DeLaO Comp II Commonplace Book by pam

#1 Colllier;s "The Chaser"

pamela_delao — 2016-01-20 17:37:31 UTC

We do not need a potion in order to have love between each other.

#2 Cisneros' "Eleven"

pamela_delao — 2016-02-23 17:01:50 UTC

I chose this picture because Rachel was frustrated since the red sweater was not hers. Mrs. Price was pressuring Rachel.

#3 Updike "A & P"

pamela_delao — 2016-02-23 17:24:57 UTC

I chose the picture of the people shopping in the grocery store because there were several friends that went in the grocery store at the same time. The girls went into the grocery store not dressed properly. They were in swimsuits that were too small for them.

#4 Chopin "Desiree's Baby"

pamela_delao — 2016-02-23 17:42:33 UTC

In Desiree's Baby Monsieur was riding in the way and found a baby girl sleeping. Desiree took the baby girl in to be one of her own children. It turned out that the baby was African American.

#5 Collins "Introduction to Poetry"

pamela_delao — 2016-02-23 17:51:04 UTC

mouse dropping into a poem and trying to get out

#6 Hughes "A Dream Deferred"

pamela_delao — 2016-02-23 17:55:00 UTC

I learned from this poem where does our dreams go. Do we follow them or do we let them dry up like a raisin.

#7 Erdrich "The Red Convertable"

pamela_delao — 2016-02-23 17:59:39 UTC

This is a story about two brothers that came into some money and decided to purchase a red convertible and travel the country. They traveled together until one of the brothers decided to go into the army. When he got out of the army he was not the same. He had PTSD and was not interested in the convertible.

#9 O'Brian "The Things They Carried"

pamela_delao — 2016-02-23 18:08:12 UTC

This is a story about soldiers that went off to war and took personal belongings with them in order to remember family members. For Example: One soldier would hold on to letters that his girlfriend had wrote to him. This way he felt like she was close to him even though miles away.

#8 Cheever "Reunion"

pamela_delao — 2016-02-23 18:08:12 UTC

In the Reunion Charlie went to meet his father whom he had not seen in several years. The reunion did not go so well. Charlies father was a drunk old man and was very rude to people.

#10 Tan "Two Kinds"

pamela_delao — 2016-02-25 01:36:18 UTC

Mother wanted Ni Kan could be a Chinese Shirley Temple

#11 My Papa's Waltz

pamela_delao — 2016-04-11 16:56:56 UTC

Memories of little boy dancing on dads shoes

#12 Everyday Use

pamela_delao — 2016-04-11 17:07:31 UTC

This is a story about two sisters fighting over a quilt.

#13 Trifles"

pamela_delao — 2016-04-22 12:12:52 UTC

In the short story Trifles there was an empty bird cage. The women in the story could not figure out what had happened to the bird.

#14 A Jury of Her Peers

pamela_delao — 2016-04-22 21:26:39 UTC