Journal #6

          In chapter 19, Bruno and Shmuel plan on their last goodbye. Bruno planned to disguise himself as one of the Jews and told Shmuel to get him a spare pair of the pajamas. In this way they could play for the last time and Bruno could help Shmuel find his father, Papa. As planned the boys managed to succeed with their plan and the next thing you know, Bruno was on the other side of the fence. After investigating around the camp, trying to find any traces of Papa, Bruno soon saw how different the camp really were and how sad and skinny everyone in there were and how mean the soldiers were to the people, so he got scared and decided to go back home. But as he was about to walk back to the fence, the soldiers started yelling and everyone crowded at where the two boys were standing. They were all told to march to this dark room. In there Bruno took the hand of his friend and told him how much he meant to him and that now they are best friends for life. But as Shmuel was going to say something back, a sudden scream full of a devastating horror came across the room and everything and everyone was silent. They have all just been killed.
If I were in these to boys' situation, I would have been very terrified and devastated.

          On page 216, in the closing paragraph, I think the author was being sarcastic and meant that even though today people are saying a thing such as The Holocaust could never happen again, it really depends on us, the people to make that decision because whether it happens or not in the end, at least one person will be the leader of it all, just like Hitler.

Journal #5

Bruno doesn't stand up for his friend because he was terrified of Lieutenant Kotler as well Shmuel was. And he knew that if he told the truth he and Shmuel will be in very big trouble.
As a result of Shmuel talking to Bruno inside the house, Shmuel probably got in trouble and was beat very badly or tortured by Lieutenant Kotler.
When Gretel explained to Bruno that they are "Opposites", she meant that Jews are not considered as Germans, instead they are known as "Opposites" and are just kept on the other side of the fence.

Journal #4

          Shmuel's life is different from Bruno's life. Shmuel is a little Jew boy who is held in custody by the Nazis in Out-With camp with his family. Before, he was sent to Out-With with his family, they were living in a small flat above his father's watch store in Poland. Bruno is a little German boy who lives with his family in a house in Out-With. Before the family had to settle in Out-With, Bruno and his family were living a 5-floor house with a maid, butler, and cook in Berlin. Secondly, their attitude towards the armbands. Bruno thinks the armbands are something that you can pick to wear, either the Star of David or the Nazi sign, but Shmuel knows it is something you don't have a choice for but rather given to you.
          Even though, they differ, they are also similar to each other. They are both 9 years old and are born on the same birthday( April 15, 1994). In this book,Bruno and Shmuel had some differences and similarities throughout the book.
       

Journal #3

Lieutenant Kotler                                    

• Serious                                                                                                    
• Rude                                                            
• Disrespectful                                   

Gretel

• Mean
• Self-centered
• Annoying 

Pavel

• Quiet
• Old
• Calm   

Grandmother

• Former singer
• Old
• Judgmental

Grandmother and Pavel are the only ones similar age wise. But other than that the rest of these characters are different. They each have their own traits.
 

Journal #2

          I think John Boyne wrote the book from a child's point of view because he wanted us (the readers) to be interested and engage in the book using Bruno's thoughts about what he thinks and how he is feeling about moving to a desolated house in "Out-With" because in my point of view reading detail after detail in a book is very tedious. And also no author wants their readers to be bored and no reader wants to be tired of the book. Coming from my point of view, this was the authors reason.
When Bruno uses words such as "Out-With" and "The Fury" it means he didn't quite get the pronunciation of the words and probably doesn't know what they mean.

Journal #1

          In the novel, The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, Bruno's family is very different from mine. In Bruno's family, the father acts like he is the man of the house and expects everyone to follow his orders, but in my family both parents are in charge. Bruno and his family has a maid with a butler and a chef living in a big house. My family doesn't have a maid, butler, or a chef. Bruno's father is in the military but none of my family members are in the military.
          Moving into the new house in "Out With" was a big deal for Bruno enough that he contrasts it with his old one. As stated in the story, Bruno's old house was large and had 5 floors with two bathrooms, three bedrooms, a dinning room, kitchen, office, basement, and an attic. However, the new house  is smaller and has only 3 floors with three bedrooms, one small bathroom, an office, attic, and basement where all the servants slept. It is desolated in the middle of nowhere while the old house is in a friendly neighborhood with friendly neighbors sitting around tables in their front yard drinking their soft drinks. And there will be people selling casseroles on the streets.

Journal Entry #5

           Superfudge is one of the books I have chose written by Judy Blume. This is a book sequel to her other book, Fudge ,which is based on a little boy named Farley Drexel Hatcher, otherwise known as Fudge and his older brother, Peter. In this sequel, Fudge plans to be a bird when he grows up. But Peter is concerned Fudge will grow up to be a pain! Dealing with his brother has been hard, and now his parents wants to move to New Jersey for a year. That's not all, Peter's mom is also pregnant with a new baby. Now Peter is worried that the new baby will be a copy of Fudge!

          Judy wrote the book intended for young readers as her audience. This led to the playful tone of her writing. And also her sentence structures include both active and passive sentences. She had complete thoughts with a subject and verb. Intended for young kids, the story was at fast pace which might have been to not bore the readers. In addition, Superfudge is a book for kids to allow them to enjoy what they read.
          

         

Journal Entry #4

       For this author study project, I have chose to study about Judy Blume. Judy is my choice  because she is such an amazing author and writes many books for children my age. And not to mention, Judy Blume's books for children are genuinely funny. Her books that I am reading for the study is Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great and Superfudge. And yes, I have read some of her books prior to this assignment, which are: Fudge and Superfudge. What I know about my author is that she is New York Times best-selling author. Also her novels for children and young adults have exceeded sales of 80 million and have been translated into 31 languages. In addition, Judy is my selected author for the study.

Journal Entry #3

        If I were to trade places with one person for a month, it would be Ariana Grande because she is very talented and gorgeous. If she were to be me, she would view my life as an intelligent 13 year old fashionista with many great friends. And if I were to her I would view her life as an incredible 20 year old actress, singer, songwriter with a great life. She is beautiful and has an amazing voice and is also a fashionista as well.

        My day-to-day routines will be different as her's because I would always be in the studio to record songs and be busy. Her day-to-day routines will be different as mine because she would wake up at 5:30 A.M , get ready for school, and go to the bus stop at 7:00 A.M in the morning every week day to go to school then come back home at 1:30 P.M. Then after school depends on what other places I have to attend.

        In addition, to The Prince and the Pauper, The Parent Trap (movie) will also be one of the examples for this situation.

Journal Entry #1

www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/about/bio.htm

www.marktwainhouse.org/man/biography_main.php

EasyBib (MLA Format)

 

 

Howard, Patrick. "The Official Web Site of Mark Twain." The Official Web Site of Mark Twain. CMG Solutions, 5 June 2006. Web. 15 Jan. 2014

 

"A Life Lived in a Rapidly Changing World." Welcome to the Mark Twain House & Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2014.

 

 

So far I have learned that Mark Twain was an American writer and humorist who was originally named Samuel Clemens. He was born in Florida November 30, 1835 but his family later moved to Hannibal‚ Missouri‚ on the banks of the Mississippi River. There he worked as a printer’s apprentice for a local newspaper. His job was to arrange the type for each of the newspaper’s stories‚ allowing Sam to read the news of the world while completing his work.He later traveled to New York City and Philadelphia where he continued the work as a news paper worker but by 1857, Mark moved back home to work as riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Later Samuel became inspired to write. He traveled around as a writer and settled in Hartford, Conneticut and built a life.



Mark Twain Summary

In "Mark Twain House", it was stated that Mark Twain was an American writer and humorist who was originally named Samuel Clemens. He was born in Florida November 30, 1835 but his family later moved to Hannibal‚ Missouri‚ on the banks of the Mississippi River. There he worked as a printer’s apprentice for a local newspaper. His job was to arrange the type for each of the newspaper’s stories‚ allowing Sam to read the news of the world while completing his work.He later traveled to New York City and Philadelphia where he continued the work as a news paper worker but by 1857, Mark moved back home to work as riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Later Samuel became inspired to write. He traveled around as a writer and settled in Hartford, Connecticut and built a life.

Act 5 Summary

       In Act 5, The Mechanicals presented their play (A Very Tragic Comedy About the Horrible Deaths of Pyramus and Thisbe) to the three married couples. (Theseus and Hippolyta; Lysander and Hermia; Demetrius and Helena). This was the last act of the play and it ended in a happy one because everyone had someone to love and Oberon and Titania made up. Last but not least, the mechanicals were able to present the play they have been waiting desperately to act out.

Act 4 Summary

Scene 1 -   Titania took Bottom to the fairy world to express herself more to him. Bottom took this advantage to enjoy good food and presence while Oberon was in hidden behind them. But as Titania and Bottom falls asleep, Oberon puts the second flower on Titania's eyelids to reverse the love potion. While Theseus, Egeus , and Hippolyta were roaming about in the forest and came upon the young lovers sleeping(Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena). They woke up as they hear a horn blow. As they woke, Lysander gets back to his old self and admits to Theasues why Hermia and he were in the forest. Meanwhile Demetrius also admits why Helena and he were also there and says that he now loves Helena not Hermia. Theseus agrees to their feelings and decides to get the couples married on the same day and in the same temple as he and Hippolyta will.


Scene 2 -    Bottom wakes up and finds that Titania and the fairies has left him so he geos back to find his old friends. He does find them eventually and they talk on how to make the play possible. Then he reminds them that the duke and his wife already had dinner, so they need to get ready for the play.

Act 3 Summary

        In Act 3 Scene 1, Titania falls asleep and the mechanicals enters trying to compromise and make their play a good one. Robin comes in and thinks to himself that he would like to be a part of the play after hearing them rehearse. Eventually they all leave except for Bottom. Bottom gets really confused and thinks that the others are trying to make a fool out of him. So he decided to stay and sing so that they will know that he is not afraid. But not knowing that Titania was asleep nearby, she woke up by his singing and falls in love with him due to the love potion.
        In Scene 2, Robin puts some love potion on Demetrius, and fortunately wakes up to see Helena. Helena gets angry once again that Demetrius has joined hands with Lysander and are now playing a trick on her to say that they love her. So now Lysander and Demetrius both have fallen in love with Helena due to the love potion leaving both women, Hermia and Helena confused. Helena thinks Hermia has also joined the guys to make fun of her so in page 99 Helena explains how betrayed she feels that Hermia could do that to her despite how close of friends they were to even count themselves as sisters. In addition, Act 3 does the job of introducing another love triangle to the play.

Act 2 Summary

        In Act 2, there were some confusion among the character's feelings. This all started when Oberon the king of the fairies, squeezed a little juice from the "love" flower to make Titania love anything she sees at first site when she wakes up; so that she could give him the little human boy. He then ordered his assistance, Robin to go squeeze some on an Athenian boy who rejected a beautiful young lady, (referring to Demetrius and Helena). But as Robin wandered around in the woods to find the Athenian boy, he couldn't find one. After several minutes he came upon Hermia and Lysander sleeping and by their clothes he could tell they were Athenians. So he mistook Demetrius with Lysander and squeezed some juice on his eyelids.
        Meanwhile Helena and Demetrius was arguing, Demetrius leaves her alone telling her she cannot follow him around like that anymore so she should go her own way. Helena took her own path and it led her to where Lysander and Hermia laid asleep. But as she was talking about how tired she was and how foolish she must be to chase around the one man she ever loved but never loved her back. She urns around and realizes that Lysander was there and has just woken up. Lysander started acting strange and talked to her like she was his lover. This made Helena angry because she thought that everyone was now making fun of her for not being able to get a man. But what she didn't know was that he was serious. So now Lysander is in love with Helena and not Hermia. As an unexpected twist to the play, Act 2 changed the story because of Oberon's actions to gain his desire.

3 References

1. Shakespeare's Home and Family (text)
2. http://www. poemhunter.com/William- Shakespeare/biography
3.http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/

Act 1 Summary

In Act 1, there were many characters with different concepts. One of the characters was Theseus who got Hippolyta to fall in love with him by conquering and injuring her. Believe it or not they are now getting married in 4 days, which Theseus can't wait for. The other characters were: Egeus, Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander, Helena, Quince, Bottom, Flute, Starveling, Snout, and Snug. Among all these characters they could all be classified into groups as Athenians and Mechanicals. The Athenians are: Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander, and Helena. As for the Mechanicals: Quince, Bottom, Flute, Starveling, Snout, and Snug.
 Act 1 was basically based on love and confusion. This was because Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander, and Helena were all caught up in a love triangle. But Hermia loves Lysander and will do anything to be with him. So they decided to run away because her father, Egeus wants her to marry Demetrious or she will die by his sword, or become a nun. Meanwhile, Helena is giving Demetrius a hard time on confessing her love to him and how she doesn't care if he hates her as long as she can just follow him, she is satisfied. The mechanicals were the main point for the confusion because they were all confused about the play they were to perform on the day of Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding. In the end of this Act, Helena met and told Demetrius that Hermia wants to run away with Lysander. In my opinion, I think she did this because she was jealous of Hermia, so she might want to destroy her for turning Demetrius against her.

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