Helen and her war starting.

Authors Note: I wrote a text analysis short response on 2 stories.

In the original story, "Trojan Horse" , one of the characters, Helen, was starting the Trojan War.  In the modern Version of "Trojan horse", Helen was flirting wit Paris.  This started a war.  Many things in the original seem to be true but in the remake, they're just stupid.  In the remake, they are also starting this war for fun.

Some of the things that are different are; Helen was not a valley girl in the original, and in the remake she was a total boy crazy valley girl.  Another thing that is different is they did this war for fun in the modern version, in the original it was serious.  Personally, I think that it was a good remake, because I like the more modern stories that us teenagers can connect to.

Stolen, Abused, Hurt.

 Authors Note: I wrote a Piece for my conflict and resolution goal, Enjoy(:

When People have problems in life, they are usually conflicts.  Some people don’t know how to resolve their problems.  The main character in Stolen,  by Lucy Christopher  was Having a pretty good life, until this man, Ty, kidnapped her and conflicted her life.  Ty caused conflicts by; Gemma being taken away from her family, being brought to a desert,  and being forced to love him.

When Gemma woke up and realized she had been kidnapped she first didn't mind it.  Later on, her kidnapper, Ty, forces Gemma to love him.  This caused many conflicts, for instance; Gemma refuses to love a 40 year old man and she didn't want to lose her virginity to somebody she didn't love.  Ty also separated Gemma from her family. 

Gemma looked for the best way to resolve her getting kidnapped, then she decided that she should just run. Later on, a helicopter found her stranded in the middle of a desert dehydrated, weak and beaten.  Soon they found Ty and they arrested him.  This helped resolve Gemma being kidnapped.

Even though Gemma was saved and her conflict was resolved,  the damage Ty did is permeate.  Not only does Gemma have physical damage,  but mental damage.  Gemma continues on with her life and having nightmares often about her time with Ty.

Abuse

Authors notes: I wrote a text analysis essay explaining abusive relationships with one of my favorite books and real world situations.

Relationships are hard.  89% of people agree that their relationships with their partners usually don’t work out.  Whether  it involves abuse; verbally or physically,  drugs and alcohol, or hardships, the character, Kaitlin from Dreamland, By Sarah Dessen  can relate to all of them.  Abusive relationships are very difficult for anyone to get out of, especially when you grow a bond and become attached.  It’s not just characters in fiction/ non fiction novels that get themselves into a tremendous abusive relationships, its people in the whole world that deal with this harshness every day.

First of all, In dreamland the main character Kaitlin receives abuse from her boyfriend Rodgerson, but doesn’t know how to get herself out of it.  An example is the quote from Kaitlin’s point of view: “Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.”  That quote shows that Kaitlin is getting dragged into a horrible relationship and she’s already too deep in love to pull herself away.  Another quote told by the authors point of view; “ Kaitlin finds herself in a constant menace, a trap that is baited with love and need.” That quote shows that Kaitlin needs this abusive relationship because she is attached.

Second of all,  Abusive relationships are spreading so fast into the world that people actually think they are okay! The statement/fact; “As violence becomes more and more prevalent in our world, one out of every five teenage girls in America will be beaten by a dating partner.”  That shows that abuse is spreading very fast throughout  the world. The other fact; “one third to one half of married women will be victims of abuse.” That’s crazy!  People need to realize that if anyone ever hurts you, get away from them before its gets serious and permeate.

Last, there are so many ways that characters can make text to world connections. Kaitlin and women in the world are alike by being abused by characters and humans.  Most people believe that abuse is wrong and they would never get into a relationship like that. For the women that do get themselves into those relationships, there are ways to let go and get help. Some ways that people tend to get out of abusive relationships, are talk to people they trust. 

Ribbons Responce

I think that people should not want to change things about themselves because everybody is perfect in their own ways.  People also have very different cultures. The grandmas culture is very different from the American culture, because they live In different parts of the world.

I think its fine if people have there own culture, but I just think people shouldn’t criticize other people on there culture.  Obviously people are not going to be all alike, but that’s what makes everyone unique!

After You My Dear Alphonce

Authors Note: This is an text analysis/ response to a short story we read in class.

In the story, "After you my dear alphonce", by Shirley Jackson, Has a basic plot line of the 1940's. The point is to show racism  and i think that's what the author is trying to get through to us. Most of the text in this story is showing a mother having racism towards a little African American boy, named Boyd. Its not the typical racism many people would think, it’s a being overly nice racism. 

For example; the quote, "As she turned to show Boyd where to sit, she saw he was a Negro boy, smaller than Johnny but about the same age", shows that she saw that he was a little African boy and thought to herself, oh I'm going to be very nice to this little boy, because he is not as wealthy as us and offer him some things just because he is African American.

In this short story, the mother thought that Boyd's family was less wealthy than hers, so she was being nice and trying to help but little did she know that Boyd's family was just like hers. The text analysis that the author put in it actually helped me understand the story better, because when she thought she was right, she was wrong.  For Example; when the mother said, " I'm not mad I'm just disappointed", shows that her inferences were wrong on him.

There were so many ways that text analysis did help make the story better, with it going from happy and caring, to disappointed and wrong. The author showed how to text cote the important parts of this story, and it helps people understand better.

Response to A clean/ Well lighted place.

The director showed his thoughts because the old man drank alot of brandy and stuff. it looked like the young waiter was actually saving the old man from being hurt. because he refused to give him the randy.  the director showed his thoughts by seeing the old waiter just sit there and watch what happened.

The lighting in this actually showed the old man just sitting there all alone.  I felt bad that he was sitting all alone getting drunk.  I didn't really get the point of a lighted place? Anyways. it was an OK story. Not anything i'd really read.

Response to A clean, well lighted place

In this story there were weird characters one of the things that I looked at and thought about was when they said "It was nothing" that shows that he doesn’t trust the person he was talking too.  Mainly trust is very important in life. If he cant trust him then there's something really wrong with their relationship. Trust is very important.