Danielle Jasinski
Language Arts
January 22, 2010
Johann
The Necklace
Do you ever feel like you’re not good enough? Everywhere you go there’s always someone better than you? That’s how Mathilde felt in the “The Necklace.” She made herself feel like she wasn’t good enough, and always wanted more. A very selfish person. Although she already had a good life, a great husband, enough money and a nice house she was never appreciative of it. When you’re always wanting more you’ll find out all the great things you already have will be gone too.
Mathilde was a very selfish girl. She only thought of herself, and no one else. When it came to money and gifts Mathilde needed to look and have the best things out there. When this happened never Mathilde really was grateful for the things she had that she misplaced a necklace she once had. Now that a necklace she thought was 40,000 dollars was gone, she was the one that had to pay for it. Back in the 1800’s that was a lot of money. Not many people had it, and because Mathilde replaced such a necklace they were going to do whatever they could to get the money. Mathilde became poor after that. Coming from a normal life to a worse life, Mathilde should have just been thankful for what she had in the first place.
For this story, I believe that the mode would be tragedy. It starts out as Mathilde not happy. She feels like she isn’t good enough, and everyone is better than her. Mathilde believes everyone has more money, better house, nicer clothes than her, and because she feels this she wants more. That’s when the problems comes in. When she goes to the ball she has to have the nicest dress there, also the most beautiful necklace that she borrowed but lost. When Mathilde loses the necklace that’s when the downfall comes into her life. They have to buy a necklace that they don’t have the money for, and having to do this just because Mathilde needed to look the best one there, they are now broke having to borrow money. In the end Mathilde is miserable and now even more upset with her life.
Although in the end Mathilde still wasn’t happy, it shows what can happen if you’re a greedy person. You’re not always going to get what you want, be the best/ richest person out there, but never compare yourself with other people it only makes you feel worse. That was Mathilde problem and as you can see, and because she did this she ruined her life. If she could have just been happy with what she had, Mathilde wouldn’t have been put into a situation of losing all her money and becoming worse that she already is.
Always wanting more and being a jealous person will never get your far In life. As you can see from what happened from Madame Mathilde life. You need to just except the good things in life instead of always being down and feeling bad about yourself. With always wanting more you’ll figure out that not being grateful of the things you have you could lose them too.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Speak
Danielle Jasinski
Ms. Johann
LA Hour 4
December 17, 2009
Speak Essay
To Speak or NOT
It’s your first day of freshman year. Most girls are excited, jumping up and down and freaking out about how they look. For Melinda that’s a whole different story. She didn’t even want to go to school. She thought it would be her best year of her life. Having tons of friends, flirting with guys, going shopping, but that all changed from just one night at a high school party. Her life has completely different now. No one even talks to her anymore, because of one night of fun. Being raped is a very devastation thing. It really screws up people. Makes them think so much differently of themselves. In the book “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson this shows what can happen to a girl from being raped. Rape is such a horrible thing and needs to stop or else many girls lives are going to be ruined because of it.
People hear the word “rape” and they don’t really think much about it. Yes, it’s bad but they don’t think past it and see what it does to people. In the book “Speak” It shows that Melinda’s life has fallen apart, and she has become depressed. Depression is a very serious matter, it really effects people’s lives. When your depressed you really don’t feel anything. That’s why many girls cut themselves, go bulimic , or even try to kill themselves. Melinda in the book did cut herself, it wasn’t as bad as some girls but it could lead to something worse.
In the book Melinda’s life was never good, that’s why I believe this book was a tragedy. It starts off with Melinda losing all her friends, right there is a big downfall for her. Losing all your friends must be tough, no one would want that to happen to them. Then when the first day of school comes around Melinda has no one, and everyone just makes fun of her. Girls are very sensitive, and for Melinda being made fun of for something that happened to you is worse. The incident that happened over the summer, shut down Melinda and she doesn’t speak out anymore. She’s a no body when it comes to high school. Then in the end, when people find out about Melinda, everything changes. Andy the boy who raped her, is now hated, but still although no one hates her anymore she doesn’t fully have her friends back.
In “Speak” Melinda is the main character. She really relates to many girls in real life. This incident happens a lot to many girls of different ages. And how their personalities change and the way they act just like Melinda too. For some girls getting rape actually will lead up to killing themselves. They feel so sick and disgusted by themselves that they feel no need to live anymore. Melinda wasn’t as close as other girls to killing herself, but as time lead on it could have ended up like that. Although Melinda felt as if her life wasn’t going down the drain, this can change. Just like it has happened. As people found out the real story of her life, she wasn’t hated anymore and she can know talk to people about getting raped.
If you were to look up how many girls kill themselves from being raped, it would show hundreds of thousands girls dying because of it. That’s so many lives that had been taken away because of perverted men and women. So many more lives are going to be lost if rape keeps happening, that’s why men need to stop themselves from doing this, so girls will stop killing themselves.
Ms. Johann
LA Hour 4
December 17, 2009
Speak Essay
To Speak or NOT
It’s your first day of freshman year. Most girls are excited, jumping up and down and freaking out about how they look. For Melinda that’s a whole different story. She didn’t even want to go to school. She thought it would be her best year of her life. Having tons of friends, flirting with guys, going shopping, but that all changed from just one night at a high school party. Her life has completely different now. No one even talks to her anymore, because of one night of fun. Being raped is a very devastation thing. It really screws up people. Makes them think so much differently of themselves. In the book “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson this shows what can happen to a girl from being raped. Rape is such a horrible thing and needs to stop or else many girls lives are going to be ruined because of it.
People hear the word “rape” and they don’t really think much about it. Yes, it’s bad but they don’t think past it and see what it does to people. In the book “Speak” It shows that Melinda’s life has fallen apart, and she has become depressed. Depression is a very serious matter, it really effects people’s lives. When your depressed you really don’t feel anything. That’s why many girls cut themselves, go bulimic , or even try to kill themselves. Melinda in the book did cut herself, it wasn’t as bad as some girls but it could lead to something worse.
In the book Melinda’s life was never good, that’s why I believe this book was a tragedy. It starts off with Melinda losing all her friends, right there is a big downfall for her. Losing all your friends must be tough, no one would want that to happen to them. Then when the first day of school comes around Melinda has no one, and everyone just makes fun of her. Girls are very sensitive, and for Melinda being made fun of for something that happened to you is worse. The incident that happened over the summer, shut down Melinda and she doesn’t speak out anymore. She’s a no body when it comes to high school. Then in the end, when people find out about Melinda, everything changes. Andy the boy who raped her, is now hated, but still although no one hates her anymore she doesn’t fully have her friends back.
In “Speak” Melinda is the main character. She really relates to many girls in real life. This incident happens a lot to many girls of different ages. And how their personalities change and the way they act just like Melinda too. For some girls getting rape actually will lead up to killing themselves. They feel so sick and disgusted by themselves that they feel no need to live anymore. Melinda wasn’t as close as other girls to killing herself, but as time lead on it could have ended up like that. Although Melinda felt as if her life wasn’t going down the drain, this can change. Just like it has happened. As people found out the real story of her life, she wasn’t hated anymore and she can know talk to people about getting raped.
If you were to look up how many girls kill themselves from being raped, it would show hundreds of thousands girls dying because of it. That’s so many lives that had been taken away because of perverted men and women. So many more lives are going to be lost if rape keeps happening, that’s why men need to stop themselves from doing this, so girls will stop killing themselves.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
In the book to build a fire, the man vs. himself, he has lost. He tired to go out to -50 degree weather but that was something he could not do. As he was getting hypothermia the M.C. couldn’t do anything about it. He was lost out in the wilderness with no one. He thought he could go by himself but he could not and that’s his fault. He know is near death and no one knows, besides the dog that had tagged alone with him from the beginning. He is fighting against himself and is losing. And in the end he lost the fight because he slowly froze to death and died.
Monday, January 18, 2010
To build a fire is a great example of man vs. nature. The man went out into the -50 degree cold not perpared. No shoes and barely any clothes. In this case nature is winning. The M.C. is freezing and is close to hypothermia, he doesn't know were he is and only has a dog with him. Although he has a choice to kill the dog he chooses not too. Its been a long time and he has lost feeling in his body. His only choice is to run, and never stop. After minutes of running he collapes, and dies. Nature has beat him in this situation.
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