When I found out that the author's dad died when he was 14, I interpreted the poem in a whole new way. Now I see it as the father coming home from an exhausting day of work and sitting down to eat dinner. He has some whiskey as he eats and get drunk from drinking too much. Then the child comes out wanting to play with his father and they start dancing around the kitchen. They are kind of rough housing as they dance and slip occasionally from the father losing balance, or the kid being dizzy. When they slip, they hit into the kitchen shelf and made pans slid down onto the floor. The mother is frowning from this from the fact that they are making a mess of the kitchen, but she also finds this dancing amusing. Every once in a while the father would miss a step and make the child hit his ear on the father's belt buckle. This beating time on the child's head with a palm caked hard by dirt is referring to the father taking time out of the child's play time with him to be out working. Then once the father is too tired to go on, he dances the child along into bed while the child is gripping on his shirt. The child does this while pleading to stay up longer to have fun, but the father makes him go to bed.
Thursday, December 11, 2014
"My Papa's Waltz" Poem Analysis Class Discussion
When I found out that the author's dad died when he was 14, I interpreted the poem in a whole new way. Now I see it as the father coming home from an exhausting day of work and sitting down to eat dinner. He has some whiskey as he eats and get drunk from drinking too much. Then the child comes out wanting to play with his father and they start dancing around the kitchen. They are kind of rough housing as they dance and slip occasionally from the father losing balance, or the kid being dizzy. When they slip, they hit into the kitchen shelf and made pans slid down onto the floor. The mother is frowning from this from the fact that they are making a mess of the kitchen, but she also finds this dancing amusing. Every once in a while the father would miss a step and make the child hit his ear on the father's belt buckle. This beating time on the child's head with a palm caked hard by dirt is referring to the father taking time out of the child's play time with him to be out working. Then once the father is too tired to go on, he dances the child along into bed while the child is gripping on his shirt. The child does this while pleading to stay up longer to have fun, but the father makes him go to bed.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Poem Analysis of "Early in the Morning" by Li Young Li
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Sheet of Connections
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Comparisons in King Dork to the Catcher in the Rye
Friday, November 28, 2014
Theodore Roosevelt Quote Analysis
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
-Theodore Roosevelt
The big idea within this quote is the good and bad decisions that one makes throughout life. Anytime someone is in a position of making a decision for themself or others, go for the one that you feel is the best one worthwhile. Sometimes it is difficult to decide on something, but people should go with the first decision that pops up in their mind. This is because it is people's first thought that comes to mind about a certain situation and is probably the best from it being the first thing thought of. Then people naturally start to think of other possible decisions that could be better and start to over think it to much. People might then pick a different decision than the first one, from them being under pressure and it not being as well thought out as the first. This causes the wrong decision to be made, making it the bad decisions that people make throughout life. Then there is the worst decision made by not making any decision at all. If nothing is decided, then nothing will happen and further cause worse things to occur.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Great Skyscraper
Friday, November 21, 2014
The Circle
Me Against The World Poem Analysis
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Parallels Between Holden Caulfield and Will Hunting
The Race to Victory
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
The cloud
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Character Changes from the Catcher in the Rye and Good Will Hunting Analysis
Good Will Hunting
In the end of Good Will Hunting Will dramatically changed his view of being able to make relationships with people and trust others. When he was a young kid he got abused and wasn't loved by his parents. He then went off to two other foster homes and got abused there also. He could never then trust to be close with anyone other than his friends again from the fear of being abused again. His view of this changed when after being able to trust his therapist, Sean after building a good relationship with him. Sean told Will over and over again that "it's not your fault", and at this moment he realized that is okay to make relationships with people because not everybody is abusive.