Janie

To me Janie has many traits that makes her character very interesting and its set up so good by the author that through everything that happens in this book and all she goes through that she continues to look for her dreams and try to find love. Shes interesting to me because when i think of her character my thoughts lead me to a lot of ideas about her in the sense that shes trying very hard to find love. Like shes been married into what she thought would be a great marriage because of what her grandma told her and who her grandma set her up with, but when it boils down to what Janie herself wants she sees that it isn't her first husband because of all the little things that he does or all the little things he does. But that's funny because she was set up with him because he was stable and had money and could provide a good way of living for her. But the truth of the matter is that she doesn't care because shes going after love and she wants happiness more than just to be taken care of but she wants to love. So throughout the first marriage i questioned whether she was with him for what he had and what he could do for her or was it because he made her feel really could and she developed feelings for him. And from how her grandma described him it was for Janie to be taken care of. So i felt as if she was married for the material things and not the love. But the fact that she left him and went to a guy who made her happier in a sense i started to feel as if, ok she is looking for love. But then the fact that the new guy was rich also it took me back to the thoughts that she was maybe into it for all the material things. But then she took another turn with wanted to move on because she felt tied down and she wasn't really happy anymore and he died and she moved on. So overall so far Janie is the most interesting character because shes starting to be unpredictable which is only making the book a little more interesting to read, so i'm curious to see how she'll act in the upcoming chapters.

Thankful for a Classmate

The classmate im thankful for is Willie. I'm thankful for Willie because he's one of my closest friends and main partner in English class and he's my basketball teammate. We are partners in English class and we discuss how we feel about the books that we read inot class and we usually work together doing group work in class. He's also one of my closest friends and we're like that mainly because of this school year and us having the same lunch and this English class. So we've gotten to know more about each other given those circumstances. And also I'm thankful for him being my basketball teammate because he's a great player and we all have a lot of fun doing all the basketball activities from practice to games. He's becoming like a brother to me as all of my basketball teammates are

There Goes the Neighborhood

About a week ago a large boat of strange looking men and women beached near the ocean. The strange people have a much different face to mine and their skin is a completely different shade of brown. We call these newcomers white people. When the white people landed on our shore most of the younger less white people ran to hide in the their homes. I turned to run until our wisest adult demanded to meet the white people's leader. The few that ventured off of the large vessel stared at the adult with quizzical looks. It was obvious these people did speak our language. They wore much more clothes than my people. One even wore a shiny chest plate with a golden cross hanging from his neck. We identified this man as their leader. One brave elder woman gestured for the white men to follow us to our homes. As we led the newcomers to our camp they looked at each tree and animal as if it were a strange fish trapped in a pond. At home the elders and newcomers gestured awkwardly for a few minutes until the white men went back to their boat. 

A few days later the white men returned with bags on their back. The amount of shiny objects they had was enough to leave me in awe. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. Every man in this white group held sharp shiny spears they called swords. Their leader pointed in the direction south of hear and explained to our leader (as best he could) that they were settling. Our leader wanted to object, but each of our people were too terrified  by the white people's odd technology. 

Hemingway

To me Ernest Hemingway was a great author and had many wonderful books and short stories that carried messages deep that it basically told his life story all in detail. I feel like his writings are so influential to me because he uses so much detail and describes things to an extent that it makes me feel like im actually there visualizing the story that hes telling. His movie told me alot about him pertaining to how he wrote and why he wrote in the sort of style that he did. His life seemed very hard and confusing the way that he and his family acted. Like the thought of my mom dressing me up as a girl would definitely cause me feelings to write about some things that demonstrated how i felt about that. And the role his father played in his life surely impacted him and also his fathers death because all of that impacted the way he chose to father his children which semmed kind of neglectful to me. But those are some of the things he chose to write stories about. What also threw me about him was how many women he had, married, or had affairs with. I dont see how you can go through it with that many women and still remain a leveled man, but he did and that also fueled his writing. All in all I feel that his life pioneered all of his writings and thats what made him the powerful writer he was, and thats what makes me so amazed about his stories when i read and analyze them.

Six 6-Word Stories

Get back on Defense! Get Low!
Get inside and kick it out.
Run your route, get up field
Fire out of your defensive stance!
We need some water, its hot!
They run us like track stars!

Me

My name is Kobe Jones and im 15 years old and Attend Whitney Young High School. I sort of always knew i wanted to come to Whitney Young. I remember back in 5th grade when my sister had a volleyball game at Whitney how blown away i was with the atmosphere and how big the school was and i just loved it, and ever since then Whitney's been my choice. I play football and basketball for the school and i also play AAU basketball out of school with a team called Young N Reckless. I've been playing football since my older brother started at Ogden Park on Chicago's South side. When i first started i was too young to play but they let me play anyway. And ive been playing basketball since about 3rd Grade. My birthday in October 8th. I have 3 sibling an older sister Brooke who's in her last year of college at SIUC, and an older brother who's a freshman in college at McKendree University on a football scholarship who graduated from Simeon Career Academy, and i have a younger Brother Ryan who's in 5th grade. We all play sports my sister played volleyball, my older brother played football and baseball, i play football and basketball, and my younger brother plays football, baseball, and basketball. When i grow up i want to play professional sports either football or basketball, and if that doesn't plan out i want to be a sports manager or orthodontist. So yea that's a little about me.

John Proctor Hero or Stooge

I don't feel as though John Proctor is necessarily a hero in the Crucible because he's supposed to be a puritan and live the puritan lifestyle but he does several things that go against the puritan way of life. He doesn't go to church often which is a huge deal in the puritan lifestyle because he doesn't go and commune and worship god. And you cant really be a puritan and sometimes go to church, he has to be committed to the lifestyle and he certainly isn't. And he doesn't know the 10 commandments. He was asked to recite them and he couldn't. His youngest child isn't baptized and you cant really have a puritan way of life and you don't take certain puritan ordeals. A big way i feel John Proctor isn't a hero is because he committed adultery with Abigail, and he wont admit to it or bring it up to his wife or anyone else. And he basically lies and covers it up which is a sin to puritans. And the fact that all this has happened now Abby is doing things to kind of get back at him which is unveiling a lot of lies about him and making a lot of people suspicious about him and his family like Hale. Abby is kind of making good of the situation to cover up her lies and spreading rumors that John worships the devil. So when John finally confesses to the affair with Abby the rumors are already spreading about him so it adds on to the suspicion which is having a lasting affect on John and his family.