A new thought*

I might as well continue with my blog!*

It was meant to be used for my English course last year, but now it has no use! So I think I am going to try and blog away anyways! :)

My Sister's Keeper #3

Are all decisions the same?

Decisions are like people, they come in all different shapes and sizes. You can make a large decision like Anna choosing to move out of her home and stay at the fire station with her father, Page 263 "We're not going to my house. I need to go to the fire station. My dad and I are staying thre for awhile." or a small decision like what she is going to wear that day. Although some decisions can end up impacting people in the same way sometimes... In the book I am reading where Anna has moved out of the house for a while, and Jesse had just been bailed out of jail, but is close to going back since he just caught a shed on fire and stole a dump truck. This decision of his is going to impact his family because if he gets into deeper trouble, the family will suffer another tragedy and I don't think they can take it anymore. Jesse is a rebellious child and I think it's of course due to the lack of care he gets from his parents. Page 296, "Dad? I said. When are we going? But he was busy wadding up toilet paper....That was the first time I thought maybe I was."Everything is focused on Kate, and he even lives on his own in the small apartment to be more isolated from his family. He could have chosen a different path for himself, a better life, but his family made that very difficult for him. His family is probably very angry and upseet with him. Comparing Jesse's decision with Anna's decision to sue her parents I think they end up impacting their family both the same. When the big troubling nes of Anna's law suit got out, her mother Sara got very impatient, anry, upset, and confused with Anna. These same emotions most likely run through her head whenever Jesse steals a car, or gets in some other trouble. It makes their life harder to deal with, making Sara more frustrated with herself and her children. But these two decisions only came into play because of Sara's care leaning more towards her dying daughter. She may not realize it but Anna and Jesse do. This abandonment forces them to make these wrong decisions without Sara noticing it.
Text to World:
I never imagined what it would be like if someone I truly cared about and loved was sick and dying. It would be impossible for me to handle probably. But people all around the world go through these tragedies everyday. The struggle, the pain that they have to suffer makes me feel grateful. Sara Fitzgerald is a strong mother who is determined to do anything to save her sick daughter, and my mom would probably do the same, any mother would do that to help!

My Sister's Keeper #2

How does one's decision affect them, and those around them?

Right now I am right smack in the middle of the book, and I am reading in all of the characters perspectives, and getting diffeent opinions for each of them. Sara Fitzgerald still wants Anaa to drop the law suit, and is getting very upset with her. She doesn't understand why she is doing all of this and she thinks she is just doing it for attention! Not what Anna thinks at all! Anna just wants to be heard, and wants to make her own decisions for her own body, not for her parents to force her to. I think the same way! That's why Anna has not and will probably not drop out of the case with Campbell on her side as her lawyer. I think that they will most likely win the case. Another decision that was made earlier was Sara deciding to have a 3rd child, Anna to help her 2nd sick child Kate from dying. This was the plan, and her husband went along with it. But is Anna loved like a real child now or just a donor for their favourite child? Jesse was affected as well because now he will have even less attention for himself and that's why he has turned into a rebellious child in the present day. Sara thinks she loves Anna so much, but it doesn't seem truly like it, that's also what Anna thinks as well. I also think that's what the husband thinks, and he is on Anna's side of things. This affects Sara herself because she has to pay for another member in the family, and force her to take shots, and go through surgery for Kate. She is now being sued to the present.

The father reminds me of my older cousin because they are both firefighters. Although he lives all the way across the country in Newfoundland, he always tells me stories about how he helped many people in fire cases. He was always on call, and went whether it was 3 am, or right in the middle of a turkey dinner. He cared for his job, and so did Brian, father of the Fitzgerald's. Quote: pg.171 "We never know at first...riding behind" This talks about he as a firefighter and how he has to get up in the middle of the night for his job!

My Sister's Keeper

How do one's decisions impact others?
I am not too far into the book yet, but Anna has just committed herself to sueing her parents for control over her own body. She wants to own her body parts and be able to keep them to herself, because they are always given to her sick older sister, Kate. Anna had to pawn off her lovely necklace to get money to pay for the expensive $200/hr lawyer she needs to win her case. Her father had given it to her, something special just for her and she had yet to ever take it off. Anna doesn't think it's fair for her parents to never ask permission firts from her, and just use her to help Kate. The lawyer she went to thought nothing of Anna at first and wanted to shoo her away. But after listening to her story, he saw her point and also agrees that it's not fair. He is going to take her case.

Anna's decision to sue her parents will impact her whole family, and the relationship between them. Just this one choice can separate them forever. Anna's choice can kill her sister Kate when she will need it the most. So this decision doesn't just change Anna's life, but everybodys. The replationship between Anna and her parents could be lost forever, because they might hate her for this. They can say Anna would be killing their oldest daughter Kate. I wonder if one of her parents or siblings will take her side, and if that breaks up the family.

This book reminds me when my grandma lost her kidneys and was about to die. She needed somebody to donate her a kidney if she wanted to disregard dialysis forever and live. But there was either never a match, or too long of a waiting list. So she now has to drive to the hospital 3 times a week for 3 hours for kidney dialysis. This is like Kate, and how she needed lot's of donors to survive. But instead of her waiting on a list of finding the right match which could take a long time, she just had her sister. They made Anna to genetically match Kate perfectly, and Anna donated bone marrow and much more all the time. Pg. 25 "They went to special...genetic match." This proves that her parents matched the embryos perfectly to match Kates. Pg. 24 "The first time I gave something...blood stem cells." This also proves how much Anna has given to her sister Kate.

In Class Media

The Rwandan girl who refused to die & Children of Rwanda's Genocide

In the first story the author conveys and integrates imagery through the context used. They detail everything and make you picture the cruel murderings of the poor children and parents. Especially when they talk about the dogs coming in and eating the dead bodies, how she had to throw rocks at them to make them go away. Valentina sat in a room for 43 days with rotting corpses, that is hard to imagine. This story creates a depressing mood and makes me want to stop what is happening. They are conveying a sense of evil by describing the murders and the rotting corpses. It said that the Hutu's said they could spare people that gave them money, but they lied and still killed them anyways! That is evil. Also, when the leader says that you have to kill them like they are snakes, and the only way to kill snakes is to smash their heads! This whole article is evil, especially when talking about death. They set the mood also by using the words: crying babies, whinnying goats, and interminable crowing of roosters. It sounds brutal, and lonely. The part that mostly impacted me was when Valentina still has reoccurring dreams about her mother, and that Valentina is showing her her mutilated hand, what has become of her. But then she wakes up crying and realizes her mother is dead and gone forever. That really kills me, because I am the same age as her, and if that had happened to me, I wouldn't be able to even imagine what I would have to go through and how I would want to live. It's terrible what was done to her.

In the second story, it connects back with the first story because it also talks about the killings and feelings of the children of Rwanda. It makes me upset when I read or hear about this now, because I had never heard of these murderings before. It's something new to my brain but has a huge impact on it because I hate violence. In this article they say that 500,000 people had been killed. Half of the population! That is way too many people, and way too many children being orphaned to fend for themselves because their parents have died. The author has conveyed imagery by using numbers. There wasn't a lot to picture because it wasn't like the first story. This one really used large numbers of killings, or percentages to catch your attention and create that same dark and depressing mood for the readers. I think the authors are different in my perspective because in the first article it was like the author was using Valentina to show the sadness and evilness of the genocide. You really got in touch with her feelings and experiences because it shows it in detail and has you picture what is happening. But on the other hand , this other author doesn't use jut one specific person to take you through their horrible journey of the attack. it talks about in the stats and numbers of killings in Rwanda by saying 80% of children had lost at least one family member from the massacre. That is a big percentage, and it shows just how many people were killed. "The presence of the genocide is still here. It's still with the Rwandan children. " This statement is very true and impacts me the most because if it were me witnessing the killings in Rwanda, then I would wake up every night screaming or crying every night just like Valentina in the first article. The vivid images of people lying on the streets dying, and children helpless would haunt me forever, just like it will for these poor children who were the survivors of this terrible attack! People not involved would forget about this massacre easily and say it's all over and done with. But for the children, it will never be over, and they are all alone because of it.

The Cask of Amontillado

The techniques that the author is using are description because he describes the mood, and setting very well. It's detailed, and gets yourself in the story. He is also using foreshadowing, because I think he is dropping hints at the readers to let us kind of know what will be happening at the end. The main character wants revenge, and you know it right at the beginning. The setting is developed slow then rises to detailed visuals. The author is conveying evil imagery by using words to set the specific mood. Especially when i was listening to the speaker telling the story, it was the way he was reading it that told me the tone of it. I think that the character is the representation of evil, because he wants revenge. Some of the factors contributing to the characters actions were that he wanted revenge from Fortunato, and that made him do the things he did, like leaving Fortunato in the catacombs. I think that the evil is conveyed mostly through the imagery, and the setting. Especially at the end of the story it really starts to get dark and seem evil to me. But the part that impacted the most to me is the ending. He just left Fortunato there!

response

You have a good point talking about power. Try and bring in some more specific evidence to back up what you are saying. Bring in a quote to back it up. You may also describe what he was like prior to being corrupted so we can see how he has change. You do have a solid understanding of what has happened to Macbeth. Good work.