They Still Love You

When you get into the most trouble you think is possible does it feel at all like the parent or gaurdian punishing you really loves you? A lot of the time it feels just the opposite and there's nothing you can do about it. Almost everyone has moments or days like this, but when things like that happen you have to know that they love you and realize that they have to do something to correct your mistake.

Tom always takes things to the extreme and when he feels that nobody loves him he runs away to Jackson's Island with his friends thinking that it will make people realize how much they appreciate him. Once he's back Tom feels atleast a little bit guilty for leaving his aunt thinking that he is dead, but then as he thinks more about it he decides that they deserve it for how they treated him. Although he got respect from his classmates and friends he really hurt his Aunt Polly for not telling her that he was leaving and this could've been avoided if he would've thought about it more before he left and realized that she still loved him even though she gets mad at him sometimes.

Going to Jackson's Island is one of many things that Tom did to upset Aunt Polly and there's many other events. Another thing Tom has done is play hooky when he's supposed to be doing his chores, so, with all of the trouble he gets into, of course Aunt Polly becomes livid with him and has to punish him for things he does wrong. Tom is always doing something mischevious so he obviously gets into trouble many times, but this makes him feel like Aunt Polly doesn't love him as much as she loves Sid or other relatives who are boring and always do as Aunt Polly says.

Many kids with other siblings feel like their parents don't love them as much as their siblings but you have to realize that they still do. You also have to realize that they can't let you do whatever you want and let you get away with it without any punishment. This idea is one that Tom Sawyer couldn't grasp when he decided to run away and I hope that nobody in real life could be that arrogant and oblivious to think somebody doesn't love you because they give you a punishment.

Curiosity

If there's an opened envelope with bold letters and fancy print laying on your kitchen table and nobody's around, what are you going to do? Most people would probably read it. Why is that? There's one thing that makes you do that. Curiosity can get the best of people and it makes them do things they shouldn't do and this can result in very bad ways.


Tom Sawyer has a lot of curiosity and he shows it by searching for treasure. Trouble is what his curiosity results in when he gets too curious and goes on an adventure. While on the island too he had a lot of curiosity about what people were thinking about them being gone and how long they would stay. He could’ve gone back sooner and listened to his curiosity but this time when the curiosity was good Tom didn’t listen to it as much as he did when it was all about hunting for treasure or going on an adventure to an island.

Tom gets into a lot of trouble because he has such great curiosity and so does my brother, Dylan. Dylan opened his Christmas presents early one year because he "just couldn't wait any longer," and he got into immense trouble and I think that Tom should and will too for leaving his home yet again to treasure hunt after his adventure to Jackson's Island.

Many people do terrible things because of their curiosity and it can get you into a lot of trouble. It could even get you in trouble with the law. That is why sometimes you have to use self control and walk by the open letter without thinking a thing about it.



    

A Tree Grows In Brookly Essay

By Delaney McCabe

3AB

1/8/09

 
Many people make the change from innocence to experience, but how do they do that? People who make do change are all still the same on the inside, but the way they think and the everyday things they do change a lot. Everyone changes on the outside, but not everyone can change from innocence to experienced, and it's what’s on the inside that counts. As Francie, in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, goes from innocence to experienced she changes tremendously and learns a lot while experiencing both enchanting and troubling things along the way, that effects her life in both virtuous and vile ways.

Francie’s experiences are all meaning full and important, but most of them have very different themes to them. One life changing experience for Francie is her dad dying. This would be a life changing experience for anyone who has a dad that they love and care about. After her dad died things got much worse before they got better. For example their money got even more tight than before and they had to live even more on a budget than they already were and, like every family when someone dies, they were all somber, which didn't help their moods at all when it came to money. Plus they had to buy mourning clothes for the funeral and that was expensive for them.

Francie, yet she had terrible times in her life, also had many extremely exciting moments in her life too. One of the most exciting experiences that stands out to me is when Neeley and her brought home their first pay checks. I think that one of the things that makes Francie the most pleased is when she makes her mother happy, and on that night Katie was definitely ecstatic with both of her children. Another memorable experience was when Francie was at her graduation and she went back to her desk. There were flowers on them, and when she looked at the card they were from her dad. It was so sweet of her dad to give Sissy money for Francie's graduation flowers incase he forgot when she was graduating.

Francie’s life was filled with many different difficult things like money and love and hate but even though some of these things aren’t good, they helped her go through the change of innocence to experienced. Francie, once she was more experienced, was more mature, yet she didn’t see things with excited eyes like she used to. The important change that she experienced effected her life in both good and bad ways.

Response Essay-A Tree Groes In Brooklyn-Responsibility

Hasn't everyone had a moment where all of a sudden they feel very mature or closer to adolecense? I think a lot of kids have felt more grown up than they are at some point in their lives. And what makes them feel like this? Usually it's responsibility that makes them feel more mature. For example if your mom asks you to babysit your younger sibling or lets you stay home alone, that could give you that feeling of responsibility. Responsibility plays a big part in peoples lives and it's what helps kids become more experienced and more sophisticated or mature.
      
Francie and Neeley are living in the early and 1900's. In that time period kids had to take on a lot more responsibility than kids do now. Many people used horses and buggies and many people were poor, and especially the poor kids took on more responsibility. They went to the market and bought all of the food for their parents pretty much everyday, and a lot of them, during hard times, had to work a small job so their family could have enough food to eat and enough money to pay the bills. Kids were given so much more responsibility in that time than they are now. They also went to work around when they were fourteen, and now people don't get a real job until they're atleast about twenty-one.       
      
Responsibility played a bigger part in their lives, and they also usually became more mature and got jobs faster then. They were considered adults at a younger age, and I think that it's because they took on more responsibilities when they were younger so they became more mature faster. Kids now have less responsibilities, they're considered adults later, and they usually take longer to mature, and this is because of responsibity.

Response-Love and Hate

When was the last time you read a book about love or hate or maybe both? Many books have a lot to do with love and hate. Sometimes when the words love and hate mean the most in a story they're not said very much, but the sub-themes are so strong you know that they are there all over in the story. Love and hate are powerful words, and you can use them with meaning, but you can use these words carelessly too.

In the book A Tree Groes In Brooklyn, love and hate are very powerful sub-themes in the story. A lot of the people in the story share a love and hate relationship with eachother. What I mean is, they all have things that make them love eachother, but there's also a hatred that groes in between people as their lives go on. Francie loves her mother, because she's her mom, but Francie knows that Katie loves Neeley more than she loves Francie, so that makes it harder for Francie to love Katie. Katie loves Francie more out of pitty than truly loving her daughter, and she admits that in the story. In a way it's okay that Katie doesn't love Francie as much as she loves Neeley, because Katie needs Francie more than she needs Neeley, but she loves Neeley more.

In the story A Tree Groes In Brooklyn they use the words love and hate and sub-themes apropriatly and meaningfully. They incorporate love and hate into the story very strongly and this story is very touching. I think that this kind of situation happens in life all of the time and this stroy shows it's realism through the sub-themes very well. This story couldn't have been written any more powerfully than it is right now.
     

Essay Response For "All Summer In a Day"

By Delaney McCabe

You helplessly sit in school rappidly tapping your pencil against your dull boring wood desk during your last hour of school staring at the clock wishing that you could make it go faster by doing that. It's the last day of school and you can't wait to get outside and play with your friends in the hot summer air. You will hang out with them all summer! Tick tock tick tock RING! Finally! You sprint to the door hoping to be outside first. Do you remember this moment of the end of ever school year? Without your friends to be there for you insanity can take over your life.

Once you're outside you get three months to spend there in the amazing summer heat. What would you do if summer was only for an hour, and it rained and clouds hid the weak sun for all of the rest of the year? Would you go insane, or maybe even die? That's exactly what happens to all of the children in "All Summer In a Day," have to go through while living on Venus.
Margot, the main character longs for the sun and the weather they had on Earth. She is the good of this story, but she is very weak and most definately not in control. In the story she iscolates herself which, of course, leaves her with no friends, and without friends and without the sun, her mind starts to go a little insane. Weaker and more lifeless is what she becomes without the sun. Margot wishes for the sun, shee longs for the sun, she writes about the sun, but eventually it gets her teacher, family, and classmates' ire up, because they don't want to hear about something they can't have. Her classmates ar evil, mean, and very powerfull kids. When the children came to let her out of the closet she didn't do anything or move when the other children let her out of the closet. Was she dead? Did she loose the last bit of sanity that she had left? The story doesn't say.

The evil in the world can be much more authorative and decieving than the good, which is sometimes weak, but the good should try to break through that weakness. Margot might have stayed sane if she had some friends that could help her, be nice to her, and talk to her. That's what friends are for, and they can help you get through even the worst situations.

English Classroom

By Delaney McCabe

Hour 4

10/15/09

English classrooms should be more imaginative comfortable and creative places for kids to learn, and schools can do that by changing just a few things. Kids who like their school learn more daily. Kids who don’t like school learn much less, and forget a lot more of what they hear. 93% of kids don’t like their schools, so that’s a lot of kids not learning at their maximum ability!

The most important improvement for schools and students to make is getting different flooring, because most classrooms have linoleum flooring, and that and that doesn’t belong in English classrooms. Schools would be so much better off with colored carpet on the floor! The floors would be even better with two different colors in a pattern, like checkered! Another thing that would be fun to have is a rug outside the classroom that matches the carpet inside the classroom. One good color to use for the carpet is blue, because science proves that it’s the most calming color. A different good color is green, because geniuses choose green!
Once you have changed the floor from the science room linoleum to carpet, the next thing that schools will want to change is the ancient, hard, wooden desks, and especially the desks with a bar on one side connecting the chair to the desk. Desks are very hard and uncomfortable. Plus, the chairs force you to sit up straight, if you want to use the backrest. Schools should buy much softer desks or chairs for students to sit on. If I got to choose, what’s best, is for schools to get soft and fuzzy bean bag chairs. They should also use clipboards, instead of desk tops, so students can move around more easily.

After schools have taken care of the terrible desks, the last part that should be changed is an area on the walls, and schools need to remodel that space. Teachers should change that area into a café like Panera. There, kids can buy coffee and drinks, or snacks like pastries. It would be best on the side, or back, of the room, because otherwise if the café was in the front of the room, whoever was working would feel like people were staring at them, because that’s where the teacher stands. English is right before lunch so everyone is always hungry. This way schools could raise a lot of money and if kids are less hungry they will focus more.

After knowing what’s wrong with schools, like the desks and flooring, hopefully they’ll change at least the flooring and desks like I mentioned. All of my fabulous ideas such as the café are to help kids’ education, and a few improvements like desks and the floor, will help kids learn more by being in a better environment. Now schools, it’s time to get to your classrooms and start making my ideas come to life!