Ernest Hemingway once noted “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A ‘character’ is a caricature.” By this he means, when a writer needs people for a novel, their personality should be modeled from real people’s emotions, not from their imagination. This is demonstrated in Monkeys by Susan Minot, through Delilah by her strength. Delilah is a character in the novel that demonstrates how an author brings a character to life. Delilah comes to life to the readers when she shows what its like to live in a family.
In the chapter “Hiding” the Vincent family is getting ready to go to church. While Mum was getting everyone ready, Susan Minot states “Delilah comes half-hurrying down the stairs, late looking like a ragamuffin with her skirt slid down to her hips and her hair all slept on wrong” (1 and 2). This relates to the reader, the one who goes to church sometimes, and understands how much time it takes to get ready for church. Delilah coming down the stairs late reflects how other kids are also late, but shows other reactions from parents.
In the chapter “Party Blues” Delilah’s personality was as anyone’s would be. She acted like any teenager would, she was in her own little world, and didn’t really care about her sisters, she was with her friends, and having a good time.
In the chapter “Thorofare”, when she threw her mothers ashes in the lake she had the same reaction as most people would. (157) It showed that she misses her mother.
10/29/09
70s article
1970’s. Rock, to the max, man.
From the 1960s- early 70’s rock finally became popular. There were many new types of rock music out. Blues rock, with Jimi Hendrix. The 70s also started a new type of music, Metal. This included Black Sabbath, and later on Ozzy Osbourne’s solo gig. In the later 70s a whole new type of music was formed, Punk Rock, this included the Sex Pistols.
The 70s had its musical tragedies including the death of three influential rock performers; Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix.
From the 1960s- early 70’s rock finally became popular. There were many new types of rock music out. Blues rock, with Jimi Hendrix. The 70s also started a new type of music, Metal. This included Black Sabbath, and later on Ozzy Osbourne’s solo gig. In the later 70s a whole new type of music was formed, Punk Rock, this included the Sex Pistols.
The 70s had its musical tragedies including the death of three influential rock performers; Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix.
10/11/09
Inspiring quotes from cards
"The future doesn't lie ahead of you, waiting to happen... it lies deep inside of you, waiting to be discovered". (from a graduation card)
"It is in HOPING that we dream, in DREAMING that we seek, in SEEKING that we find our life's desire. May all your graduation dreams come true, and may all of your tomorrows be beautiful." (graduation card)
"The keys to life are laughter, love and friendship." "May today be filled with memories of all the things you've done, The challenges you've met, the laughter, friends, and fun-And may the future bring you success and dreams come true And many special joys you will remember your life through." (graduation card)
"Imagine yourself doing what you love and loving what you do, being happy from the inside out, living your dreams wide awake, creative, unique, you- changing things to the way you know they can be- enjoying the life you've always imagined." (graduation card)
"You are so deserving of your success... I hope this achievement will cause you to reflect on all that you are and what you've achieved. The competition in the world is so great today, so every goal reached is something to be proud of. When all the elements come together to acknowledge someone's progress, it is truly something to celebrate. I hope you will be inspired to continue doing the things that are important to you and to keep on making your dreams come true. I hope the pride others have in you will encourage you to continue to pursue your purpose. May your tomorrows hold new beginnings for you, and may your future be bright. May the joy of every lesson learned and every goal reached advance your feeling of fulfillment and keep you on a positive path."~Donna Fargo (graduation card)
"It is in HOPING that we dream, in DREAMING that we seek, in SEEKING that we find our life's desire. May all your graduation dreams come true, and may all of your tomorrows be beautiful." (graduation card)
"The keys to life are laughter, love and friendship." "May today be filled with memories of all the things you've done, The challenges you've met, the laughter, friends, and fun-And may the future bring you success and dreams come true And many special joys you will remember your life through." (graduation card)
"Imagine yourself doing what you love and loving what you do, being happy from the inside out, living your dreams wide awake, creative, unique, you- changing things to the way you know they can be- enjoying the life you've always imagined." (graduation card)
"You are so deserving of your success... I hope this achievement will cause you to reflect on all that you are and what you've achieved. The competition in the world is so great today, so every goal reached is something to be proud of. When all the elements come together to acknowledge someone's progress, it is truly something to celebrate. I hope you will be inspired to continue doing the things that are important to you and to keep on making your dreams come true. I hope the pride others have in you will encourage you to continue to pursue your purpose. May your tomorrows hold new beginnings for you, and may your future be bright. May the joy of every lesson learned and every goal reached advance your feeling of fulfillment and keep you on a positive path."~Donna Fargo (graduation card)
9/18/09
PBJ essay
The peanut butter and jelly sandwich has been the traditional American snack since before you were born. It’s delicious, nutritious and easy to make, it will satisfy your hunger and it only takes a minute or two to create. So if you have time to spare, pull up a chair, butter knife, peanut butter, jelly and bread.
Before we begin, make sure you have the necessary ingredients. A jar of peanut butter, a jar of jelly, a plate, a butter knife, and bread will do. You can choose the different types of the ingredients; chunky or smooth peanut butter, different types of jelly and different types of bread. So let’s begin, remove two pieces of bread from the bag and place them on the plate next to each other. Then open the jar of peanut butter, use the knife and scoop out about a spoonful of its contents or what you think is enough, you can always go back for more later, gently spread it on one piece of bread evenly, until the entire piece is covered, if you feel you don’t have enough, this is the time to add more. After that, wipe the knife with a napkin and close the jar of peanut butter. Open the jar of jelly, take the knife and take about the same amount that you used for the peanut butter to spread gently on the other piece of bread. But be careful, it’s hard to spread and it may take up a fair amount of time. Gentleness at this point is advised, be very careful and try not to rip the bread. When you feel you have enough jelly on it, close the jar of jelly. Now in one swift movement, place the piece of bread with peanut butter on top of the piece of jelly on it, making the peanut butter side touch the jelly side cut the pieces down the middle and enjoy. You have just made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Good job!
There can always be difficulties involved in making a simple sandwich, the jelly is difficult to spread, and maybe when you spread it too hard you might rip the bread. If that happens, you’re probably going to need a different piece of bread. But even if you rip it on the peanut butter side, just add more peanut butter; it won’t drip off if there is enough.
Now you’ve learned how to make a tasty snack. Fix your hunger and eat it, but before you get too comfortable, pour yourself a glass of milk and sit down and relax. Remember, you can always go back and make another if you’re still hungry.
Before we begin, make sure you have the necessary ingredients. A jar of peanut butter, a jar of jelly, a plate, a butter knife, and bread will do. You can choose the different types of the ingredients; chunky or smooth peanut butter, different types of jelly and different types of bread. So let’s begin, remove two pieces of bread from the bag and place them on the plate next to each other. Then open the jar of peanut butter, use the knife and scoop out about a spoonful of its contents or what you think is enough, you can always go back for more later, gently spread it on one piece of bread evenly, until the entire piece is covered, if you feel you don’t have enough, this is the time to add more. After that, wipe the knife with a napkin and close the jar of peanut butter. Open the jar of jelly, take the knife and take about the same amount that you used for the peanut butter to spread gently on the other piece of bread. But be careful, it’s hard to spread and it may take up a fair amount of time. Gentleness at this point is advised, be very careful and try not to rip the bread. When you feel you have enough jelly on it, close the jar of jelly. Now in one swift movement, place the piece of bread with peanut butter on top of the piece of jelly on it, making the peanut butter side touch the jelly side cut the pieces down the middle and enjoy. You have just made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Good job!
There can always be difficulties involved in making a simple sandwich, the jelly is difficult to spread, and maybe when you spread it too hard you might rip the bread. If that happens, you’re probably going to need a different piece of bread. But even if you rip it on the peanut butter side, just add more peanut butter; it won’t drip off if there is enough.
Now you’ve learned how to make a tasty snack. Fix your hunger and eat it, but before you get too comfortable, pour yourself a glass of milk and sit down and relax. Remember, you can always go back and make another if you’re still hungry.
Personal narrative
“Only the gentle are ever really strong”-James Dean. This quote shows that gentle people can be strong because they have to deal with more bad stuff then others. Adoption is not really understood by people who do not live with it. When people find out about it, it is life changing. Finding out something life changing is not easy for anyone.
I remember being called into my parents’ bed room one night, back in 1995
“Have you ever noticed that you don’t really look like us?” asked Mom.
“Well I guess so,” I thought out loud.
“You know we both love you very much…” Dad said.
“But,” Mom added in, “you look different because you have another Mommy and Daddy. Which means we adopted you, your other parents did not really have a good life, and they decided to let us have you baby.”
“We can talk about it anytime you want,” Dad told me.
After that night, they started showing me pictures of them and the letters my birth mom wrote to me. Which they told me many times that they were not allowed to have because of the adoption agency, but thanks to our social worker we got that stuff.
“Chellie, come here a minute honey,” Mom exclaimed, “look at this, this lady here is your birth momma and these girls are your birth sisters and on the back are their names and birthdays”
“Oh, they are pretty,” I said
“She wrote us these letters, honey you should read these,” Mom said as she was taking the letters out. But there was only four letters and the social worker had not been here for a while. So we figured something was up, at that time we found out the horrible news of my mother dieing.
That was the hardest point in my life. I was very emotional and would cry every day at home. This of course was when all of these “Yo momma” jokes became popular and stuff like “you’re adopted” would be considered as being a diss or a put down, but every time I heard a “yo momma” joke I would say “oh sorry she’s dead but nice try”
When I heard a “you’re adopted” joke I would just reply “yes I am, how can I help you?”
But it was never really easy for me at all, and it still is not. But no one could understand how I felt, it was very complicated. Even to this day I feel bad saying it, but whenever someone’s parent dies I do not feel bad for them because my mom has been dead since 1993, two years after she had me. I know it seems awful, and I really am a sensitive person, but my mom has been dead longer, so I feel that they should get over it because I lived my whole life without her with me. I feel worse as I recently found out how she died and it has been a rough time and I still think about her all the time and I always will, and now I’m a lot better. There is power in being gentle, you know what you have been through and knowing what happened to you happens to other people is a hard concept. In my opinion someone who is gentle, really is a strong person and can deal with a lot of stuff and in the end, they will always win.
I remember being called into my parents’ bed room one night, back in 1995
“Have you ever noticed that you don’t really look like us?” asked Mom.
“Well I guess so,” I thought out loud.
“You know we both love you very much…” Dad said.
“But,” Mom added in, “you look different because you have another Mommy and Daddy. Which means we adopted you, your other parents did not really have a good life, and they decided to let us have you baby.”
“We can talk about it anytime you want,” Dad told me.
After that night, they started showing me pictures of them and the letters my birth mom wrote to me. Which they told me many times that they were not allowed to have because of the adoption agency, but thanks to our social worker we got that stuff.
“Chellie, come here a minute honey,” Mom exclaimed, “look at this, this lady here is your birth momma and these girls are your birth sisters and on the back are their names and birthdays”
“Oh, they are pretty,” I said
“She wrote us these letters, honey you should read these,” Mom said as she was taking the letters out. But there was only four letters and the social worker had not been here for a while. So we figured something was up, at that time we found out the horrible news of my mother dieing.
That was the hardest point in my life. I was very emotional and would cry every day at home. This of course was when all of these “Yo momma” jokes became popular and stuff like “you’re adopted” would be considered as being a diss or a put down, but every time I heard a “yo momma” joke I would say “oh sorry she’s dead but nice try”
When I heard a “you’re adopted” joke I would just reply “yes I am, how can I help you?”
But it was never really easy for me at all, and it still is not. But no one could understand how I felt, it was very complicated. Even to this day I feel bad saying it, but whenever someone’s parent dies I do not feel bad for them because my mom has been dead since 1993, two years after she had me. I know it seems awful, and I really am a sensitive person, but my mom has been dead longer, so I feel that they should get over it because I lived my whole life without her with me. I feel worse as I recently found out how she died and it has been a rough time and I still think about her all the time and I always will, and now I’m a lot better. There is power in being gentle, you know what you have been through and knowing what happened to you happens to other people is a hard concept. In my opinion someone who is gentle, really is a strong person and can deal with a lot of stuff and in the end, they will always win.
Reasrch paper references
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Day ‘n’ nite lyrics by Kid Cudi. (n.d.). TS rocks [lyrics site]. Retrieved April 27, 2009, from http://www.tsrocks.com/
Kid Cudi biography. (2009, February 27). Lets sing it [music community]. Retrieved April 27, 2009, from http://artists.letssingit.com/cudi-h29q3/
Modisane, B. (1977). Lonely. In LitFinder for schools [Poem]. Retrieved April 27, 2009, from LitFinder for Schools database.
William Modisane. (2002). Biography resource center [biography]. Retrieved April 27, 2009, from Biography Resource Center database.
Day ‘n’ nite lyrics by Kid Cudi. (n.d.). TS rocks [lyrics site]. Retrieved April 27, 2009, from http://www.tsrocks.com/
Kid Cudi biography. (2009, February 27). Lets sing it [music community]. Retrieved April 27, 2009, from http://artists.letssingit.com/cudi-h29q3/
Modisane, B. (1977). Lonely. In LitFinder for schools [Poem]. Retrieved April 27, 2009, from LitFinder for Schools database.
William Modisane. (2002). Biography resource center [biography]. Retrieved April 27, 2009, from Biography Resource Center database.
definition paper
Se-nior-i-tis(‘sen-nyer-i-tis)-1. The mental state of being of a senior in high school. 2. The typical actions or behaviors of a senior in high school.
3 out of 5 high school seniors have this affliction, which for some people, can be contagious. Once these seniors catch on, there is no help in getting these poor, tired souls back. Senioritis means different things to many different people, mainly though it is the mental state and actions of a senior in high school.
The first part of senioritis is in the mental state of these high school seniors, they start to become lazy and bored. They seem less interested in school stuff and spend more time on other things that mean more to them, of course at this state school does not really mean much. They start to lose respect for authority and tend to not listen to the rules. Of course this is not necessarily the same symptom that happens to everyone, but it does in the majority. They become more laid back and not interested in anything but their friends and just either watching movies, television, or going on the computer.
Some actions and behaviors a student who is afflicted with senioritis will have are; skipping classes, or even skipping school in general, doing bad things to mess with authority figures, not listening to authority and just in general their typical behavior changes, they are less motivated, its sort of like they are depressed but they are not and you can tell, but the symptoms are similar.
These poor high school seniors who have senioritis have an affect on everyone whether they know it or not, they can affect their families, friends, and even just other students. From what people have seen, this can definitely be highly contagious but even more so with friends. When one person does not want to do work, then they just distract the other person enough that they do not want to do work so they do whatever they want while not caring about any repercussions, so they wont do work and more than likely they will skip whatever class it is. That is only one example of the many different mental processes and behaviors of the afflicted senior. Unfortunately, there is no known treatment and there is nothing anyone can do to help these poor souls. Just let this affliction take its’ course and hold on to your seats, it will be a bumpy ride.
3 out of 5 high school seniors have this affliction, which for some people, can be contagious. Once these seniors catch on, there is no help in getting these poor, tired souls back. Senioritis means different things to many different people, mainly though it is the mental state and actions of a senior in high school.
The first part of senioritis is in the mental state of these high school seniors, they start to become lazy and bored. They seem less interested in school stuff and spend more time on other things that mean more to them, of course at this state school does not really mean much. They start to lose respect for authority and tend to not listen to the rules. Of course this is not necessarily the same symptom that happens to everyone, but it does in the majority. They become more laid back and not interested in anything but their friends and just either watching movies, television, or going on the computer.
Some actions and behaviors a student who is afflicted with senioritis will have are; skipping classes, or even skipping school in general, doing bad things to mess with authority figures, not listening to authority and just in general their typical behavior changes, they are less motivated, its sort of like they are depressed but they are not and you can tell, but the symptoms are similar.
These poor high school seniors who have senioritis have an affect on everyone whether they know it or not, they can affect their families, friends, and even just other students. From what people have seen, this can definitely be highly contagious but even more so with friends. When one person does not want to do work, then they just distract the other person enough that they do not want to do work so they do whatever they want while not caring about any repercussions, so they wont do work and more than likely they will skip whatever class it is. That is only one example of the many different mental processes and behaviors of the afflicted senior. Unfortunately, there is no known treatment and there is nothing anyone can do to help these poor souls. Just let this affliction take its’ course and hold on to your seats, it will be a bumpy ride.
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