Amy Taylor
Native Son
Chapter 1 - pages 3-12
"Good Morning"
This is the first chapter in Richard Wright's story
Native Son. In the beginning of this chapter Bigger
and is family are awaken by the sound of the alarm
clock. As they are getting ready to start their day
they are interrupted by a rat that has been harassing
them for a while. A big fuss is made and eventually
Bigger kills the rat. However instead of being praised
for saving his mom a sister from this rat, he is
yelled at for tormenting his sister. All of which
resulted in his mother telling him "Bigger sometimes I
don't even know why I birthed you!" which pushed him
over the edge and he had to get away, so the chapter
ends with him slamming the door on his family.
Interpretation
I think that Richard Wright started his book this way
to show right from the get-go what Bigger's life is
like. By giving details of the apartment and showing
that character of his mother, Wright gives us the
picture of what it is like to live in a poor, single
parent family in 1930s Chicago. Also this very first
chapter illustrates conflict with man v man, man v.
society, and man v. himself.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
National History Day
This year for NHD Maurice and I did an exhibit on Cuban Immigration. I thought it was very hard this year. I was not motivated at all so I procrastinated until the VERY last minute. I did nothing all throughout the workshop time but I wish that I did. I thought it was dificult to get the information I wanted to go on the board so I think next year I will try to get my stuff done earlier and narrow my topic to exactly what I want to present, not find information on a million things and use just one. I had no trouble putting the board together because I started that early, working during lunch and humanities. We advanced to the City round so I guess we did pretty good even though we had no idea what we were doing. Next year I think I might want to make a documentary but its possible that I just do an exhibit again. I will probably work by myself or maybe me and Mo might work together again. We worked together last year and we we seem to get along well. but I probably wouldn't work with anybody else. Over all I don't enjoy NHD, I think it is a huge stress and it takes away from the rest of school. Because of all the hype of NHD my grade in one class dropped 2 letter grades so I think the teachers need to work on a way to still have classes and NHD at the same time or stop classes all together and just have NHD. But I don't know its not my call.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Topic Change
I was originally going to do Irish Immigration as my NHD topic because I am Irish and I never looked into my Irish background so I thought this might be cool to find out what kind of stuff my Great Grandparents had to go through. As I began studying about the Irish I soon found out that I could not find any good information and I really wasn't into this project. I then thought that I should change my topic and I decided that Cuban Immigration would be better. I am also Cuban and I have done many projects on cuba for other classes. I live with my grandmother who immigrated here from cuba when she was young and she knows a lot about Castro and Cuba. This project has turned out to be better for me, I have found lots of sources, interviewees, and I over all just fell good about this project. Hopefully I will present it well.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Websites for Irish NHD
http://irishmemorial.org/
http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=74
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/america.htm
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed311/kafai/Team%204/immigration
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Irish.html
http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=74
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/america.htm
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed311/kafai/Team%204/immigration
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Irish.html
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