Skonezny Comp II Commonplace Book by Ellen

Story of an Hour

eskonez — 2015-06-16 04:32:23 UTC

This short story was about a woman named Mrs. Mallard and the stages of grief she goes through after hearing of her husbands death. She had a heart disease so her sister and husband's friend had to break the news to her easily. After processing what she had heard, she immediately cries and then goes to her room. While in her room she sits in a chair by the window and sees the life outside her house. She begins to feel relieved and excited. She can now live her own life and not have put her husband before herself. Once she pulls herself together she goes back down stairs but to her amazement she sees her husband come through the front door and sadly dies because of her heart condition. I chose a picture of daisy duck because as I learned in the questions after the story, a male duck is called a mallard. After learning that I saw Mrs. Mallard as the female duck.

Girl

eskonez — 2015-06-16 04:44:25 UTC

Girl is a story narrated by a mother who is reading off a list of chores her daughter must begin learning how to do. There is very little emotion in the story and the mother seems very strict towards her daughter. It seems like the women are the ones who take care of the men and put them before themselves. I chose the picture below because the story just made me picture a woman working hard around that house. She has to do so many things to please everyone that she has multitask. The chores the mother was reading just sounded like they would be so exhausting.

The Yellow Wallpaper

eskonez — 2015-06-16 04:58:13 UTC

The story was about an ill woman and John, her physician husband, who moved to another house while theirs was being renovated. Because the woman was ill, her husband thought it was best she always stay at the house until she got better. Their bedroom has very interesting yellow wallpaper that had many twists and turns in it. At first she hated the wallpaper, but soon she began to show interest in it. She rarely slept at night and began noticing that the wallpaper moved and changed at night. She saw a woman trapped in the design trying to get free. One day while she was home alone she locked herself in the room and peeled the wallpaper off to set the woman free because she thought it was herself. John came home and got the door open and saw his wife a totally different person, she had gone insane. This photo illustrates what the wife was feeling,alone and trapped inside the wallpaper. She was trying to set herself free, but her husband did not know what was best for her and kept her locked up.

A Doll's House

eskonez — 2015-06-16 05:43:04 UTC

Set on Christmas Eve and the days following this play is about Nora and the secret she is keeping form her husband, Helmer. Before Helmer got a new and higher position at a bank they had little money. While at their house a friend of Nora comes to visit, Mrs. Linde. While they visit Nora tells her that she illegally borrowed money for a trip she took with Helmer and that she told Helmer she got the money from her father. The person who helped her get the money was Knogstad, an employee who Helmer was firing. He told Nora to get Helmer to hire him back and he would'n tell him about her loan. Nora couldn't talk Helmer into it so Knogstad wrote a letter to Helmer telling him what Nora did. After Helmer read it he was furious with Nora and said awful things. Because Mrs. Linde and Knogstad got together he was happy and decided to give Helmer the evidence of the crime Nora committed, so he apologized to Nora. Nora Didn't believed they really knew each other and left him. The picture below shows how Nora felt controlled by some of the people in her life. Her husband and Knogstad, who blackmailed her.

Trifles

eskonez — 2015-06-16 06:09:55 UTC

Mrs. Wright is being accused of killing her husband and two of her friends, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale go to her house while their husbands and an attorney look for evidence in the house. While getting a few of Mrs. Wrights things they fin a dead canary in a box. It appeared to be strangled just like Mr. Wright was, leading to believe that Mrs. Wright did kill her husband, but Mrs. Hale and Peters decide to hide the evidence. They believed Mr. Wright was not good to Mrs. Wright deserved to be free. Supposedly Mr. Wright kept Mr. Wright form sing and was very controlling. I believe Mr. Wright pushed Mrs. Wright over the edge by keeping her from doing things she loved, like singing, and it led to her killing him. She felt like the one trapped in a cage.

Negro

eskonez — 2015-06-29 23:20:59 UTC

This poem was meant to show how the slaves felt toward their owners and share who they are and where they came form. The author, Langston Hughes wanted people to know they were treated differently because of the color of the skin. He repeated twice "I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of Africa." During this poem I imagined someone passing down family history to the next generation in the family to show where they came form. Maybe Hughes was told stories form his grandparents and it inspired him to write this poem to show where his family came from.

Let America Be America Again

eskonez — 2015-06-29 23:35:10 UTC

This poem was all about America becoming America again. America has lost its meaning of everyone being free and treated as equal. People back when this poem was written and even still today are being discriminated for their color or financial standings. I chose to this quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s I have a Dream speech: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” This quote is relevant for this poem because both are hoping for a day when everyone is treated the same and are respected by all. Today America is still not quite America yet, but we are improving everyday to get back its true meaning.

Brownies

eskonez — 2015-06-29 23:48:17 UTC

A story of an African American girl scout troop trying to get revenge, at camp, on a white girl scout troop, troop 909, for supposedly saying a racial slur. Arnetta the one that decided to get revenge and the rest of her troop come up with to get back at the other troop. When they go to get revenge they find out the girls from the other troop all have some type of mental disability. The girls decide not to do anything but Laurel, the narrator and part of the African American troop, says at the end of the story that That there is mean in the world that she will never be able to stop. This made me realize that we all have problems, but there others who have it worse. We can help those others, but we all can't help them all and this quote from Ronald Reagan really says that.

Battle Royal

eskonez — 2015-06-30 00:12:53 UTC

This was a weird story about a boy who had to fight his classmates in front of high white men just to be able to read his graduation speech. After reading the speech he was given s briefcase and a scholarship for and African American college. What made the story weird was that at the beginning the boy talks about his grandfather telling his son, the boys father, that he needs to keep fighting. And at the end of the story the boy has a dream of opening the scholarship letter with his grandfather and the letter said "To Whom It May Concern. Keep This Nigger-Boy Running." This made it sound like the boy would be fighting the rest of his life for everything he wants. I believe all of us at some point in our life have to fight for what we believe in or for something that we want. This will never change.

The Lesson

eskonez — 2015-06-30 00:26:40 UTC

A story of African American kids going on a file trip to a toy store in a higher class area, where people wear fur coats. The teacher Miss. Moore is trying to teach them a lesson. The see that all these toys are so expensive and over priced and at the ed of the trip. They are asked by Miss. Moore if they learned anything on the trip and one of the kids, Sugar answered by saying that not everyone is given a fair chance do do better in life. That it is hard for someone in the lower class to end up being in the higher class. This quote makes everyone realize that you have to do things you've never done before and put yourself out there to have more opportunities and chances do to something different with your life.

Everyday Use

eskonez — 2015-06-30 00:46:45 UTC

This story was about a mother who favored a daughter over another because she had accomplished more in her life. When this daughter, Dee comes to visit she starts to lose her moms favoritism. Dee wants to take family quilts back with her, but her sister Maggie was already promised the quilts. The mother tries to explain this to Dee, but Dee still thinks she deserves to have the quilts. Finally the mother had enough and grabbed the quilts and gave them to maggie. This causied Dee to leave and Maggie and her mom to enjoy the rest of the evening on the porch. The mother finally realizes Dee can't always get what she wants and Maggie had never ask for anything and she deserved to have things go her way for once. Those who always get what they want don't know the meaning of "no" and when they finally don't get what they don't understand why and feel betrayed.

The Things They Carried

eskonez — 2015-07-09 04:20:05 UTC

This short story focused on the different things that Lieutenant Cross himself and his soldiers carried with them. They were were supplies and persona items they they brought to remind them of who staying alive for and why they were there fighting for their country. This made me think of what everyday people carrie around with them. They have there every day things but then some people have thins that are personal to them. Some may carry a rosary if they are religious, some a rabbits foot if they are superstitious and some an item that belonged to someone close to them that has passed on. And if it's not an item it's a person that we can't live without and want to always protect. So this is why I chose a picture of a rosary, to symbolize the items or person that we live to protect.

The Death of a Salesman

eskonez — 2015-07-09 04:29:58 UTC

This is about a father who becomes to invested in trying to live the American dream and it ends up hurting his relationship with his family. But At the end He finally realizes that he has a family who loves him and decodes that he can in a way be at peace now and in the end he commits suicide. Although I I don't think that was the right answer this play made me realize some things. What I really got out of this play is that sometimes we find ourselves too invested in somethings and forget to look at who and whats around us. We miss out on things we should be enjoying. And today I think technology is the culprit for many people missing out on things they should be doing of taking in. So that is why I chose a picture of a phone.