Blog 5: The man who was also a man

Answer the following questions for Richard Wright's short story, "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" in complete sentences, with as much detail as possible [this might mean a short paragraph]:

1. After reading the first paragraph, identify the narrator, the point of view, and the dialect.

The narrator is Dave, the point of view is third person, and and the dialect is from a man who is not very smart and does not know english that well.

2.What is Dave's mother's response when he asks her if he can buy a gun? How does he ask her?

At first she told him no, but then she said it was alright as long as he brings it right back and it is for his dad. He tells her by showing the gun in the catalog and saying that he can buy it for two dollars and he is almost a man and a man needs a gun.

3. What is Dave's reaction when pressed to tell the truth? What is the crowd's reaction when he tells? 

He starts to cry. The crowd laughs at him.

4. Think of the train as a symbol. What do you think it represents?

It represents freedom.

5. Is society better off without individuals like Dave? Should they celebrate his departure?

They should not celebrate his departure because of one mistake that he made, but they should not have given him the gun in the first place.

Blog 4: Lamb to the Slaughter

I thought that the ending was a little unrealistic. Whenever someone dies mysteriously, the people that live with them are normally always suspected to be the killer. Also, there would have been plenty of evidence like fingertips that would lead to her. Also, if she loved him so much, she should have been at least a little sad, but she was not sad at all.

Blog 3: GAC and Cage Reading

The GAC words for this week are: aggressive, authentic, contradict, extravagant, flounder, hone, perceive, quirk, saunter, and summon.

Use four (4) of these vocabulary words in a one-paragraph response to your reading over the weekend. What portions of the story did you find compelling [moving] in Chapters 34-40? Challenge: Include a quotation from the text.

I found it moving that Riva's poetry could touch so many people. Tola said, "Riva, you speak for all of us, they cannot kill our spirit, our hunger to survive." (Sender, 195). Riva is lucky that the Nazi leader that took her to and from the doctor's was not aggressive. The nazi's personalities kind of contradict each other, because even though she is nice and has feelings, she is a Nazi.  Riva's commander is very extravagant and mean, so i was surprised when she said that Riva will be allowed to go to a hospital. Riva floundered through the streets because since she was so suck she could barely walk.