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20 October 2009

The Storm- Beatriz Cruz

In this story, Calixta is alone at home when she notices that there is a storm coming. Her husband and son are at a store, so they do not come home until the storm is over. She lets in Alcee, because of the storm. They are both married, but the past passion they had came over them. Calixta did not care she did that to her husband, who was really good with her. What really touched me was that she treated her husband like always, she was happy. She did not even feel guilty because he was good with her. She felt nothing, even though she did something that would hurt him a lot.

Columbus In Chains- Beatriz Cruz

The question was if Christopher Columbus is a hero or not. I do not think he was really a hero. Although he discovered many places, he was not a hero. In my oppinion heores are people that have courage and are self sacrificed, but have moral excellence. Christopher Columbus had courage and was self sacrificed, but he did not have moral excellence. He did not care when he hurt the indians just to rule this island. The little girl had the right to express her oppinion on Christopher Columbus. Where she studied they could not do what they wanted. They had to behave ladylike, talk about novels and poems they were reading, they did all this while walking. But she was different, some of the other girls and her liked to play games that the teachers did not approve. I liked the way she did everything that she wanted, she had courage.

A Walk To The Jetty- Beatriz Cruz

In this story, Annie wakes up the last day she is spending in her home, Antigua. She is moving to England to become a nurse. She does not want to go to England, and does not want to become a nurse. But she prefers this than staying at her home and going on with her life the way it was at the moment. She does not have a really good relationship with her parents, but when they start walking with her to the jetty she starts thinking of all her memories in Antigua. At the end, she feels like she was making a mistake, but then she realizes she is not a child anymore and when she makes up her mind about something she has to go through it. I like the story, because every grown kid has to go away from his parents and make his own decisions. At some point in most people's lives, they had to leave their parents and start making the decisions that would affect them for the rest of their lives.

Baking A Cake- Beatriz Cruz

Baking A Cake explains the process of baking a cake. You have different ingredients to bake a cake: sugar, flour, butter, baking soda, eggs, milk. You mix the ingredients, but you don't get a cake, you get goop. When you put the goop in the oven, when it heats up is when you get the cake. When you get the cake it does not look like the original ingredients. Writing is like baking a cake. The ingredients are the details of your life. You must add the heat of your heart to those ingredients to organize your writing with details. You can't think as you write, you accept what is put down its truth. Timing your writing will help heat things up. If you look at the clock too much as you write, you have to say to yourself that you will keep writing until you have from three to five pages filled, both sides, until the cake is baked. You have to use details to bake the cake. I did this activity two times and it worked, I didn't look at the clock, so I finished really easy, with details and without stoping the pen.

Reflection on The Storm- Liane Cartagena

After reading the storm I find it quite interesting how normal Bobinot and Calixta went about their lives even after just having cheated on their spouses. I guess that they did not have that full happiness in sexual pleasure and found it in each other. I believe they were hypnotized by the storm and their passion for being touched and discovered once again. I feel that they did not have that passion with their spouses and found it in each other. I know that it is not right to cheat on your spouse but if the marriage is not being consummated then I do not find it wrong to find pleasure someone else where someone can give it to you. If you marry someone it is to love and consummate your marriage as much as possible.