Category Archives: English 9

Its a Bird

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Christian Cooper illustrates a real-life experience of racism in his comic It’s a Bird. This scene is above and, I am breaking down how it has a loss of inclusiveness. In the first section of the page, you see a middle-aged woman shouting at a younger man and, she states “I am going to call the police because you are threatening me.” Judging by the body language of both characters, the man did not threaten the woman. I infer she is steering up trouble because of his ethnicity and we call this an act of racism. You can also see in the first section the man closes his eyes and pictures other people of color who have been killed in police brutality. He is imagining this because the woman mentioned police and the chances are the woman will have white privilege and he might be in the same boat. In the second and third scene, the man ignores her because the woman intends to get him riled up and wants him to make a mistake so he would get in trouble with the law. Once again, this is another act of racism because the woman hates him for being black and her only interests are for him to get seriously injured or time in prison. Racism and discrimination are an enigma no one utterly understands what the cause is. But we are slowly working on fixing it and, I hope no one ever must experience this again but, the chances are they will.

Monologue Video – “Curious incident of the dog at the night time”

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Father said I had a heart of gold. I do not understand what that meant because I know the heart is made of three layers the Endocardium, the thin inner lining of the heart chambers. The myocardium, the middle layer of muscle that is the thickest and allows your heart chambers to contract and relax to pump blood to your body. Pericardium, the sac that surrounds your heart. He told me that it was just a metaphor. I do not like metaphors. A metaphor is describing something by using something that it isn’t. This means that the metaphor is a metaphor. It should be called a lie. My heart is not gold, a pig is not like a day and people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and take a picture of the phrase in my head, it gets all scrambled. Imagining an apple in someone’s eye doesn’t have anything to do with liking someone. Why can’t people just say what there thinking, it would make listening to a lot easier. I wouldn’t have to stop listening in the middle of a conversation to think about what the person had just said. If we didn’t have metaphors, it would be so much easier to stay on track without having pictures in my head that don’t have anything to do with the conversation.

 

Reflection- In class, I wrote and illustrated a monologue. I was instructed to choose a character from the novel called the curious incident of the dog at night time. I picked the protagonist Christopher because the novel was created from his perspective and all the characters I had seen so far were flat, meaning I could only choose him. The scene I brought to life was when Christopher’s father told Christopher he had a heart of gold. I choose this scene because you have to understand Christopher is autistic and his mind will process things differently than someone without autism. To make Cristopher brought to life in my writing, I had to think about how he would think, very logically, formally, and at the writing level of a 15-year-old.