Journal #5 chapters 13-15

From the perspective of Dill

I ran away. I had to get away, I did not like it there at all. I took a train and I hitched a ride on a wagon and I walked a lot of the way. When scout stepped on me I felt nervous I was scared she was going to find me and be mad with me. And guess what, she was. I extracted myself up from under the bed after Jem found me by putting the broom under the bed and was scraping me with it. I came out and because I went so far without a shower I was so dirty turning my skin brown. It felt so gross and I had on dirty clothes that I wore for many days and did not change. I got up and scout was so shocked to see me . I thought she was goin to scream her head off that she saw. You and me both know that Scout thinks she is so infallible. I think we can make an acquiescence because we can agree that scout is the way that she is. I am so begrudged of Jem and Scout because they get so much and I don’t. I wish I got more love from my mom and her new husband. All they do is buy me this and that. I don’t think that that is love its just buying me love. I want to spend more time with them. They sit in their room and do nothing. I want to do stuff with them but they wont let me. When we Scout and Jem came and picked me up and we went to the jail house I was surprised I just stood there and did not say anything.

Journal #4 Chapters 10-12

From the perspective of Mrs. Dubose

“Your daddy is a nigger-lover” “Your going to end up working at the O.K. café.” When Jeremy and Scout walked by this is what I said to them. I said many different mean and nasty things and there is a reason for it. I am old and I was going through withdrawals. As u see I am an addict. I am addicted to morphine. You are not in any peril but I can be very snippy and rude. You young kids are always contradicting me. Why not just do as I say and leave me alone. Although I emerge out of my house all the time I am still unhappy and don’t like a lot of people. When Jeremy cut down all of my camellias off of the bush, I was so upset but I knew that he was too. Mostly it was my fault but sometimes they can be very cantankerous with what I say such as when I tell Scout to “be more like a girl”. She just simply says back “I don’t want to be a like a girl or a young lady.” My compensation for Jeremy reading to me every day after school and on Saturdays for two hours each, but what he didn’t know was that I would make it go even longer each and every day. When I died I had Jessie put together a small candy box that had a large, waxy camellia in it. I told her to give it to as to say I forgive you and that is how I left this world.

Journal #3 chapters 8-9

From the perspective of Jem.


When Atticus came in and he woke me up I was nervous and scared all at the same time. After both me and scout walked to the Radley gate I think that scout entrusted me because she started to relax. I was scared myself being that the Radley house was adjacent to me and my younger sister. We felt so isolated from all the others because we are and can not help in anyway for something serious like that. When we walked back to the house I wondered where that blanket had come from. It bothered me not knowing but I did have I guess. When I looked into to scouts eyes they looked so perplexed. She did not know herself where it came from. We were both so worried about what was happening with the fire. We decided to debate but not speak to each and just go to bed.

Journal #2 chapter 4-7

From the perspective of Atticus

When I first heard the Jem, Scout, and Dill quibbling around about the Radley family I was upset even though I left them alone to play. So I started to become very evasion towards the kids. I did not feel that a lot of attention was needed to be paid to them. So I left them a lone. When they brought me the watch I started tormenting them about if they traded their grandfathers for the one that they had. When they told me that they found it and that they still had their grandfathers I was completely freed of any tyranny. Although I did notice that Jem was teetering when he was talking to me but I did not second guess there was something wrong or that I needed to ask why.

Journal #1 Chapters 1-3

From the perspective of Calpurina


Sometimes I just don’t understand that girl. She irks me when she yells at me for the darnest things. I taught her how to read and write. I just simple thought that she needed to know those things to help get through school easier. For the most part I just wanted her to be occupied while I did things around the house. When I gave her things to write she would leave me alone, but only ask me if she needed help. When scout came in and she explained to me that her teacher got mad at me for teaching her how to read I can see in her face she was upset with me. She had no respect for me at all. I don’t think that she understands it is not my fault that her teacher does not agree with learning early. But I do understand that she has to learn to print. I don’t think that Ms. Caroline is indigenous to this side of town. She had no idea what to do with the Ewell kids. And I don’t believe that she was going to be condescended to the kids. She felt that she was more powerful.
When she acted rude around the Cunningham boy I did not like it at all. I called her into the kitchen to explain to her that he was her guest and had to be kind. She still back talked to me so then I slapped her, and I think she felt intimidated by me. . Although I am just the nanny I feel that I have said some huge pronouncements in the past. Mostly to the kids because they do not listen. Especially scout. I do feel that she is a very intelligent person but she is troubled.

Immigration Reflection

Miss Abbassi I didn't know if you thought that my paper was so good that there were no corrections needed to be made, but because I don't know I am posting this. Thank you for this and that I have learned a lot from you to get a perfect paper.

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Quote #1

page 230
"Just reading the Latina writers who began to emerge in the mid- to late eighties helped me feel encouraged and less alone."

This quote has to do with the book because there are a lot of struggles for Latinas and when the author says this it makes it seen that the struggle just gets less or goes away. And that fact that the Latina culture has reached out and has done some extraordinary things is surprising. Most of the stereotypical ones now a days are not as achieving.

This quote has to do with me because I have not reached out into the world like I have wanted to but soon in the coming years I will try to. They write books and I will help animals in need of a place to go. So as you we are just a like but so far apart.

Question #1
What does the word emerge mean?


Quote #2

Page 242
"Latina girls are in crisis, and if we deny it and ignore it, we will doom them with our complacency," an editorial in the same issue of El Diario/ La Prensa warns.

This has to do with the book because it is teling us that the females, as aposed to the prevous quote, are in trouble. It would take a lot to get these girls back on track to get themselves going again. These girls are always forgetting their place and time but they should really just listen to what the past has and the future has to offer.

This has to do with me because well I sometimes lose my way but I always end up having someone to help me. All these girls need someone to help them along. They need a mom or an aunt or a grandma to teach them to go the right way and to be a good person.

Question #2
What does complacency mean?

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page 185
"The annual debut at the Centro Espanol was an even for the daughters of the best families, which in that small city mean mostly middle-class girls whose fathers were professionals. doctors, lawyers, businessmen."

This quote has to do with the book because it is saying that the people who are in this town that have their families represented by there daughters. They are usually not that rich but not exactly what you would call poor. The daughters probably were spoiled and they were probably only child.

This quote has to do with me because I grew up with a sister and she was the one who got everything. To me she was the prize child she was everything that a parent could wish for. I was well the wild child. And my father was gone a lot of my child hood, he was on leave with his navy ship, and I was not the one representing our family my sister was.

Question #1
What is the Centro Espanol?


Quote # 2

page 203
"At the end of the performance, the colored girls came off the stage, singing and dancing, and beckoning the mostly female audience to join them."

This has to do with the book because there is a lot of femininity in this book. And just adding this into it was making it have to with it more. In this book there is basically only femininity. it has a big part on life.

It has to do with me because well I am a female and I enjoy dancing and singing too. But this quote is very stereotypical saying that all girls do is dance and sing. For an example my sister wants to be an engineer and she does not like to sing or dance much. But she still does it for fun.

Question #1
What does beckoning mean?

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Quote #1

page 151
"But does the tradition persist in upper-class Latino circles here? A tradition, of course, can be celebrated only in the context of a community, and though working-class Latin Americans and Caribbeans and Mexicans ... for the most part the rich and powerful have not reason to leave their home countries."

This quote is talking about how that the rich Latinos get to stay in there home country and don't have to move to America because it is cheaper. Now I don't think that it is cheaper to live here but they also move here to have a better living and have more freedom. It was also explaining the different types of Hispanics that were apart of this.

It has to do with me because my family and I are kind of poor and we don't have enough money to go do a lot of stuff that we really want to do. We just have to deal with what we have and not complain. Even though I see the people who get everything that they want I then re think and I say to my self that I don't want to have everything because then I would have nothing.

Question #1
What exactly is a working-class?


Quote #2

page 175
"But one thing is clear: quinceaneras are as much about the mothers as they are about the daughters."

This quote is basically saying that when the daughter has it it makes her become an adult but it is also saying that the mother has done her duty and raised her daughter right. Now she can let her daughter go and become a beautiful butterfly to learn on her own. I think that the mother probably feels really old after the quinceanera takes place.

This quote has to do with me because my mom is always telling me that I can not grow and i can not get any older because she wants me to stay her little girl and not get too big before she gets too short. I am always talking about how in the next year I will be taller. When it comes to the time of my birthday a couple of days later its my moms and she is saying that it is my fault that she gets older. I just always laugh when she says that (because I know its not true).

Question #2

What does perplexing mean?

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Page #111

"Trying to track down the origins of the quinceanera tradition as a little playing that old party game, telephone."



Well in this quote it shows that even though we have a good amount of people having quinceaneras it is so hard to find people who kepp the traditions. It was hard for me to understand why if people have such a sacred tradition why ruin and turn it into like one of those sweet sixteens. This has to do with the book a lot because the narator is looking for other quinceaneras to go to and learn about.



This quote has to do with me because I am part Cherokee and Irish and I have no idea about either of those cultures. So for me I would want to learn more about my culture. I would like to eat Irish food just not there preportions.



Question #1



What does it mean exactly when a person leaves there culture but it is still heavily presented with other fqamily members?





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page 118

"So, quinceaneras, beware! Latinos beware! We might end up preforming our ethnicity in costumes made in the mainstream market."



To me this quote ment a lot because it says that its saying more and more people are just giving up on having to wear the dresses and when some one wants to buy a really good one it will be poorly made and not in a really good place to get them from. It also shows that people of there kind dont have much money to even start with to make them.



The connection that I have to this is that I might not have a lot of money (inclideing my parents) but i do understand what it is like for the girls who dont have anough money to buy everything that they desire. Some girls at our school get pampered, get there hair done, and you know what I dont and I am just proud not have that stuff. So to me I think that those girls who have lots of money and can spend it on what ever they want.

Question #2

What is the mainstreet market?

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Page 57
"The strategy of women's intuition os to lead o women,s life... away from the sociopolitical arena, introducing her to the real or imagined splendors of the cosmos instead."

This quote basically is talking about the girls and how they dont know much about being a women and after they have there ceramony they will learn these things. They will learn only about household wife stuff and not about all the political stuff. Also it shows that this girl is ready to take care of her own child.
The character has to have a lot of potentioal in order to start her own family. She is actually the opposit of me because I would not be ready to start my family untill after I get out of college. When you turn 15 in a Quinceanera in a Spanish country then they can go out to clubs, get married, wear make up, and even shave their legs.

What exactly does intuition mean?

THE ART MUSEUM

The Art Museum
The photo I found to be the most interesting was called “Oktoberfest, Chicago, 1996” The farthest to the right is an old women and she is hugging a young boy. More towards the middle there is a group of four people and they are holding hands and dancing in a circle. In the far back there is a crowd and some other people dancing. It makes it seem almost like it is a dance floor in the middle of a crowd or a school dance and the prom queen and king are dancing in the middle.
The quote the I choose was “Tolerance means being accepting and helpful to others. It’s about your opinion and listening to those of others. Tolerance is about justice. Tolerance is about being a good American in a free country.”
To: Abeyunde, Nigeria
From between cultures
I chose this because I often have a hard time with accepting and tolerating other people. I chose it because fits me and what I should do as an American. We shouldn’t not opinionate upon anyone else until we know them. It spoke to me in many different ways. When I first glanced at I saw the words Tolerance. Opinions, and America. I knew that I should read it.
I chose the essay called “Living in this new world.” The author kept saying that his place that he lived was beautiful but there were so many bad things happening. It tells me that people want to immigrate to America because their countries are disgusting places where no one should live. It told me that his family was poor and had barely only enough money to live. They did not do fun stuff, but they all did get there degrees and went to work.

Jewery

JEWRY
In 1654, 23 Jewish people came from brazil. Many different Jewish people are famous such as Albert Einstein. The Jews are fighting for equality in America from 1654 to 1776. The Jews were not allowed to publicly call them selves Jews. Even though it was against there first amendment rights they were still not allowed to do so. Thomas Jefferson wrote many letters in order to help fix that situation. Many Jews were in war (the civil war) to fight for there freedom in America. The first synagogue in America was in Boston. All people who immigrated from had struggled. A large amount of them to America, some went to south America and central. The Nazi’s started making bad actions against the Jews. The KKK also took part in this. They often struggled from freedom and security in America. Martin Luther King understood the difficulty that the Jews had in America. For the Jews in America there are many different types of religions and rituals. They are not only Jewish they have American religions in theirs. For example they have menorahs that have the statue of liberty as the candle holders. In the true Jewish religion the Jews can not eat certain types of food. These certain Jews can only eat from the first rib and up on a cow. When they buy the meat it can not have any blood on it. It takes seven years to become a person who slaughters the cows. It is considered un kosher. Kosher is a type of way that they prepare the food. They can not eat any pork what so ever. They can not have any dairy anywhere near there meat. They often have two refrigerators one for dairy products and another for meat. When they eat they have to have two plated for their meat and dairy and they have to use two different forks. They can not have a hamburger with cheese. When Jewish people can to America some families did not want there kids to learn any English. Jewish people do not pray in English they only pray in Hebrew. Many years back they had a large boycott for the kosher meat. The jews were very upset they did not slaughter the cow correctly. The Jews have had all kinds of artists. Dr. Seuss has also published some of his books in Hebrew. In the past Jews had to have their own major league baseball team. They have some famous major players. In a Jewish family the mother is the most important. Jewish girls have often been models or been miss America in a miss America pageant. The Jewish culture is always involved in their kids education. After the war ended the Jews had no where to go. They had no place and they could not go back to there home countries. The Jewish community had no exceptions for people who are mean disgusting people. A man named Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegal was a very bad man, but he was the founder of Las Vegas. A Jew and his wife started an American Red Cross.

Once upon a Quinceanera

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page # 26

" Another decade of mixing and politicizing, and by the eighties we ourselves began to claim that that's who we are. And although so took issues with the name and preffered calling themselves "Latinos" instead of "Hispanics," the bureaucratic brainstorm had turned into a reality: we had become La Raza, one people."



This quote explains that when they first came to America they were all scared and unsuficiant. But after a while they became stuck up and started getting technical with what they were calling each other. The narator was so surprised to hear what they all think about when they have there Quinseanera and how it reminds them of there homelands.

Well I am somewhat connected to this quote because when I go to like Arizona they call me some weaird names because I am not from there they think that I am all rich and have lots of stuff. When in reality I am just like them but I live and are from somewere else.



Why do you think that they fell like they have to call themselves something else to make them feel recognized?





Quote #2



"Quinceanera dreses form the backdrop of Diane Gonzales Bertrands sweet fifteen, as the protagonist is not Stephanie, the quinceanera, but Rita, a seamstree who make quinceanera dresses."



I fell that this quote has a lot of meaning because it is saying even though there are not a lot of quinceaneras going on in America we still need someone to make dresses. And that someone is Rita. Even though she does not have a lot of constomers she always has her hands full with a dress. She fells she has to be delicate. Rita is improtant to this story because if she did not immagrate from where she came from some girls would not have there dresses made.

It connects to me because if my great great gradfather and grandmother did not come here from Ireland I Would not be here. I probably would not have even been thought of. I kind of connect to the character Rita because she was esnt to America for a reason and she has fofilled that reason. Which was making those dresses.



Do you think that Rita will show someone else how to sew the dresses and they will take over her spot?

IMMAGRATION
In my own words an immigrant is someone who is born in one country and moves to another. People (the immigrants) often immigrate to America from Europe and other places like Mexico and Australia. But if you look at reality people, who live in America at least have someone in there family who has immigrated from another place, because that is what America is made up of, different cultures. My connection to immigration is my great grandparents (my maternal grandfather’s parents) who came from Ireland in 1906. Which makes me one-fourth Irish. Unfortunately they are both deceased. At my moms work there is a person she works with and he is from Brazil. He immigrated from there a long while ago. And also my friend Kimberly from HTM who came from Columbia. I feel that so many immigrants come to the United States because we have freedom like no other country, and in most other countries people don’t have as much opportunity as we do. In other countries their freedom means like being able to earn maybe a dollar a day and sometimes less. When people come from other places they try to do other things in order to make money and live. Many of them send money back to their families they left behind. For example when people come from Greece they often open up Greek restaurants. And when people come from other places they continue their culture, so we have a new restaurant or a store that is made up of their country and what they believe in.