Sunday, December 12, 2010
Tone?
"She's rude." The girl said with disgust. "I can't believe she would do that to you." The group of girls scowled at their ex friend as they walked past her. They believed she was a boyfriend stealer and didn't want anything to do with her. She wasn't a boy friend stealer at all really she had asked her friends boyfriend for the homework, and the other girls didn't believe her. They were astonished that their friend could do such a thing. They put their noses up and ignored her and wouldn't listen to her pleas of innocence. She felt alone and terrible. She hadn't done anything wrong and was being accused of something terrible! She felt alone and abandoned. How could her friends do that to her?! She thought they had her back and would believe her in any situation, but she was wrong. They were boy crazy and mean and wouldn't forgive their friend for something she hadn't done. she realized she wanted new friends that would support and believe her over a stupid rumor. So she picked herself up and started hanging around some of the other girls in her class. She realized her old friends were mean and snobby to everyone.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
New Poem Packet
This week I'm doing "Vergissmeinnicht." I read the poem before I actually looked up what the title meant. It made it harder to understand what the poem was telling me. But that big long word that I don't want to type again means forget me not. Then I read the poem again and it's about a dead German soldier. Well it's about an American soldier seeing a dead German soldier. Anyway, the American soldier sees this enemy and doesn't feel remorse, and then he spots a picture of the dead guys girlfriend and that word is written on the back. She probably gave it to him and can't wait for him to come home and be with her. The author even writes about how the American soldier thinks she'll feel. "But she would weep to see today how on his skin the swart flies move the dust upon the paper eye, the burst stomach like a cave." She would have cried and been sick to see what happened to the man she loves. I believe the last stanza is showing that the German soldier was a lover and a killer mixed into one body. The last two lines were a little hazy, "And death who had the soldier singled has done the lover mortal hurt." I couldn't tell if he was talking about the soldier and the killer is one and he killed the soldier and hurt the lover half of him forever, or if it was that the soldier died and it left HIS lover in mortal hurt. I can't help but think that it;s the first option. The mass killer and the lover in one body. What would his girlfriend of said if she has known the terrible things he had done? Would she still love him?
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