tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23392697203384019612024-03-14T00:05:41.196-07:00Julia Rose Balderjulia.rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290327381248398107noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2339269720338401961.post-25423329296177723772015-05-04T16:16:00.001-07:002015-05-04T16:16:24.860-07:00<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Julia Balder 808 </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; white-space: pre;"> </span> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; text-decoration: underline;">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Essay</span><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; white-space: pre;"> </span><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The book, </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; text-decoration: underline;">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">, by L. Frank Baum shows the world of friendship.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">In the story Dorothy follows the yellow brick road to the Emerald city, so she can try to get back home. During her journey she encounters the scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion, they become great friends who help each other out through the story.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Thought the story the Scarecrow, Tin man and the lion had become very fond of Dorothy, but when she must return home they are all very sad that they have to spilt.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">However they all have good things going for them when Dorothy leaves.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The story shows true friendship between a little girl, a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">First, in the story the characters show how being friends has changed their lives for the better and benefits everyone involved. In the book the scarecrow says, “I should not have had my wonderful brains,’ cried the scarecrow,’I might have passed my whole life in the farmer’s cornfield.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">then the Tin Woodman says, “And I should no have had my lovely heart,’ said the Tin Woodman. ‘I might have stood and rusted in the forest till the end of the world.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">After that the Lion said, “And I should have lived a coward forever,’ declared the lion, ‘and no beast in all forest would have had a good word to say to me.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">These quotes are showing how Dorothy showing up on her journey and being a part of these creatures lives has benefited the characters (scarecrow, lion and tin man) in the story.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The influence that Dorothy had on these characters is huge, they would have lived their lives as they were before Dorothy showed up, and helping them, while they help her find a way to go home.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The book is showing how having friends who are loyal and kind benefits everyone involved. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Second,</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">in the story the friends (Dorothy, Lion, Tin Man, and Scarecrow)</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">are loyal to each other, because thats what friends do.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">In the story it says, “We must certainly get to the Emerald City.” in this situation the four are on a raft floating down a river and their poles get stuck. Even during this hard situation they are still believing in themselves because they believe they believe they can succeed.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Another point in the story is that when Dorothy, Toto and the cowardly Lion went into the poppy fields and fainted from the smell the Scarecrow and Tin Man friends did everything they could to get her out.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">“Lets make a chair with our hands, and career,’ said the Scarecrow.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">So they picked up Toto and put the dog in Dorothy’s lap, and then made a chair with their hands for the seat and their arms for the arms and carried the sleeping girl between them through the flowers.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">This quote shows how loyal Dorothy’s friends are and how they would do anything to help her.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The friends that Dorothy has made show loyalty and true friendship this quote.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">In this story the four friends, Dorothy, Scarecrow, Lion and Tin Man are true friends. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Overall the book, </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; text-decoration: underline;">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">, by L. Frank Baum shows true friendship between four individuals.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">These four go on a long adventure together and show their true selves.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">They over come many opticals and became better friends over the course of the story.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">They had a long journey together that non of them would forget, because they are friends and friends are important, this book proved that.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">This story shows and unbreakable bond betweenn four loyal friends. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">“The gaokao offers the promise of a life beyond the fields and the factories.” The Chinese national college-entrance examination is known as the gaokao. The test is a rigorous and long challenge.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">The test has so much at stake, it determines if you shall work in the field and factorize for the rest of you life or get into one of China’s top colleges.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">It isn’t fair that so much is riding on this one test for millions of Chinese students. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">First of all, preparing for the gaokao is a very stressful time for students.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">The article, “ China’s Cram Schools,” in </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Upfront Magazine</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> says, “A senior at Maotanchang (a high school in China) had spent the previous three years, weekends included, stumbling to his first class at 6:20 in the morning and returning to his room only after the end of his last class at 10:50 at night.” A caption explaining what a picture of students studying hooked up to Intervenous Drips, the caption says, “Intravenous Drips:</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Students in Hubei Province go to extremes to study beyond the point of exhaustion.” These two quotes can show the basic lifestyle of a student preparing to take the gaokao.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">The quotes imply that students are at school for more than half the day studying for a test that can choose their fate.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">The article also says, “Teenage suicide rate tends to rise as the gaokao nears.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">This quote shows how much stress is put on the high schoolers that they actually kill themselves because they think their not going to ever pass and be sentenced to working in a field or factory.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Of course there will always be suicide, but a single test shouldn't be a strong enough force to push students to kill themselves.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Overall, preparing for the gaokao cause severe stress to the students. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Second, the gaokao also cause stress for parents and guardians, teachers and faculty.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">The article says, “ A fact that worried his mother, … his mother quit her garment factory job to support Yang in his final year of cramming.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Another idea presented in the article was, “My mother constantly reminds me that I have to study hard, because my father is out working far from home to pay my school fees.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">This is often how it is when students are studying for the gaokao (generally if the came from poor, rural areas in China),</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">the mother would come to live with the child while the father goes out to the large coastal cities looking for work to pay the school fees.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">The parents must provide for the student still and while many quit their jobs or move to get a better paying job it is mostly no enough.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">The article says, “Many wealthy families are simply opting out of the system, placing their children in private international schools in China or send them abroad for an education.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">This shows how if it is possible and if you have enough money to avoid the test and the stress involved.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">If just anyone could opt out of the gaokao and go to different schools and colleges abroad the whole system would be less stressful.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">The article says, “Teachers dole out lessons, and frequently punishments, with military rigor; their job security depends on raising their students test scores,”</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">the article also says, “Security guards roam the 165-acre campus in golf carts and on motorcycles, while surveillance cameras track students’ movements.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">The schools have high security and strict teachers, the test is no joke for them.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Its seems as if when you get into high school in China you are studying for the test that determines your fate and cause so much stress for everyone involved, including teachers and faculty.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Overall, the gaokao causes stress for everyone involved. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Some people may argue that its fair that so much is riding on this one test, I don’t personally agree with this statement because of many reasons and facts.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Some people may argue that its is good that having only one form of grading and acceptance into college. They would argue that even though the government is pushing for more ways that students can be selected and get into a college, but parents are saying no.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">The only reason parents are saying that they don't necessarily want it because, “Many parents who fear that easing the pressure could hurt their children exam results and jeopardize their future.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Parents are only doing this because they want to keep their child studying and focused on scoring well on the gaokao to make sure that just incase the other thing that allows the to get into college isn't so good the test scores will always help them.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Some people may argue that you can take this test over if you fail the first time.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">I would argue that, “Even public schools in China charge fees … his family couldn't afford a repeat year.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">The fees are so high that many people cant do a repeat year.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">So the people who do fail the gaokao it likely means that they are going to end up in a factory or construction job.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">The gaokao isn't a fair way of testing either, “Rural students are at a real disadvantage. Villages like Yuejin have poor schools and few well trained teachers.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Wealthy urban families can hire private tutors, pay for test-prep courses, or bribe their way into the best city schools. And rural students are allocated far fewer college-admissions spots than students from cities.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">This is completely unfair the rural students are at complete disadvantages.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">The gaokao is taken by more than 9 million students each year so many of them have come from small rural towns hoping for a fate better than their parents.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">To get into college in China more than one test showed count in the selection process.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Overall, it is not fair that so much is riding on this one test.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">A test shouldn't define you, so the way that colleges in China select their students isn't fair.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Different people have advantages and disadvantages, and no one has a say in that.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Colleges should be more considerate to who they accept or not.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">The gaokao shouldn't be the only way to get into college. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Larmer, Brook. "China's Cram Schools." </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Upfront Magazine</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> 30 Mar. 2015: 12-15. </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Www.upfrontmagaine.com</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">. Web. 1 Apr. 2015.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The book, <span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">Alice in Wonderland,</span> by Lewis Carroll is written in an era that is focused on being proper. It was a time period of peace, prosperity, but along with that came the strict rules and guide-lines that the population had to follow. There was never any talk about puberty, growing up and sexual tension, the monarch, Queen Victoria, used her power to enforce strict rules to create a certain mindset for her subjects (the commoners). Lewis Carroll wrote, <span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">Alice in Wonderland</span>, in my opinion, to mock the rules that were set in the Victorian Era. </div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>First, Carroll has a queen in the story, she uses over uses her powers for selfish purposes. In the story the queen always uses her power as queen for her won personal purposes. The text says, “If the queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know.” This shows that the creatures in Wonderland are afraid of the queen. She uses her power to execute people or creatures that didn't ‘behave properly’. Carroll is making fun of the way the Queen Victoria has ruled. She was very strict and if anyone went out of line there would be consequences. Carroll is using irony by when ever any creature in the story does even something as little as a walking the wrong way. He is describing the society very strictly. Carroll uses irony to make Queen Victoria look like a strict ruler. </div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Second, Carroll uses that fact that it wasn’t common to talk about the physical changes the body undergoes. He chooses the is topic to show how frowned upon it was to witness and how ‘strange’ it was to go through these changes, even though everyone goes through them. The book says, “‘I ca’n’t help it ,’ said Alice weary meekly: ‘I’m growing.’ ‘You’ve no right to grow <i>here</i>,’ said the dormouse.” This quote is saying how growing, or your body changing was almost shamed upon. Carroll chose this so he can show how life was in the Victorian era and how they had rules that made no sense. Carroll uses this topic about changing body because anyone can relate to physical growth or mental growth. Carroll is showing how distorted the ideas were during the Victoria Era. </div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Finally, Carroll use that fact that people don't really know what they want for themselves because they don't know the outcome. The text says, “‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depend a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the cat.” The book is saying how Alice doesn’t know where to go. The cat is telling her does it matter, no one knows the outcome of life and until go yet past that point you are always confused. This also relates to the book because Alice is saying that she doesn't know, and since it was based in the Victorian Era nobody really knew anything of value because many topics were never talked about with children and teens. Carroll is making fun of the lack of knowledge about personal topics in the Victorian Era. </div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Overall, the book, <span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">Alice In Wonderland,</span> by Lewis Carroll is making fun of the strange rules, too much power, and lack of knowledge in the Victorian Era. He talks about changing physically and mentally in his book and then also talks about how the people in the Victorian Era not really knowing about key details that are important in life because it is ‘improper’ to discuss. Through out the book Carroll mocks the Victorian Era. </div>
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Julia Balder 808 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>Banning Books Argument Essay</u><o:p></o:p></div>
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Dear Ms.Berner<o:p></o:p></div>
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Banning books is
horrible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kids are getting limited
access to books just because their parents and administrators don’t want to
allow access to certain topics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t
believe that this is a sufficient reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Banning books isn’t fair to the teens that are mature and can deal with
the problems and facts of life, the students of MS51 who want to read certain
books and some of them have been unfortunately banned from the school. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Banning books isn’t fair to the people who
can handle reading them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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First, banning
books wont stop kids from reading them. “When adults ban books it makes kids
want to read them,” says The Atlantic Wire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Teens clearly want to disobey authority, it is natural and normal to
feel like you should rebel against authority and parents, teens will: stay up
all night, eat junk food, too much social media, stay out past curfew, damage
their health by smoking, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When your
parents tell you not to do something it is embedded in a teens mind to go do
the thing their parents specifically asked for you not to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact we, teens, assume there is something
that our parents don’t want us to learn about in the book, it is an instinct to
want to know about the stuff our elders don’t want us to know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If concerned parents wanted their child not
read a book its best not to talk about the book or author a lot cause kids will
get suspicious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parents asking what book
their child is reading from time to time is less suspicious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Young adult fiction, books 12-17, has turned
darker and starker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has also more
popular than ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sales are up 25% over
the past 5 years, according to Publishers Weekly, with 78.5 Million worth of
young adult books sold in April alone,” says the Atlantic Wire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This shows that the more young adult books
are being read, having a banned books makes them more likely to be read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“People censor books that kids like, because
kids only read books when there is something bad/wrong in them, this is what
people who censor books believe in my opinion” – Judy Blume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe with Judy Blume that the most
popular books have been challenged and been tried to be banned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Banning books wont stop them being read. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Second,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when you make kids oblivious to certain
topics doesn’t make the topic any less real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Parents can delay and baby their children, but that can’t deny what
reality really is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Its our job as
parents to protect our kids, even as they slowly move out of childhood and
further away from our dictates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there’s
something almost comical about raising them with tales of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Big Bad Wolfs </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poisoned Apples</i>
then deciding at a certain point that literature is too ‘dark’ for them to
handle, kids are smarter than that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
a kid who is lucky enough to give a dam about the value of reading knows the
transformative power of books.” – Mary Elizabeth Williams. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This way that children are raised and grow up
is so fairytale-ish you are treated that you will live forever and nothing bad
will ever happen, in reality horrible things happen; parents die, other family
members die, murders, robberies, racism, illness, war, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you ban books you are trying to
manipulate another persons thoughts into what you believe or want them to
believe. In real life you can’t change other peoples opinions just because you
want to, just because you slow down your child’s exposure to the real world and
real world problems doesn’t mean they don’t/can’t happen. Just because books
don’t portray certain topics in writing won’t make them go away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People ban books so they can shield their children
and get them under the impression that nothing is wrong in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Many people believe
that mature content in books should result in them being banned. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Contemporary literature has too much sex and
violence, and our kids need to be protected from it’s depravity, “ wrote Meghan
Cox Gurdon, in <u>The Atlantic Wire.</u> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I think that while banning books is
not necessary, some restrictions can be helpful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, banning certain books can keep
a too young child from reading something that was meant for an older/teen age reader.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, if a first grader gets a copy
of <u>The Hunger Games, </u>they wouldn’t understand the deeper meaning of the
book - all they would be able to comprehend is that many people were trying to
kill each other, because they are not mature enough to understand the story, as
it was meant to be read. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another
supporting example, is if a young child got a copy of <u>Cat Wings,</u> they
would think only about little kitty-cats with wings looking for a home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An older reader, who has experienced the world,
would understand that they book is also talking about discrimination, with ‘different
creatures’ being held to different standards just because of what they look
like. Books are intended for certain age groups, because of what the content
is. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Books that are published for a
certain age groups, should only be allowed to be read with the proper
labeling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once they are labeled, it is then
up to parents and their kids to decide what is right for them to read, based on
their level of maturity:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>simply banning
books isn’t fair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Overall, banning
books isn’t productive, isn’t helpful to other kids and their parents, and banning
books isn’t necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parents and
administrators who are banning books are oblivious to the fact that they are
disrupting another persons reading life and a person who would want to read a
book that was unfortunately banned by one person thinking they were making
everybody happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People have different
opinions on certain topics which is why banning books isn’t necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><u>Hunger
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<br /><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The first
book in the trilogy, <u>The Hunger Games</u>, by Suzanne Collins is the banned book
I read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book is about two 16 year
olds who were chosen at District 12’s reaping of the 74<sup>th</sup> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Annual <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hunger
Games</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Hunger Games, which is a
fight to the death that contains 24 kids from ages 12-18 years old. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was created after the uprising in District
13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>District 13 and everything and
everyone in it were killed because of their act of treason by rebelling against
the capital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The capital made these
“games” to remind everyone not to rebel and the killing symbolizes what would
happen if they did. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The contestants kill
each other till one person is left; this person gets wealth and fame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To get selected for the Hunger Games your
name is put into a glass ball, based on your gender, at the reaping the two
contestants from each District are selected, one girl and one boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your name is put into the mix with the other
kids of your gender starting at age twelve and each year until you reach your
final reaping before adulthood (when you are 18 that is the last time you can
be put into the mix) your name is added and additional time each year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two contestants selected, from District
12, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, go through a series of trials fighting
for their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Katniss has such an
important role in her family and why she is in the 74<sup>th</sup> Hunger
Games.<br /><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Katniss has
an important reason to accept her fate, her family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are selected for the Hunger Games than
you have one more chance to be saved if you are selected by having your name be
pulled out of the glass ball, another person of that gender is able to
volunteer as tribute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Katnisss’
situation that isn’t possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Originally
Katnisss’ younger sister, 12 year old Primrose Everdeen was selected at the
reaping as the girl tribute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Katniss
being the older sister she is says, “I volunteer!’ I gasp. ‘I volunteer as
tribute!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This shocks everyone and now
Katniss is forced to go because no one can be a volunteer for a volunteer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Katniss puts herself in this role to protect
her little sister from dying in the games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In District 12 no one has volunteered for some one else in the past 73
years that the “Game” has been around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This shows the love that Katniss has for her sister and how she would
die for her. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Katniss is a loving family
member and really does care.<br /><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Katniss is also important in her family for
the role she plays in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a time
after Katnisss’ father had died in a mine explosion her mom was grieving for a
long time and wasn’t staying focused and getting what her children needed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Katniss had taken up hunting, which requires crossing
the “fence”; a fence that is supposed to be electrified 24/7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book says, “Trespassing in the woods is
illegal and poaching carries out the severest of penalties.” Katniss still
crosses the fence and kills animals for her family to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is the one to provide food for her family
since her dad has died and it is very hard to get money to buy food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This quote shows how much she cares for her
family, risking her life just for Prim and her mom to eat every night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Katniss also signed up for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tesserae</i>; when you get extra grain and
oil every month, as a result of signing up you put your name in the reaping
ball extra times every Hunger Game because you are getting supported by the
government. She would rather die knowing that her family had enough to eat
every day. Again Katniss is risking her life just so her family can eat and
function every day. This shows her personality and character, a carrying young
girl who wants what is right for her family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br /><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Overall,
Katniss is the older sister always trying to help her family out and lend a
hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suzanne Collins creates the main
character, Katniss, as a carrying girl who wants to do right by her mother and
sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Katniss, the girl who risks her
life every day just so her family can eat and try to live a normal life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Collins did a wonderful job on creating this
character and this book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book
really teaches people that you can’t just rely on your parents and that once in
a while do something by yourself without the help of an adult, guardian, or
parent.</div>
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Julia Balder 808<span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>October 27, 2014<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>Young Adult Book Reading
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Susannah
was like a second mom to me." In the book, <u>The Summer I Turned Pretty</u>,
by Jenny Han, Susannah is the parent you wished you had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The character Susannah, otherwise known as
Beck, has the role as the main characters mothers’ best friend. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She owns the beach house where her kids and
the main characters family live during the summer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main character has always gone to the
beach house for every summer of her life, Susannah has always been there
waiting for them to arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Susannah is
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Susannah
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says, "When did you go and grow up? When did you turn into this phenomenal
women?" Susannah shows love and compassion to every one and compliments
people. It says something about your personality when you compliment everyone,
with Susannah her personality is so nice and fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book describes her as a friendly person
always doing right by her children. The book takes place over the summer and
the main character doesn't know <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">winter
Susannah </i>and she always imagines Susannah like the summer but with down
coats and hot chocolate rather than shovels and buckets. The story also says,
"I'm offering up moral support to my best friend in the world," after
being caught by her children smoking. This shows how Susannah is kind to her
friends and loves them. This also shows how Susannah would do anything for her
best friend and offers any type of moral support (in this case smoke pot). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This shows Susannah is a loving person and
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Susannah
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until our friends get here, Susannah said, reaching across the table touching
my hand."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This shows how inviting
and warm it would to be around Susannah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The main characters family has always looked up to her, to Susannah
Isabel once told her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I wish you were my
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people to be happy even if she didn't know them. I believe that Susannah would
be a great teacher, always caring about the students, wanting them to be happy
and have a fun way of learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
story always describes her so well and the author did that to make the
character Susannah the mom you never had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Susannah is the warm, friendly, kind character that you always knew
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Julia Balder 808 <u>Ashes Essay</u><br />
<br />
Many stories
contain symbols to enhance the meaning of the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the short story <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ashes</i>, the author, Susan Beth Pfeffer, uses symbolism to engage the
reader into the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story is about
a girl, Ashleigh (known as Ashes), whose parents are divorced and who has an unstable
family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her father needs money and her
mom is in college.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pheffer uses symbols to
strengthen the meaning of her short story. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
necklace of stars is used as a symbol in the story and shows that it’s something
more than just a pretty accessory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
necklace, I believe, represents how the father says he will do things and
promise the main character, Ashes, things, but like the necklace of stars, but he
never delivers his promise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story says,
“Like most promises, this one never quite happened.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that she is talking about how the
father will say that something will happen, but it doesn’t always follow
through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that her father is
trying to make his daughter feel like he is the best father, and will always be
there for her, even though, in most cases, that never quite happens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an example in the story, it says how he
forgot to pick her up from school and he didn’t have enough money for her to go
on the school trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He might tell her
things, but it often never happens. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also
in the story, it says, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“All I can give
you is dreams, Ashes.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ashes chooses to
put too much faith and trust in her father. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that the necklace of stars represents
how people put way too much faith in people who have let them down before and never
get what they are hoping for from them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This strengthens the readers understanding and comprehension of what is
going on in the story involving her parents, and her skepticism towards her
dad.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
teapot is also used for more than a house decoration. The teapot is the place
where Ashleigh’s mother stores $200.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
money there so that just in case of any crisis in their lives, the mom would
have money just for that problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
mom refers to it as “Her emergency money, her Martian money, and her earthquake
money.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story also says, “With mom,
there are a lot more rainy days and she takes a grim sort of pleasure being
ready for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The flashlights with working
batteries for a black out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The extra
quarters when the laundry isn’t quite dry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The giftwrapped bottle of wine for the unexpected and undesired
Christmas guest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her pocketbook
overflows with tissues and tampons for anyone who might need them.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This quote shows how her mom is trying to be
ready for anything that might happen, and that she likes to be ready in advance
for everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that her mom
is so insecure and unhappy about her first marriage and how bad it went, that
she is beating up herself for all her ‘bad’ life choices and the fact that they
never have enough money. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story
states, “There’s a new diner, opened right around the block.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s treat ourselves, Ashes, and go out on
the town. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you afford it? I asked,
after doing the mental arithmetic of diner versus pizza.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because Ashes’s parents don’t have as much
money as other families, and because they struggle so much, I can infer the
teapot’s real meaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The teapot
represents a secure place that is safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is a safe place away from the faulty marriage and divorce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story says, “The teapot was right where
it belonged. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lifted the lid and stared
at her emergency money. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was shaped
like a little house, with a curtained window and a flowerpot on the windowsill.
It was the sort of house I’d never lived in, probably never would.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This symbolizes that the teapot (and the
money in it) is a “stable house” that the mom and daughter can still have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mom wants her daughter to be safe and
happy, just like almost every parent wants for his or her child. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This makes the story stronger by making people
realize the pain that the mother went through, and why she does the things,
like have a $200 stashed away just for any big problem that threatens her and
her daughters life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Transportation is also
more than a bus or a car in Ashleigh’s life. Transportation in this story is
the link between the daughter and the father. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The car is the way that Ashleigh gets home,
and to her fathers house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story
says, “It helped that he didn’t live a hundred miles away. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just at the other end of town, a two-bus-trip
ride.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This shows how transportation is important
for keeping Ashleigh and her father connected. Without the bus and her father’s
car, it would be hard to get back and forth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because Ashes’s father has a car, it makes their relationship so much
better because they can be more interactive and the car makes it easier to
communicate with each other, rather than going to see someone once a month. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story says, “Dad drove me home Tuesday
nights.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The car means more than a hunk
of metal; it is the link between Ashleigh and her father. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When her Dad needs money, he is very reluctant
to sell his car to get the money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
the car, they get to spend more quality time together, I think, even then when
her parents were married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that
because her parents had been arguing all the time, she never got time with
either of them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This symbolism of the
vehicles makes the story stronger by giving the deeper meaning the idea that
the transportation is really the link between Ashes and her father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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In the short story
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ashes</i>, the author Susan Beth Pfeffer,
gives meaning to the story using symbolism of certain objects in the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
are multiple symbols in the story, but three really stood out: the necklace of
stars, the teapot, and transportation (buses and cars).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These symbols all represent problems that
either could happen or have already happened in the main character’s life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The author puts in symbols in the story to
make the readers to understand a deeper meaning about the characters in ways
that make the story more interesting and relatable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Throughout the story, the author drops hints as
to what different symbols mean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pfeffer
had perfectly executed putting symbols all over her story, so her readers would
get a deeper meaning and having an easier time connecting to the main character’s
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that stories with
symbols are easier to understand and give the reader a greater likelihood of making
connections, which strengthens the story overall.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the book, <u>Before
We Were Free </u>by Julia Alvarez, the story focuses on the main character,
Anita de la Torre, who is a twelve year old girl growing up in the Dominican
Republic, in the year 1960.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book
starts a month before her twelfth birthday and ends right after her thirteenth
birthday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anita’s parents are a part of
a group called the Butterflies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Butterflies want to get rid of the dictator who rules over the Dominican
Republic, and gain freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anita and
her mother end up getting out just in time, before the government finds and
captures them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anita de la Torre’s main
personality trait is her strong curiosity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her curiosity causes her to discover strong emotions, gets her in
trouble, and finally helps her understand what is really going on in her
country.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anita’s curiosity
and questioning causes her family to have to tell the truth to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one
part in the story, after arriving in America, when Anita is wondering about her
father and uncle, she asks her grandfather, “When are Papi and Tio Toni ever
going to get here?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her grandpa said,
“Your uncle and father are dead.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every
family member in the room bursts into tears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her curiosity about things also sometimes gets her in trouble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every day, Anita goes to the supermarket and
looks at all the food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day, she
decides to get a cart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I go up and down
each aisle, filling the basket with things I really like, pretending I have the
money to buy them.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The storekeeper
stops her and says, “Do you have the money to buy all of this, young lady?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His tone of voice suggests he knows I
don’t.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has to fight to get away
from the storekeeper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, for
Anita, being curious means that she comes to learn more about what happened in
her country and the truth about her parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When she was once hiding from the dictator’s troops, along with her
mother in a closet, she asks her mother what was going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her mother tells her about the Butterflies
(Las Mariposas), sisters who were organizing a movement to bring freedom to the
country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anita’s mother tells her how
the Butterflies were ambushed and murdered, and how she and Anita’s father have
taken up the cause of the Butterflies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“I couldn’t believe my own mother with her bad nerves was part of a
secret plot!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But suddenly, like one of
those lamps you click one more turn and it throws an even brighter light, I saw
her at Papi’s old Remington, typing up declarations, or out in the yard,
burning incriminating stuff, or in the garden shed, covering a sack of guns
with an old tarp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Joan-of-Arc mother,
my Butterfly mami!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt so proud of
her!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her curiosity truly helps Anita
understand what was happening and why they had to leave the Dominican
Republic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is her questioning that
causes her to find out the truth about her mother.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anita de la Torre
is blessed with a curiosity for the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Curiosity helps her in unexpected circumstances, even when the same
trait sometimes gets her in trouble or even jeopardizes her family’s freedom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is still even curious, when she finds out
the truth about the death of her father and uncle, and her mother orders, “Tell
us!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to know how they died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want my children to hear this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want my country to hear this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want the United States to hear this.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anita doesn’t cry, but listens carefully
until the very end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Throughout the book,
despite her troubles, her curiosity helps her understand life better, helps her
mature and get wiser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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