Examples Of Dialectical Journal For The Chocolate War

Into the Wild Summer Reading Assignment Passage: “April 27th, 1992 Greetings from Fairbanks! This is the last you shall hear from me Wayne. Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory.

I am speechless at what is happening in this book. Tita knew of the consequences from the beginning. Good thing that she actually isn’t pregnant. I think that Mama Elena’s spirit was trying to warn Tita of the bad things that she was doing, but Tita wasn’t interested in hearing what she had to say. If Gertrudis wasn’t there, I don’t think Pedro would’ve ever found out that Tita was expecting his child.

Hugo, an orphan, works on clocks in a train station. But when he finds a strange machine, he jeopardizes his undercover life for its safety. Passage #1: “Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free.” (Selznick, 494) I chose this passage because, when he said “Prometheus was rescued in the end” it kind of reminded me of Hugo was rescued from the police station.

The book Outcasts United by Warren St. John is the story of a refugee soccer team called the Fugees. The Fugees are based in Clarkston, Georgia. The coach, Luma al-Muflehs, starts a free soccer program for the kids of Clarkston because many can not afford to play soccer. The players come from many different countries and speak many different languages. Luma helps the players with tutoring sessions before the practices and helps their families with things that may be difficult for them.

Connector-The Chrysalids The first connection I can make is a text to world connection. The point I would like to relate is how norms and deviations are separated in the book and that can also occur in real life. It is not to the extreme of banning them from the country like how deviations are in Waknuk, but there are several forms of discrimination in the real world. David describes the discrimination of deviations in Waknuk throughout the whole book.

“I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked.” (Wiesel 39) In chapter 3 it’s discussing how what happened and what has changed as Elie and his father had been going through the process of selection.

Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally was published by Sourcebooks Fire in the year 2011 and contains 281 pages. Catching Jordan is categorized by the genre realistic fiction. Miranda Kenneally is the author of many inspiring books with her most popular being similar to Catching Jordan, including Stealing Parker and Racing Savannah. Catching Jordan demonstrates that females can play football and be one of the guys, but also maintain a relationship.

Freedom: “But I did ended up talking to Sugarberry about his behavior before; and I still feel bad for him. Since Sugarberry said that he caused his own world to be destroyed; and yes, I did ended up saying and doing bad things to him before too, like the raining chocolate incident, because I really didn’t like him and wanted for him to feel the same pain that I was dealing with. Since I have to be constantly dealing with all of the trapped people’s voices in my head, because I can’t save them. I also don’t hate Sugarberry now; since I just want to help him, because the poor guy doesn’t know to make people happy without physically and emotionally harming

Daniella Karras English I, F Block The Alchemist: Journal #1 Out of 67 intriguing novels that were given as choices, The Alchemist was an easy pick. As I read the back cover of my last few book choices, I came across The Alchemist, and a quote that said: “To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.” Although this quote didn’t do the book justice, it gave me a glimpse of the journey that awaited between my hands.

He(the character) had internal conflict and external because he had found out something tragic that he will not forgive his father for what he had done in the past. The was some foreshadowing in the beginning so then they started to explain what have happen to that man hat have died. That would have gave the read some emotion to the story or thinking of the story of what they will be talking about or giving more info to answer the questions that the read had. “I wanted movement and not a clam course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the change to sacrifice myself for myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our life.

Of Mice and Men Chapter 1: My Feeling’s:     In the first chapter, John Steinbeck shapes a landscape of immense beauty that can be compared to the Garden of Eden. In the golden rolling hills of Soledad, California Lennie and George sit on a log worn smooth by many travelers. I enjoyed how Steinbeck portrayed George and Lennie; Lennie being the exact opposite of George yet still having a sort of unconditional love for each other. Lennie being the large, scary man who stereotypically be the one protecting George.

Have you ever felt like you were underappreciated in a sport from your coaches, well this was the problem for 11 year old Ben McBain. In the novel Game Changers written by Mike Lupica the story is told by Ben McBain an 11 year old boy who has hopes of being the new football teams starting quarterback but while Shawn O’Brien is on the team there is little to no luck. Shawn O’Brien is placed as starting quarterback groomed by his father a former professional quarterback in this novel Ben is struck with the conflicting choice of being a good teammate or going after his own dream. In the novel Game Changers by Mike Lupica the author uses the literary elements of the novel in a quite particular way in which leaves not only questioning but also

Quotation: “Last night I thought about all that kerosene I’ve used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper.

Fahrenheit Book Burner In the book Fahrenheit 451 firemen burn houses instead of putting fires out ,and the author Rad Bradbury includes how technology is “Taking over the Economy”. Firemen are the policemen of the future world ,and some humans have made mistakes by hiding books. The author reveals throughout the novel how montag goes through transformation and how he changes.

Panic, anxiety, and most importantly, fear, are all components that form the adventurous tale, The Most Dangerous Game. Rainsford, the protagonist of the story, is widely recognized as an experienced hunter who ventures off in a ship to travel to Rio in order to hunt jaguars. However, the story turns when Rainsford falls off his ship, encounters a hunter who hunts men, and becomes the prey himself. Although Connell sets up an intense plot by using irony, characterization, word choice, and other literary devices, imagery is one of the main aspects that releases an uneasy feeling within the audience. Imagery is a common literary device that authors use to engage a reader into the story, by painting the scene in the audience’s mind.