Ben’jamin
Mr. H Salsich
English 9
16/5/11
Alive
Pages 42-52
Over the first night, several other of the injured passengers die, and the team is now reduced to 28. The doctors do not give up on any of their patients; even those who they know are going to die. The crew now has two problems: keeping the injured alive, which is a very difficult problem. The one man who was stabbed is now loosing either part of his intestines or stomach lining. He is also loosing a lot blood as are many other of the boys. Some boys claimed to not be in any pain, but only because their nerves were damaged and they have no feelings. One boy had no idea that he sliced the major artery in his arm and had lost tons of blood. The other problem is the boys that aren’t injured have all doomed themselves to die. They don’t think that they can ever be rescued and that they will all freeze to death. They are scared out of their minds having to listen to the injured scream through the night. Frost bight has taken most of the boys already. However, some things are going well, the plane has been more or less repaired with luggage and bodies keeping most of the snow out and warmth in. They are also using the seats upholstery and cushioning to keep warm. Very few boys now think that they that they might make it, and fewer logically can, and their days are getting short.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Alive-Pauls Peirs-2
Ben’jamin
Mr. H Salsich
English 9
15/5/11
Alive
Pages 30-42
WARNING: Graphic Content
The plane trip over the Andes has been delayed due to terrible weather, so the boys enjoy the town. Finally, they are aloud to fly, however, the weather is still not on their side. The boys on the plane are afraid, though they don’t want to admit it. To distract themselves, they tell stories and jokes, and start tossing around a rugby ball. Some of the passengers realize how close they actually are to the cliffs and begin to pray. Eventually, most everyone realizes the danger they are in. When the plane is forced to go through a cloud, the wing hits an outcropping and crashes into a cliff. The plane, now wingless, slides down the mountain slop at over 200kts. Several boys who were standing get sucked out of the back of the plane, the others get pummeled by bodies, luggage, and seats. The plane comes to a stop, but it takes a while for the boys to realize it. When they do, some of the younger ones smell the leaking gas and think the plane is going to explode and make a run for the hole at the back of the plane. When they leave the thin metal walls, they sink waist high in snow. Two of the medical staff on the plane instantly become the most important people there. One of the passengers had his calf cut and wrapped around his right leg over his shin so his bone was completely visible. Another boy had a steel pipe going through his stomach, and when the “doctors” tried to remove it, they took away 6” of intestines that had wrapped around the pipe. Most everyone is hurt in someway and no one expects to live through the night. After the crash, only 36 boys are alive.
Mr. H Salsich
English 9
15/5/11
Alive
Pages 30-42
WARNING: Graphic Content
The plane trip over the Andes has been delayed due to terrible weather, so the boys enjoy the town. Finally, they are aloud to fly, however, the weather is still not on their side. The boys on the plane are afraid, though they don’t want to admit it. To distract themselves, they tell stories and jokes, and start tossing around a rugby ball. Some of the passengers realize how close they actually are to the cliffs and begin to pray. Eventually, most everyone realizes the danger they are in. When the plane is forced to go through a cloud, the wing hits an outcropping and crashes into a cliff. The plane, now wingless, slides down the mountain slop at over 200kts. Several boys who were standing get sucked out of the back of the plane, the others get pummeled by bodies, luggage, and seats. The plane comes to a stop, but it takes a while for the boys to realize it. When they do, some of the younger ones smell the leaking gas and think the plane is going to explode and make a run for the hole at the back of the plane. When they leave the thin metal walls, they sink waist high in snow. Two of the medical staff on the plane instantly become the most important people there. One of the passengers had his calf cut and wrapped around his right leg over his shin so his bone was completely visible. Another boy had a steel pipe going through his stomach, and when the “doctors” tried to remove it, they took away 6” of intestines that had wrapped around the pipe. Most everyone is hurt in someway and no one expects to live through the night. After the crash, only 36 boys are alive.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Nightjohn-Gary Paulsen-4
Ben’jamin
Mr. H Salsich
English 9
30/5/11
Nightjohn 4
Pages 78-92
Nightjohn is still hurt for several days and doesn’t work in the fields. He doesn’t talk to anyone for two days. Finally he comes to the narrator with the letter H. The next morning he announces to her and to mammy that he is leaving. He makes shoes with leather and covers them in manure and pepper to throw off the dogs and sets off. He sets off and says that he is coming back, only to make them happy. However, two years later, Nightjohn returns in the dead of night and tells the narrator to follow him. He takes her into the woods into a pit filled with other slave children, and he pulls out a white book. He, with the help of the narrator, teaches the children to read. They come back every night and learn letters and how to read and write. This is how Nightjohn fights the whites, by making the blacks know how cruel they really are. In the beginning of the book, the narrator didn’t know what free was, and being a slave was just how it was. This is what this book is about, for most of the blacks, it was just a way of life. Nightjohn’s mission in life is to teach everyone that it is not a way of life, and that is it wrong. He teaches reading and writing to show the blacks everything the whites have that the blacks can’t have. By the end, Nightjohn converts the narrator, who must pass on the story.
Mr. H Salsich
English 9
30/5/11
Nightjohn 4
Pages 78-92
Nightjohn is still hurt for several days and doesn’t work in the fields. He doesn’t talk to anyone for two days. Finally he comes to the narrator with the letter H. The next morning he announces to her and to mammy that he is leaving. He makes shoes with leather and covers them in manure and pepper to throw off the dogs and sets off. He sets off and says that he is coming back, only to make them happy. However, two years later, Nightjohn returns in the dead of night and tells the narrator to follow him. He takes her into the woods into a pit filled with other slave children, and he pulls out a white book. He, with the help of the narrator, teaches the children to read. They come back every night and learn letters and how to read and write. This is how Nightjohn fights the whites, by making the blacks know how cruel they really are. In the beginning of the book, the narrator didn’t know what free was, and being a slave was just how it was. This is what this book is about, for most of the blacks, it was just a way of life. Nightjohn’s mission in life is to teach everyone that it is not a way of life, and that is it wrong. He teaches reading and writing to show the blacks everything the whites have that the blacks can’t have. By the end, Nightjohn converts the narrator, who must pass on the story.
Lost on a Mountain in Maine-Joseph Egan-4
Ben’jamin
Mr. H Salsich
English 9
30/5/11
Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Pages 78-97
Donn continually finds it harder and harder to walk as his feet are reduced to taters. At one point in the chapter, he looks down and finds that part of his big toe has been sliced off. The bugs are worse, and he no longer can see his skin through the swarm of flies. Donn finds another camp, but like the last one, it is completely empty. He thinks it might be nice to try to sleep in one of the cabins, but the bugs were so bad inside that his whole body went numb. After he was rescued and being asked questions, he gave two different stories at this point of his adventure. There was a swamp, and at first, he said he didn’t go into it, but later, he said that he was sure that he went. He said (in the second story) that there were soldiers standing there, guarding that way. He said that he couldn’t go that way because they would stop him. As it turns out, if he had gone that way he would have gone a lot longer before being rescued. As Donn continues on, he gets more and more delirious, and his memories get more and more scattered making the book harder to follow. However, eventually he came to a river (Branch of Penobscot River) and after struggling to get to the edge of it, he sees a cabin on the other side of the water. This cabin is unlike the ones he has seen before; it’s fresh and clean, and the cabin has a certain livable smell. He stands on the bank of the water for a while and finally he is seen. People come out and get into a canoe and start across the water. At this point Donn faints. When he awakes, he is being fed hot soup very slowly (he had lost 16lbs in 9 days which is a lot saying he started the journey only weighing 78lbs) and being told his mother is on the phone. He talks to his mother and father, and thanks God for taking him to safety.
Mr. H Salsich
English 9
30/5/11
Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Pages 78-97
Donn continually finds it harder and harder to walk as his feet are reduced to taters. At one point in the chapter, he looks down and finds that part of his big toe has been sliced off. The bugs are worse, and he no longer can see his skin through the swarm of flies. Donn finds another camp, but like the last one, it is completely empty. He thinks it might be nice to try to sleep in one of the cabins, but the bugs were so bad inside that his whole body went numb. After he was rescued and being asked questions, he gave two different stories at this point of his adventure. There was a swamp, and at first, he said he didn’t go into it, but later, he said that he was sure that he went. He said (in the second story) that there were soldiers standing there, guarding that way. He said that he couldn’t go that way because they would stop him. As it turns out, if he had gone that way he would have gone a lot longer before being rescued. As Donn continues on, he gets more and more delirious, and his memories get more and more scattered making the book harder to follow. However, eventually he came to a river (Branch of Penobscot River) and after struggling to get to the edge of it, he sees a cabin on the other side of the water. This cabin is unlike the ones he has seen before; it’s fresh and clean, and the cabin has a certain livable smell. He stands on the bank of the water for a while and finally he is seen. People come out and get into a canoe and start across the water. At this point Donn faints. When he awakes, he is being fed hot soup very slowly (he had lost 16lbs in 9 days which is a lot saying he started the journey only weighing 78lbs) and being told his mother is on the phone. He talks to his mother and father, and thanks God for taking him to safety.
Lost on a Mountain in Maine-Joseph Egan-3
Ben’jamin
Mr. H Salsich
English 9
30/5/11
Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Pages 52-78
As Donn continues on his journey, he comes across some of the most discouraging things that he could come across. While eating some barriers, Donn comes face to face with a bear, and he is incredibly lucky that it was frightened of him and ran off, because his legs were so sore that there was no way he was going anywhere. Next, he finds a road, but the road is by a very swampy area filled with bugs. He is attacked by mosquitoes, black flies, horse flies, moose flies, and even ants. He is so torn up at this point that the bugs are borrowing deep into his skin making him even weaker. He is made even more tired by slapping away the bugs to a point where he can no longer hit them. His road finally takes him to a camp sight, and he thinks this is the end of his adventure, but he quickly learns that this sight is empty. Though in this sight he finds, not food, but a heavy wool blanket, and now he can sleep and better protect himself from the bugs. Unfortunately, he was so tired, he decided to go to sleep in the middle of the day, and when he woke, he had sun burn on the back of his legs and feet, causing him even more pain. He gave up on the road, for he knew it was old and unused. Instead, he started to follow power lines that he thought would bring him to people. While following the lines, he hears a plane flying over head, but he can not get to an open spot. With the plane flying over head, he knows that he is in a right fowl mess. Again, he changes paths, and starts following a stream, thinking the storm brewing over head could bring down the lines and then he is more lost. Exhaustion again brings him near insanity, and his memories are scattered, and there is about an 8 hour grey area where no one is sure what happened to Donn. He dreams of a time where there are no bugs, and his feet are not sore. Thorns are in to his feet so deep that he can not pick them out, and they had to be removed by a surgeon after his rescue.
Mr. H Salsich
English 9
30/5/11
Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Pages 52-78
As Donn continues on his journey, he comes across some of the most discouraging things that he could come across. While eating some barriers, Donn comes face to face with a bear, and he is incredibly lucky that it was frightened of him and ran off, because his legs were so sore that there was no way he was going anywhere. Next, he finds a road, but the road is by a very swampy area filled with bugs. He is attacked by mosquitoes, black flies, horse flies, moose flies, and even ants. He is so torn up at this point that the bugs are borrowing deep into his skin making him even weaker. He is made even more tired by slapping away the bugs to a point where he can no longer hit them. His road finally takes him to a camp sight, and he thinks this is the end of his adventure, but he quickly learns that this sight is empty. Though in this sight he finds, not food, but a heavy wool blanket, and now he can sleep and better protect himself from the bugs. Unfortunately, he was so tired, he decided to go to sleep in the middle of the day, and when he woke, he had sun burn on the back of his legs and feet, causing him even more pain. He gave up on the road, for he knew it was old and unused. Instead, he started to follow power lines that he thought would bring him to people. While following the lines, he hears a plane flying over head, but he can not get to an open spot. With the plane flying over head, he knows that he is in a right fowl mess. Again, he changes paths, and starts following a stream, thinking the storm brewing over head could bring down the lines and then he is more lost. Exhaustion again brings him near insanity, and his memories are scattered, and there is about an 8 hour grey area where no one is sure what happened to Donn. He dreams of a time where there are no bugs, and his feet are not sore. Thorns are in to his feet so deep that he can not pick them out, and they had to be removed by a surgeon after his rescue.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Nightjohn-Gary Paulsen-3
Ben’jamin
Mr. H Salsich
English 9
29/5/11
Nightjohn
Pages 59-77
Well, John keeps teaching more and more letters, and now the narrator can form a word, her first word, with the first 7 letters of the alphabet. She is so excited about the word BAG, that she writes it all over the place in the dirt. She rubs it out with her heel every time she finishes writing it. Well, the master catches her writing in the dirt, and lifts her up, demanding who taught her. She says that she doesn’t know how to write, and that she is just copying off a sack. He doesn’t buy it and starts beating her. She runs back to the bed house to mammy. Master follows and now catches up mammy asking who has been teaching reading and writing. She also says that she doesn’t know. He takes her and chains her up in the Spring House. She knows that she is going to be whipped, but not till nightfall when everyone can watch. The narrator to bring her water, but she won’t take any food that way she won’t puke when she gets whipped. The time comes for her to be whipped and the master comes out. However, he has no whip, so everyone is rather taken aback. Instead, the master rips of her cloths and chains her to the front of a wagon. He gets in and begins to whip her. She tries to pull the wagon, but she is not strong enough. Finally, John calls out that he was the one teaching. Mammy is set free from her iron bonds. John is now chained up in the Spring House but he also is not going to be whipped. Instead, the master gets a chisel and sets it against one of Johns toes. He hammers down on two of John’s toes though he makes no sound. Meanwhile, the narrator prays to herself that the master will be damned to hell forever more.
Mr. H Salsich
English 9
29/5/11
Nightjohn
Pages 59-77
Well, John keeps teaching more and more letters, and now the narrator can form a word, her first word, with the first 7 letters of the alphabet. She is so excited about the word BAG, that she writes it all over the place in the dirt. She rubs it out with her heel every time she finishes writing it. Well, the master catches her writing in the dirt, and lifts her up, demanding who taught her. She says that she doesn’t know how to write, and that she is just copying off a sack. He doesn’t buy it and starts beating her. She runs back to the bed house to mammy. Master follows and now catches up mammy asking who has been teaching reading and writing. She also says that she doesn’t know. He takes her and chains her up in the Spring House. She knows that she is going to be whipped, but not till nightfall when everyone can watch. The narrator to bring her water, but she won’t take any food that way she won’t puke when she gets whipped. The time comes for her to be whipped and the master comes out. However, he has no whip, so everyone is rather taken aback. Instead, the master rips of her cloths and chains her to the front of a wagon. He gets in and begins to whip her. She tries to pull the wagon, but she is not strong enough. Finally, John calls out that he was the one teaching. Mammy is set free from her iron bonds. John is now chained up in the Spring House but he also is not going to be whipped. Instead, the master gets a chisel and sets it against one of Johns toes. He hammers down on two of John’s toes though he makes no sound. Meanwhile, the narrator prays to herself that the master will be damned to hell forever more.
Lost on a Mountain in Maine-Joseph Egan-2
Ben’jamin
Mr. H Salsich
English 9
29/5/11
Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Pages 29-51
After waking up after his first night, Donn comes very close to insanity. He imagines Henry (the boy he went up the mountain with) is near him, but can’t get to him. There are four men in white cloaks stopping Henry. Then his father comes in a large car and takes up Donn. Finally, Donn comes to his senses. He follows a stream for hours on end, thinking the stream will lead him to a camp sight. Unfortunately, all the stream does is bring in thousands of mosquitoes and black flies that feast on Donn’s flesh. He sees trout in the stream and after trying to catch some, he decides that its no good, and he wouldn’t be able to eat them anyway but raw. Somewhere along the trail, he is not sure where, Donn lost his shoes. He was not wearing them because he could not comfortably get them on his feet. He thinks this is due to them shrinking in the rain, but in reality, his feet had swollen up. When night came, he curled up under a tree, but he was still getting devoured by the bugs. He fell asleep quickly, but woke up not long later, for it had begun to rain. He remembered a large hollow tree he had seen, and beat foot to get to it. He was able to sleep warm in and dry in the tree, but had to sacrifice comfort. He paid for it the next morning when it took him a very long time to get out of the tree. He continued to follow the stream for quite some time. His time came to an ultimate downward point in regards to his moral. He had taken his pants off, for they were so wet and cold, they were doing more harm then good at that moment. He tried to throw them across the stream, so that he might have better luck crossing. Luck hadn’t been on his side and this pants slipped into the stream and were lost forever. After continuing on with the prospect of walking in to camp with no pants on, he found a large patch of moss under a large pine tree and decided to get an early night. He lay there for a while, when a deer came close to him and drank at the stream. It was so close he could have touched it. There were several large rocks near him, and he could have killed the deer, but he didn’t. The deer was not afraid of him, and so the deer brought comfort into his mind, and for the first time in two days, he was calm.
Mr. H Salsich
English 9
29/5/11
Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Pages 29-51
After waking up after his first night, Donn comes very close to insanity. He imagines Henry (the boy he went up the mountain with) is near him, but can’t get to him. There are four men in white cloaks stopping Henry. Then his father comes in a large car and takes up Donn. Finally, Donn comes to his senses. He follows a stream for hours on end, thinking the stream will lead him to a camp sight. Unfortunately, all the stream does is bring in thousands of mosquitoes and black flies that feast on Donn’s flesh. He sees trout in the stream and after trying to catch some, he decides that its no good, and he wouldn’t be able to eat them anyway but raw. Somewhere along the trail, he is not sure where, Donn lost his shoes. He was not wearing them because he could not comfortably get them on his feet. He thinks this is due to them shrinking in the rain, but in reality, his feet had swollen up. When night came, he curled up under a tree, but he was still getting devoured by the bugs. He fell asleep quickly, but woke up not long later, for it had begun to rain. He remembered a large hollow tree he had seen, and beat foot to get to it. He was able to sleep warm in and dry in the tree, but had to sacrifice comfort. He paid for it the next morning when it took him a very long time to get out of the tree. He continued to follow the stream for quite some time. His time came to an ultimate downward point in regards to his moral. He had taken his pants off, for they were so wet and cold, they were doing more harm then good at that moment. He tried to throw them across the stream, so that he might have better luck crossing. Luck hadn’t been on his side and this pants slipped into the stream and were lost forever. After continuing on with the prospect of walking in to camp with no pants on, he found a large patch of moss under a large pine tree and decided to get an early night. He lay there for a while, when a deer came close to him and drank at the stream. It was so close he could have touched it. There were several large rocks near him, and he could have killed the deer, but he didn’t. The deer was not afraid of him, and so the deer brought comfort into his mind, and for the first time in two days, he was calm.
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