Summary
See there is Janza and I really don't like him as a character in the book. I t wasn't supposed to happened the way it happened it was just supposed to be him. I think he only did that just because he is trying so hard to get into the vigils. By doing that to someone it can really mess you up and it isn't something to play with. All of a sudden Jerry is being ingorned. He really doesn't understand why but it is probably because of the chooclates. It seems like the who school doesn't want to talk to him at all. To me I think they shouldn't treat Jerry like this. First of all he is a new kid in the school and going through a lot of things. Just because he didn't want to sell chocolates eeryone has turned against him. A thing that could have injured him is that he was going down the stairs someone pushed him and he held on to the railing and people was laughing in the background which was horrible. I want to know the real reason why people dont't like him even teachers. It is just chocolates not every year is the same. So as of now the school is 50 boxexs short and it is because of Jerry, so Archie came up with the idea of having him make a raffle off his chocolates. But there was a twist that shocked me. It wasn't benifiting him it was to help the school. Instead of him doing that he has to fight Janza, so once again Jerry has felled for Archie schemes. WOW as reading the story it takes a twist that shocked me and I know it probably docked other people. Going back to the being of the story looking back on when I was talking about how Archie had to pick either a white marble and that indicates that he has to do the assignment and a black marble he doesn't have to do it. Well in the ring he has to pick from the box without looking, and knowing that everyone knows that he have never picked a white yet. As he puts his hands in the box and pulls out a marbel it is white. Everyone is shocked even Archie. That makes Archie nervous but he doesn't show it, then he pulls another marble out and finds out dat there is another white marble. I thought that was pretty weird because there is only suposed to be one. But the thing I didn't get was why Archie didn't do the assignment. So as of now Jerry and Janza is fighting back and forth and Jerry passes out and then the lights go out. Goober runs to Jerry and calls his name and he finally answers. He is brought to the hospital and Brother Jacques didn't like how this turned out. One thing that killed me was that they got away with it again. Hopefully Archie will get what he deserves. The ending got me so mad I really don't understand all of this and that happends.
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A quote I decided to chose is "Some animals from my neighborhood. They'd beat up their own grandmothers for a quarter"(Cormier 161). This quote is really weird to me and it stood out. This quote shows that it was really crazy. For kids to want money why don't they just ask and plus it is just a quarter nothing major. Then again i find that this quote is funny because I have never heard of this in my life. SOme families grown up differently then other families. Some are polite and others isn't.
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Well I love Robert Cormier writing and his style. I am still mad of how the book ended. I felt as if there should have been something else added to the ended. The thing that he does have you thinking one way but the outcome is so different than what you expected and that is what happened to me. But oerlall I thought it was a good book and I would recommend this book to other people and I would also like to read more of his books.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
The Chocolate War (127-160)
Summary
Lately Jerry has been thinking about not selling the chocolates. He thinks that it is a good idea of him not selling and saying no , because when he did that it made other people realize and think that you don't have to be scared to say no to something you don't want to do. The next day someone new have to do the assignment and it has to be a junior. So far Archie has never gotten the black ball. The junior that they decided to pick is Frankie Rollo. This boy is very unique and I say that because he is actually not scared of them. Usually everyone is scared of the Vigils and Frankie somewhat challenges them. The president of the Vigils see something wrong with that and they think it is all because of Jerry and him saying no. I think it was a good idea for him to say no because it shows that you do things that you want to do and not getting forced to do it. This thing really shocked me. In school there was a poster board that said "Screw the chocolates and screw the Vigils" . Someone must have been really brave to put that on the wall. Now that has happened the president is getting really mad and he blames Jerry and he also blames Archie so he puts archie on a break from the vigils until the sales are done. The next day pretty weird things have been happening to Jerry. When Jerry gets home from practice he has been recieving prank calls even late at night waking up him and his father. Many things have been happening to him and many things was ruin at school. At first the selling of the chocolates was doing really badly but all of a sudden it started to do good. At first it didn't make since to me, but then to put it together since the vigils made threats to Jerry they was making threats to many other people. In class people was asking why Jerry isn't selling chocolates and asking him does he thinks he is better than other people and he simply answers no. As Jerry is at practice he is released early because he wasn't doing a good job. As he is leaving he sees Janza and it is just them two. Sooner or later people jump out the bushes and they started to beat him up and then they left. Now he is home and he cleans himself up and lays in the dark. I feel bad because noone knows what he is going through besides him. Later the phone rings and usually noone would say anthing, but then someone says come out and play and when he looks out he sees that there is a shadow. The phone keeps ringing and then his father takes it off the hook. I think Jerry should tell his father, but as his thought he doesn't want his father to know that is going on or get involved in it.
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The quote I decided to pick is "Because you put on a bid act, kid. You try to get by with a sincerity act. But you're not kidding me. you live in the closet( Cormier 152)." I decided to pick this quote because I thought it was one of the best quotes. I say that because i see this as being wrong of what Janza is saying. Just because someone stands up and says what they feel they shouldn't be judge on that. To say something like that is harsh because you don't know their life or what they have been threw to say that, so it can really hurt someone. I think Robert Cormier put that in there to show or to send a message on how hurtful things are said by bullies or just people in general. As I was reading this I was becoming so mad because you just don't say that to people.
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So far the book is really good and many things are really coming out and people's true side is revealing. I love the way Cormier have this book set up. At first I didn't know what The Chocolate War title meant and what it was for the story. As im reading it and understanding it more im starting to know how the title fits in with the story. Knowing that you can see what many people would do to sell chocolates and do what they have to do. So far I'm loving the book and I can't wait to finish reading the rest of it.
Lately Jerry has been thinking about not selling the chocolates. He thinks that it is a good idea of him not selling and saying no , because when he did that it made other people realize and think that you don't have to be scared to say no to something you don't want to do. The next day someone new have to do the assignment and it has to be a junior. So far Archie has never gotten the black ball. The junior that they decided to pick is Frankie Rollo. This boy is very unique and I say that because he is actually not scared of them. Usually everyone is scared of the Vigils and Frankie somewhat challenges them. The president of the Vigils see something wrong with that and they think it is all because of Jerry and him saying no. I think it was a good idea for him to say no because it shows that you do things that you want to do and not getting forced to do it. This thing really shocked me. In school there was a poster board that said "Screw the chocolates and screw the Vigils" . Someone must have been really brave to put that on the wall. Now that has happened the president is getting really mad and he blames Jerry and he also blames Archie so he puts archie on a break from the vigils until the sales are done. The next day pretty weird things have been happening to Jerry. When Jerry gets home from practice he has been recieving prank calls even late at night waking up him and his father. Many things have been happening to him and many things was ruin at school. At first the selling of the chocolates was doing really badly but all of a sudden it started to do good. At first it didn't make since to me, but then to put it together since the vigils made threats to Jerry they was making threats to many other people. In class people was asking why Jerry isn't selling chocolates and asking him does he thinks he is better than other people and he simply answers no. As Jerry is at practice he is released early because he wasn't doing a good job. As he is leaving he sees Janza and it is just them two. Sooner or later people jump out the bushes and they started to beat him up and then they left. Now he is home and he cleans himself up and lays in the dark. I feel bad because noone knows what he is going through besides him. Later the phone rings and usually noone would say anthing, but then someone says come out and play and when he looks out he sees that there is a shadow. The phone keeps ringing and then his father takes it off the hook. I think Jerry should tell his father, but as his thought he doesn't want his father to know that is going on or get involved in it.
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The quote I decided to pick is "Because you put on a bid act, kid. You try to get by with a sincerity act. But you're not kidding me. you live in the closet( Cormier 152)." I decided to pick this quote because I thought it was one of the best quotes. I say that because i see this as being wrong of what Janza is saying. Just because someone stands up and says what they feel they shouldn't be judge on that. To say something like that is harsh because you don't know their life or what they have been threw to say that, so it can really hurt someone. I think Robert Cormier put that in there to show or to send a message on how hurtful things are said by bullies or just people in general. As I was reading this I was becoming so mad because you just don't say that to people.
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So far the book is really good and many things are really coming out and people's true side is revealing. I love the way Cormier have this book set up. At first I didn't know what The Chocolate War title meant and what it was for the story. As im reading it and understanding it more im starting to know how the title fits in with the story. Knowing that you can see what many people would do to sell chocolates and do what they have to do. So far I'm loving the book and I can't wait to finish reading the rest of it.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The Chocolate War(93-127)
Summary
The next morning Jerry feels hung over and he is very nauseous. When he got on the bus a junior came and sat next to him and told him that he has guts for standing up to Leon like he did. At first he changed his mind about selling the choolates, but his final answer was a no he refuses to sell them. At school the Goober asked him why he refuse the chocolates and all Jerry can say is he doesn't know. Throughout the day people keep congratulating him on what he has done. Brother Jacques is a new teacher and for a week now everytime he says the word environment everyone gets up and dances insanely. Brother Jacques doesn't know what is going on and why they are doing that. He has no idea on the Vigils, so that is an easy target for them. So what he did was when someone asked a question it involved using the word so he kept using the word until the boys got exhausted, and there was a little smile on his face. Now it starts to focus again on the progress that the students is having selling the chocolates. Kevin Chartier was on the phone with Danny telling him that he cannot sell any chocolates. He hopes that next year when he is a junior he an become a member of the Vigils. The story talks about two more students who names are Howie Anderson and Richy Rondell. Howie tells Richy that he is also going to stop selling chocolates also. Now the kids are in the gym and Obie asked Archie to meet him. When they meet Obie tels Archie that Jerry refuses to sell the chocolates. Now that he isn't going to sell chocolates, many students are giving up on selling chocolates and that is a problem. Brother Leon is getting really angry and he keeps repeating Jerry's name like it is an infection. Then Goober announces that he is quitting the football team and Jerry gets upset and ask why. He feels as the school is rotting and there is evil and he really doesnt want to go to the school and never come back. Finally Brother Leon went to Archie and starts to yell telling him that the sales is failing. So he treatens Archie and he says if the sale goes down the drain, you and the Vigils also go down the drain. Then later Jerry gets a summons from the Vigils. As Archie is sitting at the table he offers Jerry a chocolate and he says no. So Archie asks him how many boxes did you sell and he said zero, and then he started to ask everyone else in the gym. Obie was listening and he heard the usage of "asking" and that shows that Archie is frighten because he knows if Jerry doesn't accept the chocolates then its trouble for him and the Vigils.
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A quote would be "And now along comes a freshman. A child. He says no. He says I'm not going to sell the chocolates. Simple. Beautiful. Something I never thought of before-just stop selling them(Cormier 105)". I chose this quote because I felt like many people was recongizing on how a young boy made an impact on many people. He finally stood up to someone that many people are scared of and that shows braveness. To me that is what you call a leader and a person that believes that you really don't have to do what someones says to tell you to do. If you don't like it then you don't have to do it. I think Robert Cormier was trying to show that now many people are starting to realize that they don't need to do somthing that they have no interest in doing.
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So far I am loving the book. In the book it has so many twists and turns and it grabs you in. As your reading more and more you learn more about the characters and their thoughts. The book is like told from different people's points of views. The main character that it revolves around would be Jerry. You hear and vision his thoughts as you are reading the book. I think that Robert Cormier does that so you can have a better understanding on how the characters really are and how people you think wouldn't act a certain way, or do things would. It goes back and fills you in on what they are saying, but a more clearer version.
The next morning Jerry feels hung over and he is very nauseous. When he got on the bus a junior came and sat next to him and told him that he has guts for standing up to Leon like he did. At first he changed his mind about selling the choolates, but his final answer was a no he refuses to sell them. At school the Goober asked him why he refuse the chocolates and all Jerry can say is he doesn't know. Throughout the day people keep congratulating him on what he has done. Brother Jacques is a new teacher and for a week now everytime he says the word environment everyone gets up and dances insanely. Brother Jacques doesn't know what is going on and why they are doing that. He has no idea on the Vigils, so that is an easy target for them. So what he did was when someone asked a question it involved using the word so he kept using the word until the boys got exhausted, and there was a little smile on his face. Now it starts to focus again on the progress that the students is having selling the chocolates. Kevin Chartier was on the phone with Danny telling him that he cannot sell any chocolates. He hopes that next year when he is a junior he an become a member of the Vigils. The story talks about two more students who names are Howie Anderson and Richy Rondell. Howie tells Richy that he is also going to stop selling chocolates also. Now the kids are in the gym and Obie asked Archie to meet him. When they meet Obie tels Archie that Jerry refuses to sell the chocolates. Now that he isn't going to sell chocolates, many students are giving up on selling chocolates and that is a problem. Brother Leon is getting really angry and he keeps repeating Jerry's name like it is an infection. Then Goober announces that he is quitting the football team and Jerry gets upset and ask why. He feels as the school is rotting and there is evil and he really doesnt want to go to the school and never come back. Finally Brother Leon went to Archie and starts to yell telling him that the sales is failing. So he treatens Archie and he says if the sale goes down the drain, you and the Vigils also go down the drain. Then later Jerry gets a summons from the Vigils. As Archie is sitting at the table he offers Jerry a chocolate and he says no. So Archie asks him how many boxes did you sell and he said zero, and then he started to ask everyone else in the gym. Obie was listening and he heard the usage of "asking" and that shows that Archie is frighten because he knows if Jerry doesn't accept the chocolates then its trouble for him and the Vigils.
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A quote would be "And now along comes a freshman. A child. He says no. He says I'm not going to sell the chocolates. Simple. Beautiful. Something I never thought of before-just stop selling them(Cormier 105)". I chose this quote because I felt like many people was recongizing on how a young boy made an impact on many people. He finally stood up to someone that many people are scared of and that shows braveness. To me that is what you call a leader and a person that believes that you really don't have to do what someones says to tell you to do. If you don't like it then you don't have to do it. I think Robert Cormier was trying to show that now many people are starting to realize that they don't need to do somthing that they have no interest in doing.
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So far I am loving the book. In the book it has so many twists and turns and it grabs you in. As your reading more and more you learn more about the characters and their thoughts. The book is like told from different people's points of views. The main character that it revolves around would be Jerry. You hear and vision his thoughts as you are reading the book. I think that Robert Cormier does that so you can have a better understanding on how the characters really are and how people you think wouldn't act a certain way, or do things would. It goes back and fills you in on what they are saying, but a more clearer version.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
The Chocolate War(54-93)
Summary
The next morning the students came in and even Brother Eugene and as the students went to sit down everything started to fall apart. Even when Brother Eugene chair fell apart. A student says that all of this is because of the Vigils. Brother Leon comes and start to get rough with Archie pushing him against the walls. Besides that going back to the football tryouts once again Jerry is being manhandled on the field. Playing the play over and over again then finally on the 17th try Jerry gets off a pass to Goober who goes in for a touchdown. Jerry is soo happy, then when he goes to his locker there is an assignment from the Vigil. The chocolate sale begun and Jerry still refuses to sell them, and Goober is shocked because everyone agreed to sell them. John Sulkey is the master of selling things. He wants to sell more than everybody else. Then you have a boy name Tubs Casper and he is really trying to sell the chocolate so he can get his girlfriend a bracelet. Then you have a boy name Paul Consalvo. He tries to sell chocolates, but he is having a hard time trying to sell them. In a conversation between Archie and Emile Janza, Archie went into the boys bathroom and saw Emile do something real inapropiate. Archie pretended to take a picture and really didn't, so he was blackmailing him just for fun. Usually Brother Leon is nice and cool this time we see him at his worse. This straight "A" student named Caroni recieves and "F" for the first time on the test. Brother Leon will decide if he will change it or not. Finally after all of that trouble, Jerry decides to accept the chocolates. Later on Jerry starts to struggle of understanding why he really refused the chocolate. He can't sleep at all because the moment is replaying in his head. He keeps thinking about death and what happends to their bodies when they die. All Jerry wants is his life to be normal again. He wants there to be no more assignments, no Vigils, and no more refusing chocolates.
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The quote that I'm going to use is "Was it because of what Brother Leon does to people, like Bailey, the way he tortures them, tries to make fools of them in front of everybody" (Cormier 91). I chose to pick this quote because I felt as in if there are people like that in the world many people can get hurt by what people are saying. The thing is you will never know because many people might not show it. For a teacher to do that, it is really disrespectful and wrong. A teacher is never supposed to bring a child down they should be bringing them up. That is why it is good that someone asked him if it was him because he has a way of bringing people down and making them feel like they are nothing. To feel that way really stinks because as a person if you know you shouldn't be treated like that then why just sit there and take it. Something should be done about it.
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So far the book it is going through different stages. Cormier writing style is very different then other authors. The story is told from different points of views throughout the book. The narrator wells to me I think it is mostly Jerry. The reason why is because in the story it somehow goes back to Jerry and his problems and reminisce on the things in his past. The thing that makes his writing so interesting is that the different things going on at once, and for some reason they all tie in together. So far this is a good book and i can't wait to read more.
The next morning the students came in and even Brother Eugene and as the students went to sit down everything started to fall apart. Even when Brother Eugene chair fell apart. A student says that all of this is because of the Vigils. Brother Leon comes and start to get rough with Archie pushing him against the walls. Besides that going back to the football tryouts once again Jerry is being manhandled on the field. Playing the play over and over again then finally on the 17th try Jerry gets off a pass to Goober who goes in for a touchdown. Jerry is soo happy, then when he goes to his locker there is an assignment from the Vigil. The chocolate sale begun and Jerry still refuses to sell them, and Goober is shocked because everyone agreed to sell them. John Sulkey is the master of selling things. He wants to sell more than everybody else. Then you have a boy name Tubs Casper and he is really trying to sell the chocolate so he can get his girlfriend a bracelet. Then you have a boy name Paul Consalvo. He tries to sell chocolates, but he is having a hard time trying to sell them. In a conversation between Archie and Emile Janza, Archie went into the boys bathroom and saw Emile do something real inapropiate. Archie pretended to take a picture and really didn't, so he was blackmailing him just for fun. Usually Brother Leon is nice and cool this time we see him at his worse. This straight "A" student named Caroni recieves and "F" for the first time on the test. Brother Leon will decide if he will change it or not. Finally after all of that trouble, Jerry decides to accept the chocolates. Later on Jerry starts to struggle of understanding why he really refused the chocolate. He can't sleep at all because the moment is replaying in his head. He keeps thinking about death and what happends to their bodies when they die. All Jerry wants is his life to be normal again. He wants there to be no more assignments, no Vigils, and no more refusing chocolates.
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The quote that I'm going to use is "Was it because of what Brother Leon does to people, like Bailey, the way he tortures them, tries to make fools of them in front of everybody" (Cormier 91). I chose to pick this quote because I felt as in if there are people like that in the world many people can get hurt by what people are saying. The thing is you will never know because many people might not show it. For a teacher to do that, it is really disrespectful and wrong. A teacher is never supposed to bring a child down they should be bringing them up. That is why it is good that someone asked him if it was him because he has a way of bringing people down and making them feel like they are nothing. To feel that way really stinks because as a person if you know you shouldn't be treated like that then why just sit there and take it. Something should be done about it.
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So far the book it is going through different stages. Cormier writing style is very different then other authors. The story is told from different points of views throughout the book. The narrator wells to me I think it is mostly Jerry. The reason why is because in the story it somehow goes back to Jerry and his problems and reminisce on the things in his past. The thing that makes his writing so interesting is that the different things going on at once, and for some reason they all tie in together. So far this is a good book and i can't wait to read more.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The Chocolate War (1-54)
Summary
In the book The Chocolate War the book begins with a strong sentence that makes you want to read more of it. It starts off with Jerry Renault being beaten when he is at football tryouts. The coach is impressed with him because he took the beaten, so he comes up to him the next day and askes him back. Then Jerry is so surprised he becomes ill and starts to throw-up in the bathroom, but as he is ill he dreams of making the team. The way the book descibes Obie from Cormier point of view is that he is boring, disgusting, and the thing that tops it off is that he is disgusted with a charcter named Archie Costello. Obie hates arguing with Archie because he always win because of his way of words and brillance. During this Archie is trying to figure out what ten kids he is going to use in his next assignment and Obie is taking notes. Then Obie thinks that Jerry shouldn't get an assignment because his mom just died, but Archie thinks it is apporpriate to give him the assignment now. Archie tells Obie to put his name down for the "chocolates". Archie and Brother Leon is having a conversation about the chocolate sale and he says that the school needs to make 20,000 boxes. Archie doesn't know why Brother Leon has called him to talk about it. Brother Leon is described as a sarcastic and powerful-hungry; for making fun of kids for not particular reason. Then later Goubert a.k.a known as The Goober receives an order to attend a Vigils meeting to get his assignment. His assignment is to sneak into Brother Leon's room after school and unscrew everything such as his desks, handles, chairs, and doors. He has to unscrew them until they are barely in the hole, so when the students come and sit down they would fall. After that Archie has to face the Black Box. The Black Box is a mechanism to keep the leader of the Vigils in check. In the box there is five white marbles and one black one. If he draws the black one he has to do the assignment himself. In three years Archie never drew a black marble, so of course he takes out a white marble and Boober has to do the assignment. In class Leon picks on a kid name Bailey. Bailey is really smart and Leon thinks he is cheating and he says he have never cheated before. Now Emile Janza is a school thug, and even though Archie he ends up working with Emile. Now Goober he has been in Brother Eugene room and he been unscrewing for about six hours and he is no where near done. So two people in masks comes help him finish the job. As a result it took nine hours to finish. Jerry is there sitting and remembering his moms illness and her death. Him and his father basically grew apart, but on the day on his mom funneral they shared their emotions. The chocolate sale begins at school.
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"Was life that dull, that boring and humdrum for people? He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine, fine—not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything( Cormier 51)." This quote introduces Jerry's father. Ever since his mom died his father really have no feeling on life. He thinks everything is fine and it really isn't. Jerry's father is an example of a person who doesn't and will not disturb the universe. Jerry thinks that his father is less of a human and plus he have mixed emotions that he doesn't know how to deal with them.
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At first as I started to read the book I found it very interesting. Robert Cormier writing is way different then many other books that i have read. As I was reading the book I found it confusing at first then as I started to read more it all started to click. To me his writing skills is funny, but then serious. It is like a reality that just hits you in the face. Overall I'm happy that I chose this book because I think I'm going to love this book.
In the book The Chocolate War the book begins with a strong sentence that makes you want to read more of it. It starts off with Jerry Renault being beaten when he is at football tryouts. The coach is impressed with him because he took the beaten, so he comes up to him the next day and askes him back. Then Jerry is so surprised he becomes ill and starts to throw-up in the bathroom, but as he is ill he dreams of making the team. The way the book descibes Obie from Cormier point of view is that he is boring, disgusting, and the thing that tops it off is that he is disgusted with a charcter named Archie Costello. Obie hates arguing with Archie because he always win because of his way of words and brillance. During this Archie is trying to figure out what ten kids he is going to use in his next assignment and Obie is taking notes. Then Obie thinks that Jerry shouldn't get an assignment because his mom just died, but Archie thinks it is apporpriate to give him the assignment now. Archie tells Obie to put his name down for the "chocolates". Archie and Brother Leon is having a conversation about the chocolate sale and he says that the school needs to make 20,000 boxes. Archie doesn't know why Brother Leon has called him to talk about it. Brother Leon is described as a sarcastic and powerful-hungry; for making fun of kids for not particular reason. Then later Goubert a.k.a known as The Goober receives an order to attend a Vigils meeting to get his assignment. His assignment is to sneak into Brother Leon's room after school and unscrew everything such as his desks, handles, chairs, and doors. He has to unscrew them until they are barely in the hole, so when the students come and sit down they would fall. After that Archie has to face the Black Box. The Black Box is a mechanism to keep the leader of the Vigils in check. In the box there is five white marbles and one black one. If he draws the black one he has to do the assignment himself. In three years Archie never drew a black marble, so of course he takes out a white marble and Boober has to do the assignment. In class Leon picks on a kid name Bailey. Bailey is really smart and Leon thinks he is cheating and he says he have never cheated before. Now Emile Janza is a school thug, and even though Archie he ends up working with Emile. Now Goober he has been in Brother Eugene room and he been unscrewing for about six hours and he is no where near done. So two people in masks comes help him finish the job. As a result it took nine hours to finish. Jerry is there sitting and remembering his moms illness and her death. Him and his father basically grew apart, but on the day on his mom funneral they shared their emotions. The chocolate sale begins at school.
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"Was life that dull, that boring and humdrum for people? He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine, fine—not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything( Cormier 51)." This quote introduces Jerry's father. Ever since his mom died his father really have no feeling on life. He thinks everything is fine and it really isn't. Jerry's father is an example of a person who doesn't and will not disturb the universe. Jerry thinks that his father is less of a human and plus he have mixed emotions that he doesn't know how to deal with them.
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At first as I started to read the book I found it very interesting. Robert Cormier writing is way different then many other books that i have read. As I was reading the book I found it confusing at first then as I started to read more it all started to click. To me his writing skills is funny, but then serious. It is like a reality that just hits you in the face. Overall I'm happy that I chose this book because I think I'm going to love this book.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
I Know Why Cage Bird Sings (218-289)
Summary
Big Bailey invites Maya to spend the summer with him and his girlfriend, and her name is Dorlores. When them to finally met they was really shocked. Big Bailey wants to get married, but everything it come close to the wedding he postpones it. The thing i find shocking is that he makes frequent trips to Mexico and he supposedly buys groceries. Then one day he asks Maya to come with him and Dolores gets really jealous that she is staying. She starts to enjoy herself, but later on she gets scared because she can not find her father and she is just waiting in the car. Sooner or later he comes out and he is all drunk and he ends up passing out in the car. Maya trying to take responsibility she drives the car fifty miles back even though she has never drove a car in her life. Big bailey redeems hisself and he is able to drive the rest of the wa. He isn't mad about anything, but Maya is kind of mad because he didn't acknowlegde what she did and they drove home in silence. When they get home an arguement breaks off and Bailey leaves and Dolore is crying. Maya goes to her being nice saying that she didn't mean to come between them, but then Dolores insults her mom and says that she is a "whore". After that Maya slaps her and Dolores stabs her with the scissors and Maya runs in the car and locks herself in there. Bailey drives Maya to his other friends house where she spent the night. The next day he comes and gives her money and said he would come back, but Maya refuse to stay there so she packed her stuff and left. She didn't want to go to Vivian because she knew if she saw the wound it would start trouble between Bailey and her. Leaving that day she spends the night in a car at the junk yard. She ends up staying there with a group of teenagers. Later she enters a dance contest and she won second place. Everything was changing especially bailey. He started wearing flashy clothes and dating white prositutes. Sooner or later Baliey moved out and his mom got him a job in the south pacfic. Maya starts to develop and she doesn't understand what is going on, so she ask her mom and she told her all of that stuff is natural. She didn't understand the word lesbian so she didn't know if she was one so she got a boyfriend. During that process; 3 weeks later she finds out that she is pregnant. Later on she gives birth to her son and she is fascinated, but afraid to touch him. Vivian shows how the baby lays and tells her she doesnt have to worry about doingthe right thing because if her heart is in the right place she will do the right thing. So Maya peacfually returns to sleep next to her son.
Quote
The quote I decided to pick was "Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait (Angelou 269)." This quote was said to Maya by her mother. She mostly tells her things like this every morning. She does that to show Maya that evrything isn't going to be placed in your hand, and you should put effort in the things you do. This quote is important because in life you may think that the things you do in life doesn't count but it does. To make it big and to suceed you need to put love and caring in what you do, even if it is the littlest thing. Once you do that is needed to be done good things would happend and you will sometimes get what you want. But if you put no effort, no love or not caring of what you do, your going to get no where.
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As I was finishing up the book ii saw many changes in the relation change. Everyone was going up and doing what they wanted to do. To me I call this novel a of coming age. This is said because in this book Maya Angelou shows how the kids grow up and they learn many new things. Maya and Bailey do so much when they was little and half of the things they didn't even understand it especially Maya. Out of both of them Maya had it the worse, but I was shocked of what she was doing with her life. I was mostly shocked when she had a child at the end of the book. The ending of the book was very calm and peaceful. I think it ended like that, so it can show that Maya is starting a new life and readdy to take care of her responsiblity. Overall i loved the book and it was amazing. Even though i think the book should have a few more chapters, it was good.
Big Bailey invites Maya to spend the summer with him and his girlfriend, and her name is Dorlores. When them to finally met they was really shocked. Big Bailey wants to get married, but everything it come close to the wedding he postpones it. The thing i find shocking is that he makes frequent trips to Mexico and he supposedly buys groceries. Then one day he asks Maya to come with him and Dolores gets really jealous that she is staying. She starts to enjoy herself, but later on she gets scared because she can not find her father and she is just waiting in the car. Sooner or later he comes out and he is all drunk and he ends up passing out in the car. Maya trying to take responsibility she drives the car fifty miles back even though she has never drove a car in her life. Big bailey redeems hisself and he is able to drive the rest of the wa. He isn't mad about anything, but Maya is kind of mad because he didn't acknowlegde what she did and they drove home in silence. When they get home an arguement breaks off and Bailey leaves and Dolore is crying. Maya goes to her being nice saying that she didn't mean to come between them, but then Dolores insults her mom and says that she is a "whore". After that Maya slaps her and Dolores stabs her with the scissors and Maya runs in the car and locks herself in there. Bailey drives Maya to his other friends house where she spent the night. The next day he comes and gives her money and said he would come back, but Maya refuse to stay there so she packed her stuff and left. She didn't want to go to Vivian because she knew if she saw the wound it would start trouble between Bailey and her. Leaving that day she spends the night in a car at the junk yard. She ends up staying there with a group of teenagers. Later she enters a dance contest and she won second place. Everything was changing especially bailey. He started wearing flashy clothes and dating white prositutes. Sooner or later Baliey moved out and his mom got him a job in the south pacfic. Maya starts to develop and she doesn't understand what is going on, so she ask her mom and she told her all of that stuff is natural. She didn't understand the word lesbian so she didn't know if she was one so she got a boyfriend. During that process; 3 weeks later she finds out that she is pregnant. Later on she gives birth to her son and she is fascinated, but afraid to touch him. Vivian shows how the baby lays and tells her she doesnt have to worry about doingthe right thing because if her heart is in the right place she will do the right thing. So Maya peacfually returns to sleep next to her son.
Quote
The quote I decided to pick was "Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait (Angelou 269)." This quote was said to Maya by her mother. She mostly tells her things like this every morning. She does that to show Maya that evrything isn't going to be placed in your hand, and you should put effort in the things you do. This quote is important because in life you may think that the things you do in life doesn't count but it does. To make it big and to suceed you need to put love and caring in what you do, even if it is the littlest thing. Once you do that is needed to be done good things would happend and you will sometimes get what you want. But if you put no effort, no love or not caring of what you do, your going to get no where.
Reaction
As I was finishing up the book ii saw many changes in the relation change. Everyone was going up and doing what they wanted to do. To me I call this novel a of coming age. This is said because in this book Maya Angelou shows how the kids grow up and they learn many new things. Maya and Bailey do so much when they was little and half of the things they didn't even understand it especially Maya. Out of both of them Maya had it the worse, but I was shocked of what she was doing with her life. I was mostly shocked when she had a child at the end of the book. The ending of the book was very calm and peaceful. I think it ended like that, so it can show that Maya is starting a new life and readdy to take care of her responsiblity. Overall i loved the book and it was amazing. Even though i think the book should have a few more chapters, it was good.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings(152-218)
Summary
A man name George Taylor comes to the store and he stays the night there. He is still sad over his wife Florida death. Momma tried to cheer him up because she says you have spent a good forty years with her and you should be glad. He is even more sad because before she died he said that he wanted children. Days later Maya she is now going to graduate from eight grade at her school. The onpy thing that Maya didn't like was that only the black children only achieved greatness in sports in academics. The kids sat there as the principal was talking. Later on Maya ends up having a bad toothace and momma said that since she owned money to Dr. Lincoln she says that he owes her a favor, so she goes there. When they get there she reminds him about the loan and he says that he repaid the loan and that he would rather stick his hand in a dogs mouth than Maya's black mouth. To me I felt that it was unnecessary for him to say that it was very rude. He was basically saying that he would put a dog before and black person; like they was below and dirt. Then she tells him that she needs her money back and he gave her back her ten dollars and gave her a receipt. One day Bailey comes home from a errand that he had to do. When he is home he is very shocked and he is shaking. He was asking why does white people have so much haterd in black people. He just saw a black dead man that they pulled out of the pond. Later momma makes a trip for them to go to California to go live with their mom. The kids started to see Vivian more often now. Soon after the U.S enters World War 2 and Vivian ends up marrying Daddy Clidell and he is a successful businessman , and they move to San Francisco. There was many changes that occured. Mostly all the black people replaced the Japanese people. Living there Maya feels so much at home. As she goes to school she ends up getting promoted to the next grade. When Maya is fourteen she receives a scholarship to the California Labor School where she studies dance and drama. Daddy Clidel becomes the only father figure that Maya had.
Quote
"Bailey was talking so fast he forgot to stutter, he forgot to scracth his head and clean his fingernails with his teeth. He was away in a mystery, locked in the enigma that young Southern Black boys start to unravel, from seven years old to death. The humorless puzzle of inequality and hate( Angelou 198)." Bailey finally encounters death. When he encounters death he really doesn't know how to handle the situation he is just so stunned. Uncle Willy had to explain to him what he saw and why things are the way they are. This was really big because he never saw a dead body well anybody dead. Maya Angelou makes this quote stands out because it shows his reaction to what never faced him until now.
Reaction
As I was reading the book I see how many people can turn on you or how many things you face in life that you have many questions on that it is hard to answer. Sometimes you have to face something that you really don't want to face, but it is apart of life and it happends. Angleou works is way beyond good. It goes back to where you think and it is facts about life and what happend. In your life you would think it would never happened to you but there is a chance it might and you have to be ready for it
A man name George Taylor comes to the store and he stays the night there. He is still sad over his wife Florida death. Momma tried to cheer him up because she says you have spent a good forty years with her and you should be glad. He is even more sad because before she died he said that he wanted children. Days later Maya she is now going to graduate from eight grade at her school. The onpy thing that Maya didn't like was that only the black children only achieved greatness in sports in academics. The kids sat there as the principal was talking. Later on Maya ends up having a bad toothace and momma said that since she owned money to Dr. Lincoln she says that he owes her a favor, so she goes there. When they get there she reminds him about the loan and he says that he repaid the loan and that he would rather stick his hand in a dogs mouth than Maya's black mouth. To me I felt that it was unnecessary for him to say that it was very rude. He was basically saying that he would put a dog before and black person; like they was below and dirt. Then she tells him that she needs her money back and he gave her back her ten dollars and gave her a receipt. One day Bailey comes home from a errand that he had to do. When he is home he is very shocked and he is shaking. He was asking why does white people have so much haterd in black people. He just saw a black dead man that they pulled out of the pond. Later momma makes a trip for them to go to California to go live with their mom. The kids started to see Vivian more often now. Soon after the U.S enters World War 2 and Vivian ends up marrying Daddy Clidell and he is a successful businessman , and they move to San Francisco. There was many changes that occured. Mostly all the black people replaced the Japanese people. Living there Maya feels so much at home. As she goes to school she ends up getting promoted to the next grade. When Maya is fourteen she receives a scholarship to the California Labor School where she studies dance and drama. Daddy Clidel becomes the only father figure that Maya had.
Quote
"Bailey was talking so fast he forgot to stutter, he forgot to scracth his head and clean his fingernails with his teeth. He was away in a mystery, locked in the enigma that young Southern Black boys start to unravel, from seven years old to death. The humorless puzzle of inequality and hate( Angelou 198)." Bailey finally encounters death. When he encounters death he really doesn't know how to handle the situation he is just so stunned. Uncle Willy had to explain to him what he saw and why things are the way they are. This was really big because he never saw a dead body well anybody dead. Maya Angelou makes this quote stands out because it shows his reaction to what never faced him until now.
Reaction
As I was reading the book I see how many people can turn on you or how many things you face in life that you have many questions on that it is hard to answer. Sometimes you have to face something that you really don't want to face, but it is apart of life and it happends. Angleou works is way beyond good. It goes back to where you think and it is facts about life and what happend. In your life you would think it would never happened to you but there is a chance it might and you have to be ready for it
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings(102-152)
Summary
Reading this book just get better and better each time. Mrs. Viola Cullinan was a plump woman who lived in a three-bedroom house behind a post office. She was unattractive until she smiled and she actually looked decent . Maya ends up taking a job at Mrs. Cullinan house at the age of ten. Miss Glory was once owned by the Cullinans, and the sad thing about it is that Mrs. Cullinan couldn't have children of her own. As Maya is there at her house Mrs. Cullinan calls her Mary because her name is to long, but when she calls her that she gets really mad. She gets mad because she would rather be called by her real name or Maya not "Mary". She can't quit because her mother wouldn't let her and plus she needs the money. So instead of her trying to quit she is trying to find a way to get fired, so she starts to slack in her work and then listens to her brother and starts to break her china glasses on purpose. When Maya did that Mrs. Cullinan drops her insults on Maya. One night Bailey decides to stay out after dark and Momma took Maya with her to go search for him. They end up finding him and he doesn't even explain his lateness for coming home, so when they got home he got a severe whipping . As days go on Maya notices that Bailey is changing. She felt like that he had no soul/love because of his actions. Then finally Bailey tells Maya why he was late and he said he was watching a movie and it starred this white actress that look just like Vivian and he stayed to watch it again. During this time there was the annual revival meetings that interrupts the harsh daily in Stamps. People from the black chruches attended. That is about them coming together and finding a way to do good, like this time is to give to the poor and help them. Many whites back then thought that black people was weak,so there was this match between a black man Joe Louis and he was going against this white man. Everybody was watching it. Comes to find out he won and it proves that black people are powerful and not week. Maya meets a girl her age name Louise Kendricks. They become best friends and they spend long hours getting to know eachother. When she is in 7th grade she got a note from a boy name Tommy Valdon to be his valentine. She shows it to Louise and she explains that it means love. For some reason Baliey started to get sexual. He started playing sexual games with girls. After six months Baliey loses his virginity to a well developed girl name Joyce. Then his actions gets worse. He started stealing from the store for her then after a few months she disappears. Later they find out that she ran away with this guy who she met from the store and Baliey is really heartbroken. Then she started to come around again noone really said nothing to her anymore and plus Maya hated that she left her brother in the first place.
Quote
An important quote that i decided to pick was "My race groaned. It was our people falling. It was an other lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambused and raped.A black boy whipped and maimed(Angelou 135)." The words in the quote is really deep. By reading this quote it makes me feel like if I was born back in the day it was horrible. Being lynched, whipped, slapped, raped, and even ambused is cruelity. Baxk then there was actually nothing that color folks can do about it because of their skin color and the segregation that was going on back there. Now in my time there is still people getting raped, ambused, and whip. But now you can actually get introuble. To hear about people getting treated like that is really unfair, but that is what many people went through.
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So far as I'm reading this book it is kind of sad and it is kind of what i was expecting. Maya Angelou shows that life wasn't always easy and you couldn't have it your way unless u wasn't colored. Her work demonstates and connects to her life, historical background, and provides information. I say that because when you read her work you learn so much and it feels as if you can relate to it. Her style is very unique and it is her own. That is one of the reasons why reading her work is so exciting and anxious to read it and that is what I love about her work and her as an author/poet.
Reading this book just get better and better each time. Mrs. Viola Cullinan was a plump woman who lived in a three-bedroom house behind a post office. She was unattractive until she smiled and she actually looked decent . Maya ends up taking a job at Mrs. Cullinan house at the age of ten. Miss Glory was once owned by the Cullinans, and the sad thing about it is that Mrs. Cullinan couldn't have children of her own. As Maya is there at her house Mrs. Cullinan calls her Mary because her name is to long, but when she calls her that she gets really mad. She gets mad because she would rather be called by her real name or Maya not "Mary". She can't quit because her mother wouldn't let her and plus she needs the money. So instead of her trying to quit she is trying to find a way to get fired, so she starts to slack in her work and then listens to her brother and starts to break her china glasses on purpose. When Maya did that Mrs. Cullinan drops her insults on Maya. One night Bailey decides to stay out after dark and Momma took Maya with her to go search for him. They end up finding him and he doesn't even explain his lateness for coming home, so when they got home he got a severe whipping . As days go on Maya notices that Bailey is changing. She felt like that he had no soul/love because of his actions. Then finally Bailey tells Maya why he was late and he said he was watching a movie and it starred this white actress that look just like Vivian and he stayed to watch it again. During this time there was the annual revival meetings that interrupts the harsh daily in Stamps. People from the black chruches attended. That is about them coming together and finding a way to do good, like this time is to give to the poor and help them. Many whites back then thought that black people was weak,so there was this match between a black man Joe Louis and he was going against this white man. Everybody was watching it. Comes to find out he won and it proves that black people are powerful and not week. Maya meets a girl her age name Louise Kendricks. They become best friends and they spend long hours getting to know eachother. When she is in 7th grade she got a note from a boy name Tommy Valdon to be his valentine. She shows it to Louise and she explains that it means love. For some reason Baliey started to get sexual. He started playing sexual games with girls. After six months Baliey loses his virginity to a well developed girl name Joyce. Then his actions gets worse. He started stealing from the store for her then after a few months she disappears. Later they find out that she ran away with this guy who she met from the store and Baliey is really heartbroken. Then she started to come around again noone really said nothing to her anymore and plus Maya hated that she left her brother in the first place.
Quote
An important quote that i decided to pick was "My race groaned. It was our people falling. It was an other lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambused and raped.A black boy whipped and maimed(Angelou 135)." The words in the quote is really deep. By reading this quote it makes me feel like if I was born back in the day it was horrible. Being lynched, whipped, slapped, raped, and even ambused is cruelity. Baxk then there was actually nothing that color folks can do about it because of their skin color and the segregation that was going on back there. Now in my time there is still people getting raped, ambused, and whip. But now you can actually get introuble. To hear about people getting treated like that is really unfair, but that is what many people went through.
Reaction
So far as I'm reading this book it is kind of sad and it is kind of what i was expecting. Maya Angelou shows that life wasn't always easy and you couldn't have it your way unless u wasn't colored. Her work demonstates and connects to her life, historical background, and provides information. I say that because when you read her work you learn so much and it feels as if you can relate to it. Her style is very unique and it is her own. That is one of the reasons why reading her work is so exciting and anxious to read it and that is what I love about her work and her as an author/poet.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (70-102)
Summary
Maya starts to sleep at night with Vivian and Mr. Freeman because she suffers from nightmares. THhe scariest thing happen. One morning Vivian leaves the house and Mr. Freemen sexually molests Maya. The thing is he doesn't touch her he just "masturbates" on the bed holding Maya close to him. Then Mr. Freeman said he will kill Bailey if she tells someone, but she doesn't understand what just happen and she likes to be held but doesn't understand why he would make that threat. After a while Bailey started to make new friends and Maya doesn't and they start to grow apart from eachother. One late night Vivian stays out late and Mr. Freeman sends her to buy milk and when she returns this time he really rapes her and he threaten to kill her and Bailey if she yells. Then afterwards he sends her to the library but she returns home because of the pain. Then Vivian and Mr. Freeman got into an arguement and he moves out. Then when bailey was changing the linens Maya blood underwears fall from the mattress. Maya goes to the hospital and Bailey tries to get her to name the rapist and she finally told the name. Then the court was asking her questions half of the questions she feels like if she answers them she will feel rejected by her family but then again she doesn't want to lie, so he only gets a year and one day in prison. Later on he ends up getten an early release after his hearing, but later a police visits that later night to tell the grandmother that Mr. Freeman has been beaten to death. Maya feels like it was her fault because she lies. Maya and Bailey returns to Stamps. After that whole incident she became silent. A lady name Mrs. Flowers decides to take Maya so she can break the silence. She gives her books and tells her to read them out loud. Mrs. Flowers is very impressed with her, so on her next visit she wants her to recite a peom to her. When she returned home she uses her voice and say she made cookies for Bailey. But the mom whips Maya because she used a phrase that the mom found offensive to god.
Quote
A quote that i had to note was "A light shade had been pulled down between the Black community and all things white, but one could see through it enough to develop a fear-admiration-contempt for the white “things”—white folks’ cars and white glistening houses and their children and their women. But above all, their wealth that allowed them to waste was the most enviable( Angelou 49)." This quote explains how back then white people was so much different than black people. In Arkansas there was so much segregation and Maya grew to understand that. She learns from her mom that she shouldn't adress white people directly because it can lead to danger. That she can't speak about white people without using the word "they". To me this was a very strong quote and it makes you think.
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To the chapters I have read it has been crazy. Angelou writing is so strong and precise. For this one young girl to go threw so much and she is still doing well. As I was reading the book I was really shocked and surprised. It was also scary and very intense. Angelou has a way to make you think and realize that what you have you take that for granted and what you go though; you can make it through anything. Just have to put your mind to it. Her style of writing is all her thoughts and her heart. You can tell by the reading and all her books and that is why her books is really amazing.
Maya starts to sleep at night with Vivian and Mr. Freeman because she suffers from nightmares. THhe scariest thing happen. One morning Vivian leaves the house and Mr. Freemen sexually molests Maya. The thing is he doesn't touch her he just "masturbates" on the bed holding Maya close to him. Then Mr. Freeman said he will kill Bailey if she tells someone, but she doesn't understand what just happen and she likes to be held but doesn't understand why he would make that threat. After a while Bailey started to make new friends and Maya doesn't and they start to grow apart from eachother. One late night Vivian stays out late and Mr. Freeman sends her to buy milk and when she returns this time he really rapes her and he threaten to kill her and Bailey if she yells. Then afterwards he sends her to the library but she returns home because of the pain. Then Vivian and Mr. Freeman got into an arguement and he moves out. Then when bailey was changing the linens Maya blood underwears fall from the mattress. Maya goes to the hospital and Bailey tries to get her to name the rapist and she finally told the name. Then the court was asking her questions half of the questions she feels like if she answers them she will feel rejected by her family but then again she doesn't want to lie, so he only gets a year and one day in prison. Later on he ends up getten an early release after his hearing, but later a police visits that later night to tell the grandmother that Mr. Freeman has been beaten to death. Maya feels like it was her fault because she lies. Maya and Bailey returns to Stamps. After that whole incident she became silent. A lady name Mrs. Flowers decides to take Maya so she can break the silence. She gives her books and tells her to read them out loud. Mrs. Flowers is very impressed with her, so on her next visit she wants her to recite a peom to her. When she returned home she uses her voice and say she made cookies for Bailey. But the mom whips Maya because she used a phrase that the mom found offensive to god.
Quote
A quote that i had to note was "A light shade had been pulled down between the Black community and all things white, but one could see through it enough to develop a fear-admiration-contempt for the white “things”—white folks’ cars and white glistening houses and their children and their women. But above all, their wealth that allowed them to waste was the most enviable( Angelou 49)." This quote explains how back then white people was so much different than black people. In Arkansas there was so much segregation and Maya grew to understand that. She learns from her mom that she shouldn't adress white people directly because it can lead to danger. That she can't speak about white people without using the word "they". To me this was a very strong quote and it makes you think.
Reaction
To the chapters I have read it has been crazy. Angelou writing is so strong and precise. For this one young girl to go threw so much and she is still doing well. As I was reading the book I was really shocked and surprised. It was also scary and very intense. Angelou has a way to make you think and realize that what you have you take that for granted and what you go though; you can make it through anything. Just have to put your mind to it. Her style of writing is all her thoughts and her heart. You can tell by the reading and all her books and that is why her books is really amazing.
Friday, October 2, 2009
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1-69)
Summary
In the expostion to I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings there is a girl name Maya and she is three and her brother name Bailey and he is four. There parents got a divorce, and the parents send the kids back and forth by train from California, to Stamps, and then to Arkansas to live with their grandmother. They had a cotton- harvesting season and the grandmother(which they call Momma now) sells it to the black people in the community. It is very poor, so many people don't have much money. As time goes on Maya starts to fall in love with reading. The author that she really liked was Shakespeare, and she knew he was white. There starts to become a conflict in the neighborhood. Mr. Steward(he is the former sheriff) he warns Momma about how it is war because white men says that black men is "messing with" their white women. Then Momma hide Willie in the oinion bin, so just in case the mob comes. Maya goes through self esteem because many men say that she is ugly, but her brother makes sure that he sticks up for her. Bailey is the most imporant person in her life. There is still racial remarks going on. The little white kids have no respect for Momma nor Willie. They insult both of them, and it hurts Bailey and especially Maya because they hate that it is like the way it is. There have been some tention building and Momma thinks that it is not safe for blacks should not talk to whites. Momma calls herself a realist rather than a coward. Comes to find out they convince themselves that their mother had died(which she didn't), but later Bailey and Maya destroy the china doll that was sent to them for Christmas. Later on the father comes and visits them unexpectedly. Big Bailey drove them to see thier mom and all their mom said was behave. When they see thier mom they describes her as beautiful. Maya starts to worry about her beauty and Uncle Tommy said don't worry about not being pretty because you are smart. Maya feels as her and her brother lives differently from the other kids.
Quote
A quote from the book that i liked and grab my attention is " I'm gonna work so fast today I'm gonna make you look like you standing still(Angelou 7)". For some reason as i was reading the book this one quote was just to funny to me. She is telling her sister basically that she is a slow working and that how she can work ten times as faster and make it look like you did nothing. This quote connects to my life because this quote reminds me of my mother . I say that because my mom says that all the time. Well not exactly lke that, but she says we move so slow she can work circles around us.
Reaction
My reaction to this book it kind of shocking, but not really. This type of book is during the segregation and the racial times. It kills me to see how colored people got treated like that, and they couldn't do nothing about it. So far this book is really good and I love it. I knew it was going to be good because of who it is written by (Maya Angelou). She is one of my favorite poets/book writers. I think anything I read by her I will love. This book have courage and a-lot of heart and that is the best part about it and I can't wait to finish it.
In the expostion to I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings there is a girl name Maya and she is three and her brother name Bailey and he is four. There parents got a divorce, and the parents send the kids back and forth by train from California, to Stamps, and then to Arkansas to live with their grandmother. They had a cotton- harvesting season and the grandmother(which they call Momma now) sells it to the black people in the community. It is very poor, so many people don't have much money. As time goes on Maya starts to fall in love with reading. The author that she really liked was Shakespeare, and she knew he was white. There starts to become a conflict in the neighborhood. Mr. Steward(he is the former sheriff) he warns Momma about how it is war because white men says that black men is "messing with" their white women. Then Momma hide Willie in the oinion bin, so just in case the mob comes. Maya goes through self esteem because many men say that she is ugly, but her brother makes sure that he sticks up for her. Bailey is the most imporant person in her life. There is still racial remarks going on. The little white kids have no respect for Momma nor Willie. They insult both of them, and it hurts Bailey and especially Maya because they hate that it is like the way it is. There have been some tention building and Momma thinks that it is not safe for blacks should not talk to whites. Momma calls herself a realist rather than a coward. Comes to find out they convince themselves that their mother had died(which she didn't), but later Bailey and Maya destroy the china doll that was sent to them for Christmas. Later on the father comes and visits them unexpectedly. Big Bailey drove them to see thier mom and all their mom said was behave. When they see thier mom they describes her as beautiful. Maya starts to worry about her beauty and Uncle Tommy said don't worry about not being pretty because you are smart. Maya feels as her and her brother lives differently from the other kids.
Quote
A quote from the book that i liked and grab my attention is " I'm gonna work so fast today I'm gonna make you look like you standing still(Angelou 7)". For some reason as i was reading the book this one quote was just to funny to me. She is telling her sister basically that she is a slow working and that how she can work ten times as faster and make it look like you did nothing. This quote connects to my life because this quote reminds me of my mother . I say that because my mom says that all the time. Well not exactly lke that, but she says we move so slow she can work circles around us.
Reaction
My reaction to this book it kind of shocking, but not really. This type of book is during the segregation and the racial times. It kills me to see how colored people got treated like that, and they couldn't do nothing about it. So far this book is really good and I love it. I knew it was going to be good because of who it is written by (Maya Angelou). She is one of my favorite poets/book writers. I think anything I read by her I will love. This book have courage and a-lot of heart and that is the best part about it and I can't wait to finish it.
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