The first pages (3-11) was the main exposition of the story Fahenihiet 451. You met the main character Guy Montag and learn a little bit his job as a fireman. His mind is constantly consumed by the thought of watching things burn and fire. Until his walk home the evening, he meets a odd young girl, Clarisse, who shared her observations of the world around them that Montag hadn't really payed much attention to. She left him with one question that confused him, "Are you happy"

            In the two stories, “Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird” and “The Split Cherry Tree” the two fatherly figures, Granddaddy Cain and Pa resemble each other in the way they take it upon themselves to handle situations.

            Pa (or Luster) Sexton is a father of twelve and his youngest is in the middle of high school. When his son has to stay after school an extra two hours for breaking a cherry tree. As Dave explained the situation to his father, Pa became fierous. “I’ll handle things myself” so the next day he marched into that school with Dave and right into Professor Herbert’s office. “A bullet will go through a schoolteacher same as it will any other man” got the reaction out from the teacher that he want to see.
            Granddaddy Cain was a tall, quiet man. When he came home one day from hunting a chicken hawk he saw two men on his property and Granny inside the house. Obviously something snapped in his mind and dealing with the chicken hawk and its mate, he went directly to the men. Upon reaching them, Granddaddy extended his hand for the camera that was on one of the men’s shoulder. After receiving the camera he broke it in half and handed it back. “This is your own place”. Promptly after that the men left.

            Pa Sexton and Granddaddy Cain may not be the type to sit and talk things out, but they take action whether it’s bringing a gun with them or broking a camera.

In the story Blues ain't no Mockingbird there were several different story elements used.

Metaphors:

Granny making the cakes drunk.

"Go tell that man we ain't a bunch of trees."

Smilin man was smilin up a storm.

Allusions:

Bingo,

Goldilocks

Aunty

Similes:

trying to fly up out of her death like it was just a sack flown in to by mistake

...asked Tyrone, like his father when he's being extra nasty plus....

like a king

According to the narrator Granddaddy Cain had shiny black oilskin, tall, quiet, and in his grandchildren's eyes like a king. He had large, strong hands, and was very intimidating not on purpose but as a effect of his built.

The chicken hawks in the story are meant to represent the grandparents in the situation. When Granny (the female hawk) is in trouble, Granddaddy Cain (the male hawk) comes to rescue her, or in this case get Smilin and Camera away form the house and kids.

Kara

            The author believes that there are two kinds of courage: the courage to go to war or to escape to Canada. In my mind, note I have never lived in a time of war like this or had to make this decision, it took more courage to go war than to run.

            In Canada, yes, you were shamed, looked down upon, but you were safe! You were not afraid of being blown to bits or fired on in the night. In the story, Billy Boy Watkins literal dies of fright after having his leg blown off. You could sleep peacefully without the terror of never waking up. Of going home in a crate with the US flag laying on your body, if you were even found! This time of continuous fear, rather than shame, was more courageous than the men that escaped to Canada.

English vocabulary words list #2:

Preclude- verb prevent someone from doing something, prevent from happening; make impossible.

Impunity – noun exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action

Immolation – noun a sacrifice

Abscond – verb leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to avoid detection of or arrest for an unlawful action such as theft.

Repose – verb be lying, situated, or kept in a particular place.

Aperture – noun an opening, hole, or gap

Termination – noun the action of bringing something or coming to an end

Subside – verb become less intense, violent, or severe

Inaugurate – verb begin or introduce (a system, policy, or period).

Exhilarates – verb make (someone) feel very happy, animated, or elated.

“The Cask of a Amontillado” 

How it used the three types of irony: verbal, dramatic, and situation

Verbal Irony.

When Montresor telling Fortunado that he’s so important, beloved, and wishes him a long live; even though Montresor is about to kill him.

Dramatic Irony.

The audience know of Montresor’s plans but everyone else in the story is completely oblivious.

Situational Irony.

In the beginning of the story, Fortunado is wearing a jester outfit and Montresor is wearing all black.

This is my ending to The Lady or The Tiger.

She gestured her arm to the right, and the man, without hesitation, chose that door, but was that the best decision? He know she possessed barbaric blood but was him getting married to another really worse than his gruesome death? Sadly, he wasn’t the one to answer any of these questions. His heart will always remain with the princess even if he was wed to some lady he has never met or ripped to shreds by a tiger. As the door in front of him opened he catch a glimpse of mesmerizing green eyes. He know his love had saved him, but as the door opened more, he saw claws as sharp as a blade and a snarl that it itself could make a man turn ghostly pale. Then, in a matter of seconds everything went dark! He could taste his own blood, hear the terrified shrieks of the witnesses, the smell of death lingering in the breath of his killer. His body started to go numb and he wanted to scream! Scream for help, scream his good byes to his mother, and scream vile words at his love for sending him to his death! But he couldn’t, as if the tiger had ripped out his tongue, he could produce nothing but muted cries. After about a minute of the torture, he felt nothing. As if life itself was nothing but a dream, but that joy was short lived and his body finally went limb. The man that loved the princess was dead!

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            She sat there, beside her father, as the she once called her love strode confidently to the door she gestured for him to go to. She would rather feel remorse and grief of his death, than raging jealously and hurt by watching him forcibly spend his life with anyone that wasn’t her! Come on, she was the princess! Every man in the world would give anything for her hand. For most this decision would have torn them apart, but the barbaric blood that coursed though her veins engulfed her heart, turning it cold and savage! It seized control of her mind, making her only want one the, her opponent’s downfall! “ There is no way on Earth I will sit back and watch my love be handed over to some lucky tramp!” A small scream of agony snapped the princess back into focus as the bloodshed began. Her eyes were dark and emotionless as the massacre continued. If she wanted to rule like her father, feared but respected, this was her ultimate test of will. Finally, his body lay still, his beautiful face streaked with red, and a pool of blood surrounded the corpse. Astonishingly, she felt nothing, no forget, no guilt, no sorrow, just control, power, hatred. She was going to make sure the lady behind the other door was dead by sunset!