Our Time John Wideman Analysis

The family consists of the mother Beth, father Calvin, and their son Conrad who are living in the aftermath of the death of the oldest son Buck. Conrad, who has attempted suicide and hospitalized because he inability to overcome grief and misplaced guilt, and therapy as way to feel more in control. Beth on the other hand always favored Buck and does not connect with Conrad. Whereas, the father Calvin is trapped in trying to hold the family together, but those pressures are building and he is coming to realizations of his own.

He stopped caring about things and just like the rest of the community they blame the “white doctors” for not caring for Garth the way they should of because of him being black. Later on once Robby and Wideman get more comfortable with eachotther , Robby explains into more detail to Wideman other reason on why he ended up how he did. How he really felt about his childhood and why he acted the way he did. He tells Wideman that growing up the youngest isn’t always the best you become the “pet” and even feel less important because everyone else knew how to do things and he didn’t he was left learning and teaching himself on his own. How he felt like he had to fight for love and attention but everyone just thought he was being a spoiled brat. Robby starts too realized and admitted all the wrongs he did.

In the early to late 1940s, audio recordings of three ex-slave men document their struggle and capture the horrors of slavery. Part of the New Deal programs, these recordings were coordinated to archive the testaments of the few surviving victims of slavery. The interviews were conducted in cities based on the sound of automobiles in the background. Preserved by the Library of Congress, the recordings are eerie and broken because of the deterioration of the audio tape itself. Fountain Hughes, Wallace Quarterman and George Johnson all were victims of slavery in the mid-19th century. Very old now their testaments are chilling reminders of the United States past.

owned by renowned mason, Hubert John Fineman and his family he was known for his elaborate craftsmanship creating many works of art over his lifetime his best-known work was the Fineman mirror believed to have been crafted at around 1834. The astounding object was lost when the Rose-Bury Estate caught fire in 1850. The fire was believed to have started as a result of Fineman’s drunken tantrums it was believed that Fineman faced mounting pressure against the allegations made against him and was in serious debt he was at threat of losing the estate. Fineman was believed to have deliberately started the fire when he left a candle too close to the running faucet. The water was revealed to be full of methane that quickly lit up the surrounding alcohol

This family comes together in a time when they all need it. Phillip at one point tells Judd he’s on his side and has his back no what the situation is. Then every time Judd and Wendy meet on the roof to talk they are creating a turning point during a bad time. It can be see that each brother, sister, brother, brother, and/or mother, child moment is a growing point where something/someone else is thinking and acting different. The Altman family displays resilience by walking away at the end and assuring each other that they have their backs.

The author wants me to believe that Dr. Jay Grossman is perfect and is the best dentist. I say this because even though the claim is implied, the author still provides several reasons as to why readers should choose him as their specified dentist.

When first starting to read about the narrator, he was shown as a person who actually had character. He cherished his pride and mostly his education . I don't think he knew that he would be blindsided by his education. The narrator knew that he was quiet, had ambition, mostly tried to stay out of the white man's way. Dr. Bledsoe made the narrator changed into a weak person but also a fighting person. The narrator didn't do what Dr. Bledsoe wanted so he now is shipped off to New York. He thinks it is for his education but little does he know, him being dumb for his education, could cost him everything. As the narrator was describing how the man was looking at him. He said, “ I became alert again as he mumbled something incomprehensible

He desired a miraculous end, one that had the potential to bring together a world by knowledge, change, and enlightenment. But, the scenario seemed immovable. Problem was, Wideman was looking for an epiphany that couldn’t occur, because Robby was still in jail: “I realized no apotheosis of Robby’s character could occur in the final sections because none had transpired in my dealings with my brother (Wideman, 274).” However, a larger part of the challenge to complete his novel, is due to an ignored resentment: “…something like that envy was stirring. Worse than envy.

Written in Nathan Trookman’s article, he thoroughly explains the experiment and its individual parts more in-depth. To begin, the actual experiment portion was quite confusing to understand, so I focused on the informative background part, which perceived to be more beneficial overall. The article elaborates on the lip’s anatomy, such that it states, “lips…have poor skin barrier function and low moisture capacity,” which are facts that I previously read from other sources. Also, it explains that the red coloration of the lip is from the thin layering of the surface skin, and what is shown is the capillaries. This specific article agrees heavily that weather plays a high role on lips, causing dry, chapped, discolored lips. In addition, age is

Professor Grossman’s mysterious request leaves student David Dypsvik perplexed. The professor has dropped a bombshell not only wanting David to market his book but to find Yossar Devan a man who may or may not have existed. To sweeten the pot of David’s acceptance the professor suspends him for eight weeks citing that his last paper was plagiarized. Without using footnotes David has no proof that he didn’t copy it leaving the student in a quandary. “David hadn’t even had time to make up his mind of what to do. But life consisted of random events that lead to opportunities. In the past he had never been brave enough to jump on any of them. Maybe it was time he changed his ways? ‘If I accept….When do I start if I accept?’ he asked.”

What is worse the fear of the unknown, or the knowledge of everything that is about to happen, can it be possible to have both at the same time? In life everything should be questioned, even the basic facts that both humans and pictures should know. Yet it is hard for us to question what is undoubtedly fact, that is why when no one else will question the facts I must to make sure that everyone is relatively safe in our world of the living. By questioning the truth that is fed to us on silver spoons. Picking out what is safe and what is not, deciding if the pros are worth the cons.

Unwind by Neal Shusterman is a science fiction novel that is taken place after a civil war in the future. The war is know as the Heartland War, which is fought over abortion. The war reached a compromise after both sides agreed to allow parents to sign an order form for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 years old to be unwound. The Setting takes place in three major locations. First “The Forest” after the accident on the highway, Connor, Risa, and Lev escape into the dense forest. Second “The Graveyard” an old airplane hanger, witch homes hundreds of AWOL Unwinds. The unwinds work in exchange for complete protection from the outside. Finally, “Happy Jack’s Harvest Camp” Ronald sells out Connor and Risa, as well as himself, and they are taken to the unwind camp. The camp is full of color and uplifting music, but the children are dark and gloomy. The camp is known as “Hell masquerading as Heaven" (268).

Danny, the narrator’s cousin, is a very depressing person, he never smiles or socializes with other people around him. He wanted to show people he was not a coward by doing what a guy at school tell him to do, to go and kill himself. And he wants his cousin, the narrator, to help him decide whether he’ll do it or not by shuffling two boxes, and inside one of the boxes is the gun. But, while the narrator is shuffling the boxes, he takes out the gun and hides it inside the pocket of his bathrobe. So when Danny decides to open the box, which is empty, and he cries of relief. Then, the narrator calls his father, and when he got home he put his arms around Danny and started comforting him.

The narrator is not very reliable in my opinion. I only trust his narration when he is being in the situation that he’s talking about. For example, I trust him when he was talking about Jake Grimes making a scene at the bar when no one wanted to talk to him. Also, I trust him when he and the group of townspeople went out to see Mrs. Grimes body. Other than that, I don’t really trust any of the rest of his narration. These events occurred when he was a young boy, and now he is telling the story as a grown man. Kids sometimes tend to exaggerate story’s, or what they’ve heard. And some of the details of his narration that the gives about Mrs. Grimes personal life is hard to know if he was never present when they happened.

The Author of this article, William Birmingham, makes this suggestion: “religious Americans might profit spiritually from a committed reading of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself" (Birmingham). By a committed reading he means “one in which, having suspended disbelief, readers allow themselves to experience the text as a meaningful aesthetic event, only later bringing to bear the critical practice of their faith”(Birmingham).