reacton section two

So his parents died in a car acident and it was almost the sadest thing ever. I felt so bad for him. He droped out of school. His parents lefted him with nothing no money no home no family. He is lost he doesnt know what to do or where to do. He ends up leaving class in the middle of a test well finals and he didnt even start and he is not going to pass. He doesnt have to money to pay for school anyway but he left and he walked and he didnt know where is was and he rain after a train and like jumped on it and there were 4 men in the wagan he got on. They were all drunk and tried to throw him off the train and kill him! But Camel saved him and took him under his wing which was good or he was be dead. He ended up getting on a curcis train and now they are going to make him part of it. It is really good action packed!

Reaction Blog one

I have read the first three chapters and I think that this book is very interesting i personally think that Mr. Jankowski is in need of sexual attention from a female. He is a funny old man. He is a determend man he know what is right. He is old and he still has teeth and all he wants is really food. I want to go make him his corn on the cob. The nurse that gave him that blow of fruit made his day he was so happy. That was one of my favorite parts so far. I also think that the he shy he is sitting next to this beautiful women and he doesnt say anything. I like that book so far though iIam glad I choose it

First Blog Post for Water For Elephants

Vocab.
tchotchke: an inexpensive souvenir, trinket, or ornament.
inevitable: 1.unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion.
2.sure to occur, happen, or come; unalterable: The inevitable end of human life is death. –noun
3.that which is unavoidable.
perplexed:.bewildered; puzzled: a perplexed state of mind.
2.complicated; involved; entangled.
coot:1.any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
2.any of various other swimming or diving birds, esp. the scoters.
3.Informal. a foolish or crotchety person, esp. one who is old.
pneumatic:–adjective
1.of or pertaining to air, gases, or wind.
2.of or pertaining to pneumatics.
3.operated by air or by the pressure or exhaustion of air: a pneumatic drill.
4.filled with or containing compressed air, as a tire.
5.equipped with pneumatic tires.
6.Theology. of or pertaining to the spirit; spiritual.
7.Zoology. containing air or air cavities.
–noun
8.a pneumatic tire.
9.a vehicle having wheels with such tires.

First Blog post for outside reading quarter two!

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
It was published in 2006
This is a fiction book.
It is 331 Pages.
Well it is going to have a lot of circus terms that I won't know soo thay why is will be chanlllening for me.
I chose the book because I really enjoy love stories and this is a love story which will make want to read the book. I like not know what is going on next and i like it to be a little sad which this book seems to fit those characteristics.

Post 2 Sea and Side

Some similarities are between The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and The Sea Inside are they are both quadriplegic. They both use there imagnation to get them thourgh the day. They both wrote a book. The both dreamed about woman and the beach. Some differences were in The Sea Inside he can talk he can move his head and write with him mouth. In The Diving Bell he can only blink one eye. The Sea Inside he writes a book of poems. In The Diving Bell he writes and book on how he is feeling and thoughts. In The Sea Inside he was in love with a woman that was really there with him and he really talked to and in The Diving Bell he is in love with really woman but she is in his dreams. I thought that The Sea Inside was moe powerful because he wanted death and he was so much more i dont know how to explain it might because it a movie and I aw him and what he was going through and in The Diving Bell it was a book and they were words on a page.

Reaction

My general reaction toward the film was that it was a good movie it was oragized. The movie was kinda sad in some part like when Roman died. He is a very smart guy really im sure he had alot of time to think about it while he is laying there in that bed for all that time. I think he is smart because he killer himself and everyone helped him but they didnt know they were really killing him and Rosa did give him enough of the posion to kill him.
I think Ramon had the right to choose. He was the one suffering in that bed not being about to move. I would want to die if i were in his shoes. Im like a vegetable that can talk that not what I want to do with my life. I felt sorry for him having to want to died and no one is alowing to do what he wants to do. I think that the friends that agreed to help him loved him but also want him to be happy. i would be one of though people to help him because I would know that he is happy when he is and i am happy for him.

The Essay

Desi King
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Hatten

English 10
A Day in the Life of Augusten Burroughs

This book is full of events that happen in this man life that seem so serial it couldn’t be

true. It talks about his alcoholic father and his drugs addict mother who is also on the crazy side.

It talks about him finding himself as in his sexual preference and who is truly is. This book

shows Augusten Burroughs as theses three things being caring, feminine and controlling.


Augusten is shown to be caring because he is always there for his mom and is will to help

people when they need it. “I ran back into the kitchen and paced frantically around the table. I

grabbed a dried, raw dog off the counter and drummed it against my chest. “What should I do?

What should I do? What should I do?” I was like an autistic sitting against a wall” (252). This

quote shows that Augusten is caring because Neil has run away and he is worried sick about

him. In the story, he drives so go find him and they do end up finding him but he really does

care about. Augusten shows that he is caring in many other ways in this story.

Augusten is also very feminine he enjoys dressing up in women’s clothing and he like doing

hair. He also really cares about his
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appearance as in what he is wearing. “ Plus, I like uniforms and I would get wear one, along with

a white shirt and a tie, even a tie-tack in the shape of an airplane wings” (2). This quote is an

example of him being feminine and caring about what he looks like on the outside. Augusten is

controlling and he can easily control what he wear its pretty much the only thing can control in

his crazy life.

Augusten is also as controlling. He get upset when things don’t go his way. He also doesn’t

care about the other people feeling in some cases. He would rather have things go the way he

wants them to then other people to be happy. “Oh shut up. You’ll get used to it” (201). In this

quote, Augusten had dyed Neil’s hair. The box said Ash Blonde and it turned out being greenish

brown. Neil is very upset, Augusten just tells him to get over, and he doesn’t care what he

thinks about it.

Augusten show the traits caring, feminine, and controlling through out the book. He show

caring by going after some one he loves when he knew something wasn’t right. He shows

femininity by paying attention to detail like in his dress and his mother dress as well. He shows

that he is controlling when he dyed Neil hair and truly didn’t care for his opinion. Those were

the traits shown by Augusten Burroughs.

Week 6

Natalie finally gets her job at Mcdonalds. With ehr first paycheck, her and Agusten go on a little vacation. On this vacation Natalie tells Agusten that he should really become a writer, and she also says that she would want to be a singer. Soon after their vacation, Natalie and Agusten move out together. They buy their own apartment and go to the same college after Agusten passes his GED. Agusten soon withdraws from school. A week later his Deirdre called him and they decide to meet up. Deirdre seemed sane to Agusten. She claimed that Dr. Finch had been manipulating her with drugs and medication. He had been perscribing her medication that she didn't need. She said she isn't going to talk to any of the Finches anymore. Agusten can't take all the pressure and moves into his own apartment permanently.


Overall, I thought the book was really interesting and unique. I think it's amazing that this guy actually lived his life like this and wrote about it, even though it's very controversial and graphic. I really liked the way that Agusten writes. The book made me laugh even though I felt bad that he had to go through all of this. I think it's really cool that he grew up in such a different way, because that makes him think differently from everyone else and I admire that about him. I thought the plot was really good, even though it was really confusing at times.

Week 5

Dr. Finch, Neil, Agusten, Hope, and Dorothy all go visit Deirdre at the mental hospital she's staying at in Rhode Island. Deirdre is still crazy. Dr. Finch takes interest in a nurse at the hospital, and she comes home with them when they take Deirdre home. Agusten still thinks that Deirdre is insane. Pretty sure I do too. Soon after they get back to the Finches, Neil runs away to New York. Hope and Agusten to to Greenwich to try and find him, but they never did. Neil dissappeared out of Agusten's life. He tries to find another boyfriend but gets rejected. At the same time, Natalie is getting depressed because the house keeper, Agnes, said that she was fat. Natalie and Agusten spend $40 at Mcdonalds and eat their hearts out.

Week 4

In this section, Neil's attraction to Agusten becomes obsession. He writes Agusten a 16-page love letter. Agusten is a little freaked but likes the attention. Deirdre ends her lesbian relationship with the first woman and moves on to Dorothy, who is another one of Dr. Finch's pacients. Also, the IRS starts threatening to seize Dr. Finch's house, which puts Hope under a lot of stress. One day when Natalie and Agusten go to take a walk, they come back and Hope claims that she made a soup with her dead cat's body. Even though that's disgusting, everyone laughs about it and they have a group hug. To raise money so they can keep the house, the Finches have a yard sale. They decide they like their lawn and start to live on it for a while. Agusten begins to spend half of his time with the Finches, and half of the time with his mom. One night he went to his mom's and she started throwing dishes at him and called him a Nazi. He called Hope, who called the police and the police took Deirdre away.

Week 3

In this section Dr. Finch makes a fake suicide attempt for Agusten so he can legally stop going to school. Agusten ends up going to a mental ward for 2 weeks. This gives him time to think about him and Neil. Evantually they end up becoming lovers. After he gets out of the hospital, Deirdre tells Agusten that Dr. Finch will become his legal guardian, because she is unfit to raise him because of her lesbian relationship. Also in this section we learn that Agusten wants to be a cosmetologist. He gets a lot of advice from Katie, the most normal of Dr. Finch's children. In the next few chapters, a lot of bizarre things happen with the Finches. Natalie and Agusten destroy the kitchen ceiling and put in the pantry window as a skylight, leaving a 7 inch gap of air. At one point Dr. Finch believes that God is communicating with him through poop. He goes on "reading" all his poop for messages from God until a bout of constipation. Also, Hope's cat dies. She thinks that she buried the cat alive, but really it died because she trapped it in the basement without food or water.

Week 2

As Agusten spends more time with the Finches, he stops being so uptight. He starts smoking. Agusten is now older and has found out that he is gay. He tells Hope, who introduces him to her 33 year old gay adopted brother, Neil. Agusten and Neil go on a walk together. Agusten also starts to skip school. One day while he was skipping, he walked in on his mother having sex with another woman. After she rambles for a while, she convinces Agusten to accept her lifestyle. Also in this section it focuses on the Finches and their weird lifestyle. Dr. Finch encourages his family to fight because he thinks it's the core of mental illness. People are always yelling in his house. It also tells us about how Dr. Finch is cheating on his wife with 3 other women openly and his wife doesn't like that very much. In chapter 9 Agusten's older brother, Troy is introduced. He makes guitars for the KISS. In chapter 10 it describes Agusten's first sexual encounter with Neil. He performs oral sex on Neil.

Week 1

In the beginning of the book, Agusten is nine years old. He likes to dress up in his mom's clothes. His mom (Deirdre) is a poet and she thinks that she is going to be famous someday. This chapter pretty much shows how Agusten isn't really a normal kid, and it shows that his mom is more interested in her own career than her child. In chapter 2 it talks about Agusten's dad, who is a math professor. He is an alcoholic. He and Deirdre have a really bad relationship. Agusten rarely spends time with his father. It also tells us more about how Agusten likes to do abnormal things like pretend to play a doctor on T.V. and play with his mom's jewelry. A big event was when Deirdre and his father got into a fight. His dad tried to strangle Deirdre and she cut his head open pretty bad. Deirdre decides to get a family councelor, named Dr. Finch. Agusten makes friends with Dr. Finch's receptionist, whose name is Hope. Hope is also Dr. Finch's daughter. Eventually Deirdre and Agusten's dad get divorced. Agusten and his mom move to Amherst. Soon after they moved, Deirdre's visits to Dr. Finch get longer and happen more often. One day when Agusten asks about a small room in the back of the doctor's office, Dr. Finch tells Agusten that the room is his "Masturbatorium". Agusten talks to Hope about it and tells her it's disgusting. Hope says that it's a perfectly natural thing. When Agusten asks Hope why she isn't married she tells him it's because she hasn't met anyone as wonderful as her father. That pretty much tells us that Hope is in love with her dad. A little while after the visit to the Masturbatorium, Deirdre takes Agusten to go see Dr. Finch's house. The house is worn down and shabby. Once Agusten's mom leaves to go talk to Dr. Finch, he makes friends with more of Dr. Finch's daughters, Vickie and Natalie. Eventually Agusten goes to find his mother. When he does, Dr. Finch tells him that his father is trying to kill him and his mother, so Deirdre will go live in a hotel and Agusten will stay with the Finches.