Desiray's Blog

I agree with Ginnie's statement, "You don't pass or fail at being a person." I agree with this statement because if you are a human being then you are a person who is going to make mistakes in life and you will just learn from them. As humans we are going to fail at some things in life, but that's fine because next time you will know what to do better. Technically, you don't pass in life because there is always room for improvement and to be better. "Practice makes perfect." Failure is normal because as a human you begin to grow and make changes to improve. Competition between people means that there will be the winners and the losers. If you are on the losing side other people tend to make you feel down or that you didn't try hard enough which can make someone feel less of a person and they will feel like that they failed. This can bring a person's confidence and self-esteem down because of what another person think bad about them. I don...

In Neil Gaiman book there are many stories that can be told in different ways. The conflict of the adult world versus the world of children through imagination. For example, Ursula is a evil character in the book. Although, the narrator sees Ursula as a monster, his father sees her as his beautiful partner. Ursula is seen as a monster by the narrator because she is going to cause conflict between his family. Ursula moves out the house which resolves the conflict, but she is seen by the narrator that she is no longer living.

In the book, The Ocean at the End of the Lane , the three Hempstock women are the Triple Goddess because they wasn't conceived the natural way. Triple Goddesses are known as the Mother, Maiden and Crone archetypes. The Goddesses and the Hempstock women are in different stages of life. Lettie is young and innocent, Ginnie is the mother who is living her life and Old Mrs. Hempstock is the Crone, who is the most powerful than all of the other women. The Hempstocks and the Triple Goddesses are similar because they represent the three stages in a female's life. Lettie is portrayed as the Maiden because of her age. Mrs.Hempstock is portrayed as the Mother because of her concerned, motherly nature. Old Mrs.Hempstock is portrayed as the Crone because she is older and powerful. The Hempstocks are believed to have powers that others do not have.

A situation where I believed something for a long time was when my grandmother told me that my pet cat had ran away, but in all reality she had to put her down. I loved my cat so much because she was like a best friend to me. She used to sleep with me and we always played together. For years, I thought that my cat had ran away from home because that was what I was told and believed it. Although, my grandmother told me this, I was still confused because I thought that my cat had had a good life living with us, but I still had believed it because I was young and gullible. As I grew older my grandmother finally had told me what really had happened to my pet cat. She told me that she had to put her down because the vet recommended it because she was old and sick. I was much older now so I understood it because I wouldn't had wanted my cat to suffer in any way so I forgave my grandmother. My grandmother also told me that she didn't want to tell me what really happened to her because...

The fairy tale that I am going to write about is Little Red Riding Hood. The story was that one beautiful day Little Red Riding Hood was sent by her mother to take some goodies to her grandmother. Before Little Red Riding Hood left her mother told her not to talk to strangers and don't get distracted by anything. While walking Little Red Riding Hood seen some beautiful flowers so she began to pick them without paying attention to her surroundings. Little Red Riding Hood was so naive and forgot about what her mother told her not to do and behind her came a big wolf. The wolf asked her where she was going and she told him without hesitation. Little Red Riding Hood began to talk to her grandmother's house and the wolf took a shortcut and went there and swallowed her grandmother whole. Little Red Riding Hood arrived at her grandmother house and there was the wolf dressed up pretending to be her grandmother. Little Red Riding Hood suspected that her "grandmother" looked an...

According to Hjortshoj, a predatory reader is a strategy of reading that can be useful because it can help get what you need out of the text you're reading. Hjortshoj says that you need to choose different strategies to use to read different reading assignments. If you learn different reading strategies then you can know different reading assignments better or more in depth. Reading involves strategies that you can learn instead of just simply reading. According to Hjortshoj, being a successful reader means that you understand that there are strategies and different ways to read to think beyond of what you have read. If you don't know the five steps of the writing process then your first draft might be okay, but you should learn the different ways to know what to expect in your writing. You will know what you did wrong the first time and now you can learn from your mistakes so you can have a good paper. The one draft and done model means getting directly into something. Instead...