Poem- Jing Ye Si By Li Bai

Translation:

So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed 

could  there have been a frost already

Lifting up my head to look, I found it was the moonlight

Sinking back again I thought suddenly of home.

This a small poem that used to be told to little children. It’s about someone who is about to go to bed  and  sees a moonlight and that moonlight reminds him of home it reminds him of his home. I know more about the culture by that, In the chinese culture moon, mostly full autumn moon means family reunion and celebration

An Unexpected Gift- By Nayt Snyder

Genre: Short story, Horor


Q12: What is an exciting or horrifying or sad or funny part of what you have read?


The story was about death who goes and visits a family at christmas and they are opening presents, than the little boy of the family can see death and asked him questions like How come you didn't get any Cwissmass pwesents, Mista?" The little boy and death have a conversation and the little boy gives death his tasseled hat. Death new that the grandpa was going to get hurt so he told the little boy ,''Your grandfather is going to go upstairs in a few minutes. He forgot one of the presents up there. You should help him with it, otherwise he may fall and hurt himself." Death leaves than after 13 years he comes back to the family but the grandpa is dead. The boy remembers death and he puts a note next to three embroidered mittens and in the note he writes ''To the man whom I gave my tasseled hat:
Thank you for the extra time with my Grandfather. Please take him home safely.''  When death reads that message he is with the Grandpa of the boy. I Found the part with the boy seeing death quit horrifying.

Elements of the genre horror are supernatural creatures, Ghost, fantasies, science fiction

Elements of the genre horror used in this story is ghost, (people who are in the underworld).

After reading this I have learned that people still remember thing even if the event had occurred a long time ago, or if the person past away. 

When the boy sees death.

The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Genre: Short story
Q4) What kind of writing stye and language does the writer use? Quote examples to support what you say.


The writing is using a Journal format as a writing style. In The story she is talking about how her husband is very controlling and  he is a doctor. She is a woman that has a sickness and her husband treats her, and in he forbids her to write and work , he wants her to rest. This is the woman's secret diary. In the diary she talks about the house and how she does not  like the wall paper  in her bedrooms she calls it “revolting.” The woman also talks about how there is Ghost, and she finds it scary. The story is mostly about her life. how her husband  controls her, the problems she has and her inspecting the yellow wall paper that she dislikes. The woman changes her story a lot, because one minute she is talking about her feelings and the other minute she is back talking about the wall paper, that shows it is a Journal. She is writing her story in third person limited,  the writer writes the story in 3rd person but describes the feelings and thoughts of the woman. For example in the story the writer writes '
'' fact is I am getting a little afraid of John'', that is only her feelings and her toughs. In the story the woman writes a lot about her feelings, another example is ''John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no REASON to suffer, and that satisfies him.'' That is another taught.


Elements of the genre short story character, setting, conflict, plot and theme.


The elements that are used for character is the woman who is writing the Journal, the minor character is the husband. The setting is in the house. The plot is the woman's feelings and how she going through her sickness and the theme is that you should always clear your mind somehow (release your feelings). This woman she has sickness but she uses this journal to clear her mind. I think if she does not clear her mind she would have gone crazy.

The way people interact through this short story is trough there thoughts and feeling and the way they feel about the situation.

Three Questions- Leo Tolstoy

Genre: Fantasy

Q5: Describe the main characters. How is she/he like or unlike you? How interesting is she/he to read about? 

The main character is the king he  wants to always be correct, like doing things at right time, listening to the correct people. He never wants to be doing something wrong. He asks questions to other people, he does not want to figure  things out on his own he needs to have an answer from someone else. I fond quit interesting because sometimes i am also like that, I would want to be correct, therefore I ask many people questions because I expect them to have the right answer and the king was exactly like that in the story. 

Elements of the genre fantasy are  medieval universe, magic power, talking Animals

The elements that are used in this fantasy is the medieval universe.

The way people interact through this short story, is that people rely on other people, and do not think for them self sometimes.

Harry- Rosemary Timperley

Genre: Mystery, Horror
Q12) What is an exciting or horrifying or sad or funny part of what you have read.

The horrifying part is when Christine's adoptive mother find out that the imaginary friend of her child is her brother, and that he past away and is a ghost.  The only way he is going to disappear is when he gets his sister Christine. Another horrifying part is when she comes running to the school asking for her child and they say that ''her brother called for her. the mother just found out that he is a ghost and the only way he would leave is when gets his sister back. The mom runs home  looking for her child and can not find her. In the end they do not know where she is, and the police is looking for her. The only people that know the story is the mother and the woman who saw the brother die. That scared me a lot, and I already hate horror movies, therefore this was quit scary.

Elements of the genre horror are supernatural creatures, Ghost, fantasies, science fiction
Elements of the genre Mystery are suspense, action, clues.

The elements that are used for horror are ghost and for mystery they used suspense.

After reading this short story I learned that people have trouble understanding each other. That  you cannot understand some ones problem or what they are going through unless you know the history behind the story.

Do they hear you when you cry- Fauziya Kassindja

Q13) How has the writer used their own personal life in what you have read?

This novel is non fiction that means it's a true story. Fauziya Kassindja has put her personal life in to this novel by talking about her religion, family, traditions in her home country and the way she lived.   Fauziya Kassindja was islamic and is from Tongo, she is the youngest out of the family. The reason she fled to America was because her dad passed away and her Aunt got her a husband and before she gets married she has  to go under female circumcision. On trying to flee the country she is caught at the immigration country and is arrested and put in jail.  She has been in Jail for quit a while and she has given up hope. She became friends with a law student  Layli Miller Bashir, and she is trying to get her out. During the case she wanted to go back home. The case they even mentioned the tradition of woman circumcision, and that it's not right, in the end after all that fighting they won the case. She tells in the end that the people in her tribe are good people but people do bad things, and that if something is tradition does not make it right.