In the movie, "Of Mice And Men", George and Lennie had a mutualistic relationship at first, but at the end of the movie, it turned into a parasitic relationship, because of George shooting Lennie. George's reasoning behind this was, "Every man should shoot their own dog." Throughout the movie, the relationship between George and Lennie was like a father/son relationship, George being the father and Lennie being the son. George was a dynamic character, changing drastically throughout the movie, because he seemed to love Lennie and wanted to teach him everything, but at the end, he ended up shooting Lennie. Lennie was pretty m
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One example of a dynamic character in "A Child Called It" is Dave Pelzer's mother, Catherine. In the beginning of the story, she is happily married, and treats all of her children equally, and does not beat David at all. However, once Dave turns four years old, his mother became an alcoholic and she beats Dave regularly. She can be charming and sweet when she wants to be, but if something gets her mad, or she just decides that she doesn't want to be nice, she is a very vicious woman. She also convinces the school at one point that she had not beaten Dave at all, and it was something else. Catherine's son, however, is a static character in the memoir, "A Child Called It". He is a static character because he remains in the same fighting attitude the whole story, and does not give up the whole time, even through the roughest periods. His main goal was to not let his mom win, and was determined to make it through the hard times his mother was putting him through. The only time in this story that he would be a dynamic character, is in the beginning, before he turned four years old, when he has a happy family and is a different version of the "Brady Bunch". Dave is also bullied by the students that attend his school, but he does not see this as bad as what he gets at home, but still
I thought the "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" poem by Dylan Thomas was a confusing poem. Some phrases I had no idea what Dylan was talking about, and most I had an idea at what the phrase meant. I think the poem is about the character's father dying, because near the end it says "And you, my father, there on the sad height" and then later says "Do not go gentle into that good night". I can tell that the character has a strong relationship with his father, because he is very sad that his father is going to die. The only relationship I can identify in this poem is the relationship between the character and his father, so it would be the most powerful one. I believe that I would be more interested in this poem if I had a bette
The parts of speech that I understand the basics of are nouns, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, adjectives, and conjunctions. The parts of speech that I am not as familiar with are the determiner, preposition, and interjection. I understand when to use a comma with a conjunction. Most mistakes with using commas and conjunctions is that people put the comma after the conjunction when they should be putting the comma before the conjunction. A comma is correctly used when there are two independent clauses and both are separated by a conjunction, with a comma before the conjunction. A conjunctive adverb is a word that is not quite a conjunction and not quite an adverb. A few examples of these would be accordingly, however, anyway, besides, and much more. They are used when making a compound sentence, or in the middle of an independent clause. A comma is used before and after the conjunctive adverb. An appositive is a word placed after another word to explain or identify it, and always appears after the word it is identifying. The word itself, and the word it is identifying are either nouns or pronouns. An appositive phrase is a phrase that consists of the appositive and its modifiers which may be phrases. Adverbs are used to enhance words and are used to modify verbs, clauses, and even other adverbs. Adverbs can appear in different places of a sentence, which can make adverbs difficult to identify. The easiest way to identify an adverb is finding a word that has the common “ly” ending. I know that the main parts of speech in English are nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. We need to know the parts of speech because they all help put together a sentence and enhance sentences. Parts of speech help our writing, because they describe everything that is going on in a sentence when
"Hey, man," said Dave.
"Hey, bro," asked George. "Did you watch the Superbowl a few days ago?" "Yeah, I knew the Seahawks were going to win." "I thought you were a Broncos fan?" "I used to like the Broncos a while ago." "Why'd you stop liking them?" "I don't really like Peyton Manning too much." "But he's the best quarterback in the game." "Yeah, but I like a guy that shows more excitement for the game." "Yeah, that's true, but don't you also like a guy that wins games?" "Well, he can't win the big one more than once." "He does choke a lot." "Exactly my point." "Well, it was nice talking to you, George." "You too, Dave." The three major types of conflicts in "A Child Called It" are Person vs. Person, Person vs. Self, and Person vs. Society. The Person vs. Person conflict occurs when David's mother beats him, physically and mentally. Most of the time, she does not allow him to eat, and considers him as a slave. The Person vs. Person conflict occurs when David has to tell himself to keep going and not give up through all the beatings and pain. Another example of Person vs. Person in "A Child Called It" is that his mother is in a conflict with herself, because she does not want to abuse David, but she does. An example of Person vs. Society in "A Child Called It" is that David does not want to tell anybody outside of the house that his mother is beating him, because he wants to protect his mother, regardless of her abusing him. Also, his mother does not want to go to prison for abusing him, and David knows this.
I believe that it is beneficial to have a snow day every once in a while. I believe this because a lot of students are facing stress during the school week, and sometimes the weekend isn't enough. Also, if you participate in sports, and you have a sporting event before the snow day, you could be very sore the next day, and it could give you extra time to rest and get your body back to normal. However, having multiple school days missed in a row due to snow days is sometimes too much, especially after a weekend. Sometimes, if there is a snow day after a weekend, I forget some of the things I have learned in class the week before, and I am now behind in the class, because I have to relearn everything from the previous week. I believe that if you go over your limit for snow days and have to make up days, that the trimester should be extended, instead of adding days to the end of the year. Adding days at the end of the year doesn't really help anything, but give for time to the third trimester, and still are missing many days in the previous trimesters. Having a snow day once in a while is nice, but having too many, or multiple days off, it could affect a student's learning.
There are many different symbiotic relationships in "A Child Called It". The characters that have been mentioned were David, the child being abused, his mother, his father, and David's two brothers. One of the major relationships is the relationship between David and his mother. You could call this type of symbiotic relationship parasitism, because David is being physically and mentally abused by his mother, and his mother feels good about beating her son, calling him her slave. His mother likes his brothers more than David. This relationship would be a form of mutualism, because his mother treats David's two brothers as actual people, and her son. David's father left David, after telling him that he would try to help him escape. This could be another type of parasitism, because David's father left that situation, and was probably feeling better, and leaving David to still be physically and mentally abused by his mother. David's brothers don't really pay any attention to David, and just see him as an object, but treat him far better than his mother does. I am predicting by the end of the book, that his brothers acknowledge what is happening to David, and try and help him through his struggles, and report what is happening to him to people outside of the house.
The book I chose to read for the 2nd marking period of the trimester is "A Child Called It". I chose this book, because it looked interesting to me. I wanted to read about a person who overcame his severely tough childhood, and lived to tell his amazing story. Also, I had heard about the book before from my family members, and they all said it was a great book, but I never got the chance to read it myself. I also enjoyed the YouTube video that was shown in class of this book. I think this book could inspire me to become a better person and help other people more than I have before, which was the author's goal of this book. I am looking forward to English class for the final marking period of the trimester because of this book, and I hope to take a lot from this book.
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