"Notes"

Information: This chapter is about the "speaking of courage". It tells the story of Norman Bowker, and how he felt like he had died in Vietnam, but didn't. Also how he felt like he needed someone to talk to, but perhaps couldn't find the words to say anyways. After Norman reads O'Briens "If I Die In The Combat Zone" he asks if O'Brien could write a novel including a story about a man who feels like he died in the way, but never did. O'Brien does this and titles his chapter "Speaking Of Courage". But Norman feels like O'Briens chapter makes him out to look selfish and cowardly. Norman cannot cope with his loss of sanity after Vietnam, and hangs himself.
How To Read Literature Like a Professor:
This chapter relates to "More than it's gonna hurt you... Concerning violence"
Because it is a war story, it talks about Kiowa's death, how he sunk down into the sewage and suffocated/ drowned. It also talks about a war survivor that hung himself in the restroom of the YMCA restroom with a jump rope.

This chapter relates to the chapter "marked for greatness" because Norman is mentally scarred from the war, and the chapter "marked for greatness" says that is someone is marked, either mentally or physically, it shows that they are great.

Toolbox:
The chapter "Notes" relates to dialogue because it has actual excerpts from the things Norman sent to O'Brien after the war. This chapter has a good share of dialogue attribution.

King's toolbox

King uses the toolbox analogy to show the necessities of writing successfully. King shows different types of elements that are used in his writing and other successful writers like himself, such as vocabulary, grammar, different types of verbs and more. Some tools I find indispensable when I write are quite similar to the things King discusses in his "toolbox".
I think Vocabulary is very necessary when writing, using an advanced vocabulary helps the story to become more believable. Grammar is also important in successful writing, its helpful to user grammar that is easy for the readers to understand, grammar isn't fun but is necessary. Verbs are helpful in making the story more interesting, and helps keep the reader hooked. king discusses the difference between passive and active verbs. There is nothing really that i found in his toolbox that i would add, I think king is a great writer and he didn't leave much out of his toolbox.

Searching for Zora

Walker goes on a journey to find the grave, and as she is flying over Eatonville she recognizes it as some of Zora's books and autobiography describe it. Walker and her friend Charlotte go to Zora's hometown and find some one who might know a little about Zora's, they give her information about the grave and how she dies, which was wrong, but they point her to an old woman who went to school with Zora, but that's all. They discover her unmarked grave completely covered in weeds, Then they meet a man and he gives them some good information about Zora. It is ironic that Zora uses real characters in her novels such as Jody Starks was a character formed from the real mayor of Eatonville. Later they find Zora's old house that she used to live in, and find out that her and her family did not get along, which leads to her unmarked grave. They also found that Zora had only one companion which was her dog.

Janies Blue Life

Janies Blues

what makes Janie feel sad?

She wants to find true love so very bad.

All she wants is a husband, to hold and to love,

but what she gets is quite opposite, a push and a shove.

All of her life since she was a child,
Has never been easy, never meek nor mild.

Nanny was all that Janie had,
No brothers no sisters no mother no dad.

She grew up with friends, the color of white.
But others of that color did not approve of this sight.

Janie oh Janie with her long brown hair,

you will catch her lying quietly under the tree of a pear.

at sixteen quietly thinking of her life,

shes thinking only about being a girl, not being a wife.

She rushed into marriage hoping to seem older
But that burnt quickly into a smolder

Janie ran off directly thereafter,
Hoping to find love, happiness and laughter

What seemed great for an hour or two,
Soon became the reason for Janie being blue.

Janie's future

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."  Write a speculative response on what the upocoming year will hold for Janie.  Will this eyar be the year that asks questions or one that answers them?  Will this be the year that does both?  Respond to at least three peers.

When she was sixteen she had a year full of questions, she did not know who she was going to marry or what she even wanted in her life. Her Nanny was telling her to do so many things that she did not know how to do. Even after was was married, she still had questions about love, she did not know if she was supposed to feel the love right away or not.
In the upcoming year I think janie will still have a lot of unanswered questions and things she will be curious about just as she had in the passed. She leaves Logan and marries Jody, which she believes will make her happy but i believe this upcoming year will bring problems with jody as well.

express your feelings

   Being able to speak and express ideas is often a sign of being independent, to be independent you need  to voice your own opinion. Being independent has a lot to do with going your own way, you cannot be part of the "mainstream" crowd.

   When a independent person experiences another person being bullied, they stand up for what they believe in.  those who are independent will express their ideas and are the "leaders" who others look up to. individuals who are afraid of speaking up are followers who are afraid of rejection or they are afraid of being made fun of.

  Whether you are the leaders or followers in the world is your choice, it is better in my opinion to be a leader, but the world would not function if there was only very independent people, and none of those who follow them. There are two types of people in this world: those who lead independently, or those who follow others.

daisy gets to people.

1.) What is it about daisy's voice that gets to people? other people that talk like her aren't as disliked for their voices as she is, why is this?
2.) Do you think there is a certain significance behind myrtle's changing frequently?