Memoir Writing Tasks

· Task 1

I am a really happy girl. I am very independent. I cherrish my life dearly.



·Task 2

-Disappointments: When i lost the earrings that my father gave me and he was disappointed because of my lack of responsibility.

-Accomplishments: When after only 8 days of training, I won in first place in a vaulting tournament in my category.

-Conflicts: Sometimes I am not proud of who I am physically and emotionally.

-Fears: Butterflies, my parents splitting again, murderers, kidnapers, failing a school year, loosing my friends or family and any natural dissaster.

-Luck: When i won a laptop in a raffle in a mall.

-Enemies: I don't have any enemies

-Gratitude: I have a family, friends, a house, food, water, a life, waking up everyday, that my body is complete, I am healthy, school and my pets.

-Jealousy: The girls that hace a perfect hair and body


·Fears:

I have always been scared of something. Wether it is a wolf in a story or a hurricane. My biggest fear ever has been butterflies. i have never been able to control it or to reduce it. Whenever there is a butterfly somewhere I tend to freak out and scream and leave that place or usually my pulse comes down really quick. The other thing that I am scared of are not as bad as butterflies.

·Gratitude:

I give thanks to the Lord everyday for having a life and being able to wake up. I also give thanks because my parents are no longer split and that they love each other dearly. Also that I have parents, sisters, friends, etc. that care for me. I am also thankful that I am completely healthy and that I am not missing any body parts.



· Task 3

- My parents sat myna my three sisters in the dinning table. This was unusual because we hadn't eaten dinner as a family in a long time. I took a glance at my mom, and saw that she was smiling. In that moment I realized that my parent were getting back together.

- In the morning I went to see how my bunny was doing. I opened the cage and saw that it wasn't moving. I called my dad and he told me that it died. I started crying and telling myself that if I only could've give it more love or warmth...

- It started as an ordinary day. Everything was calm and I was reading in my bed. Suddenly my lamp started shaking. Then my bed started moving and I realized that it was an earthquake! I yelled to my sisters to go outside to the garden immediately.


· Task 4

My roles:

- Best Friend                      - Helper
- Babysitter                        - Godmother
- Sister                               - Baker
- Child                                - Student


I have never enjoyed something more than baking in my entire life. Baking has been my passion since I was 8 years old. Ive baked from cookies, to pies, to cheesecakes. One day my aunt decided to hire me to bake her some cupcakes for my cousins birthday. Since that day Ive been hired to do desserts of r all kinds of parties. I couldn't enjoy anything more than baking.

As a teen the best thing you can do to earn money and to be around children. I love going to my uncles house to take care of my cousins. They are so cute and they are so fun to be around with. I also babysit them whenever we are at a restaurant and they want to play. It is so much fun to see all the little kids having a blast!

To be a sister is a really important role. My sisters look up at me always. You have to take care of your sisters and always be there for them. Having sisters is like living with your best friends in which you can count on always no matter what.


· Task 5

Hopes:

- To go to an amazing college
- To get married and have perfect kids
- To have my own bakery
- Doing lots of community service

Milestones:

- Learning to bake
- Growing up in a loving family
- Doing vaulting
- Going to camp


· Doing lots of community service:

I think that doing lots of community service is important because it helps you to build up a great person. Community service can give your life and someone else's a total spin. It makes you fell so good when you know you are helping someone in need. Community service also helps you to learn how to appreciate the things that you have in life.

· Going to camp:

Going to camp was a crucial part in my life. In camp I learned how to be more open to different thing. Also on how to be a better person by being in the outdoors and having an experience with lots of friends that will stay forever. It helped me to see the world in a totally different perspective. It was a magical experience.

Examination Day, by: Henry Sleaser

The story Examination Day by Henry Sleaser s a story about a twelve year old boy that has to take a test that every kid takes and it is formulated by the Government. Dickie was nervous about the test even though he had great grades, but his grades didn't help him on this test. Then the government called and told the boy's parents that their son had already finished the test but he had scored higher than the top score. Then they told them that if they wanted their kid buried by the government or if they wanted a private burial.

I personally didn't like the imagery in this story that much because it isn't much exiting. For example:

"The liquid inside had the consistency of buttermilk, tasted only vaguely of the promised  
peppermint." (3)

The protagonist in this story is Dickie. He is a really intelligent 12 year old boy that has to take a test from the Government.

‘I get good marks in school,’ he said hesitantly. (2)

This is showing how Dickie has good notes in school so he will probably get a good grade in the test

In the end this is a great story. It has a really impacting end and it is really interesting throughput the story.

The Tell Tale Heart, by: Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, is a story about an old man that has this incredible blue eye and this young man who can't stand the eye. The young man tries to kill the man but it doesn't work because the eye has to be open. After many failing attempts the young man finally gets to hit the blue eye with a flashlight and it makes the old man to feel pain. The young man doesn't find a better opportunity to go and asphyxiate the man and kill him. Then the police arrived and starting to ask the young man some questions and he denies them all. After a long silence the young man starts to hear the old man's heartbeats and he starts to freak out. Then he confesses to the police that he did kill the man because he was already getting mad about the beating heart.

The imagery used in this story was really detailed and it helped me to understand the story much better since it makes me feel like as if I was there. For instance:

"His eye was like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and waits while an animal dies, and then fall upon the dead body and pull it to pieces to eat."  (1)

Here Edgar Allan Poe is applying sight since it is talking about an eye. And in this picture it is showing a vulture since in the story it talks about an eye that looks like if it was a vulture's eye.


In this story the main character or protagonist is the young man that wants the old man's eye to be closed. He is desperate to disappear the eye from his sight.  For instance:

"When the old man looked at me with his vulture eye a cold feeling went up and down my back; even my blood became cold. And so, I finally decided that I had to kill the old man and close that eye forever!" (1-2)

As I said before, in this example, Edgar Allan Poe is showing how the young man is getting mad because of the eye and he wants the eye to disappear.


In the end you can say that this story is really strong but also interesting. This story is really good for some readers that like scary stories but not recomendable for people who don't like this kind of stories.

Chapters 9, 10 & 11

Every single twelve gets a folder with instructions of how their trainings will be. Jonas also has one but it is thinner than the other kid's folders, which have lots and lots of pages. When Jonas gets to his dwelling he opens his folder and sees that there is only one page that has 8 instructions which are:

1. Go immediately at the end of school hours each day to the Annex entrance behind the house of the Old and present yourself to the attendant.
2.  Go immediately to tour dwelling at the conclusion of Training Hours each day
3. From this moment you are exempted from rules governing rudeness. You may ask any question of any citizen an you will receive answers.
4. Do not discuss your training with any other member of the community, including parents and Elders
5. From this moment you are prohibited from dream-telling
6. Except for illness or injury unrelated to your training, do not apply for any medication
7. You are not permitted to apply for release
8. You may lie

The last rule puzzled Jonas. He started thinking that if other assignments also permitted lying, if his father or mother lied. He wanted to ask them but he was worried that they would lie about it. Jonas also receives his first day of training. He goes as his directions tell him. When he gets there the doors are locked, and that is something unusual because nothing is locked in the community. When he enters to the room he notices that there are lots of books and that is also something unusual because he only has 3 books In his house. The current Receiver welcomes him to lay on a bed and explains what his job will be like. It consist in having all of the memories of the world. So the Receiver gives Jonas the memory of what snow and what a sled ride is like since he has never experienced it before. He also gets a sunburn because he was in the sun which was also something that he hadn't seen or experienced before.


''I was pleased, though, when you were selected. It took them a long time. The failure of the previous selection was ten years ago and my energy is starting to diminish.''

I am wondering what was so disastrous about the previous selection. Was the pain to painful? Probably Jonas will also be a failure but the Receiver isn't supposed to make mistakes. He is supposed to be the example of the community. Did he make the pain to painful for her?  I hope that somewhere in the book it is mentioned of what happened to her and why?


This book is making me feel very apprehensive. It makes me get nervous but excited. It also draws a lot of suspense. This book is really good so far and I hope that it ends in a good way because it is one of the only books that I've loved in my whole life.

Chapters 6, 7 & 8

The December ceremony is is the most important event in Jonas´ community. Eevery single year before you become a twelve you will either recieve something or have something changed , but the ceremony of twelve gives something really important which is your assingment and changes something which is your life forever. December has finally arrived and Jonas is even more apprehensive. The cermony starts, and it lasts two days, on the first day Lilly turns into and Eight and families are assigned their new babies and they announce that Gabe is not going to be released and he will stay for one more year. In the second day twelves get assinged. Everuthing is going perfectly, the Chief Elder (the coordinator of the community and ceremony) is saying each number and telling what their assingments will be. Jonas is number ninteen , the chief elder tells eighteen his/her assignment and its time for her to call Jonas to the stage but she skips his number and goes directly to twenty. Jonas is really worried. Then the Chief Elder explains why she skipped his number and tells Jonas that he is the new receiver of memory. Jonas was worried and the Chief Elder explained that his training will be painful physically. Jonas felt he was different and that he wasn't being accepted.


" But you will be faced, now," she explained gently, "with a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience." (63)

This quote makes me think why does it involve pain. What is going to happen to Jonas with all of this pain that they say he will have. Why does it involve physical pain. This makes me think a lot and makes me draw conclusions. This makes me think that Jonas'  assignment is the worst but what do you do there.


I think that Jonas' will have a difficult life from now on because of the pain. I am not sure what his assignment is about but I infer that it will not be good. That if it involves physical pain it involves much more worst things.

THE GIVER chapter 1-5

The Giver by Lois Lowry, is the story about a boy named Jonas that lives in a world with no freedom, no fear and no choices. He lives in a community where everything and everyone is perfect. Jonas is part of a group called the Elevens, which is the last phase of their childhood. In December everything will change for Jonas because it is the month in which his life will be determined forever; he will be designated an assignment. Jonas feels apprehensive about the December ceremony. He has been preparing for this event so that he can have a good assignment. He has been following all of the community’s strict rules and has been completing all of his volunteer hours. Jonas´ father has the nurturer assignment, which involves taking care of people that are feeling bad physically and mentally; he also takes care of newborn babies. In this community there is something called the release, which means that a person has to leave the community because they did something wrong or because they are ready to die. In this community there is also a strict rule which involves not criticizing anybody specially their physical qualities. Jonas has a very special physical quality which is that he has lighter eyes than everyone in the community except for a little girl and Gabriel, a baby boy. Gabriel has not been eating and sleeping like he should so he was supposed to be released, but Jonas´ father asked permission so that he could take care of him in his home instead of in the nurturer’s center so that he won’t have to be released.


"After my ceremony of twelve, I missed my childhood recreation. But when I entered my training for Law and Justice, I found myself with people who shared my interests" (18).
 
This quote is a referance for what I said about how the ceremony would change Jonas´ life and also how you finished your childhood and now started a new phase. It demonstrates how the citizen´s  lives are marrked forever and how it changes people.

I think that this community is a place where there is no happiness or sadness, everything is perfect. I think that a community as perfect as this, is a community that will have problems later.

WE ARE ALL EQUAL

Citizens should have the right to be free. The government should have enough power over the citizens to keep them organized but not abusing of their power. The government should let the citizens be free enough so that they can choose the government that they want as in a democratic government. Citizens should also follow the rules that are putt for them to follow. Most of the countries know a days have the good way of government which is democratic.

This statement can be supported with the Truman in some ways.  First is that Christoff is the leader and it isn't a democratic town because Christoff decides when and how things happen. Christoff has a lot of power over Truman through the actors/actresses in the show. People in the town can't do what they want since Christoff tells them what to do and when to do and action. The town is too perfect and it isn't a place where you choose tour actions.

Governors that aren't democrats should try to pay more attentions to the citizens. Citizens can give wonderful ideas for living I a better place. Even though ruling a non democratic country gives the ruler more power over the citizens. One day the citizens could go angry because if the actions of the government are incorrect they could decide to throw him out of the government.