Thesis Build

     The three short stories I read were, "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, "The Endless Streetcar Ride into the Night and the Tinfoil Noose" by Jean Shepherd, and "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. I really enjoyed reading all three of these stories. After I read them, I noticed that I can easily find parts of them that could potentially become part of a strong thesis. For, "A Worn Path" I focused on characterization to find my thesis. Phoenix Jackson is an elderly woman with physical and mental setbacks. However, in the end, she develops in to a heroic character. I think that the theme of this short story is that one must go through obstacles and hardships to reach their ultimate goal in the end.

     The next story I made a thesis for is, "An Occurrence at owl Creek Bridge". To Find this thesis I focused on Characterization and Setting to come up with one statement. The Author, Ambrose Bierce used strong, clear, and vivid details to bring the reader to the scene and paint multiple senses in the readers head.  Bierce described "The company" by using descriptive words such as "staring stonily" and "motionless". For the last short story, "The Endless Streetcar Ride into the Knight and the Tinfoil Noose", I couldn't create strong thesis for and saw no significance between the stories. Overall I think finding a thesis is easier then most think when looking deep into novels and short stories. This is important because certain themes and thesis' can teach us indirect life lessons we can appreciate forever.

Reading Times

Mocking Jay- 30 Minutes 

Mocking Jay- 15 Minutes

Mocking Jay- 15 Minutes

Mocking Jay- 1 Hour

Reading Times

Catching Fire- 1 hour
Catching Fire- 1 hour
Catching Fire- 1 hour and 25 minutes (Finished)

Reading times for the missing week

Catching Fire- 1 hour, Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire- 1 hour, Suzanne Collins 

Catching Fire- 30 mins, Suzanne Collins

To Build a Fire elements

     Literary elements in To Build a Fire. I found man vs. nature in this short story, its pretty obvious the weather was a huge factor in this short story. Not only did i find man  vs. nature i also found man. vs self. The part where he tries to light the match but his hands just cannot do it, which ends up with him burning himself causing burns spread across his hands.

     Along with conflicts i also found foreshadowing, the constant vivid detail of the blistering cold foreshadows the way that the weather will not be getting sunny anytime soon. Also when he falls in the freezing water it foreshadows that there will be more unlucky happenings to come.




Reading times
catching fire-1 hour
catching fire 1 hour
short stories- 30 minutes

english this year

English class this year has been more challenging for me this year than the previous years. This year in class we discussed how to write, how to read, and touched on literary elements. An everyday english class would consist of 10 minutes of reading at the beginning of class followed by the lesson.

 The hardest thing for me to do this year would be writing papers, A grade papers. The reason im not good at writing is because i dont know how to include themes, motifs, or even develop a character.  I hope in the second quarter we can get all my problems straight.

To Build a Fire

     The short story To Build a Fire was filled with foreshadowing and an abundance of detail.  About midway through the book when the man falls in the water you can get an idea that this book is not going to end well. The way we constantly talks about the cold ,wet weather foreshadows the way the weather will not change throughout the whole book.

     Lastly, when the man uses the dog to see in the frozen over water will hold the weight it was taken as cruel. Although if you were in a life or death situation most of the people would probably do the same thing. The man tried to kill the dog before but he was physically uncapable to work his frozen hands. Next when he drops the matches, then tries to build a fire resulting in burns all over his hands, this book ends with the man collapsing, and the dog surviving the frigid cold.

Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins, 1 hour

Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins, 1 hour

Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins, 30 minutes (finished)

Catching Fire-   Suzanne Collins, 15 minutes

Hunting trips

As i just came home from the outing, what better thing to post about then my hunting trip with my grandfather. Ever since i was old enough to hold my cut down BB gun my grandfather has taken me out to isolaed, venton Louisiana near lake charles to go do his favorite thing whch is duck hunt.

As the distincted crack of my 12 gauge shot gun connects with the high flying bird, sending it plumminting through the water causing my grandfather look at me with the happiest face I have ever seen him express. Everytime I shoot a bird, or even tell him ill go hunting, he immediantly puts on his happy visage, until we both leave the camp. It is his favorite thing, and when i go with him its really fun. I cant wait to go next time.

I am a writer who

I am a writer who is very unorganized, and sometimes lost in my writing. When i write, like the narrative for example, i would finish a paragraph and then go way off topic like i was writing a whole different paper. It was hard for me to make things flow together and make smooth transitions. Since i have these issues in my writing i often write the whole thing, read it, then end up  re doing a lot of sentences.
 I guess you could say i am a disorganized, lost, choppy writer.

Although these are all obviously not on the list for traits of good writing, I always go back, and relieze why did i even say that? and i have to change my paper instantly. There comes a point in time where i need to just should write it once.