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During the movie everyone judged everyone else. Kids were the ones that started the finger pointing and they did this to get out of trouble. It was sad because they ended up killing twenty innocent people. The “court”, if you will, judged people on the words of others. They had no proof or evidence that linked the devil to all these so called wrong doers. It was disturbing to see the girls’ faces at the end of the movie when they witnessed the hangings, you could tell that the girls were excited. I think the people just wanted someone to blame but instead of stopping at one hanging they keep convicting random people. Even back then they had a legal system set up with the whole innocent till proven guilty thing going on but still they threw people’s rights away. I don’t think the girls ever saw the convicted with the devil; it was all a hoax to begin with. The pastor found his niece and daughter acting erratically in the woods so he was bias in the beginning so his good name would go undisturbed

Another word that relates to The Crucible is hysteria. Throughout the whole movie these girls freaked out and ended up convulsing on the floor. They cried of pains that only their eyes could see, in other words they cried wolf. These girls told the people of
Salem that they were mislead by the devil but they found the light of God, and snap just like that they were forgiven, and now their words are as good as stone. Thanks to their believable cries of pain many people suffered for it.

 These is a really insightful blog about love…

     I read a few blogs on life and they kind of gave me the ” i don’t care about your life attitude”. I feel bad for saying it but i will never even talk to this person so why read their sappy stories about life…it’s hard enough going through mine without their saddness rubbing off on me. But anyways i switched to love because it’s always a cheery subject, sorta. This person really knows how to explain love. When i was little i wanted to know how you knew you were in love. When i got into my own relationships though i found out that the disney movie Cinderelle isn’t what love is cracked up to be… i mean are glass slipper even made? anyways i totally understand where this girl is comming from love is unconditional, forgiving, and even the butterflies in your tummy. Lust is something that is a bunch of fun but doesn’t last a long time becuase it doesn’t mean you have to make ties with that specific person. You should really read this blog it’s not very long but very insightfull.

     We read the parable “The Ministers Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorn

  The moral to this story is that people should open up more to one another to bring the whole world closer and more knowing. Mr. Hooper just wants the community he lives in to share there secrets with the world and repent, that’s pretty much the moral of the story in a nutshell. Mr. Hooper wheres this veil because everyone has dirty, little, tainted secrets that they don’t really tell anyone. He wears it as a symbol that people hid themselves behind a black veil that covers all their secrets. I think that the moral is true and we the people should strive for that goal but it’s obvious that not everyone would want to let their secrets be known. What if your secret was that you killed someone on accident and then you let your secret be known. Would there have to be consequences or…would it just go unjustified? These are the problems that pop up when i think about the moral. Everyone wants a perfect world and this would be a step in the right direction but are we willing to share our secrets, good and bad, to reach this goal? These are my thoughts…

Mr. Sheehy expresses his thoughts in this letter to his students.

     Dear Mr. Sheehy,

  Not every students dream is to be in school for 13 years to say the least it gets old learning the same things and a few new things every year. I’m not trying to say we give up entirely but we’re in our junior year and it’s not our cup of tea to stay home at night and work on an essay relating to a story we’re not interested in. But i know that we are required to put SOME effort into graduating hish school. I’m not saying i don’t like english it’s my favorite class because i love to read. I know your trying hard to make us actually learn something that will benifit our future and get us out of our literary elements but it’s a tought time fitting in school, work , and all the little other nessesities in our lives.. It’s still no excuise though because we have been juggling all those elements through our entire lives. I’m not really faking any of the reading so i don’t really have a problem there and if i’m stuck i just try and break the question down or ask you about it. I just revised my paper and it wasn’t really that bad, i had a few tense changes, some grammer, and i had to mix a few sentences around but other than that it wasn’t too hard. I think that we’re so good at blogs because it’s almost the same as writting notes to our buddies in school..plus it doesn’t take much thought.

     I’m not going to lie i hate essays. they take too much time and effort. As you can se mr. sheehy i almost always forget conclusion and my introduction paragraphs right from the start. I only have to do them in english and i dont know why we have to do them so much cant we just blog and be done with it. it’s almost the same thing but it’s a lot easier and you don’t have to have blogs so formal. Who are we making it so formal for anyways. It takes me forever to think of good catchy phrases and half the time my essay grades are the ones that bring my over all grades down. so my plan is that we just chuck them out the window because….oh wait we have no windows i guess we’ll just have to quit doing them all together! Chyeah!
~LOVE punchdrunklove

    This is the miscellaneous part of my blogs, it’s mostly my thoughts on an entry Alice has placed in her journal.

     P.S. This is my last blog about the book Go Ask Alice

     There is always at least one paragraph in every story that brings the whole book together and worthwhile to read. The thing about this book is that it lays everything out on the line and Alice is never once afraid to explain how she is feeling in that moment of time. She says the things that your mother would even be embarrassed to read, but they are the topics that everyone always has questions about. Alice is so levelheaded when she’s off drugs that she could really make something of herself if she actually got some major help.

     “Let somebody else think for us and do for us and act for us. Let them build the roads and the cars and the houses, run the lights and the gas and the water and the sewers. We’ll just sit here on our blistering tails with our minds exploding and our hands out. God, I sound like a goddamn Establishmentarian, and I haven’t even got pills to take the taste out of my mouth or drive the bull shit thoughts away.”  ~Alice pg. 114 from the book Go Ask Alice

     This is a pretty shocking entry that she writes because it’s sparked by the controversy down in California about war and peace. I just don’t understand why she can’t see how she is acting and how messed up she is on the inside. No offence Alice but you are such an idiot…well i guess that’s a pretty contradicting statement but so is Alice. During her book sometimes she says that she wants to get off drugs and have a normal life but two entries later she’s talking how incredible amazing it is to be high. What a loser! How could she not see all the trouble she was causing for her family and loved ones? Her grandpa died through out the this huge ordeal…was it her fault or just coincidence?

Anonymous. Go Ask Alice.New York:Simon Pulse, 1971

  This is my setting blog about the book Go Ask Alice. 

  I always new that it’s really important to live in a loving and caring home especially when you are starting to grow up. Alice grew up in a nice town with a great, loving family. But when things started changing in her life she started changing dramatically. She’s a teenager and trust me it’s not easy to be with parents for long amounts of time without getting into a disagreement. The tables start to turn even more when they have to move to a new city and she has to start all over finding friends. It’s extremely tough especially when Alice doesn’t have very much self confidence and is very shy.

     “I’m partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right placeand wear what everbody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we’re  all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don’t like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don’t want to be a robot!”    ~Pg. 11 December 10 quote from alice

      Things get worse at home so she decides to spend time with her grandparents because she gets along better with them than her own parents. Oh course she gets bored at her grandpa’s and grandma’s house so she decides to hang out with these “nice girls”.  These “friends” of hers spike her drink with LSD…yeah it’s a pretty hardcore drug compared to the softer, first use drugs. Drugs are the cause of a lot of problems today, yesterday, and probably tomorrow. Thanks to this little detail added to her coke she loved the sensation of feeling high. Alice fell into the pit of drugs and sooner or later she was either going to be addicted to drugs or going to be caught. Well she sadly became stupidly addicted. She was so uninformed about drugs and pretty much the world around her that she didn’t even know what drugs would do to her family and even herself. I don’t understand why the school system back then didn’t teach D.A.R.E. or anything else about drugs, it was a big hit then and now. Well the saddest part about her life now is that she hurt her family in a way she has never done in her life before. Her parents don’t she how her attitude is changing and how she’s so addicted. The signs are all there right out in the open and they don’t even see anything because it’s their little girl Alice, she could never do anything that horrible. Then she starts getting the idea “I can try everything once, right..” attitude and she start doing: heroine, uppers, tranquilizers, dexies, and hearts to name a few. She went to the Doctor for sleeping pills and they didn’t give her the high she needed so she went back for tranquilizers…OK parents and doctors this is a major thing and they don’t even ask any questions about it either which is really strange. She runs away a few times and they take her back over and over again and don’t even put her in a program for addicts, maybe they don’t want to even think that their little Alice is drugged up or they think she can do it by herself. I think that if they really loved her like they say they would at least get her help. Drugs are addictive for a reason and it takes a little more humph to get off them compared to doing the whole cold turkey thing with smoking. I feel like I’m the one who knows how to fix the problem and they are just sitting ducks waiting for an explosion to go off.

Anonymous. Go Ask Alice.New York:Simon Pulse, 1971

 This is the post part or my blog including the epilouge of the story.

    Why does she have to die? Why isn’t her story known to every teenager and why does this girl have to struggle so hard in her life just to lose it in the end? This book changed my life in a way no other book has. I want to make something important out of my life instead of blowing it on drugs and becomming addicted . I need to try to make the best out of my life with what I’m givin. Before my life ends I want ti know that I at least made a difference in the world.
In the end she really tryed to turn her life around; she just got out of phsyc ward and she needs a change. She is always wanting to change her life in the right direction in her diary. This feeling happends many times and then randomly she runs aways you can tell this because the date in the book is a question mark. She can never keep her life strait no matter how hard she tries. As a reader I should have knkown that this book wouldn’t have a nice, cozy ending. The twist that gives it away is in her last entry when she has the feeling to get back on track once again and hopefully make a full recovery, but in a nutshell the ending is still a cliffhanger because no problems are really solved. But there is an epilouge which usually tells the next step of the saga but in this case it says something completely different:
     “The subject of this book died three weeks later after the desision not to keep another diary…Was it accidental overdose? A premediated overdose? No one knows, and in some ways that question isn’t important. What must be of concern is that she died, and that she was only one of thousands of drug deaths that year.” ~Epilouge of Go Ask Alice
     This hurts me in a way because I fell like I connected to this story and they are just dissing her by calling her statistic. Isn’t her story important too?

Anonymous. Go Ask Alice.New York:Simon Pulse, 1971