Reaction to "A Worn Path"

The story “A Worn Path” is really tricky to understand. At first I thought that everybody cared about Phoenix Jackson and that her grandson resulted to be dead at the end. After reading the story again and after the teacher’s suggestion about Jackson being a charity case, I notice that the story was different. Phoenix Jackson walked through the woods towards the city and she encounters with the hunter. The hunter seems kind of nice at first and we may think he cares for her, but then he wanted to feel powerful and superior and he pointed his gun at her to see if he can scare her. The woman in the town helped her with the shoelaces in a way that suggests she feels sorry for her. At the end the nurses ask her if her grandson is okay, but all this kindness is just a costume they wear to hide their true feelings for her.

Reaction to "A Walk to the Jetty"

At first you may think Annie has no love whatsoever for her family or her country. When she wakes up she lets you know that she does not want to go to England, but she does not want to stay in Antigua. Trough the story Annie describes the day of her departure. It is a very interesting story divide by half. The first half of the story she show us cold feelings about her leaving her family and Antigua. The second half of the story she is feeling more sadness as she starts to see the buildings and the people she is leaving behind. I really liked this story because it shows the change of mind of individual as time passes. I think that is usual that Annie feels a bit sad at the end, but she showed it by holding her parents’ hands tightly. I firmly believe that she wanted to hear her dad saying he loves her, but she never expresses this directly.

Reaction to "Columbus In Chains"

I think that the way of thinking of the subject in this piece of writing is presented in a very mature way. Usually when we are made to believe that the person that discovered us , in this case Christophe Columbus, is a great person filled with both religion and integrity, and the reality is always different. In this story I loved the Annie expresses her point of view about Columbus. She marked the words “The Great Man Can No Longer Just Get Up an Go” with such anger and with a certain disrespect that feels almost like she is laughing at him and marking him like they marked her ancestors that were slaves. The fact that she wrote those words in Old English lettering was also wrote to show that she mastered new things and that she is overcoming the oppression that her family felt.

Christopher Columbus

Summary of Christopher Columbus’ information
My information is about a historian’s theory about Christopher Columbus name. We have heard that nobody knows for certain where his body was buried or if he was Catalan or Genovese, but this story is different. The historian Luis Ulloa, from Peru, states that Christopher Columbus real name was John Baptist, because sometimes he signed himself as Xristo-Ferens. This name means “the bearer of Christ” and Ulloa thinks this is directly related to his name, even though most people think that this is just a form of drawing attention to himself, because he was the spreader of the Christian faith in the discovered places. The astronomer and mapmaker Jaume Ferrer de Blanes wrote to Columbus a letter that said: “I am sure I am not mistaken when I say that the position you hold, Sir, confers on you the character of God’s apostle and ambassador, ordered by His divine will to make you know His holy name in place truly unknown”. It is believed that Xristo-Ferens is derived from Columbus name and was an accepted form to say John The Baptist, this explains why he didn’t use his Italian name Cristoforo. Another point of view is the Catalan origin, but the theory was stated by an imaginary explorer named Joan Colom, whose name has not been sufficient information to trace. Columbus was a devotee of John the Baptist, this information was founded in the Libro de las Profecias, written by Columbus and Fray Gaspar Gorricio. An important fact is the name of the present Puerto Rico, that was named Saint John Baptist. This are all interesting fact about Columbus and of Luis Ulloa theory. But the search will always continue. To read more visit Cristopher Columbus, “Joan Colom” and Jon Skolp.

Perfect Like a Dream

He picked me up, like every Saturday. I felt more attracted to him than before, like it was burning inside of me, like if there was something in his body that called me, that screamed at me, like it begged for a touch, for a kiss, for something more than the usual. We loved and wanted each other in a way people would see, but ignored. I knew he was desperate, but he seemed calmed. He told me everything he wanted in sweetest of silences. Our hands touched, our lips rushed and slowly we discovered the true desire we had in the half an hour drive to the place where it all happened. It was the most interesting drive of my life, of his life, and the best prologue to the novel of or growth.
We arrived, and then it all change. Our feelings turned stronger. Kisses were stronger. He touched my back and grabbed my waist; he knew that was my favorite. Then he delicately kissed my neck and I have to admit I was so high, because his kiss was so soft and warm and filled with love that I felt like in a journey of love and discovery. He walks while kissing me, leading me to his room. Every step he took was so determined and so sure of everything, but I know he’s scared like I am too even though that was what I wanted. He filled me with confidence and with a feeling of power that anyone would get scared of. With his delicate hands, he opened the door and keep walking, but this time towards the bed. He had red curtains and his room could not feel more like home.
He put me in bed, this time his hands were free to do what they wanted. He discovered me like I discovered him. I got him out of his clothes. His sheet felt warm, and it was perfect like in movie or a dream. We got lost between the sheets, we played we laughed, we kissed, we touched, we felt invincible, we made love, yes, it is the right term for what happened there. I have never felt so love in my life, for me it was perfect, almost unreal. Once in my life thought this was wrong, but it happened, and I must admit it was the most beautiful moment of my life.
It is five in the morning of a Wednesday, I wake up without him and then it hits me again, he is not here and I dreamt about him again. Sometimes I feel he’s here, sometimes I see him, sometimes I hear him, and sometimes I feel his breath on my neck or his hand on mi waist. Then I have to continue my day, waiting for the moment I see him again. You may think I’m waiting in vain, but this time I want you to know that he always comes back, he always gets here.

Reaction "Everyday Use"

ALICE WALKER (1944- )
Everyday Use
For Your Grandmama
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I read Everyday Use before in High School and we really thought lot about it. Personally I think Dee’s attitude towards the burning of the hose and her sister, the state her family lived in or the way she acted about it and said she would not bring friends is totally selfish. Maggie seems like a really shy girl, who thinks life is not giving her opportunities, she is always with her mother, this attitude comes after she burned her skin when the house burned down. I think Dee’s motive for coming home with her friend was trying to get valuable thing from her house so she can own it or sell it. I really felt that Maggie and her mother have great love for the objects that reflects their heritage and past. When Dee arrives to the house with her friend she does not shows affection to her sister or mother she just takes pictures and focused on quilts that her grandma and aunt did by themselves and other things around the hose, showing more interest on those things that in her family. I clearly get that Dee was ashamed of the way she lived in and she changed her name because of that and because of the fact that she felt her family chasing her trough her name. Some of our families have that special skill and talent that everyone knows us for and for that we should value all those thing we learn, because that is going to be one of the most valuable memories of our childhood and our lives.