Field Trip

From How to Read Literature Like a Professor.
How does "If she comes up it's baptism", play a role in this chapter?
How does Geography matter from when Tim O'Brien was in this setting back in the past to the present?

From Stephen King On Writing.
Why would Stephen King appreciate Tim O'Brien's dialogue attribution?

Important details in the chapter.
 Why did Tim O'Brien takes his daughter, Kathleen, on a trip to Vietnam?
How does Tim O'Brien fix his conscious after so long about the death of Kiowa?
What is the purpose of Kathleen pointing out the old man at the end of the chapter?

Writing Goals

I don't have any writing discipline for how I write. I just write willy nilly whenever I feel like I am in the mood. It's no specific amount of how  much I write either, it could be 100 or 1000 words. When I write I write until I don't feel like it anymore.

I don't write to write a book, I write just because of the fun of it. I'm not on any routine to write either. I can barely not eat fast food, much less follow a specific way to write. Writing comes to me whenever I feel like it, for however long I feel like it.

The Search for Zora

Searching for Zora Neale Hurston had left many unanswered questions that required Walker and Charrolate to go to Eatonville and find their answers. Whenever Walker had found a clue about her beloved hero, she followed it to the very end, and for the most part it left her assuming  the worst had happened to Zora. Like when she went to the funeral home and they said that she died of malnutrition, it had almost crushed our detectives. So it wasn't until the end of her search that she found what had really happened to her inspiration and was able to clear everything up.

While Walker is searching for the unanswered questions of how Zora Neale Hurston came to be in an unmarked grave in the middle of nowhere, she realizes some things about herself. She sort of feels that like reading through all of Zora's books and history, she felt like she knew her. Even at one point in her search she states that she even believed the lie that she was saying about how she was Zora's niece. It's through all this that she realizes that she can be as strong and can be as amazing and intelligent as her inspiration. It lets her know that it doesn't matter where she's from, she can make something out of herself. 

Poem of a Mad Black Women

Us women may love with our hearts
but first everyone lusts with their eyes.
Everyone, consists of men being men.
They tell us what we want to hear to sway our over-whelmed loving minds.
We have dreams of peace and harmony for our entire marrige
Then the harsh reality of life comes and shows us the translucent light
that is the failing of our love.

What The Future Contains For Our Janie

The upcoming year will be a year that will not only answer many questions for her, but will ask questions as well. When she goes off with Joe Stark her questions of how love should be get answered in the best way she can believe. He is loving of her, wants to treat her right, and do everything he is suppose to. The year answers what she desires most and how that makes her feel.
The upcoming year would also ask questions because what about what Nanny said? She doesn't just forget about what her Grandma told her about love,  so she still questions that about Jody. Also if her choice to go with Jody was a good idea because she doesn't know what that year will have for her.

Getting to Know Yourself

To go on a journey of self-discovery is to go through an adventure to find something out about yourself. You go into the journey with one impression of yourself and come out with something new. It can be a good thing or something that you had forgotten about.

When people go on a self-discovery journey it is because something has gone wrong. There's many things that could have gone wrong but whatever it is they go on it to fix it.

I had been hanging put with the wrong people for awhile in middle school and it wasn't until I had been rude to one of my teachers that I realized that I needed to fix myself! So I had apologized to my teacher and even though they didn't like it I had stopped hanging out with that old group of people. It might not be like all heroic and crazy like in movies, but it was a simple journey that helped me better myself.

Wasn't my best post, but I'm bored outta my mind!!!

It's Called Backstabbing for a Reason

Those people that "have your best interest at heart" don't say something that will hurt you. They will watch out for you and protect you from those other trouble makers that say things to start drama because they have nothing better to do with their lives. It is when you do something wrong that they will pull you aside and talk with you alone to make sure things are okay.

People that make things up behind your back are called backstabbers and many people know this as a universal term for people that don't care about you. I learned this for myself because someone that I thought would never hurt me went behind my back and started talking stuff about me to someone that was very important to me. It was because of this that that relationship was strained and my trust in people faded.

People with your best interest at heart would never hurt you or say something behind your back. I learned something from my dad that I will always remember. He told me that I will only have a few TRUE friends my entire life....so far he's been right.