First 10 sentences

When I was a boy I always thought my father was the best until one day he banished me for doing something as stupid as saying a few words out of turn. Once I said this it was all over for me. Then my father and I got into a massive fight ending up with me (Mufasa) getting banished from the kingdom. Now I am off to kill the last emperor of China for then and only then will I get the respect I deserve from my father. The emperor of China is in the largest city, Shanghai with walls said to be 100 feet tall and 50 feet thick. So far on my journey I have seen my father's armies destroy countless towns all innocent and weak with no mercy at all. If he were to kill the emperor and crown himself first then I will have failed. So failing is not an option for it is the only way to get my father's honor back and the chance to be the heir to the throne of the new empire created by my family.

Joy luck

In "Rules of the Game" Lindo's daughter tells us about how she became a chess prodigy. Waverly also talks about how her mother used her as a bragging tool. This ends up with her going to her room and think of a chess game between her and her mom.

In  "The Voice from the Wall" Lena St. Clair talks about how she translates english for her mother and changes the words to make her mom sound more "mainstream". Lena also speaks about how her mother was pregnant and then the baby died. She also explains a girl that lives next door who always argues with her mother.

In "Half and Half" Rose speaks of her mothers faith and her old bible. She then goes on to tell that her mom put it under the table leg because her mom had given up faith after her brother Bing drowned in the ocean and was never found. She also explains that she was getting a divorce with a person that her mother     thought was not right.

In "Two Kinds" Jing-mei speaks about how she never was good enough for her mother not being a prodigy at anything. She then goes on to speak about she took piano lessons and found out her teacher was deaf so never tried. Then when she turned 30 Suyuuan gave Jing-mei a piano which she played after Suyuaan died and ended up playing it well.

SAT words

1. The arid desert was not a great habitat for the frog.
2. The assiduous rain drove me insane.
3. That asylum holds all the loonies.
4. The benevolent man helped the old lady across the street.
5. His camaraderie helped him keep friends.
6. The father's censure kept the son from doing anything stupid.
7. He moved in a circuitous pattern.
8. His clairvoyant sight helped him find the puppy.
9. We collaborate in many different ways.
10. In the moments of compassion we often lose our selves.

Coded passage for Cry the Beloved Country

Jarvis sat, deeply moved. !Whether! because this was his son, !whether! because this was almost the last act of his son, !he could not say!. !Whether! because there was some quality in the words, !that too he could not say!, !for he had given little! time in his life to the savouring and judging of words. !Whether! because there was some quality in the ideas, !that too he could not say!, !for he had given little! time to study of these particular matters. He rose and went up the stairs to his room, and was glad to find his wife not there, for here was a sequence not to be interrupted. He picked up the Abraham Lincoln and went down to the study again, and there opened the book at the Second Inaugural Address of the great president. He read it through, and felt with a sudden lifting of the spirit that here was a secret unfolding, a track picked up again. There was increasing knowledge of a stranger. He began to understand why the picture of this man was in the house of his son, and the multitude of books.


Key:
 Imagery
Characterization
!....!Repition
Punctuation= odd ammounts
Point of View
Mood
Diction
Personification

Paton 1

In the Cry, the Beloved Country Paton does not speak of women highly such as when he writes "women scratch at the dirt"(p.4) saying that it is women that do the work not the men. He also writes about the mens problems not both men and women kind of saying that women don't really do anything other than take care of children and the house. He also writes "keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed"(p.1) in these sentences you see only one gender men not women saying that women do nothing. These differences have so far done next to nothing other than show how women do all the hard work that men are to "good" to do.

Power of one

In the movie The Power of One the English were in control of the Africans. The English had all the power becasue they had money, an army, and strong healthy men and women. The British kept control by beating the Africans and sending them to jail. This setup stays the same for a lot of the movie becasue the Africans have no schools and not much else until a young man helps them by teaching them English. Though in Lord
of the Flies it is almost the exact opposite with the group starting out as a whole then slowly breaking off into groups.One of thse groups got followers by using fun and no rules to coax the little kids into it.The other used a conch and many rules to keep everything in order. Both ways lost power because each had little knowledge of what they were doing and had little to no strength making it almost impossible to survive.

LOTF passage 5

In this passage the conch is the main symbol. It stand for both order and how people can be told what to do for only a short amount of time before everything erupts into chaos. In the passage Golding writes "Hear him! He's got the conch!" Showing that they obey what the conch stands for but also in the same passage he writes "Shut up, you fat slug!" to Piggy because Jack is not pleased with Piggy's ideas and plans.

The theme of this passage was order and the way all humans will want all the power and abuse it if given the chance too.