Booga Booga

     To day in The Old Man and the Sea I noticed how the old man ties up his lines with the sardeens on the hook without the hook showing because it will attract more to the huge fishies.  He has four different lines at different lenght intervals and I also noticed that he doesn’t like man of wars. But hey, who does, I mean common they can kill you with the goo-ee tenticles. Gwosssssss….

     In the story I’m noticing how the man and the boy have a huge bond that not even the parents have with their son. This boy doesn’t really have a bond with the fishermman that he is working with…hmmm I wonder why? But anyways it hasn’t reallly specifyed about why the boy is not close with his new boss. But they man and the boy have been together since the boy was 5 so that gives some leverage to their relationship. I wonder how old the man is? I’m also noicing that the man is very poor, I wonder why he’s so poor if he’s a fisherman because there is always fish in the sea. Has he been catching anything because the paragraph we just read said that the old man only eats one a day if even. I feel bad for the old guy because he lives in a shack and he doesn’t even have shoes for the upcomming winter. I wonder where they live….? They boy really cares about the old man and I suspect that the boy is funding they old guy because it talked about the boy wanting to buy shoes and blankets and all sorts of stuff for this old man. I wish they would hurry up and tell me the names of the characters because “old man” and “the boy” is getting harder to type…phew. Oh Mr. sheehy just said the old mans name is Santiago…cool dude
~PunchDrunkLove

     We just started reading The Old Man and the Sea like 15 minutes ago. I think it will be a good little book. I have a feeling thought that the lead character is going to catch a humungo fish because on the cover it has a lot of foreshadowing with a million foot swordfish. I have to admitt it’s totally awesome. I remember a few summers ago my family and I went to missouri river in he middle of the state but we didn’t catch anything. It realates a lot to the beggining of the story because they are talking about old memories and about fishing when they don’t catch a single fish. I didn’t feel like jumping in the river durring our vacation because the current was to vicious and I didn’t feel like getting swept away…..The End

   The story we read out of the literature book was called Olaudiah Equiano i was about this guy that went through the slavery trade in a huge boat going to North America. It was very descriptive about the horrors that he experienced while on the cargo boat. I connected it with my real day life by some movies I saw, some books I read, and just other things that fill up my life. All these things that I listed helped me to connect with the story. He was talking about the cramped corriders and I related it to being in an elevator. I Felt like i was in the story experiencing it for myself because he was so descripive. I could have smelled the same rotting smell he smelled, it was that good…or bad…

  

It would have been difficult by a far brighter light, to recognize in Doctor Manette, intellectual of face and upright of bearing, the shoemaker, of the garret in Paris. Yet, no one could have looked at him twice, without looking again: even though the opportunity of observation had not extended to the mournful cadence of his low grave voice, and to the abstraction that overclouded him fitfully, without any apparent reason. While one external cause, and that a reference to his long lingering agory, would always -as on the trial- evoke this condition from the depths of his sould, it was also in its nature to arise of itself, and draw a gloom over him, and incomprehensible to those unacquainted with his story as if they had seen the shadow of the actual Bastille thrown upon him by the summer sun, when the substance was three hundred miles away.
Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. 78-79.

  We read my paragraph in white block 3 on a red day.  My group picked my paragraph about descriptive writing because it was just the coolest out of the bunch. I mean Charles Dickons is just a great writer because all of his works are so descriptive. It especially helped out in this assignment because that’s what we were looking for, descriptive writing. I mean this paragraph alone could feed the population of China for 30 and a half days with all the VET (vividally,emotively, and tangibly) mushed into it! It’s crazy and it’s so good! Read on!

      I think that making blogs in English class is a great and productive way to keep teens interested. It’s something new to do than the same old pen and paper old school way. It’s definately catching my attention because it’s really cool. Blogs are a place on the internet where you can express your opinions on a certain idea or just rattle on about something important to you. It serves a purpose by letting people express how the feel and it lets other people read the information and put their opinions into the mix. I of course have some knowledge of blogs because of myspace but I’m still alittle new at it. I don’t even know how to change my top eight….yeah sad huh? I’m alittle internet illiterate but we can change that.