TKAM

Review the foods in To Kill A Mockingbird

     Personally, I feel the food that we saw throughout the book were really good. Some of my favorites were the coffee, chicken, iced tea, etc. However , there were some that didn't settle with me such as the sardines, black eyed peas, collard greens, etc. The thing is, i am very sensitive  to how things look and smell and the ones that I listed that I didn't like look .... unique to me.

     The way that they eat their food are also very unique such as putting maple syrup on meat and plain bread. Thats certainly something that you wouldn't see today, at least in the mid west where we live. Also, sardines aren't very common either. I think it's because of the very strong aroma they give of making people kind of queasy. 

     However, drinks like lemonade, iced tea, and coffee are very very common here in the midwest. I think it's because they are quite easy to change to a persons need. You can make those 3 drinks either sweeter or more bitter based on the amount of sugar you add. Same with the chicken. To can make it crispy or regular. I feel that people in the midwest like to change things to hit our specific needs. If we can't we usually don't like the food, drink, or item.

TKAM- Found Poetry 12.12.14

Atticus

Not everyone is equal

Courage is not a man holding a gun

I wanted to see what real courage was

You rarely win but sometimes you do

Im simply defending a Negro 

When your licked before you begin

Thats what courage is

You will hold your head high

Keep those fists down

This time were fighting our friends

But they are our friends no matter what

Until you climb into his skin and walk around it....

Listen

Make the best of things

Even through we are still struggling

TKAM- Character Relationships.

   
    Aunt Alexandria and Atticus are 2 very uniques characters. They are siblings and of course bicker. There are multiple ways that the 2 are different. There's the obvious one such as Aunt Alexandria is a girl and Atticus is a guy. However, I feel like their personalities are very different. Atticus is easygoing and calm. He can be tough when needed to be but also is very generous with the kids. Aunt Alexandria is the complete opposite. She is very strict with them. She likes to us the real named for the kids such as Jean- Louise instead of Scout. She want's the kids acting their age and gender. She doesn't like how Scout likes to play and get dirty. She rather have her sit down with her girlfriends and talk with them. Also, Aunt Alexandria is very controlling. She doesn't take anytime to settle into the Finches house. One specific part where this is co obvious is when Scout is asking Atticus if she could spend the day with Calpurnia on Sunday. Instead of Atticus answering, Aunt Alexandria does, angrily. She completely despises the idea. Scout gets so angry at her and she  responds with, "I wasn't asking you!"

     There may be differences between these 2 but there is also multiple similarities. One big one is that they both want the best for the kids. Want them to succeed and grow up. The way they achieve that is completely different but they have the same good intentions and morals. They both also care for others. They both involve people and care about them. However, Atticus cares about the actual person as themselves. Aunt Alexandria cares more about what people think rather than the person themselves.

     This may sound absurd but I feel that Aunt Alexandria and scout are Alter egos of each other. As for Atticus and scout, I feel that they are Foils for each other. The relationship between Scout and Aunt A is very very bad because I feel that they are very similar in they way that they don't change their minds. They stick with one answer and don't like being ordered around. As Scout gets older, she starts getting more opinionative and independent just like Aunt Alexandria. Aunt A's effect on Scout is also, of course, bad. She gets Scout so angry. She so far hasn't brought the kids any joy and is always ordering them around.  The reason the I feel that Atticus is a foil for Scout is because he is too easy going and easily persuaded. Like I established a few second ago, Scout has gotten to the point in her life where she sticks to her opinions and doesn't change them However, Atticus's relationship with Scout is very close. They are on a first name basis and can tell each other many things. Since he is so easygoing, Scout likes the fact that she can do a lot of things that normal kids her age wouldn't be able to.

TKAM: Photo Analysis

On The Road Near Eutaw, Alabama

          When analyzing this photo I noticed that there were 2  ladies walking. I noticed that there was a lot of tall grass or possibly wheat with some trees or houses in the background. I saw that the ladies were barefoot and looked as if they were tired. One of them was wearing a towel over her head to most likely keep the sun out of her face. I saw that there was some dirt roads and fences which most likely means that the ladies are either one, walking by the farm, two, going to work to the farm or three, leaving the farm.

     I think that this picture was taken to represent how far some people had to walk for their job. Also, how poor some people were. If someone were to take this picture now , you would see most likely Men talking on their cell phones either walking to their job or in a taxi in suites. However, it looks like the ladies are tired and stressed so if we were to see this in the modern day, you would see people with tired faces but still up straight talking on their phones.

     One question that I would like to be able to ask these 2 ladies or even the person who took the picture is, Where were they going and what were they going to do ?

   

Go Ask Alice- week of 11.17.14

P.g 0 - 103
Prompt: If you were a close friend to the main character, what would you do or say to help the character through their problem? What is the one thing you would change from the past that would get rid of problem?

* Book is an anonymous diary of a drug addict and I don't officially know the name of the main character*

     If I were the friend of the main character, I think it would very difficult to do or say anything because of her addiction to drugs. I would probably have to be careful with what I do or say. I think the best thing would just be their for her. Their really isn't anything you can do other than go to an adult about their problem (sounded so cheesy.) I think I would try to spend as much time that I could w/h her so I could be w/h her instead of her trying to get high.

     I know that I definitely would have to be careful w/h what I say. I think that trying to say that she is putting me and her family in distress would be a bad idea because she would just lash out and say that her family is the main reason why she does drugs. Throughout the book, her family had been the reason that she started continuously doing drugs. I think I would try and something along the line of ,what she is doing to herself is harming her and her loved ones more than it is making her happy.

     The one thing that I would change to get rid of this problem is convince her to not go to Jill's house, a supposedly"close" friend. While there, she is introduced to drugs for the first time in her life and she wasn't even aware of it until she had consumed it. They were drinking Cokes at the party and
she started noticing that she was acting funny. She then asked Jill why she was feeling so strange. After asking Jill, she wrote, "I sort of asked Jill what happened and she said that 10 out of the 14 bottles of Coke had LSD in them."  She then started using more frequently.

     

Youtube Channel *Update*

    It's been over a month and a half since I started doing Passion Project. Gianna and I have successfully established both of our Youtube channels.( However, you can't see them because there are no videos in them) We have started pre-recording our videos. We only have two videos done for the fun channel. One by me and one by Gianna. Gianna's video is a vlog (video blog) of her being  in Minnesota for a weekend. My video was the TMI tag where I answered a bunch of questions. We still need to prerecord video w/h each other and for our serious channel. Although we haven't really discussed it, I want to start uploading videos around the New Year or earlier.

     We also h
ave resulted our problem for a camera. Gianna's father has multiple cameras that she and possibly I could use if he (Gianna's Father) can find it. If that is not possible, I will use a camera provided by the school. Mainly used by Ms.Aparicio.

Wonder- Week of 11.10.14

P.g. 43

Prompt(s) - Analyze the impact word choice has on the meaning or tone of a text and analyze how dialogue or specific incidents reveal information about characters. Make sure to include textual evidence.

     One thing that I have noticed about my book, Wonder, is that word choice is kind of be very childish or serious but still is perfect for the mood because in the book, the main character is seen as kind of a child because of his facial deformity and people treat him as if he can't do anything even though he is going into 5th grade but he talks back as if he was someone who is normal. And in his eyes, he is. One time I have noticed this is when we August first find out that his parents want to send him to private school. When August's parent are explaining to him why one of them wants to send him to private school and the other one doesn't the dialogue is kind of childish towards August and when August talks back, he gets kind of childish also, as you can see, "So sending him off to Middle school like a lamb to the slaughter...," Dad answered angrily, but he didn't even finish his sentence because he saw me in the mirror looking up. "Whats a Lamb slaughter?' i asked sleepily. "Go back to sleep, Auggie," Dad said softly. "Everyone will stare at me at school,' I said suddenly crying." This is a perfect example of how word choice affects weaning and tone. The father saying, " A lamb to the slaughter." This gives tense and serious tone. Especially for August's father who doesn't want him to go to school. The author wanted to specify that he was angry about August's mother's idea of sending him to school. Not upset.

      After reading, I notices that one instance between August and a new boy that he meets named Julian, shows a little about Julian. Theres 2 times we see the "dark side" of Julian. The first one is when August is being shows around the school by a boy named Julien, Jack, and Charlotte. When they all go to show August the theater, Julian comes out and says, "Why is your hair so long?" and "Whats the deal w/h your face? I mean, were you in a fire or something?" This shows that Julian really doesn't think before he talks which could get him and August in some trouble. 

     Another instance that we see a hint about what Julian really is when all 4 of them are leaving the library and Julien "accidentally" trips August and says "oh sorry.." but August automatically knew he didn't mean it. This shows the true personality of Julian. IT proves that he now has something against August and is going to seek a hard and long year at his new school.