1st 10 Sentences of Vignette #1

I was outside, sitting on my porch swing with my golden retriever Phoebe at my feet. The guests would be arriving soon to celebrate my, I mean our birthday. July 24^th 1942 was the day I was born, and three minutes behind was my twin brother James. We were turning 70 today, from now on we’ll officially be known as senior citizens at IHOP. James has been living at my house for the mast four months because his wife Evangeline passed away. I couldn’t bare to see him sad and alone in that big house of his so I insisted he stay with me. After all were a family, always and forever. 

I went inside the house with Phoebe beside me, I stopped when I reached the staircase. Their was a picture there of James and I on our first trip back to France after we moved to Virginia. Our father was french and lived their with my mother until a year after we were born. 

JOY LUCK CLUB

Rules of the Game

A girl named Waverly gets lifesavers for Christmas one year and her brother got a chess board with two pieces missing. Waverly convinces her brother to let her play by giving her two lifesavers. Her brother got board and stopped playing but she continued playing with an old man. She was so good she became well known in her town.

The Voice from the Wall

A girl named Lena has a mom who is from China who doesn't really know english at all. She married an English guy who only knows a couple phrases in Chinese. The St. Clair's move to San Francisco where Lena's mom gets pregnant but her baby dies after he is born. The mother blames herself, and Lena finds comfort in knowing her neighbors are more miserable than her because they are always fighting.

Half and Half

Rose is remembering a time in her life where she became emotionally scared. She was in charge of her brother Bing when her family took a trip to the beach. She let her brother go out on the beach with her father and saw him fall in the water she was shocked and couldn't move. Pretty soon her sister realized he was missing and they all tried searching for the boy. They couldn't find him, but Rose's mom was determined she would find him.

Two Kinds

Jing-Mei comes back to talk about how her mom tries to make her daughter become like her. Jing thinks her mom forces her to play chess and play the piano just like her mom. She has a talent show and comes totally unprepared think she will do great. It proves to be a disaster and she wishes she were dead like her sisters from China

Extra Credit

            Paton makes a clear distinction in the roles of both female and male. Males are clearly the superior gender back then, unlike today. The men are involved in decision making, and the women get no say in the matter. Women are seen as weaker, and less intelligent. "...some with blankets over the semi-nudity of their primitive dress, though these were all women. Men traveled no longer in primitive dress."(43) In this quote it shows that men look at women as sort of a disgrace; they dress in a matter that no man would dare wear. These examples effect the text by showing men just walk all over women, and it gives us readers a biased perspective of the story. Me being a girl, I do not think this is fair at all. I think women are stronger than men in many ways, and for them not to think that is extremely rude. Paton even says, "Then she sat down at his table, and put her head on it,and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women, with the suffering of oxen, with the suffering of any that are mute "(40). This just shows that men's decisions and choices hurt women. In this story I feel like there is a lack of consideration and care for women in general; the focus is mostly on the problems men are facing.

Coding for CTBC

Jarvis sat, deeply moved. Whether because this was his son, whether because this was almost the last act of his son, he could not say. Whether because there was some quality in the words, that too he could not say, for he had given little time in his life to the savouring and judging of words. Whether because there was some quality in the ideas, that too he could not say, for he had given little time to study of these particular matters. He rose and went up the stairs to his room, and was glad to find his wife not there, for here was a sequence not to be interrupted. He picked up the Abraham Lincoln and went down to the study again, and there opened the book at the Second Inaugural Address of the great president. He read it through, and felt with a sudden lifting of the spirit that here was a secret unfolding, a track picked up again. There was increasing knowledge of a stranger. He began to understand why the picture of this man was in the house of his son, and the multitude of books.





Key:
3rd person POV
Characterization 
Alliteration
Odd punctuation
Repitition

Gender Roles

Paton show a clear distinction between the roles of both males and females. Woman are suppose to serve the men in this book, and their opinions have no influence on the men. In this novel Paton even says "Then she sat down at his table, and put her head on it,and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women, with the suffering of oxen, with the suffering of any that are mute "(40). The men in this book make all the decisions, and the women get no say. The men order the women around made clear several times in the first chapters of this book "Bring me  the St. Chad's money"(38) "Go to the mother then. Perhaps she has some food"(35) This shows that the men can't do anything themselves at home. He tells his wife to go fetch him something (why don't you get up and get it yourself you lazy old man). He tells the small child to go to the mother and see if she has food for her, when he could have gone with her and said well, let's see if we have any food for you. The gender roles clearly show the superiority of man vs woman. 

Power

I think in The Lord of the Flies, Jack has the most power. Jack took control by instilling promises of good food, and fear. He keeps his followers in his tribe by giving them the food they want, and punishing the ones who don't(stealing Piggy's glasses, killing Piggy, threatening to kill Ralph). I think the power structure isn't destroyed until the boys get rescued because Jack then doesn't need all that power anymore. I think it isn't destroyed because people fear him, they know he'll kill if he has too, and that scares people. In The Power of One the nazi's definitely are in control. They took control because of the war going on, and Hitler being their leader. They maintained their control through terror and fear. For example at the prison with all the Africans, you saw the Germans beating them and killing them. All it took was not answering a question, or not looking them in the eyes. Others saw the germans killing Africans and they were afraid for their own lives. I think the power structure is maintained so long as Hitler, and the Germans are in power. These days we look at Africans as equals so the power the germans has obviously been destroyed.

Passage 4 February 12th

A symbol in passage 4 is Jack's face mask."He knelt, holding the shell of water. A rounded patch of sunlight fell on his face and a brightness appeared in the depths of the water. He looked in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger. He spilt the water and leapt to his feet, laughing excitedly. Beside the pool his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them. He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling." The effect this symbol has on the text would be that were starting to see jack's eviler side. When he starts to change the way he looks, he starts changing the way he acts. He looses touch with reality, and the inner animal comes out. Golding wisely choose words such as bloodthirsty snarling to convey the image of an animal. The theme then comes down to in nature humans act differently for survival.