Rez and Home

Meanwhile reading about Junior's daily life routine and the condition of his home, I can clearly say that I have been lucky enough so that I do not know those hardships from experience. In my home there is always enough food, my parents are not drunk and my sister does not want to run away from the house. The only thing I can find in comparison is that Junior's parents love him and will do anything to make him happy and give him the best opportunities available.
My parents and I may argue and disagree about many, many things, there is an unspoken truth that they will do anything in their power to keep be safe and, in contrary to what they may have you believe, I would too. I do not share many physical similarities the emotions and feelings that sort of keep Junior's family together, also keeps mine.

Principle To Keep

During the darkest days, days where thing such as compassion, respect, morality are just things of the past I will make my priority to stay loyal. If during an apocalypse I am lucky enough to not end up alone, and be with a group I will make sure that I am loyal to that group. If I am the leader I will be loyal to my followers, if I am a follower I will be loyal to my leaders. It is a sense of pride and self-respect that I would gain if I where to not go astray and if the situation presents me with the choice of helping myself or helping someone that I care about and has shown me respect and loyalty, I will not hesitate in helping said person.

Janie

Janie is the main character in the book "The Eyes Were Watching God", and the story revolves around her and her desire to make her dreams come true. Among those dreams is the hope to find true love and be respected but many factors play against Janie and her dreams. The fact that she is African America and lives in the 1920's a time period where women were no more than trophies that men showcased and marriages were arranged so that the people getting married would have some sort of financial or social boost.

Janie does follow this stereotype in the beginning of her life thanks to the persuasion of her grandmother and married Logan Killicks. Janie did not love Logan but she assumed she would in time. After her impatience ran out, Janie ran off with Joe Starks who help fund an all African American community. Joe was very sexist and treated Janie like someone who is just a tool for him. For 20 years Janie was married to Joe and was subject to his discrimination and lack of love or interest for her. After an incident where Joe tried to make fun of her because of little mistake he made, she snapped at him. Shortly after Janie found out that Joe was going to die because of a kidney disease and decided to speak her mind to him before he died.

I believe that Janie is a woman who is blinded by her dreams, and while she may be determined her faith in thing that she hopes come true is what her weakness is. Janie still believes that she will find true love, shown by the way she acts head-over-heals for Tea Cake, whom she meets months after Joe's death. The fact that she hid her feeling of frustration and anger from the way that Joe ignored her shows that she hoped that something might change for the better, the assumption that she would fall in love with Logan after she married him are all examples of her blidspot.

Thanks To A Classmate

Thank you Erick Thonpson for your intelligence, for your open kindness, your ability to speak you mind, your interpretations and stories. Also you are a good friend and an awesome classmate. I hope to work more with you and that you do not lose your individuality.

Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway is considered one of the greatest authors of the 20th century. He has won a Novel Prize for Literature and has written many critically acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories.
Hemingway was born in what today is Oak Park Illinois, and had a rough childhood, from being dressed as a girl by his mother and a strict father. Hemingway served in World War I and was a correspondent during World War II. His stories are filled with deeper meanings that makes the reader think about what he is reading to clearly get the ideas behind Hemingway's writings, he also writes without sugar coding and is more often than not he has a very strong masculine voice in his stories.

Many people criticize Hemingway in the basis that he makes up stories and is very dereogative towards women, but I believe that Hemingway is clearly on the position to use stereotypes. Many of us believe that stereotypes are too much broad and can describe everyone, which is true, but Hemingway is known for writing nothing but the truth so if he describes a woman character as: weak, annoying, controlling, or even girlish is because that was his perception of that specific character. I believe that after all Hemingway went through his life, his writings were the things that helped him get away from his problems and sort of enter his own mini-universe, which seem to have worked as he has written some of the greatest novels.

Six-word Novels

-Born a twin; graduated only child.

-Strangers. Friends. Best friends. Lovers. Strangers.

-Doctor finished his text: "...love you."

-Home run. Catch. eBay auction. Rich.

-Best friends. Some beers. New lovers.

-Fungus from the forest. Visions. Journeys.

John Proctor Hero Or Stooge?

During the Salem witch trials of 1692 many innocent people were accused of witchcraft and some were even hanged. Among one of these innocent people was John Proctor, a respected man of Salem. He was arrested on the sudden exclamation of his name as a servant of the devil by Mary Warren. His wife, Elizabeth Proctor, was also accused by Abigail but unlike her husband she was given pardon because she had two boys and was expecting another baby.

The only way that Proctor could save his life was to confess to practicing witchcraft. If he did not he would be hanged. Although confessing seems the like the sensible thing to do, admitting to witchcraft on Salem on 1692 is not the wisest thing to do. Even though John Proctor would not be hanged his reputation and his family name would be destroyed, his family and himself would not be able to go anywhere without being judged or mobbed.

All of this is on Proctor's mind as he is given a last chance to confess, and with his wife's words, he admits to witchery and signs a confession. As he is about to return it to the minister, he begs that they would not tarnish his name by posting that confession on the church's door. When the minister tells him that its not possible to let him live without announcing that he practiced witchcraft, John Proctor rips the confession and is next hanged.

By choosing death, John Proctor actually gave his family a chance to live. Also this reveals much about the character of Proctor, he would not lie just to save his skin, he would rather die for the truth than live by the lie, so to say that John Proctor is a stooge, a person who serves merely to support or assist others by doing unpleasant work is simply unreasonable. John Proctor was a hero who died for his family, and for what he  believed in.