Thursday, October 23, 2008

Good Country People

In the story good country people there is a misunderstanding between the characters. Hulga/Joy has a misunderstanding with the Bible salesmen. Hulga thinks that she is going to seduce the Bible sales and just kiss each other. But then it turns out that the Bible salesmen seduces her and takes her wooden leg. The Bible salesmen takes the wooden leg and puts it out of Hulga's reach. Hulga's misunderstanding that she was going to makeout leads her to lose her leg.
Then Mrs.Freeman and Mrs Hopewell think The bible salesmen is a nice person.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

the lottery

# 1 A lottery is a drawing to see who gets the prize. The title leads you to expect that there is a prize that the people win instead of death.

# 8 Yes i can support a claim that the story is presented from a objective point of view because they're Trying to find someone to sacrifice to the gods. The dispassionate, matter of fact tone in the is so effective because it prepares you for what is going to happen at the end of the story.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Paul's Case

#2The details of Paul's appearance and behavior showed that he didn't care about what people thought of him including his teachers.
#5 Paul is a static character because he doesn't till the end of the story because he realize that no one will support him.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

The lesson

#3 The Relationship between Sylvia and her cousin Sugar are that they are good friends and they feel that cooler than everyone else. They fit together and like to give names for everyone.

#4 The lesson that Sugar learned is that how could spend that much money n a toy when they could feed a family of six or seven. The lesson is that there is more to life than big house and nice cars. Sugars definition happiness as " an equal crack at the dough" on miss Moore and Sylvia told them a lot about Sugar and that she is deep.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The swimmer

John Cheever statement he is trying to make about post world war II is that the lives on the soldiers change a lot from pre- world war II. The soldiers had good houses and wives. Then after world war II they didn't have all the luxuries or sometimes even there wife.

The swimmer

Everyday Use

The mothers refusal to let Dee to have the quilts is a temporary change of character because it is only for a short while. She has never done anything like this because she has never had the chance to. She does it now because heard the point of view from Dee and she liked it. The details in the story that prepare us for the foreshadowing of the refusal are that Dee tells her whats going to happen to the quilt if she gives it to Maggie.