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4/13/12
Bella:
*sniff*
*sniff*
What’s
the matter? :Ben
Bella:
Awwwww
this girl... *sniff* *sniff* is being sooo mean to me
I don’t know what to do
Hold on…why is
she doing that? :Ben
Bella:
I
don’t know, I’m scared, I don’t want to go anymore
Where?
School no way…you can’t :Ben
Tell me what happened
Bella:
*sniff*
*sniff* I’m scared…
Fine….
Not here…. I will email you
Okay :Ben
Bella:
Promise
you won’t tell anyone...
I don’t want to create more trouble
Okay :Ben
To: Ben@gmail.com
Subject: IDK what to do!!!
From: Bella@yahoo.com
Dear
Ben,
*sniff*
*sniff* *sniff* *sniff*. Okay…So here’s the story. I was going to the
bathroom and this girl…she was blocking my way and she wouldn’t let me in. She
looks like an 8th grader, tall, fat and bossy. She said that if I
don’t give her money she wouldn’t let me in and make me pee in my pants. I’m scared;
I don’t know what to do!! Especially there’s no other bathroom in the school,
so I was forced to give her my changes from lunch. At this point, I thought
that the problem was over and that I could use the bathroom. But she started to
shove me, kick me, push me, and say that the money wasn’t enough. I was on the
floor before I knew it; she was on top of me controlling every move I make. I
was too weak to defend myself. I’m bruised and hurt when the bell rang for the afternoon
class. I could still remember her last word, “If you tell, I would make your
life ten times harder than this” Ben, what should I do, why am I getting this? I
didn’t do anything. I’m afraid to tell my parents or my teachers…
From Bella
Google
Mail:
4/14/12
Subject: Re: IDK what to do!!!
Dear
Bella:
OMG that’s
horrible!! That’s considered bullying!!! Did you know what bullying is? Bullying
is the use of aggressions by one or more people against another person or
group. God Bella how did you get into this mess! Nevertheless, you should tell
someone and immediately!! I know you are the, “suffer in silent type” but
please this is serious, it’s not like you can endure it. Bullying is just
wrong. People who get bullied feels frighten, lonely, unhappy, and unsafe. Most
of all, they started to lost confidence in themselves and are convinced that
there’s something wrong with them. You are one of them, you don’t want to go to
school anymore…see this is the effect. Now you were bullied probably you were
just shy and quiet. I bet they figured that you were defenseless towards them.
People who were bullied are mainly because they were different from the others,
for example their race, their name, their size, and the way they talk. I have a
couple of things you can do right now. First, you can tell an adult, I know you
hate doing this but you have to for the sake of this. Tell your teacher or your
parents what’s going on and they can find a way to stop it. Second, you can
stay close to your friends because bullies rarely pick on people if they are in
a group. Third, you can solve it yourself (I don’t recommend this) but tell an
adult anyway in case if it happens again. I hope you find a solution that suits
you and remember I’m always here for you when you need me. Email back as soon
as you see this... Stay in touch as always.
From Ben
One
Week Later…
Bella:
Ben!!
What :Ben
Bella:
Guess
what!!
You
got a new iphone? :Ben
Bella:
Better
than that!!
The bully situation is over!!
REALLY??? :Ben
Bella:
It
turns out that girl was being bullied herself
She just doesn’t want to be bully and
that’s why she bully others
But we are best friends now
Oh My God we had SOO many in common
You would not believe it!!!!
So
my advice did help…didn’t it ? :Ben
Bella: OFF
COURSE Ben!! And THX ><
>< :Ben
Bella:
Ben
I need your help!!!!
What
is it? :Ben
Bella:
I’m
reading this book, “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
and I need an
issue in this book
But I’m clueless about it; you know I’m not a fan of ELA
I
read this book…let me think about it :Ben
Bella:
Okay…email
me a list when you’re ready
Okay :Ben
Subject:
The Things They Carried!!!
In the beginning, Cross is very obsessed
with Martha. He thought about whether or not she was still a virgin and why she
had sign the letter “Love” But only Martha doesn’t return this feeling back for
him. Cross started to lose focus at war. “As he is lying in his foxhole, he
looks at pictures of Martha he can’t help to fell more than anything, he want
Martha to love him as he loved her” This quotation it shows that Cross really
loves Martha and he wants to be with her. He would always think about her; in
the foxholes, while marching, and even when there’s a danger.
This feeling has changed when Ted
Lavender, Cross’s fellow soldier die. Lavender was killed because Cross was
unfocused at war due to Martha. Cross had blamed Lavender’s death on him. When
he sat in the hole crying he thought he had, “love Martha more than his men.”
Because of Martha, Cross had defeated his ability as a leader. Martha has
possessed him so much that even "without willing it, he was thinking about
Martha." This shows that he has lost control on where and when is the
right time to think about things like that.
Cross had finally realized that his
feelings for Martha were never real. He just uses Martha as a way to escape
from war. Cross even questioned himself is he was actually a leader, a
lieutenant. But now it was already too late, Lavender is dead and there’s
nothing he can do to change that. The morning after Lavender was dead, Cross
decided to stop his love for Martha. To completely forget her, he burns her
letters photos. As he thought what she wrote in the letter, Cross began to hate
her even if he still loves her, it was the, “hating kind of love” He told
himself that he was going to forget about her and put the army in front of
love. He was "determined to perform his duties firmly and without
negligence."
Overall, Cross had been tuck in the
middle of love and war, not knowing which one to choose. Neither one he chooses
is going to take something valuable away from him, his love for Martha or his
fellow soldiers. And in the end he did made a choice. He chose his men over
Martha even though it’s too late. And maybe the only way to make it up to him
is by putting leadership in front of love.
The message this book wanted to tell us
is that we should make the right choice and not waiting until you lose
something to finally know how importance it is. Cross regret that he had not
been able to save Lavender when he could. He blamed himself for his death, for
that he did not do his responsibility as a leader of the army. For that he
hated himself for choosing love over his men. I think that we should all make
the right choice or what you considered to be right because we can’t choose two
things at once; which every choice we make will meant losing the other one. So
choose wisely.
I learn lot from this book, “The Things
They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. I learned that we should make the right choice in
life to avoid regretting what we did later on. I also learned that we should be
able to put down the things that are obviously not realistic. I think we
shouldn’t be thinking things that are not going to come true, especially at
Cross’s view. Think about the unrealistic thing will just distract us from the
place we are. Cross is using the memory, the past, and Martha, to help him
escape from the war. You might think that imagining will make you feel better,
but it doesn’t, it sinks you down deeper into the hole until you are completely
desperate, until the point you can’t stand up again. Living in the past is like
avoiding the future, its okay to remember the past, but living? Just not the
way it’s supposed to be.
Ops, I think I got too deep into the details….
Ben
Facebook
Message
5/28/12
Bella: Heeyyyy
Hey :Ben
Bella:
Did
you know who the famous play writer is?
You
mean William Shakespeare :Ben
Bella:
Yea,
I think it’s him
You
think?? Seriously who doesn’t know him? :Ben
Bella:
I’m
sorry…
He is
really famous…change the world :Ben
Bella:
Really
how??
Umm…. : Ben
Whole another story
Google
Mail:
5/31/12
Subject: William Shakespeare!!!
William Shakespeare, one of the most well known play writers’ in the world. Born in April, 1564, and the first son of John and Mary Shakespeare. They lived in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire. H served as a leather worker and an agricultural supplies dealer. At an early age, William attends grammar school as well as his other seven siblings.
Shakespeare
ended up marrying Anne Hathaway on November 28, 1582. They had three children:
Susanna, in 1583 and twins Judith and Hamnet in 1585. However, He was never the
family man type, so spend much of his life writing and performing.
At first, Shakespeare’s writings and
performance did not gain much public recognition due to the plague and that
many theaters were close. However, this situation did not last for long. In
1594, the theaters had opened up again and Shakespeare had launched himself. He
performs with a group called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. From 1594-1599, his
career was at its highest point, he produce approximately two plays a year including
performances. It is said that he made the highest income those days, 200-250
pounds every year. Soon in 1603, Shakespeare and his men were known as the
King’s patronage, meaning the most famous acting company. Shakespeare continues
to write, some of his famous works was penned at this time. His works also
contain many quotes from the Geneva Bible, particularly Matthew (151 times).
The Globe Theater was constructed in
1599; before then, Shakespeare and his men performed at The Theatre, which was
a play house. When the lease on the Theatre expired, they had to make other
arrangements for which they had no play to perform. The landlord of The Theatre
would not allow them back, so in 1599, they took down The Theatre and move it
across the river and constructed what became known as the Globe Theater. Even
though this did not go well with the landlord, there was nothing he could do
about it. Many of Shakespeare’s work were perform there.
Shakespeare left the stage in 1611,
though he continued to write, his last plays were not very notable. These works
include: Henry III, Two Noble Kinsmen, and Cardenio.
Later in 1616, he become very ill and he die on April 23, 1616. His final
saying was, "I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping
and assuredly believing through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour to
be made partaker of life everlasting."
Throughout Shakespeare’s life, there are
many changes in his style of writing. One of his well-known early works is The
Comedy of Errors and Taming of the Shrew. These plays represent Greene’s
jealously in the 1590s. Later when their play house was closed, he wrote many
of his sonnets and plays that include: Love’s Labour’s Lost and Two Gentlemen
of Verona. After Shakespeare’s huge success in 1594, his style changed to
darkness and tragedy. Some of his plays are: Hamlet, Mcbeth, AND King
Lear. While he did write some comedies,
they were un-humorous. Then in 1608, he switches to light-hearted romance. Some
of them include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the tempest. There isn’t a definite
reason why he made switch in his styles of writing. However, all of his works
were unique and inspiriting to the audience.
For one thing, Shakespeare had changed
our sex lives. He described every kind of sex in his plays which goes from the freakiest
and the most represses. Even the most prudish readers read his works; these
works include Sonnet 137, which is about masturbation, and The Winter’s Tale,
which is about sex toys. This made him one and the only one that deals with
openly sex. Psychotherapy and the sexual revolution in the ‘60s are all drawn
from his realistic descriptions of how the human desire works. This directly
influences us, today.
Shakespeare also takes a part in the
English Language; in fact he was a great inventor of words. He had invented
1,700 words, including jaded, bandit, and mountaineer. He also invented words
that are familiar to us. These include: “advertising” and “skim milk”. Some of
his fancy words include: “sanctimonious” and “lackluster”. He invented wild
words such as “zany” and “buzzer.” In addition, the word “Jessica” was used in
one of his plays. He had also invented new rules for grammar. Shakespeare
changed the way actors perform. He introduced new ways of pronouncing lines and
went on to the idea that a character’s dialogue should come from one’s motivation.
Plays by
Shakespeare are still very popular today. They had been printed a lot of times.
In fact, Shakespeare’s plot has been presented in movies, television shows, and
books. They are so common that we may not even know that they are first
introduced by Shakespeare. Some of these plots include: “Two young people from
rival families falling in love- Romeo and Juliet”, “mistaking the identity of
one person for another person-A comedy of Errors”, and “an evil person who dies
because of their own wrongdoing-Macbeth.”
Shakespeare’s work not only shapes the
literature we know today, but it goes beyond that. His works had influence the
world. He taught important lessons such as; that love can conquer and destroy,
and human ethics can be easily manipulated. Shakespeare’s plays, poems and
sonnets go beyond a classroom lesson. He inspired people to continue to read
literature, to develop philosophies, and challenge things. Shakespeare brought
the words and the revolutionary ideas to literature and to us.
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