This book is Dangerous

Story of my Life

An event in my life that could be turned into a short story could be something like this. This one day I was in the car with my family and this guy just started running like crazy he was moving left to right like if he was a car, he would make noises with his mouth, he then jumped and stomped to a stop. We all looked at him weird and confused at what he was doing. The light then turned on and we left.

Let me walk you through the Pedestrian

Ray Bradbury was walking and a police officer went up to him and asked what he was doing Bradbury then said he was putting one foot in front of the other. The police officer arrested him until he was let go. He was shocked that he then wrote a story about it and put what he felt when he was arrested. This story became know as the Pedestrian, it was a story about his life and how he felt and what he thought when he was arrested.
The Pedestrian was a story that was very felt from the moment he started to write. He started off with a guy going for a walk in the night in November, he told it in such a way that it could make you feel what the character feels. He used plot to initiate his story by putting imagery and using it to make the story more alive.
Bradbury also uses things like tone to make the story feel more intense then it actually is. He used tone where the character Lenard Mead was getting stopped by the police officer. He first focused on the outside of what was happening by showing the surroundings, he then starts with the characters. He keeps on using imagery to show what the character felt like and to express Bradbury's feelings when he was caught.
He also uses the characters to make the story feel more natural and more uncanny. He uses a mysterious figure like the police officer to make the story more mysterious and puts all of what he felt when he was caught. He used what he felt before and after he was caught to make the story with more imagery and feel realistic and how it would feel if you were caught.
The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury was kind of an autobiography of himself putting his feelings and emotions of how he felt when he was stopped and arrested by the police. He used different characters and names and the year is in the future to make it a different story.

So this guy goes for a walk

So this short story that Bradbury wrote was made from something that happened to him in real life. In the story this guy named Lenard Mead liked to go for a walk and a police officer came up to him and took him away. This happened to Bradbury to just because he was walking. This drove to the creation of "The Pedestrian" based on his life. This affected the tone because it made it seem more real because he lived it and know what it felt like.

The Value of My Time

I have been spending my time by doing my homework and talking to my councilor about college and how I can get college credit. I have also been looking for scholarships that I might be able to apply for. I have also been looking for universities that I could get into and afford to pay.

Hawthorne and Poe on Dreams

In Hawthorne's "Young Good Man Brown" he tells us that he goes for a walk but we don't know exactly. In Poe's "Dream Within a Dream" we are being told that everything that we think is real is not. They both use the literary technique of repetition. They both imply that everything is a dream but say it in different ways. They both use different diction to show their point of views. They both use tone to make the story or poem mysterious and strange. They also both use personification to make the story seem more realistic or engaging. Hawthorne uses unique characterization to make the character seem real. They both use different styles of writing and usage of literary techniques to imply that everything is a dream.

My new Vocabulary

Abjure: solemnly renounce
I refuse to abjure my faith.
Affirm: State a fact
I affirm that the third president of the United States was Thomas Jefferson.
Kudos: Praise and honor received for an achievement
I gave him Kudos for getting 1st place.
Schema: representation of a plan
He followed the schema they made.
Intuitively: Without conscious or reasoning
He intuitively picked the option to survive.
Uncanny: Strange or mysterious
The person in front of him was uncanny.
Myth: False believe or idea
He thought that big foot was a myth.
Connotation: invokes a different meaning than the original
He used connotation in his writing.
Allusion: to say something without explicitly saying. (Indirect)
The author used Allusion to Shakespeare play
Denotation: a primary meaning of a word
He used denotation to get his point across

How I Read

I just saw this essay and I thought it was good because it helps us understand how to love reading and how to keep on loving reading when you have everything else saying don't like reading. I personally don't like reading but sometimes I make an exception like my literary analysis book that I am reading.

Investing in Me

I will start working and start earning money for college. I hope I will be in college and working but I also am thinking of taking a year off and working the whole year. I could also borrow money from my parents and pay them back when I can. I was also thinking of working in school while continuing my studies. I think I going to work while I'm in high school and pay off the tuition that I have.

Learn to a Mentor Draft 1

Dear, Mentor

Hi my name is Ivan and I would like to ask you to be my mentor in Architecture. I would like you to train me to know the basics but if you can help me more than that I would gladly accept it. I am sending you this letter because I would like to know if you would train me whenever you have free time. The subject is Architecture and I would want to become one but I don't know where or when to start and on what to study. I hope you can help me and thank you for your time. I hope you accept and get back to me.

Sincerely,

Ivan