Barba-Zavala Comp ll Commonplace Book by Gabby Barba-Zavala

#1 "The Chaser" by John Collier

barbagabby — 2015-10-23 03:58:27 UTC

"Then customers come back, later in life, when they are
better off, and want more expensive things. Here you are. You will find it very effective." The old man tries one more time to warn Alan about his mistake his about to make, and the cost he will later have to pay.

#2 "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros

barbagabby — 2015-11-05 03:53:15 UTC

"I wish I was anything but eleven, because I want today to be far away already, far away like a runaway balloon, like a tiny o in the sky, so tiny-tiny you have to close your eyes to see it." Rachel had a vey bad day on her birthday. Her teacher, Mrs. Price, embarrassed her in front of the class twice. Making Rachel learn the hard truth about growing up. I put this picture of a girl letting go the balloon to show Rachel letting go her childhood.

#3 "A & P" by John Updike

barbagabby — 2015-11-28 21:40:01 UTC

" Did you say something, Sammy?"

" I said I quit."

"I thought you did."

"You didn't have to embarrass them."

"It was they who were embarrassing us."

Sammy tries to stand up to the manager for embarrassing the three girls, who were not dressed appropriately according to the manager. The three girls are the ones Sammy tries to stand up for.

#4 "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin

barbagabby — 2015-11-28 22:07:01 UTC

" But above all, ... night and day, I thank the good God for having arranged our lives that our dear Armand will never know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery." Desiree was adopted when she was a baby. When she got older she got married to Armand. They had had a child together. As the child got older Armand notice the darker skin color and thought that Desiree came from a black family. Desiree ended leaving the house. One day Armand was burring things in the house when he found the letter explanting that he was the one that had a black mother.

#5 "Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

barbagabby — 2015-11-28 22:44:01 UTC

Billy Collins wants the readers to enjoy poetry, but most readers just want to know the meaning behind the poem.

#6 "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes

barbagabby — 2015-11-28 22:50:04 UTC

I but a picture of a raisin all dried because in the poem, they compare a dream that never happens to a raisin that is left to dry up.

#7 "The Red Convertible" by Louise Erdrich

barbagabby — 2015-11-28 23:04:52 UTC

I put a picture of a man drowning because Henry jumped in to the river, thinking he could come out, but the river was to strong.

#8 "Reunion" by John Cheever

barbagabby — 2015-11-28 23:21:27 UTC

Charlie want to have a relationship with his father. Unfortunately after meeting his father and seeing how he is Charlie never sees his father again.

# 9 "The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien

barbagabby — 2015-11-29 00:29:13 UTC

" Carry on, then they would saddle up and form into a column and move out toward the villages of Than Khe."

# 10 " The Two Kinds" by Amy Ta

barbagabby — 2015-11-29 00:47:50 UTC

June thinks her mother wants her to be something she is not Her mother sees a girl play the piano and wants June to learn to be better than that girl, because she knows June as the potential. In the end June understands what her mother saw in June.

#11 "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke

barbagabby — 2015-11-29 01:00:01 UTC

This poem is about a boy explaining how if felt, when he was getting a spanking by his dad. " At every step you missed

My right ear scraped a buckle."

#12 "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker

barbagabby — 2015-11-29 01:12:51 UTC

"After we watched the car dust settle I asked Maggie to bring me a dip of snuff. And then the two of us sat there just enjoying, until it was time to go in the house and go to bed." Maggie finally felt happy because her mother let Maggie have something Dee could not have, the quilt.

#13 " Trifles" by Susan Glaspell

barbagabby — 2015-11-29 03:08:36 UTC

Mrs. Wright killed her husband because he killed the only thing that made her happy, the bird. The attorney and the sheriff try to find a motive for killing her husband. The ladies find the motive but hide the bird because they understand why Mrs. Wright killed her husband.

#14 “The Road not Taken” by Frost

barbagabby — 2015-11-29 03:50:53 UTC

" Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I

took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Sometimes you have to make your own paths