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.

Metaphor

The wolf blew the house away like a tornado would.

Six word story

Elementary. Middle school. High school. College!

Question #22

22) Explain the significance of stanzas five and six of "Red Riding Hood."
The significance of stanzas five and six in the poem Red Riding Hood is that both of them had a form of deception. Stanza 5 example of deception is with the eyeless beetle finding its way through the maze and with stanza 6 the deception is believing that nothing can haunt a new house, he believed if he built a summer house on Cape Ann he would be able to get away from his mother and her departed soul.

Little Red Riding Hood

Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else; so she was always called 'Little Red-Cap.'

One day her mother said to her: 'Come, Little Red-Cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine; take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good. Set out before it gets hot, and when you are going, walk nicely and quietly and do not run off the path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then your grandmother will get nothing; and when you go into her room, don't forget to say, "Good morning", and don't peep into every corner before you do it.'

'I will take great care,' said Little Red-Cap to her mother, and gave her hand on it.

The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red-Cap entered the wood, a wolf met her. Red-Cap did not know what a wicked creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him.

'Good day, Little Red-Cap,' said he.

'Thank you kindly, wolf.'

'Whither away so early, Little Red-Cap?'

'To my grandmother's.'

'What have you got in your apron?'

'Cake and wine; yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger.'

'Where does your grandmother live, Little Red-Cap?'

'A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood; her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below; you surely must know it,' replied Little Red-Cap.

The wolf thought to himself: 'What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful—she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both.' So he walked for a short time by the side of Little Red-Cap, and then he said: 'See, Little Red-Cap, how pretty the flowers are about here—why do you not look round? I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing; you walk gravely along as if you were going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry.'

Little Red-Cap raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought: 'Suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay; that would please her too. It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time'; and so she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers. And whenever she had picked one, she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther on, and ran after it, and so got deeper and deeper into the wood.

Meanwhile the wolf ran straight to the grandmother's house and knocked at the door.

'Who is there?'

'Little Red-Cap,' replied the wolf. 'She is bringing cake and wine; open the door.'

'Lift the latch,' called out the grandmother, 'I am too weak, and cannot get up.'

The wolf lifted the latch, the door sprang open, and without saying a word he went straight to the grandmother's bed, and devoured her. Then he put on her clothes, dressed himself in her cap laid himself in bed and drew the curtains.

Little Red-Cap, however, had been running about picking flowers, and when she had gathered so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out on the way to her.

She was surprised to find the cottage-door standing open, and when she went into the room, she had such a strange feeling that she said to herself: 'Oh dear! how uneasy I feel today, and at other times I like being with grandmother so much.' She called out: 'Good morning,' but received no answer; so she went to the bed and drew back the curtains. There lay her grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and looking very strange.

'Oh! grandmother,' she said, 'what big ears you have!'

'The better to hear you with, my child,' was the reply.

'But, grandmother, what big eyes you have!' she said.

'The better to see you with, my dear.'

'But, grandmother, what large hands you have!'

'The better to hug you with.'

'Oh! but, grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have!'

'The better to eat you with!'

And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up Red-Cap.

When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud. The huntsman was just passing the house, and thought to himself: 'How the old woman is snoring! I must just see if she wants anything.' So he went into the room, and when he came to the bed, he saw that the wolf was lying in it. 'Do I find you here, you old sinner!' said he. 'I have long sought you!' Then just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf. When he had made two snips, he saw the little Red-Cap shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying: 'Ah, how frightened I have been! How dark it was inside the wolf'; and after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe. Red-Cap, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they filled the wolf's belly, and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once, and fell dead.

Then all three were delighted. The huntsman drew off the wolf's skin and went home with it; the grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Red-Cap had brought, and revived, but Red-Cap thought to herself: 'As long as I live, I will never by myself leave the path, to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.'

It also related that once when Red-Cap was again taking cakes to the old grandmother, another wolf spoke to her, and tried to entice her from the path. Red-Cap, however, was on her guard, and went straight forward on her way, and told her grandmother that she had met the wolf, and that he had said 'good morning' to her, but with such a wicked look in his eyes, that if they had not been on the public road she was certain he would have eaten her up. 'Well,' said the grandmother, 'we will shut the door, that he may not come in.' Soon afterwards the wolf knocked, and cried: 'Open the door, grandmother, I am Little Red-Cap, and am bringing you some cakes.' But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Red-Cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness. But the grandmother saw what was in his thoughts. In front of the house was a great stone trough, so she said to the child: 'Take the pail, Red-Cap; I made some sausages yesterday, so carry the water in which I boiled them to the trough.' Red-Cap carried until the great trough was quite full. Then the smell of the sausages reached the wolf, and he sniffed and peeped down, and at last stretched out his neck so far that he could no longer keep his footing and began to slip, and slipped down from the roof straight into the great trough, and was drowned. But Red-Cap went joyously home, and no one ever did anything to harm her again.

1) I believe one reason the story Little Red Riding hood was chosen by Anne Sexton was because the short story was very popular with kids and would be favored by people reading the book. Other reasons why it could have been chosen could have been because the story shows how ones ways can transform after excruciating acts have occurred to them. For example little red ridding hood was very careless before she meet the wolf but after the incident took place i am pretty sure she will become more cautious when meeting new individuals.

"Auguries of Innocense"

Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight

1)This stanza from William Blakes poem "Auguries of Innocense" expresses how every day & night there are children born in the world who are born in to rich wealthy homes & some children are born in to homes not so rich and wealthy.

2)One literary device the author uses in this stanza is antithesis.The author uses sentences of similar construction in this poem but the sentences contrary meaning that are placed side by side, conflicting one another other.