My Short Story

Main Character: Marley (runner name :juju)

Plot:
It's ten years after the militia initially overthrew Morsi. Egypt is now a dictatorship. Marley is a "runner". She brings illegal  goods to the poor (food, medicine, education). Part of a large group who does this. She goes to a rich school where no one there really has any idea of how bad Egypt has gotten.

Setting Macro:

• Egypt
• Year 2023
• 10 years after the militia took over

1.       Meso

·         Cairo, Egypt

1.       Micro

·         Children of Atum school for the gifted (pre-k through 12)

Psychological Macro:

• World trying to help Egypt
• World is scared of Militia

Meso

• people are pretty depressed
• Most have lost hope for liberation

1.       Micro

·         Schools for the rich (everyones ignorant and doesn’t really have an idea about how bad their country is and is getting)

·         Her schoolmates agree with the dictator

·         Everyone worships Atum

·         Main character worships no one but likes the idea of muslim

Short Stories

I noticed a pattern of darkness in the short stories we have read. In each one it shows an extreme situation where 9/10 times, someone dies. I think these stories all have a connection to real world human cruelty towards each other. I think these stories in particular are kind of useless though. I think we should be reading stories that we as students would like, or would write about. I just highly doubt that anyone in our class will be writing about weird old angel men being found facedown in mud. I think we should be reading stories that are a lot less confusing and show better character formation.

All the stories we have read are extremely confusing because they either have very advanced vocabulary or are just poorly written. I think we should be reading more about character and story organization. I would like to read more stories of past students. I really enjoyed reading the story by Dr.D's old college student, especially because we talked about what was good, bad and what was expected in this class.

Mon: 25 min TGC
Tues: 30 min LFA
Wed: 32 min AFIOS
Thurs: 25 min TGC
Fri: 30 min TGC
Sat: 20 min AFIOS

Ebook

I have many concerns for this E book. I am not very comfortable with everyone reading mine, as it was very personal for me. I do understand and agree with the concept of letting your classmates read your personal writing, to become closer, but honestly its easier said that done. I am concerned my paper will be miss understood, maybe even offend some people. I am a little excited by the idea of the class coming together to read each others papers, and creating a whole E book; but as I said it would be weird, mostly because I don't know how everyone in my class thinks, or what they think about me.

I am a bit confused about what we're going to do when it comes to media. Since Bailey and I are the media people, we have a lot of stress to please everyone. I like the idea of adding songs to each paper, I feel its gives each paper the ability to make the reader feel what the writer felt when they created the paper. Then again not everyone's music tastes are the same, so I imagine there will be some conflict in that area.

Reading

9/9 - glass castle 25
9/8 - glass castle 30
9/7 - glass castle 20
9/6 -  glass castle 60
9/5 - glass castle 20

Dialogue

Dialogue between Katniss from the Hunger Games, and Harry Potter from Harry Potter.

K - Hi I'm Katniss, whats your name?

H - I'm Harry Potter, the wizard  who defeated Voldemort...

K -  who?

H - YOU DON'T KNOW WHO VOLDEMORT IS?!

K - No.... and did you say you were a wizard? Wizards dont exist.

H - Oh I see, you're a muggle.

K - Muggle?

H - A non-wizard.

K - You must be from the capital... you're really strange.

H - Capitol? I live in London.

K - Whats a London? Is that a nickname for a district?

H - It's a city. where are you from.

K - Panem.

H - Is that even a real place?

K - Where have you been for the past 100 years.

My LN

I'm excited to finish my Literacy Narrative because I really like my topic. Although I am having a little trouble. I'm finding it hard to edit anything other than grammar. I cant think of new ideas to write about without messing up my whole paper. I'd like my classmates help with coming up with new ideas for my paper. So far the peer review group is really helping me. 

I do have some questions about the topic though. Id like to know if the paper has to be very restricted to only writing and reading. I have ideas I'm not sure are allowed to write about. So I need some help with the finer details of the paper.

Literacy Narrative

This week I read a Literacy Narrative that changed my view on writing, more than I thought possible. The paper was about a girl who, at an early age, discovered a way to escape from real world problems, and into a freedom fueled by music. At any age people suddenly realize that the world isn't as welcoming as we thought when we were kids. The existential crisis we all go through just happened to come early for the author. She was forced to take Piano lessons one day and later figured out that music, in itself is an escape from this crisis.

My favorite quote from this paper is "Everyone's addicted to something that takes away the pain of living, my addiction is music." When I read this, the incredible truth was like a slap to the face. For so long I had tried finding a way to relieve the stress I had felt as I lived through every day. Music was my gateway to a world I had been looking at through all the wrong angles. Sometimes others cant understand why I walk around with my ear buds basically glued to my ears; my answer is always "I like music" In many ways this is a lie, Music is what runs through my veins, music is what fuels the flame that, ultimately, keeps me going. No matter what your passion is, if it makes you see the world through the eyes of the artist you really are, then don't let anyone criticize it. I chose this Piece of writing because, it tells the world how much music affects people, in a much more beautiful way than I personally could ever be capable of.

The Glass Castle

I am currently reading The Glass Castle. The book is about a family that's always on the run from what the father says is "the FBI", but in reality is just debt collectors. You read from the point of view of the youngest daughter, who we see grows to be extremely - almost scary - mature at the young age of 4. She can read, write, curse, and can shoot practically any gun; her father taught her these skills in case the "feds" ever catch up to them in the desert.

This book connects to the world in ways I never thought possible. Never did could I fathom a four year old who was a better shooter than her father, or a family who over the years has been so hardened by loss and rejection from the outside world. It makes me regret things I've said in the past about how hard my life was because I didn't have the newest I-phone. It makes me wonder how many children out there are suffering while I'm sitting in my air conditioned house with enough food to last for a year.  I wonder how many people throughout my life I've just walked passed and didn't give a second thought to how they were doing, I think everyone should read this book.


8/27- the glass castle 20 min
8/28- the fault in our stars 25 min
8/29- looking for alaska 30 min
8/30- the fault in our stars 30 min
9/2- The glass castle 25 min