Examples Of Dialectical Journal

In the beginning of the story, Cole was defiant and reckless. This showed when he severely hurt Peter because he had ratted him out. Cole was not thinking of the outcome when he did this. It also was showed when Cole tried to escape the island as well as when attacking the spirit bear. Cole never thought that he wouldn’t make it off the island from high tide or that the spirit bear would fight back so fiercely. Cole had said to the spirit bear “Keep staring, I’ll kill you.” Doing this he angry and wouldn’t stand down, but rather protected his reputation even with no one around to see what he was doing. Cole showed that he was inhumane, never thought about the consequences, and reused to obey others.

This is the modern, everyday life of many unfortunate people. For People of all ages. You can hear on the news about wives and children and even husbands who were killed in acts of rage and domestic violence. Even though I am unable to relate to this certain passage, I was still touched and I actually felt sympathy for these fictitious characters.

“The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.” – Oswald Chambers

means to him. Suddenly, they hear their parents open the door the apartment. His mother checks on Phoebe. Phoebe loans Holden her Christmas money, which makes Holden cry. He gives her his red hunting cap and leaves the building.

In Ben Mikaelsen's novel, Touching Spirit Bear, the protagonist, Cole Matthews, is a troubled 15-year old teen, who has received the title as a juvenile delinquent. His traumatizing past has turned him into an angry, stubborn and rude figure. Due to an unacceptable action, Cole is then shipped to a remote island, in Southeast Alaska, to embark in an experience that can possibly give him the chance to "change". At first, Cole struggles to change from a juvenile delinquent, but as the novel progresses, Cole slowly becomes someone he never knew he could become. He encounters a variety of challenges and obstacles that teach him many life lessons.

1. The passage provided is from Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. The narrator of Their Eyes Were Watching God is voicing Janie’s conscious thoughts about her grandmother’s way of life without deferring to Janie’s storytelling. It is through this narration that we can see the dissonance between Janie’s understanding of her grandmother and the possible reasons why the latter would be more likely to “deal in scraps” instead of operating in the worldly way Janie does. The generational difference between them, or the mere notion that Nanny experienced slavery and Janie has not, fundamentally puts them at odds.

I wonder is the narrator going to choose the fish of Shelia. There is countless reasons why he can choose her and the fish. He fishes all day long. That he knows the what kind of

Thank you the M-1 Marvels for allowing me to be apart of the huddle this week!

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.

Pg 379- “In Sugamo prison, as he was told of Wantanbe’s fate, all Louie saw was a lost person, a life now beyond redemption. HE felt something that he had never felt for his captor before. With a shiver of amazement, he realized that it was compassion.”

1) “They carried the soldier’s greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment” (O’Brien 20).

Everyone has to grow up eventually, some just tend to take it better more than others, it could be the fear or gaining more responsibility or the fact that getting older means that your parents are too and with your old age comes their time to go, the fear of not being ready or prepared for what life has to offer you and you being on your own to find out

Cartoon #1: The first cartoon in the packet, with the quote “Loved our evening, Lou. Thanks for being rich,” reminds me of the scene where Gatsby and Daisy see each other again after almost five years. The first quote that reminds me of this picture is when Daisy says, “‘That huge place there?’ she cried pointing” (Page 90). Daisy says this when she first sees Gatsby mansion, and she is immediately mesmerized by his huge amount of wealth.

The first and main time Cole acts up in this story is when he beats up Peter Driscal for telling on him that he broke into a hardware store. He beat up Peter so badly that he had speech slur ever since. That was the worst time he had acted up, but there were many other times. Second, whenever Garvey is trying to teach him a lesson with ingredients for a cake, and Cole got so mad and swiped his arm across the table knocking off all of the ingredients to the floor. Cole usually acts up when he knows he’s wrong, when he is afraid, or when something isn’t afraid of him. He is afraid of the Spirit Bear, so he wants to kill it so he doesn’t have to be afraid anymore. In the book it says “He flung the spear with all his strength, fully intending to kill” (Mikaelsen 77). Those are some examples of how Cole gets violent at the start of the book.

Terra, a beautiful baby girl, was the daughter of Glenn and CoCo. Glenn and CoCo weren’t ordinary folk. They were king and queen of the large city Charleston. On the day of Terra’s birth, CoCo was enduring tremendous amounts of pain in her lower abdomen, as if the all mighty Zeus himself struck her with a bolt of lightning. The baby was coming and CoCo was stricken with sickness. The guards were rushed to retrieve the miraculous healing plant that was said to cure any illness. After almost an hour of labor Terra was welcomed into the world. Unfortunately, the healing plant didn’t have much effect on CoCo, but it was just enough to heal Terra. CoCo ended up dying shortly after Terra was born. Glenn and CoCo never decided on a name for