Perfect Places Chapter 1 Summary

Dr. Seuss is trying to tell us in “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” that even if we get knocked down we can still be brilliant. He’s telling us that even if we are defeated by our competition, we can still become the better opponent later on. We aren’t supposed to join the bandwagon either, we are supposed to move on past the common folk. Dr. Seuss is trying to get us to not wait for our opportunity, he wants us to meet it.

In this chapter we meet Jose Buendia (JB). From the beginning of the chapter, we see JB gets very interested in common objects, much like a child. He spends time in his room fantasizing about the “inventions” and what he can use them for. The “inventions” are brought by the gypsies to Macondo and because of how secluded Macondo is, the people there have never seen these inventions. Along with them they brought magnets, a magnifying glass, a telescope, and even gave a lab to JB. With this lab JB, who was trying to perfect alchemy, burned his wife’s inheritance into “hog cracklings”. After this drastic event, the book takes us back to a time where Jose was the outstanding, brilliant man who built the village. It then takes us back to the modern day where, Jose is obsessed with coming into contact with other civilization. When they do they run into the sea (which in the very beginning they were trying to find all along). After his plan to relocate Macondo fails, he begins to make contact with his sons. This begins when he tells them to help his unbox something. The next big thing to happen is the Gypsies return without Melquiades. JB learns that he died of a fever and is left perplexed. However, he finds it in himself, to still check out the “invention the Gypsies” brought with them. It was Ice and after paying some reales for him and his son’s to touch it, he claims ice is the greatest invention of their time.

Background: Jayson was living on his own because his mom died. Now he has to go to a new school and he hates it. Zoe is really nice and her mom wants her to be perfect, but Zoe doesn’t like that.

1. Chapter 1, is about introducing the Tres Camarones, the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. Also, since the people in that town didn’t like change much there are already danger roaming around like the bandidos who will be evading the town.

Chapter 39 which is the last chapter in the book shows the realization that Carrol really didn’t acompish much in Washington and decides to come back and live , she realized that majority the town will not change and instead just decides to live in the town and get married and has more kids. Carol looks at coming back to this town as a job and doesent really enjoy coming back to that town “After a week she decided that she was neither glad nor sorry to be back. She entered each day with the matter–of–fact attitude with which she had gone to her office in Washington. It was her task; there would be mechanical details and meaningless talk; what of it? (page 465)” When I was reading the book I thought maybe there could be a change or maybe she could have sparked a reseince of art and bring in a new culture but instead the town was pretty much the same with not that much change in the town. She feels very defeated that she didn’t accomplish what she really wanted to in that town, in the beginning she had many bright ideads and very creative and with dreams of creating a new culture in the town. At the end of the book all the excitement she had for the future was gone and she just decied to just become a wife and a mother to fit in with the

Chapter 1 - “Safe Haven” - Safe Haven is a good title for this chapter because the story starts off at a river bank, where George and Lennie are hiding out for the night before heading off to their new job. They are forced to hide at the river bank because the authorities are searching for Lennie on account of rape and nobody will know that they are there, making it a safe place to stay the night. Also George tells Lennie that if anything goes wrong at the new job, just run back to the river bank and don't leave until George went to get him, making it a safe place for Lennie to go. The river symbolized a place where they could go and be safe, making it a “safe haven.”

Chapter one - Clay: The chapter was a short, but an informational back story on the protagonist and narrator, Rueben Land. The story of his birth is retold to him by his father and he states he imagines his mother as and old woman although he was never able to see her as one. Why was Reuben unable to see her old? I predict many miracles in this book. As the chapter goes on, foreshadowing occurs when Reuben's father says “we and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.” (4).

When Billy Taylor wrote this book, I don’t think he thought it would become as big as a hit as it has became. It is about a boy named Ethan and a girl named August who met 12 years ago at a birthday party August got invited to out of pity of Ethan’s father because he knew she was new and had not made any friends yet. The two of them have been close ever since and help each other out. The two of them both know they are meant to be together, but refuse to say anything to one another, or the chance slips away. The two of them have talents that end up making them both famous. August becomes the actress she dreamed of becoming and Ethan gets his chance of being a magician. Suddenly though, Ethan becomes an item with August’s co-star Eleanor Walden. August realizes she might of lost her chance

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