Im my future, im hoping to be inside the it branch. Im hoping to be to be a programmer, and system developer. I dont really care, if im going to be that, as soon as I get a job inside IT.
My parrents also hopes, that i get into the it area. I love computers, and programming.
In Class we have been reading a book named Esperanza Rising.
The book is around a Mexican girl that is rich and lives on a farm in Mexico. Her Dad dies and the farm burns down. The uncle are trying to overtake the farm, so if Esperanza and hear mom will continue to live on the farm mama need to marry the uncle. Instead mama and Esperanza ran to the U.S. In the U.S. they got a job on a farm together whit some of their friend from the other farm.
Now we are finished the book and we are making the Final Assessment of the book. So im gonna talk a little about the reading strategies I used and a little about similes, personifications and metaphors used in the book.
When I was reading the book Esperanza Rising I mostly used the Strategy ‘’Clarify’’, so when there was something I didn’t understand I usually re-read the page or paragraph. In class we also used this strategy a little like when someone asked a question the teacher found a page in the book and says: ‘’Look at page ## line ##’’. Next time I read a book or novel ill try to use the strategy about asking questions more, because I didn’t use it so much this time. By aksing question you will properly also help other people if they got the same question.
Ive chose a charter view from Esperanza. In the beginning of the book se was rich and didn’t need to do anything. In the book on page 15 it says: ‘’softly humming, Hortensia, the housekeeper came in whit a plate of small sandwiches’’ and ‘’Esperanza couldn’t remember a time when Hortensia had not taken care of her’’. She offered one to Mama. She gets bathes and people doing stiff for her. Every year on her birthday she gets a big party and porcelains dolls. As we get into the middle of the book her dad dies and their house burns down. Esperanza and her mom need to move to California to get work. Esperanza finds it very hard to become poor. ‘’’’Mama,’’ said Esperanza, stopping in the doorway. ‘’We cannot travel in this car. It’s… it’s not clean, and the people do not look trustworthy’’’’ She and her mom get on the first enviable train to California. When they comes out of the train and goes into the line Esperanza sees people in the other like come faster through and asks her mom why they aren’t standing in that line. Her mom answers that they aren’t one of them anymore. In the end of the book Esperanza becomes like a servant. She is sweeping the floor and changing babies. Her mom becomes sick and Esperanza takes care of her. She even starts to work to pay the bills for the medicines. As it says in the book at page 266 ‘’’’But its only three weeks,’’ said Esperanza. ‘’I need more work than that’’
One of the historical things in the story was the great depression in the 1929. The October 20, 1929 was also known as the black Tuesday. Europe, Russia and all the other… the whole world was effected by the ‘’Black Tuesday’’, because most of the prices is controlled from the USA. The great depression was when the stock market in the US went down. This affected the whole world. There were no jobs, all over the US. The author used this in the book, and that made it difficult to strike when there was a kilometer long line of people that would work for the half of what they worked for. As a said the great depression effected the whole world, and all the people in the US, Europe, Russia and all the other where going to all the small farms to get work. People from all over the world also went to the US trying to find some work. Before the great depression the income of the US was $87 billion dollars’ at year, but after the great depression the income was halved down to $40 billion dollars’ at year. As you can see from the income one of the richest nations was fast going broke. This effected Esperanza and her mom in such way, because they weren’t US citizen, and they were trying to get work when lots of other people was trying. As mama says in the book… ‘’It’s only because Miggul and Issabella made sure there was work for us we are here’’ and ‘’ If Agitina handed arranged the papers we came in here’’
In the book Esperanza Rising there was used a lot of similes, personifications and metaphors. I’ve chosen one of each and I’m going to talk a little about them. This is the simile I’ve chosen is: ‘’grinning like a rooster. I’ve found this simile I found in the paragraph that goes like this: ‘’Esperanza smiled at him anyway, because she know she would never spend a night in the same house whit him and he would she be her step-father. She almost wished she would be able to see his face when he realized that they had escaped. He wouldn’t be grinning like a proud roster then.’’ I’ve also found the meanings of the words. The definition of proud is to be very pleased whit yourself or whit someone else that has done well. The meaning of grinning is to smile broadly showing your teeth’s. This slimily is very strong because Esperanza’s mom was due to marry Tio Luis and mama said yes but only to get some carriage so then had time to make plans about going to the USA. Esperanza despises Tio huis. She pretends he will be her step-father. He wouldn’t be sp pound, so ‘’show off’’, so impressive like a rooster in the early morning.
In the book there is also lots of personifications and I’ve also chosen one of them. The one I’ve chosen is the fires anger could not be contained. This personification is used when Esperanzas house was on fire. The fire’s anger shows us its aggression and how it is destroying Esperanza’s life. I think that the fires anger shows us how the house if burning.
There is also lots of Metaphors in the book. The one I’ve chosen is Tio Luis is a goat. This metaphor is used in the sentence: ‘’Mama marry Tio Luis? Mary a goat?’’. The definsion of ‘’marry’’ is to become a person’s husband or wife until the death do you apart. I think this metaphor means that Tio Luis is as stupid and irritating as a goat.
My values and beliefs are the science. I belie in that when you die that’s it, but I hope that there is something after the life. Esperanza’s valises and beliefs are shaped by her religion and her mom and dad. Over time I don’t remember reading about changes of her values and beliefs. The same about the beginning, I don’t remember reading about it.
Today in class we was talking about what strike means and if I would strike if I was a worker like Espiranza.
If I was a migrant worker then I don’t know if ill strike because if I strike will be risking my job by trying to get better wages. But If I strike and it’s getting successful ill get better pay and /or better conditions and maybe even a safe future (depending what I’m striking against. On the other hand if I don’t strike and keep the bad conditions and the unsafe future whit a low amount of pay where I properly nearly can’t can feed my family will have a bigger change to be an us citizen…
If I don’t have any family and I’m young ill properly strike
Today in class we had the feelign of doing the acually housewoork like cleaning cholth
Before we did it I didnet care about what I throug in the wassbin but now i do. I didnet care walking on the floor after it was cleaned.
I learned a lot of things about myself ex. that I could care more.
When we where doing it it felt a little funny but in the end I felt more pround of what I was doing… I felt a little embarrassed when the school workers was laughing at us.
Today in class we discoesed if school a right or a privilege?.
Personally i think school should be a right but unfortsulanny its only a right. In Denmark its a right but otherplaces in the world its only a privilege, like in India.
Today in Espera
nza Rising we fall over the word Mesmerized on page 64, paragraph nr. 2 line 6
The word mesmerized is when you become dependent on something. Mesmerized is when you can’t stop doing something. Mesmerized is when you see something spooky but stays and tries to find out what happens.
At home I got a poster and it’s so wired but i keep looking at it every day to find out what happens and I get a terible hedge of it.
Today in class we discussed why Esperaza and Miguel couldn’t be married.
The reason Esperaza and Miguel couldn’t be married is that Miguel is a housekeepers son and Esperanza is the Ranch owners daughter
