No Difference

Small as a peanut,
Big as a giant,
We're all the same size
when we turn off the light.

Rich as a sultan,
poor as a mite,
we're all worth the same
when we turn off the light.

Red, black or orange,
Yello or white,
We all look the same
When we turn off the light.

So maybe the way
To make everything right
Is for God to just reach out
And turn off the light!

-Shel Silverstein
(this isn't American Literature, but it's one of my favorites.)

The adventures of Tom & Huck and my childhood.

I'm not a huge fan of American Literature. I really do like reading Mark Twain though. His books are always full of adventure and mischevious which reminds me of my brother and I growing up. In the adventures of Tom and Huck the boys were always getting into trouble which is how my brother and I were. We would try to run off and find a bunch of ways to get out of doing chores. We would also torcher each other kind of how Tom would tortue his little brother Sid. We didn't have a huge issue of racism and never dealt with slaves, since slavery is now illegal. Mark Twain has a lot of imagery to explain whats going on. He is probably my favorite American Literature authors.

don't judge a book by its cover.

I won't lie, when I first looked at The Great Gatsby, I thought it was going to be really dumb. The cover of my book that I got from the Library has a face looking at a city. I thought it was going to be really weird and I was not looking forward to reading it, at all, but I was happy that it was semi short. In the first paragraph, I read "when you feel like critizing any one, Just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." I really like that, and took it to heart. I'm not going to lie and say I've never talked bad about someone, my friends and I have a bad habit of it, along with everyone else in the world. Hearing this, really made me think about everything in a new way. I'm not very far along in the book but, so far it isn't too bad!

Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin, has been one of my favorite authors of American Literature. I really like her novel The Storm and At the Cadian Ball. It was about a woman and her family. There is a lot of adultery in these two novels. The Storm is a sequel to At the Cadian Ball. Adultery is committed bewtween to people in which the marriend woman cheats on her husband with a married man. Often wonder if Chopin is for or against adultery. I think she writes about it to show how common it really is and that it often goes unnoticed. In this novel, both people get away with cheating. Which often happens in today's society with some people.

Poetry

Last week's pod of Poetry was quite interesting. I am not normally a big fan of it.I prefer to read novels. In a novel you can always tell the meaning of the story. In a poem, you often have to make your own theory of what the poem is about. I like novels where it is right before your eyes. Out of the poem section, my favorite poet was Jack Frost. He had a way with words!