Captain Keller Dialectical Journal

Some of my reactions to reading this book are far more depressing than the Catcher in the Rhy. Esther actually does try to commit suicide in this book where Holden in the Catcher in the Rhy just thinks about it. She talks now and again on how she wants feel the pain, the pain she has on the inside. It’s even darker than the fact she cares a book of razorblades around with her incase a she is alone and gets a felling to do so.

December 14, 1924 was a bright, beautiful winter morning, the sky a vibrant blue without a cloud roaming around. The previous night, a heavy snowfall had powdered and blanketed the ground. Children all around town were enjoying playing, skipping, and laughing in the city of Paris, France.

1)From the rusty window of the second floor, my eyes could easily spot her lying in the lush, green grass. Her small body stretches like a snake. The sun’s rays gently touch her bright yellow-orange fur. Her expression is as calm as the one of a sleeping baby. Once the sun starts to annoy her, she walks into the shadows of the walls and continues her sleeping beauty routine.

1. I would put myself in the place of the man on the horse he looks like he could be the leader, so the leader.

This letter was inscripted on the back of one of the last postcards that McCandless ever sent. McCandless explains that he is now going to hike into the Alaskan wilderness, which means he won’t be able to contact anyone anymore. As the reader knows McCandless’s eventual fate, this letter seems ironic in the way that he writes. McCandless mentions that this will be the very last type of communication, insinuating that even when he were to finally hike out of the wilderness there would still be no communication. He even goes further to mention that it was great knowing them, which is usually said before a person is about to die. McCandless could not have been positive that he was going to die in Alaska because he didn’t necessarily plan anything,

1. "When the fog clears to where I can see, I'm sitting in the day room. They didn't take me to the shock shop this time. I remember they took me out of the shaving room and locked me in seclusion" (Kesey 9).

Tim “O” Brien has felt a lot of shame telling this story and it wasn't easy for him to relieve some of the pressure. “My mother and father were having lunch out in the kitchen. I remember opening the letter, scanning the first few lines, feeling the blood go thick behind my eyes. I remember a sound in my head. It wasn't thinking, just a silent howl.” (p2/4) Tim has gotten a letter to fight a war that the us didn't understand and that he didn't like so he feels like he's too good for war, and feels the blood behind his eyes go thick. He couldn't, couldn't go to war.

It was a cold winter morning, two vessels at battle, bombs thrown, shots fired, but that wasn’t the only thing that happened on December 22 of 1773, that morning the first mate was calling for the captain to prepare for battle, but the captain did not respond, the first mate checked everywhere, the captain’s bedroom, the cook’s quarters, he was nowhere to be found, but there was one place where he hadn’t checked, the bulkhead, he opened it, it was a very gruesome scene, he was covered in his own blood with a sword in his chest.

Chapter 1: The hitch-hiker stood up and looked across through the windows. “Could ya give me a lift, mister? The driver looked quickly back at the restaurant for a second. Didn’ you see the No Riders sticker on the win’shield? Sure—I seen it. But sometimes a guy’ll be a good guy even if some rich bastard makes him carry a sticker.” The driver, getting slowly into the truck, considered the parts of this answer. If he refused now, not only was he not a good guy, but he was forced to carry a sticker, was not allowed to have company. If he took in the hitch-hiker he was automatically a good guy and also he was not one whom any rich bastard could kick around. He knew he was being trapped, but he couldn’t see a way out. And he wanted to be a good guy. He glanced again at the restaurant. “Scrunch down on the running board till we get around the bend,” he said. (1. pg 7) Tom Joad has recently been released from prison after serving a term for manslaughter (killing another man in fight). He earned early release for good behavior, and now he is hitchhiking his way home. His family, not one for letter writing, is unaware of his return. As Tom travels the hot and dusty road, his feet become sore and blistered from the new shoes that were given to him on his release from prison. He is anxious to get home, to see how much has changed in the four years

The purpose of this chapter is to give sort of a background to the novel. It introduces Salem as well as Puritan society and the Custom house. The author's attitude toward his old job and workers is mainly positive, giving descriptions of the groups and people. He puts them in either a mundane or positive light by showing their qualities even if they are strange. An example of this is his description of the General's overwhelming kindness or the President's love of past meals (Hawthorne, 284). Even though they are seen as positive, the author still shows they no longer belong at the Custom house. He states " [they knew] they ought to have given place to younger men" (Hawthorne, 280). He sees them generally as senile and unfit for their jobs, but still as people. Because the author address

I've always love sci-fi, so when I started to watch a tv series called doctor who when I was 11, I was immediately enthralled. It's the story of a timelord called the Doctor who meets people on earth and then takes them traveling places they could never imagine. The idea of traveling through time and space with no limits was incredibly exciting, but more than anything I loved the inclusion and appreciation of so many types of people, the kinds of people I had never seen before. The character that has always stood out as an influence on the way I think now is Captain Jack Harkness. He was a man who was clearly pansexual and didn't care what people thought, he was something different from the way I'd seen anyone who wasn't heterosexual

Jem and Scout sit in the front row seats of the colored balcony with Reverend Sykes. They couldn’t find and seats downstairs, so Reverend Sykes helped them to find a seat upstairs. From the position that they were in, the circuit solicitor, a man, Atticus, and Tom Robinson sat with their backs faced at them. The balcony stretched across three walls, and they could see almost everything from

“Aw, I don't understand this stuff, sis,” the boy exclaimed in a loud voice, breaking the silence, “Why do I need to learn about vectors for anyway? I'm gonna be a pilot, like Wyatt; I don't need to study all this useless junk. Jolker say's I'm a natural born pilot.”

The next day, the Pequod kills 4 whales and 1 of them was killed by Captain Ahab. Ahab is mesmerized by one dead whale that is sunbathing in the sun. He believes that whales react to the sun the same way humans react to the sun. The 4 whales that were killed that day were very much far apart from each other. They were able to get three of the whales killed the same day but had to wait until the next day for the fourth whale that was killed. Every day when Ahab would get out of his cabin, he would calculate the latitude of the ship based on the sun. The instrument he used to find the latitude of the ship was called the quadrant. Ahab orders for the ship to turn around because he could not get any results for the current direction they were

I think Helen is more made at her father and is taking this out on her mother, maybe she feels like the mother should have demand her father be there for the family. I think Helen is reflecting anger towards her mother but she is really upset with her father, it seems like she is upset that her father has a good relationship with her siblings and the grandchildren when he wasn’t there for her and her siblings she feels he doesn’t deserve to have the good relationship with everyone when he wasn’t there when they was coming up in their childhood. Helen she feels the mother was there for her and her sibling but everyone thinks the mother is the one with the issues but she was the one that was there for them and the father wasn’t. I think she is having problems with the choice she chose to be angry with the mother but I think she is angry with the mother because she feels the mother should of made a better choice to make her father be in their lives more coming up but she seems like she is placing blame on her mother for her past when she is really is upset with her father.