After you have sent me your draft via my email address and have received my reply with your grade,please post your annotated bibliography paragraph here for 2nd marking period. Remember, we are all blogging at different times. Don't forget the layout of a successful blog:
1. Topic Sentence -with author/title and literary technique used
2. Details - relevant details from the text to support your discussion of the literary technique
3. Analysis - discussion of "HOW" the author uses the literary technique to do something
4. Summary Sentence - restate topic sentence
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Shivanna Duncan g - block
Second Marking Period Annotated Bibliography
In Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli, Spinelli uses both external and internal conflict to explain the life of young protagonist Misha Pilsudki, growing up in Warsaw, Poland, during the Holocaust. The novel begins with the protagonist not knowing who he is or where he came from, but only knowing to steal money and bread from wealthy women. Misha runs into a red head named Uri, who becomes a brother like figure and creates a false identity for him. During this time, the Jackboots or Nazis are evacuating Jews from their house, burning their stores, and relocating them into
the ghetto. Lives for the Jews and other minorities have become harsh with hard living conditions, less food and being deprived of the outside world. As the novel progresses, Spinelli uses internal conflict to depict Misha in a world where he does not know his identity or his past. In the
following quote, "I closed my eyes and thought over and over of Uri’s words: you are who you are. Which is what? I wondered" (Spinelli 23). Young Misha is confused because he does not know who he is, believes that the Jackboots are nice men and wants to be one when he gets older. Uri informs Misha that Jackboots hate him and you are who you are and you cannot change that. In the novel, Spinelli uses external conflict to show the lives of Jews and other minorities during the Holocaust. "They herd us in here like animals. They build a wall around us. They starve us. They freeze us. They beat us. They shoot us. They hang us. They set us on fire" (Spinelli 152). Enos, one of the orphans, explicates how Jews are being treated and the brutal things the Nazis soldiers have committed. During Hitler’s rule, Jews were sent to concentration camps, gas
chambers, or even burned to death. Throughout the novel, Jerry Spinelli uses conflicts that are internal and external to explain the protagonist’s life growing up during the Holocaust.
In Maus I, Art Spiegelman uses flashback to establish the theme of the novel. When the story commences, Art visits his father after a two year absence. He asks his father to revisit his past experience to help in the story book he was intending to write about the holocaust. Vladek begins and focuses on his young adult life, when he was recruited into the polish army to combat the Germans in any possible attack. He was captured and imprisoned, but later released. When he returns home, the German’s were already in control. He was separated from his family, never to be seen again, but he and Art’s mother, Anja managed to survive their horrific circumstances. 'It would take many books, my life, and no one wants anyway to hear such stories.' (Spiegelman pg 29). This statement explains why some people try to leave the horrifying incident in the past. It sums up the tragic feeling of the holocaust as being unwanted. Art Spiegelman really engages the reader to the plot of the story by vividly exploring the holocaust, but through the first hand experience of a character giving the readers the extent of the terror the Nazi’s imposed on the Jews.
Ola Afolabi
H block
Jake Goldie
4-10-09
A-Block
Annotated Bibliography
In the book Fallen Angles, the author Walter Dean Myers uses the literary device imagery
to reveal the brutal story of how Richie battled his way through Vietnam. This experience both
mentally and physically changed him. This book starts off with Richie graduating High School
and making the decision to join the army, because he knows that he was not going to college for
finical reasons. He also wants to get away from the bad streets of Harlem. The longer Richie
stays in Vietnam he witnesses the barbarous and cruel sights that war has to offer. He’s seen
many of his peers shot dead., he had to kill a man to save his own life, and he has been wounded
twice. All these things really made him search for the real reason why he has came to Vietnam to
fight. Throughout the story Myers gives some pretty heavy details in what happened during
Richie’s stay in Vietnam. These details made the book more interesting but also hard to read
sometimes. As the book progresses Myers uses imagery to help you better get a feel for what
war was really like in Vietnam. In the middle of the book Richie gets into a fight with a Vietnam
solider and kills him. This part of the book was hard to read because I cant believe how hard it
must have been to take someone’s life. Myers uses imagery to help paint a picture in your mind
showing you the brutal details of what happened. “I lifted the M-16 and started firing in his face.
I emptied the clip. I snatched another one from my belt, slammed it in, and fired that point
blank(MYERS 180).”The imagery is being shown in the is quote when Myers shows Richie
taking out his M-16 and shooting the enemy in the face. This quote really shows you what war is
really all about. At the end of the book Richie and his best friend Peewee are wounded in a fire
there wounds earn them a discharge from the army and sends them home.
Nataly ochoa
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
The book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini contains a great amount of foreshadowing to lead on the story. Amir, the son of a wealthy and important man in Afghanistan, is destined to dwell in Hassan’s memory; the known son of Amir’s father. As kids they grow up together as friends, but in very different worlds. How hard is that? It was very hard; especially for Amir and Hassan who turn out to be half brothers, but the secret was discovered too late. “Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name” (Hosseini 11). The quote foreshadows how Amir had something special with Hassan; starting at birth. The book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini includes many clues and hints that foreshadow that special relationship between Amir and Hassan.
Chamika Wanigatunga
G Block English
Annotated Bib Paragraph
2nd Semester, 1st marking period
The graphic novel Palestine, written by Joe Sacco is an influential book that brings to life what average life in the Gaza strip is like seen through the eyes of an American. The novel is an autobiography of which the main source of content comes in the stories that the people of Gaza tell about how they are being marginalized by their Israeli rulers. Joe Sacco tells the story through a first person perspective in little squares, and shows what the Palestinian people are saying through speech bubbles. Joe Sacco over the course of the book seems to be a very ambitious character that wants everybody’s input in a certain issue. Mostly the conflict between the Jews and the Arabs in the region. It is 1991 and he is taking a trip to Palestine to see what is really going on, since much of the US Government sides with Israel on almost every conflict. Through much Exposition, he guides the reader through almost every community in the small strip of land Southeast of Israel. Each story that the Palestinians tell is just another experience that the book immerses the reader in as the images interpret their stories. The book however shows a very one sided point of view, as only 2 or 3 pro-Israeli characters are present throughout the book, and they are easily overlooked, and overshadowed by character such as Samed who is a very poor man with a big heart, who also seems very charitable and loving towards every other form of life. His attitude towards the Israelis specifically is not projected fully in the story, but what is apparent is that he’s an honest hard working man, who does all he can to help others. He seems to always have a sad face on him, adding to the already sympathetic attitude that he creates in the reader. The Israelis on the other hand are represented as evil landlords, who want nothing more than to cause the demise of the Gazan’s. All in all the book makes the reader feels lucky about life in the USA when compared to life in the Gaza strip.
hey mrs.kaplan do my home befor i leave o see my gradmam im reading black boy by richard wright later go yankees
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