Favorite tale

      my favorite tale is the pardoners because the moral lessons it has. The moral lessons still apply to the world today

King lear entry #2

     Edmund furtherd his plot to get his dad to turn on his brother. The king was also turned away by the oldest daughter. Which confirmed she was lying about her feelings for her father. Kent’s loyalty is deep he attacks oswald because he sides with the daughters instead of the king. Edmund throughout this act show how naive everyone else is. The king goes to his second oldest daughter. The oldest sends a letter to the the second oldest. The sisters are very similar similar and the oldest knows she will not want to deal with their father either. The sisters cone togeather at reagan house with the king. They try to convince him that he is being unreasonable. The king us very immature abd feels he should have his way. When he doesn’t he has a fit and does something careless. He then leaves both of the daughters and goes off alone

Macbeth act 1

The play starts off with witches peforming chants and other things. The story then goes to the king who is honoring macbeth. The witches tell macbeth he will become king he doesn't really believe it. He does not intend to act on it but his wife is greedy she makes a plan to fufill the prophecy. The actions she took and macbeth not putting his foot down explains their relationship that he is submissve to his wife

Psalms 121

The psalm talks about god comming to help. It tells of nany different sutuations where god helps. It also says that god never sleeps so he is always available to us. It also says that "all of my help cometh from the lord ". Its saying that we dont need anyone but god really. The psalm teaches that god is always there to help in anyway and for any other reason that we could need him .

Review king lear

King lear was an intresting book, but it was very predictable. From the beginning you were able to see the outcome and future problems. The book had multiple themes within it and ended tragically for alot of its characters. It was fun to act out the play with my classmates. Alot of the dialogue was still confusing despite reading the no fear edition. The concepts and ideas of it are still able to be grasped by high school students.

The monk's tale

     There once was a deacon, he followed the word with no mistakes. The deacon was in a financial slump. His  fear of the lord was so great he wouldn't dare sin intentionally. The deacon was also very prideful.
     The deacon lived alone hoping to one day become the pope. He had no friends because he did not speak outside the church. One day he feel ill with a fever and vomitting . He had been ill for 3 days with no sign of recovery. He spent his sick days praying the rosary and to god for recovery
     Eventually one day the deacon feared the worst for himself. He began to see things that weren't there. He then saw his dog enter the room. The dog began to speak the deacon was astonished. The dog told the deacon you worry so much about sin that you dont realize that you are sinning. At times it is good to be prideful but pride can lead to sinning. God will always forgive no one is perfect. The deacon's eyes began to get heavy. He eventually passed out, by the time he woke up his fever was gone
     The next day the deacon told the priest what happened. He looked at him with disbelief. The spiritual meeting made the deacon realize he shouldn't try to be perfect. He also realized the importance of having help from others. The deacon after years of faithful work towards the church became the pope.

Advice to communist

Dear advisor,

My name is grant and I have been asked to turn a boy into a man. The problem is that he was called a hog and acts like one because thats what he was called. Without the fact that he believes he is a hog I do not have a idea of how to make him man. I need help finding a way to breakthrough to him .

      Hearing someone describe you as a animal is enough to really hurt someones feelings and pride . I believe it may have broken his will. I believe he is aware that he is no hog but intends to mimic one as mockerey because that is what he is said to be. I need an idea to get close to jefferson and to get him to be willing to listen to what I have to say

Quotations

              A Lesson before dying  chapter 3

        "If you say so, Mr Henri".
          "I say so," he said.

       The quote and the conversation at this point of the book shows that seperate but equal is not really equal. She has to beg Henri to do a simple task for her. Even though sge served his family for a long time. When grant did not say sir to Henri he gave him a funny look because he knows he gas a certain dominance over them.
                             Chapter 4
     "Now his godmother wants me to visit him and make him know----prove to these white men---- that he's a man . Im supposed to make him a man. Who am I? God?"

      Grant does not have a idea of how to make jefferson a man. Which is one of the reasons he does not really want to do it. Also he knows that it will be hard for him to change the minds of the white men prespective of him

Dicussion questions part 2

           Lesson before dying chapter 4

          The book says they have a slaughter house for hogs so when they compare jefferson to a animal that the town has factories for killing it makes it seem like he should die like the other hogs.

           Grant wants to leave because he does not feel free where he is at. He will not leave because of his job and because of vivian they have an arguement and she tells him the commitment he should have towards the kids he teaches

Disscussion questions

              lesson before dying  Chapter 3

         It does because he seems as if he is not going to really talk to his brother in law. Henry seems like he just wants to have emma off his back. By asking her can he now return to his guest.

          He says that because she is giving him an option but he knows that he can not refuse what she is asking. He knows he at the least owes her that favor. He is annoyed by it especially because she interuppted him.

         The backdoor symbolizes the past where him and his family worked on the Pichot plantation. It shows that they arent really treated like guest or even equals. Telling someone to go through the back door makes it seem like they arent very welcomed.

She constantly speaks about the things she had done for the Pichot family over the years. She feels that he should owe her the small favor.