Death, Swimming, FlyFishing

I found coming into this year I didn’t really know what was going to happen, especially in english 11.  When it started actually most to of the year I didn’t really know what we were doing, we read all these books but it seemed like we were just reading to read. As the year went on I started to grasp what we were doing but still was thinking what is the point of all these blog articles. Then it kind of hit me, when I read books I started to think more then what was just blatantly said in the text, books stated to mean more. One thing I noticed when I was reading by my self was that you couldn’t have a discussion after words that could have made thing come together. Then as the year went on I found that my words in the blog article started to flow easier then they had in the past, so I found that when it came to papers it was a lot easier to write them too. I the long run I found this year more productive then all my other english years put together. I learned more useful skills in your class that will help me through the rest of my life then I could have from another teacher that does packet and an essay on books, and then moves on. Over all I think the group talks have helped me the most and have made me more open to sharing my ideas. It just want to say thank you for a great year and all the others.

We all have times when you don’t want to admit times when you are wrong, whether it be if you don’t want to blame you or if you do you’ll be ashamed. I don’t have any memorable accounts but that could be that I just chose not to, but I’m pretty positive that Danforth and Parris aren’t going to forget their mistakes any time soon. When Abigail their main witness disappears after they killed 12 people when Parris suggests parading the remaining 7 but Danforth said it would put doubt on his authority and judgment. Is it just me but I think there has been doubt all along? So by now I see only murder taking place in Salem. Then when John regrettably confesses to the crime he did not do, they ask him to write it on a peace of paper and sine it. He dose but then they tell him that their going to nail it to the church door, which back then was like a huge bulletin board. So he took it back from Danforth and ripped it into peaces and let them blow away saying.

“How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”

So he called up the marshal and was shacked to the cart and was brought to the gallows with other convicted people. As they took them away Hale pleads with Elizabeth to convince Proctor to take it back but she only says she cant do that to his pride.  So him with 18 other people are wrongfully executed because of one persons horrible mistake.                  

It really annoys me when a person gets up on the power trip with their nose up in the air acting like their something special. The most common person I know that gets that way is my brother. He usually gets that way after he’s won his running race or gets something I don’t. Then for a week he thinks he has power over everyone and the world revolves around him. I connect this most to how Danforth was controlling the court room during the trials. The was no logic in his reasoning, he had his mind mad up before he even got into the court room.  One of the times it with evidence of this is when he called in Elizabeth Proctor to ask her why she fired Abigail to see if John was telling the truth. She was asked if she had committed adultery she gave the most logical answer to tell that he didn’t do anything with Abigail. As she was being pulled away John told her that he had confessed to the crime but it was too late she was hulled out the door with out another word. Mr. Hale argued with Danforth to let it pass because it was such a common lie to tell but he would have nothing of it and called proctor a lire. Then when she is gone and the court room regains control Abigail starts telling that Mary has changed her shape and has become a big yellow bird which she said a was going to kill her  then all the other girls follow her led. The only one that is fooled by this is Danforth how think it all true, if I didn’t know better Id think he was part of it all. So he clearly shouldn’t have any creditability, he’s so caught up in him being the one in charge that he doesn’t care what anyone ells has to say his voice is high and mighty.                 

There has been many times when I’ve been blamed for thing that I haven’t done one of the most memorable times is when I was in band freshmen year.  It was a was a day when Mr. Bray was particularly aggravated, no one in the class was paying attention and were thinking every little thing these two people were saying to each other was the most funny thing ever. One of the kids was a sax player that sat right next to me Danny. By this time I know the whole rehearsal was ruined.   Mr. Bray some how, miraculously got things calmed down, mainly throw check marks and detentions. Then he had to go get something from his office, which just unsettled things one again it was kayos. That day Mr. Rath was somewhere else in town so he couldn’t help with things. When he came back from his office, with the whole time those two have been shouting profanities. So the last word had been slung as soon as he walked in, all of this had been done with there heads behind there stands so it wasn’t as easy to tell where the sound was coming from. For some reason he thought it was me, I have no idea why but he did. Mr. Bray shot me this stern look and grabbed a detention sheet of his podium and put my name on it.  After class I went to his office to ask to get the detention repealed with no success. It was the first time I had ever had detention and when I found out that it was a joke. There was no vague sense of discipline it the class everyone was talking and playing different games. But it wasn’t like that for the ladies in the Crucible because if they were found guilty they would be sentenced to death not detention.                 

There are many times when you find it easier to lie or some how avoided the question then come out and tell the truth. I find it easiest to relate this to when; you go some where but you parents think you went elsewhere. I tolled my parents that I was going over this one person’s house to play x-box, I did go there. He and I got board so we decided to go get a group of friends together to go paint balling.  So we drove around town all the why ill my parents are tiring to get a holed of me on my cell-phone which happened to be off.  Before I left to get the people together I had a thought to get people to call and let them know what I was doing but my parents have different views on what having fun is like my dad wouldn’t mind if I weir to go paint balling with people he doesn’t know but my mom would have to interview each one.

            I find this most relatable to the story to because after words. I get done it is probably after 9pm and I left the house at 10:30am and realized that I probably should have done a check in call. I was on my way home that I turned on my phone and noticed that there was 7 voice mails and know that I was in deep (you know what).  So I started to think up excuses but I couldn’t think of some thing good so I just decided to play dumb. This didn’t work, like the way it didn’t work for the girls in The Crucible, but I was finally force out and there were consequences. Which we will son find out I bet there were for the girls.

He lived through the depression, his dad was a clothing manufacturer. They were not to bad before the depression but afterward they were hurt. Arthur Miller didn’t go to college right out of high school he had to save up some money so he could afford to go. He didn’t start off majoring in English he started majoring in journalism but when his first play was a hit he switched to English.
 
At one point he was married to Marilyn Monroe!!

He died in February of 2005

offered great entertainment mixed with pungent social criticism

Miller was widely acknowledged as the country’s most important playwright

“A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong — if there is any root to life — because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don’t live in the same place for very long,” Miller said in a 1988 interview.

career as a writer spanned over seven decades, and at the time of his death in 2005, Miller was considered to be one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century

Works Cited

The Crucible. RSC, 2006. 

 “American Playwright Arthur Miller Dies At 89.” NPR. 2008. 8 Apr. 2008

     <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4495305>.

Have you ever known a dysfunctional family; I think this one would top them all! This family has a grandmother who always has some thing to say and is prim and proper, two kids John and June who are the rudest ever there always insulting there parents.

“If you don’t want to go to Florida, why dontcha stay at home?”

There dad Bailey the grandmothers son who on the out side seams to be the head of the household but as you get through the story he gives in to the littlest pressure from his mother and kids.

“John Wesley kicked the back of the seat so hard that his father could feel the blows in his kidney.”

The family is discussing where there going to go on vacations, Bailey, John and June Star wanted to go to Florida but the grandmother is resistant to go. She told them a murder the Misfit escaped from jail in Florida but it was really to make the family nerves so they would go to Tennessee to visit friends.

“If you don’t want to go to Florida, why dontcha stay home?”  

In the end the grandmother ends up going and incidentally she is the first person in the car with her cat which she snuck in. She sat between the two kids. On there way they get into an argument between them about going to see this house that the grandmother said she lived at. The father said they couldn’t stop because they where behind schedule which set the kids into frenzy. He agreed to go to the house; it was at the end of a strange curvy dirt road.

“This place better show up in a minute.”  

They went over the edge of the road when the grandmother’s cat jumped out on to Bailey when they hit a big bump. Which I thought was inevitable for something to go wrong it seams to happen in Flannery O’Connor’s stories. They were all thrown out of the car in all different directions. They all got them selves together they started to think of how they were going to get out of this. As they sat here a car drove up and pulled over on the side of the road. Three men got out of the car they wee all holding guns ad where giving the family an interesting look. 

“We’ve had an ACCIDENT” 

They were carrying guns they mad there way down the embankment. When they got down to them, they had them sit down together but the kids were separated from the parent  and gave them the talk that you hear the mob give (the lead around) then started to take people one by one in to the woods each time you would hear a BANG.  Till the grandmother was the only one left but he whole time she was talking up a storm and it was as if she had no idea of what was happening. She knew he was the misfit then started to plead and tell him she was his mother and he wasn’t really a bad guy. Then he just got sick of her and shot her but the way Flannery O’Connor described it was just disturbing.  

“She was a talker, wasn’t she”

Flannery O’Connor gave a good depiction how everyone is always in the end, in it for them selves. I thought that it was interesting how throw out the story that Mr. Shifflet appeared to be a relatively intelligent person with all the insight he gives, but it all seamed pretty shallow and had a hidden motive. In the end you find out that he really has no intelligences at all he only gets the ideas from other people and twisted them in the way he needed. Then the mother and daughter were probably the most depressing two people ever, the daughter is severely mentally retarded and the mother is old with no teeth a widow and is unable to do much on hear property. Then she has the most twisted view of things, she asks this man to marry here daughter, and this man she doesn’t know is basically bribed to do so with a car. I find that she sick and tired of taking care of her daughter just wanted to get rid of her .Which is basically what she did, as soon Mr. Shifflet was married and had his car he got out of town. Along the way he thought she needed something to eat. They pulled up to a diner he bought her some food but she fell a sleep. So instead of waiting for her he just left her at the diner and tooled the boy behind the counter that she was just a hitchhiker. As he pulled a way he saw this boy thumben for a ride, so he decides to pick him up. The boy gets into the car they sit there for a will in silence till Mr. Shifflet starts to ramble on about how his mother was an angle of god and he said the boy’s could be nothing less. Then the boy snapped at him and said “My old woman is a flea bag and yours is a stinking pole cat!” He jumped out of the still moving car. Mr. Shifllet was so shocked he just drove on for a hundred feet or so with the door wide open. The sight of a dark luminous cloud brought him back. He stared at it revved his engine and took off as to  raced the storm to a town saying “Break forth and wash the slime from this earth!”       

I thought that it was Winter Dreams a pretty sad book.  Dexter the main character was obsessed with this girl Judy Jones. She’s one of thoughts girls how is rich, beautiful and can get anything and knows it. It all started one summer when he was a caddy for Mr. Mortimer Jones. One day he happened to be the unfortunate one to be the first person there that morning, Judy how is at least 3 years younger and her maid were the first two too show up that morning. Dexter was already getting sick of his job and she just throw him over the edge. He was assigned to her, the first thing she said to him was BOY, the caddy-master said aren’t you going to pickup her clubs. But he was so startled and offended by this young girls word that all he said was ”I don’t think I’ll go out today” then he thought and said ”I think I’ll quit” and walked home.

 All through out his life he will date a lot of woman but always comes back to Judy Jones. He had dated her a few times the last time he had become engaged to her but at the last minute she left him. Then over a year later meet, fell in love and was engaged to Irene Scheerer, but though out this whole time he kept thinking of Judy Jones. One fall night came along not to long before he was to be married when he finely realized that he wasn’t to get Judy and made him sad. Then one night he and Irene were at a dance but she went to home early. After she left and he said good bye, Judy Jones’s voice came up behind his and said “Hello, Darling” and that’s all she had to say to get him under her control again.  He walked her home on the way she started to cry and devoted her undying to him, they got to her house and stopped crying and asked him to come in. He called of the wedding and was off with his dream girl again.  But it didn’t last so he went on with his life but still dreamed of beautiful Jody Jones. His dream would be broken one day when he found out that his fun dream girl got married became a house wife.

Then he started to cry but it was for his own pathetic self, for his wasted youth and time focused on this one woman Judy Jones his Winter Dream.                

There is no easy way to clime this mountain,  they described the mental toughness you need to have. You have to tell yourself  that the pain you go through is fun, that’s the only way to tackle each steep. You have to realise that your on a mountain that climed 8 lives in one day. You also have respect for it but also have to convince yourself that your tougher then it and it cant beat you. By this picture from crevasse in the Khumbu Icefiled, Napal, by reading this artical you can see that its not the same mountain twice.

When you climb this mountain you don’t have to go through just the physical pain but if you fail the financial pain. Here’s just the rough easement.

• 1 lead Guide- $25,000
• 2 Assistant Guides- $10,000 to 15,000 each
• 7 Climbing Sherpas- $5,000 each
• 3-4 Cooks- $3,500 each
• 1 Liaison Officer- $3,000
• Doctor- $4,000
• Transportation and Lodging- $42,000+
• Permits in Napal- $72,475+
• Insurance- $100 per Napalese staff member
• Satellite Phone Permit- $2,300
• Sat Phone Rate- roughly $2.50 per minute
• Supplies- $47,700+
• Ritual Expenses- $300
• Helicopter Evacuation- $5,000
• Emergency Contingency- $1,000
• Climbing Gear- $8,000 to 15,000+
• FOR A TOTAL OF: 1/4 million +

After seeing the movie I’ve decided to let the other people climb the mountain and I’ll look at the pictures they tack. I found this picture and thought it looked fun.