Blog 7 Chapters 18-21 Queston Choice 3

I think this this book relates to race and coming of age. Race is an obvious one because the south was very into segregation. Like they convicted a black man even though the evidence was right in front of them that it was bob Ewall. This shows that people in that time were very against blacks and would go against the truth and say he was guilty. White people back then had the power in anything wether it be law or day to day life.
This book to me also has a lot to do with age and how it changes people. Jem at the beginning of the book was very close to scout but as he got older they started to fight more and grow further apart. Also Atticus is  old so he cant fight back at Mr. Ewall and do things with his kids that he wish he could or that would be more fun.

Journal #6 Question Answer Set C

If Jem and scout had a mom things would be very different. I think that there mom would have scout be more female like not as tomboyish. The kids personalities would be changed to because they would have a mom not just a mom figure in their lives.  Calpurnia wouldn't be there either.  Which would change a lot of things too. Like having a negro in their lives. So there maybe stereotypes that they would have never learned were false.
This could cause them to be racist when they really aren't. This would be a bad thing. Also if cal. wasn't there then Atticus might not be trying to defend Tom Robinson. I imagine atticus would be different to.  I think he wouldn't be as freely about what Jem and Scout do. Jem would be a little different he has always been missing something and it has to relate to his mom.
In all I think that if Jem and scout had a mom things would be a lot different and for the worse.  They would be racist scout would be more female like and Jem would be different.

Journal #2Chapters 4-7 Perspective of Scout

Dear Diary
 A couple days ago I passed the Radley house and I suddenly stopped and looked at what was in the tree. and i found some gum. So i took it and started to chew it. When i got home Jem saw me chewing something and asked me what it was and i said it was gum.He asked where and i said the Radley tree right that second he told me to spit it out because it might be poisons. After that every day i would look in the tree and find random things.Like cards old penny's and soap carvings of people/ Then a couple of days later Nathan Radley found out and plunged the hole with cement. I am assuming he figured out that Boo was giving us things Atticus told us to stop playing our games and that really sucks because i loved playing games with Boo. We also weren't able to get a note to him to ask him to play. It was really scary when Boo took out a shotgun and almost shot us he thought that we were black people trying  to break in to his house. Next time he said he would shoot us.       

Journal #1 Chapters 1-3 Perspective of Scout

When my brother was 13 he broke his arm and when it healed he was very happy that he could play football. I lived with my brother Jem my dad atticus and our cook calcurnia. I hated calcurnia we always fought and they would usually be won by her because atticus would side with her. She has been with us since Jem was born. My mother died when i was 2 so i never really got to know her. I didn't miss her but i think Jem did. Jem was born the first year of there marriage and i was born 4 years later.
That same summer we met Dill. He dared us to get boo Radly out of his house Boo Radly was a very creepy and scary man who lived next door to us. Dill told my brother that he was a scardy cat and was a wimp for not going onto the yard. My brothers excuse was that if he wasn't there who would take care of me. But after enough name calling by dill, Jem finally took the dare.
The first thing that we did to get boo out of his house was to go on his yard. When that didn't work we threw rocks at his window. He still didn't respond.
That year was also my first year of school. When Ms. Caroline learned that i could read she was very mad and said that my dad needed to stop teaching me and saying that it was wrong the way he was doing it.

Lit Circle Post One

"We want strong recruits, not weak ones." The rebel said this on page 60 paragraph 2.
This is significant because the rebels are looking for people that aren't scared of blood and killing people. This relates to question #3, his role is to be a child solider and kill people. Another way it relates is it doesn't have to be his role but Ishmael is brutally forced to be this monster that he doesn't want to be.
I feel bad for Ishmael because he might not be the strongest person in the group and the rebels are killing the weak people to get the strong people "used" to blood and death. I also agree with Ishmael's actions because he ran when the rebels were distracted with the gunfire in the middle of town. Would you have ran when the rebels looked away or not? Why?

Quote#2 The rebels called this mutilation "One Love" Before the war people raised a thumb to say "One Love" To each other, An expression popularized by reggae music. Page: bottom of page 37 to top of 38.
This shows how much power music has in the country and how seriously people take what people say in the songs. It puts music in the country high on the list of what role it can play in the lives of all of the people. The significance it has on me is really the irony of it. One Love means peace and happiness not cutting each others fingers off and laughing about it. "Do you agree with the irony in this action? Why? Why not?

Weekly Reading Response

NAME DATE Ryan Bockmier 2-5-10
TITLE TIME HOURS Woodsong, 2 hours
AUTHOR PAGES - Gary Paulson 132 total pages
TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK 43 this week.

QUESTION 1:What does this book make you wonder about? Why?
RESPONSE 1:This book really makes me wonder how strong a relationship with a dog can be and how much you can actually learn from them. In the book he talks all the things that he learned about nature and how the dogs helped him learn all of these things. Like how to cope with certain situations and how to look at life.


QUESTION 2:What other character(s) beside the main character is really important to the story? How and why?

RESPONSE 2 I would have to say the dogs. Without the dogs there couldn't be a story to write because he talks all about the dogs and how he learns from them. Without them he wouldn't be able to sustain a living at all and it would be really hard for him. Also the dogs make it interesting and very exiting because the way he describes them makes them funny and entertaining.