Image Analisis, Stanley Suter

 

          I think that this picture represents Maycomb County, AL. because it has the look of the general lifestyle for the people who live there. In the book, it explains Maycomb county as, “In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, and the courthouse sagged in the square.” From that, you can tell that Maycomb has dirt roads, and is not well kept up with. I can also guess that Maycomb is very rural, because what we've read so far has told us there are many farmers. We know that black people live in the area because Atticus's chef is black. This is after the war, and right before the great depression, explaining why cars may not have been used as much as walking or other forms of transportation.

          The Picture relates to Maycomb because fields are on either side of the dirt road. It is obviously a rural area with nothing except for a tree for a long distance off. It fits the setting of Maycomb in the book almost perfectly, except for the wagon on the side of the picture. In the book, the characters talked about the lines of cars. Another thing I realized, is that the black woman is dressed extremely nicely for a work day. I don't mean to sound racist, but in social studies we went over demographics of the poverty rates based on races, and black people where by far the highest. From the book, they wore dress clothes on Sundays, but I think the rest of the week would have had to been formal wear.

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NightJohn, By:Stanley Suter.

         Prompt- Analyze the impact word choice has on the meaning or tone of a text. Analyze how dialogue or specific incidents reveal information about characters. Make sure to include textual evidence.

          This week I have been reading "Nightjohn" by Gary Paulson and it's very graphic. In the book, you are in a third person view of the life of Sarney and her struggle for reading. Back then, if you where a slave and knew how to read, it was law to have one of your extremities chopped off, so as you may see, it was very risky business. She continues to read up until the point where she learns a word. She goes insane, writing it everywhere she goes until "Old Waller" the plantation owner catches her and starts beating the slaves until they tell. In the end, he "Mammy" is getting whipped, NightJohn confesses and gets two toes chopped off.

          The quotes through the test tells you exactly how slaves where brought up. "It isn't certain how old I am except for the sticks. Mammy keeps a stick for each one of us and sometimes she cuts a notch on the stick for each of the girls." The word choice that the author used really shows how uneducated slaves where. A slave with intelligence would be very easy to spot because of their lack of using run on sentences and bad sentence conjunctions.

          Another piece of the story that revealed information that we would have otherwise not known about where their living conditions. The field workers worked "dawn to dark hard work" six days a week. This was for two reason, the obvious one being they wanted to make the years harvest and have the largest possible amount of time to sell their crop before winter. However, this was also to ensure the one who had picked up more and where a bit wiser where always away or too tired to either run or break the rules in any way (I.E. learning to read.)

NightJohn, By: Stanley Suter.

     Prompt-Who is your favorite character? Who is your least favorite character? Why?

          This week I have been reading NightJohn, and I really like it. So far it has been about slaves on a plantation where they are treated above averagely brutally. The story starts out with a little girl, going on twelve named Sarney. She lives with a breeding mother and does children's chores, but I can foresee whats going to happen. In the book, they only count the girls ages. The master only cares about them through the child hood. At the age of twelve, boys and girls are separated, the boys go out and work the field, and some girls clean the house. Others become immediate breeders from the first possible time as so not to waste any. That is where I am in the book so far.

          I would have to say, so far in the book Night John would have to be  my favorite character. He hasn't done much yet except to trade tobacco with Sarney so that she can learn some letters. I think I like him the most because he knows whats going on in the outside world, unlike the incompetent slaves who are too frightened to fend for themselves. I have a strong feeling he will become a leader, naturally because he knows things, and he has the cuts on his back to prove it.

          My least favorite character so far would have to be Old Waller. He is the plantation owner who has no sense of humanity. He catches a pregnant slave near the big house, and chains her up to be whipped. I understand that it was usual to serve that kind of punishment back then. But he left her out overnight for the flies and in the morning he had two slaves bring salt for the woman just to give her more pain. I think that he should have stopped after the night outside, because after that she ran away. Old Waller is cruel and doesn't seem to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Four, By:Stanley Suter

     Prompt-Who is your favorite character and why? Who is your least favorite character?

          This week I have been reading "Four" by Veronica Roth and I really like it. She brought in a new style of writing and thought with Tobias. She also gave an explanation to the time before Tobias went into the Dauntless and when he took his test he was actually seen as a person from Abnegation, not as a divergent like Tris was. It also explains the ceremony in which Tobias was brought into the Dauntless.

         
My favorite character so far would have to be Tobias. He is innocent and seemingly scared but at the same time he is ruthless and willing to leave his faction for better personal gain.  He will even stick up to his dad, who is a leader of Abnegation and not afraid to abuse Tobias, even though it will make the politics of Abnegation look very bad. This is because it shows how Abnegation could be falling and the leaders may not have raised their children well enough for them to be loyal.

          My least favorite character would have to be Tobias's  dad because he is the only other character we've meet in the book other than Tobias and the faction tester and he is already being set up as the protagonist. He often abuses Tobias and explains exactly what he wants Tobias to do when he goes for the test. The things he will have to do and what he needs to choose to be directed to the factor of Abnegation. I feel that he will end up being the worst protagonist in Tobiases view.