What I Like about this class

English 2 Honor have always been a fun class to me, Mr. Mccool' class are also one of my favorites of all time. There is nothing that i don't like about this class and I love this class. The class consists of interesting readings, they are inspirational and i am learning about something interesting in the book and it can help me in my life. F451 is one of the best examples. Now, I would like to walk around the neighborhood and take a look around and even help someone to open the door for them or picking up something. The class materials are not too hard, the homework loads are not too much, quality work instead of quantity work. We have enough time to prepare for the tests, class preparations and all we need to know about the test. Latin and Greek roots quiz are also a great thing about this class. Its something that i haven't learn before and Mr. Mccool continue the work of Ms. Brown and made it better and more fun. The jokes in class created a happy atomsphere and no grumpy stuff around that can make you really angry. Mr. Mccool teaches good, I'm absorbing all the stuff that's being taught to me right now and its useful stuff. This class is flawless, its perfect, andd i wouldn't want to change anything about it at all.

Why be a Prodigy?

Jing-Mei's mother believe that they are in the land, the land where people could be whatever they want to be. America was her dream and ahse wish to open new land for her daughter. Jing-Mei was excited at first too about the dream of being a prodigy. She wanted to get her parent's approval and tried her best to do it. My mom and dad doesn't actually press me on anything hard. They mumbles around my ear everyday abut getting striaght As at first and I'm also trying my best. My mom and dad just kept on talking to me that i need to work harder and umbles aorund my ears everyday. After a long time, i got really fed up and was angry for them to putting so many invisible barrier pressure on me and they just kept on saying look at the other people outside. She kind of just constantly using people from the local school on how many after school academies they have to go and how i don't have to do anything. When i compare my friends to me, they always use the excuse" don't use the people let's bad around, you are you, they are they don't compare" It just pissed me off. Last year was when there are most fights because they think i don't have any homework. We shouted to each other almost everyday and when i go back to see my dad i'm pretty much scared if we will get into a brawl. The only people that could listen to my complains was my aunt and she took it all in and act like a messenger to dilever my messgaes. After half a year my dad finally decide to stop the mumbling and let go. However my mom didn't and she just constantly mumble until i was so angry one day i left the house for the whole day until 1 then i went back home. It really bugged me and now this year the homework load is four times more they stopped mumbling about my homeworks. I push myself in things that they didn't push such as taekwando, i went into a few competitions and went into the champions class for my own good. I normally pushes myself on work but they were just paranoid on A and didn't see it, like they want me to do just more and more. Last year was a very tiring period since my mom and dad changes plan everyday such as shutting down the internetm took the tv away from my small room and leave no entertainment to me. It's not as bizarre as the tests that Jing Mei's mom give but it acts like a invisible tense atmosphere around the house and i wanted to escape it whenever i go back to taipei. The life of Jing Mei is really sad, and even though my mom slips all kinds of activities such as going out with friends to me but when the people say yes and the mood says no, it actually feels more tense and sad when you disobey them. In the end me and my parents decided that i can't be push by them like that and it will just crush the family. They loosen up, and now I can finally work regularly again. Jing Mei's story kind of touch what happened to me last year and i was kind of touched and this journal write kind of opened up the feeling and i just wrote all this.

The Influence of others

A person's life can be affected and determined by the people around them. They may be a good or bad influence and the influence can also be good or small. One of the positive influence i had is Christine. She may not look like a organized person but she's actually one of the most task organized person i know. She have all the things that we have to do today listed, explain it to us and we all can get to work easily. Her hard working attitufe also affected me greatly. She would stayed till 10 working on one project such as the haunted house, she assigns specific and clear instructions to us and if we messed up she didn't scream or show great anger to us. The high enthusiasm to everyhting and try to do it good was also what amazed me and wanted to act like in the future. Her personality, outgoing and extremely friendly to everyone is the most important triat i find fascintating and want to learn.
One of the worst influence i had and learned to forget about it an old friend of mine called Duncan. He was the class star in elementary, after he went to middle and high school in dominican catholic school, something hit him and he totally changed. When i went to the school and saw him, he was a real bad influence to me. His in part of gangs, numerous fights, smokes, and who knows what dirty deeds he do. I was looking up to hinm since he was the most popular guy and i wanted to be like him(although i didn't do all those things). He was rich, he didn't care about school, he didn't care about work, and he didn't even care about his parents anymore. He was a real bad influence to me but after a fight i had with him i broke free of him and decided that i will never ever be like him.

Character Traits and Conflict

8. Mama is a large woman, she lived in the countryside her whole life and from her actions, she doesn't seemes to be educated too much and she probably doesn't care about being educated or not. She emphasized the things that Dee brought back from the city she doesn't like, saying things that blacks doesn't need to know. It feels like Dee is mocking mama when she actually is not. Mama's dream is to live in the country, and i can feel that she kind of regret sending her into the city for education.

9. Mama faces many conflicts in the story starting from the descion of who gets to get the quilt of internal conflict in her mind. The physical contact of shouting or anger of Dee and mama in the external conflicts. The quilt is the treasure of thr family. Mama have to make wise descions of who gets to have this heritage and can use this heritage with the best use and can continue on this tradition of their family that they can sew something on generation after generations.

Literary Analysis

Maggie loved the quilt, she want to use it and let the quilt to be part of her and also part of her future family. The quilt is something important to Mama and Maggie since they both grew up with the quilt by their sides and i believe both of them would want to sew a part of them on top of that quilt. However, I believe Dee is just viewing the quilt as a tool for her to show that she climbed all the way top from a country girl. Dee wouldn't value the quilt as much as Maggie and Mama do.
Dee value the quilt as a symbol to the other people, she probably don't like the quilt but said all that things about the quilt to please her mother and get the quilt from her. The quilt isn't something important to Dee from the family, in fact i kind of think that Dee actually dislike her origin of a country girl, she wanted to abandon this past but now somehow she wanted to prove to other people of her position again. She is kind of spoiled and citilized, no longer country or what her origin is.

Read with a Purpose

maggie and Dee are like two diffrent person that had a diffrent background and belief even though they are both sisters. I beleive Dee's belief on the quilt is to hang it, honoring the family's quilt and hanging it to show the greatness and also for her own good of a symbol that she is still from the country rather than a soely city folk. Dee's pirpose is i beleive suits the quilt best. She will most likely live in the farm for her life and using the quilt is an actual use of the quilt for everyone and what their ancestors such as Great aunt Dee and greatgrandmother Dee would like, to see the quilt being used on the farm and sew something new on it.

Reading Focus Quick Check

1. Dee is the kind of woman that want everything, the kind of girl that have princess phobia. She is borned pretty with a very strong attitude and i beleive part of it is because she was sent away to a good school and in the cities. Maggie is the total opposite. She have scars on her and i believe the scars is probably bullying from Dee due to her attitude and Maggie's fear to Dee too. Dee probably oppressed Maggie alot and she couldn't fight back to her anyway.
2. Both of the daughter was going to use it diffrently, and the way somehow reflects the place they are from. Dee is going to hang up that quilt and somehow that's what the city people do with something that they valuable while Maggie is going to use it. Some of the times people from the country will put lots of things to use a old piece of cloth, a shirt and they will use it till it breaks and then repair it again. However i believe the use of Maggie can successfully use the spirit of her grandma and that it be in real use of sleeping in it.
3. The title of the story kinds of show the quilt, a everyday use and a never use. Maggie represents the everyday use of the quilt while Dee represent never using it and just hanging it on the wall. It somehow can show a contrast on the city people and the country farm people.

Character Traits and Making Inferences

A: Diffrent characters react on their own triats it is very easy to identify them. The main character in everyday use described herself. One hand with life and there will be no "No" in her life. The narrator sounds very strong and independant, hard hearted. She is superbly strong and can probably live in the moutains all alone.
The second thing that shows her psersonality stong is ger dream. She dreamed of being some kind of a movie star, most of the stories or narrator dreams about something like this is either they're totally opposite of what they wanted to be or exactly the same but their talents are not discovered.

B: The relationship between Dee and the narrator is either really close or they hated each other. The way the narrator described Dee and her are like sisters, except the sister relationship can go both ways. She mentioned holding each other's arm, and cry ineach other's arms. This could mean they are either a long distance away and brought back together or it can mean the special guy have changed their relationship from hated each other to started to like each other. The relationship between Dee and the narrator could also mean Dee may be dead. A miracle might happen or during the time she is still alive and they can hold each other.

How does heritage contribute to character?

People's personality is created mostly on genes from your parents, some of your personality are being shown by your own development or way of living. In life, a person is required to have courage to do things, either it is giving a speech in front of millions of people or sky diving, facing something that is entirely new to you. All of these activity or challenges in life requires courage to lead you through it.
Diffrent charactaristics are being pass down to their children. Things such as knowledge, beauty, courage, or your body structure and maybe if you are shy or outgoing. All these factors are essential in life and critical for a successful life. Being pretty or handsome may change his viewpoint of people and relationship as a toy or something that is easily granted because theirs people folloing at your back all the time. To a ugly person, this can change their personality also, they may not trust people that well or because the attitude being treated turned then into a diffrent person.
Knowledge is something that everyone in this world is concerning. Everybody wishes their child to be smart, some can look at a thing in school and remember it the second he finishes it. Some may take hours to remember it and therefore learns to pays extra attention to everything. Someone's body feature may also be a important part of his charactaristic, it changes the soceity or people that he deal with and develop a diffrent hobby, diffrent friends and therefore his life is changed.
All heritage have a good and bad effect on someone's life. Someone's chararistics is what shows the person's true self and what his life will be like or future can be like.