Personal Narrative: Jacob Down By The Watercress

On the day of sabbath, Jews were stoned. Perhaps it was by the other christians? And maybe the Christians felt like the Jews have brought nothing but sorrow and depression to Europe. For example, the Christians must've thought that the Jews brought the plague with them, and later kicking them out of of all of Europe. They then drove them out of the city or locked them up. Jews have always been living in peace but are tortured in almost every nation.

Defending Jacob is a courtroom drama that also examines the family dynamic and how it can shift or crack under pressure. It’s ending stirred up a lot of mixed feelings. The trial concludes with a suicide note written by Patz confessing to the murder of Ben Rifkin, causing Jacob to be acquitted. After the trial, the Barbers decide to go on vacation, so that they can get the feeling back of being a “normal” family. They are having an ideal vacation, until Hope, Jacob’s “girlfriend” that he met on the holiday, goes missing. Her body washes up on the beach several weeks after her disappearance, and while many believe that there were signs that pointed to her windpipe being crushed, her death is ultimately ruled an accident because of the body deterioration in the water.

Have you ever did something, then felt horrible later on?like guilty? Guilt is a horrible feeling, Even more so if someone's life was ended by something you did. Edgar Allan Poe and W. W. Jacob's story's both inform us how powerful guilt can be, in both, there's story's someone dies and there is an extreme amount of guilt.

In this short extract, the hatred in the lines radiates off the page. The reader is given a clear picture of how Racial discrimination was so evident in those days. The hostility and hatred between Christians and Jews is very well presented and written. It allows the reader to further understand how life was back then and how it may or may not have changed. The author’s use of language and literary devices was cleverly used to show the reader what he was trying to

During this series of events it can be deemed that Jacob is an unreliable narrator through the unrealistic events, and because Jacob can be declared delusional. Jacob can be declared delusion, because he is currently ninety years old, experiencing memory loss, and taking medicine. For instance, a week earlier Jacob’s family came to visit and he did not know who they were, “I didn’t know them. I faked it, though- when they made their way toward me and I realized it was me they had come to see, I smiled” (Gruen 218). Sara Gruen implies that the reader should be questioning what Jacob is saying when he claims that he is walking out of the nursing home because even Jacob says, “Nobody seems to think it odd that an old man is standing in his slippers

　　　　Raising up his voice to God, Nehemiah, explained their displeasure with this ridicule to God. He asked the Lord to turn this back around on them, to lay plunder upon them, and to not allow their sins to be forgiven due to their mockery rousing God’s anger against them.

Have you ever did something then felt horrible later on?like guilty? Guilt is a horrible feeling, Even more so if someone's life was ended by something you did. Edgar Allan Poe and W. W. Jacob's story's both inform us how powerful guilt can be, in both, there's story's someone dies and there is an extreme amount of guilt.

When first beginning to read this novel the reader may think that it’s just a normal family, but in actuality it’s not just a normal family. Jacob the main character his grandpa told him these stories when he was little, he thought they were just fairytales until he got older and now he thinks his grandpa is just making up these fantasies but in actuality he’s not. The pictures he showed Jacob was of his childhood family.

“What’s more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you.” Genesis 28:15 (NLT).

The sons of Israel must have lived in a constant state of fear ever since Christianity first saw a glimpse of power. Who else could draw the ire of the Christians than those who dare stain their fists with the sanguine blessing of the lord? Following the Catholic reformation of the Roman empire was the immediate vilification of the Jews, whose near constant state of poverty in separate settlements allowed the ruling population to maintain control of them while feigning fear. Medieval anti-Jewish sentiment was used by the leaders of the Christian masses as a mitigating force for their societal aches. The supposed treacheries of the Jews were simply common ailments of most civilizations.

Jacob is a student that I have enjoyed having in class and seeing him grow in his writing has been a true reward. When Jacob wrote his first writing sample he stopped writing after about 5 minutes and was stuck on what to write next. I believe that part of it had to do with the fact that we had not talked about too many body systems. For their first writing sample I wanted to get a feel of where they were in regards to wrting. His writing sample consisted of one long sentece with a single period at the end. Jacob also wrote in “I” statements instead of creating his own superhero. This wasn’t surrising since at this grade level they are still accostumed to writing about themselves. He did write about three superheros and their strength, but did not reltate them to any

Overall, Family was the most important to Jacob because even though she struggled through her life to have a family. Eventually she gets her family that she wanted and became a free slave. Even though her narrative story was inspirational to many African American women, also white women, she wanted to prove a point that slavery in the south was effecting the family from being sold to different slaveowners. She knew from the very first that her children were the most important people in her and wanted to run with them. However, Knowing the fact that she didn’t want to risk her whole life and her children to a person that brutally abused her. Therefore, In the end of the passage of Incident of the Life of a Slave Girl, Jacob describes about how

They were trying to trick jesus and make him look bad. The men were trying to get a reaction out of Jesus which would result in him

Story line: Jacob the protagonist of the novel The Slave was depicted as a resident of Josefov, a Jewish town in Poland. He was a Jewish born who lost his wife and three children in the Khmelnytsky massacres by Cossacks and himself got sold as a slave to pagan farmers. During his time as a slave, Jacob tried his best to maintain all the Jewish rituals ignoring the emotional as well as physical difficulties, thus tries to remain pious towards the ethics of Judaism. The Slave is also a beautiful depiction of the tragic love story of Wanda and Jacob where coming under the influence of his religious laws Jacob time and again rejected the affection of Sarah/Wanda even though he was also in love with her.

At both the beginning and the end of his account, Mayhew draws a comparison between Jacob’s Island and the Indian city of Jessore. He originally states that Jacob’s Island is “the Jessore of London,” and later broadens this title to “the Jessore of England” (431, 437). However, Mayhew provides no context around, or elaboration on, these comparisons. The analogy could simply be a remark on the locations’ mutual identity as vectors for the spread of cholera. Or, in addition to the superficial likeness, Mayhew could be making generalizations about the people and society in each environment. Though the metaphors bookend the text, suggesting their significance, their meaning is never clearly explained. So, why does Mayhew compare these two geographically