Friday, October 4, 2013

Literature Analysis



1.In Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins. Katniss gets rescued by 13. After being rescued by District 13, Katniss is convinced to become the Mocking Jay, a symbol of the rebellion against the Capitol. But she demands that Peeta gets rescued. After that he gets rescued. Then they figured out that Peeta has been brainwashed into believing Katniss is the enemy
After the rebels take back the districts they start attacking the Capitol itself.  Katniss and her team go through a booby trapped city.  Losing lots of her team as they go.  After a while Katniss is fighting towards Snow's mansion, which has many human child shields.  Then supply packages rain down from a plane into children and a medical team, which includes Katniss's sister Prim, but instead of supplies there were bombs and all the children die and so did the entire medical team. When Snow's capture they take him to court and found him guilty.  During a conversation with Snow before his execution Snow tells her that the bombing that killed her sister was not send by the Capitol, but by Coin.  At the execution of Snow Katniss kills Coin instead of Snow because she knows that he was not lying about Coin. Then she goes to court for the death of Coin and is not founded guilty. Finally she goes back with Peeta to district 12 and had children.
2. Theme: Life can be harsh but live on.
3. Author's tone: His tone is like normal he doesn't change through out the book.
4. The author uses figurative language like personification like "But the game bag has reminded me" (14) Another one is "The hours spent wrapped in it"(14) One other one is hyperbole "I burst out"(123) 

Thursday, October 3, 2013

The Monkey's Paw

If you had three wishes, what would they be?  Why?  (No wishing for more wishes.)  Explain each response. 
My first wish would be to be rich but to not cause any one to die. My second wish would be to strong and healthy. My third wish would be to live happily .
    Is there anything that you are superstitious about?  Explain.  (If not, explain why not.)
 I am superstitious about salt to be bad luck if you drop any. It is something my mom told me.

Vocabulary #7

  1. The stop signs are inhibiting the cars from crashing.
  2. I received 200 dollars aberrantly when it wasn't my birthday.
  3. I loathe to do homework.
  4. His prowess is to run with out stopping.
  5. My writhing sometimes is incoherent.
  6. Most of the epitaph have written R.I.P.
  7. His paper needed more elaborate because it was mostly blank.
  8. His countenance was painted for Halloween.

Vocabulary #6

                                                       
        1. The time will be 12 o’clock because it is inevitable.
       2. Her phobia is heights so she didn’t get on the roller coaster.
       3.A fugitive secludes to not get founded.
      4. He was rebuked when he made a mistake in the streets.
       5.Hitler is notorious for World War 2.
       6.The guy has fluctuate throughout high school.
    7.I am very candid to people.
      8.The kid was sophomoric for his age.