lleana's Questions "Field Guide To Getting Lost" Abandon "How did Marine die and what impace did her sudden death have upon others?"

In the story "Field Guide To Getting Lost" there was a character by the name of Marine, who was one of Rebeccas child hood friends. Marine loved playing instruments, she was even in a band. Rebecca states that one day she went to watch Marine, her mother, and her haughty cocaine dealer friend play during midnight mass." Marine was a drug user, she used drugs before and she even told Rebecca she was off of drugs. The Tuesday when Marine and Rebecca went out to have a good time, that is the same day she died. At the party marine took Heroine, but it was not the Heroine that killed her. It was the shot of speed her companions gave her to "wake her up": the heroine and speed are a deadly combination. She could have been saved if the friends who she was with called the paramedics who could've revived her with a single injection, but the friends were scared of legal consequences. Marine sudden death affected many people, her mother, her family, her husband, and most of all her friend Rebecca. Rebecca saved Marines clothes, that she left in her car, that early Tuesday, Rebecca even saved the tootsie roll wrapper that was in one of the shirts pocket. In the story Abandon, Rebecca uses symbolism and irony to coney the reader, She uses symolism by having the drugs represent some sort of escape for Marine. She uses irony by stating that Marine quit using drugs but in the end gets killed by the combination of Heroine and Speed.

Abandon

1) What was Rebecca's relation to Marine?
2) What is the significant of naming Marine's friend a cocaine dealer friend a cocaine dealer friend?
3) What is the importance of Marines marriage?
4) How does the author use imagery when describing Marines death?
5) What is the importance of Marines husband?
6) How does Rebecca use symbolism in this story?
7) What three things defined Marine for Rebecca?
8) What is the significance of Marines beauty?
9) Why would Rebecca rather describe Marine as three places than three characteristics?
10) Why is the importance of describing Marines family relationship?

The Full Moon

It's Wednesday and my lil man comes today.
I pick him up at noon, he doesn't know ima surprise tonight
And show him the full moon.
We get to the house it's a quarter pass nine
I tell him jump behind the truck and sit on your behind.
This is the first time in a long while we actually get to bond
Ever since his mother took him from me he's been gone.
Me and the little man use to be best friends
I would always tell him everything from start to the end
Then one day his mother took him and he was gone like the wind.
But now he's here with me an were goin to look at the full moon.
We have the time of our lives playing and watching the moon
If I could I would stay up wit him all the way till noon
But if I don't drop him back off before 11 his mother will act like a baboon.
I wish things could have been different so the three of us could sit and watch the full moon.

A winter walk

It was November 24th I was leaving the bar on a cold winter snow night. The snow was coming down like bullets coming down in the Vietnam war. As I was walking I started to see all my fallen friends who were standing next to me in battle. I hurried home and quickly went to sleep

Songs Lyrics and Poetry

Tupac "Keep Ya Head Up" This song would be justified as a poem because it catches the readers eye and has a strong emotional tune to it.


"Keep Ya Head Up"

Little somethin for my godson Elijah and a little girl named Corinne

[Verse One:]

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots
I give a holler to my sisters on welfare
Tupac cares, and don't nobody else care
And uhh, I know they like to beat ya down a lot
When you come around the block brothas clown a lot
But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up
Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up
And when he tells you you ain't nuttin don't believe him
And if he can't learn to love you you should leave him
Cause sista you don't need him
And I ain't tryin to gas ya up, I just call em how I see em
You know it makes me unhappy (what's that)
When brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy
And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?
I think it's time to kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women
And if we don't we'll have a race of babies
That will hate the ladies, that make the babies
And since a man can't make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one
So will the real men get up
I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your head up

[Chorus]

Keep ya head up, oooo child things are gonna get easier
ooooo child things are gonna get brighter [2x]

[Verse Two:]

Aiyyo, I remember Marvin Gaye, used to sing ta me
He had me feelin like black was tha thing to be
And suddenly tha ghetto didn't seem so tough
And though we had it rough, we always had enough
I huffed and puffed about my curfew and broke the rules
Ran with the local crew, and had a smoke or two
And I realize momma really paid the price
She nearly gave her life, to raise me right
And all I had ta give her was my pipe dream
Of how I'd rock the mic, and make it to tha bright screen
I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents
It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent
And in the end it seems I'm headin for tha pen
I try and find my friends, but they're blowin in the wind
Last night my buddy lost his whole family
It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity
It seems tha rain'll never let up
I try to keep my head up, and still keep from gettin wet up
You know it's funny when it rains it pours
They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor
Say there ain't no hope for the youth and the truth is
it ain't no hope for tha future
And then they wonder why we crazy
I blame my mother, for turning my brother into a crack baby
We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup
And even though you're fed up
Huh, ya got to keep your head up

[Chorus]

[Verse Three:]

And uhh
To all the ladies havin babies on they own
I know it's kinda rough and you're feelin all alone
Daddy's long gone and he left you by ya lonesome
Thank the Lord for my kids, even if nobody else want em
Cause I think we can make it, in fact, I'm sure
And if you fall, stand tall and comeback for more
Cause ain't nuttin worse than when your son
wants to kno why his daddy don't love him no mo'
You can't complain you was dealt this
hell of a hand without a man, feelin helpless
Because there's too many things for you to deal with
Dying inside, but outside you're looking fearless
While tears, is rollin down your cheeks
Ya steady hopin things don't all down this week
Cause if it did, you couldn't take it, and don't blame me
I was given this world I didn't make it
And now my son's getten older and older and cold
From havin the world on his shoulders
While the rich kids is drivin Benz
I'm still tryin to hold on to my survivin friends
And it's crazy, it seems it'll never let up, but
please... you got to keep your head up

Poems.Org

The poem I chose was Patience by Kay Ryan.
I chose it because I am working on my behavioral skills to become a patient individual.
;)

Rhinoceros

I have been a Rhinoceros ever since I can remember, probably ever since elementary. I used to get real angry when things would not go my way or when people would not listen to me. Over the years I have tried to become more like a Berenger than a Rhinoceros.