Blog Post #6

Senioritis. Its real. Its a truly real, scary thing. And I have it....BAD! It sucks because its like a light inside of you just died.


Timeline of how you get Senioritis. 

Freshman Year: Every night after I get done with practice I go home, eat dinner, do my homework. I take out my nicely organized planner and say this is what I have to do. And I get it done.

Sophomore Year: Go home, Eat dinner, take out my semi organized planner and say I guess i'll do this tonight.

Junior Year: Go home, eat dinner, take out my, oh wait! I forgot my planner at school. I'll do this assignment tonight and maybe do the other tomorrow, one day late isn't going to matter.

Senior Year: Go home, eat dinner, sit on the couch watch TV, realize at 10:00 PM I have homework and say to myself, "Nahhhhh, I'm not doing that."

Now will teachers please understand that its real!

Blog Post #5

Recently in Mr. Allen's class we were asked to highlight the light and dark words in Araby. I highlighted glow, gazed and lamps for light words. And for dark words I highlighted cold, blind and brown. Is there a specific pattern to these terms in paragraph 1 and 3?? No, I don't think so. Throughout the story of Araby we see the narrators emotions shift a lot. Does the distinct difference of light and dark mean something? Yes. It is the clear distinctions between all the battles we through in life. Nobodies life is perfect, we have our ups and we have our downs. In the end of the book the boy ends in darkness and I wonder if James Joyce did that on purpose. In this blog post as you can see I have asked a lot of question and this story just makes me wonder about all the different changes that Joyce did, and why. I believe the story ends in darkness to show where the boy is in life and how when the book ends he never finds his happiness.