Fiesta by Diaz

I really enjoyed the story Fiesta by Diaz. I felt so sorry for the poor boy Yunior. His father, OMG! I can't believe that his father the SOB would actually take his son to meet 'the other woman.'

The party was a great part of the story. I think that the tia was brilliant. She reminded me of a busy body. She was trying to get some dirt on the father, but I thought that it was funny that Yunior was like 'I'm not telling her.' He loved his father, but didn't love the things that he did.

I feel that he was sick, because of the smell of the car. American things made him sick. He's just getting use to the new surroundings. It's like when I take my friends home, they get car sick, because they are use to the straight and narrow, instead of curvy roads. Yunior, isn't yet use to the American life.

Overall, this was the best story!

blog for thursday January 22nd

I really like the "Born in the USA" poem. It was funny in some parts. I really liked the end .."I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the USA." I think this really hits home for me, because two of my great uncles dies in the Vietnam War. Many brothers went over and came back alone, because they died over there.

I don't know if many people have watched the movie "Now and Then", but the part where it says " I'm ten years burning down the road, Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go" it reminds me when the girls run into the man on the road who just came back from Vietnam. He doesn't go home, he's just roaming the country.

I think even today when men come back from Iraq, they go to see someone like a V.A. to help them cope when they come home from war.

Many young men back then didn't have any thing to do in there small towns, so they went off to war, or were forced to go to war. "put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land"

I think this poem uses a lot of off rhymes. jam, hand..land man....etc.

I think this man was proud to be an American. He repeats over and over I was born in the USA. I also think that once you are a soldier, you are very proud of your country.

january 15th

January 15th Blog

1) Alliteration- An alliteration is a group of words that start with the same letter within a line of poetry. In Digging, Heaney uses the words "Of soggy peats, the curt cuts of an edge". In this line, "curt cuts" would be an alliteration.

2) End Rhyme- A couplet that rhymes at the end. "...holding up a moth" "...rigid satin cloth" these are end rhymes. Design- Frost

3) Simile- In Design by Frost, he compares the flower holding the spider, comparing it to a piece of "rigid satin cloth"

4) Itailian Sonnet- In Design, it is an Itailian Sonnet, because it is divided into an eight line stanza and a six line stanza