Thursday, December 16, 2010
Jerk
Being teased is so not fair. Many do it because your different or you have a problem. Jerk by Jonathan Frisen is about a boy named Sam who has tourette syndrome and is being discouraged because of it. Many think Sam Carrier is a freak because he twitches every minute. He is being discouraged by his step father ever since they found out when he was little. Sam thinks that Bill is ashamed of him because of his disability. But his mother loves him regardless. Another one is he has to go to this therapy session everyday after school to talk about his tourette. Sam loves to run but because the Coach said he can't on the track team, he can't. The reason being he can go in to spasm at any moment. Which I think is unfair.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Charles VS Laurie
" The day my son Laurie started kindergarten, he gave up his little-boy clothes. He started wearing blue jeans, with a belt. He looked as though he were going off to a fight". This isn't something a typical parent would say. In this story Charles by Shirley Jackson, Laurie comes home everyday and has different stories about this other kid named Charles who is really bad and reckless. As the reader why is Charles so important?
There was many different themes from child vs child, mother vs father, teacher vs student, to mother vs son. But the most important was Mother Vs Child because Laurie's Mother is starting to get worried that "Charles" is a bad influence. " Do you think kindergarten is to disturbing for Laurie?"I asked him. " This Charles boy sounds like a bad influence." This shows that the mother was well aware that Charles was beginning to be a little bit to much trouble.
The plot is easy to realize in this story because you know from the dialogue. In the start Laurie is going off to school for his first day if kindergarten. Then rising action started to occur when Laurie came home with his first Charles story. " But the teacher spanked a boy," Laurie said. " For being fresh." Laurie thought. " It was Charles," he said." The teacher spanked him and mad him stand in the corner." There was a little hinting when Laurie had to think, why think about it if you knew everything? Then came the ultimate turning point were the mother found out there was Charles just Laurie. " I looked over the faces of all the other mothers. None of them looked unhappy enough to be the mother of Charles. No one stood up and apologized for the way her son had been acting. No one mentioned Charles". Shouldn't that tell you something? Now this is the falling action: " I'm Laurie mother." " Oh yes," she said. "We're all so interested in Laurie."
"He certainly likes kindergarten" I said. " He talks about it all the time."
" He's has some trouble getting used to the school," she said. " Suppose his trouble might be from Charles' influence."
" Charles?" she said. " We don't have any Charles in kindergarten."
Anything is possible when your a little kid. But I didn't know that you could make a new identity to hide your faults was one of them. My reaction was that I was shocked that this little boy who is know less than three or four could come up with such a brilliant plan to hide his troubles. I think this is one of the best stories ever because you get problem after problem in the story which is just the rising action of the story. Till you get to the climax or the turning point where Laurie's mother realizes that Charles never existed. But I don't get why, why the fake person. I mean after all Charles doesn't exits.
There was many different themes from child vs child, mother vs father, teacher vs student, to mother vs son. But the most important was Mother Vs Child because Laurie's Mother is starting to get worried that "Charles" is a bad influence. " Do you think kindergarten is to disturbing for Laurie?"I asked him. " This Charles boy sounds like a bad influence." This shows that the mother was well aware that Charles was beginning to be a little bit to much trouble.
The plot is easy to realize in this story because you know from the dialogue. In the start Laurie is going off to school for his first day if kindergarten. Then rising action started to occur when Laurie came home with his first Charles story. " But the teacher spanked a boy," Laurie said. " For being fresh." Laurie thought. " It was Charles," he said." The teacher spanked him and mad him stand in the corner." There was a little hinting when Laurie had to think, why think about it if you knew everything? Then came the ultimate turning point were the mother found out there was Charles just Laurie. " I looked over the faces of all the other mothers. None of them looked unhappy enough to be the mother of Charles. No one stood up and apologized for the way her son had been acting. No one mentioned Charles". Shouldn't that tell you something? Now this is the falling action: " I'm Laurie mother." " Oh yes," she said. "We're all so interested in Laurie."
"He certainly likes kindergarten" I said. " He talks about it all the time."
" He's has some trouble getting used to the school," she said. " Suppose his trouble might be from Charles' influence."
" Charles?" she said. " We don't have any Charles in kindergarten."
Anything is possible when your a little kid. But I didn't know that you could make a new identity to hide your faults was one of them. My reaction was that I was shocked that this little boy who is know less than three or four could come up with such a brilliant plan to hide his troubles. I think this is one of the best stories ever because you get problem after problem in the story which is just the rising action of the story. Till you get to the climax or the turning point where Laurie's mother realizes that Charles never existed. But I don't get why, why the fake person. I mean after all Charles doesn't exits.
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