Literacy Narrative Response

Dr. Degravelles,

I read your comment to my narrative and now I will respond to it. Well, first she was my babysitter who was also my cousin. Sorry I failed to make that clear. My relationship with her led me to books i'd never forget because she was my role model and to be honest I never really forgot anything I did with her. So sharing books with her was something I didn't forget either. She was the one that introduced me to the books and got me started on the series. 

She's actually in college right now at LSU studying to be an English professor. She has always been a big reader, but that didn't really rub off on me. I don't really enjoy reading as much as I should. I mean, sometimes when it's an extremely good book than yeah I'll really enjoy it. Alright I need a lot of help with sentence structure. Run-ons, comma splices, and punctuation errors seem to be my enemy. Yes, I'd like to take you up on your offer of help with these. 

Thank you! 

Sarah Nguyen 

Short Story Readings

   For the three extra short stories we were required to read, I read "Hills like White Elephants", "The Sniper", and "The Return". My personal favorite was "The Sniper" because of the unexpected plot twist at the end. In Hills like White Elephants I noticed the element of alcohol and drinking. Many questions come to my mind about this. You see, the author refers to the female as a "girl" so is she of age to be drinking? Hemingway also refers to the male as a "man". This brings up another question, how are they related to each other? Are they together? Is she being held hostage? I also noticed that this story is very mysterious. Hemingway doesn't tell us everything. He doesn't explain who the two characters are or how they're related in any way. He does however explain the physical setting very well with descriptive details.
In "The Sniper" I noticed the suspense building as you read on. I also noticed how the author made the reader be more on the main character's side and made you want for him to win the battle. And in the end O'Flaherty made you feel grief because the other sniper ended up being his brother. I also noticed that O'Flaherty put a lot of physiological setting into the story. The mood was suspenseful and at the end there was a lot of emotion into the one last sentence. "Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into the his brother's face".

The Sniper: 30 minutes
Hills like White Elephants: 35 minutes
The Return: 30 minutes
My Fake Boyfriend: 60 minutes

Reading Times

The Sniper (in the short story book)
30 minutes

Hills like White Elephants (also in short story book)
35 minutes

My fake boyfriend
Monday: 25 minutes
Tuesday: 30 minutes
Wednesday: 10 minutes
Thursday: no reading it's my TVD day!
friday: no reading
saturday: no reading
sunday: 15 minutes

Literacy Elements

My fake boyfriend is a story on Wattpad and it doesn't particularly have "pages" more like chapters so i'll just post how many chapters i've read.

Monday: 3 chapters about 30 minutes

Tuesday: 2 chapters around 25 minutes 

Wednesday: 20 minutes 2 chapters 

Thursday: did not read, watched TVD instead!!

Friday: 1 hour maybe 5 chapters

Saturday: ran a race, than slept all day <3 

Sunday: 20 minutes 2 chapters

In "To Dah-Duh" point of view seems like a strong element. I don't know, maybe it's because it was our groups topic that day. But the point of view is first person. It seemed like she was looking back on it. The grand-daughter was narrating the story. I can tell because on page 129 it says, " She died and I lived, but always to this day even, within the shadow of her death. For a brief period i was grown i went to live alone, like one doing penance, 17 in a loft above a noisy factory in downtown New York...". I think her point of view is omniscient because she's looking back on it so she knows everything that has happened.
My observation matters because if you didn't know what the point of view was or who was narrating the story you'd be very confused as to where the story was coming from. The story wouldn't be the same or make sense if you didn't know who the narrator was. If you thought it was the mother it wouldn't make sense and the same goes for Dah-Duh. I think out of all the literacy elements point of view is the most prominent, and also the easiest.  

First quarter evaluation

This quarter was like a learning experience for me to get into the hang of things. I have been coming to class prepared most of the time. And I've been doing my reading, wordy wise cards, and my blog posts. I have learned that when you are posting a comment you have to scroll down and do the little are you a robot test. If you don't NONE of your comments will be published and it's like you didn't even do it. Yeah, sucks for me. I think this is a pretty tough class, no slacking off here. There's lots of work to be done.

What I would do differently next quarter is keep up with my comment log throughout the quarter. It's not fun to sit there and try to find all your comments. I tried, and failed. I gave up after 2 hours, I said enough is enough. Next quarter will be different though, comments will be published accurately and comment logs will be kept up with. But anyways, yay class of 2016 we did it! We got through our 1st quarter of highschool, and many more will follow..

Reading Time

To Build a Fire: 55 minutes
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children: 25 minutes
Da-Duh: 35 minutes
A&P: 15 minutes
My fake Boyfriend: 30 minutes