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Willa Cather in her novel My Antonia (yes, a signal phrase) offers her view of life during the pioneer time.
How would My Ántonia be different if it were told from Ántonia's perspective?
How effective is Cather, a woman, at narrating a story from the point of view of a man? Does Jim sound like a man writing, or does the narrative sound like a woman pretending to be a man?
Why do you think Jim changed the title from Antonia to My Antonia?
Monday, December 19, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
the red badge of courage...
The Red Badge of courage Essay…..
In the beginning of the story Henry was a young punk. He the one that can talk the talk but can’t walk the walk. He’s not sure about it been when in action. He process his self right cause he does run. Henry never looks back while getting shot at. The things Henry saw were all dangerous. Also representing the color red. Henry cannot be a hero if he lies about what happen after a while he ran’s and started to hear that his section of the war had won the battle. After all that he started walking back and run into the other soldiers that were running through the woods . By the end of the story he goes from been a kid to a man. He shows his leadership skills from coming out of his shell . he leaves it to himself to have another out look on life. He runs with the American flag and lead his teammates all to victory. As the book goes on Henry and the others because courageous wanting to earn a badge or just kill other troops for glory. Well he came back to his section other didn’t know if he was still alive of hurt of nothing but when he showed up they were just talking and asking question about what happen and did he got shot and he lied about that cause he said in the head if he did he woulnt been alive. Henry in a hero to those troops cause he stood up and became a leader , saved others that a meaning of been a hero and that what Henry was a man who grow up and did those things.
By. Robert smith
English 11th
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Dress codes in school dont benefit students
My paragraph
Dress codes in schools don't benefit students. I mean why should it benefit students if there not broking the dress code. I think children should wear what they feel cause other can affect it. How like if there is a serious crime happen like how are they going to identify the person? If everyone is wearing a uniform and if the kid always looks flamboyant then you mite have a chance catching that person. Well to me it is not that important its just a waste of time. Children should be allowed to express themselves in school. if they are not allowed some amount of self expression now it will come out later. what are uniforms for exactly? To keep us safe really clothing doesn't make you safe. It doesn't change anything from crimes to theft at school. The principle he would be for dress code because it would be getting a problem off his shoulder about children getting called to the office for there pants below the butt and girls with short skits. It would be okay cause i think a person in school should wear, what they like and these expression and filling.
Dress codes in schools don't benefit students. I mean why should it benefit students if there not broking the dress code. I think children should wear what they feel cause other can affect it. How like if there is a serious crime happen like how are they going to identify the person? If everyone is wearing a uniform and if the kid always looks flamboyant then you mite have a chance catching that person. Well to me it is not that important its just a waste of time. Children should be allowed to express themselves in school. if they are not allowed some amount of self expression now it will come out later. what are uniforms for exactly? To keep us safe really clothing doesn't make you safe. It doesn't change anything from crimes to theft at school. The principle he would be for dress code because it would be getting a problem off his shoulder about children getting called to the office for there pants below the butt and girls with short skits. It would be okay cause i think a person in school should wear, what they like and these expression and filling.
Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing.
"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."
"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."
"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.
Chunk #1: Comment the effect of the setting on the characters within the novel.
well the way i see it the character is talking about how the seasons change threw out the year and explains what happens in the winter and fall also summer.
Chunk #2: discuss the effect a setting on you, including imagery (lots of adjectives) and a simile or a metaphor as you describe the land.well the way it affects me in my house hold is that in the season of fall it makes our surroundings look dead cause theirs no leafs on our trees it makes where there is no life cause leaf start to fall off but they grow by back into colorful colors...............
"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."
"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."
"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.
Chunk #1: Comment the effect of the setting on the characters within the novel.
well the way i see it the character is talking about how the seasons change threw out the year and explains what happens in the winter and fall also summer.
Chunk #2: discuss the effect a setting on you, including imagery (lots of adjectives) and a simile or a metaphor as you describe the land.well the way it affects me in my house hold is that in the season of fall it makes our surroundings look dead cause theirs no leafs on our trees it makes where there is no life cause leaf start to fall off but they grow by back into colorful colors...............
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