Friday, December 9, 2016

AN EARTH-SHATERING FART
My response to "A Sound of Thunder" is how fascinating one little thing as a butterfly can change an entire future. You never know if you make a decision instead of another, your life can possibly change. I was a little confused at the end of it because I think that they killed Eckels but I'm not sure. This story was very fascinating to me because its grabbed my attention and it kept me hooked the whole time.
WOW, THAT WAS QUICK
This semester has passed by so fast, I remember when we all decided that blogs would be a good idea. The last thing on my mind was having to worry and stress about finals. Time passes by like a flash, because today we had to take our final for this class and it's pretty much having to remember and use everything you have learned in this passed semester.
Something Interesting
Something I found interesting is how pretty much all my teachers are making me take a final the week before. For example, I took my final tests for this class, Spanish, math, and chemistry. Plus in some classes I still have to take test on finals week. That is interesting to me.


Thursday, December 1, 2016

Immigrants in our own land Reflection
 
The way that I understood this poem was that it talks about immigrants coming into this new land to have a better life for themselves and their families, but end up disappointed by how they're treated when arriving. Their administration makes the different races segregated because they say that the cultures should not be mixed. To think of it "like in the old neighborhoods we came from." The poem ended with saying that this world is not what everybody imagines it to be. Pretty much saying that it'll ruin immigrants' lives. The tone that I got from it was resentful, as if the author resented leaving his home to come to the country to just be disappointed. Disappointment was another tone that I picked up because he imagined this extraordinary country for a better life, but was faced with bad conditions. A literary device that Baca uses is metaphor, for instance when he says "My cell" when he really means his living space but uses the word "cell" to make us envision how bad it was. The mood is also disappointment because with all the things that he says and describes, led me to think that he was expecting a country full of opportunities for a better life, but when he actually got there, he saw how it truly was and saw that it was not at all what he expected.