I Liked Was Gryphon, By Charles Baxter

When she changed her mind after she saw how big it was she thought she was going to have fun. For Example, when they went inside each of the students received a small souvenir. It was a postcard with a bright blue and yellow fish. When she saw it, she was surprised how pretty it was.

The author of Green Gulch conveys that when in a group, one can be overwhelmed by pressure that brings them to savage extremes. After being lost, a young boy joins a group of kids he has never seen before. The group is nice and offers to bring the boy home. They stop at a sanctuary of a pond. There is a turtle in the pond that is violently murdered by the boys after one decides to throw a rock. Then, the group turns on the new boy. They beat him maliciously and leave him stranded on the road to get home. As, the boy look backs he can’t think of what went wrong, “They stood in a little group watching me, nervous now, ashamed a little at the ferocious pack impulse toward the outsider that had swept them.” Obvious from the boys’ reactions, it was the fault of the group impulse. After the murder of turtle, the adrenaline and riot of the group caused them to turn on the next vulnerable target. They were not acting as they should have, and the realize that afterwards. They were nervous. Even though there is not immediately an adult around, they are nervous because society has conditioned them to behave. They are also ashamed. The shame shows that they are nice boys. They feel bad. This shows that the vicious group mind set was so strong that it came over there good personalities and conscious. However, there is only this slight remorse after the fact. This does not make up for the brutal murder and beating that they had dealt. Being in a group turned them into

Potentially more in a general sense, Mr. Freeman is an insightful educator who treats understudies in like manner creatures, and tries to show to them the truth of his life, past his part as an instructor. His tirades about the school board may exhaust Melinda, yet she sees Mr. Freeman talking reality as he sees it, especially to the understudies, in spite of while doing everything considered could cause him hurt. Despite whether this is mind boggling, appalling, or something in the midst of is easily shown off course. Undoubtedly, so Mr. Freeman gets way energetic, however, this is definitely what Melinda needs right now. Mr. Freeman moves down his acclaim by indicating Melinda something about her work she herself won't not be intentionally mindful of. He reveals to her reality and moreover can be typical. This in a like way proposes pushing her to upgrade the situation when her work fails miserably. Melinda's the sort of young lady who perceives such reliability, regardless of when it stings. Melinda thinks the task is too much essential at, making it difficult in the first place, yet the more she tries to draw a tree, the more she sees that she can't . Melinda is masking a dull confuse. She won't chat with anybody about it, and the more her emotions overpower her, the more she draws trees. Trees address life and end. They are an unfaltering wellspring of

On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 I observed Mrs. Megan Mayer and her kindergarten class at Roosevelt Elementary School. When I got to her class, they were preparing themselves to go to the school garden and learn about fruits, and planting. For this activity they partnered up with another kindergarten class right next door. With the two classes we all walked outside to the back of the playground where Roosevelt has a miniature garden. Between both of the classes there were three groups, A, B, and C as well as three sections of the garden activity. One group would sit down with the other kindergarten teacher Mrs. Peterson and they would draw what they had learned in class previously, another group would go with a different teacher who worked at the

She finally was in a place where that she felt that she personally could make a change. The sight of the first grade children running around would’ve drove some to insanity, but it was quite the opposite. She describes the scene as a swirling pool of entropy (disorganization). There was chaos and an absolute mess in every direction that you looked. Now who would sign up for hours of relentless screaming, yelling, and fighting? She saw the mess as an opportunity to shape the minds of the kids. Each and every one of those kids had the potential to something great. Those first graders were our future doctors and engineers. Only no one could see it behind the screaming and

Melinda takes art class and they are doing a project throughout the year. She was assigned trees and had no idea what to do with that. Since she didn’t know what to do so she just drew and drew trees because she

At the end of the day, this new teacher sits down at her desk – for what seems like the first time that day and begins to reflect back on the

Melinda is very attached to her trees, she is very much alike them in the way that she grows with confidence and blooms into a wonderful student. At the beginning of the year when Melinda is first assigned to draw trees, she has some difficulty, " I take out a page of notebook paper and a pen and doodle a tree, my second grade version, crumple it into a ball and take out another sheet. How hard can it be to put a tree on a piece of paper?"(32) because this is Melinda's first tree she has trouble she does not quite understand the meaning and the be behind

In the “First Marking Period,” Melinda’s artwork symbolizes that she is struggling to cope with the beginning of high school and her journey of self expression. While in art class, and after going through many challenges in her first weeks of school, Melinda thinks, “I’ve been painting watercolors of trees that have been hit by lightning. I try to paint them so they are nearly dead,

The first time Melinda paints a tree for her assignment is in the chapter “The Opposite of Inspiration is… Expiration?”. The tree that she paints is a representation of her emotional state at the time. She describes her artwork like this; “I’ve been painting watercolors of trees that have been hit by lightning. I try to paint them so they are nearly dead, but

Tommy’s Favorite Teacher The story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter, the main characters are Tommy and Miss. Ferenczi. Tommy defends her for many reasons. Tommy likes her because she is strange.

She also used expressions such as ‘come on, you know this’ when asking the boys questions. In the questions that were posed to the girls, if she prompted at all, she would usually say “well, do I need to ask someone else” or a statement similar. She would wave her hands in the air similar to motioning children to come to her when she was prompting the boys to answer a question they were having difficulty answering. Her hands were generally on her hips when the girls would answer. She appeared frustrated when any of the children were unable to provide responses, but she seemed more frustrated with the boys than the girls. She would often make statements to the boys about needing to pay attention. She did praise all students when they participated and showed no bias in her feedback towards

The epigraph to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, there is a poem by Langston Hughes titled: “What happens to a dream deferred?” I believe the reason why Hansberry chose this particular poem as the epigraph to her play to be a form of foreshadowing and metaphor for the Younger family. In Hughes’s poem, there are four potential outcomes for when a raisin is left in the sun. It could fester like a sore and then run. A could smell like rotten meat. It could crust and sugar over. Or does it explode? Each of these potential outcomes could even be a direct parallel to each of the Youngers’ dreams, particularly Walter’s.

As the story begins, Olsen receives a call from her daughter’s schoolteacher asking her to come to the school to talk with her about Emily’s problems. Olsen draws the reader in as she addresses the teacher in her thoughts. She wonders, "Even if I came in, what good would it do? You think because

To his Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell and The Flea by John Donne Two of the poems in Best Words are seduction poems, rather than love poems. These are To his coy mistress by Andrew Marvell and The Flea by John Donne. Compare these two poems by analysing: - · Each poets intention · Form of the poem · Language used in the poem · Your reaction to the unromantic poems. ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minders/Admit impediments, love is not love’, is one of many famous love sonnets written by William Shakespeare.