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This is from Monday's class with the "person view" writing activity we did.
Hans the Chicken Plucker

1st Person
I hate my job. I'm a chicken plucker and I'm vegetarian. Ironic I know. Every morning I force myself out of bed, consumed with dread of how many more animals I'm condeming to slaughter.
I make myself a pot of coffee and sit down to a bowl of cereal. The ticking of my kitchen wall clock echos throughout my small 70's trailer. Only twenty minutes left I leave.
I hate the idea of coming home after 8 hours being covered in feathers and blood.
It depresses me, leaves me restless. I have a .9 mm in the closet, I ponder using it someday.

2nd Person
I gave up on this one- I'm horrible at this one! >.<

3rd Person
He never liked waking up at four in the morning. Before the sun peaked over the horizon. What he really hated though eas his job. Hans was a chicken plucker. For 8 hours a day he would stand at the cold metal slab tables and rip out feathers. What made it worse was that he was vegetarian. Some days while eating breakfast and drinking his coffee he would recall his H & K .9 mm that was hidden in his closet. He hoped to use it someday.

Reading Entry

Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver

This short story was written very well, the nameless characters helps the reader to focus on the baby, the action, and it keeps the reader emotionally detatched from the mother and father.

The language is minimal which keeps the story flowing easily. "hotter the topic, the cooler the language"

The title of the short story conveys the "everywhere" nature which further dehumanizes the characters. It has very formal structure in the plot, setting, and character development.

The length is more like a "punch in the face" because it keeps the story short and it leaves out a lot of details to help the reader understand. It is more implied towards the action and why the husband was leaving.

The ending is horrible. It causes the reader to be in denial of what happened to the child. It is only implied that the child was killed and ripped apart. At least it did not go into details about how it was done and how bloody it was!

Junkyard quotes

So last week I completely forgot to do my blog posts! (0o0) So this week I am posting 10 to make up for last week!

All of these quotes come from movies that I watched over spring break holiday and of course this week as well!

1. Lionel Logue: [as George "Berty" is lighting up a cigarette] Please don't do that.
King George VI: I'm sorry?
Lionel Logue: I believe sucking smoke into your lungs will kill you.
King George VI: My physicians say it relaxes the throat.
Lionel Logue: They're idiots.
King George VI: They've all been knighted.
Lionel Logue: Makes it official then.
~ The Kings Speech

2.

Lionel Logue: Surely a prince's brain knows what its mouth is doing?
King George VI: You're not well acquainted with princes, are you.

~The Kings Speech

 

3. "Twitchy little ferret, aren't you Malfoy?" ~HG- Goblet of Fire

 

4. “A deathday party?” said Hermione keenly … “I bet there aren’t too many living people who can say they’ve been to one of those — it’ll be fascinating!”~ HG- Chamber of Secrets (I know this wasn't in the movie but I just love it!)

 

5. "Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself."~HG- Chamber of Secrets

 

6. Sherlock Holmes: You've never complained about my methods before.
Dr. John Watson: I'm not complaining.
Sherlock Holmes: You're not? What do you call this?
Dr. John Watson: I never complain! How am I complaining? When do I ever complain about you practicing the violin at three in the morning, or your mess, your general lack of hygiene, or the fact that you steal my clothes?
Sherlock Holmes: Uh, we have a barter system...
Dr. John Watson: When have I ever complained about you setting fire to my rooms?
Sherlock Holmes: Our rooms...
Dr. John Watson: The rooms! Or, or, the fact that you experiment on my dog?
Sherlock Holmes: Our dog...
Dr. John Watson: The dog!
Sherlock Holmes: Gladstone is our dog!

 

7. Inspector Lestrade: In another life, Mr. Holmes, you would have made a excellent criminal.
Sherlock Holmes: Yes, and you an excellent policeman.

 

8. Sherlock Holmes: It's a matter of professional integrity! No girl wants to marry a doctor who can't tell if a man's dead or not!

 

9. Sherlock Holmes: There's only at one case that intrigues me at present. The curious case of Mrs. Hudson, the absentee landlady. I've been studying her comings and goings, they appear most... sinister.
Mrs. Hudson: Tea, Mr. Holmes?
Sherlock Holmes: Is it poisoned, Nanny?
Mrs. Hudson: There's enough of that in you already

 

10.  Sherlock Holmes: Ah, putrefaction!

 

If you do not know where the last 5 quotes come from then you should be utterly ashamed of yourself!