Newspaper

I interviewed a local merchant whom had his cart turned over in the turmoil. He was quick to explain that he was sick and tired of the feud. He said, “Montagues and Capulets alike should pay with their life, so the rest of us merit citizens can quit living in strife.” The merchant had to make a quick exit to stop unruly children from stealing his upturned wares.

Although I could not obtain presence with the prince himself, his secretary kindly relayed questions and answers between us. “The feud between the two families are deep and uncontrollable, unless something very dramatic happens in the next week, I will be forced to punish both families as I see fit. “ The prince responded to my question of what was going to happen next.

“I heard a rumor that some locals are going to raid the two families homes tonight, and force this feud to an end. I am considering joining them.” Maria, a innocent passerby who almost got her head chopped off by one of the Montague’s swords. “This hath gone far to many summers. Tis time to settle the breeze.”

Vocab Sentences

The various rosemary bushes made Jake's face turn sallow.

Vocab Words

Rosemary: (noun) an evergreen aromatic shrub of the mint family, native to southern Europe. The narrow leaves are used as a culinary herb, in perfumery, and as an emblem of remembrance.

Sallow: (adj) of a sickly, yellowish color

Waverer: (verb) to sway to and fro; flutter

Perverse: (adj) willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what isexpected or desired; contrary.

Cunning: (noun) skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving;craftiness; guile.

Procure: (verb) to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means

Lamentable: (adj) unfortunate

Kinsmen: (noun) a blood relative, especially a male.

Unwieldy: (adj) not wieldy; wielded with difficulty; not readily handled ormanaged in use or action, as 

from size, shape, or weight; awkward; ungainly.

Variable: (adj) apt or liable to vary or change

Social Offences

Consider the following social offenses. Rank each in order of seriousness with 1 being the most serious.

1) Suicide
2) Killing someone for revenge
3) Killing someone by mistake while fighting
4) Two families having a feud
5) Killing someone in self-defense
6) Lying to parents 7) Planning to trick someone
8) Advising someone to marry for money
9) Picking a fight

10) Marrying against parents' wishes

11) Crashing a party
12) Giving the finger
13) Cursing

Romeo and Juliet Scene 1 act 1 & 2

Swords Drawn

Lovesick idiot drones on and on

Quarrel between Montagues and Capulets continues; the end not to be seen.

Shakespeare continues to annoy Alaskans

Confession of love

Bachelor on the prowl

List of Characters:

Tybalt-

Sampson- “bite thumb saying

Gregory- my favorite

Capulet-

Lady Capulet-

Montague-

Lady Montague-

Paris-

Benvolio-

Balthasar-

Abram-

The Chorus-

Rosaline-

The prologue hooks the readers and gives a snippet of what is about to happen.

We had known, and dated, each other for years now; with every year passing by I grew to love her more and more. Tonight is the night I shed my bachelor’s skin.

 Love at first sight, in my mind, does not exist. He and she just don’t stare across the cafeteria table and instantly say, “I love you”. It takes time to build a relationship. For instance in Twilite, Stella checked out one Sullen before her eyes landed on Edweird. She later had issues choosing between Edweird and Yakob. However, her ultimate choice landed on Edweird. This just proves there are up and downs in a relationship; there are always uncertainties, and never a one hundred percent sureness of their devotion.

Romeo also proclaimed his love for Rosaline to be so anguishing that his life was over when she did not love him back. Then all of a sudden he loves Juliet. Obviously he has some hard times choosing.

We will be married in a couple months. Such a large step! My fiancé and I, we know it was well worth the wait.

JIG

chapter 5 & 6

CHAPTER FIVE & SIX

1.    1. What does Elisha imagine that the room is filled with?

He imagines that the room is filled with ghosts from his past. Every human being that is dead and helped him become who he is.

2. What does the beggar tell Elisha about this night?

The beggar says that it is a night of many faces.

3. What does the little boy tell him?

The little boy says that he and the rest of the ghosts are not judgeing, but want to see the act of murder being commited because they were to turn into murderers because of Elisha.

4. Why is it significant that it is the boy who speaks?

The little boy is his old self.

5. How did John Dawson react when told he would die?

John Dawson smiled and said his stomache had told him. He requested a last meal.

6. Why does Elisha not want to see Dawson eat?

He wants to remember John Dawson as a man who never eats. Also, he believes men who are going to die can’t eat.

7. What problem does Elisha think is worse than fear?

He was worried about John Dawson making him laugh because a laugh saved Elisha. Also, the roles that the executioner and victim are worse than fear itself.

8. In what way does Ilana say that war is like night.

War covers everything.

9. What other observations of war does she make?

There are two ways to kill: one way is with your hands, the other is with you voice.

10. After the war ends, what does Elisha think will remain?

Elisha believes he will remain an executioner forever even after war has ended. The purpose and the end is all that will last.

11. What does he think the silent dead do?

Elisha thinks the silent dead judge him and his actions with out pity, and commend with not words or jestures, but their very existence.

12. What does he say the freedom nation is built upon?

He said the freedom of the nation is built upon a foundation of dead bodies.

13. Elisha says he is not a murderer but an idealist. How is this true?

He is choosing life apposed to death.

14. In what way did he, as a youth, try to follow any idealist dream?

When in their youth, Yerachmiel and Elisha tried to purify their souls enough to bring the Messiah to earth.

15 What do the presences symbolize as far as what makes a man?

The presenseces symbolize that a man is made up of everyone and everything that helped him become who he was.

16. What does the revolver symbolize for Elisha?

The revolver symbolizes Elisha, and all of the people who created him, turning into murderers.

17. Why does he say that in an hour everything will be different?

At the end of the hour he will become a murderer.

CHAPTER SIX

1. What is ironic about the meaning of Elisha's name?

Elisha’s name is ironic because it is also the name of a prophet that brings life to people and he does the exact opposite.

2. What does Elisha think the next day will bring him?

Elisha thinks the next day will bring him

3. Why does John Dawson understand Elisha better than any human

being?

John Dawson and Elisha have a special connection between executioner and victim. Elisha was the last man John Dawson ever saw.

4. What two burning sensations does Elisha feel?

The pistol in his pocket and every sentence John Dawson spoke were two burning sensations Elisha felt.

5. Whom does Elisha picture when he tries to picture David Ben Moshe?

He pictures John Dawson because John Dawson is the only man that he knows, and has seen, that is condemned to die.

6. What experiences did Dawson's artistic hands make Elisha think of?

Elisha thought of how Stefan back in the holocaust, got each one of his fingers on his right hand cut off because he wouldn’t tell the names of other Jews that were doing a resistance against the Germans.

7. Is he right in saying, "Now our only chance lies in hating you, in learning the necessity and art of hate"?

Yes he is right, because that’s the only way to possibly cope with killing John Dawson.

8. What is the meaning of, "I've killed Elisha"?

He killed his old self because he changed drastically.

9. What does he hear his mother say to him?

His mother says poor boy, poor poor boy.

10. Explain the last line of the novel.

Elisha sees his face and before he has always seen dead people’s faces, but now he has seen his own. He killed himself and  changed so drastically that his old self has died.

Night has a thousand googley EYES!

Journal for Dawn

Journal for Dawn

1) A summary of the book up to page 44.

So far Dawn has taken place during autumn in Palestine. Elisha is eighteen years old and Gad recruits him to become a Freedom Fighter; part of his job is to execute John Dawson. He has killed many people before, but always under the cover of darkness and with a group. The thought of execution troubles him and there are many symbols expressing the loss of his innocence; such as a crying baby. He flashed back to what lead him to that spot, all the acts of terrorism that he had committed. Finally it’s the night of the execution and each member of the group talks about how they escaped death. The ending scene is of Catherine, who loves Elisha, whispering poor boy and weeping because she felt that Elisha was going to die.

2) A PREDICTION about what you think will happen.

Elisha is going to feel ashamed that his ancestors are going to become murderers because he was about to become a murderer; he doesn’t follow through with the murder. However, Gad will not be pleased with Elisha. He will force another worker to take Elisha’s place, and either kill Elisha, or demerit him and send him off to a small country town.

3) What you would do if you were in Elisha's situation.

First, I would pretend like I was going to go through with it, but in reality I wouldn’t. I’d tell my fellow comrades that I was going to have a few last words with the man I was to murder; they, of course, would allow me to. Then, I would unlock whatever contraption held him and aid him in his escape from the building. I already had a plane ticket booked for myself; I would be flying far away from the war and death. I would never look back; although, I would often remember those horrible moments right before I was supposed to turn into a murderer. But let’s get real, I would most likely curl up in a ball crying in the corner of the room screaming nonsense.

sentences

John owns, and loves to wear hats - John's hero is John Wayne; his girlfriend likes to see him in cowboy hats.

I like My Nike shoes weight; they are designed to play tennis and have air soles. 

Chapter 3 &4

Questions for classroom discussion:

1) Gad states that the Jews were the only ones to listen to the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. He states that they "must be like everybody else?.and kill those who made us killers." How do Elisha and the other Jews reconcile their violence with their faith?

 Gad is a messenger, god is a member of the resistance, they believe they must become one with god, they are trying to make an idependent country, and the god of peace is also the god of war.

2) Elisha states that he had killed others before under different circumstances, under the cover of darkness. Why is the question of executing John Dawson a problem for him?

He is uncomfortable with executing because he doesn’t have the cover of darkness, now he has to do this alone and look at John Dawson in the face; before he has not had to look at anyone that he has killed.

3) What do you make of the repetition of "Don’t torture yourself." by Elisha’s peers?

It is kind of funny because he should be worried about executing someone and yet everyone is telling him it’s no big deal.

4) What is learned by reading all the stories of how they each escaped death? How might this change their views on death and killing?

They might believe death is something that you can escape which would make them more courageous when performing their acts of terrorism.

5) Ilana calls Elisha a "Poor boy". This reminds him of Catherine. What does his memory of Catherine have to do with Ilana?

He might love Ilana because he loved Catherine

6) What do the reader and Elisha learn from the visit from his dead family?

They learn that by Elisha becoming a murderer so do everyone that created him. Also, a man that is about to die has no appetite.

7) Why is he afraid that his family will judge him? How is he judging himself? Explain.

He cares what his family thinks which is why he is afraid of how they will judge him. He doesn’t want his family to think that he is a murderer. They are judging him because they’re his silence and silence is judging Elisha. Elisha is making excuses that he is not a murderer he is a soldier.

Notes on dash

Notes on Dash

Dash- (an informal mark of punctuation used for stylistic effects.

Uses:

1)   Set off a word or group of words introduced unexpectedly.

Example- that looks like smoke coming from the- help! Fire!

2)   Abrupt breaking off on one thought into another, or discovery of an unexpected thought or idea.

Ex: When you see Ann- here she comes- acts as if nothing has happened.

You drink Bawels- you do, don’t you- you’ll love Spike; It has 33,333% of daily B12.

Powerhouse is not a show-off like the Harlem boys, not crazy- he’s in a trance; he’s a person of joy.

3)   Use a dash to separate two identical or almost identical words.

Ex: I can do the job- the job of gangstering the Brady Bunch

Dole and Nixon- These men where his idols.

4)   Use a dash before a list that explains in detail some word or phrase in the first part of the sentence.

Ex: Bring some romantic item- among other things roses, champagne, and candles.

5)   Many authors use the dash as a method of pause when a character is speaking.

Example: “Oh, he got her the job, did he?- We’’, I’m going to fix it so she won’t need any job.”

6)   James Joyce uses the dash instead of quotations.

--O, Mr. D’Arcy, cried Mary Jane, it’s downright mean of you to break off like that when we were all in raptures listening to you.

DAWN chapters 1 and 2

1. Tell why the narrator keeps referring to the crying child. Explain its significance to the story or the evolving theme.

He keeps referring to the crying child because the child symbolizes new life, his Elisha’s emotions, Elisha loses his innocence when he executes John Dawson because Britain has David Ben Moshe’s.

2. Explain how he learns to tell when day changes into night. Why is night “purer” than day?

A beggar taught Elisha how to distinguish the difference between night and day. Night is purer than day because its better for thinking, loving, and dreaming. At night everything is more intense more true. Words take a new and deeper meaning in night.

3. Explain the significance of his seeing his own face when night comes.

When he sees his face he sees him dead because all the other faces that he had seen before were dead. He is already dead inside, a walking corpse.

4. Who is the narrator to kill and why? Is there a difference between killing and execution? Comment on this in relation to the line “We are not murderers.”

The narrator is to kill John Dawson, a captain in the Britain army, because Britain has taken David Ben Moshe. Yes, execution is when you have no way to fight back, but killing someone is in the heat of battle, or when you still have hope. “We are not murderers.” – They are murderers, but they are forced to do so and if the Britain’s relinquished their hold on David Ben Moshe then they would not be forced to be murderers. Therefore, they are simply killers which is slightly less degree in my mind than murderers.

5. “Violence is the only language the English understand.” Is this true only for the English? Explain why or why not.

Violence is a language all animals understand. It does not matter what country you belong to. All animals have the primal instinct of fear and danger. They understand violence and how to protect themselves from it.

6. Why does he feel like he is “falling into a pit’ when told to execute a man?

He feels like he is falling into a pit because he didn’t feel like he should execute a man. He reiterates twice that he shall kill a man tomorrow, which shows that he was shocked and slightly nervous for the upcoming event.

7. Elisha calls himself a “terrorist.” Why does he call himself that and not a freedom fighter?

He calls himself a terrorist because he doesn’t want to do what he has to do but he understands that he needs to in order to get Palestine a safe place.

8. Explain Elisha’s reasons for coming to Paris.

He couldn’t go back to his home because his whole town was occupied by the Russians & he didn’t want to relive his childhood.

9. Describe how Gad “appeared” to Elisha.

Gad was young, tall and slender; he was wearing a raincoat he knocked on Elisha’s door appearing out of nowhere and wanting Elisha’s future.

10. Why does Elisha believe he was a “Meshula” or a messenger? Why does he give it so much importance? P 14

Elisha thinks gad is the messenger because of what Gad does and says. It is important because Gad is asking for Elisha’s life and telling Elisha what he will do with it. He is the messenger of fate. This will flow the ways of Elisha’s future.

11. Discuss and comment on the following lines. You can include what you know about the history of the people involved. “Until this moment I had believed that the mission of the Jews was to represent the trembling of history rather than the wind which made it tremble.”

Jews were supposed to represent the wrong doing in history (ie slaves, holocaust) but now they are the ones making the trouble kicking out the British from Palestine and creating their own country.

12. On page 22 he gives a description of “death.” Explain what it portends for the main character and the book

Death has a thousand eyes, so does night. He thinks that he is death himself in that instance because he says: “night [death] has a thousand eyes, which are mine.” This likely means that the book will be focused on Elisha killing people and his battle within himself to chose weather being death is right or wrong.

Sentences with ;

1)   She impatiently waited for her father to get back in the car; he took as long as possible in order to annoy his daughter.

2)   He left the car door ajar when he went into the hardware store; his daughter shivered in the cold seat lazily refusing to close the open door.

3)   Sam drove a Ford Truck; Lilly drives a sleek sports car.

4)   “I rest my case,” the lawyer cried out in triumph; he gave an evil grin towards the accused person satisfied that John would be in jail for twenty more years.

5)   Sparkey continuously barked causing the house to ring with constant noise; Al yelled at her.

6)   “Ore truck!” yelled the clamjamphine; they ducked into the bushes.

7)   A black cat bolted after the mouse’s tail; the mouse scuttled away making it to safety under the stairs.

8)   “Your face!” a naive teenager retorted; Mariah punched him in the gut.

9)   Jennifer trudged to the store; she hadn’t realized that her mom had already been.

10)                   “pull my toe!” implored Ben, the twenty five year old; Jennifer reluctantly did so; he giggled childishly and curled up in a ball.

Rules on Semi-colons

Notes on Semicolons

Semi-colon- A stylistic mark that is never necessary: it takes the place of a comma or a period.

1.     To join two or more closely related sentences or complete statements.

EX: The black Saturn slid into a snow blank; the driver got out reciting: “The moon, a silver slither of an eighth note.”

I went to work; I had a quick lunch; I came straight home.

Note: Both of these sentences could be written with a comma.

The black Saturn slid into a snow bank, and the driver got out reciting: “The moon, a silver slither of an eighth note.”

2.     To connect interrelated ideas or thoughts

Example: In France, we bought tea; in Amsterdam, coffee; in America coke-cola, and apple juice in Ireland.

3.     A semi-colon may replace a comma to separate items of a list when additional commas may confuse the reader.

Example: The winning numbers were 1,2,3; 3,663; 8,462 and 2,370; Dean had all of them.

Mr. Green, the plumber (who did it with a wrench); George Jefferson, the laundry-mat owner; and  Scooby Doo, the rabid mutt, were all at the school cookout.

Rules on Commas

Rules for commas:

1)   They divide items in lists, but are not required before the “and” on the end.

Example: the four refreshing fruit flavors of Opal Fruits are orange, lemon, strawberry and lime.

The rule here is that the comma is correct if it can be replaced by the word “and” or “or”

Example: The four refreshing fruit flavors of Opal Fruits is orange and lemon and strawberry and lime

Note: It is not incorrect to put a comma before the “and” at the end

Example: The four refreshing fruit flavors of Opal Fruits are orange, lemon, strawberry, and lime.

2)   Commas are used when two complete sentences are joined together using such conjunction as “and”, “or”, “While” and “Yet”

Example: The boys wanted to stay up past midnight, but they had a race to run the next day and their coach told them “no”.

Note: a comma splice occurs when you use a comma when a semi-colon is called for.

Example: It was Queen’s birthday on Saturday, she received a lot of presents.

It should be written: It was queen’s birthday on Saturday; she received a lot of presents.

Or: It was Queen’s birthday on Saturday, and she received a lot of presents.

3)   Comas fill gaps where other words might go

Example: Annie had dark hair; Sally, fair

4)   Commas before direct speech.

The queen said, “It’s my birthday and I want lots of presents”

Note: Many authors use colons: these days. Joyce used dash-.

5)   Commas set off interjections

Example: Stop, or I’ll scream.

6)   Commas set aside non-essential information.

Example: John Keats, who never did any harm to anyone, is often invoked by, grammarians.

Take Home Essay

In this essay I compare and contrast Cade Bambara's Grandaddy Cain and Jesse Stuart's Luster (Pa) Sexton.

Grandaddy Cain lives on a farm in the south with pecan barrels, trees, flowers, printed stones, and his family. Luster (Pa) Sexton also lives on a farm in the south, however it lacks electricity, has cattle, and a well.

Mr. Cain wears field boots and black oil skin. He has white hair and stands tall and quiet like a king. He is big enough to hold a small child on his hand. It is said that Grandaddy has “engines in his feet and motors in his hands”. Instead of being called a waiter among some folks Mr. Cain is titled “The Waiter”. Similarly in farm boy fashion , Mr. Sexton wears baggy and wrinkled overalls, big boots laced in the front with buckskin, socks protruding above the tops of his boots, a blue work shirt peeking over his sheepskin coat and a worn out black hat hiding his gray-streaked black hair. Pa's hands are gnarled like the roots of an elm tree. His face is brown and weather beaten; it turns red when he is mad. When he stood inside the school house “he looked like a leaf turned brown on the tree among the treetop filled with growing leaves”.

Grandaddy and Pa are both very protective of their families. Pa worries that Dave, his son, is not getting an education. Meanwhile, Grandaddy Cain is fretful that his family's space is being invaded upon. When their families are threatened they tend to become slightly violent in nature. Grandaddy Cain ripped a camera apart and Luster threatened a man with his gun. Of course nothing came from these encounters, no blood shed, which hints towards a kind heart in each of the men.

They are farm workers at heart and are stubborn in their own ways. Luster and Grandaddy are elderly. Pa had eleven children; Mr. Cain also had kids.

Originally Pa thinks that you should only teach children out of the books and not hands on. Eventually, he envisions that time has passed him up and there are better ways of teaching. However, he doesn't change his mind about one thing; if you don't beat your child with a switch then the child will become soft and spoiled. Luster believes that you can beat a child until they're twenty-one. Grandaddy doesn't like people messing with his family. He dislikes intruders and would like to be left alone with his family members.

Conjectural & Poignant

Conjectural ( adj): Homework is a conjectural thing that hints upon abuse.
Poignant (adj): The poignant argument forced the homeless child to the orphanage after her parents passed away.

Imperative & Reiterate

Imperative (adj)- It is imperative for you to do your brothers biddings if you wish to survive
Reiterate (V)- My mother reiterated for the hudreth time that I had to clean my homework

Peremptory & Undulations

Peremptory: Zoe was peremptory in that Rosalie was doing volleyball
Undulation: The static was in a undulation form.