Essay for final

The house in there will come soft rains is a smart house that has a family that lives inside. The family has timers that go off everyday, like a timer for the house to make breakfast. One day a nuclear bomb hit the town and killed everything but the house and some things in inside it. The house had no idea what was going on around it. Timers the family had set went off with no one to use them. The house was lonely and clueless with no one around to help. In the end the house started to fall apart and a fire started and burned everything down besides the west wall.
Henry was also lonely and clueless. He is home alone in expectation of his wife returning from her trip to see her family. Henry lives in a small town with every little people. He married one of the only female in the town. Yet did Henry know that his wife had been dead for nineteen years. Every year at a certain time he gets a letter saying that she will return in a certain amount of days. His friends come over and decorate the house for her and help Henry because they know that she is dead. The day she returns they drink liquor and get him drunk the where he will pass out just before the time she is expected to come home. Then he wakes up and lives another year till the day she is expected home.
The house and Henry were both lonely and oblivious. The house has no idea that a nuclear bomb has hit and the town is dead, and the family that lives in the house is gone. Henry lives by himself now and has no idea that his wife is dead and has been for nineteen years. The difference is that Henry has people around him to help when the time his wife is expected home. The house is all alone with no one to help and everything around is dying, even the house dies in the end. They are both lonely but one is even more lonely then the other.

Son of America

Protagonist- Sam
Antagonist- his parents
Type of conflict: Person vs. Self, he to himself that people can live without lots of money and new technology.

Exposition: When we find out what kind of town they live in and what the characters look like.

Inciting event: when Sam comes to visit them.

Rising action: Tells his parents about his new life style.

Climax: when Sam offers then money and they don't take it.

Falling action: They go to synagogue, Berl shows Sam the gold coins.

Resolution: When he finds out they don't need the money.

Berl and Berchla live in a very safe small town called Lenthshin in a foreign country. They are Jewish and believe they have every thing they need to live and don't need any more money. They have a son named Samuel who left home for the United States when he was only fifteen. Samuel comes to visit his parents in lenthshin. He tells them that he is a banker in New York city. When Samuel goes to visit he tries to give his parents money because he thinks they need it. His parents refuse and say that they have everything they need and don't need money. Samuel finally finds out that they do have everything they need and don't need the money.

Money: How things have changed and more modern, also shows Samuel's new life style.

Berl and Berlcha: They show that people can still live without modern technology.

Theme: Not everyone likes to live with modern technology and can survive without it.

The recalcitrant girl didn’t clean her room so she was grounded.
The boy got stuck in the verdant jungle.
The acrimonious teacher put the student in a bad mood.
The tremulous cat ran away from the dog.
The silhouette danced in the moonlight.
The psychopathic women threatened to kill the cashier.
The skate boarder had to be sedated because he broke his leg.
The desolation of the stands made the basketball team feel even worse about them selves.
The ephemeral cookies were very good.

california's tail

Pro- Henry
Antag- Henry
type of conflict- person vs. self
setting: California after the gold rush
point of view- 1st person
characters: Henry, Joe, Tom, charlie, and narrator.

Dynamic- narrator

Static- Henry

exposition: when we find out what the town looks like and how empty it is.

inciting: When he shows him the picture and tells him to apologize to her face.

Rising action: invited to stay and meet Henry's wife. Hears the letter, sets up for the party, meets the other friends.

Climax: When the wife doesn't show up at nine and Henry is put to bed.

falling: when the narrator asks what's going on.

Resolution: when the narrator finds out that the wife is dead and has been dead for a long time.

symbol: picture, the house,

Allusion: Gold rush.

situational irony: we think the wife will come home.

What I could write about.

Death- how life is short and you should enjoy every moment while you can.

Sports- basketball, how losing to Kake will make us play better this and give us more determination to win regionals and do good at state.

The thrill of the grass

Symbol- Grass represents freedom because it reminds you when you were a child playing on the grass and when you were free so with the grass back your free.

Baseball represents america because it's americas' sport and baseball is identified as americas' sport.


Protagonist- locksmith who breaks into the field.
Antagonist- society

Conflict- Person vs Society because society was the one who put the artificial turf in the baseball field so without them putting the grass in the field there would be no conflict.

Point of view- 1st person


inciting event- When he first breaks into the baseball field because he finds out that the grass is artificial turf because that's when he starts his rebuttal.


Climax- when they lay down the first sod.

A failed shortstop who is now a locksmith breaks into the his old baseball field and finds that the grass is artificial turf. He doesn't think its the same old baseball with fake grass and the strike should be on the grass and not for the reason they are really striking for. He goes to find a big baseball that goes to every game to help him with his plan to switch the grass. Him and his baseball buddy round up some more people and they go and put in squares of real grass.

It shows that all new things and new technology isn't liked by everyone and it doesn't make every thing easier.

This story relates to home because the baseball field is where is home use to be and its not the same with the new grass, like the grass had old memories and they are gone because the grass is gone.
This story relates to technology because the artificial turf is a newer version of grass and it makes it easier to take care of because you don't have to mow it.
The grass in the story relates to freedom because they didn't have to choice to change it to artificial turf.

Words of the day

The man’s insolence towards the police officer got him put in jail.
The churlish boy got detention for his attitude.
The irate student failed the English test.
The efficacy of the cupcake satisfied the grandma.
The girls cajole their friends to steal the cookies.
The security guard pummels the guy who tried to sneak into the party.
The perspicacity of the teacher was good for the student and gave him another day to make up work.
The assiduous employee got a raise.
The criminal maliciously shot the costumer in the grocery store.

is Marilyn responsible?

Marilyn is responsible, just because she broke a law doesn't mean that she isn't responsible. she should have known better not to go on the ship because she knew that she was breaking some kind of law. There was even a sign that said keep out, she was every uneducated with the laws and regulations. Sense she didn't know the laws she put not only her life in danger she put many other men lives in danger and could kill everyone. If she would have waited another year to see her brother and didn't get on the ship no one would be in this much danger.

Harrison Bergeron

Freedom is a privledge to have, some people have it and others don't. freedom is something you have to earn, either from graduating high school and going to college living under your own rules to working eight hours and having to rest of the day off and having the freedom to do whatever you want for the rest of the day. freedom is the power to act, speak, or think as one wants. Equality is being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value. To me being equal means most people have no freedom and have to do what everyone else does and it all has to be the same. In Harrison Bergeron everyone has to be equal in every way. i would not like to live in a world like that because nobody would be good at different things. No one would be reconized or reworded for what they do best. Like Michael Phelps would not be rewarded for how good of a swimmer he is because everyone would be just as good as him or he would have to be worse. If everyone was equal you would not have the freedom to act as your best or think to the best of your ablilty. in the definition of freedom you have the freedom to act or think as one wants, if everyone was equal you would think and act but not to the best of your ability. if everyone was equal you wouldn't dare to be different or be your self and life would be the same and boring.

It was a bright sunny day when Leonard Mead was released. The sky was blue, the sun was shinning and the bird sang melodies while the busy workers drove there cars to work. It was ten in the morning and Leonard Mead was driven back to his house which brought back memories of what life use to be like before he was taken away. He had destroyed even last memory and bought himself a nice big flat screen TV. He had put it in his living room right in front of his coach. The TV was so bog that when you look through his window you could see anything besides the TV. The big TV was all a part of Leonard’s plan to get his revenge on society and the police car. The big TV was a distraction for the police when they drove by to see if everything was still going well with Leonard after he was taking away. When they saw the TV you would think that he was busy watching TV instead of destroying electricity. After he saw the cop car pass by he waited a few minutes to make sure they were out of sight. When he left his house with plant clippers he left his TV on. He knew that the police were watching very closely for him so he had to sneak through the alley ways and make no noise so no one could hear him. He finally reached the big metal box holding all the control to the power in the city. He sniped the lock open and started pulling and snipping cords until all the power was out. The city was dark and clam for a while. Leonard Mead enjoyed the dark silence while it lasted. He laid in the grassy hill that was holding the box and looked up at the stars and laughed to himself for happy accomplishment.