A very happy new years

So a lot has changed since the last time I posted something up here for the world to see. School is out, work isn't all that great (well that part hasn't changed), and I have a new boyfriend. We have met the families, talked endlessly and I watched as he made very thoughtful gestures that made me want to cry because they were so sweet. I haven't had the chance to tell the people that I usually share this kind of information with on a regular basis throughout my life. (not that its very long but listening to my stories you would think I lived forever). So where exactly do I start? Oh, right...the beginning.

As a few of you may know I was still recovering from a break-up of a long term relationship that was supposed to be my last seeing as though he wanted to "be with me forever" hahaha remember that line ladies? I have heard it many times before and eventhough I am only 20 as of Nov 4th of 2010 I have been proposed to by a handful of guys. (don't ask). So I'm getting over my ex and starting a new job. It was about a month and a half in so I was getting the hang of the job but still having fun meeting people. I had some cool managers and some not so cool. Some co-workers who were my kind of people and others who were a bit too much for tv if you know what I mean (secret sluts is what I mean). Im just in the men's section folding levi's when i see someone looking at them. I didn't see a nametag so i assumed that he was a customer. And being the awesome employee that I am I greeted him with our MAGIC tecnique and asked if he needed help. He then informed me that he worked there and was helping me fold levi jeans. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO then me being the talkative and freindly person I am asked how he liked the job and when he started ect ect. But after a while I noticed that I was holding most of the convo. But i didn't mind because I love to talk. And I like to observe people when I talk to them to see if I'm getting on their nerves and he just sat there and smiled while working and laughed at all my jokes and stuff.

I didn't realize that he even thought I was pretty, but he did and because my job has the worst scheduling ever we didn't see eachother for a while. When we did see eachother again he talked a lot more the next time. We decided not to exchange numbers but we saw eachother the next day and I asked if he was doing anything the next day because I wanted someone to go with me to the zoo for the spanish day festival. So I got his number and told him where to meet me at the station. (and thats how I got his number, take it from me ladies). So our first "date" was the zoo, and he stole my first kiss on our way home on the trains. During our time there he took random pictures of me and he smiled while I got very excited about seeing the elephants.

And fast forward to meeting his parents before halloween and hanging out with them on halloween, (which was awesome!) we went trick or treating! and we ended up going as the corpse bride and he was the scream face with a tux looking all cute ^^. Then on Thanksgiving I met his father side of the family and his lovely grandmother. About a week before christmas I went to his house to decorate their christmas tree and his parents have the cutest tradition and they buy a new ornament for each year that they have been together. And since this was our first christmas together they made us out the 1981 ornament on together. Part of his christmas gift from me was a 2010 ornament for our first christmas together (along with a playlist of songs that reminds me of him). And then on christmas day I met his mother's side of the family. Both sides have a lot of siblings which means countless cousins to meet. And everyone knows that I'm the girlfriend and whatnot (before it was even official on new years ^^). Another fast forward and new years we didn't get to see eachother but we did talk on the phone and changed our relationship status on facebook. hahahaha it seems like such a big deal to people but this was the easiest was for us to put it out there and we are not ashamed at all. We are happy and started over together in the new year! P.S. my mom loves him and my dad can actually remember his name! and my sisters love anyone but they really like him. All family members check! and that was my very hapy new years day story

stupid jobs

ok guys imback at it again but this time with a more angry post.........grrrrrrrrrrr

anyway my job is like totally blowing me man! why don't they give memore hours! im about to get a second job because this is just rediculous man! (notice that i am using a lot of exclamation points...its because im angry) i swear im gonna be a traitor to macy's and go work for jc penny's, ross, and marshalls all at the same time. they are all inn the same mall so why not? i got a job offer at chipotle but i know that will never work out seeing as though i love them way too much! i dnt want to see something in the back that makes me want to eat other places like the infamous baja fresh! (gasp oh no!) btw they suck and the tortillas taste like crap. much like the comparison of subway and quiznos, mcdonalds and burgerking............who makes the most money and taste better and has more ppl there is better! majority wins! which is funny seeing as though i am a monority :( but i love being black with the tiny bit of native american i have inside me^^.

so back to macy's...they need to give me hours before other places see my awesomeness as a threat and ask me to join them instead. then i will comensce with the quitting and flipping of the bird. (especially to the one manager that literally everyone hates...who shall remain nameless until i quit officiall) hope you had fun reading and leave me some comments awesome readers!

ok so a few ppl said they would read it if i started a blog and mayb ill start vlogging later but for now let me stick with the writing...i do that best ^^ this is going to be so random but i have been around this girl at my job that is so ghetto that sometimes i sound like her and if you know me ghetto is not a word that describes me...at all. i swear that if i say one more thing with a accent that isn't mine at all im going to scream! she is cool and everything but geeze i cant stand it sometimes. and the foul things that come out of her mouth...:/ i swear everytime she says something i want to cleanse myself and im not the holliest of ppl. like do you ever feel as though you should pop a grown person in the mouth? that is how i feel everytime im with her. but she not gonna change and i shouldnt expect her to. oh well hopefully she will grow out of it later in life. and sometimes being around her has its advantages like looking like the cute tiny good girl who has to control her obscene friend.

another thing is why do ppl feel as though they should tell their life stories to everyone they know? me personally i am a closed book and my deepest feelings are rarely known...unless im very sleepy (my version of being drunk) lol. dont ppl look so weird when they are spilling out their guts and stuff and your just sitting there trying to figure out what is going on in the crazy head on their shoulders. anyway i have to go now because this is all the time i have and bye guys ask me a question and i will answer as best as i can! peace!

its been a year ^^

OMG i feel so guilty that I haven't used my blogging page that I set up for my ap lit class in 12th grade in almost a whole year. I'm not even sure why I haven't since I absolutely love to write and such. So many things have happened since then. I have started school at PGCC and trying to get some classes out of the way so that I can eventually transfer out to a University. I was accepted into a lot of different schools and got into just about all of them. I can't remember which one I didn't get into actually. ^^

My original goal was to go to Salisbury University and i was so excited until the issue of money came about. Well bottom line I'm not there and I'm looking for a job but not all hope is lost! I could get a job with Verizon wireless and they pay for school if you work for them so hopefully that goes well! I'm still with my high school sweetheart Joshua and we are totally happy together. He loves my family and they love him too.

The reason for me getting back on my blogging page was to basically get back into some casual writing with no one in particular listening. I know it sounds a little crazy like I'm talking to myself but i swear I'm not lol. Plus this helps me with my writing later when i sit down to do novels an poetry. OK folks I'm done for today so ill talk to you dudes later!.....skaters! lol

3rd quarter reflection

When I was first starting out with my papers in AP lit i had no clue what 2 expect. I was just getting a feel for the "snappy" openers ad thesis statements are my worst enemy. Its seems simple but I make simple things so complicated sometimes because I want so badly for it to be perfect. I was determined to be different with my subject for my pancake paper when we read Othello. My papers weren't bad but they do much to keep the attention of the reader I'm guessing. I wanted to expand my vocabulary more but neglected to in my writing. In my comparison paper for "their eyes" and "Wuthering heights" the comparison was very odd but it basically explained the same theory in a completely different fashion. Widening my vocabulary is sometimes difficult to me. I already speak better than most of the people I know so it presented a bit of a challenge to me. Reading the books thoroughly made my writing better 3rd quarter.

I'm not really sure what to expect as far as the AP exam. I believe i need to focus on the plots and other details in books that i didn't read thoroughly. My strengths are in the books that I understand the most. I read to really focus on dissecting poetry.

The book that I enjoyed the most was Wuthering Heights. Since i read it over the summer I didn't have to read it as thoroughly but I did catch some things that I missed in my random summer reading list. I think I liked it the most because of the "Gothic" novel feel and it reminded me of the works of Edgar Allan Poe (one of my favorite poets). I love the fight between nature and man and how the ending was eventually what was supposed to happen and also what we wanted.

comparison paper.

Now a days you can see that women have a lot of power in the home, the work place, and even in politics. Women had to triumph over many struggles such as men believing that they were the "inferior" sex to get where are. Some men never thought to think of the men who started wars because they were so powerful. Wuthering Heights and Their Eyes Were Watching God are both stories that show how powerful certain women can be and what it took to gain their current power. Both authors use devices such as theme, narration, and character analysis to illustrate how powerful women can be.

In both stories there is a controversy with society and nature. Both Janie and Catherine both chose which one they were going to rival. Catherine knew who she loved but decided to go against nature and marry for money. In the end this was her downfall but if she hadn't made this mistake the second generation wouldn't have had Cathy who chose to go against society and be with the one she loved.Nature always prevails and Catherine's mistake had a greater purpose and made a stronger woman to stand up to society eventually change what is "right and wrong" in the eyes of society.

Janie first listened to what society said was good for her but then she decided that nature knew better and she continued to follow her heart. The first move she made on her own wasn't a very good judgement but like Catherine her mistake made her future strong and gave her knowledge to understand more. When she entered into her last relationship it was the smartest decision yet but it ended badly. Even though this happened she had power that was unthinkable at the time and she went through a lot to get it.

Hurston illustrates how far Janie came by allowing her to tell her own story from her first kiss to the day she came home in nothing but overalls. The way she told her story and left no details out showed how strong she was after she endeared all of this. She went through death, trust issues, heart-ache, abuse, and verbal restraint. All of which eventually made her a better person in the end. Her natural beauty made her powerful but her head-strong manner added to this power she harbored. When her husband died she was not only free but rich, which made her even more desirable to the men of the town.

Bronte took a different approach when it came to the narration of Catherine. Instead of letting Catherine tell her won tale she put it in the hands of a maid and friend Nelly. Nelly's narration was told inside of Lockwood's narration which made it a bit sketchy forcing the reader to make up the story in their own mind. You have to figure out what you do and don't believe, and what could possibly be exaggerated. Because Nelly was the non-objective insider she could have added things to the real story to make it sound more pleasing to her ear. Lockwood was a bit more practical seeing as though he was a man and didn't know anything except for what Nelly told him while they were talking. When it came to the story of Wuthering Heights and Thruscross Grange we had to trust the words of Nelly. Lockwood only had his own narration for the present. (his encounter with Catherine's ghost, Heathcliff, and the beautiful girl in the foyer).

When Bronte created Catherine's character she made her wild, childish, and partly superficial, but she had her own mind. She didn't become superficial until she was put in a different world were money was no object. There she met someone who could give her what she wanted (when it came to material things) and Heathcliff couldn't measure up in that department. He was a simple gypsy boy with no money and no civilized learning. Catherine's visit to Thruscross Grange made her stuck-up but she still had the essence of wild child when it came to her temper and utter amusement.

Before she met the Linton family she didn't care about society, she loved Heathcliff so much that she told Nelly that he was her, literally an essential part of her. They grew up together and if she had just followed her heart she could have saved so much heart-ache, death, and social issues. The destruction that she caused illustrated how powerful this one woman was even long after she died. Her influence on the people lives who she left behind were simply incredible. you can decipher whether that was a good or bad thing.

Hurston took a different route with Janie's unique character. In Their Eyes Were Watching God the people in Janie's life influenced her instead of her influencing them. Each and every significant character shaped Janie's personality and built her strength over the years. Her grandmother showed her how sacred the bond of marriage was at a young age but she didn't understand until she got to her second marriage. Since she was still so young with her first husband she easily left him when she got miserable and had an opportunity to do so. She became one of the women who was the "mule of the world" (as her grandmother once told her) and was controlled by her husband for 20 years. His death led to her freedom and she was back to no BS Janie but was no longer the victim of naive adolescence. After she found herself she finally found true love and acceptance.

Both Hurston and Bronte told stories that made people realize how powerful women really are in two completely different fashions. Both ways were intriguing and affective. No one could miss the point that Catherine and Janie were both very strong females who went through trials and tribulation to get the life they wanted. Every mistake had a purpose in the end and you can almost create a story in your mind if you think "what if this didn't happen?" and have your own alternate ending to both stories. If Catherine had married Heathcliff from the start or if she never had got bitten by the dog what would have happened?. If Janie had finished school like her grandmother originally wanted her to do what kind of person would she have become?

reflection quarter 2

The second quarter for me was a definite challenge. We stepped it up with reading novels that were a bit more challeging than the others we read earlier this year. I don't know about the other AP students but the book Crime and Punishment proposed a huge challenge for me. I had to use a lot of helpers and talk to some people to understand what the story meant. Overall it was a very good book and I was excited to find out that my teacher was behind me in the reading even though I'm sure she had a better reason to be than I. Mrs.Ahearn has classes and papers to grade while I mixed reading for class with reading for pleasure. Reading for pleasure was something I did a lot more.

My weakness is actually the same and has gotten worse this quarter. Me reading other books more than the books I was supposed to and it getting in the way of my educational reading for class. I think it may have gotten worse over time. I spend the majority of my paycheck on Borders Books and I have read about five different series each containing more than four books. The older novel I had to read last seemed to dull in comparison so it was a bit harder for me to read. But then i was upset because the moral of the story was actually more exciting than the story itself. It seemed as though you needed it acted out or read out loud to be good like a Shakespeare play.

pancake paper- othello

Othello-Pancake Paper




Did women even serve as a higher purpose other than to reproduce? Why would they go through the entire marriage process? To be holy in the eyes of God? In the play Othello women do not seem to have any type of position or rank at all above wife (take care of your husbands), mother (take care of children), or maid (take care of house). They are often treated as though they are disposable and unimportant. They are second-hand to their husbands and can be treated any way possible.

The “sweet Cassio” often uses Bianca for his own sick pleasures and more, in addition to laughing behind her back at the thought of marriage. He won’t even simply say “I don’t love you,” he instead states “Not that I love you not.” (4.1.196). She obviously understands that he doesn’t love her(4.1.197) but she still tries to give him what he wants and offering herself and her home. She is blinded by her love for him.

Cassio laughs at Bianca when Iago asks does he intend to marry her. This is when Othello is hiding and he believes that Cassio is speaking of Desdemona and laughing about marrying her (4.1.16-18). Cassio calls marrying Bianca “unwholesome” (4.1.120-122). Then Bianca comes and asks for an explanation about the handkerchief left in Cassio’s chambers and when he “explains” she lets it go and offers dinner afterwards, thus further proving my point about how women are used and are submissive at this time (4.1.147-158). Since he left the handkerchief in his room with her you also find out that he sleeps with her when its convienent.

Iago is often rude to his wife Emilia by belittling women. Besides he makes Emilia do things unknowingly so that he can continues with his plans. When Emilia says “I have a thing for you” (which is the handkerchief that Othello gave Desdemona) Iago calls it “common” then says “to have a foolish wife”. (3.3.306-310) when he realizes what she has for him he quickly snatches it and says “good wench” (3.3.332) instead of “thank you my beloved wife”. Not that a villain like Iago would express such things, then again he’s a two-faced man.

Emilia was one of the many people deceived by her husband Iago and was used in his plan to take down Othello. He got her to steal (3.3.311-313) a token of love and explain the significance just by pretending that it had some use to him. When Emilia realized exactly what his was plan was she quickly and deliberately told everyone that was present at the time (5.2.176-178). He told her to “charm her tongue” (like a good wench should) but she refused (5.2.179-181). The he finally killed her after a few attempts. She betrayed him and was no longer any use to him with her life.

When you’re married you’re supposed to have some solid level of trust in the relationship. Even if you don’t at least “talk” about it before you foolishly take action. But obviously in these times that was always the case. Women weren’t really thought of as people or adults but as things or even children. Even the most loved wives were treated as such. Othello was tricked into believing his wife cheated on him. Iago constantly tells Othello that Desdemona is being unfaithful with Cassio.

Because of some previous words from Desdemona’s father Othello was easily deceived into thinking that his beloved wife would do such things to him. So in the end even when he was asking her vague questions and she tried to explain herself it was not enough. (5.2.68-70). in the e Desdemona was killed by the one she loved and was faithful to (5.2.83). She also took the blame for her own death right when she actually dies (5.2.123-124). An unbelievable tragedy formed by different types of love and multiple forms of jealousy, and multiple misunderstandings.


Women were treated as toys. You could play with them and love them but when they either were no longer good to you or worn out they were disposed of. Thus making me believe that they were used for reproduction and play things.

Spam leaves an aftertaste -by Bob Hicok

1. I love the way he categorizes their "interest." We all know that they only do it to sell their product and make money but he made it seem as if they really cared about his body, which made it funny.

2. The serious theme is that spam emails asre very annoying and most of the time useless. This complicate's the poem's tone because it switches from annnoyed to humorous by making fun of the reandom advertisements but also making it eveident that no one likes to get them.

3. I completly understand what he means about the male enhancment advertisments along with slimming ideas and make-up. I myslef am a female but they still send me things like that everyday. I get some different things in my email box like a list of adoption agencies asking me if i wanted to take home a "bundle of joy" today, knowing that it takes a long time to adopt a child.

1. It may be considered a later-day version because of the "conversation" between him and the female.

2.Bob Hicok is just speaking on the impact of spam emailing on people's lives while Tony Hoagland speaks of America with it's stereotypes, money, lies, slander,and images is sufficating their people.

pancake paper- Oedipus

What if you didn’t know exactly what was going on in your own life? What if the one person who couldn’t see could see more than you? What if you knew there was a possibility that your life was what everybody was trying to figure out, and you were the murderer?
Sophocles uses Plot, Metaphor, and Irony to explain just how much “in the dark” Oedipus and his people are. When speaking of plot Sophocles creates a speech given by Oedipus to show that he has no clue that he is the true murderer of Laios. Sophocles explaining the metaphor about him literally being in the dark (blind) but he knows the true prophecy, as compared to Oedipus who can see but has no idea what he has done in the past few years of his life. In the end Oedipus figures it out and says “damned in his birth, in his marriage damned, damned in the blood he shed with his own hands!”
Oedipus states in his speech in the beginning of the play “If any man knows by whose hand Laios, son of labdakos , met his death, I direct this man to tell me anything” making it obvious that he either doesn’t know or he is putting on some huge façade. Sophocles almost literally makes Oedipus a puppet or play thing of the gods. Even though the gods don’t openly state what they are going to do in the life of Oedipus it becomes very clear when the blind seer tells the prophecy. Some say that the gods not only did this for their own twisted pleasure but because of inherited guilt. “Oedipus falls due to the act of an ancestor (laios’ rape of Chrysippus)” [Taken from homepage.usask.ca/coursenotes/oed.html].
It is also looked upon that Oedipus’ fate was because of his own arrogance and rashness. He comes off very headstrong and foolish. His “people” after encourage the way he acts by giving him the power of a god, almost worshipping him. The priest stated “you are not one of the immortal gods, we know; yet we have come to you make our prayer as to the man surest in mortal ways and wisest in the ways of God.” Oedipus also seems to get very paranoid when he thinks that Kreon is trying to get rid of him and take his throne. Oedipus claims “if for this power Kreon desires in secret to destroy me,” and “and this is the man you think can destroy, that you may be close to Kreon when he’s king!” He literally jumps to conclusions by saying that Teiresias is helping Kreon destroy him so that he can become king.
Later on in the play we find out that he doesn’t know what is really going on. He uses metaphor when he speaks of being “in the dark” when the blind seer Teiresias tells him the prophecy about his life. Teiresias plainly states “I say that you are the murderer whom you seek”; revealing that he knows more than Oedipus does about his own life. This simple fact really upsets Oedipus because he was just completely thrown by what was said to him. What he had been looking for was in him. That fact alone would make me rethink my life and all the events in it. Teiresias explains that he will live in shame and that his fate lies within Apollo’s (the god) competence. “I say you live in hideous shame with those most dear to you. You can not see the evil,” “True: it is not from you my fate will come. That lies within Apollo’s competence, as it is his concern.”
Sophocles uses extended Metaphor very well as far as the phrase “in the dark” was concerned. There also was another metaphor that wasn’t plainly stated but often shown in the play. Oedipus’ wife Jokaste was said to be his mother in the end. If you didn’t know that she was his mother from the earlier plays then you might have not noticed the fact that she acts very motherly throughout her parts in the play. She’s always trying to sway his mind/ideas because of her own personal experiences, which is something a wife often does also. For example she always says how she doesn’t really believe in gods or the prophecies. She was always reassuring Oedipus trying to change his mind by telling him her opinions. In Act 1, Scene 2 Jokaste says “I tell you that you will find no man whose craft gives knowledge of the unknowable, Here is proof; an oracle was reported to Laios once… That his doom would be death at the hands of his own son.” Obviously she didn’t believe this prophecy because to her own personal knowledge this had not happened.
Irony begins to tie all of this together when Oedipus speaks to the shepherd and he reveals that he gave the child of Laios away to another shepherd. The shepherd says “If you must be told, then… They say it was Laios’ child; but it is your wife who can tell you about that;” ultimately saying that his wife knows what is going on and unraveling more who the child may be. Throughout the entire play Oedipus is trying to prove that the prophecy is wrong and that he is not the one who killed Laios. But instead it turns out that he was the killer and he married his own mother. He says that his children were damned and cursed because of his fate. He had a very long argument with the seer about him not being blind to the world outside of his own and trying to explain his paranoia about Kreon stealing his throne.
Jokaste also serves a large part in the dramatic irony because she is determined to prove the god or the prophecy wrong. She continues to tell Oedipus that the seer was not correct in his prediction and that there was no way that it could have been true. She even gives an example where the prophecy failed. Ironically this is the same prophecy that will be proven correct at the conclusion of the play. What makes the irony so dramatic is the fact that Jokast kills herself and Oedipus blinds himself which brings back the extended metaphor. He blinds himself when he finally finds out the truth. Now he is in a way like the seer: blind and all knowing.
In the end you do see that Oedipus, Jokaste, and their people were all in the dark and suffer the horror of finally finding out what has really happened in their lives. It seems that in this play you have to literally be blind or dead to know the truth or once you know the truth you take your life or sight. The seer was physically blind but he knew everything. When Oedipus found out what he did he took his sight away and suffered with the truth for the rest of his life. Jokaste found out everything and eventually killed herself because of the realization of what she had let happen. This entire plays reminds me of a famous quote “you can’t handle the truth,” which is true for the main character in this play.

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reflection

My favorite blog homework was the first blog that we had to do. We were new to blogging for homework purposes and the new experience was great and an interesting way to learn. Also reading other people's blogs was the most fun. I got to express how i felt and what i learned about the books i read over the summer. I was intensely excited to do so. I read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, a Gothic love novel. The story was so well written i couldn't take my eyes off of it and finished it along with a few other books from the list. In addition to a new experience it gave me a chance to get back on my feet with writing formally. Because it was my first time doing so I won't forget it explaining why its my favorite. I feel as though the study of literature is so important because it is your language and can improve the way you speak and write which can determine how successful you are in the future. Honestly I just can't get enough of reading. My weakness is reading everything along with what I'm supposed to read which slows me down on my school reading. I also need to learn to read and comprehend beyond the literal and also learn to write beyond the literal. My strengths would be finishing the reading ahead of time and passing the test on them. My reading goal for next quarter is to start and finish The Iliad by Homer and fully comprehend it to its full ability. I was shocked at the things that we were reading about this year. There was a lot of sex, killing, depression, and shocking endings to short stories.

short story paper- Popular Mechanics

What if you made a decision you actually didn't want because you were going against someone who wanted the complete opposite? What if the decision made wasn't for either one of you? How would feel if the "compromise" wasn't even a compromise. you both lost what you wanted and could never get it back?



Style in the poem Popular Mechanics is very interesting. The "setting" in normal but as well as dim in a way that know something dreadful is going to happen. The author states that it was getting dark outside and on the inside also when he said "But it was getting dark on the inside too." This was set up to produce a tone of sorrow and calamity and confusion. The diction wasn't low but not too high either. You can tell someone intelligent wrote it. Both sides are agitated and frustrated with each other. The language is also contemporary. The story is actually a more modern short story.



The style of the poem already revealed that the tone was fairly enraged but changes to somber later on in the story. The setting already told us this even by saying "the snow was melting into dirty water. Streaks of it ran down from the little shoulder-high window..." The couple was also yelling in the story. This proves the anger and desperation between the couple to get what they want. And eventually they got something that neither of them wanted. As soon as the decision was made the entire poem's tone changed.



The irony in this short story was quite shocking. It ended up being that the baby was either killed or very badly injured. By the way the story was structured you would believe that either the mother would get the baby because of the way she protected it. She hovered over the child and also turned to the wall. At first I didn't even think that the father would try to physically take the baby away from the mother. But then you might predict that the father might actually get the baby because of the furious grip on the child's shoulder. The baby begins to cry and the mother yells that he is hurting the child. The father just simply yells back that he's not. Then they both eventually grab a wrist and pull back hard as if they are playing some game of tug-of-war. Then their decision was made in a rather brutal way.



Raymond Carver blended style, tone, and irony in a very unexpected way. In this story were domestic issues take place and take a life. The end leaves you with a heavy heart and a shocked expression. Everything about the ending (though very short) was startling. Even though the parents definitely got a bit violent towards the end it didn't seem as though something that disturbing would happen to the child. You would have never concluded by yourself that something that disturbing would happen before you read the line "she caught the baby around the wrist and leaned back." The only thing you could have concluded was that the ending was going to be bad because of the way Carver created the style which set up the sorrowful/incensed tone.



It reminds me of a biblical story that spoke of two women; one had a live baby and the other's baby died. The woman with the dead baby switched the babies but the real mother knew it wasn't her baby. They both went to king Solomon and plead their cases. So he suggested that they split the baby in half. The real mother spoke up and told Solomon that the other woman should take the baby. So he knew who the real mother was. It ended happy because the real mother got her child. In this story "Popular Mechanics," ended badly because the couple couldn't make a decision. The two women had Solomon to help them make a decision. They had no one so therefore the child was either killed or very badly injured.

Poetry Paper- Greenhouse

The narrator did not state who he was just his family members. It can quite possibly be the poet himself. The poem is in second person. The language used is simple but at the same time figurative. There is nothing harsh about the way he speaks. You mostly just imagine the greenhouse. The form was open and informal. He repeats a lot of colors such as green, orange, and black. The meaning of the poem is at first is that the family is shut inside of a green colored house (not a greenhouse with plants) and also inside of their own naive minds.

The daughter wants to go out and live alone. Apparently they migrated from Germany and were stuck in their simple mindedness. They call her a delicate non-indigenous plant (making another reference to the greenhouse even though it wasn't that type of greenhouse) who fell in love with a black man. When she married him her father mourned for her as if she were dead (she was dead to him), even though she wasn't far away (orange-second color-not for but just outside of the home).

She had two daughters and they never met their grandfather. Then he died and the daughter and her family came to the house to see the grandmother. They opened all the window (a symbol of accepting her daughter and her family) because it was a beautiful spring day. They also brought out the delicate china from Germany (indicating that they were immigrants, and further welcomed the new family) that was locked up for years.