1. Today I am responding to Jannah El Hassan's reading log post. The way Jannah uses to support her answer is by careful description. The way she write puts a nice image in your head about whatever she is telling us about.
2. The quotes relate Jannah's answers is because she's using them to prove the point shes making.
3. I personally think Jannah didn't have to do much else to elaborate on her answer. They were explained well with great examples from the book.
4. I was very much engaged with the graphics used Jannah's post. They added a lot of comic relief to this very serious book.
1. The Good Lord Bird represents understanding, as stated in the book "a feather from a Good Lord Bird'll bring you understanding that'll last your whole life"(McBride, page 33). I suppose it connects to the title of the book because this whole book is about making people understand that slavery is wrong, which is why John Brown is trying to abolish it.
2. Henry's new nickname is "Little Onion." Henry earned this named after he took a bite out of the "dried, dusty, covered with feathers, cobwebs lint, and other junk"(McBride, page 23) onion that The Old Man gave him to hold because he thought The Old Man wanted him to eat it.
3. Henry's rationale for living a lie is because he's scared. Henry just saw is father get killed right in front of him and now a white male is kidnapping him, he doesn't know what's going to happen to him. Slave life is also a bit easier for girls, so Henry is also hoping on that to live easy. It is completely justifiable because he defending his life. Henry is trying make it out as safe as possible.
Everyone lies, it's no secret. I would applaud anyone who hasn't told a lie in their life. Most people associate lying with ill-intent and that it's wrongful of someone to do so; that's not the case all the time though. I personally feel that it's okay to lie provided it's so small that you're not hurting anyone in the process for the long run. A good example is actually concerning myself. See, my family is Muslim and most of them are religious, some more than others. My parents have been getting myself and my brothers to become more religious by having us pray with them and what not, but I honestly don't feel the same way about religion as they do. I really don't think it's for me, and after discussing it with some friends, it's pretty safe to say that I'm pretty Agnostic with the way I view God. I'd like to come out my family but they're pretty adamant about Islam, and I fear that they would either push me out or shove Islam down my throat even more, and with myself being adamant about being Agnostic, I'm always telling them little white lies. If they asked if I prayed that day, I would tell them "yes" even though I didn't, and there is also this little thing where you have to cleanse yourself before praying which is required or else your prayers won't go through, if they asked me if I cleansed myself properly, I would tell them yes, just because I really don't care to do it properly. As you can see, I am lying, but no one's getting hurt here, it also saves myself lectures about religion, which I really don't need, and no one in my family needs to get upset about it. I strongly believe in the phrase "what they don't know won't hurt them."
The first sport I became decent at was tennis. I started playing in middle school with a couple friends whenever we had free time. I was never amazing at it, but after practicing with friends for a couple of years I became kind of decent at it. So when high school came around, I joined the team and made the varsity team in freshman year and played all four years.
Tennis sin't my passion however. I suppose the thing I do most in my free time is play video games with friends, specifically, a game called League of Legends. The best way to explain this game would be in this 1-minute video:
If you watched the video, you can see how this game encourages communication and teamwork, which is why I love this game. I've met people from all over the world because of this game, and we always have a blast playing together.
Lets talk about lies. Everyone has told a lie before, don't hide it. What's the biggest lie I've told? Now, I've lied, but almost all of the lies I've told were little white lies just to get me out of trouble; I couldn't recall anything crazy. So, I suppose the biggest lie I've told was to my parents was that I'd stay in town for Halloween, but my friends and I went a town over to hang out with other friends for the night since my high school had kids coming in from that town too.
Yeah, I did. Believe it or not, I have not told any bigger of a lie. I've never had a reason to.
Moving forward, everyone does one of two things when they write. They either have to make an outline in preparation for their paper, or they're like me, where they just let the words flow out straight from their brain onto their computer screen.
I can see how outlines can be helpful, but I just don't like writing them because in the time I could write and outline, I could probably get a paragraph done, maybe two. It's more efficient for me at least. I believe I write fairly well, I write well enough to get passing grades in my English courses. The thing I want to learn most in the course I'm currently taking is how to read and comprehend the older text and literature.
Why don't we talk about books now? I don't read a lot of books to be honest. The most recent book I've read was called Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
This book is about a prince of a village who gets tired of his pampered life and want to seek "true enlightenment". So he goes travelling and living in different places and cultures to see which will give him "enlightenment". It was a good read, but that book was required to read in my Word Literature class in high school.
Social media is becoming bigger and bigger each year. I do have a bunch social media accounts, I have a Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram. Although, I don't use my Facebook or Twitter at all, I grew bored of them really fast. I post on Snapchat every now and then, but I'm not too crazy about it. As for Instagram, I don't post anything, I just follow the pages that interest me (like most people do) and look at their pictures, because I like pictures.
This semester in class, the most important thing that I think we're going to learn is how to read and understand The Good Lord Bird. I'm not a fan of historical texts, I just find them kind of boring.
In these books and novels, there is a protagonist which we can refer to as the "hero". What is the definition of a "hero"? I believe that a hero is someone who does what he/she because it is the right thing to do for the people. Hero's are supposed to be selfless and caring.
Everybody makes mistakes, nobody's perfect. Some people just don't make as many mistakes. Myself however, makes mistake all the time. The most recent mistake I've made was last Monday actually. There was a big snowstorm over the weekend and I thought we had class on Monday. I get to campus on Monday and it's dead. There are no students anywhere and the parking lots. Little did I know that classes don't start again until 5 p.m. that evening due to the weather. I learned to always check your e-mail and check with a friend concerning school openings after a storm.
Overall, as a writer, I would rate myself a "B". I now I can write some good essays depending on the topic, other times I get really bad writers block and just write out anything related to the topic and my writing can get vague on those points. For the most part, I believe my writing to short but to the point.
