The whirlwind of life spins around you, threatening to grab you up into all of its confusion. The dizziness consumes you, and you try to sort out the mess your life has recently become. Your mind is pulsing, trying to figure out what just happened, and where it has gone. Some of the things that seem so far away in our life flash before our eyes as we grow older.
Everyone counts on something, something to love, something to achieve, or just something to make them happy. Sometimes, those things that we count on can vanish, right in front of us. Francie uttered a thought she had in the novel when her grandfather passed away, “The something which had been a future was now a present and would become a past”, because it was inevitable, but shocking for the death to actually come. The same thing occurred when Johnny died, except Katie was the one feeling this way. Johnny was the youngest of four brothers, who had all died before the age of thirty. Because of this, and Johnny’s drinking, Katie knew he was going to pass away sooner than later, but she couldn’t get over it when the heart wrenching day arrived.
Instances like this happen frequently throughout life, and each one is forgotten as the next one takes place. Sometimes the most important things that leave us threaten to keep us down forever, but in the end it leaves us stronger and wiser. It prepares us for the next time something like this comes around, and we will be ready, if only by a little.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Response 1
The hurt stabs you like a million knives, and the shock paralyzes you, until the world starts to turn faster than you can manage. How can they? Is all you can think, over and over. You thought you could trust them, depend on them. Why should they be able to turn around and do this to you? To be betrayed hurts just as much as broken legs and arms, but guaranteed everyone will experience it in their lifetime.
This novel present us with many forms of betrayal. Some are little, and some are life-changing. Everyone knows how it feels to be lied to, and everyone knows how it feels to lie. Amplify that by a great deal and it becomes betrayal. Little Francie lived in pure pleasure growing up, unaware that the life around her was more ruthless then it seemed. In fact right in her very own home was someone who had betrayed her, and betrayed her to the fullest extent.
Francie’s mother Katie, was that person. Francie was born sickly baby, and Katie promised her that she would make her live, and care for her always. Things changed after Neeley was born, when Katie confided in him out loud that she would love him more than Johnny and Francie, but she wouldn’t let them know. Even though no one knew of this, The betrayal hung heavy on Katie’s shoulders, and has always stayed with Francie, dragging her down like a heavy winter jacket. To rank loved ones in one’s heart is unfair, for it provides affection and love for some, and brutal feelings for others.
Betrayal should not be accepted, no matter how low of a person one may be. Disloyalty does not just hurt just one person, it hurts many, including ourselves. No matter what we may believe is wrong, and what is right, betrayal will keep happening to all of us, for the rest of our life.
This novel present us with many forms of betrayal. Some are little, and some are life-changing. Everyone knows how it feels to be lied to, and everyone knows how it feels to lie. Amplify that by a great deal and it becomes betrayal. Little Francie lived in pure pleasure growing up, unaware that the life around her was more ruthless then it seemed. In fact right in her very own home was someone who had betrayed her, and betrayed her to the fullest extent.
Francie’s mother Katie, was that person. Francie was born sickly baby, and Katie promised her that she would make her live, and care for her always. Things changed after Neeley was born, when Katie confided in him out loud that she would love him more than Johnny and Francie, but she wouldn’t let them know. Even though no one knew of this, The betrayal hung heavy on Katie’s shoulders, and has always stayed with Francie, dragging her down like a heavy winter jacket. To rank loved ones in one’s heart is unfair, for it provides affection and love for some, and brutal feelings for others.
Betrayal should not be accepted, no matter how low of a person one may be. Disloyalty does not just hurt just one person, it hurts many, including ourselves. No matter what we may believe is wrong, and what is right, betrayal will keep happening to all of us, for the rest of our life.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Veterans Essay
The question “When is the right time to honor our veterans?” cannot be answered in a simple sentence. Many answers are hidden in that one question. I think that we always honor our military heroes, whether we know it or not.
My mother works as the assistant director at the department of veterans affairs. She tells me many moving stories that give me good reason to honor veterans all the time. The first was of a new veteran, who was shot and paralyzed from the war in Iraq. My mom was visiting the medical center and happened upon him. Soon they started talking and he told her about himself. He told my mom how he and his buddies loved to play poker. He was especially excited when he explained that he was going to Las Vegas, but he had to wait a year because he was not old enough. So he was old enough to go fight and be shot in the war, but not old enough to gamble.
The next story takes place on Memorial Day. My mother was at the veteran’s cemetery to honor them, and she saw many breathtaking things. The veterans of World War 2 were sitting near the front, and when the national anthem played, they all stood up. They stood up out of their wheelchairs, and put their shaking hands over their heart to honor America. My mother told me many other stories, and I realized that veterans all have one thing in common, extreme selflessness.
I have one last reason we should honor veterans everyday, and all the time. My great- Grandmother Dorothy Victoria Williams was in the first group of women to ever be in the military, and she was never sorry she did it, because she loved helping her country, and the adventure! Being related to one of the first females in the military gives me great pride, and she is a hero to me.
Being in the military is not an easy job at all, and I cannot even begin to understand the stress of it. I do know that veterans are courageous, selfless people who deserve to be recognized for what they have done. Military heroes, like my great grandmother, should be honored all the time because all the time in the world would not make up for what they have done for us.
My mother works as the assistant director at the department of veterans affairs. She tells me many moving stories that give me good reason to honor veterans all the time. The first was of a new veteran, who was shot and paralyzed from the war in Iraq. My mom was visiting the medical center and happened upon him. Soon they started talking and he told her about himself. He told my mom how he and his buddies loved to play poker. He was especially excited when he explained that he was going to Las Vegas, but he had to wait a year because he was not old enough. So he was old enough to go fight and be shot in the war, but not old enough to gamble.
The next story takes place on Memorial Day. My mother was at the veteran’s cemetery to honor them, and she saw many breathtaking things. The veterans of World War 2 were sitting near the front, and when the national anthem played, they all stood up. They stood up out of their wheelchairs, and put their shaking hands over their heart to honor America. My mother told me many other stories, and I realized that veterans all have one thing in common, extreme selflessness.
I have one last reason we should honor veterans everyday, and all the time. My great- Grandmother Dorothy Victoria Williams was in the first group of women to ever be in the military, and she was never sorry she did it, because she loved helping her country, and the adventure! Being related to one of the first females in the military gives me great pride, and she is a hero to me.
Being in the military is not an easy job at all, and I cannot even begin to understand the stress of it. I do know that veterans are courageous, selfless people who deserve to be recognized for what they have done. Military heroes, like my great grandmother, should be honored all the time because all the time in the world would not make up for what they have done for us.
"All Summer in a Day" Response
The darkness washes over you, making it all the more frustrating, and the yearning growing stronger. You start crying, and the world is crying with you, crying for seven years, but you hope, with every ounce of strength you have, that one day, everything will be right again. Until that day comes you will not forget what you want, what you need like water, so when it happens, your dream can come true. Obsession can get you to a point at which you feel complete, yet more times then not, it will backfire, leaving you with less than nothing.
Margot clearly has an obsession with the sun, and she, and her classmates all know it. Obsessions are usually unhealthy, take this short story as an example. Margot never stops thinking about the sun. She adores it so much that the rain, and even just water makes her feel the strongest of hatred. Obsession causes you to go in a place of extreme unbalance, where only one thing rules your life, like the sun for Margot. It makes you lose sight in things you care for and love, because your heart is filled with the thing you fixate on.
If Margot did not obsess over the sun, she would have got to see it after the 3 years of darkness, because of this, she got locked in a closet and missed the only thing she cared about, thus causing her insanity and maybe even death. Some people believe that everything they want will become theirs if they just try hard enough and not give up, but there is a fine line between a goal to accomplish and a sick fixation.
One of the best ways to go into a dark place where no one can free you is to obsess over something. Life can be thrown into disarray too many times to count, like it did to Margot, and because of that the story did not have a happy ending. It is simply unbalance, and that is something we could all do without.
Margot clearly has an obsession with the sun, and she, and her classmates all know it. Obsessions are usually unhealthy, take this short story as an example. Margot never stops thinking about the sun. She adores it so much that the rain, and even just water makes her feel the strongest of hatred. Obsession causes you to go in a place of extreme unbalance, where only one thing rules your life, like the sun for Margot. It makes you lose sight in things you care for and love, because your heart is filled with the thing you fixate on.
If Margot did not obsess over the sun, she would have got to see it after the 3 years of darkness, because of this, she got locked in a closet and missed the only thing she cared about, thus causing her insanity and maybe even death. Some people believe that everything they want will become theirs if they just try hard enough and not give up, but there is a fine line between a goal to accomplish and a sick fixation.
One of the best ways to go into a dark place where no one can free you is to obsess over something. Life can be thrown into disarray too many times to count, like it did to Margot, and because of that the story did not have a happy ending. It is simply unbalance, and that is something we could all do without.
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