TKMB post#7

Jem
I never new why some one would drink whisky the whole day. Today I leaned that Mr. Dolphus Raymond is a person that doesn’t live like everybody thinks he does. He live that way because he likes it that way and people believe that drinking is the cause of his problems but really those are just how he likes to live, but he doesn’t want to show them that their all wrong and that’s just the way he is cause he doesn’t think that he has to prove to people that’s the way he lives just so they understand him. When we went back to the court room it was Atticuses closing state meant and it sounded so food they would have to be fool not to take he side I felt.
It was horrible Calpurnia walk into the court room and it hit me right their that she was looking for us there would be no other reason for her being their. She approached him and gave him a note and it felt like my heart stopped. He read it and found out we weren’t at home and then he told it to the court room, and I was wondering what they will say if he leaves then no one could take over his place and tom will lose. But then the judge said that where here and I thought I died right their.
I felt so bad to find out after all that that the people feel that Tom was lying. Everyone new it wasn’t right but it just shows how raises this country really is. I started crying because it was to much we tried so hard all for nothing so why did we try I thought. Well I soon found out it was because we always need to try and people like my dad are their for people that need help for the right reasons.

TKMB post#6

Toms point of view
This could be one of the worst days in my life I can’t believe that they really think I raped her. I am sure it is because I am black I wish this county didn’t care about color but that isn’t something that I can change by my self they are the ones in power. This is no far this not complacently in this case they are all lying they are just believing what one person has said. Well I feel it may not be the same for me. I hope the will believe the truth. Even the sheriff is against me it seems this is terrible.
The sheriff is either lying and he doesn’t remember what happened and he is just going with what the other person has said in this case because he is also raises and didn’t know the whole side of the story and just because I ran away after words. Mr.Ewells was still their and then the sheriff came he could have told him anything just to make me look bad I new something bad was going to happen but I wouldn’t thing it would escalate to this situation.
After the sheriff was on the stand it was time for Mayella to come up. I was hoping that she was going to tell the truth but it seemed that her father would have killed her if she said the right thing. I was very scared she said I shouldn’t be let free practically, and that really hurt my heart. In a way I can’t blame her because she probably would have got beet even more, unless Mr.Ewells would go to jail. But that would mess up their whole family I couldn’t let that happen but I didn’t want it to end the other way also.
After she was done I was asked to the stand I just went up their and told the truth knowing they wouldn’t believe me now but still I would hope so. I told then that I was just helping her get something and then I fell and she hugged me and kissed me indulgently. After that in the window was Mr. Ewells because he wasn’t being oblivious he came in yelling at Mayellaz and calling her a whore and threatening to kill her. I was very scared so I ran I wasn’t about to be encumbered to get a way. If I staid that would have been the end of me and dispelled. He had to beat her and tell the sheriff I raped her and forced her to tell him that and agree with it.

TKMB post#5

jems point of view
I love Aunt Alexandra but that is the one person that I get annoyed of the most on this whole world she thinks she is so infallible. I like her stories she tells us and I like her as a person but she is trying to take over and fit in somewhere were she doesn’t belong. I am not trying to be mean but she can’t fit into our society. She already got to know everyone though just because this is a small town everyone knows everyone she isn’t special. I am not saying that she should leave just because of my opinions. But if other people the same way I would like to take a little brake from my aunt. Atticus tells me that it is mean and we just can’t kick her out even if he would do something like that. If she doesn’t like it here then she will leave on here own I hope.
I am also getting tired of Scout in a way. I keep telling her she can hate our aunt all she wants but as long as she doesn’t show it to her face, and she won’t acquire it in her head. I was starting to get along with her a little better, but it disappointed me when we found out that she was trying to get rid of Cal for a lot of reasons like ecclesiastical and being fine with races . Atticus would never let her go after what we have been through he is very pensive person. I am also mad that scout attacked me after I was trying to help her and give her advice. Atticus came and had to extract us from each other Something that help me was I found out Dill was back and that he ran away to chill with us.
It was nice having Dill around now scout has her entertainment and doesn’t have to bother me. I soon found out now it was just both instead of just one. I over hear a conversation with Atticus and our aunt to find out that she thinks that he shouldn’t be part of the case just because they feel that it is bringing shame to the family. I say my father talking to someone and they told me to leave and then the man was starting to say I have to leave or something bad would happen it seemed.

TKMB post#4

This is Jems view.

I was so mad that a lot of people in the town did a lot of neat things. But by dad didn’t do anything or at least I thought so at first. When Scout and I were playing out side one day Scout started saying something about a sick looking dog I didn’t think of anything of it at first. Then she told cal about it and then they told everybody that it had mad dog everyone one seemed they were in peril. I didn’t now what it was at first but then I remember that is was like when a dog went crazy like rabies. I didn’t see why everyone was freaking out. The whole city was locked up it seemed but then Atticus came with the sheriff and I could tell what was happing at first he was talk to the sheriff, and then he gave him a gun and I wouldn’t think that they were going to shoot him. I also didn’t think my dad would be able to shoot him and then he aimed on it and stood their for a second then pulled the trigger. It was very fast I almost missed the bullet emerge with the bog but then I looked at the right time and saw the dog fall.
Soon enough I found out about my fathers past because after that shot people would start to notice and remember him again. He use to be a very good shooter one of the best but I was wondering why he didn’t tell us. Cal told us how good he was and how he would never miss a shot. I soon found out he didn’t want to brag or seem like he was because he new he had a talent and he didn’t want to abuse it. I told scout to not tell people and understand it in Atticuses view. Knowing her she would tell people just to brag because now she can say something about our dad.
I felt bad for braking Scouts new toy and I regret braking Mrs.Dubose flowers so I didn’t have to go over to her house the whole time just to pay her back for what I did I extracted her flower for her. I was defending Atticus and he told me why I shouldn’t have done that he was being cantankerous. I listen to him and in the end I didn’t contradict his words. I had to go to her house every day for about 2 hours I couldn’t take it at fist all she did was yell at us and be rude and mean. After 1 mouth and a week I got out of that place for good. I felt bad and sad at first when I found out she died. I didn’t know what to do.
I also did something I have never done before and never suspect to do. Cal took us to a black peoples church and I was very interesting a lot of people where singing and I was all for their freedom and how they where thanking god for everything. I saw many random things at the church I found out about Tom Robinson and how he is accuses of rape. Over all I had a good time and it was fun.

TKMB post#3

It was a very cold hard winter and one of the ingenuous Radleys past away. The kids would stop asking what happen to her because they were saying that Boo Radley was the one who killed her. But I wasn’t going to let my kids’ harass the fact that it was just out of natural causes. After they got that out of their sister Dill came back it was nice to see him around playing with Scout every now and then. At least she wasn’t trying to hang out with Boo anymore I feel that he is trouble and may have a bad influence on scout.
Also it was very remarkable for it to start snowing here it hasn’t snowed since 1885. Scout has never seen snow before and neither has Jem they started to work on something in the snow and as I came back from work I look and my yard has very little snow on it and this mad me think what could have happened? When I arrive at the door Scout and Jem tell me that they made a snow man. I was really happy that they were using their minds and being creative and having fun.
I was sleeping and I awoke to a rude awakening. I scrub my eyes and walk down the hall to get a drink I was walking and I hear a lot of crumbling and people yelling. I look down the hall and see a bright red light on the wall I walk closer and look out the window and see the biggest flames I have ever seen it was like twenty feet tall flames around the whole house. Their were a few people but I thought about it and noticed that it could speed to other houses. I woke up the kids and they rushed outside and mad them walk down the street to safety go somewhere isolated. Do not be adjacent to the fire. By the time I got to the house people were pushing a fire truck to the house. It was crazy everybody was running around causing habit people weren’t staying calm. After a few hours the house went down in one giant flame rose soon enough it was put out and people left the seen. After all that I went back to asleep.

My brother Jack was coming to town but it disappointed me that scout learned what a cuss word was and now she was saying them and debate I knew Jack wouldn’t like this. I was good to see him I only see him about twice a year including Christmas. He came and he seem to talk to Jem a lot but Scout was the one who really liked to talk to company.
Also something that upset me was that people at Scouts school were talking bad about me to Scout. I am not mad at the fact of them hating niggers just that how they have to make fun of my daughter just because I am doing my job. I know that in this time people weren’t happy about black people but they should hate me just because I am doing something that I have to do it is an acquaintance. I am not saying I am against my client and having to work with him but it is still by duty to do so. It doesn’t matter to me that if he is a black man it wouldn’t matter if it was a fly as long as he is my client.

Journal #1- Chapters 1-3 from the perspective of Jem

Me and scout where in the back yard having fun and messing around when we came along a new kid that we haven’t met. This was a very strange boy scout would even agree that this boy looked acquired. His name was Charles Baker Harris but he went by Bill. He would come during the school year but leave over the summer. This was nephew of Miss Stephanie Crawford. This was our neighbor that lived next to us. After having a conversation with Dill I could tell that this was going to be very strange with a person like Dill around. He still is very young like about 7 and was able to read.
I was right having Dill around was strange but not boring he bared me to go up to the Radley house and just put my hand on the house. I could back out because why would I. I can take any bare. So I ran up to the house and tapped it and then ran back. I thought that the Radleys son would come out and try to kill us. I have seen him walk around at night time in people backwards because I have seen him before. He has even been in our backward.
Soon enough Dill had to go and then before we new it school came along it was going to be scouts first time at school or at least first grade. I told her that school is easy and she would be able to handle it but I also had to brake it to her that at school I am hanging out with my friends and I don’t have time to be hanging out with you. I didn’t want to be mean it was just because that’s the only time I see my friends because I always play with her. Later that day I saw Scout and she was sad because her teacher was not letting her read during school because that isn’t what the school was teaching yet. This is something that Scout has to learn about school there are many rules and it hard to follow all of them.
I thought that it was going good in my classes at school and having fun meeting up with all my old friends. But as soon as I saw Scout again at school she was pushing this kid’s face into the dirt just because of a dilemma in class that happened earlier that day. I told scout that that was right at school and then we invited him over to eat as an apology from Scout.

Tis' review

Tis’ Review

by Mikito Wendell

The book I read was called Tis’ this was a very interesting book by the way the author talks about his situation of dealing with hard times and not having much money. The author has to face tragic obstacles involving his father decisions in life. You would never think about how a family being from a different country facing a different culture and language would survive dealing with difficult times. Their situation helped me realize what a lot of people have to do in order to survive and better their life; for example, coming to the states not knowing anyone, trying to start a new life and try to adapt to the lifestyle like the people in the states.

Frank McCourt, the main character, had to deal with a culture shock coming to the states by himself, and also had to find ways to make money to help his family. When he came to the states, he realized how it was and how difficult it was adjusting to the life style of a fast complex society. He had to do it fairly quickly and found a job as a teacher. There are manly things that people from different countries have to adapt to in the states, because other countries don’t run like the U.S. You would be surprised with what Frank McCourt had to deal with before he could settle down.

Frank McCourt didn’t come to America and just get a job and start sending money back to his family like he wanted to. He first explored the city to get a job from a very holly person just so that he can get started off in the states. One thing led to another and before he knew it he was doing things that he would never suspect to do. He got involved with the army and then came back to live a normal life as a civilian. These are all the things that you would never think about doing, but he can successfully say that he struggled, but lived through his life and was able to face a lot of challenges.

If you are the type of person that likes to see life from a different perspective, then this is a good book to read because Frank McCourt gives a good example of that situation. If you like to read about a lot of events that happen and find out how certain people overcome their situations and problems, then you will find this book very interesting.

Immigration Project Reflection

Mikito Wendell

I was happy with my LC book ‘Tis this book helps me learn a lot. It was a good book about a guy who doesn’t have a good life in his country and wants to move to the states so he can make money and get a job. I also liked this book because the person in the book was a very interesting person, he lived a very hard and strange life.

I learned many things from this book on how hard life really is and how much harder it is to come to America and start a life here. People had to start off with nothing and just start a life in a new country. I also notice that a lot of the people I know wouldn’t be able to handle what he went through. I am not sure if I would be able to handle what he had to struggle with but I would never really be able to tell. I think it would be even harder in today’s society to live on your own, compared to what the kids I interviewed had to deal with. I am not saying it was easy for them it was still very hard for immigrants to survive in this country and it was hard to keep going when you have to deal with that much stress.

My group was able to look back on the book and make sure everyone is up to date on the book and everyone understands what is going on in this book. I think that would help because I found out when I was confused on a part, there was a high chance someone else in my group was confused with that part also. I would ask someone to clarify that part for me and at least one person in the group would want to know more about that part to help them understand as well.

I liked how we used blogs instead of writing them because I feel it is a lot easier to type pages then it is to write them. Sure may need more writing to type and it doesn’t look as much as if you where to write it, but it looks neater that if I where to have crumpled pages. I also like the fact that the computer has spell check because I am not good at noticing my own errors in my writing.

Some thing that I had a problem with in my blog where that when my computer crashes there is no way for me to do my work at home because it is all on computers. But besides that fact I like using the computer because it is neat and easy. And I also like how you can always go look at some one else’s blog if you don’t understand a part and you cant contact the person you can go on their blog and see if there is anything that can help you understand better.

For my art piece I chose to make a summarization of the book onto an art piece. I tried to put what happened in the whole book into one picture that I drew I put his memory of his dad leaving and I showed it took a while to get to the states and then what was waiting for him once he got here. I tried to show his emotions at first but I decided not to in the end because I wasn’t the best drawer.

I feel their was a big connection with my painting to the book since I tried to include main points of the book inside my painting or the main idea of the book. My painting showed a memory of his past that included his father leaving him. I also showed his house and how it wasn’t that nice compared to New York. I also put a sign showing with way leaves to what life style that he was going to life like home he would have a poor family and a bad house with very little work and money. Or he could go to America and get a job and start a new life their and try to become successful.

I think my painting looked nice I turned out better then I thought a first I had my droughts with the picture but in the end it looked good. I feel I didn’t mess up on the painting portion much because other wise it would look a lot worse then it did. Painting turned out to be harder than I thought I came out better then I thought, but I thought it would be a lot easier to paint but it turns out painting is harder than people think. I am not the best artist but I am still proud of my work.

I think if I did a book cover it would of looked better because I wouldn’t have to try to put in small details about evens that happened. I had an idea but due to everyone doing book covers I was asked to choose another thing to make for my painting. I think if I put more time into it will look better but that’s because everything would look better if you put more time into the picture.

I think this was a good idea because this was a fun component to this project. I like drawing in my free time even though I may not be the best at painting, but I still like to make art when I get the chance. I had fun drawing the picture and I learned even more about the after this part due to needing to go back and finding the important parts to put in I remembers another small details that I tried to include in my art piece.

For the interview of this project I had to go to a school that had a few immigrant students and we were asked to interview them. This was kind of difficult due to my immigrants’ only being in this country for a year or so, this means that they didn’t speak good English and didn’t know all the word I knew. So some question I asked them they weren’t able to answer them due to not knowing what I said. I also had to interview to people because I was assigned them and we had one person less than they did so I had a extra person to talk to and interview. They seem very shy and they didn’t seem like they knew how to talk English that well, but when they did talk they wouldn’t say much so it was really difficult to find out the answers to my questions that I asked.

Since I was apart of the going to the immigrants’ school program I was only required to interview two people twice but I think it would have been a new experience to interview people all those ways. Yes I have done that before but I have never interview a immigrant and talking about how they got here and what it was like just to come here and start a new life here in America.

I learned a lot from my immigrants like how Thailand is manly a ghetto and there is a lot of gang violence in most parts of Thailand. I also learned that there are more than one language that they speak their there are like three main languages that the people their speak. One of them in Lau and that is what Tar Nee Nee and Mie speak. Their culture is a lot different to use as well also that their religions are every different. Some religions wear certain things for each day because some religion their wear certain colors on days.

Reading a person life is different then actually meeting the person and talking to people form out of this country. The book help understand how hard it must be but when you talk to the person you really get their opinion on how different their culture is compared to ours. The charter in the book lived a life in America and he is done with his journey. But the person that I went to talk to is only like 17 so he still has to live his life here and find out what it is like to live here. The people that I interviewed where manly here for about a year so far to they have a lot to learn and a lot to find out about America.

I am not sure what they will feel when they get my gift they don’t seem like they liked me that much but I hope they at least thank me for feel thankful that someone was interested about heir life and how different our life styles are. I put music on their that they said they liked so I hope they will end up listing to the CD I made or at least listen to the song that I put on their that relate to their lives and song that I put on their that they might like.

Final Post

“I don’t know they are but I’m not fond of’em.”

This is a very random quotes it may not sound like it means much but this shows that people aren’t use to trying other cultures food. I am glad that our country gives the freedom to eat whatever kind of food we want.

I think it would be hard eating only American food; I am grateful for having all types of food around me that I can try. Imagine if our community didn’t let people eat there native foods. We would have over half of the types of food we have right now.

What do you think you would do if you came to this country and tried a hamburger what would you think?

“No thanks, I’d rather be in my own bed, if you don’t mind.”

I know what he is meaning because I have had those days were you just want to be in your own world for a time just to get away from the world. I have said things close to things many times and I think I will say it even more.

I hope he doesn’t have much days life’s these because I know these aren’t the best days. This day is the day were you just want to sleep all day and not get up and just walk away to everyone that talks to you that you don’t want to be around.

Have you had one of those days?

Post#4

Quote #1: “After that we went to the plot every day but Sunday and cleared it of rocks and stones till we reached earth and helped my father with the planting of potatoes, carrots, and cabbage.” Author.

This shows how hard they had to work everyday (but Sundays) and this is their normal life sure it is a job and everyone has a job but this is harder then just that they aren’t getting paid like everyone. If they want to survive they have to work. I wish people could understand how happy we should be for what we have.

I don’t think I can deal with that I wouldn’t want to try also. I think that would be to hard but I bet I could get use to it if I had too. I think I will never work as hard as he did for his father.

Qestion#1:Really ask your self would you be able to handle what he is doing?

Quote #2: “If my mother and father had been sent back I wouldn’t be on the deck with lights of Manhattan a sparkling dream before me.”

That is so sad that if that were to happened imagine not haven parents to help you with living your life. I now every kid wants to have freedom of parents but trust me you want you parents in your life as long as they can be in it for.

I know I would last that long with out my parents I would be able to survive on the streets but if I didn’t have parents I don’t think I would be able to do all that.

Quection#2: How long do you think you can last with out your parents?

post #4

Quote#1: Pg 170 last paragraph “When the war came and he was drafted and sent to Seattle it was the end of the marriage.” This was not the main character this was a girl (Mike) that came up to him and talk to him.

This shows that time back then was hard for not only the main character but for everyone. Time was very hard through war people got paid little and no money was mad because everyone got drafted to the army so no guys can work.

I feel bad for this girl because I would hate to live life with out my dad because it helps knowing that you have one and someone looking out for you. I think she has dealt with a lot of hard things in life as well.

Question#1: do you think the main character will get with Mike?

Quote#2: pg 161 1st paragraphs. “I was going to but my mother said if I ever turned Jewish she’d throw her herself off the gorge Washington bridge and between you and me I didn’t give a shit if she jumped and bounced off a passing tugboat.

This shows that how much Jews were hated back then. They didn’t even have a reason to hate them they hated them because they can breath. His mother didn’t want to him to turn into a Jew.
I wonder why did they hate them did people back then just need someone to pick on or something. And still to this day people still have something against Jews. I hope we can get over our hatred to religions and under stand that we all have our own beliefs and life styles.

Question #2: Why do you think everyone hated Jews.

post #3

The quote I chose is on pg 105
“Mam makes the tea and it’s good to see she has decent cups and saucers now not like the old day when we drank from jam jars.”
This shows that they must have not had much money and needed to use cheaper materials to save money. I think that is why they came to the sates to live better lives and get more money to live a better life.
Q1: Do you think that you would be able to live in very hard conditions like they could of lived?

This quote is on page 102
“There’s one boy off the side who stands with his hand in his pocket and I can see he has two red scabby eyes in a face full of pimples.”
They are talking about a street kid and how he looks shows how they looked and what they would do since there was nothing they can do about the way they are living. I don’t think I would be able to survive at that time but I think I would be able to survive in today’s world but not back then because it was a lot harder then, then now.

Q2:Why do you think people get homeless their?

Reflection

For this museum they manly taught us about the Jewish religion and how a lot of this religion related to the past. They were being treated very poorly and they had few rights. They would let Jews run for president unless they wear swears on the catholic bible in 1820’s. But they felt that this wasn’t right and wasn’t fear so after a period of time the decided to pass the Jew bill and this was so that Jews were aloud to become president and this was in 1825.
I learned he first person to become part of the government was Judah Benjamin and got to be secretary of state. Also Jewish people didn’t speak Hebrew they also spoke Yiddish this was a language mixed with Hebrew, Germen, and Russian.

The photo I chose was the one with the boy inside the airport with alto of people around him and it look like he is scared. This shows that a lot of people aren’t use to our life style and how the city is changing. A lot of people aren’t us to how we live and never seen that technology we have seen.

The quote I chose said “if we would of stayed in Bosnia we would have probably been killed although no one can predict he future, just imagine a 7 year old child wondering if he would be killed the next day or spared in his world we call home.”
By: Denis Tuzinori
This was a good quote because you can really feel they emotion he is putting into writing this and you can feel what he is feeling. This really happened to people and we will never under stand how hard life really is for other people out their.

Gina J. Grillo
Was the author of the personal essay that we had to read I really liked this assay because is really made me think that all people should be treated equal because we are all people and we are all they same just because we come from different people places doesn’t mean that we aren’t all the same? She changed my mind and she taught me that everyone is equal no matter what we think because we are all the same.