Reader Response #6: Find a Poet

The Author that I have choosen to talk about is Maya Angelou. This poem does have a title but i didnt see one on the website. Heres the poem that she wrote." Dead Babies, Dead BabiesDead Ladies, Dead Ladies Where are our healthy young men? DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD open your eyes to the beauty of war War produces rebirth and jobs death=life so kill all puppies and elderly this is how you remind me, of what I really am. MEAN God bless our fighting men-women." I think that this poem made a good understanding for the fighting women and fighting men that are trying to change their lives around. Like young men and young women now those really don’t have anything or anyone because of how they just want to mess their life’s up. It is saying that most of our young men today are messing their lives up over drugs and being in gangs thinking that skipping school and just letting their education go is just right. This is what I am seeing everyday like people that is in my family they are all tryna make it and its like we just don’t have much help. But some people just have to help their self out and stop thinking that everything is just going to come to them like when they are babies and they think they can get anything and think everything in life is free. You have to work to get what you want in this lifetime and I think that I am doing a very good job at it.

Deborah Cox We Can't Be Friends Lyrics

{R.L {from Next}
To just act like we never were
To come around, and not show HURT
How dare we greet by shaking hands
Just months ago I was your man{was your man}
{Verbally we agreed it was over and we were thRough}-R.L and Deborah
Im trying to compose my self
But I just cant get over you
{Chours}
We can't be friends
We can't be friends
DeboRAh you know I can't go on being just ur friend
We can't be friends
Cuz Im still in love with you
{Deborah Cox}
I went by mAMA'S saw you car there
To her your still family and it don't seem fair
For everyone to just go on
I've tried and I can't do it
Cuz I'm still torn
I've tried to think of you as just another love {another love}
In my past,THAT DIDN'T LAST, but its not that simple baby
{Chours}
We can't be friends {No,no no, no}
We can't be friends {If we, if we can't be lovers}
We can't be friends
Cuz I'm still in love with you
{Bridge}
You may see me staring, or catch me in a daze
May see me hang my head when you come my way
Don't get to close to me and expect me to behave
I might just steal kiss
If you come near my face
What i'm tryin' to say
{Chours}
We cant be friends
Can you look me in the eyes and honestly say you dont love me, I know
We can't be friends
Deboarh you know
R.L I know
We can't be friends
I'll never ever find another love like YOU
We can't be friends
I love you too much baby, I love you too much
We can't be friends, Cause i'm still in love with you.
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"WE CANT BE FRIENDS" is one of my most favorite songs because this song means that you love each other so much that you just cant be friends. You and this person has so many feelings for each other that you can actually look into his eyes and tell him that you love him but she knows that you cant be friends at all. They both are still in love with each other thats why they both just cant be friends at all it just cant happen. They both think that friendsship is what they want but really it is not what they really want.This song refers to me in some way because this person that i was inlove with wanted to be friends btu i just couldnt because i love the person just so much.

Essay

La'Nique Newby

Mr.Hughes

English10 4th hour

31 Octboer 2007

Moral Dilemmas in Huck Finn

In The Adventures ogf Huckleberry Finn, Huck faces a number of moral dilemmas which reveal much about his character. Some are very surprising for his age and very well dangerous. The moral dilemmas that take place are usually taken place with different people in the Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. To me the moral dilemmas that Huck faces at different times shows me that huck character changes. In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Huck knows that some of the things he does are wrong and some of are right Huck was getting a little board on the Island with Jim so he decided to play a joke but then it got serious. Huck killed a shake then stuck it in Jims blanket. Huck wasnt being a good friend because that was a very mean thing to do because at the end of it all their was a big consequence. Chapter 10 page 39 par 4-"I killed him, and curled him up on the foot of Jim's blanket, ever so natural, thinking there'd be some fun when Jim found him there. Well by night I forgot all about the snake and when Jim flung himself down on the blanket while I struck a light, the snakes mate was their and bit him."

Huck Finn Reader Response#3 (Ch.14-Ch.18)

Huck Finn Reader Response#3 (Ch.14-Ch.18)

Paragraph 1


Huck was impressed by the style of the house it was so neat and nice.” It was mighty nice family, and a mighty nice house, too” (Ch.17, Page75, Paragraph 5)“I hadn’t seen no house out in the country before that was so nice and had so much style” (Ch.17, Page75, Paragraph 5).This says about Huck’s success that he wants to be able to be like the Gragerford’s house. This also shows that Huck is very happy to have seen something like this that he has never ever seen in his life.


Paragraph 2


The books in the house are special because they were classics. “The statements were interesting, but tough.” (Ch.17, Page76, and Pargragh2).He was probably interested in them because of the stories they told they were probably something that he wanted to hear weather then something boring. This says that Huck’s view of education is that he believes that everybody is intelligent in their own special way.



Paragragh3

The thing that is unique about all the drawings and poems and the scrapbook is that they all had to do with her or someone else that was either dieing or very well sick.

Reader Response 2: Huck Finn (7 - 13)

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Reader Response 2: Huck Finn (7 - 13)
DUE: END OF THE HOUR TODAYFor today's response, you are to write 4-6 paragraphs in which you answer the following questions: How is Huck influenced by the following people: Tom Sawyer, Widow Douglas, Pap, and Jim? Who do you think has the most positive influence on Huck? Negative? Why?You must write at least one paragraph about each person and include the quote, chapter, page, and paragraph number for each quote. (CHAPTER, PAGE #, PAR. #)
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Huck is influenced by Tom Sawyer in many ways. He is his friend and he knows everything that he do he does it well- “I did wish Tom Sawyer was there, I knowed he would take an interest in this kind of business, and throw in the fancy touches. (7, 25, 12) Nobody could spread himself like Tom Sawyer in such a thing as that (7, 25, and 12). Tom sawyer is a very very tempting person. Tom likes to be in charge and run everything he likes to be an instructor well “the boss”. (2, 5, 8) “Now we’ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer’s Gang.(2, 5, 8)


Huck is influenced by Widow Douglas in many ways. She was very nice to huck she tells him that she wants to do a lot for huck-“The widow Douglas, she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer , I lit out.(1, 1, 2)-"Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn’t"(1, 2, 3).She made him stay in school, and didn’t allow him to smoke or do anything that she knew that was wrong.Widow was Huck's owner and guardian she was the one looking out for huck in everyway. She was a wonderful influence on Huck in his life she taught him the right things to do and the wrongs things to do, so that he would try in stay out of trouble.

Pap is Huck’s Dad, to me he was a bad influence on him.He wanted his own son to not be educated well smart and to not know anything at all. ‘’ You’re educated; too, they say; can read and write. You think you better’n your father, now, don’t you, because he cant.’’ Pap also, wanted him to drop out of school that is another reason why he is a bad influence on Huck which is son. "Well, I'll learn how to meddle. And looky here- you drop that school, you hear?(5,15,7).

Huck is influenced by Jim both of them are friends. When they were at the island and they became better friends and had to work together to live. He helped him steal from this dead mans house he stole the chester,cloths and helped to steal the one boat and by being a little afrraid with the snake and everything. “You said it was the worst luck in the world to touch a snake-skin with my hands.”(10, 39, 3). He was a good friend because he kept the secrets that Huck told him.






The most positive influence on Huck is Widow Douglas because she keeps him doing the things that he needs to do she keeps him on track and watches out for him. The worst would have to be Pap because Pap was just a man that had no kinda respect for his child and he was an un educated person who was a horrible parent. He was a drunk and very abbusive and only wanted his son for his son's money.

Readers Response1: Huck Finn(1-6)

The theme that i choose for Huck finn is "Relationship to Parents". I had shut the door to. Then I turned around, and there he was i used to be scared of him all the time, he tanned me so much.(Ch. 5,p.14,par1).This statement is saying that huck finns dad hit him so much that everytime her would look at him thats why he would be so scared because his dad hit him so much."Well, I'll learn how to meddle. And looky here- you drop that school, you hear?(Ch.5,p.15,par7). This statement is saying that huck's daddy wants him to not finish school, dont worry about school, he doesnt need school.You lemme catch you fooling around that school again,you hear? Your mother couldnt read, and she couldn't write, nuther, before she died. None of the family couldn't before they died. I cant ; and here you're a-swelling yourself up like this. I aint the man to stand it-you hear? Say-lemme hear you read."(Ch.5,p.15,par7). This statement is saying that i dont know why you are trying to read because you're mother and you're family could not eaither so what are you trying to read for show me how you think you better.

Just Something!

Im in your 4th hour class,I want to write about alot of personal issues but you wont let me!