how i live 5-8

pg 163

#5 Quote

   " Each time my heart would race at the smallest suggestion that we had company, usually it was a moth thudding against a window , or mice or nothing at all"

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when you have done something in a while you tend to forget how to do it when it comes back around . Since war was on and no one was really out it was awkward to hear noises. It would catch you by surprise and make you a little frightened.

Analysis

   Being in an area where its quite all the time seems sad. It seems as if Elizabeth is looking forward to noise , for some excitement , just something in stead of being bored and doing nothing but reading the same books all the time.

pg 167

Quote #6

  "I ended up in a hospital, where they kept me for months after i arrived back in New York, staring at a wall, stunned silent frozen rigid with anger and grief. my willingness to eat confused and annoyed and the staff , confounding their effort to understand what i was doing there.... eventually they were forced to release me, still unable to diagnose the obvious..... I was in the hospital because it was convenient. It was the only way to get me out of England.

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   Elizabeth gave up , she was not fit to stay in England because that's something she really isn't use to. No one could every imagine someone Else's sufferings unless they're there to witness the struggle just to stay alive at least to get to the next night.

Analysis

Its pretty clear she didn't want to be out through starvation , the killing , slashing, depriving , she felt it would be punishing herself. she went to England somewhat by choice , so she chose to find her way out.

pg 169

Quote #7

  " it took all this time for the war to end .... The occupation itself lasted only nine months; by Christmas that first year it was over. By then i was back in New York City, not because i wanted to be but because i was half dragged and half deported and the final half was blackmail, and after all the rest of the things i managed to resist , i didn't have the strength left for that particular fight"

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i would never think of of that would of happened just for her to get back to New York . i fell as if its kind of selfish of her to give up and leave her cousins behind. Her cousins cant just walk away , so i feel she should of stuck by their sides.

Analysis

In fact after all that she had been through , in the end the whole time her mind was focused on being away from Edmond. It hurt her not knowing what ever happened to him. but she didn't let that distract her from getting where she felt she belonged... which is HOME.

pg173

Quote #8

"the airport was unrecognizable from my last visit, completely overgrown with gorse and ivy and huge prehistoric-looking thistles. Just as Issac had predicated the landscape was happily romping away from civilization.

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its crazy how much a damage a war can cause and how long a war can last and still manage to damage things. but she was on her journey to the way home. As soon as she got the stamp on her passport she knew it had just began."

Analysis

She had left everything behind and shes heading for the bus that would soon take her home , 7 hours and 2 buses later she only had finished her journey to reach the outside of the village and it looks like it had be deserted for ages.

how i live 1-4

#1 QUOTE

"But the summer I went to England to stay with my cousins everything changed. Part if that was because of war, which supposedly changed lots of things, but I can’t remember much about life before war. Anyway so it doesn't count in my book....Mostly everything changed because Edmond".

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I wonder who Edmond is and why have things mostly changed due to him.  If he changed things was it in a good way or a bad way ? It’s obvious if war is going on then left would seem stressful. Seeing that you have been sent away for the summer across the world, in a region you’re not use to. Those are pretty dramatic changes.


Analysis
Sometimes throughout the novel Elizabeth speaks as if shes directly talking to you , and your not reading a book. It gathers my attention more closely. Since the book jumps from place to place , i thought it was a good idea to have the main character speak as if it was in person, as I'm reading its like i know her , i can hear what might her voice sound like.

#2 page 85

Quote

     "Later Major m told us you'd be amazed at the number of things that can go wrong for the civilians in war. For instance, he said, let’s say a kid gets appendicitis or breaks his leg, there was no telephone to tell someone that the bone was sticking out of his high , no petrol to drive a car to the field hospital , if you happened to know where it was in the first place, and big shortage of antibiotics if you did manage to get the kid to a surgeon somehow and wanted to make sure he or she didn't die of infection a week or so later."

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i found this quote interesting . It brought back memories from learning facts about the world in history class. How us Americans was once in a drought, depression. If it happened to us once it can happen again. However I don't think Elizabeth had seen this coming when she was going to stay with her cousins in England. She thought like everyone else, a war is going to happen just let it come and see what it brings them.

Elizabeth got a clear view of what’s going on in the world. It makes her wonder "what’s the end going to be about" because so much is already going on and not much to do to help it. She learned so much about farming than she ever did. She realized all these things were a happening under "occupation rules" but she didn't understand the occupation for the simple fact that it didn't seem like any other war... Is it perhaps because she’s not in America?

 Analysis
   The author uses one of the soldiers to deliver this message , and portrays a lot of images of what the world might look like at the time. He tells how much of a struggle just to get certain things done and if it can be done in the first place. Living life where war actually takes place and a frustrating life because you don't know how long your going to survive as the author explains.

#3 page 87

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    "What impressed me was how simple it seemed to be to throw a whole country into chaos by dumping a bunch of poison into some of the water supplies making sure no one could get electricity.... All in all I felt a little guilty about the fact that while us kids had been living in life of Riley, a whole bunch of other people had been scurrying around like lunatics... The belief was there were too many problems to think about and not enough people to sort them out...... For all our making fun of Osbert and his passion to join war effort I could see now that was our ticket way home"

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She and Osbert's younger sister was feeling down when Osbert had left to join the war. Although Osbert and Elizabeth were cousins they had a very special bond and when he wasn't there she would just reminisce on the times when he was there , but now everything's clicking through to her and she’s starting to get a better understand .

Analysis

The author displays how point of view shifted from negative to positive and has her speak out on it herself. Elizabeth totally respects Osbert's decision when he joined the war. Although it took her a while and he wasn't there to see her have a better mind statement; she is very pleased that she hopes that’s their ticket way home and soon the war will be over. Again the author uses her voice to hopefully gather the feelings that she felt at the time.

#4 (page72)

QUOTE: "the fact that no one seemed to be outside even though it was a beautiful sunny day, and there were no kids on the playground or riding their bikes along the street or anything.  Also there were no cars driving and lots abandoned by the side of the road where they ran out of gas."

REACTION: Since Elizabeth is from England i know she feels like everyone out here is odd. Coming to a place while war is on , makes your mind wander. I would have questions or comments for days. Fact I know I’d feel unsafe since Aunt Penn went on a trip and there isn't anyone outside. This reminds me of Clarisse from Fahrenheit 451. Except she was the one who knew all the right information about the world and was singled out from everyone else.

ANALYSIS: This dystopian novel shows how Bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy. The power fails and the systems fail and the farm becomes more. This author displays a lot of imagery , makes you feel like as if your actually in England going through those tragic moments, or seeing a nice day outside and no ones outside because the war.

Far Ahead

The Future
 by Rainer Maria Rike

The Future ; time's excuse
to frighten us; too vast 
a project , too large a morsel
for the hears mouth.


The future, who wont wait for you ?
Everyone is going there
It takes suffices you to deepen


The absence that we are .


In the first couple lines of this poem it tells a perfect point of view . When thinking about the future it could either be a positive thought or a negative thought. This author Rainer Rike choose to say the future it there to frighten us. Being scared of the future makes the presence seem a mystery.Which relates to our society today ,  some think the worlds going to end in 2012 ,  some people believe that the government will plant chips in all of us. All these subliminal facts about the world ending it to much to grasp and engage.




"The future , who wont wait for you ?" The future doesnt wait on anyone. This poem explorts mixed feelings through out the poem . You just have to wait for the future to come . Dont get your hopes high on a perfect future because they could be let down. You cant expect something out the future , you just have to wait for it. Thinking about the future makes your mind travel , Rainer left it simple .The future is full of suprises and leaves mixed feelings , weather its being scared or excited everyone is going to the future.