Sorces of light by Margaret Mcmullan

          In  1962, a year after Sam's dad died who  was a war hero and Sam and her mother must move, along with their very opinionated views, to Jackson, Mississippi, and they don't  fit in. People like the McLemores fear that Sam, her mother, and her mother's artist friend, Perry, are in the South to shake up the dividing lines between black and white and blur it. As all this is happening Sam learns to focus to bring all the bad things out. 
        The author develops this idea by really making you feel and showing examples of how it would be like to be a teenager at this time. It also shows the struggle of her and her mom and others and what they went though just to try to help. It shows Sam's growth though out the book.

The Hunger Games Book Project

      
              In the book The Hunger Games, a science fiction novel by Suzanne Collins teaches you to not let anyone or anything change who you are,. This book demonstrates that by Peeta in the beginning and then Katniss starts to embrace that later on in the book.
              When they are sitting on the roof the night  before the games they are talking and Katniss asks Peeta "Do you mean you wont kill anyone?" Peeta replies "No , when the time comes, I'm sure I'll kill just like everybody else. I can't go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of  a way to.......to show the Capital they don't own me. That I am more than just a piece in their games."
                Another event is when Rue dies and Katniss sings to her till she dies then lays her on a bed of flowers. This shows the gamemakers and the capital that they don't  own her and she is not just going to walk away and dust it off. She is going to care for Rue and do the right thing. She did what Rue deserved.
                The biggest event that shows this is in the very end of the games when the gamemakers change the rule back so that only one person can win. Then when Katniss and Peeta refuse to kill each other, they decided to both kill themselves with nightlock(a poisons berry) Then at the last second the gamemakers voice sounds over them saying "Stop! Stop! Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark! I give you-the tributes of District Twelve." The gamemakers could not let them both die, they had to have there victor. The Capital was not happy but they did show them that  they were more than just a piece in their games.

Blue Boots- My modern day version of little red riding hood

        Once there was a little girl who lived with her mom and had a grandma who lived very close. This little girls nickname was blue boots because she always wore these blue boots. Her grandma is ill and her mom wants her to bring her some milk and cookies. Blue boot's grandma live 10 blocks down she starts her walk and on her way there is a man that approaches her and asks " where are you going" she then replies "I am going to my grandmas house she is ill and I am bringing her some milk and cookies she lives 10 blocks down on the corner." the man replied "I will go to and we can see who will get there first."
        So they both started of the man running, Blue Boots walking and stopping to look in store windows at clothes. The man get to the women's house and finds a key under the mat he then opens the door and puts the key back. Then he robs the lady of everything in her house except for the things in her room where she still lies clueless about anything else going on. The man then leaves, the house still empty.
         Later, blue boots comes and knocks on the door. "Who is it" Grandma asked. Blue Boots replied "its Blue boots Grandma" Grandma then says " the key is under the mat dear." She then opens the door and says " What an empty house you have" she replies "oh well I don't need that much dear." "no grandma you house is empty there is nothing in it" says Blue boots. Grandma then rushes out of bed and is shocked at the site. Then Grandma yells out "what happened" Blue boots then replies "Grandma you got robbed!"

The Pearl

        Characters and events develop a theme in the story because they really show that there is only good and bad in the world. In the story characters like Kino and his wife are good and the pearl buyers are bad. The events in the story are like this to they are either good or bad no in between. This proves the idea that everyone is either good or bad there is no middle.

Response #2-

In the story "The Day I Got Lost" By Isaac Bashevis Singer the tone is very sad because he is so forgetful and he forgets so many little things like in the story when he says" I lose hats, books, umbrellas, rubbers, and above all manuscripts" but, then one time he forgot his address and that resulted in a big conflict. The point of view is first person we know this because Professor Shlemiel is the one talking in the story he is the one telling us what is happening in this story about himself. These things make the reader feel bad for Professor Shlemiel and make them want to help him.

 

In the story "The Dark Brown Dog" By Stephen Crane the tone is very depressing because the poor dog gets beaten by the kid but then the kids starts to like the dog but then the dad kills the dog and the little boy is so sad as it says in the story" On the way to his home the child turned many times and beat the dog, proclaiming with childish gestures that he held him in contempt as an unimportant dog, with no value save for a moment". The point of view in this story is 3rd person because they have a narrator talking about what happened. All of these things made the reader really sad and a little mad and they wanted to help the poor dog.

 

In these story's both of them made the reader kind of sad or depressed. They used tone and point of view to do that by telling us things that  would make us feel that way about a character or about the story. Both the authors did a good job of making us feel a way after reading each of their story's.

 Response #1-

In the article, "Hijacked Jets Destroy Twin Towers and Pentagon” By Serge Schmemann informs and

describes the 9-11 tragedy in 2001 that is the authors purpose for writing this article. The text structure

of this article sequential order and Cause and effect. It is sequential order because it states the event

from first that happened then second. It is cause and effect because it has the cause which is the 9-11

attack and then it states all of the different effect that happened after 9-11. She chose this text structure

because when you are writing about how something happened you should tell it in order and she used

cause and effect so that people would know what happened and how that effected or changed things.

The tone in this article was depressing and shocking.

In the poem "We Breathed You In" By Patti Tana, Patti's purpose was to say that all of the people who

died in 9-11 are still with us and still apart of us. The text structure of this is compare and contrast

because it says "my hand your hand". The tone of this text is depressed and loving. It is depressed

because it is about all of these people that died and are now gone. It is also loving because she is saying

how the are still within us and still in our hearts.

In the Poem "The Names" By Billy Collins, Billy's purpose was to write something dedicated to all of the

victims of September 11 and to their survivors. The text structure in the poem is kind of sequence but

not in time but alphabetically. It is this way because through out the poem it lists some of the same

alphabetically from A-Z. The tone of this poem downcast or sad. It is like this because the poem talks

about how there are so many people dead and how there is not even enough space for all there names

on he walls of the heart.