Wouldn't It Be Nice

1. Wouldn't it be awesome if Jimi
Hendrix was alive?
2. If John Lennon stuck with The Beatles?
3. If school was easy?
4. If Eazy-E was still alive?
5. If Roger Waters stayed with Pink Floyd?
6. If Syd Barret never went crazy?
7. If Bob Marley was still alive?
8. If the Patriots won the superbowl this year?
9. If John Bohnam was alive today?

Aid To al Qaeda Caught In Guantanamo Bay

The story “Bin Laden's former driver guilty in terror trial” is an article from CNN, and is about how Osama Bin Laden’s former driver was arrested in Guantanamo Bay. The person is Salim Hamdan; he is being accused of driving Osama Bin Laden the leader of al Qaeda, the man responsible for the 9/11/01 attacks on the World Trade Center. The trial is being held at Guantanamo Bay, Salim is potentially facing a life sentence. Having occurred on 8/06/08, this could possibly a huge break through for the search for Osama Bin Laden. Salim’s defense said: “Hamdan was a low-level driver who knew little about the workings of bin Laden's al Qaeda”. Hamdan said: “ he worked for wages, not to wage attacks against America”. Hamdan pleaded: “not guilty at the start of the trial”.

Although the attacks on the Twin Towers happened seven years ago, we are still looking for details as to why the attacks happened. Although we try to escape bad memories of our past we are always drawn back to the strory of 9/11, the evidence suggests that Hamdan was just a poor man who was trying to make an extra dollar. The evidence says that he did not know any of Bin Laden’s plans to attack America. Hamdan was just a poor man with a bad job, and didn’t know what he was getting himself into. Although this man’s name is not well known, he did assit one of the worlds most diabolical men in the entire history of the world.

Irony Of What Is the What

One example of irony in What Is the What, is when the main character moves to America to escape the violence of Sudan, and while he is still home two burglars break into his house and go into his room at gun point. Another irony would be that when the man with the gun who broke in the main character’s house asks the main character if he is from Africa, the main character says yes, and the robber calls the main character his brother. This is ironic because the man broke into the main characters house and calls him his brother. Things are strange.

The Lottery

Grumpy and stubborn, old man Warner likes the lottery the way it is. (Adjectives Out of Order)

Yelling at everyone that the lottery wasn't fair, Mrs. Hutchinson was stoned for winning. (Participle Phrase)

Hurriedly, Mr. Summer's wanted everyone's name to be in the black box. (Adverbs out of order)
Joyfully, the children gather piles of rocks for the lottery. (Adjectives out of order)

Regretfully, everyone throws rocks at Mrs. Hutchinson. (Adjectives out of order)

Irony

When a doctor gets sick.

When a dentist has a cavity.

When a fireman's house burns down.

When a police officer breaks the law.

When an electrician has no power in his house.

When a professional swimmer drowns.

If a cow is lactose intolerant.

Jumbo shrimp.

If the team mascot didn't like his own team.

If a teacher didn't know the answer.

When a paramedic dies.

When a gardeners plants die.

Irony of "The Chaser"

Irony is when the unexpected happens, when something you know will not happen it happens. In the short story The Chaser there are many examples of irony; one strong example is when Alan is seeking for a love potion he finds this man who sells love potions. The man is old and wise. When they first start talking the man mentions a poison which he calls an antidote, Alan is disinterested in the poison and asks the man for a love potion. Of course the man has a potion, Alan is very excited because he already knows who he is going to use the potion on. The man sells him the potion and Alan pays the old man, then saying good bye. The old man says “Au Revior” meaning see you later. The old man knows that the love potion will make Alan’s soon to be wife annoying and he will eventually want to kill her. The irony is that Alan thought everything would be perfect.

Civil War Is Whack

At the end of Liam O’Flaherty’s The Sniper a man lies dead in the streets, we are told that “the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face.” Liam does not tell if the dead man is actually his brother of his family, or a figurative brother of his country. If it actually is his real brother it means that civil war is a bad thing because it tears families apart. But, if he is a figurative brother this says that the civil war is bad and it is destroying the brotherhood of his country and perhaps the brotherhood of men all around the world.

Born in the U.S.A isn't always that great

The recurring use of the words “Born in the U.S.A” suggests that sometimes its not that great living in the U.S. Bruce Springstein sends the message that sometimes when you first start off you get kicked right back down. “The first kick I took when I hit the ground” this says that right when he’s starting to pick up a little he’s is right back down where he started. Springstein also says that when you keep on getting pushed down you get tired and are not able to do it any more: “You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much.” Generally, the phrase “Born in the U.S.A” doesn’t always mean that you have a good life or you have an awesome job. Sometimes it means that your life is terrible. Overall, Bruce Sprinstein says that it isn’t always good to live in America.

Queen Elizabeth Speech

Queen Elizabeth speech to her navy, before a battle in war. Queen Elizabeth uses her female identity to spur on her soildiers. "I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king." So even though she knows she is a woman she is still determined that her troops will win the battle. Overall, Queen Elizabeth’s speech to her navy was so inspiring that all her troops were determined to win that battle for their queen.

Lily- "My hair was constantly going in eleven wrong directions. " Pg. 3
"I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was impersonating a girl instead really being one." Pg. 9
"Gnawing the flesh around my fingernails till I was a bleeding wreck." Pg. 9

Rosaleen- "Her hair was black and generous, with thick curls circling her face." Pg. 6
"Rosaleen had never had a child of her own." Pg. 2
"She was full of crazy ideas I ignored." Pg. 2

T. Ray- "The giant peach perched atop a sixty-foot pole beside the gate, its fleshy color, not to mention the crease down the middle, gave it an unmistakable appearance of a rear end. Rosaleen said it was T.Ray's way of mooning the entire world. That was T.Ray." Pg. 8
"His only kindness was for snout, his bird dog." Pg. 3
"The moldy smell of peaches clung to T.Ray's boots." Pg. 6

Secret Life of Bees Question

Why is the main character so obsessed with her appearance and what other people think of her?

Sue M. Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees explains a young girl loaning for stability in a difficult habitat. In the beginning of the novel, Kidd uses imagery to help visualize the story. The author describes a swarm of bees: “During the day I heard them tunneling through the walls of my bedroom.” The author helps make the narrator’s life more realistic, continuing to describe the swarm: “They lapped around my body, making me the perfect center of a whirlwind cloud.” Besides the imagery of bees the writer also focuses on the narrator’s life: “That night I lay in bed and thought about dying and going to be with my mother in paradise.” Overall the author uses a more detailed type of imagery in The Secret Life of Bees.

Cormac McCarthy’s Awesome Diction By: Edward Czyrklis

All authors demonstrate their own examples of diction. In the excerpt from Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God, the author produces diction which is both unusual and basic. McCarthy describes the main character: “We’d never seen the like of shootin.” The author characterizes the ape: “They was a feller up there had this ape or gorilla, ever what it was.” The writer describes the day: “I think we’d drank a little whiskey too, I disremember.” Overall McCarthy’s diction is abnormal and essential.