Keaton Nishimi5-29-13428 Chapter 1Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. . . . There was no hurry‚ for there was nowhere to go‚ nothing to buy and no money to buy it with‚ nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself. Chapter 3 You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of
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The supercilious assumption that on a Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do (pg24) It seems to me that the narrator is rather annoyed about the assumption that he has nothing to do. It gives a bit of insight into the narrator’s and Tom’s personality. Knowing more about how characters think and respond to each other is crucial and this tells a bit of that. (words:51) “I want to see you” said Tom intently. “Get on the next train.” (pg26) Tom seems to be in control of the
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Passages quoted from the text (with page numbers) Responses (interact with the text through analysis‚ predictions‚ evaluation‚ and connections‚ but don’t just summarize) 1. “On this count‚ most of the men in the room could rest easy. They had personal trainers‚ gym memberships‚ and enough nutritional awareness to avoid diets that were heavy in the foods they manufactured” (11). This just confirms a horrible truth: the food companies are very much aware of the lack of nutritional value in their
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SLAVE GIRL “They call me Rain. I have long forgotten my real name as I was very young when they came into my village and took me. I can’t remember much from my life before being a slave girl‚ but my masters have told me I am from a small village in West Africa.” Late one night‚ in a small village in Africa‚ when all had gone to sleep‚ they came like ghosts in the darkness. They took Rain from her mother’s arms and bond her father. They were crammed into pens on the
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Secret Life of Bees Book Journal Chapter 1 Lily Owens is lying in her bed watching bees squeeze in and out of cracks in her walls. She thinks about her mother‚ who died when Lily was a child. She also thinks about Rosaleen‚ a black woman who looks after her and her father‚ T. Ray. When the bees begin to swarm around Lily‚ she wakes T. Ray to show him but when he comes‚ the bees are gone. He threatens to make her kneel in grits if she wakes him again. Lily decides she will catch some bees in a
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1. “…Elijah finally admits to me that he sees that the medicine has caused him to lose too much weight…Maybe he feels guilty. Maybe it’s because he and I are two of the same in place of strangers” (p.211). Finally‚ Elijah recognizes the side effects of the medicine that he has used it. Xavier tries to stop Elijah using morphine many times but it does not work out. Xavier is worry about Elijah. Xavier feels responsible to Elijah because since Elijah followed Xavier to live in the bush‚ Xavier
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Chapter 14-15: In the morning I hide behind a bush until I see Theo. I was hiding from Miss Sister I look out and see Miss Sister is nowhere in sight so I jump out of the bushes. I talk to Theo about all my troubles and problems. Theo then says something about how dancers used to put feathers in their hair. I laugh at just the thought. No way in a million years will I even put a single feather in my hair! I tell him that feathers will not go in my hair no matter how hard my mom tries. I tighten
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a book‚” Gideon felt as though that he could go to the Convention and make a change. 3. Abner Lait was a tenant of the Carwell’s. He regarded the “world suspiciously and uncertainly.” (p 32) He had a hard time growing his crops and when he had a good one Carwell took it. Abner Lait spent
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Passage 1: “My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless‚ that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America‚ and over the years they were proven right.” (29) Response: James’ mother was always consistent in saying that money means nothing. School and Church was all you really needed to succeed. His mother was deeply religious and her and her kids went to church every Wednesday and every Sunday. Her kids went until
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#8: “The stars were shining‚ and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl‚ away off‚ who-whooing about somebody that was dead‚ and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die‚ and the wind was trying to whisper something to me‚ and I couldn’t make out what it was‚ and so it made the cold shivers run over me. Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that’s on its mind and can’t make itself understood
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