Post #7 chapters 20-24 from the perspective of Dill

I was outside calming myself down, trying not the think about all those things that were said to Tom Robinson. I could not take it anymore I finally had to just get out of that courtroom, so me and scout left very quietly and went outside. When we went out there we saw Dolphus Raymond sitting there drinking his usual, whisky. We were standing there watching him; I was sitting down holding my stomach because I felt like I was stuck in a predicament that I couldn’t get out of. I was sitting there when Dolphus Raymond came over and asked if I was ok. I was thinking of all the things Scout told me about him I didn’t really know what to say, but I finally just said yes I’m fine. He thought I didn’t and he offered me something to drink, I was not sure about drinking this but he said it was coca-cola. I was so confused about this so very slowly I took a drink while Scout was talking to him and it was Coca-Cola. I told Scout acting so surprised and he said what did you think it was. I told him the truth and he told me the whole story of why he actually puts it in a bag and acts drunk. I had a major apprehension on this; I did not think this man would be so nice (it was so surprising to me).
I was finally fine and we told Dolphus goodbye and that was the end. We walked inside very steadily and went right back up to our seats and sat back down. Jem told us what happened and it was time for Atticus’s ending statement. He went on and on about how Mayella’s guilt was really true, but I know deep down that he knew the jury was not going to take. He did a very good job of being able to sustain the jury, but finally it was over and it was time for them to deliberate. But as Atticus was just finishing Calpurnia walked in and was walking down the aisle, me, Jem and Scout all looked at each other. She was walking down the aisle with something in her hand she handed it to Atticus and had a puzzled face. He asked where we were, and we were so scared of what he might do, he asked where we were and he found us and told us to come right down. We all got up and went downstairs. Atticus and Cal were waiting for us down there we went right to them. Once we got down there right away Jem asked if we could come back and he said yes which I thought to me was very improbable. But he said eat supper slow because the jury needs to deliberate.
As we were gone we did not want to eat supper fast, Cal had told me to check with my aunt that I was there the whole time and she seemed fine. After a few hours we went back to find out the final answer. Unfortunatly I had fallen asleep because I was so tired and couldn’t take anymore. Although before I fell asleep I knew Jem was going to wake me up and tell me so I knew I was fine.
As I got woken up it was from Jem because he told me to listen up, and yet Tom Robinson was guilty as I was waking up. I saw Atticus packing up and walking out the door, as he walking up everyone in our seating area stood up and as did me, Scout and Jem. Atticus walked out and we all went after him. Jem was upset and was practically crying which was very inevitable, me and Scout both looked at him. We didn’t really know what to say, but Jem did once we caught up with Atticus. He said that he was so upset and he knew it wasn’t right. And I believed him it wasn’t.

Post #6 16-19 from the perspective of Mayella Ewell

I was sitting on my front porch as I usually did I would always indulge myself while I was sitting here because I would always have Tom work in my yard. When something came to my mind, Tom Robinson was about to pass by as usual I had remembered all that work he had done and remembered I had told him I would give him a nickel. So what I did as soon as he passed by I called him in and told him I still owed him his nickel from all the hard working he had done for me. I felt for once I needed to give someone something for doing hard working for me. I let him come onto my porch and into my house I told him to wait a second and I would be right back with his nickel.
As soon as I knew it he was coming up behind me and beting me and raping me. I never expected this from him as soon as he grabbed me, he grabbed me tight and I could not escape from the brace of his arms. He held onto me tight and practically choked me and was hitting me, he held me by choking me and beat me with the other. I tried to fight back but he was embracing me so hard that I couldn't get out. I was screaming and yelling and he knocked me out by hitting me so hard in the eye. I was still screaming and yelling for my dad. I didn't know what else to do because I could not squirm out of his arms. Finally I saw my dad in the window and Tom dispelled from my house in a second and there I was left on the floor and soon enough I was knocked out.
As soon as I woke up I saw Heck Tate in front f me trying to help me and trying to ask me questions. I could not talk or move I was in so much pain that I just felt like laying there and never moving because I was gurting all over my body.
A few weeks later it was time for the court case to start, I was all ready to answer my questions with my side of the story, I knew it was going to be hard but I had to. I was sitting there just listening to all the people talk about me and what they had seen and heard. It was so boring just sitting down doing nothing and not being able to ever get up. Although it was not so boring as soon as it was my turn to go up and answering the questions from Atticus. As soon as I got up their they had sworn me in and I was ready for any type of question. First thing I was asked was what had really happened in my own words. As soon as I thought about it I bursted out into tears adn could not talk at all because just thinking about it killed me inside.
As soon as I got better, I started to explain my story and what had really happened. It was pressuring me being up there on the witness stand with everyone listening in and watching me. It was hard to go through but I stayed strong and asnswered all my question with great amiably. The one thing that I was not used to was Atticus would always call me "Miss Mayella" or "Ma'am." What could he possibly be callin' me that for, I never really understood this so I got angry with him. I didn't know what this really meant so I thought it was an insult in my words so I got very angry and was disturbed by the name calling.
A couple minutes later I was all done asking questions, he asked me if I was all done talking and I started my crying up again and said I was done. I went back to my seat and finally it was Tom Robinson's turn to tell his side of the story. He went up there, swore him in and took a seat. I was watching him at one point and he seemed nervous in my eyes. He started getting asked questions and everything he answered was a big lie. His answers were very irrelevant to mine. He said that I raped him, why would I try to rape a black man. He also mentioned that I kissed him and then he just ran off. He did run off but I never layed a hand on him with my own hands only in a way to get out of his arms. None of his answers could be compared to mine or could be called prejudice to my answers because they were completely different.I did not want to listen to this anymore it was all a lie he was making it seem like the worst person in Maycomb. But I knew no one would ever not believe me over a black man so I felt absolutely and completely fine. It was finally over and I didn't have to here his lies I could finally take a break and come back later for more.

Post #5 13-15 from the perspective of Aunt Alexandra

First thing I said was come get my bags calpurnia, I had no interest in their housekeeper and I thought that she wasn't right for the Finch family. But for now she was going to take my bags into the livingroom and set them down as I welcomed my neice and nephew in. I told them the good news about me staying with them. They had seemed so excited for my plan of being a mother like figure to them.
It was my turn to take a stand in Scout and Jems life. They both needed a mother like figure around them, Jem needed to learn how to be a gentlemen and Scout definatly needed major work on her clothing and manners.It was basically time for them to emerge into a more mature level. Lets just say that the two needed a women in their life and for Scout it wasn't going to be their "housekeeper" Calpurnia. What did she have to teach them about, I mean I was the one with the real skills of raising a child. I knew that I had to show them how to be a Finch and fast.
As I was staying with my brother, I had gotten along with everyone in the town and everyone knew me so well while I was there. I would have some of our neighbors come over for tea and possibly for supper just to be nice and let everyone get to know me and know that I was going to be apart of Maycomb for a while. After supper one day, Scout had come down to confront Atticus about something. She had started talking about how she had gone to church with Calpurnia and how that was before I was seen on their front porch. As soon as I heard her start talking about Calpurnia I had to listen in on where she was heading with this conversation. As she went on about Calpurnia she had brought up that she wanted to go over to Cal's house one day and spend then night. As soon as I heard Atticus say that it was ok I jumped right up and disagreed immediatly, there was no way I was going to let her go practically on the other side of town with her. I could not let her go, I was fighting with Atticus of why she should not do this, I was reminding him that I was supposed to be her motherly figure and not Calpurnia. It seemed liek scout tried to antagonize me alot with Cal and going over to her house as if she knew I did not like her being near her or even around her. She had almost seemed like she had some type of infallible sense to herself that I couldn't honestly describe.
I had come to this town for a reason and that was to help Jem and Scout and not Calpurnia. I argued against Atticus and just told him that he should fire this women, that it seemed as if Scout was becoming connected with this women which was not making me happy at all. I now realized why scout acted this way, its because Atticus isn't as tough as he should be.
As Scout went upstairs I went to my room and listened in on the kids they would talk at times as if I was completely oblivious to their talking. But I left them talking until a certain bed time. As the night went on it got more quiet and quiet so finally I went to bed and that was the end of that.

Journal #4- Chapters 10-11 from the persepctive of Jem

It started out a normal day, Atticus was finally 50. Which normally isnt the best for him because no adult wants to get older, but we all have to go through it sometime. The fact is about Atticus is that most of my friends at school all have fun parents who work outside of an office and always play around. Atticus was one of those parents who had just sat around in his office working 24/7 instead of playing around he read his book. When he was reading it was like he was so inaudible, and we were just invisible to him and he was to interested in his book. I've always wondered what he would be like if he coudl put his book down and come and play outside with me and Scout.
Anyways me and Scout had gone outside to go play around because we really had nothing else to do. So we had gone outside, and in the distance we actually saw a dog walking around like something was wrong, I told Scout and we noticed that it was Tim Johnson. We took a closer look at him and we thought he almost looked sick so me and Scout ran in the house to Calpurnia. We went straight to Calpurnia and told her about Tim Johnson she did not believe us at first but we called her outside and she looked closely and stared. We were wondering what she was thinking all of a sudden she ran inside the house saying Mad dog, Mad dog! We followed her, she started making calls to everyone in the street, as soon as me and Scout looked out our window we saw every door and window close up, leaving the streets bare. We went back to Cal and she was trying to find the Radley's number and we said they dont have a number, never did. She said she had to warn them so she ran down the street to the Radley place and went and banged on their door. Yelling, Mr Radley, mad dog on the loose mad dog on the loose. Me and Scout both new that they wouldn't ever answer. As soon as possible Mr Tate the towns sheriff pulled up with Atticus.
The sheriff spotted the "mad dog" and got his rifle out but he didn't shoot it himself instead he gave it to atticus? Me and Scout were both thinking of what was going on, and we both knew he wasnt going to but instead he aimed it at Tim Johnson and pulled the lever and shot. Me and Scout were in so much shock from this, Atticus was walking towards the dog, we followed but yet he told us to stop right there and go back to the house. He acted like us going towards the house would put us in great peril. After this we went to speak to Ms Maudie about this, she said you didnt know that your dad was once called one-shot-Finch. Me and Scout were both so confused about the story she told us about him being an awesome shooter. Scout seemed excited about this for some reason. I asked if she was ok she said that she was going to tell all her comtemporaries about this, I yelled at her saying no you can't do this, if he wanted us to know he would have told us.
A few weeks after me and Scout wanted to walk to the town to get a few things, I was going to be nice to Scout and buy her this beton that she has always wanted. On our way there we had to pass by Mrs. Dubose's house, the meanest lady I have ever witnessed. We were walking on our way and saw her on her porch ofcourse Scout said "Hey Mrs. Dubose" she gave her a rude look and a rude response along with that. I dont know what was wrong with her but she seemed to hate us, she always said things like "dont contradict me," I mean we never went against her. We were always at our sweetest with her. So I just put it in the back of my head and went along with Scout to go buy her things.
When we went to downtown, she picked out her beton and I got my things and we were off back to the house. When we passed by Mrs Dubose's house I stood there for a second looked at her house took Scout's beton and started wacking at her bushes. I honestly don't know why I did this, she just made me so mad from how she treats us I wacked them till they were completely destroyed, then I just walked away.
When we were at the the house I heard Atticus walk in and yell my name out like he had known what happened. I went to him and he asked me did you do that to Mrs. Dubose's lawn and I said the truth and said yes I did he asked why and I yet again gave him the truth. He told me to go apologize so I did, she told me that for some reason I had to go read for her for a month and that I had to clean the mess. So I did as she said and went off.
The next day me and Scout walked over to Mrs. Dubose's house, Jesse answered the door and let us right in so we stepped in, we were surprised by the sweet smell of her house. Over in the back we saw Mrs. Dubose lying in her bed asking us to come over and read to her. While I was reading she would sometimes correct me if I spoke the word wrong or forget something to say. But as I kept going on about this but she stopped correcting me eventually. Weeks went past and it was almost time to leave her house. As it was the last day to come I had finished my last sentance and I was off, the only thing she said was "that'll be all."
About a month later me and Scout were inside the house doing our usual, playing games inside the house, and Atticus had gotten a phone call and dashed right out the door. He was gone for a little while and as he came back he came in slowly and me and Scout had to ask where he went. He said that he had gone over to Mrs. Dubose's place and we both asked why and he said that she had passed away. Me and Scout had nothing really to say to this, but Atticus did he said that she was almost inconspicuous in her own way and didnt really want to give anything to anyone in her will. But that was just Mrs. Dubose.

Journal #3- Chapter 8-9 from the perspective of Miss Maudie

Like I was everyday I would get up out of my bed and get ready for another day in Maycomb, Alabama. Yet something was different about this day, it was snowing outside, it was our first snow since 1885. I have never really seen such snow in Maycomb, it was wonderful yet my flowers would get ruined from the cold weather and all that snow coming down on top of them. I was never really fanatical about the snow just because it ruins my yard. I was so worried about my flowers I had forgotten about how cold it could get during winter when its snowing. So before I had gone outside I put on my heaviest coat and headed outside to go check up on my flowers.
Before I knew it, I had already seen Scout out and playing in the snow, she almost seemed like she didnt want to walk on it because she was stepping so gently over to my yard. The young kids having so much fun in the snow was a great site to see, Scout and Jem had come over to my yard and seemed so eager about the snow.
Strangly enough they had asked my for my snow that was laying out on my yard, sure enough I wanted it off so I let them use a large bucket under my house and hall it off to there backyard. I was debating with myself of what I should do with my flowers or my yard. They had asked my why I didn't want snow on my yard, the only reason I didn't was because of my beautiful flowers, I had spent so much time getting them that way I did not want to ruin them now. Scout and Jem would go back and forth from my yard to theirs hauling as much snow as they needed to build their snowman. The whole time I was thinking of how big of snowman they were planning on making because that was a lot of snow they took. They were both very ingenuous kids so I knew it was going to be a good snowman that they would make.
I had let them off to their work while I was placing bags over my lovely flowers, at one point Scout asked me why I did this, I only did this to keep my flowers warm. I knew they could not stand this type of weather change so quickly.
Later on that evening after the children were done I had gone into my house to try and warm up, it was so cold in my house as it was inside. I had forgotten that I had to keep the flowers outside warm somehow I went outside and lit a candle to keep them warm enough to live. While I was inside I had enjoyed myself a warm fire as well.
I had fallen asleep until I heard something burning, I had gotten up and right as I took a big smell of the smoke I had remember that I didn't put out the fire for my flowers. I went outside and flames were bursting in my little house outside which contained my flowers. I rand outside and didn't know what to do, the fire was spreading all over the neighborhood. I glanced over and saw that Jem and Scout were heading over in front of the Radley's, which was probably one of the safe spots for now. I could see the perplexity in Scout's face, and how this could have happened. I knew that Atticus would want to isolate his kids from the fire so nothing could happen to them. I was so worried that this fire would rage onto my house I couldn't stop it, all I could do was watch the firemen blow there big house onto my little house and hope.
Finally after a few moments it was dying down, Jem and Scout had asked me what I was going to do, I told them that it was alright and I was fine. Anyways I've always wanted a little extra room in my backyard for more flowers.

Journal #2- Chapters 4-7 from the perspective of Dill

Dill’s Journal
I couldn’t believe that school was almost over and time to get on my way back to see Scout and Jem again. Finally we could get back to playing again and going in the tree-house like last summer. That’s all I really thought about that year in school was thinking of all the ideas that we could do when I would go over there.
It was the last day of school, I had already known that Jem and Scout were out of school and all I thought of was I wish my school could be like theirs. I was so anxious for my train ride over there, although I didn’t really like the fact that I had to go over alone but it was worth it. I was listening to my teacher go on and on about trying not to lose your brain over vacation and read a lot. She mentioned to not try and get into any trouble. I felt like she was tormenting us with our last lectures of the school year
There it was school was out and it was time to get ready to leave for Maycomb, I was on my way to the train station to go catch my train. There it was my train heading for Maycomb; I jumped up right away and had grabbed my seat before anybody else. I was just sitting there playing with my fingers, still thinking about the things we were going to do. Maybe we could go closer to the Radley place and see Boo Radley, I couldn’t be so sure of what we were going to do. I was wondering what Scout and Jem were doing right now , I’d wondered if maybe they would be waiting for me. On the train I had helped the engineer for a little while. I didn’t really do much he just taught me a little bit on how to drive a train, it was actually pretty cool learning about everything on the train
Well I was finally there in Maycomb, Miss Rachel was there waiting for me as soon as I got off she had helped me off the train and we took a taxi to her place. Thank goodness it was near Jem’s and Scout’s place so I could walk over there to go see them right away. As I was walking over there I had passed by the Radley place, nothing really looked different there still the same looks of it.
I went over to the backyard of the house and saw Jem and Scout, I saw them and they both said hi and we already had gotten right into it. I told them all about my train ride and I told them that I was helping the engineer. Jem started asking us what we were going to play, none of us really knew what we wanted to do.
The next day we saw Mr. Radley pass by as we always used to see, we actually figured out what we were going to do right after we had seen him. We were thinking of imitating the Radley’s. What we did was we said that each person was going to be a Radley. Scout didn’t think it was a good idea but we got her to play. Originally we had just started off with a few movements but we had made up dialogue and actions, it wasn’t all that bad. Although one day we had ran into Atticus and he asked what we were doing and he had seemed like he knew because he told us to not do that.
Later on into the summer Jem and I went off on our own everyday in the tree-house planning some way to go to the Radley place. We were making unanimous planning of writing a letter to them and try and throw it into their house. We kept on to our planning when Scout interrupted she was already in there so we just decided to tell her our plan and that we were going to try it that night.
Our plan was off Scout was not so sure about it but she just went with us. We had our letter and a fishing pole to cast it off into their house. We had casted it off and it went pretty close to the house. We had wanted to go in there and try and get it closer to the house. So we went around the school yard fence and went under the fence that belonged to the Radley’s. We were so quiet under there and we had to stay that way. The Radley’s was the one house that you did not want to get caught in because you never know what they would do. Scout said she saw a man standing at the window we got scared that something might happen but then there was someone on the porch. I think he had seen us because there, the gun blew off and we ran out of there so fast but Jem got stuck and had to slip out of his pants. We had made a quick evasion as quick as possible, we had all felt very malignant after that.As soon as we got back to the house we saw a big commotion outside the house of the Radley’s and we knew it was from the gun going off. They were all talking about how he saw something and shot at it but never really got at it.

Then everyone noticed that Jem was not wearing his pants, my eyes widened and Jem had no idea what to say. But I had said that we were playing strip poker instead of him halving to say they got caught because that would not be the right thing. Finally they actually all fell for my lie and we were all off back to our houses and all finished with our long night.

Journal #1- Chapters 1-3 from the perspective of Jem

Jem’s Journal
Focusing on chapter 2

It was a week till school started, which I was not happy for but every kid wants to get a good education, well most do. Dill had originally left us in the early September. I was always thinking of how the school year would start off. I wonder what scout thinks about it to, she is always up in her little tree-house doing different things that I have always wanted to know about.

The last week of summer had gone by so fast it was already the first day of school. Atticus had volunteered me to take scout to her classes which I usually thought was a parents job but it was alright. We had gone to school a little earlier than usual just to show scout her new classes. She was going into 1st and I was finally going into 5th grade. I had to make sure that I had explained to her to not bother me during school hours. No older brother wants to be bothered by his little sister during class. I told her that it was different at school and its just different, things she wouldn’t really understand. Things that I really don’t want to explain to her.

I was sitting in my own classroom always thinking of what Scout might do during class. Usually she isn’t one to just sit there and listen to the boring lessons of her teacher. It was the first day of school starting up again. The first day of school was always the same, learning the teachers name and them trying to learn ours. Our teacher got right to work on this day there was no time to waste in their mind; they never want to get behind. This I was not so eccentric about, but who is. I had always wondered why they even start us working right away on the first day, I guess it’s because they think we lose our whole entire memory over the summer vacation. That always irked me that some kids were so dumb when the came back. This only happens with certain kids who do absolutely nothing over summer vacation who have no lives.

It was about recess time in our school and I went over to go see how scout was doing, she did not make it seem like it was so good. She seem to have hated her teacher Ms. Caroline and told her not to read which I thought was great for a 1st grader but apparently not to her, and the same with writing. I told her that it was alright and to go back to her classes. She had asked me earlier about the Cunningham’s and if we were ever going to even get that poor. I really had no answer for her, so we had asked Atticus if we were poor he said that we are but not as poor as the Cunningham’s. I was relieved in a way but felt bad for the Cunningham family and how they live.
After I was done thinking of why she would even ask such a thing I had gone back to my studies in school and went back to my reading and writing as I was supposed to. Although I was always thinking of how my sister is during class I had to get back to working and move on.

Immigration Project Reflection

Literature Circle books/Blogs

During this part of the project I was able to choose my own Lit Circle book to read. The book that I chose was called "What is the What" by Dav Eggers. This book was based on a true story told by a person that actually went through the immigration process. While reading this book I was able to learn more and more about immigrating and different things that go on in other places. I thought that my choice for the book was a good choice because I learned a lot about there home and about immigration and how everything is not the same. My main focus was to actually learn about immigration because that was what it was all about. In this book I thought that it had very good explanation in it, meaning that if there was something I might not get it would have described it later so I could get it. Something different about this book or significant was all the different things that I got to learn about going on in South America. It described a lot about the different wars or how different people were treated and what the write himself had to go through or see.
During this process I also was required to write on my blog about the book. I did not find it really hard to write about it because it described a lot that I could talk about in my responses. This book had a lot of different things that I could relate the questions to that were required for the response. I find that blogging it was better than the actual meeting during class I thought it worked better because we can read the blogs over and over so we actually understand it and then we can respond on what we think about it. I found it easier than the way during class because we can have an amount of when to respond and time to read it over and really understand it. I think that my group could have done better in this because sometimes we did not have our blog posts up so it was difficult to respond without something to actually respond to. I thought that overall this was a lot better than the class lit circles because I found it more organizing in our own way.

Art and Literature

In this part of the project I thought that I did not have a hard time figuring it out of what I was going to do. For this part of the project I wanted mine to show the most striking scene to me that was in my book. For this part of the project I decided to do a scene where it was something that the writer had seen himself. I wanted to show in my painting one of the things that he had to go through and that I was also able to learn about myself from his story. I thought that my painting had started out very plain with nothing much to show people about my book and that was what I really wanted to show, was what was happening in my story. Or what I had a chance to read about and learn about.
I though that my picture shows a little piece of the book to my audience. In a way it tells them a little part of the book that I got to read about and something that I got to read about that the writer witnessed and could tell many stories about that. There is a connection between my book and my painting because it shows a scene from it and I think it will make my audience wonder about other things that he maybe had to go through besides just this. Because this was not just the only thing that was happening during my book.
Overall on this part of my project I thought that it came out good on showing what was going on in my painting, and it makes people think about it and wonder. I thought that I had made a big enhancement from my first few drafts to this. Because now it actually shows things that make the audience want to read about it. I think that in my painting I could have maybe put in a little more detail on mine showing a little bit more of what was going on in my painting. I think that this experience helped me understand and go more deeper into that specific scene and really read over it to make it my own and how I could paint a scene from the book.

Interview process with participant and gift

The process with the interviewee went very well for me. I thought that the interview went well because we were able to flow with asking questions and getting answers. I felt that I got a lot of information just from the first interview I did with her. I found all the information that I had gotten out and learned helped me lean into getting new questions for more interviews to come. I found that my first interview was my favorite because I got a lot of information for just the first one. I was so happy to know that there was a lot to be able to learn about her expierence that she went through. I thought that one of the parts I most remember the most from one of the interviews was when I had asked her if there was anything she really had to leave behind. Her answer was some of my family, I thought it was very sad to know that she had to leave her family back home. When I read that specific part it made me think what it would have been like for me to leave my own family and basically not see them for a while. I was trying to think of how she really felt about that, when she had to.
The gift that she had wanted me to make was a calendar, the calendar I did was a mix of her culture with our culture. Such as for my gift I put the months and days in German and put German holidays in as well. For the background I was able to input different types of holdays along with the month's. I also included pictures with each month, what I wanted to do was also put some of her culture and ours mixed together. So what I decided to do was put in some pictures from Germany and some from U.S. I wanted it to make sure that it was not only one subject included in the calendar. Basically I did not want it to be boring, I wanted it to show that I thank her for all that she let me learn about her expierence.
Overall I felt that I put all my effort into this project and I tried my best to put all my hard working into this, because I know I really won't ever get to do this again. So I feel I learned a lot about her home place and what an actual immigrant had to go through and what she left behind and and what she likes better here than there. There were a bunch of different things I learned about her and I thought it was a great expierence for me

Final Post

Quote #1: On the night of our performance, the theater was full. There were eighteen different groups performing, from all over Kenya. Ours was the only troupe of refugees. I thank the lord that we performed well that night; we remembered our lines and under the lights, with all those seats , we still found a way to be present in the words and drama of the play we had written.
Page number: 466 Said by Author

Response #1: I thought that this quote related to question number 3. I thought that this quote related to because it shows sort of what he did in Kenya. I thought this was a unique quote because it describes a lot of what was going on right then and what was going on in his head. I think that this was very descriptive on what he was thinking and how he said they wee the only refugees. I chose it because I thought that it was different from other ones and I liked how it descriibed a lot during it.

Character Judgement #1: From many of the things that I have read in this book most of it was obviously said by the author. From this quote I thought it was pretty strong and describing of what he was saying. I like really describing senatances because it gives good info. I think that the author did a good job of describing from what he felt to what was going on and more.

Question #1: Why do you think that he told us this information about the play?

Quote #2: Their questions swung from every simple questions about my name and hometown to more involved investigations of the dangers I had faced. I had been briefed by many other Lost boys about what questions to expect, but the ones they asked me varied slightly.
Page number: 492 Said by Author

Response #2: This qote related to question number 4. I think it relates to it because this is something he (the author) had to go through when he came in. This quote stood out to me because it almost reminded me of the interrogations from class that we did. Because it describes what he was asked and how other boys would be asking him something like are they hard questions. I thought it just reminded me of how we were asked questions and how he was sort of interrogated.

Character Judgment #2: I liked how in this the author also talks about what was going on. I think that he likes ot tell a lot about what was going on in that very moment. I think from this book I really figured out how he likes to make sure we get every piece of info. I liked how in this book it was very descriptive and I think he wrote it very well.

Question #2: Do you agree with me when you think this quote sounded like the interrogation's in our class room? Why?

Post #5

Quote #1: "I stand up and follow julian out of the emergency room and down the hallway. The floor smells of human feces."
Page 312 Said by: Valentino

Response: I thought that this related to question to number 5. I thought that this quote was a little different becuase of just how they described it. I thought that this was wierd how he said it was how it smelt like human feces, its nasty but I thought it was wierd how Valentino said it. I thought that this quote stood out to me just because of how it described it in justo ne short sentance. I always like short sentances that can describe a lot.

Character Judgement: I thought that Valentino is my favorite character in this book because he has a lot of different quotes that are in this book. I like his character because I feel like he is a well known character and I remember him always from the book because I always choose his quotes.

Q#1: Why do you think Valentino described it like this?

Quote #2: "This is a problem," he says, and I know its true.

Response: I liked this quote because it was just how he says it in the book. I thought this quote related to number 5 again. I thought this because this quote was said because they do not have enough money for the hospital. I thought it was sad how he said it like this is a problem and I know its true. I just thought it was sad he could not afford it. So then causing them not being able to go into the hospital or pay for anything
Page 241 [old quote i never got to put on so im using it now] Said by achor achor

Character Judgement: I like achor achor because I also like how his quotes are. I liked this one because of how it really made me feel bad for them. And how they could not afford it. I just felt bad for them in this part of the book.

Q#2: What do you think when you read this quote?

Post #4

Quote #1: As I ran closer to the vision of Moses, he seemed more and more a real Moses and not a vision of Moses, and my heart jumped around,as if looking for a way to exit my body
Said by: Valentino Page number: 270

Response: This quote has to do with question number three. It has to do with it because people in that place have to pretend to be dead because of all of the things going on. This is what the quote has to do with and the question. There why Valentino was there it says he could see Moses in his eyes while they were shut. While Valentino was there.

Character Judgement: I think that Valentino expresses how he feels in this book a lot. A lot of the quotes that I have are from him because I feel they express's the most out of him. In this quote I like how he describes how he saw moses and how he described it.

Question #1: Why do u think they pretend to be dead?

Quote #2: Valentino! It's Ajing! Call CNN and tell them that the war is on again!
Said by: Ajing Page number: 289

Response #2: This quote has to do with number 4 because in his home country the war is on again and he has to try to help friends their or they might die. I thought that this quote just showed how much Ajing still cares about the war. That he wants to call Valentino and tell him about it that they had to tell them (CNN) about it.

Character Judgment: I thought that this quote said a lot about Ajing because it showed how much he still cares about the war. Or how he still cares what is going on about in his Country that he wants to make sure Valentino is aware.

Question #2: Why do u think they tell him to call CNN?

Post # 3

Quote #1: The rest of us waited. Everyone waited. We had been on our journey to Eithiopia for perhaps six weeks and at the river, our group was mixed with other travelers.
Page:186 Said By: Valentino

Response: I thought that this quote related to question number 2. I thought this because it was about how his journey was and thats what the question is asking about what its like. I thought that this was about instead of to America it was to Eithiopia. I thought that this just described how long it took and about the river and group of travelers.

Character Judgement: I think that Valentino describes a lot when he is saying something. It seems like from the book when Valentino is talking he always describes it. So that we can understand what is actually going on in the book.

Question #1: Why do you think that all of them had waited and waited for eachother on the journey?

Quote # 2: In the middle of the tree i found a nest and in it, three small eggs. I didn't wait. I ate two of the eggs while still in the tree. I ate everything, the shell, the feathers inside, I ate it all before i could think.
Page: 210 Said by: Valentino

Response #2: I thought this quote related to question # 3. I thought this related to it because since he was so hungry that he would eat anything. I thougth that this quote was very different but for some interesting reason it stood out to me, because it was different. I thought it was wierd how he would eat everything and especially an egg with the feathers and the shell. I can imagine how disguisting that might have tasted but since he was hungry he wanted to eat.

Character Judgement #2: I thought that this quote said a lot about Valentino, and what he had to do on his journey when it came to wanting food. It told me that he would do anything to get what he needed for more energy.

Question #2: Would you ever do what Valentino did, if not why (because if you were hungry wouldn't you want food to)?

Post # 2

Said by Narrator on page 91
Quote #1: My mother stood rigid. I hid behind her legs. The man's gun was still held high, pointing upward. I decided to run if he lowered his gun. The horseman yelled in the direction he had come, pointing to me and my mother.

Response : I think that this quote related to number 4 (What challenges do the charcters face upon there new arrival.) I thought it related to that because in the beggining of the quote it says "I hid behind her legs", it made me seem like the narrator is not as brave. Or being little he was just very scared and that was one of the challenges.

Character Judgement: I think based on my quote he was not so sure of what was going on from when it continues in the book. He was not so sure of what was going on so he just hid behind his mothers legs. I think that this would be hard for me to be in an actual situation like this but he went through something difficult every once in a while.

Question: If you were in Daves position (from the quote) would you have ran or stayed their with your mother?

Said by Narrator and on page 111
Quote #2: We met at Kakuma, in a home economics class. She was three years younger than me, and very smart, which is how she and I found ourselves placed together.

Response: I thought this quote sort of related to question number 3. The only reason I thought it did was because it describes how he met Tabitha I believe it is. I thought it was just that one sentance explained how he met her and ended up meeting her. How he described she was smart and yougner then him and how they ended up together in class. It was very simple but it explained how he met her

Character Judgement: From this quote it does not say a lot but I thought it was nice to just tell us how he met her. From reading it, it describes how he wants us to know basically every detail so we know everything about the person he is talkign about.

Question: Why do you think that in his old home (Kakuma) required each boy to be paired with a girl? (this is said after the quote)

Quote # 1

Said by Dave

Page number 29

"Written words are rare in small villages like mine, and it is my right and obligation to send my stories into the world, even if silently, even utterly powerless"



I think that this quote relates to question number 6. I think that this quote relates to it because Dave explains in just a few words that he had small villages. I just pictured in my mind, Dave lived in a small village. I like how Dave explains how he wants to send his stories into the world even if they end up not being read or heard or seen. He still wants to write about it because its what is going on for him. He is still writing what is going on or what he thinks about it and how he feels.



Question: What are your opinions on this quote, if so explain?

Quote #2
Page 50 (said by Narator)

Now he searches for a solution. He begins to open drawers. I hear the rattle of silverware and worry that he might do something drastic. He opens five, six drawers and cabinets. Finally he emerges from the kitchen with a phone book and holds it over my head.

This quote in a way relates to 5. It relates to it because he was explaining he heard the rattle of what might have been going on or what was he looking for. All he really was looking for was a phone book. Later on they said what are you doing with that, I wondered why it was so bad. It is just a phone book but maybe its because there in this new place and they wanted to do things.

Question # 2: Why do u think he was looking for a phone book?

Field Trip Response

From Home to Haven
From Home to Haven was basically all about Jewish life, big things that occurred to Jewish people. I learned a few different things about what happened in the past with Jewish community Jewish people in general. I learned a lot of different things about this place, I found out that my inventor that I had chosen for art last semester was actually Jewish, in which case I did not know of. A few different things I learned while I was in the exhibit were: In 1883, Jewish poet Emma Lazarus penned the lines that come to speak to every American Immigrant and that are now inscribed on the base of the "Statue of Liberty." I also learned something about how they contributed to history, Jewish people were the most to help during the Civil Rights Movement. I think that this taught me a lot of different things. Even little things such as earlier on in times a lot of Department stored were owned by Jewiish People. Or the first Jewish person sat in congress in 1841

Children of Immigrants
Picture name: Immigration Rally, Chicago 1998
Response: I like this picture because it shows how the little girl in the picture is looking up to the American Flag like she wants to be a part of America. To me it seems like this was supposed to mean how the little girl wants to live here in America. Or how she wants to be able to do things that she cant where she lived or lives.
Essay name: Paul Tran- The Preuss school UCSD
Response: This esaay was about a lot of immigrantsa have escaped war and about how violence had come to their doorsteps. What immigrants do is they come here for more peace and loving not just because they want to. Its becuase they have had enough of the war going on in their own country.
Quote: "The greatest thing I hope for in my life is to become a successful person and to have family and friends to support me, not to be looked at by just the color of my skin but who I am inside."
Written by: Samira Durakovic, Yugoslavia
Response: I chose this quote because I actually could relate to it in a way and I liked how this person wrote it. I can relate to it because I want to grow up to become a successful person while having the people I love around me to support me and encourage me through it. I think that I can also relate is because I also do not like to be judged by my race just for my own person inside. Like this person said. I thought it encouraged me to go for the highest opportunity and to not care what other people have to say or think about it.