In Cold Blood Dialectical Journal

change my life I would either be dead or in jail. I was always getting into fights and just being

Proud to be the person I am now. Being responsible and asking for help when it is necessary. I am very crouse and like to learn new

Essily gazed ruefully through the exceptionally clean window. It was square, except for a semicircle at the top, and had a gilded frame. There was a plush lavender velvet seat which she sat upon now, with a bed surrounded by gauzy white curtains.

"so sorry, but i'm sick had to skip class and leave work early today - i'm going to have to skip tonight. how about Saturday?"

They were found guilty for murder. And finally they were hung, for a murder and a robbery with a profit of $50. The execution takes place at January the 14th; ‘the Kansas Supreme Court decreed that their lives must end between midnight and 2: 00 a. m., Wednesday, April 14, 1965.’

Marty walks out of his house and to the main street. He sees hundreds of 30 year olds lined

    In this chapter Steven woke up extra early for some reason in this interminable  world and slow walked to the basement to get some drum practice. When Jeffrey, his little brother, snuck up behind him. Jeffery asked for some moatmeal- oatmeal- also saying his parts hurt. Apparently he had been saying that for a while now. Steven and Jeffrey went to get the oatmeal and Jeffery sat on a stool. When Steven turned around Jeffery fell of the stool and hurt his nose. Jeffrey cried a lot. Their parents came down and interrogated them. Jeffery was sent to the emergency room, while Seven and his dad went to school and work.

The title tells the reader that these two locations will be destroyed during this chapter.

The beginning of Chapter VIII, El titiritero del Portal, opens with nature’s celebration of the abject’s removal as the city itself comes alive. “…Mal vestidas de luna corrían las calles por las calles sin saber bien lo que había sucedido y los árboles de la plaza se tronaban los dedos en la pena de no poder decir con el viento, por los hilos telefónicos, lo que acaba de pasar” (Asturias 32; Brown 344). Pelelé’s body, the final link to his abjection, is then discharged?? by the society that deems him to be an outlier (Kristeva 1). This imagery parallels the death of another beggar earlier in the novel – Mosco (Mosquito).

As I look back on my life, I wouldn’t change what happened. Because I was expelled out of school, I had to attend an alternative program which caused me to rethink my life choices. My friends changed along with my relationship with my parents. Since graduation I have been in a serious relationship and gave birth to my son, Austin. I also experienced a serious health problem called graves’ disease that required a thyroidectomy. All these events are making me a stronger person to take back my

From the day he was born I turned into a different person. I spread my arms out to people in need. I grew from a taker to a giver. I always was checking in to make sure everyone was okay. Its unbelievable to think about, and realize how much someone so much younger and less experienced than you can teach you so much. Someone who has yet to experience the world taught me how to embrace my life and grow with

the statistic, but be an inspiration to my family children, grandchildren for a better life and leave behind a legacy behind for them to follow.

My journey has not been all I have ever wanted but I think ultimately, not having life go exactly how I have wanted, has helped me in the long run. Not having everything I have wanted one-hundred percent of the time has taught me to work for things and

make my life more exciting than it actually was, but in reality I was just a regular

Even if it is hard to achieve my goal with all these problems that faced me, I made a choice to live a better life and to be an example for my younger siblings. Moreover, I have a dream to be a better person as Michael Bassey Johnson said, “Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that I died on the way than retreating from getting