boo Radley does when he's inside the house, especially to his parents. One example of this is that the three of them claim that Boo Radley dined on squirrels and any cats he could catch, which was why his hands were so bloodstained. Jem, Scout, and Dill all like to form reenactments of many things and act them all out together, including what they portray of what goes on inside the Radley household. One of the ways they did this was by making an act of Boo Radley when he stabbed his father with a pair of scissors. They ended up getting caught by their father Atticus who questioned them if it was about the Radley´s and had them stop. The stereotype I have found that Jem, Scout, and Dill perceive is that they believe that everything that Boo Radley does is evil and inhumane, while they have no factual information that proves this is how he acts.
ReplyDeletei cant imagine the pain that Boo Radley must be feeling, after being judged and thought of as so evil and inhumaine just because of how how he was treated. It was crazy how he stabbed his father with a pair of scissors. If that happend to me because i could see it everytime i shout my eyes. He had a horrible family life and he had weird activities that lead to his weirdness.
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ReplyDeleteI’m reading “To Kill A Mocking Bird” The way that Harper Lee has managed to portray certain characters and foreshadow is captivating. The main character, Scout, is described as a tomboy. She doesn’t act like a regular
feminine girl. She’s more rugged and tough, and unlike more girls, she loves spending time outdoors. She’s actually more of breaking the stereotype. I can relate to her on that level, which makes the book more enjoyable to read. On her first day of school, she was forced to wear a dress to “fit in”, which wasn’t too uncommon during the 1930’s.
I believe that there will eventually be flashbacks to expose/reveal certain truths that the book foreshadows occasionally every so often. Overall, I enjoy seeing the feminine stereotype aspect of the book so far. The book also portrays real predicaments that people had to face, like the Great Depression,racism,etc.
I think that Stowe also managed to give very specific detail on the characters, while also giving small hints on what is to happen next. I also think that Mrs.Shelby doesn't exactly fit the stereotype very well. Although she dresses and acts like many other slave-owning women in that time period, she is almost the exact opposite. When she finds out that her husband, Mr.Shelby, has sold Eliza's son, she begins to throw a small tantrum. When the trader and other slaves go to look for Eliza she tells one of the slaves to stall time, in which the slave releases all 3 horses, wasting a whole day of searching for Eliza, at this Mrs.Shelby laughs uncontrollably. Later she also starts to question slavery, and the fact that she thought she could make slavery somewhat better by treating her slaves kindly, at this her husband mocks her and calls her an abolitionist.
DeleteI am Anish, and I am reading Columbine by Dave Cullen. I think that Dylan fits the school shooter personality very well because he is a shy kid and a loner. His physical characteristics also make him appear as a school shooter. A final characteristic which makes him appear like a school shooter is the fact that he was very depressed and suicidal. Many school shooters are like this. Eric is a very psychotic person in my eyes. He wanted to destroy his victims in very unorthodox methods and he developed a 1.5 year detailed plan on how he would destroy the whole school. He also made tiny changes to get the maximum impact out of his bombs. He was very popular so there was not really a reason except him being psychotic to do this. I am really glad that neither of them were smart enough to wire the bombs because the bombs could have killed 500+ people. This was a "failed bombing" which many people do not know and people just think it was intended to be a shooting. The shooting was just improvision on their failed plan. We need to increase security around schools because if they were a little bit smarter, then there could be 500+ people dead right now. I am expecting that later in the book they will investigate deeply and try to find out the main motives for the attack and who helped them do it. Columbine is a very interesting book and I am looking forward to continue reading it.
ReplyDeleteI’m reading Columbine by Dave Cullen and this book has a lot of things to talk and think about, so I want to talk about the killers parents. To me the killers parents were the scapegoats because after what their kids did the only people to blame were them. A friend of theirs even warned them that people are going to blame them for what their kids did since they were the closest to the them. I feel bad for them because so much pressure and hate was put on them. People who knew them even said they were good parents and were stunned when they found out that their friends kids were responsible for the shooting at Columbine.
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ReplyDeleteIn the book,Uncle Tom's Cabin, there are many characters, but Eliza and Uncle Tom, are one of the most interesting to me. Eliza is the master's wife, Emily Shelby, personal maid. Eliza grew up around Mrs.Shelby, and admires her deeply. Until one day she finds out Mr. Shelby old her son, Harry, and then she makes an escape to Canada. On her journey she crosses the Ohio River in a very intense scene, as she is jumping from different ice patches to cross, the trader is running after her, for her son. Before she leaves she goes to Uncle Tom's cabin and warns him that he has been sold to a trader. Uncle Tom is very astonished, but decides to stay. He stays because he knows that Mr. Shelby sold him for money, since they were in debt, and he would rather sacrifice his own life, than have Mr.Shelby sell all the other slaves. When he makes this decision he is sobbing in a corner, and I think it was a very confront decision for him to make, but in the end goes through with it. I believe that Eliza will meet George, her husband who has also made an escape to Canada, along the way.
Hi this is Lucia. I am also reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. I was kind of confused when he didn't want to escape, but I admire him for it. Uncle Tom also one of my favorite characters.
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ReplyDeleteI'm reading the book "Black like me" and so far it's interesting. Griffin is the character who wanted to know how it actually felt like to be dark skinned and see how whites would react. He was unrecognizable and currently in chapter 17-20ish, he seems to be hating being a negro so he decided to go back to being white so he stopped the medication and once he went back to white people actually treated him better instead of how it was when he was a negro. In chapter 19 he doesn't see white people the same or is actually not wanting to talk to them because he saw heir racist side of them. He's a loner now because he now that he's white again he doesn't fit with the negroes that he's been hanging out with the past few weeks or whites so rip. Chapter 20 is great though, these two white women make such a fuss over not wanting to sit next to a negroe man hahah.
In TKAM, the character, Dolphus Raymond, has mixed children (half negro half white), and Scout’s brother, Jem, states that mixed children feel sad because they don’t belong anywhere. According to Jem, whites don’t want them because they’re half negro and negroes don’t want them because they’re half white, so they’re loners, which relates to how Griffin feels when he’s experimented on both sides of both races.
DeleteThat’s neat because, on a much smaller scale, the narrator of TKAM is treated unfairly and being reprimanded by her teacher just because she is already literate at the age of 6. She was embarrassed and mad at her cook for teaching her to read and write because she was treated with disrespect from her teacher who thought she was in the right, just like whites did when slavery was around.
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ReplyDeleteI’m reading “To Kill a Mockingbird”, and pretty far in the book I could see apparent hatred towards Atticus finch (Scout’s father) when he’s assigned the case to defend a negro, Tom Robinson. The people in their town near attack Atticus before the trial, before Scout jumps in and diverts their attention, calming them enough to make them realize their humanity. In the later chapters, the protagonist scout and her brother Jem get teased and mistreated by other kids, who’s parents’ negative thoughts about Atticus’s case are reflected upon their children. Atticus remains unchanged, and he himself is not affected by taking on Robinson’s case because he believes that every man is equal, and regardless of the majority of the town’s views about negroes being below whites, should be granted the chance to have a fair trial. Following their father’s teachings, scout and jem’s opposing beliefs to most of Maycomb is that neither race is above or below, and they learn from Atticus that refraining from violent actions are more beneficial than engaging in them, so they should ignore the negative attention they’ve been receiving. My prediction is that regardless of what the verdict may be on the Tom Robinson case, Atticus will be able to create change on the town’s fixed views of negroes because he seems capable of influencing others.
In the book "black like me" black people were also seen as inferior compared to white people and were treated as if they weren't important/interesting. They were either treated badly or as if they weren't there by the white people. They were viewed as being violent even towards their own race and that they try way too hard to please the whites instead of getting along with their own race.
DeleteThe book Black Like Me relates to what you said because there are many points in the story where white people hate black people for no reason other than the color of their skin. For example when Griffin looked at a white woman the "wrong way" everyone got really angry, however if he was white no one would think twice about it.
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ReplyDeleteI'm reading the book "Black Like Me" and i just find it so interesting how white and black people knew nothing about eachother. Each race just kept to themselves and didn't really interact with eachother. Neither of them knew what the other went through or what they were thinking. The book also shows how a person could be treated so differently by just simply changing the color of their skin, they could go from being a highly respected and well known person to someone that's practically invisible. The main character in this book is named John Howard Griffin, he decided to conduct an experiment in which he'd change his skin color from white to black and see how people would react to him. He decided to do this because even though he was a specialist on racial issues he didn't know a single thing about black people. During his experiment he was shocked to see how differently people treated him because he was black. They treated him as if he was invisible and didn't care about him. He was even followed around and threatened by a young white man. He had never been treated this way back when he was white and he hated it.
I am also reading "Black Like Me" and I also think its very intresting. He did go from being respected to someone thats not noticed, but he did know that the outcomes would be the same as a negroes, which is why he did change his lifestyle.
DeleteI feel the same way! I think it's so awesome how John decided to turn into a Negro to see how they would get treated and what it is like to be like them. I also never knew that back in the late 1950's that white people treated Negros like they're worthless. I don't like the part when John and other black's were on the bus going to Mississippi and then the bus driver wouldn't let them get out at the rest stop to use the bathroom or to get something to drink and i felt like that just wasn't right.
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ReplyDeleteI am reading the book "Black Like Me" and I think its so brave that someone (John Howard Griffin) in 1959 wanted to find out how a diffrent group of people (negroes) were treated by changing his lifestyle and his skin color. He knew this would cost him greatly and change his life significantly such as being treated fairly, but he knew he had change several things to get to a certain point. He later finds out that even the simplest actions such as being in a taxi and walking down the streets he had previously were extremely diffrent when he changed his appearance.
I am reading "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and the main character, Janie, was able to see not how colored people were treated, but how colored WOMEN were treated. Sure she doesn't go off and play dress up to experiment but while married her eyes open up and she realizes that most men see women as objects that NEED to serve them as a wife no matter how rude they tend to come off. Being married is a big thing because you needed to be able to make the right choice, and sacrifices had to be made but in the end, it's all about a good reputation and wealth, no matter how miserable it may be.
DeleteHey it's Zac, and I'm reading Invisible Man. In my book, there is a house where a man named Mr. Trueblood. A lot of people talk about him and make rumors. He rarely went outside of his property, but it was for a good reason. One night when it was very cold, his family had to sleep together for warmth. Mr. Trueblood slept between his wife and his oldest daughter. He was having a strange dream when he woke up to his daughter crying and his wife screaming at him. You can use your imagination of what happened, but soon his older daughter got pregnant. Everybody in town shamed him, which is why he rarely leaves his work and property.
ReplyDeleteThe main character is driving one of the founders of the college he's in around and tells him the story of Mr. Trueblood. The founder seems very startled and begs to talk to this man. Mr. Trueblood tells the founder his story, and the founder wants to help the man. I think that the founder has had some personal experience with this and empathizes with Mr. Trueblood. For others that are reading this what do you think? Do these two characters have any similar backgrounds. Remember, Mr. Trueblood is a poor farmer, and the founder is a very rich business man. I think they do, and will become friends later in the book.
I am reading “The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing” which is a very different from all of the books I have read. Only three of the characters; Octavian, his mother, Princess Cassiopeia, and Bono, have names. Everyone else at the College Of Lucidity are refereed to with a series of numbers. Mr 03-01 runs the college. Both Octavian and his mother, Casosopia are negros who live at the College and are studied by the members of the college. The story took a very unsuspected turn when Octavian entered a forbidden room where he found shelf’s upon shelf’s of books containing research about himself and his mother. Later he was caught and he asked Mr. 03-01 that if the reason they were being studied was to “Prove that I am the equal of any other” in which Mr. 03-01 replies “We wish to prove nothing... We simply aim at discovering the truth.” This took me really aback (FYI. I was expecting people being experimented on and/or torture in that room) and I was wondering if any one eleses books had a big reveal like such? I can’t wait to see what else devlopes in this book and I think it is a very different book showing that all books about Negros don’t have to involve people who think they are different from them.
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ReplyDeleteI am reading "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and it's shocking how the main character, Janie Starks, is treated and the way she handles it is concerning to me. Janie grew up with only a grandmother to look after her and her expectations were to have a good reputation and the only way she could do so is to marry a man with a good status and is fairly wealthy. The only thing Janie is concerned is if she would ever grow feelings for these men and if they'll make time for her. One marriage has failed and as she's in the new one she actually finds interest but fears that his way of words would cause her love to not last. He sees Janie as just a wife that will stand by his side and make him look good, so to him she is a stereotype of just another good looking extra weight to carry. When it came to the downs of their relationship she only stayed quiet but slowly wanted to argue but refused out of respect of a good image. I feel that she will eventually find the man of her dreams that will treat her right no matter what image he may have, but only if she speaks up.
I am also reading “Their eyes were watching god” and I agree with your stereotype because it’s pretty obvious that Joe only wants Janie by his side to make him look good in front of other because he thinks highly of himself and is always looking down on the people that are just like him and also he knows that Janie will stand by his side no matter what so he kind of took advantage of that.
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ReplyDeleteI am reading Columbine by Dave Cullen. The main characters are Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The book is about how Eric and Dylan shoot their high school. Dylan falls in the shooter stereotype because he was that shy, meek, self-conscious boy. He was very smart and wasn't a cool kid. He followed Eric everywhere. Whatever he wanted to do he would go ask Eric to see if it was okay. Eric was the one who convinced Dylan to help him with the shooting.Eric was the complete opposite he was the cool kid. Every girl wanted to date him. Eric loved guns, but Dylan didnt.
I was very surprised when I found out that their plans had gone wrong. They had been planning this attack for a very longtime. Their OG plan was to bomb the whole school and the go in and shoot the students who remained alive. So because that plan failed not so many people died even though it is known as the biggest shooting in a school. Lots of people died, when Eric and Dylan entered the school they started shooting everyone they didn't care who they were killing, more than half of the people inside the school didn't know a shooting was taking place a lot of the classes were full and the teachers were still teaching. Some kids thought it was a prank and others thought it was a paintball fight. Parents didn't know what was going on, students that had their phone called 911 but they took forever to arrive so students gave up on them and trier to call the media(they could have saved more lives if police would have arrived earlier). The book is very interesting but is a little confusing because in one page it talks about how Eric is having a shooting war with a deputy and when you turn the page it completely changes and talks about how a paren't is looking for their dead kid.
Your character Dylan reminds me of a character in my book. I am reading Invisble Man, and IM (invisible man) is kind of like Dylan. IM lived his life unnoticed by others, hidden in the dark. It sounds like Dylan was also quite unseen. I think both of our characters have a hidden violent side that others do not see at first glance.
DeleteI'm reading Remix and the stereotypes of Dylan and Eric remind me of two people in my book who can from initially the same place but ended up complete opposites and in turn, the stereotype was broken.
DeleteAlthough the people themselves and their motivations are vastly different, the break in stereotype Dylan displayed reminds me of a break in stereotype displayed by one of the generals in my novel. John Buford, Major General, is not fond of controlling or being controlled. He doesn't care for politics and he doesn't like the East. That, in my mind, is the exact opposite of how a stereotypical general should think and act.
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ReplyDeleteIm reading "Columbine" by David Cullen, his book is about two students named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold . In this book, the author talks about certain events leading up to this horrific and tragic event, with the occasional flash back to help tell the story.
Harris and Klebold killed 12 Columbine High School students and one teacher, they were responsible for the worst school shooting In America at that point in time. Their plan was to set off a number of home made bombs and grenades so that they would be able to kill 1000's of students in a short period of time. Their initial bombs did not go off and so they started shooting students indiscriminately for 15 minuets. They assumed that they would be killed by the police and so they set off one last bomb and then killed themselves. A common stereotype for school shooters suggests they have no friends and are lonely. Other stereotypes are that these individuals hate everyone, yet contrary to that popular belief, both of the Columbine shooters were moderately popular. In fact, they both liked hanging out with friends and were considered pretty smart. Both of these boys had problems that fed off of each other, Cullen suggests that Harris was cold, calculated and unfeeling and that Klebold was really depressed and angry. He says that their friendship made these traits worse in each other. One of the interesting things to me is that both of these boys kept detailed diaries, journals and homemade films of their plans. The authorities did not release these for years - but it gives an insight into these guys and what they were thinking and they were disturbed and how they appeared to be just normal teenagers as well. I think this book is really relevant today because of all of the gun violence in America.
I’m also reading Columbine and I agree that Eric and Dylan didn’t fit the common school shooter stereotype or other stereotypes people put on them. This made it easier for the shooters to do what they did and harder for people like cops, their parents and other people to realize that they were going to do the shooting
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ReplyDeleteI am reading “Black like me” and I’m on page 69 and so far mr.Griffin is really starting to see how bad black people weee treated. He is starting to realize he doesn’t get as many luxuries as he used to when he was a white man. Right now he is treated like the stereotype of black people. He has no privileges no luxuries and is treated like garbage and people can barley stand him just because he has a different skin color
I am also reading "Black Like Me" and I agree with you. once he changed the color of his skin the white people treated him as an outcast because they did not want to know him and yet the black people welcome him even if they do not know him either.
DeleteHi, it’s Ashley. I’m currently reading TKAM, and one of the things I found neat was how resourceful Atticus is. He really is a good dad to Jem and Scout. Originally, I didn’t like Miss Caroline because of how ignorant she was to the life in Maycomb and how she treated Scout, but when Atticus told Scout to think about the situation from another person’s perspective, I really couldn’t despise Msis Caroline anymore. She is just a young teacher who was taught how to teach and doesn’t know about people’s ethics and situations, like with the Cunninghams or the Ewells. I haven’t finished reading about the mysterious chewing gum tree, but by the time I get replies I might have. I was also wondering if there was any symbolism between the lines, like Animal Farm. Does anyone have thoughts on the symbolism?
ReplyDeleteHi this is Jeff and I am reading TKAM as well. I agree with what you said about Miss Caroline as when she was first introduced she almost perceived a kind of jealous manner because she knew that Scout could read and write over average for her age. When Atticus says to view it from another person's perspective, she realizes it's not only about what she can do, but it's about the class who sits around her along with her teacher. Also, the way school runs back then compared to now has drastically changed. When the book talked about Burris Ewell who only went to school for the first day and then left for the rest of the year, although probably not that common, gave me an idea of the troubles people lived in during the great depression that flawed with a child's academic life.
DeleteHi this is Lucia. I am reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. In the beginning chapters of the book, it shows the Shelby family and their relationship with their slaves. The Shelby family are nice masters; they teach slaves how to read and write. They are not proud that they own slaves, but they agree it is necessary to make money. The first part of the book shows the problem they are in. A slave trader named Haley stops by, and since Mr. Shelby owes him money, Mr. Shelby agrees to sell him a couple of slaves, or lose his estate. Mr. Shelby agrees to sell sell Uncle Tom, and a little boy named Harry. The little boy's mother (Eliza) chooses to run away, and reach her husband in Canada. Uncle Tom chooses to stay, he says that he will be faithful towards his master till the end. And the rest (so far) tells the journey of Uncle Tom, a faithful and honest slave, and Eliza and her son running towards Canada. Uncle Tom's Cabin focuses on the various views of slavery. They show the perspectives of other slave owners, white citizens (who don't own slaves), and other slaves. Surprisingly, most slave owners and citizens disagree about slavery.They say it is inhumane, and it is an embarrassment to Kentucky. One person among them are George, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Shelby. When he finds out that his father sold Uncle Tom, he gets distraught and upset, saying he will set his slaves free when the land gets passed down to him. Stowe often stops the books, and talks to the reader. She talks about how inhumane slavery is, and tries to relate it to you. Often giving examples, such as " What if this was you reader, what would you do." Uncle Tom's Cabin gives you a deeper understanding and first hand knowledge of what slavery is like. Since the book is anti-slavery, it doesn't have a lot of stereotypes. Though a stereotype would be Rachel, because she is what you would think of a Quaker. So far, my book has been really good, and I can't wait to read the rest.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Tom and Eliza’s original masters where good masters and treated all their slaves very well. The slaves at their home where very lucky to not get mean masters
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ReplyDeleteInvisible man- Emily Camden
ReplyDeleteThe story starts with the narrator, "invisible man" explaining what he means when he calls himself invisible. IM (invisible man) says that he is not a ghost or a figment, but merely unseen by the world. He describes a time when he beat a man close to death, but gave up when he realized the man had still not truly seen him. In the first chapter IM tells the reader something that his grandfather said before he passed, "live with your head in the lion's mouth". Throughout his life IM cannot forget that phrase and it haunts him with guilt every time he is "an example of desirable conduct" in the eyes of the white man. It skips to IM's days in high school, where he is very smart and is picked to do a speech in front of some accomplished people. For some unknown reason, (I assume to put him off his game) there is a stripper. IM is so captivated by her but he also is mad at himself for enjoying it. IM is later turned against other black boys his age and in the end they have to fight for the remaining money. He is given the chance to speak afterwards and is presented with a scholarship to a "negro college".
Chapter two starts off with a description of the Negro College and how wealthy the founders are. IM is again picked for something, this time to drive around Mr. Norton, a founder of the college. While driving, Mr. Norton talks about the death of his daughter, and explains that that is the reason he is so nice. Mr. Norton then sees a beautiful log cabin and is fascinated, but IM tells him that it is the home of a black man named Jim who was excluded from society. They go to speak with Jim and find out that he had sexual relations to both his wife and daughter, and that he impregnated both. I did not really understand this part because Jim was trying to say something about a dream and his daughter and i just got confused. When they get back to the car Mr. Norton is suddenly stricken with grief. IM quickly drives him to a sketchy place called the Golden Day. There, Mr. Norton gets whiskey and witnesses a rebellion by ex veterans.
I think Invisble Man is a good book as long as you understand what is happening. I also believe Mr. Norton and IM's relationship is important.
Oscar Morales
ReplyDeletehello i am reading uncle toms cabin by harriet beecher stowe. in the beginning of the book you are introduced the the shelby family who owned slaves and were nice masters, then it introduces you to a slave women named elise who had a child.Then the shelby family had debts to a slave trader (his name was haley) and the father decided to sell elises child and uncle tom who was a very loyal slave and a pious one too. after elise heard her child had been sold she ran off with the child and went to run to canada. also tell the story of uncle tom and his journey south to be sold in new orleans. the book shows the reader what slaves went though and harriet often says what if this was you and leaves notes talking to the reader.it is hard to predict what is going to happen elise but i think by the way this book is that she will be caught by the slave catchers sent by haley but she may make it to canada
Jasmin Quintanilla- Black like me
ReplyDeleteJohn Howard Griffin is a middle aged man living in Texas that wants to change the pigmentation of his
skin from white to black. He wants to experience what it would be like to become a black person and be able to have the daily perspective a negro sees on a daily basis. With a special medicine he changed his skin color but not his identity. As soon as he changed his skin color there was a noticeable difference in the treatment they received and the different facilities they had to use. He then looked for a place to stay as well as a job since he didn't carry much money with him. He often discusses the different advantages white people had compared to blacks. A disadvantage he faced as a black man was being called out "Mr.NO-hair, Baldy sh*t head" as well as not allowed to get off the bus in the white side of town. Towards the end of what i have read, Griffin decides to move to Mississippi since he has heard many rumors over the much better treatment black receive over there. I have a feeling that him moving to Mississippi would not be as great as expected, he will get treated in the same or worst way.
Hi I'm also reading Black like me and I also think that moving to Mississippi would not be a great idea because he might get treated worseeee.
DeleteIm reading black like me too and i agree with yall because all griffins friends are warning him to not go but hes going anyway
DeleteTom got in a fight with another kid, later he uses other children to do his chores for him in exchange for other things, so he had time to study to get a bible. I think that it is very unfortunate for Tom Sawyer and his new friend, Huckleberry Finn had to witness that terrible murder at the graveyard. Since the young boys swore to each other that they would keep the disturbing event that they saw a secret, they were both feeling lots of guilt. I predict that later on in the book Tom or Huckleberry will just give into the guilt and tell someone who the murderer is because an innocent man was blamed then arrested.As a result of all these things Tom and Huckleberry run away to an island to be new free people, leaving without a trace. I wander what events will come up with their decision to leave their old life for basically a whole new start.
ReplyDeleteIn the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eliza had watched Mr. Shelby grow up as the slave housekeeper, but Mr. Shelby sold Eliza's son Harry. As a direct assault of that, Eliza decided to try to run away to Canada with her son to stay with her son and escape to freedom. I think that in the end she will escape to Canada but because of that bad things will happen to other people.
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ReplyDeleteThe book I am currently reading is called "A Long Way Gone" The main character Ishmael Beah is a young boy that likes to rap with his friends. While Ishmael and his friends are traveling with their friend's talent show, a rebel army attacks Ishmael's Village. While the boys are out of reach of danger the rebels are catching up to them. They eventually find a village that is controlled by the government army. They decide to join them because they provided them with food and shelter. But the army forces them to become soldiers forcing them to kill people almost every day. To me, the book gave me an understanding of what it is was like to like as a child soldier. Children that were living happy lives were now replaced with nightmares and murder. I predict that Ishmael will be able to escape and travel to a more peaceful area where he can be able to get rehabilitation
im reading uncle toms cabin and in my book two of the masters slaves were forced to be sold down south because the master had debts to a slave trader
DeleteI am reading the Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. It is about an adventurous boy named Tom Sawyer who causes mischief in his village. One important character trait about him is that he loves to trick people. When his aunt made him whitewash her fence, he tricked other kids into paying him to do it for him.
ReplyDeleteI’m reading Columbine and in my book one of the main characters is named Eric. Eric is sort of like Tom Sawyer but worst, because he killed people. When Eric got in trouble with his parents, the police, or other people, he always got away with it ,because he was really good at convincing or tricking people that he’s not going to do it again or change but he didn’t and in his journal he even brags about how good he is at convincing people or tricking them.
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ReplyDeleteI’m reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin and I’ve noticed a reoccurring theme that slaves get sad and feel love just like any other human, and the slave trade that tears apart families is ruining their lives. Eliza is just like any other mother and is risking everything to keep her son with her, and her husband George would rather die than go back to his master. Some characters question this, like St. Clair’s wife. She uses the Bible to justify why African Americans are the inferior race, and why they couldn’t love their children as much as she loves hers, but the book also describes a mother jumping off a boat because her son was sold. I think that Harriet Beecher Stow is trying to enforce the idea that slaves are not happy with how they’re treated and they’re just like anyone else. I don’t think she’ll give Eliza and her family a happy ending because of this, and I predict one of them will be caught by the slave catchers that the trader Haley had hired.
I AM READING "BLACK LIKE ME" AND MY BOOK ALSO SEEKS OUT TO SHOW NEGROS HAVE FEELINGS LIKE ANY OTHER WHITE PERSON BY HAVING THE MAIN CHARACTER, JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN, A WHITE JOURNALIST BECOME NEGRO AND LIVE THE LIFE OF A JOBLESS NEGRO THAT IS SEEN AS NOTHING WORTH HELPING OR KNOWING IN THE EYES OF THE WHITE'S. HE DID THIS TO SHOW PEOPLE HOW NEGROS ARE REALLY TREATED, LIKE IN YOUR BOOK, AND HOW THEY FEEL.
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ReplyDeleteThe book I'm reading is The Killer Angels, and it is about the Battle of Gettysburg. So far, the book has mostly been introducing the characters, how they think, and how they strategize. Several things are apparent to me at this point. Buford is not fond of Eastern living or the hierarchy of the military; Longfellow is a calculating sort of man (he had the right idea about the plan of action for Gettysburg, by the way) who cares deeply about his family and defending them. Chamberlain is an intelligent, educated young professor who seems to be a brilliant strategist, but he doesn't strike me as cut out for military life- he's too gentlemanly. Lee is obviously an excellent leader, but I feel like the war is starting to take its toll on him. After fighting the entire war defensively, he decided to move into the North and make an offensive strike. That's not a move he would make if he wasn't getting tired of fighting. I have a feeling that everything will start to crumble as soon as the fighting begins, mostly because the South is fighting blind. I blame Stuart.
I am also reading The Killer Angles and I find it very interesting that the commanders of the armies were very different from each other. They each have their own ways of accomplishing things, but they all get done. You might think that all Generals would have a military background, but quite a few were just well educated people. It is pretty cool that all the Generals work together to get a common goal.
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ReplyDeleteI am reading The Killer Angles and it is an excellent book behind the scenes of the Battle of Gettysburg. In one part, Colonel Joshua Chamberlain receives 120 mutineers from Maine, like Chamberlain. He decides to bring them along to the upcoming battle. They already mutinied before so there was a chance they wouldn’t want to follow. Chamberlain delivered a beautiful speech, convincing them to join the fight. He talks about how the regiment started with one thousand men and now had less than 300. He says “ This is a different kind of army. If you look at history you’ll see men fight for pay, or woman, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or just because they like killing. But we’re here for something new. I don’t ... this hasn’t happened much in the history of the world. We’re an army going out to set other men free.” It is a really motivational speech that convinces the mutineers to come.
Arly Arevalo
ReplyDeleteI’m reading the book “Their eyes were watching god” and my books starts off with Janie the main character telling her story about the many loveless marriages she has encountered. Janie was raised by her grandmother and as she grew older she was expected to marry someone with a good reputation and money. Due to her grandmothers wishes she married an old guy named Logan who was very wealthy even though she didn’t want too. She wanted to marry someone she loved but as time passed by married to Logan she knew that wasn’t possible and after a year later Janie had learned that marriage didn’t bring love. Her second marriage started when she met a man named Joe Starks while married to Logan who she had grown tired of dealing with.Long story short after she ran of with Joe they got married and she thought that there was a possibility of loving him but that changed when she starts noticing that joe treats her like an object he owns and he starts bossing her around telling her to follow his orders which is a stereotype cause men thought that they were superior than women and they could boss them around and that they were just there to follow their orders.
In TKAM, Scout’s aunt, Alexandra, pressures Scout to maintain a womanly reputation and dress, which is the total opposite of Scout’s usual attire and attitude. Scout is usually dressed in overalls and is barefoot, and she tends to be inquisitive and a little hotheaded because she hangs around mainly boys and her father (Dill, Jem, and Atticus). Aunt Alexandra’s pressuring on Scout is similar to Janie’s grandmas’s overbearing expectations on her marriage.
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ReplyDeleteI am reading "I Hunt Killers" and the book starts with the main character "Jazz" spying in on a crime scene and we soon learn that Jazz is the son of a very well known serial killer. His dad "Billy" got caught a few years ago and now Jazz is well acquainted with the officer who caught him, G. William. Jazz goes to G. Williams office right after he leaves the crime scene to gather more information but says to much and G. William realizes Jazz spied. Jazz was raised to become a serial killer by his dad. It is very easy for Jazz to find out a lot of stuff in a crime scene cause he knows where to look and why. G. William just wants him to be normal but it's not easy for Jazz because figuring out and finding evidence of a crime scene is basically like second nature to him. Afterwards G. William tells Jazz to not get involved in the case that Jazz believes is the beginning murder of a serial killer.Jazz breaks in to the morgue at night with the help of his lifetime friend Howie. They got caught by a new officer who was there with explanation and got scolded by G. William. I believe the new officer is the new serial killer because Jazz is very good at reading people and apparently Jazz had totally miss read the officer from the first time he had seen him. It gives us an unknown perspective from someone who seems to be the killer and they talk about Jazz and it gives very little hints about what the serial killer was doing.
Black Like Me- Rileigh Toner
ReplyDeleteI'm reading Black Like Me, it's a biography by John Howard Giffin. John wanted to know how people treated Negros ad what they did, so on October 30, 1959 is when he transformed from being white, into now a Negro. He talks about how he feels about how Negros are treated, and he sometimes totally forgets that he was a white man and refers to himself as now apart of a Negro family. He hates the discrimination that white people have on black men and women.
Jaden Esspinal
ReplyDeleteIM reading to kill a mockingbird and i thought that miss Caroline shouldnt be teaching a class that she cant teach because what iv seen as i have read the book was that miss Caroline can be a be a bit selfish in my opinion because of how she treated scout who is a really intelligent person, but miss Caroline cant accept that. Also, when miss Maudie house had burned down, i was surprised that she was worried about anything but her peers which was really thoughtful knowing that she lost a lot of priced possession. I think that Mr. Nathan has to do with something about the tree which had been covered in cement covered by him and he is trying to hide something from Jem and Scout, and he also said that you cover tree's with cement when there dead, but the tree wasnt actually dead, so he had to be hiding something. I also predict that since Boo Radley hasnt appeared at all in the book, that he will appear at the end of the book and do something heroic that changes everything.
Clara Carrabba
ReplyDeleteI'm reading "Black Like Me" and it is about John Howard Griffin, a white man who wanted to change the color of his skin so he was viewed and treated as a black man in the late 1950s. He eventually succeeded by taking pills and continued on with his project. After his skin color changes, people start to treat him differently because he is black. He is called names and even worries about his safety sometimes. He also is discriminated against because of the belief that black people carry diseases and sickness, and white people begin to avoid him. This is a stereotype because even white doctors believed that black people were unhealthy, just because of the color of their skin. Griffin learns that light-skinned black people and black people who "betray their race" and are overly nice to white people and wear their hair like white people are treated better by white people, often with courtesy and kindness, however people of their own race think they are a disgrace. This is a stereotype because white people only think they are better than darker black people because they look and act like they are white.
wow! those are some very good examples of the theme in your story. That just shows how cruel slavery was back in slavery and in your book. The way you supported your statement was very good.
DeleteHi this is Jeff and I have read the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In the book, I have noticed lots of discrimination being portrayed. Some examples of this are when Cecil Jacobs claimed that Scout's daddy "defended niggers" and also when Francis calls Atticus a "nigger lover" during the family Christmas. These acts represent the discrimination aspect in the book because they both claim that its weird and disgusting to take a black person's side because of their race. This shows false treatment of a different race who Atticus chose to defend because of his belief of equality.
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DeleteI’m reading Killer Angles and in it, Colonel Chamberlain mentions talking with Southerners, and they said that free slaves were still not people, and Colonel Chamberlain defended the free men, even though he never saw a black man in his life.
Vanessa Delgado
ReplyDeleteHi, I just finished reading "Black like me" and it was actually a good book. It's about Griffin whom is a white guy who disguises a negroe just so he can feel what it feels like to be one of them and see if the people treat him differently. Near the ending on April 11, 1960 when he and his family return home, they find letters supporting them on what the did but local people thought he was just causing to much trouble. It's funny how it says that he received about 6000 letters and only about nine where negative which is okay. However since the people from his town now hate him, he and his family decide that they should move some other place which they decided to be Mexico. This book shows a lot of discrimination towards African American men due to their skin color.
I read the book "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and their is a part in the book where Janie and a man named Tea Cake (husband and wife) moved to a new place after a hurricane but while at that place white people kept pushing them around to work even though it wasn't required for them too. It was a bad way for them to live especially since they had just gone through a crisis. After a few days they decided to move back to their home place because there they had a better lifestyle and there's no white people that can bother them.
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ReplyDeleteI read the book "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston. Trough out the book I have noticed a change in the main character Janie and what I had predicted was true. She eventually stepped up and became independent and it's a great thing because she has finally opened up to the idea of becoming her own person. I also noticed that there is a lot of prejudice and discrimination in this book coming from mostly the male crowd and white people towards the end. Men would always say that a women should just follow orders from their husbands just because that's the "role they have to play". When Janie was trialed for "betraying" a black man (there is a reason, but I am not saying anythingggggg) and was sent out innocent all white folks gathered around her while black folks walked out in shame and disappointment.
A lot of prejudice was also in TKAM, for example, the Finch family got so much hate from their father defending a black man being wrongfully tried for rape. One takeaway from this book though is no matter how mean people can get and no matter how loud their opinions are, it doesn't matter as long as you know what's right and you stick to your truth.
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ReplyDeleteIn the book “To Kill A Mockingbird”, Atticus (protagonist Scout’s father) gives Scout and Jem guns for Christmas, however there’s reason behind his gifts besides simply giving his children guns. By giving his children the guns, Atticus is entrusting Scout and Jem to be responsible with them, and he’s also teaching them to be rational and modest about them. He tells Scout and Jem that’s its a “sin to kill a mockingbird” because they cause no harm to others’ everyday life, so Scout and Jem shouldn’t shoot them just because they have the means to. He tells them he’d rather them shoot at inatimate objects, like tin cans, and the reader can supposedly guess because it won’t cost anything their lives. My prediction for the future is that because Atticus is so tolerant and nurturing of his children’s curiosity, they’ll grow to learn and develop the same mindset as Atticus, who doesn’t ignore their questions and gives honest answers to their inquiries.
Vanessa F-
DeleteI’m reading TKAM too, I agree with you. The book ultimately describes how it’s wrong to kill a Mocking Bird. They don’t harm anyone, they just want to produce pretty music. If there‘s not a reason to legitimately hate someone, don’t do it. Which examples of this can be found throughout the book. I think Atticus was one of the wisest people in the novel. He gave them the guns to be responsible and considerate. Helping them think twice about things.
hi its Mariela and I just finished the book "Black Like Me" on April 3 and it was awesome! I loved how near the end of Mr.Griffin's project a negro man who had 6 kids and a wife helped Griffin by letting him stay in their small house and feed him supper. I thought they were very kind and felt bad that they had to live in such bad conditions because the man's job pays him really low wages because he is black. I also like how further back in the book when Griffin was on the bus to Hattiesburg and meet this man named Bill Williams who gave him advice to help him out , I also thought Bill had an interesting character. Also on november 19, when he got picked up by a man in his late twenties and they had a very interesting conversation that I thought reflected superstition because the man believe the average negro has a great interest in the acting of a man and woman interacting with one another and yet had no evidence. I also like how Griffin answered to the man's questions. Anyway this book was amazing and I really enjoyed reading it.
ReplyDeleteI recently finished the book Columbine and the book is about two high school kids named Eric and Dylan who shoot up their school, but there is a lot more to the story and so the author gives the readers the truth and goes into more detail about the event. While reading this book you will have many different fellings towards different things. Overall I think Columbine is a pretty good book. I like how Dave Cullen the author wrote the book/set it up, because it has a lot of good and important information while also telling a good story.I definitely recommend reading this book.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the fact that while reading this book, you'll definitely go through a roller coaster of emotions. I also like how Dave Cullen (the Author) set up and wrote this book. I recommend this book too. Its really good. And that´s coming from someone who has never actually read a book before. Give it a chance.
DeleteMaya Tlass - I am reading Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers. This book is about numerous teenagers who have immigrated to the U.S. and have had to adapt to the customs of America on their own. They have experienced discrimination and have focused their first years here on fitting in. One story that caught my attention was about a girl from Russia who, because she was a girl, was held back her parents. Once she came to America, she realized that she has the potential to become more independent. Throughout her experience, she figures out who she really is and what she wants to be while still staying true to where she came from.
ReplyDeleteim reading uncle toms cabin and theres a slave who was born in kuntucky and was sold down south and has to kind of change his way of living and his way of doing things.and your book kind of reminds me of that part of the book
DeleteIm Selby and I’m reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I feel like Mrs. StClare is an example of a stereotypical mean mistress. She really only cares about her daughter and she thinks her views are the only correct ones. She treats everyone else like they are below her, just like a stereotypical evil mistress, kind of like the evil step mom in Cinderella. Only her problems matter in her world, and the struggles of her servants and even her husband don’t matter to her. In her opinion, other people could never struggle as much as she does. But even so, no one can defy her or argue against her because she is the mistress of the house.
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ReplyDeleteI’ve finished reading the book “To Kill A Mocking Bird. Isolation has been a critical part in this book. The main characters, Scout,Jem and Dill had a belief and wandering that something was strange at their neighbors, The Radleys’s house. This occurs because The Radleys are not seen too often, and the father is the only one who is seen. So, they are very isolated. This leads to the main characters wondering what really happens there,even developing conspiracies because he’s so isolated. When a event occurred during the book however, Mr.Radley actually saved Scout and Jem when they get attacked in the woods. This changes Scout and Jem’s perspectives about the Radleys. The most of the book had the Radleys based solely on assumptions. Therefore, don’t judge a book by it’s cover. Overall, this book has been truly thought provoking and full of surprises, which I love.
This is Selby and In Uncle Tom’s Cabin people also make assumptions about black people without any proof and it takes something big to happen to change their views. They assume all black people are sinners and dishonest even though they don’t know much about their lives.
DeleteIsolation also plays a very huge role in Columbine. Dylan was very isolated and introverted. His antisociality led him to being deppressed. His deppression led him to being suicidal. His suicidal led him too shooting up the school before he killed himself. If he was not isolated then he probably would not have wanted to shoot up the school.
DeleteI am not reading Columbine but i am reading Black like me. The isolation is something both books share in common since John Griffin changed the pigmentation of his from white to black he often felt isolated. When changing the color of his skin he also changed the way he was now receive as a person. He felt separated from society because of their segragative and racist ways.
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ReplyDeleteIn Black Like Me, I have just gotten to the part where Griffin decides to move to Mississippi because of the extreme discrimination and hatred toward black people. He wants to see just how bad it really was, because white people from there claim that everyone lives in harmony. I predict that Mississippi will overwhelm him and make him want to turn white again because he will be so harshly treated.
I am also reading "Black Like Me" and I had a different prediction, but I understand your prediction. My prediction was that he would actually have felt welcomed, but would face some obstacles along the way.
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ReplyDeleteMy overall thought about Black like me is that it´s a really awesome book that talks about how blacks were treated back in the 1900´s by whites. There was this one part book when John was trying to get off the bus to use the bathroom because the bus driver said that it is going to be a 10 minute rest stop, so then after all the whites got off, the blacks stood up and walked to the front of the bus to get off, but then the bus driver stood in front of the door and told them that they couldn´t get off the bus. John was saying how the whites got to get off and the blacks didn´t but the bus driver didn´t care and just told them to go back back to their seats, and since the driver wouldn´t let them get off, one guy went to the very back and peed on the bus, and he did that because the whites and the driver would not respect him, so that´s the pay back they got for not letting them out. That´s kind of my favorite part of the book, because it shows how the blacks were not happy with what they got and so because the driver didn´t let them off, the only place they could use the bathroom was on the bus and on the floor.
In my book their eyes were watching god my character janie during her second marriage her husband starts telling her she's ugly and that she shouldn't dress like a young lady because she's old( she is old but she is really pretty) just because he feels insecure about himself and his looks, and Janie notices that and she gets like payback by humiliating him in front of many people and they start laughing at him and stuff, kind of like your's on how they didn't let the blacks off the bus so one of them got payback and peed on the bus.
DeleteSpencer Teel
ReplyDeleteI am reading The Killer Angels, which is a book about the Battle of Gettysburg. It is an excellent book with more knowledge about the battle than some experts know. It is from the perspective of several people, primerly General Buford, a Union Calvary commander, General Longstreet, a confederate General, General Lee, the main southern General, Colonel Chamberlain, a famous regiment commander, and several others. You get to know the characters really well. It is a non-fiction book in a story format. It is a longer book with 330 pages with tiny words, but every page is worth it. I loved this book. It was awesome.
In Columbine by Dave Cullen I think that the whole incident could have been avoided if the authorities got on the case quicker. They had many chances especially,since Judy Brown who was the mother of Book Brown contacted the authorities several times. They were sent to juvenile detention and practically everything. Yet Mrs.Brown still always seemed to call the police about them. The police should have been aware, since Eric Harris was making death threats to people and Eric and Dylan were breaking into lockers,cars etc:In fact this got so out of hand that the police were writing search warrants. Too bad the police never finished it. It was basically abandoned as if they had much more pressing concerns than a potential criminal on their hands. I really think that if someone is brought up on the radar multiple times then they should be investigated. This whole shooting could have been avoided if Eric was investigated.
ReplyDeleteIn Black like me by John Howard Griffin its so insane how the difference between him being black and being white varies in many ways. He is constantly taking his medications to keep a dark skin but when he decides to go back into his normal pigmentation, many things change. Its so bizarre the way he was viewed by the two different races depending on his skin. As a black man he was viewed and treated by the black community with warmth and as one of their kind while the white race viewed him looking down. Like mentioned in page 45 "The Negro is treated not even as second class citizen, but as a tenth class one". When ever he changed his skin back into a white he felt as if the Blacks felt more intimidated and frightened wile the whites treated him fairly and with more sympathy
ReplyDeleteI am reading Tom Sawyer and i think that it is very coincidential that the conflict in this book all occurs because of one event. In my book Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn go to a graveyard because of a conspiricay that they believed to be true. While at the graveyard the two boys witness a murder. This event is what i find so coincidential because this even is what sparks a chain of events that occur all throughout the story. Because of this cruel sighting the two boys go on lots of adventures together. The whole book is based off of what they saw. I think that this is just the main starter of the conflict in this story. In summary i have concluded that the whole story revolves around this ONE EVENT.
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ReplyDeleteI read "Black Like Me" and at the beginning its about his transition to becoming a black and all its problems and obstacles with it. People ask him if he really wants to take this "risk", and of course he is very sure. Then the goes into New Orleans to "Live his New life". He there finds a number of people that are willing to "help" him in this journey. Here he also becomes more aware of his surroundings because he knows he would have been treated diffidently because of his skin color. He gets stereotyped along the way, and views people differently.
I am also reading black like me and what I noticed was that while he was in Mississippi black people were so much more close to eachother than in new orleans. That might be because there's a lot more racism there so they have to stick together to protect themselves while in new orleans white people didn't really say anything to them.
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ReplyDeleteI'd like to address the situation with Robert E. Lee in this post. It's clear to anyone with eyes that he's getting tired of the war. As evidenced by his ill-advised move into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Lee is getting bored and frustrated with the defensive war the South had been fighting so far. I think he feels pressured to bring the war to a close quickly, both by his declining health and by his desire to see his family again.
In regards to his health, it's clear that Lee's heart is failing. He complains of dizziness spells, heart palpitations, and many more symptoms that are commonly associated with heart problems.
I'm interested to see how Lee will handle the remainder and aftermath of the battle.
Katy Uriostegui
ReplyDeleteNow that i finished black like me I think that it's such a great book, it opens our eyes on how each race is treated so differently by the other. I also found interesting how new orleans was so different from Mississippi. There was a lot more racism against black people in Mississippi so they had to stick together to protect themselves, while in new orleans there was less racism so they just all kept to themselves and were more independent. While he was in new orleans it said that black people would rather please the whites than work together with their own race while in Mississippi it was totally different. They all protected eachother and gave eachother advice on what to do. Well overall it was such an interesting book and I loved it.
Arly Arevalo
ReplyDeleteI finished reading "their eyes were watching god" and this book almost made me cry because my character janie went through so much just to find true love and when she did find it with her third husband he died because he was bit by a dog that was rabid and i was kinda mad lol. What i liked a lot was that throughout the story Janie changed a lot like in the beginning she was abused and controlled a lot especially by her second husband Joe but then there was this part in the book when she had enough of him and kinda talked back to him and she defended herself and i was so happy because she was kinda like we are both equal you are not superior than me and you do not have the right to hit me and then she didn't let anyone else control her and she didn't care what anybody else said about her because she knew herself that those rumors weren't true and she was calm and she didn't go all like crazy about it and stress out so i definitely liked her like personality. I am so glad i got to read this book it was sad but i loved it
I am Lucas Russell and I am reading Columbine by Dave Cullen. In his book he about all of the interviews conducted by the police and news reporters. There were 5000 interviews conducted within 6 months. He talks about the reports and how they weren't 100% positive about what they were talking. They used the stereotypes against the shooters calling them goth and emo and apart of the Trench coat Mafia even though they weren't. They false accused them of that because that´s what they thought immediately after. They were too traumatized to actually think about whats going in. Why would you want to interview innocent children right after a traumatizing even such as this one?
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading black like me and this book really showed me how bad black people were treated back then. John griffin was a very brave man for taking this risk that he didn’t have to and he truly understood both sides of the discrimination conflict of black and white people. Mr.Griffin was able to point out the differences in shops,hotels, and even public transportation like the bus. He was also able to point out the flaws of the southern society back then. He found out that black people were blamed for almost everything back then most were arrested for some of the dumbest reasons.
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ReplyDeleteIt's Ashley Egger, I finished TKAM (spoilers ahead)**************I really like how the book ended full circle. The book starts with the narrator in an adult perspective reflecting with her brother how he broke his arm, and ends with her recounting the tale that she explains throughout the book. I particularly like Scout's maturity as the novel progressed, especially how she grew to perceive Boo as a human and not a crazy loon next door, a phantom. However, I would have loved to see an epilogue in which Boo finally got the play and really communicate with the children, not through knots in trees and anonymous blankets over shoulders while they are distracted. Actually, I guess killing Bob Ewell (a rapist of his daughter) was good enough. And it is insinuated that Boo chose to live reclusively, so, I guess the ending was perfect.
This is jaden espinal and i am reading to kill a mockingbird and i thought that it was unfair that a black guy get treated differently that others just because of stereotype that everyone follows. The stereotype that is in the book is that everyone thinks that Tom Robinson is a bad guy because he is black and has to go to court because a lady wants to spread lies and tell everyone that he tried to hurt her, but it is all lies but everyone believes her because of the stereotype, which is "black people are bad". Another thing is that Atticus Finch has to do with a big thing in the book which is discrimination and atticus is trying to defend Tom Robinson in court, even though he knows he will lose in court, but he thinks it is the right thing to do, and he is right because he knows that black people get treated way different than others, so he tries to put effort into defending a black person even though he knows people will hate him because of it, which makes him a big part of the theme of the book.
ReplyDeletei am Oscar Morales and i am reading the book uncle toms cabin and this book really surprised me because i thought it would focus on Elise's story but it actually jumps around and its a really weird and impressive way to explain the life of slaves and shows the multiple routes a slave could of taken. So far uncle tom has meet a girl named evangiline and she really likes tom and makes her self equal to any slave. elise on the other hand isnt really talked about even though the book made her look like the main character.Also toms wife is now working for money to buy tom back and they have been sending letters back and fourth to each other.i think that tom will have a peaceful time and no more suffering, but elise on the other hand will have a harder time.
ReplyDeleteLater on in Invisible Man, the invisible man moves north. He expects that he will be treated with the same racist ideals but is quite surprised when he is treated like a normal human being. I think it was good
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Hey It's Zac, and I'm reading Invisible Man. I really liked when people started treating him with respect and kindness. I agree with Emily when she said the character development was good and that he accepted the Northern way of life.
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