I Am Poem on Lightning McQueen.. (Cars)

Kimberly Davis
Mrs. Endicott
English 12 CR
February 18, 2014

I am a racer, and an inspiration. I wonder what normal life is like. I hear the crowd cheering me on.
I see nothing but dedication from other competitors.
I want to stay an idol.
I am a racer, and an inspiration.

I pretend to be normal. I feel like I may be alone forever because of my self confidence.
I touch the race track with nothing but confidence, and dedication.
I worry that I will not win the Piston Cup. I cry because I'm stranded in Radiator Springs. I am a racer, and an inspiration.

I understand that I am no better, or any different.
I say that I will be the owner of the Piston Cup.
I dream of being the fastest race car on the track.
I try to be supportive of my fans. I hope that I encourage many other cars to become racers. I am a racer, and an inspiration.

The Lame Shall Enter First Assingment & Literary Terms

Kimberly Davis

Mrs. Endicott

English 12 CR

14 February 2014

The Lame Shall Enter First

1.      The father is a self-motivated character because he has adjustment of heart.

2.      Rufus is a static character, this can be proven as a fact because he does not change at all through the whole story he is different, and hostile the whole time.

3.      The father is a very kindhearted, and passionate person that reaches out to give others stability.  He is also very intelligent, yet he said very unusual things occasionally. He is a strong, religious person who forces religion on other people that become friends with him or are just around him, whether they believe in his religion or not.

4.      There is a teenager who is troubled, his name is Rufus, and he also just got out of reformatory. Whenever he got out of reformatory he lived with his grandparents because his father was no longer alive, and his mother was in prison. Not only did Rufus have to dig through his garbage to find food to feed himself, he was also being beat by his grandfather. Rufus is not your average teenager, he doesn’t do things for himself. He does the things that Satan tells him to do.

5.      Chapter 1) Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not)

Chapter 24)  ...And Rarely Just Illness

Chapter 11) …More Than it’s Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence

Literary Terms

Conflict:

Man vs. Man - conflict between two people.

Man vs. Supernatural - conflict between man and gods, ghosts, spirits, aliens, etc.

Man vs. Nature - conflict that occurs when a particular character is opposed to natures forces.

Man vs. Society - conflict that indicates that man has to behave in a civilized manner in society.

Man vs. Himself - the type of narrative conflict where the protagonist struggles not against an external enemy but against himself.

POV:

1st Person -  the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements mentioning to himself or herself or to a group including himself or herself, as I and we in English.

2nd Person - the person used by a speaker in discussing to the one or ones to whom he or she is speaking: in English you is a second person pronoun.

3rd Person Omniscient - method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story, as opposed to third person limited, which follows closely to one character's outlook.

3rd Person Limited - method of storytelling in which the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters are presented only externally. Third person limited grants a writer more freedom than first person, but less than third person omniscient.

3rd Person - form of storytelling in which a narrator relates all action in third person, using third person pronouns such as "he" or "she." Third person point of view may be omniscient or limited. Often new writers feel most comfortable with first person, but writing in the third person allows a writer more freedom in how a story is told.

Characters:

Round - characters as described by the course of their development in a work of literature.

Flat - a minor character in a work of fiction in which one does not experience substantial change or growth in the course of any story.

Stock - someone based on a common literary or social label. Stock characters rely heavily on cultural types or names for their personality, manner of speech, and other characteristics

Dynamic – a character that experiences a significant internal change over the course of a story. This may be a change in understanding, values, insight, etc.

Static – a character that does not experience a significant change over the course of a story.

Foil - when a character contrasts another character in order to intensify the qualities of the other character. It could be used to highlight physical or mental characteristics.

The Black Cat

Kimberly Davis

Mrs. Endicott

English 12CR

 February 6, 2014

The Black Cat

1 Chapter 12) Is That a Symbol? This chapter relates well to this story by the animals, they symbol human reasoning or mortality.

2 Chapter 11) More Than it’s Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence relates to The Black Cat, because of the cat and the narrator.

3 Chapter 24) And Rarely Just Illness relates to the story because the narrator is insane, yet that isn’t the least of his worries. He’s also an alcoholic.

4 Chapter 26) Is He Serious? And Other Ironies relates to the story because the narrator had hung a cat in which he had recently adored, not only did he kill the cat but it had returned from the dead to haunt him. As he tries to get the cat back he kills his own wife in the process. Not only by this point has the cat gotten the best of the narrator, but the cat also draws the police to where he has his wife corpse.

5 Chapter 14) Yes, She’s a Christ Figure does relates to this story. It relates because she tries to protect the cat to spare its life, but in the progress she gives her life to let the cat live its own life.

6. This conflict happens in the narrators home, in which he not only abuses his wife and pets physically or verbally, but also mentally.

7 Mainly when homicide is involved  in Poe's murder stories it requires animalistic elements in which animals kill, die, and then animal imagery provokes or informs the crimes committed between people. Pets and or animals have the chance to signal the lack of human reason and morality, but sometimes humanity tries to prove less rational themes. The tale behind “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is that Ourang Outang did it. The savage irrationality of the crime baffles the police, who cannot conceive of a motiveless crime or fathom the brute force involved. Duppin uses his superior analytical ability to confirm that the crime was not committed by human. During “The Black Cat,” Pluto’s murder results from the narrator’s loss of reason and rush into “irrationality,” reason’s inhuman antithesis. The story’s second cat behaves cleverly, leading the narrator into a more serious crime which is the killing of his wife, and then revealing him to the police. The role reversal irrational humans vs. rational animals indicates that Poe reflects murder a basically animalistic.

8. Self-vs. Alter Ego

 

The Lottery

Kim Davis
Mrs. Endicott
English 12 CR
February 3, 2014  

The Lottery

1. Were you surprised at the ending? If not, at what point in the text did you know what would happen? How does Jackson foreshadow in paragraphs 2&3 the ending?

I was not surprised by the ending of the story. The way every one was being described as nervous and quiet for the most part. The pebbles really gave away that during some point someone would be stoned to death, or why else would they have pebbles. People wouldn't have acted so weird about a pile of pebbles if they had been skipping rocks as a contest.
 

 

2. Where does the story take place? How does the setting affect the story?

 

The story takes place in a small coal mining town that is not around anything really, more off to itself. As soon as the school dismisses, the children can participate.

 

 

3. What are some examples of irony?

In this story it is ironic that in the story Mrs. Delacroix best friends with Tessie, but whenever they revealed that Tessie is the chosen one to get stoned, Mrs. Delacroix is the one who picks the largest stone.

4. The black box is a symbol. What could this black box symbolize? Choose one other object in the story that is a symbol and explain.

The black box symbolizes in a way of how the person will be stoned in some ways. The box could symbolize death, and darkness. Another example of symbolism in The Lottery is paper within this paper it symbolizes the life of someone.

5. What sort of message might the author be illustrating? Think about the message it may be implicating in terms of democracy, religion, or even the fragility of family loyalties.

The author is trying to relate from a different perspective of what a lottery should be considered as because of the fact majority of people think of money whenever they hear of a lottery.

6. In one sentence, what is the THEME of this story?

Traditional is the theme of The Lottery.

Owl Creek Assignments (Literary Terms)

Kimberly Davis

Mrs. Endicott

English 12CR

28 January 2014

Owl Creek Assignment (Literary Terms)

1.) Exposition - a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory
2.) Rising Action - The rising action of a story is the series of events that begin immediately after the introduction of the story which builds up to the climax.
3.) Climax - The most exciting or important point of something.
4.) Falling Action - The events of a drama after the crisis but before the resolution.
5.) Resolution - The decision of not doing something or doing something.
6.) Protagonist - One of the major characters in a fictional text.
7.) Antagonist - Someone who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something.
8.) Flashback - A scene in a novel, movie or etc. in which is set in a time earlier than the main story.

Owl Creek Assignment (Writing)

Kimberly Davis

Mrs. Endicott

English

28 January 2014

Owl Creek Assignment (Writing)

Part A:

Chapter 12.) Is that a symbol – Chapter 12 relates because the bridge. The bridge is a symbol in ways that not many people would realize. It symbolizes life and death in this story.

Chapter 11.) More Than It’s Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence – This connects to the story because he was hung.

Chapter 15.) Flights of Fancy – This chapter has a relation to this story because before finding out he was dead there was a different outlook, and after finding out about his death there would be a new beginning by starting over.

Chapter 26.) Is he Serious? And Other Ironies - This chapter relates because it is ironic how at the end you think he is going to survive, yet he is dead because of hanging from the bottom of the bridge.

Part B:

The climax to the story Owl Creek Bridge is whenever he was swimming toward the shore as the Union soldiers’ fire at him and the whirl pool threw him to the opposite shore.