My Last Blog Reflection

In this my last class reflection I am going to be writing about my experience in my English class and what I enjoyed the most of it. During my first semester of English class at the university, which was from August 2008 to December 2008, I as an assignment had to do a reflection on all the stories the professor assigned and then put them on a portfolio. This semester I had to do the same thing but with a little twist. This time I had to also do a blog and in the blog post all of the reflections.

From all of the reflections the one I enjoyed the most was the reflection on the group oral report about the contemporary marriages. I enjoyed this one the most because first of all I enjoyed the class because of all the new things I learned about the marriages that are different from ours. Also because I found it curios that things like raping a woman in some places are considered as a marriage, something I didn’t agreed of but still founded it curious. I also founded curious that some people in India married animals, in the case I presented dogs, to prevent bad spirits and also being attacked by animals. Maybe for me the most strange marriages, presented in the class in the oral reports, should be named weird marriages but that’s only on my opinion because for people some other people specially the ones that practiced the marriages don’t consider those marriages as weird.

Besides the mentioned before on my blog I posted some other reflections about the stories I read in class. I enjoyed reading also “George and the pink house” because the story changed the perspective of what I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be a kind of cute story because it was a man in a pink house, and for girls pink is not related to bad things, well not only for girls people in general can consider pink a nice and cute color, even though there’s people that do consider it as the hideous color invented. This story was about a bad man that abused of his family because he made his wife do ALL the shores in the house and didn’t help her in anything. Also he liked to scare his son’s friends and when his wife died he made his daughter do all the shores in the house.

This semester’s class for me was really good not only because I enjoyed some of the activities and reflections. Also because I found challenging in a way having to use a blog as a class project and having to post everything on a specific time and day.

Reflection 11 on: Daisy Miller by Henry James

This novel is about a young girl named Daisy Miller. She and her family were Americas but that lived in hotels all around Europe. At the beginning of the story daisy meets a man named Winterbourne, she started talking to him and telling him about her life. After tat and in less than two hours of talking with this man she planned to do out with him to a castle in Venvey were she was staying. They couldn’t go the same day they meted but two days later they went to the castle all alone and winterbourne told daisy that he has leaving Venvey. Daisy got really mad at him, at a man he only new a few days, but then made him promise her that when he came back he would visit her in Rome. For Winterbourne all of what was happening with Daisy was really strange, since in Europe girls didn’t act that easily towards a man.

As soon as Winterbourne arrived to Rome he went visit Daisy at the hotel she was staying. They meted also in a party in were Winterbourne presented Daisy his friend Mrs. Walker and Daisy presented to them her new friend Giovanelli. After the activity Daisy was going to take a walk with Giovanelli at night what seemed wrong for all of the Europeans. Mrs. Walker tried to prevent and teach her for doing these things but she didn’t wanted to learn because she didn’t consider that to be wrong. Daisy spend a lot of time with Giovanelli something Winterbourne didn’t like, and people started saying that she was a bad girl, that what she was doing was wrong, that she was a flirt and also that she maybe was engaged to Giovanelli, something that wasn’t true. Winterbourne for this didn’t wanted to be with Daisy no more. In the last night that she went out with Giovanelli also talked with winterbourne about being and not being engaged to Giovanelli, something that made Winterbourne really mad, she got sick of the roman fiver and a few days later died. Winterbourne and Giovanelli coincided in her tomb, and when they talked a little about her, Giovanelli said that she was really innocent, something that leaved winterbourne thinking but finally continued with his life.

Bust I think that this story the massage that wanted to send us is about the difference in culture and how we shouldn’t judge people because of what they do, because we really don’t know what they are truly doing and also we don’t know their culture. In this story the cultural differences are represented by Daisy that was the American, Winterbourne that was an Europeanized American and Mrs. Walked that practiced European culture all the time an tried to teach it to Daisy.

Reflection 10:Reading Lolita in Tehran Chapters 12- 17 by Azar Nafizi

These chapters begined talking about Azar Narizi returning to a university named Allame, in Tehran were she used to give class. She talked about some of the students that she remembered that used to teach and also how it have became a ritual of her when dressing to go to teach. She went back to teach a class in literature. She says that in almost the first two weeks of teaching in the second semester she received an envelope with her name and inside a paper that only contained a line that said “The adulterous Nafisi should be expelled”. This made her feel uncomfortable, but after a time she concluded that the message maybe was related to the liberty or liberal of her class and how she gave it. The class in literature that she was teaching was named Introduction to the Novel II, and in these chapters she was discussing about the author Henry James and his novel Daisy Millard. During the rest of the chapter the author talks about how controversial was Henry James, and his novel character Daisy Miller, to her students. She mentioned in particular some of her students specially Mr. Ghomi. He was the student that always contradicted the class specially the teacher, and mostly criticizing Henry James and Daisy Miller. She also mentioned that sometimes was better to let and express your feelings toward something like Mr. Ghomi that keeping them your yourself. In the things they discussed in the story’s class where if Daisy Milled was bad or wrong in how she acted towards men and towards everything or if she really was a heroine. Azar answered this question or problem with an exercise with a chair (mentioned on chapter 17). She concluded saying that depending on the angle you looked at it was its description but still was a chair, depending on the position in with you look at Daisy Millard is your judgment in a way. These chapters ended mentioning some of the different ways her students thought about Daisy Miller and some of them deciding to speak about what they think of the novels.

43rd Annual Literay Contest Awards Ceremony

The 43rd Annual Literary Contest Awards Ceremony was celebrated on April 22, 2009 in Aula Magna, Law School from 10:00 am to 11:30 am. This activity was the celebration of the 43rd Literary Contest made during the month of March in were you in order to participate needed to write for one, two or all of the three categories that were Essay, Story or Poem, an original writing and summit the piece to the English Department. Then it would be judged and then choose the best one of them to receive an award for being choose as the best.

The activity started almost sharp at 10:00 am, this impressed me because in Puerto Rico almost always the activities start long after the assigned time. The activity started with music by an invited band named Banda Sabananegra and then the welcoming. After that participated some invited people to give encouraging speeches like Rafael Matos, the editor of the Puerto Rico Daily Sun, that I think it is a Puerto Rico newspaper. He talked about the difference that’s made with journalism in English and also about the difference between journalism and literature that he said that are two really different things. I liked especially when he said to “never stop writing because the more you write the better it gets”, because I think that this is an encouraging phrase for all of the people that participated even though they dint win, not everyone could win. After the speeches and more music by the same band the presentation of the award started. There was give as a prize two movie rentals and a dictionary. Two of my English classmates like Israel and Normari won in the activity. Israel won in third place with his short story “Cannibals of Riverside” and Normari a honorific mention with a poem that talked about he mom. One of the first place winners was Stephanie Mayers, with her story “I regret” which I personally enjoyed. And finally the activity concluded with some more music.

The whole activity in my opinion was really good. It would have been better if by a chance I went there and I would have received an award by surprise, because I also participated in poetry but sadly didn’t qualify, and sadly that is not real life. Besides that I of all in the activity specially enjoyed the music because it was something different and I really enjoy listening music and also I liked some of the winner’s works like the story.

Contemporary Marriage: India and interesting things learned in class by Ednovi

In my colledge english class on April 3rd, 2009, the rest of my classmates and I were giving oral reports about contemporary marriages around the world. They talked about the different types of marriage depending of the place they chosed or just weird or unknown types of marriage that are practiced all around the world. They talked about same sex marriages, teen marriages, cousin marriages, arranged marriages, religious marriages like Muslims and Judaism and also bride kidnapping marriage also called raped marriage. This one of all the others was the one that mostly shocked and interest me because I had never heard of that before until that day. These marriages consist of a man choosing a woman he liked and actually kidnapping her and raping her and then just like that they are married. Some other times the family’s girl pays the man money to stay with the woman and in most of the cases after the kidnapped the woman never sees her family again.

Besides the before mentioned I gave my oral report about Indian religion and weird marriages coinciding also with some of my classmates. I fist talked about the various types of marriages in India like the Christian marriage act, Hindu marriage acts, Muslim marriage acts, Parsi Marriage act and Special marriage act. I mentioned a little about what is the Hindu marriage Act, 1955, that has the conditions that to get married the bridegroom should be the age of 21 years and the bride of 18 years. Both of the partners should be Hindu and should not be within the expansion of prohibited relationships. Another example I mentioned was the Muslims that also follow their own marriage acts that states that Nikah or marriage is a contract and it may be permanent or temporary. This act permits the man to have four wives if he treats then equally. but one of the most common things in marriage in India is that as traditional aspect in Indian marriages acts most of the times the marriages are arranged by the family’s groom and bride, because it’s an integral part of the Indian culture. But besides that I talked about two strange and unknown weddings for me that were both of a person marring an animal, in this case a dog. This they do it in India as a act to get rid off bad spirits, curses and to prevent bad things happening to them, even though Indian law does not recognize weddings between people and animals, but is a ritual that still survives in rural and tribal areas in the Indian country.

The fist one I found was about a Indian boy named Sagula, less than two years old was married to his neighbors Dog so he won't get killed by wild animals. This happened in eastern India because of the superstitions of the eastern villagers that said that it will stop the groom from being killed by wild animals. The boy’s father said that they preformed the marriage because it will overcome any curse that might fall on the child as well on us. The boy and the dog married in the village temple where a priest solemnized the marriage between Sagula and his bride, the dog Jyoti. Thankfully for the little boy, even though the boy was married to the dog, he will still be able to marry a human bride and without filling for divorce.

The other story I found was about a 33 years old man in India that married a dog in a Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu. The dog bride wore a traditional orange sari (Indian wedding dress to his size) and a flower bun. The man said that he married the dog because it was his way to get rid of his bad feeling of what happened to two other dogs death that he was involucrate, an incident that he believes left him cursed. Some people mocked him and also thanked it wasn’t a homosexual marriage.

As I mentioned before I enjoyed this project/oral report, because I learned new and for me strange things that people do when it comes to getting married or practice their wedding cultural ceremonies. I found it also interesting because since here in Puerto Rico we only practice one type of marriage that we can call love and heterosexual marriage based on our religion, but knowing that also know days people are trying to change that to aloud heterosexual marriages.

Reaction on 9: The Storm by Kate Chopin

This story was about a woman named Calixta and a man named Alcée that were in times before kind of a couple, but never got married and instead married two different people and continued their lives. One day Calixta's husband and her child went out and noticed when getting out of a store that a storm seemed to be coming so they decided to stay at the store, while calixta was at her home noticed it was going to rain and decided to go pick up her families clothes when she saw Alcée and invited him shelter while the rain passed. During the storm they got involves and ended up having an affair. When the storm ended they both continued with their lives as if anything had happened, and treated their family normally. For them everything was normally and as in the story said "So the storm passed and everyone’s was happy".

For me this story was really interesting because of the part were the two ex couple seeing each other again, that's something that is always really exiting to feel. But I didn't like that they used the storm to cheat on their new lives and their partners. I think that was wrong of these used to be couple to have an affair. Besides that I liked how the story was written and also the end sentence, because it described what happened in the story after the affair in a kind of sarcastic way.

Reflection 8: The Maternal Insinstincts by Migel Street

This story is about a woman named Laura that had 8 children with 7 different men. She used to go pregnant and then leave the baby’s dad. The first six children were from six different dads. The last two were from a man named Nathaniel. Laura one day binged him to Miguel Street were she lived and he stayed there living with her for the entire nine months of his first baby. He started socializing with the boys in that street and used to say to them that Laura hasn’t leaved him because he leaved her in her place beating her. But the truth was that Laura was the one that beat Nathaniel. They found it out when one day Nathaniel tried to hide his beaten eye and he could dent. When his first baby borne all the guys from the street thought he was going to leave Miguel Street since Laura had never been that much of a time with a baby’s dad. One day Laura asked Nathaniel to go with her and he said no and after a little beating she said to leave her for good. When her big daughter Lorna grew up she send her to study typing and came back with a baby. Laura started crying but what shocked of this was that no one ever saw or heard Laura cry. One day Lorna decided to go to Carenage, were she drowned and died. Laura received the news and she said that was better off that way.

This story for me was really sad and shocking. How a woman had that many kids and didn’t stayed with not only one of the babies dad. To add to that she was the one that committed the domestic abuse to her kids and to the baby’s fathers. Domestic abuse is when someone force or use its brutal force to obtain something for someone without the person wanting to do that. Laura in the story used to do this to her kinds and to the baby’s dads. But what mostly shocked me wasn’t that she was the one that committed domestic abuse, what shocked me was that when her daughter died she said that it was better that way. Yes, I understand that maybe she didn’t wanted her daughter to end up as she did and teached, and maybe she wanted a way to prevent that but for me saying that was better off that her daughter died wasn’t the way to react and to feel when receiving that news. This is why I didn’t really liked the story besides I think that its title didn’t had to do with what we call truly “Maternal Instincts”.

Reflection 7 on: "George and the Pink Hose" by Migel Street

This story is about a man named George that lived in a pink house and his son Elias friends and how they felt with George around. The story is told by one of Elias friends and he tell us in the story that he was afraid of George, of how he acted and what he did every time he saw him pass by the front of his house. He used to say bad things about the kids and used to scare them. Elias friend also told us in the story that George wasn’t physically a scary man but how he acted scared him. Also that George didn’t do any type of work around the house he used to leave everything to his wife including the yards work and he only sat on the porch of the yard to watch the people pass by. When his wife died he cried and started drinking a lot, his son Elias disappeared without his friends knowing, and all of the house shores were done by his daughter Dolly. He tried to get a new wife to make the shores around the house but he finally couldn’t and then because he felt in a way sorry for Dolly made her marry a man named Razor and Dolly after that disappeared. George after Dolly getting married, got really alone and died soon and some of the people that new him buried him.

This story is really interesting because it is named “George and the Pink house” and I thought it was going to be a happy story but instead it was kind of sad and cruel. It talked about this man that was cruel to almost everybody and his house wasn’t a pretty pink house it was instead all damaged and scary. It also talked about how cruelly he treated his wife as a domestic house cleaner and how when his wife died started treating his daughter the same. George was a bad man and treated everyone in a bad way. This story can be related to domestic violence or abuse because of George and how he treated his family, friend and the people of his neighborhood. In the story it wasn’t clearly presented the domestic abuse and it didn’t show George hurting physically someone. But domestic abuse isn’t only hurting physically a person it can be also abusing verbally a person or forcing them to do things that they don’t want constantly, like making someone clean everything without any type of help or payment. George can be accused of domestic abuse verbally and also because he forced his wife to do the shores. In the story he used to offend the narrator calling him names like “horse face”. So this story indirectly talked to us about our reality that is that in life some people can experience problems like domestic abuse and we don’t even know. For me this story was cruel and bad because of this man named George that was a bad person and also because it wasn’t what I expected.

Reflection on the movie: The secret life of Bees

The movie the secret life of bees is about a young girl named Lilly and the people that surround her. In the movie Lilly when she was just a little child killed her mom by accident and her dad was the one raising her until her fourteen years when she decided to run out with a black woman that worked for them named Rosaline. She ran out with Rosaline for two reasons, one because Rosaline had offended a white man and because of that he wanted to kill her, and two Lilly used it as an excuse to go find out about her moms life because her father T-Ray never talked to her about her mom. When Lilly ran out she went to August Bowright house because she knew that her mom had to do something with her. August Bowright and her sisters June and may where black peoples and owners of a honey factory, that was recognized because of the package front symbols a Black Mary. Lilly learned to work in the honey and finally asked August about her mom that August answered with pleasure. Finally T-Ray found Lilly and since Lilly wanted to stay with August and her family T-Ray permitted it because he knew that Lilly was better with those black women.

But these movie wasn’t only about Lilly it also involved a lot of our society problems like racism , religion, domestic abuse, love, mental disabilities, suicide, etc. The racism was presented mostly by Rosaline’s fight with the white man. The religion with August and her Sundays tradition to talk about the Black Madonna or Mary and how they worshiped her in a way. Love because of Lilly and Zack that were different in color because Lilly was white with blue eyes and Zack was a pure black male that felled in love no mater their colors. Domestic abuse was also one of the themes in the story, that I think was one of the most important themes in the movie because it was presented though Lilly and her father T-Ray that abused of her every time he could with or without excuse. He abused of her in almost every type of domestic abuse there is he abused her verbally, physically and emotionally. One of the examples we can use to represent the domestic abuse in the movie was when T-Ray got mad at Lilly for being out late at night and punished her making her kneel for an hour un a gravel. Also when Lilly wanted to learn about her mom, T-Ray lied to her telling her bad things about her mom and that she didn’t loved her and some other times didn’t even answered.

For me this movie is a really good movie. I enjoyed it because for me the story was really interesting, the themes. I enjoyed it also because it made me keep really interested though the whole movie. Even though I wasn’t agreed of how T-Ray treated Lilly or about racism, or about the mixed religion. I also liked how in the movie the things that happened all had to do one with another. I think that this was a great movie not only because I enjoyed it also because of the message it can send to us that is to stop the abuses in our lives.

Reflection 6: "A Worn Path" of Eudora Welty

The story “A worn path” of Eudora Welty is about an old Negro woman named Phoenix Jackson that went out in the early morning of December walking trough a long path. Phoenix walked that path since far out in the country until she arrived to the town. While she walked slowly trough the path trying to arrive to were she was heading she encountered various obstacles, first she tangle with a bush, then she had to jump a fence, third she thought she saw a ghost and it was just a scarecrow and fourth she bumped with a white man that didn’t wanted to let her continue with her destiny because he thought she was too old, but she continued anyway. When she bumped with the white man she saw that from his pockets a nickel had fallen and she stole that nickel from the man even though she knew that, that was not right. When she finally arrived to the town she entered trough a door and a women asked her, her personal information and Phoenix just stood there without saying anything. Finally a nurse that know her came out and asked Phoenix what she had came for and also how was her grandson, but Phoenix had forgotten all of that. The nurse with patience after a while gave Phoenix a medicine for her grandson because she knew he continued sick when Phoenix had finally remembered part of why she had waked so far to the town. The nurse, because it was Christmas offered to Phoenix some pennies and Phoenix said that if she gave her 5 pennies that would be a nickel so the nurse gave her a nickel and phoenix said that was going to buy for her grandson a windmill made of paper and said she was going to walk to her house until she arrived and her grandson sees what she had binged him.

This story touched me. For me it was impressive how this old woman had walked that far and that besides all of the obstacles she had encountered in the way she never quit. I liked also how important was for her, her grandson and bringing him such a simple present in Christmas with that appreciation and happiness. This story can teach us all to appreciate all we have and also all of the simple and little tings in life too. Also it teach us that no mater the obstacles in life we never should give up because at the end we would find a prize. Si what I liked the most about this story was what it can teach us and mostly what it teached me.

Reflection 5: A walk to the Jetty of Jamaica Kincaid

The story “A walk to the jetty” for me was a very interesting story. It is about a girl, 17 years old and as said in the story all groaned up, named Annie John that was going to be send to England by her parents, to study to e a nurse, even though she didn’t wanted to go there or study to be a nurse. In the story she talks about those last moments she spend at her house and neighborhood until she arrived to the jetty and left the shore into the sea to go to England. She described and talked about things she used to like and do that she never thought she was going to someday miss so much. She also talked a lot about how important was to her when little her parents, how much she loved them or used to and also about how they had changed almost seeing for her as if they didn’t love her no more, specially her mom.

This story for me was really interesting and touching because it made me think a lot of how important are the things that surround us that we sometimes know we love and like but never actually notice or press too much attention to them and then finally end up missing. It also made me reflect on how important are parents affections to their child’s and family. In this story Annie felt as if her mom didn’t love her much because of her mothers actions but I think that she should really reflect on why she thinks that because people change and also she really doesn’t know how important is her for her parents, for her mom. Maybe the reason they were sending her to study wasn’t to get rid of her maybe it was more because she wanted good for her daughter for her education and the reason they didn’t showed her that they love her was to make easier that time when she leaved to study. But frankly we really don’t know the reasons why things happen, because of that we should reflect on the things in life and try to make the best of them.

Reflection 4:Columbus in chains by Annie John

The story “Columbus in Chains”, chapter 5, is about this girl called Annie that was telling us some of her childhood stories and things she used to do at school. In the story she told us that in school she used to be one of the most outstanding students and almost in all her classes. In one of the days at school while Mrs. Eduard was asking her usual quiz questions Annie was reading some pages of her book when she saw a picture of Columbus sitting locked up in chains. She reflected a little about it and mentioned how ironic was that Columbus was in chains. Days after that Annie got in trouble because of the songs and things she used to do after school because Mrs. Eduard discovered them. She got punished and some things changed for her.

This story was interesting because it mentioned us some crazy things that all the kids do, like singing songs at lunch time or after school and playing with your friends. Also because of the ending that I really enjoyed, it said that Annie’s mom was laughing so hard and with her mouth all opened that she almost looked as if she had turned to be a crocodile. i liked this sentence that appeared on the ending of the story because of how it related a woman, we can say also a human, to a crocodile that is a animal than can be consider also as one of the most scary ones because of his mouth. But besides of this things I didn’t liked much the story because of some of the things she used to say and specially because of the part when she said that after school she used to go with her friends sing bad songs and other things that for me they were a little rare. Like how she talked about a friend of hers as if she liked her friend.

Reflection 3: "To Hell with dying" from Alice walker

This story is about a family that had gained affect for an old diabetic, alcoholic and guitar player man that was his neighbor named Mr. Sweet. He used to drink a lot until he was almost dying and then come to the family or the family to him and kept him from dying. Since the kids were little they used to go and help Mr. Sweet and hear him play his guitar and keep him from dying. They used to enjoy playing and spending time with Mr. Sweet and also help him every time he needed help. The family when they went to help Mr. Sweet they always used to hear when the girl’s father telled Mr.Sweet “To Hell with dying” that meaned for them don’t give up that here still people that loves you, every time when Mr. Sweet seemed like he was almost to pass out and the kids used to help him fell better every time he was like this, talking to him and listening to what he had to say. After a few years she already groned up and was almost ending college, her family called the girl that was studying in college to far away and told her that after a long time Mr. Sweet had one of his episodes. She rushed from college and went see Mr. Sweet to help him again. Finally when she arrived that everything was almost all right and peaceful, Mr. Sweet died on his birthday and the girl all gowned up confessed that Mr. Sweet had been her first love.

This story was really interesting how a family had gained affect for a man a neighbor and helped him in everything they could, specially keeping him alive. The only thing I really didn’t like was the ending because since almost the beginning I noticed that the little girl hat too much of affection for this all man and for me that special type of affection was a little un appropriate. But besides that is good to see how there were people willing to help those that aren’t family and only neighbors and gain affection for them no matter what.

Reflection 2: "Everyday use" of Alice Walker

The story “Everyday Use” of Alice Walker is about the times in which families can only afford to pay one of their child’s, the outstanding one, to go to school and important places. In this story Dee was the outstanding child and her sister Maggie was the resignated child. For Dee her parents have gave everything they could to help her in her future. She never learned the world no. Meanwhile Maggie was pushed to aside. In the story Dee was already ground up and also she had moved out of her growing up house. Maggie still lived in that house because she was still young. The story tell us of one of Dee’s visit to the old house were she used to live and Maggie and the rest of her family still lived, and tells us of a lot of unselfish things Dee did and all of the things that she wanted to take for memories from that house that were still in use.

What most shocked me about this story is that Maggie was pushed aside and Dee got always all she wanted and for me that is just unfair. I think that no matter what situation is presented the entire members of a family should be treated the same and also they should be given all the same opportunities, no matter what. I also know that this equality is hard to have in these families because of their economical needs, but I still think that there’s ways to help each of the members of the family without making one better than another.

At the doctors office with 18...

Since little we all have to go visit the doctors office because we have to check our health and cure us if we have any disease. Afortunally for this girl I meat haven’t never been scared of the doctor or of the needles or anything like that. One day already 18 years old Noni had to go to the doctors’ office to ask for a birth certificate. The doctor told Noni that in order to get her health certificate she had to do first a tuberculin test and what’s a tuberculin test, it is a test in which the doctor injects you a little amount of the dead tuberculin bacteria and if it comes out giving you a rash or itch or something probable you have tuberculin, if everything comes out right and you don’t itch or something well you are well and then you can have your health certificate. When the doctor her she had to allow the doctor to put some dead bacteria in her body, she got afraid because she started thinking that she could get sick if they injected that bacteria to her body an it weren’t well killed, she could get later that disease. When doctor Casiano came with the needle with the dead bacteria to do the test, Noni started crying like crazy and didn’t wanted to let the doctor put the injection. Isn’t that embarrassing crying in the doctor’s office with 18 years? I think it was. Finally her dad and doctor convinced her to let the doctor do the test. Days later she went again to the doctors office to check if everything was all right and the test had came out all good. So Noni cried for nothing. But the craziest thing of all of this is that this Noni, is really me.

Reflection 1: "A use of force" of William Williams

This story is about a little blond girl that had been sick for days. Her parents decided to pay 3 dollars to a doctor to go check her on their house. When the doctor arrived and triyed to check the little sick girl she didn’t allowed him so the doctor started trying to trick her so she allowed him to check her and she didn’t fall for it. So the doctor then started using his own force to obligate her because he new that if she had diphtheria, that was the illness he was thinking she was going to have because of the symptoms, she would probably die. Finally the doctor had the chance to look at her throat and noticed she really had diphtheria, so the doctor new he hadn’t fought with the girl for nothing, but he also said that he had enjoyed a little fighting with the girl.

This story for me was kind of confusing because of the doctor’s reaction towards the little girl and how he sometimes referred to her. But in some ways I agree with some of his actions because if he didn’t force the girl to let him check her, she will probably die. But I don’t agree with him when he says he in part enjoyed fighting, or using his force to try to check her thought because enjoying fighting with someone for me is kind of bad.