Play

I think that the play was very nice and I enjoyed watching it. I thought that telling the story as a memory was quite weird, but it still was a good play. I think we can relate the play to our personal essays, because in the play he tells about his life and give parts for everyone to relate to. I thought the reading was well written and a good thing to read for Focused Inquiry.

Exam

Today I took the essay exam on the Dew Breaker and I think I did very well. There were four questions I could pick from and write on two of them. I think I fully answered the prompt and gave very specific details from the book to better answer the question. I did not like being timed on my essays, because I feel that I had to rush through the exam. The exam went well and I think that my essays will meet the requirements.

Today

Today I went to the play and tried to remember facts from it in case we have a quiz on it. I think they play was good, the actors were good and the plot was easy to follow. I really liked how the actors were interactive with the audience. I think the play was very successful.

Exam

Today I had an exam in International Relations. I was late to class due to a fire on 95 and didn't get to class until it was over, so I had to take it in the class following mine. Due to this I had to miss Focused Inquiry and was not able to learn what they did in class. I think that I did well on the exam and I will study for the exam in Focused Inquiry so I can get an A on it as well.

Exam

Today I prepared for an exam I have on Thursday in Psychology. This exam covers everything I have learned so far in class, it is open book so I am very confident about it. I think that I will be able to use the book to find all the anwsers and thus get a good grade on the exam.

Exam

Today I prepared for an exam I have in International Relations on Wednesday. This exam will cover everything we have learned so far and is going to be very hard. I spent a lot of time studying and think that I will do well on the exam.

Girlfriend

This weekend I had a very nice dinner with my girlfriend for Valentines Day. The dinner was very romantic and I really loved it. Spending time with her makes me so happy, because she is a great person. I feel very blessed to have found her and look froward to many more great times.

No Exam

Today we were supposed to have our essay exam, but the professor postponed it to next Friday. I feel better now that he postponed the exam, because I was not fully prepared to take the exam. By next Friday I will have analysised the book more and then I will be able to write a better essay.

Exam

Today I had an exam in American Identity and I feel I did rather well. The exam was on the American Revolution and how the colonies reacted to British influence. This was mostly an essay exam and I had to remember all of the sources and readings I have read so far in order to fully answer the questions.

Essay

K's mother eventually marries the Dew Breaker despite all of the negative things he has done. One thing that leads to her marrying him is the fact that she feels sympathy for him. Even after learning that he was the one who killed her brother she still wants to marry him. A big reason for this is because she wants to try and change him. This has the story to come back to were it began to show the readers who the main character is and that he has changed and why. It make the reader realize the true effect of the main character one every narrator story.

Essay 3

In the book Danicat uses many different narrators to tell their stories, first to show who the main character was, and second to allow the reader a chance to have a personal connection to the book. Micheal, Dany and Eirc live under the Dew Breaker and come into connect with him every day thus affecting their lives. Nadine is Eircs girlfriend and at one point was pregnant with his baby, but she decided to have an abortion. Beatress is a seamstress who lives down the street from him and is always fearing him. Freda is a funeral singer who has learned of the type of man he is and therefore fears him. In putting these people in the book it shows that even everyday people that were not severely effected by the Dew Breaker were still scared of who he was. This showed that even though he did not harm them he still made them fearful because of just who he once was.

Essay 2

Danticat starts the story with Ka and her father sharing his dark secret to help aid the style of her book and to show the actually person her father is. This is first in order to show what type of person the Dew Breaker is now and to make the reader very alert and wonder what happened in the past to make him so ashamed. Following this she goes backwards to the climax in the book so she can build up the character and show how he changed and why he has changed so much in the beginning. In writing the book this way she allows the reader to be more personal with the book, because they have to consecrate on the book more.

Essay 1

Danicat is a very unique writer, she uses many unusual techniques to portray who her main character really is. In the Dew Breaker she separates her story into nine different antidotes each of which is narrated by a different individual who has a at one time or another came into contact with the main character. She uses these antidotes to build up the main character, the Dew Breaker, from many points of view to try and better show who he really is.
In writing the story this way she makes the reader constantly wonder what is really happening. By doing writing the book this way Danicat has to just touch on each of the narrators points of view and not tell their full experience. She also has to make sure to only state simple facts so she does not tell the reader anything until the end. In just, this style ties her hands and makes her use simple statements in each tale not allowing the point of the book to be revealed till the end.
By the book being written this way the reader has to spend the whole book wondering what is going on and why the story is being told like this. The reader is not able to just read the story and learn what the writer wants them to learn in this book, they have to consecrate on each narrators point of view and attempt to learn what importance they are to the book. In conclusion the reader has to really focus on the details of the novel.

Today

Today I am still sick, and I am just trying to get better. I tried to study a little for an exam I have this week but I really just tried to get better.

Class

Today I was not in class and did not get the handouts. I was extremely ill and was unable to attend any classes at all.

Test

This weekend I began to prepare for the essay test on the Dew Breaker I am going to have on Friday. I started to think about what questions might be on the test and tried to prepare my answers for them. In class we focused a lot of time on the characters and the authors style of writing. Therefore, I feel that I need to really focus on the specific aspects of each character and how the author used them to describe her theme. If I really focus on these events I feel that I will do good on the test.

Essays

Today I turned in my Unit One essay. After looking back on the process which I took to get to my final draft, I realized that this semester I am going to need to put a lot more time and effort into my essays, due to the fact that they require so much more thought and reflection. In this essay I had to write about a great experience in my life and try to relate a common theme to the reader without actually telling the audience what that theme was. In my opinion this was very hard, because I had to hope that through my writing the reader would be able to infer exactly what I wanted them to. In conclusion, I feel that I wrote a good essay and that I am going to do fine this semester.

Exam

Today, I had an exam in my American Identity class. This exam was very hard and had a lot of essays in it. As I tried to answer the essay questions I realized that I needed to know the information inside and out so I could correctly answer the whole question. I feel that I wrote good essays and that I will receive a good grade on the exam.

Article

After reading "We are Ugly, but we are here" I realized that Danticat writes the same in all of her writings. In this she had different events lead up to one common goal or theme very much like she did in The Dew Breaker. This shows that she likes to use indirect ways to achieve her common theme in writing.

Today

Today, I started to prepare for my exam on Thursday. The exam will cover many different topics and will be very hard. After this studying I feel that I am well prepared. Tomorrow in class I am prepared to participate in the class work. I will also need to find time to work on my essay. Overall, tomorrow will be a busy day.

Article

When trying to relate the article "Parallel Play" to the other articles in The New Yorker it is obvious that they all share many qualities. First, they are all very well written articles and require a sense of education to read showing the class of people who read The New Yorker. I think that this article was written to inform the readers of how different people have to overcome many different disabilities and to show the people with the same disease ways to overcome it.

Article

This weekend I read the assigned article for class on Monday. In the article I realized how hard it can be to live with a disease such as the one the author lived with. While reading the essay I was able to understand how someone with his condition can function in life and what he needed to do to really ensure his success. This essay can allow others who have the same disease to find different ways to conqure their condition, and I think that this is the main purpose of the article. Overall, the article was very emotional and I think helpful for many people with the diease.

Essay

When I looked on the discussion board and reviewed my peer reviews I really learned what I need to work on for my essay. Both of my peers said that I had a good story and that I just needed to work on grammar and find a better way to fix my conclusion. Hearing this allowed me to realize what I need to spend extra time on so I write a better essay. I know I can fix the grammatical errors, but the conclusion will be a struggle to me.

Character

In Dew Breaker there are many different characters and themes. This is mainly due to how the author separates the novel into different parts so the reader can see the main character, Dew Breaker, through many lenses. The Dew Breaker is looked at as first a father then as the story progresses a prison guard, then a horrible scary person and finally a guard who trys to change his ways. Themes in the novel also change from parenthood and life lessons, to a new journey and ending with finding the inner self.