Monthly Archives: March 2020

On The Streets Bleeding

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Questions: 

What is the setting of the story?

The setting of the story is around 1980s to 1990s because they people are in gangs/ stereotyped groups were half the town are Royals and the other half is else. It is taken place in a rainy dark alley.

Who is the protagonist?

The protagonist is Andy who got stabbed

Who is Laura? Why is she important to Andy?

I think Laura is Andy’s girlfriend or fiancé. I think that she is import to her because she is his other half and he left her to go get cigarettes.

Who are the people that walk through the alley?

The people who waked down the alley are people from the other ‘gang’ therefore, they didn’t help Andy.

Explain some reasons why people do not help Andy?

The main reason why the people didn’t help Andy was because he was a Royal and everyone who passed was somewhat against the Royals. The other reason the people didn’t want to help Andy was because they were afraid that guardians would find out that they helped him. Another reason was the first guy who found Andy was drunk and wasn’t in the right mind state to help Andy.

What does his jacket symbolize?

I think the jacket symbolizes the group that he is apart of and it could be a gang.

At what point does Andy realize why he was stabbed?

I think he realized he the reason he was stabbed when the couple named Angela and Freddie went away from him because they didn’t want to get in trouble with the guardians. He also realized he was stabbed only because he was a Royal and if he wasn’t wearing his Royal’s jacket, he most likely wouldn’t have gotten stabbed.

What is the climax of the story?

I think the climax of the story is when the couple Freddie and Angela found him and didn’t want to help him because he was a Royal.

How does the police officer react to Andy’s death? Why does he react this way?

The police officer wasn’t fazed by Andy’s death at all. Instead the police officer takes his jacket and starts writing in his notepad with out trying to revive him because he was dead.

 

The Sea Devil

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Questions:

Why does the man fish by night? How does this lead to the conflict with the ray? What is significant about the fact that he doesn’t fish for a living? 

He goes fishing in the night because then, he would be able to catch around half a dozen mullets in around an hour. He doesn’t fish for a living because he liked working with his head over his hands. He liked fishing alone at night because he felt that reality seemed to be missing from his twentieth-century daily life.

3 examples of foreshadowing:

” If he moved quietly, he might pick up two or three in one cast close to the dock. And maybe a couple of others on the way down or back.” (pg. 33)

“Something perhaps the shadow of the skiff, had frightened them. The old dock loomed very close.” (pg. 36)

“Only by using his brain could he possibly survive and he called on his brain tO a solution; and his brain responded.” (pg. 40)

Identify the following parts of the story plot: the complicating incident/ a single crisis/ the climax, the resolution and the ending:

The complicating incident: When he fell into the lake.

 A single crisis: When he gets trapped in the net.

The climax: When he see the monster

The resolution: Swimming away from the monster and saving himself.

The ending: He saved himself but, made up his mind that he would never go casting alone in the night. 

One of the conflicts is between the civilized and primitive world (define these two words first). What is the purpose of the references made to the plane, the causeway, and the man’s wife at home?

Primitive world is when something is the first of its existing. Civilized world is everyone and everything is living in a well organized civilization. I think there was references mad because, it was the first time for this many seeing the ray and he was thinking back/ thinking of his wife at home.

What does the man learn at the end of the story? Why does he release the mullet?

He released the mullet at the end of the story because he felt how the mullet felt when he was trapped underwater. He let it go because when he was suffering underwater, the mullet was suffering up in the land therefore, I think he did it because he didn’t want to have the mullet suffer like how he did. At the end of the story, I think the man learned to never go casting alone in the night.

Find 3 examples of descriptive language:

“The skiff, flat-bottomed, was moored off the sea wall. ” (pg. 33)

“It veered wildly and turned back toward shallow water.” (pg. 39)

“He lifted his other hand and felt the hot blood start instantly, but he didn’t care.” (pg. 40-41)

Vocabulary 

Sullen: bad-tempered and gloomy.

Weltering: Move in a turbulent fashion.

elemental: Primary or basic.

Sinewy: Consisting of or resembling muscle.

Hoisted: Raise by ropes and pulleys.

Phosphorescence: Light emitted by a substance without perceptible heat.

Cordage: Cords or ropes, especially in a ship’s rigging.

Exhilaration: A feeling of excitement, happiness, or elation.

Atavistic: Relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral.

Centrifugal: Moving or tending to move away from a center.

Impeding: Delay or prevent by obstructing them.

Tenaciously: With a firm hold of something closely.

Respite: A short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant.

Equilibrium: A state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced.

Imminent: About to happen.

A Mountain Journey

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Questions: 

1.What was Dave Conroy doing out in the wilderness? (motivation)

Dave Conroy was out in the wilderness because he was traveling to MacMoran’s cabin.

2. At what point does the reader know the protagonist is in serious trouble and not likely to make it to MacMoran’s cabin? (plot)

I think the readers know that the protagonist is in trouble when, he was thrown off of his skis and into the air hole.

3 . What three critical mistakes did Conroy make? What are some of the things he could
have done to prevent himself from freezing? (plot)

He could have waited another two weeks before traveling. If he waited longer, the snow would have melted down more. It would have made his traveling a lot easy with longer days. It would also be less cold.

4. Determine the elements of plot in this story: exposition, complicating incident, 3 crises,
climax, and the denouement.

Exposition: Explaining that Dave Conroy was tired after climbing the hill.

Complicating Incident: Breaking the tail after every step he took.

3 crises: Only two hours of daylight was left, traveling in the mountains all alone with a heavy backpack, he couldn’t sleep much.

Climax: When he got thrown off his skis and thrown into the cold air hole.

Denouement: He passed away.

 

5. Describe the setting – how does the setting affect the plot and the theme of the story?
What is the theme – write a theme statement for this story.

The setting is up in the mountains, it is also in around February during the winter. There is also some sort of storm/ blizzard happening. The weather effects the plot of the story because, if there wasn’t a storm/ snow, then that would completely change the story since the weather is a big part of the story. I think that the theme is persevering through all of you challenges.

 

6. Find one example of symbolic setting (concrete place that represents something abstract) and explain its meaning.

“Then he remembered that he was on his way to MacMoran’s cabin on Terrace Creek. MacMoran would
be waiting for him. He tried to rise, but his arms stayed still at his side. ” I think that this is a symbolic setting because, even though he was in trouble he still tried to get himself over to the cabin.

7. Quote four images from the story that make effective comparisons (figurative language:
simile, metaphor, and personification)

Simile: “He was beginning to feel like a ghost on an abandoned planet ” (pg 1)

Metaphor: “He bit his fingers. They were cold and white and unresponsive as a dead man’s. ” (pg 3)

Personification: “That tree, like a strong and lonely woman, called to his weary body to stop.” (pg 1)

“If he slept, his fire slept with him.” (pg 1)

Vocabulary: 

Eternal: lasting forever

Immobility: Not being able to move

Opaque: not able to be seen through

Reverberation: extension of the duration of a sound

Momentum: the quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity.

Cadaverous: describing a corpse as very pale, thin, or bony

Congregated: gather into a crowd

Inundation: an overwhelming quantity of people or things.

Beggared: reduce someone to poverty.

Filched: steal in a casual way.

Gender Equality

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What is the article about?

This article is all about gender equality and the goals for it. In the article, it explains all about how women and girls are being treated in the world today. “Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and, therefore, also half of its potential. ” This was said in the article and I would say that this is basically the whole article summed up. There has been many conferences about helping women and girls gain the power to get their rights back.

Who does it involve? 

This articles involves feminists and women and girls.

Why did you choose this article? 

I chose this article because I wanted to learn more about feminism and what has been done so far to improve the situation. I wanted to go more in depth about how people are reacting to this and how people are solving the problem.

How does this news article relate to the story we are reading- The Friday Everything Changed?

This article relates to the story we read because, in the story it mentions about how the boys would always get to carry the water. The girls never got the chance to carry the water because to the boys, it was their way of proving their masculinity. The story mentions about how the boys wouldn’t let any of the girls play softball after one of the girls mentions about how the girls can’t carry the water. This relates to the real world situation because it shows that the boy are “in charge” and they get to say what happens and what doesn’t. It also relates to the real world situation because during the story, the girl who spoke up gets beaten up for saying something. This also shows that girls don’t have the freedom of speech because when they say something that is on their mind, they get abused/hurt for saying it.