"After You, My Dear Alphonse" Response

Author's Note: This is a response from the story "After You, My Dear Alphonse" by Shirley Jackson. 

This story relates to naivete and reverse racism because the mother is trying to connect racism to the little boy johnny brought home. Every time she tries to do so it ends up being the complete opposite thing that she is trying to say about him. Like when she says, “Boyd, Johnny has some suits that are a little too small for him, and a winter coat. It’s not new, of course, but there’s lots of wear in it still. And I have a few dresses that your mother or sister could probably use. Your mother can make them over into lots of things for all of you, and I'd be very happy to give them to you. Suppose before you leave I make up a big bundle and then you and Johnny can take it over to your mother right away." When she says this she is thinking that his family doesn't have a lot of clothes and that his mother knew how to sew because she is connecting him and his family to what people had slaves do before the civil war. 

Some naivete in this story are like how the boys are so naive that they don't understand what johnny's mother means when she says everything she does. Some ways this story compares to some countries in the world is pretty much everywhere because some people think about someone a certain way because of their race. A lesson that shirley jackson is trying to say is just because of someones race doesn't mean that you should judge people by their race.

A Place to Socialize

A cafe, clean, and well lighted. In the story A Clean, Well-lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway is about two waiters having to stay late because of an old man drowning his sorrows in drink. The film someone made makes this story a little more dramatic and let someone understand it a little more. Some things that added suspense to this is the music in the beginning which sounded sad because the old man was drinking his sorrows away. Also when the young waiter kicked him out the music started playing again, I don't think it was for the old guy leaving but the older waiter not wanting the younger waiter to kick him out.

Although the music is interesting to talk about don't forget about the lighting and screenshots in this story's film. The lighting was confusing because cafes are supposed to be lit up all the time but half the bar was not lit. Also some of the lights in the cafe and around were very dim. Different Screenshots made this dramatic during some parts of the film. Also at some points to make it even more dramatic the screenshots would be at the waiters then the old man.

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Question

A cafe, clean, and well lighted. This is what it is like in the story A Clean, Well-lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway. Some important quotes from this book are "He hung himself with a rope.", "How much money has he got?" "He's got plenty." and "He had a wife once too." I know these quotes are the most important quotes of the story.The quote "He hung himself with a rope." is important because it means he was taking his life because he is depressed. Also "How much money has he got?" "He's got plenty." is important because it means he isn't depressed because he can barely scrape by. And finally "He had a wife once too." because this means that he is drinking because he is depressed because his wife divorced him.

Cole's Symbolism

Author’s Note: This is my text analysis piece and I tried to make connecting within this piece.

Anger raging within Cole because someone snitched on him. In the book “Touching Spirit Bear” by Ben Mikaelsen there is a lot of symbolism and foreshadowing. Some examples of symbolism in this piece are the spirit bears fur, the rain after Cole gets mauled by the spirit bear and the “ancestor rock”.

Although talking about what symbolism is in this book I will explain what the symbolism means in this story. The color of the spirit bear’s fur is white and the bear is supposed to be peaceful. Also the rain after Cole gets mauled stands for sadness but it also stands for renewal because after this Cole becomes more peaceful because he realized that he can’t solve all of his problems from violence. Another piece of symbolism is Cole rolling the “ancestor rock” down the hill is suppose to represent him letting go of his anger everyday.

Even though the symbolism in this piece is interesting don’t forget about the foreshadowing. One example of foreshadowing is Cole seeing spirit bear because Cole thinks the spirit bear will attack him. Another is Garvey helping Cole after he burned the first cabin down because that should have been Cole’s only chance but Garvey believed that Cole could still prove himself.

All in all there is a lot of symbolism and foreshadowing in this book. The author did a good job at adding lots of symbolism and foreshadowing. Although I did not analyse every single piece of symbolism in this book, the ones that I talked about were the ones I thought were important.

Dreams

Dreaming for the future, making goals for later. This is a poem called "Dreams" by Langston Hughes. The overall tone of this poem is serious because it is saying that if someone gives up on their dreams then they will end up regretting it later. Some of the symbolism is the broken-winged bird which stands for vulnerability and loss of freedom.

A Wrinkle In Time

Imagine walking into a portal that would allow you to “tesser” to somewhere else quickly. In the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle three children named Meg, Charles Wallace and Calvin experience this on their journey. Some themes that are in this book are bravery, adventure, and friendship. I know that these are some of the themes in this book.

Although talking about these themes can be useful i’m going to discuss how they fit into the book. Bravery fits into this book because they go on a journey to places far from earth to save their father. They don’t know what is going to happen or what is even happening while they are on this journey. They venture far from earth with three mysterious women who say they will help them.

Although Bravery is a theme in this book don’t forget about adventure. This book is definitely about adventure from them going to the woods to find the three women and then the women “tessering” them to certain locations. The places they go they can’t take it all in because they need to move as swiftly as they can. They almost end up getting taken over because of all the “tessering” they had to do.

Although adventure is a cool theme don’t forget about the theme of friendship. Friendship is a very important part in this story. If the theme of friendship wasn’t in this story then some of the people wouldn’t be able to be saved. The only reason everyone made it back alive was because of friendship especially for Charles Wallace.

All in all this story demonstrates the themes of bravery, friendship and adventure. The themes in this book make the story really excellent. In the story these themes help guide what will happen later.

No Chance of Escape

Author's Note: Water flowing into an excavation site with heavy rubber suits are being worn, they can't swim in the water it was almost truly no escape.

Imagine being at an excavating a site ten stories beneath a sewer wearing rubber suits hardly able to move. While Lynn Rosellini was writing she wrote a short story that involves that situation called No Escape. Swaby, Kenneth Schofield and John Kanash were all together in an excavation site. Till all of a sudden water flooding the site and there is nothing you can do about it. Even though the only way out is by a man cage the crane driver grabbed the man cage and saved one of the men. Even though the rule was don’t go back he made a smart choice.

In addition, the radios are broke and they can’t communicate to each other for him to lower that man cage. While they lower the cage water keeps pouring in and it is almost going to drowning them. A man goes back to save his fellow workers, even though the safety rules say you don’t go back if there is a danger. If he would have wasted anymore time his friends wouldn’t have made it out and the place would’ve been flooded.

To begin with the rubber suits were a setback to them with the heavy rubber boots and rain suits. Seeing that they almost drowned they need to invent rain suits and boots that weigh less for them if they did that they would be able to have a chance to get out. If they did that they would be a little bit safer and probably a little bit more comfortable in those suits. The suits were so heavy they were stuck down there.

Likewise he made a good decision to go back and save his friends, their families were no doubt thankful that he went back to save them. When Swaby saved them they were chin level with the water; about to drown. Swaby was very intelligent for going back to save his friends, if he would stay hesitated more than 15 seconds they would have drowned.

All in all Swaby made the right choice to go back and save his friends. Swaby was a hero for going back; his co-workers were thinking they were going to drown before Swaby came back down in the man cage. Swaby saved their lives because he knew he could save them, even though there is a rule they should have it set under circumstances instead.