Rule of the Bone/ Russell Banks/
Pages read 21
Russ and Chappie changed their names and they sold the truck they stoled to James and Richard . Russ and Cahappie bought tickets to go to Glen Falls.
With tha change of names and the change of appearence did Chappie and Russ became invisible? No because they are still alive it does not matter if the people don’t know they are alive they may be invisible to the people but they
Rule of the Bone /Russell Banks/ 5/05/08
Pages read 14
The bikers that live with chappie and Russ have stolen merchandise. The bikers don’t want to share part of their money with Russ and chappie. Russ steels electronics form the bikers.
Dos the bikers see Russ and chappie visible? No because they don’t treat them as they existed but they act like Russ and chappie were invisible that they don’t exist.
Was Russ reaction they right one to the problem that the bikers that did not was to share the money? No because he is stealing form tem and if they found out it could end in a catrostophy and them the electronics would be for nobody.
Russ and chappie are invisible to the bikers they only see them and acknowledge they are there when the get weed from chappie. The bikers don’t want to get chappie and Russ in the business of the stolen electronics because they want all the money for themselves. Russ seems that he has a goal of the future he wants to grow to no be the same he thinks of his future but chappie does not think of his future he has no future plans. “You’ve got to start thinking about the future biker’s gangs they come and go, man”.
Rule of the Bone/Russell Banks/ 5/06/08
Pages read 12
The bikers found out that electronics are missing and they blame chappie and Russ. The bikers tie chappie and Russ comes and rescue him but the place where they lived burns down. Russ and chappie escape and no ones know if hey are dead or alive.
Is chappie visible to Russ? Yes because he cares for him he went back to the bikers place and went for chappie and he did not left him alone.
Are Russ and chappie going to be able to start a new life? Yes they can start a new life without worrying about the bikers
With the accident they are invisible to the world. People are going to think that chappie and Russ are dead and they can start knew a life. At this point of the story it seems that they might have a goal to start a new life without past, but Russ still want to go back for the electronics he stole. ”I figure we should book while people were still somewhat distracted by the fire and thinking maybe we had burned up in it.”
Rule of the Bone/Russell Banks/ 5/07/08
Pages read 7
Chappie and Russ stole a car and headed out of town, they headed for Plattsburgh. Then they went to an old bus where they could stay.
Does Richard and James see chappie as a visible person? No because they don’t put attention to chappie they apparently don’t even notice him only when he entered the bus.
Did Russ want to get James and Richard in the business of the stolen electronics? No because he did not said a word about the electronics he doesn’t want James or Richard to find out.
Russ and chappie want be invisible to the world they don’t’ want anyone to find out that they are alive the want everyone to think they are dead. Russ and chappie don’t even want their mother’s to find out that they are alive. They want to be invisible to the world. They don’t have any plans for the future only for that moment that is to stay with James and Richard for now.” The wind was blowing pretty hard and it was definitely cold out there and weird so I was getting anxious to get invited inside even trough maybe it wasn’t such a good idea.”
Rule of the bone /Russell Banks/ 5/08/08
Pages read 9
Russ and chappie want to start a new life; Russ plans to get rid of the tattoo and chappie want’s to let his hair grow. Also Russ and chappie want to change their names.
With the change of image, Russ and chappie change their identity? NO they don’t change their identity they just change something but no who they are.
With the change of hair and names are they are going to be invisible to the world? Yes they are going to look different but if they meet with someone they know the people may not recognize them but Russ and chappie are going to recognize them.
Chappie and Russ are trying to change their appearance but they can’t change their identity. They might have become invisible to the world but they can’t change who they are and become someone else they are not. The goals that they have at this point of the story are that they are going to change their appearance and their names. “It’ll be my new identity, he said. My trademark. I’m going underground, man. I might even change my name.”
Rule of the Bone/ Russell Banks/ 4/28/08
Pages read 18
Chappie and Russ were kick out of the house by the bickers. He found guy called buster who bought him some food. Buster wanted chappie to make a test to be an actor.
Does buster puts attention to froggy? No he does not even notice when froggy leaves he is like if she was invisible.
Does froggy have an identity? No she does not she goes where buster goes; he sometimes does not even know were she is. She seems like if she was a doll.
Froggy does not have her own identity she seems like she does not even have a life. She is invisible to buster because he does not notice when she leaves or were she goes. There is no evidence that froggy has a dream or a goal because it seems that her life is controlled by buster. I think that froggy almost does not exist to buster because he does not put attention to her.
“He was holding her by the hand like she was rag doll.”
Rule of the Bone/Russell Banks/ 4/29/08
Pages read 10
Wanda the owner of the place wehere chappie and russ live went for the money of the rent.she found out that russ wsa stealing her money and he got fired from his job.
wanda seems that she has a good realtionship with her huspand? No because she only follow the order of her huspand to get money so he can buy alcohol.
“She was this dotty old lady married to a drunk who sent her out sometimes to collet the day’s cash from the till and wahtever rent money she could scrounge out of Russ and buy booze with it.”
Rule of the bone/ Russell Banks/4/21/08
Pages read 15
The story is about a kid name chappie that smokes weed and he is desperate to get some weed because it’s been a lot of days since he has not got any. He steels some coins that he found in his mom’s closet and sells them.
Does chappie loves his stepfather? No chappie does not like his stepfather because he always is against him they don’t have a good relationship.
Does the stepfather of chappie has a good impression of him? No the stepfather of chappie does not like him because he smokes weed and doesn’t go to school.
I think that chappie does not have an identity be because he does a lot of thing and he get’s in trouble all the time. He does not like his life and gets his mother sad. There is no evidence that he has a dream or a goal.” Why not try and find them and take what’s left”
Chuckie/ Victor de Lavalle/4/22/08
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The story is about a group of friends that play baseball. The kids went to an Italian neighborhood to play went they were going back home, some older kids were beating chucky and no one did anything to help him.
Did any of the kids help chukie? No one of the kids help him some because they were too sacred to help him and other was just seen him.
Were al the kids really friends? No because they did not help each other they count not count with each other they were just neighbors not really friends.
I think that the main character only cares for himself and not the other people that surround him. He has finds but he does not hell them like if he was invisible and only was able to see but not interbine.He does no have a dream or something. “Many people would call me a betrayer, often, but that was because they’d mistaken me for a friend”
Godoy lives/Daniel chacon/ 2/23/08
Pages read 15
The story was about a man called Juan that entered the U.S by a green card that was not his, the owner was dead and he took advantage of that to take it. When he entered the U.S he food the family go the person who the green carve belong and he took his place and did not told the truth.
Did Juan had good intentions by taken the green card? Yes he planed to go to the U.S and work to send money for his family
Did Juan try to tell the truth that he was not the read Godoy? No he did not try he keep on with his lie
I think that Juan took over the identity try of the other person that makes him invisible he does not have his own identity he just is pretending to be someone he’s not.Heis goal is to make money to send to his family.”He practices and practices. It got the entire family was saying it”
When I went to the film festival the day of March 12 of 2008 I enjoy seeing the movie that was called La Leyenda De La Nahuala. It was a really interesting story that I did not heard about. The movie was really interesting and funny at the same time it was in Spanish so it was difficult for the people who did not understand and Spanish but there were subtitles that the people could read to understand the movie. The movie was for all ages there were different characters with different personalities that everyone knows in a common day. All the movies that were going to show seem very interesting to see the only thing that was not enough was the time to see all the movies. My overall experience was really good because I enjoy spending time with my friends and teachers, I enjoyed a little bit more of my culture, also learning a legend I did not heard before. Also that it was a distraction for me off school of all the classes and the homework. In the future if there is another film festival I would go because it’s a really good experience and the movies are really interesting to see, I would go with my friends and family.
For me freedom is a right that we are born with no one can take in away. Freedom is one of John Lock natural rights that government should protect them. It is the right that gives us to follow the religion that we want to say what we want to the government. Also that let us write about anything we desire and publish it, and assemble peacefully. Freedom means that we have the right to do thing but not everything we want because it can be dangerous.
There are laws that enable us to do certain thing for our safety or the safety of others around us. Public security is very important more than personal freedom because some people that are important may suffer form people always following them. It can put someone at risk, it also doesn’t give the people freedom, if they are always being followed. I don’t think that we should be free to do whatever we want because we can hurt ourselves and not only other people. We can put our lives to risk or someone else. I am free to do what ever I want and at the same time I a not able to do whatever I want to do. I am free do say what I think write what I want, and choose my own religion. I am not free to go to another country without the permission of my parents to drop of school, to drink alcohol there are certain things I can do and can’t for my own safety.
I think it is OK if someone breaks the rules if they fight for what they believe in if there was an injustice or something. It also depends on what rule was broken because there are some rules that are not as important as others. I think it is more important to stand up for what someone believes in. It does not matter is rules are broken in the way there. It may not be important to other people to understand why you are breaking the rules but if a person knows what they want they should not listen to other people or care about breaking the rules. Also depends on what I person believes in and what rules are going to be broken.
I believe the world was created by God or by meteoroids that created the world and life. I know this information because it’s in the books a science a hypothesis how life started. I think that the first people came from evolution they evolved from through the years that passed they have the figure/form they have now. I think that it does matter how the world was created because people know they key of life. Also to scientists to know how life started and be able to cure diseases and help people.
The Cherokee tribe believed that the world already existed that it was an island that was hold by four cords. In the story of this tribe that believed that the people were created at last the plants, animals, and sun were created first. The Salish tribe believed that the world was already created but only Gods lived on it. This tribe believes that the humans were created by the Gods from balls of mud a God took from the Earth. The Zuni tribe myth says that the earth was already created and that the Zuni came to the world to live on it. They believed that the Zuni came into the world with webbed feet, long ears, hairless tails, and moss-covered bodies and that they acquire human form after bathing in the waters of a sacred spring.
In all of these stories that I read the Earth already existed but only Gods lived there or in another stories there were animals and plants but no human people. Some of these stories don’t have sense that they exist. They could have been true or they could not be true. It all depends on the person who is reading the stories and if they believe it is true. The stories don’t tell that the people believed in anything. It does not say if they believed in Gods or in a supreme power. The stories tell that the world was already created that Gods, animals, and plants lived in Earth and that humans to the Earth and change with the past of the years or they were created by the Gods. There is no way to know if this myths or stories are true. There is no evidence to probe these stories were true and for that science cannot prove if facts are true. If there was evidence that this stories were true like buildings or some kind of fossil then science could do certain experiments to see how old they are and from there prove that these stories were in fact true. I think that my view of how the world was created has more sense than the stories of the Natives Americans. Science has theories of how Earth was created and there have been many opinions of this. Science explains that humans had various phases of evolution with all the animals that today exist and that how they got the shape they have know. There is also another theory that the church follows that is that a superior power created the Earth. Many of the followers of the church defend this belief while other support science. I all depend on the person to choose how they think earth was created and humans were created to.
Trait #1: Equality
Example: The law states that everyone is equal and that people such as the government would not discriminate against others for their skin color, ethnicity, religion or sexual preference.
Comment: It think that this is important for American Law that makes no difference between ethnic groups, color, skin color, or religion. The law sees everyone as equal people without any discrimination of any kind.
Trait #2: Racists
Example: Americans use many tactics to discriminate other racial groups for example the right t to vote or actually live in the US is only given to actual born Americans. US also only give few people citizenship when they have years paying for it or when it benefits the country.
Comment: Some Americans are racist; they think that U.S land should only be shared with native-born Americans and they see the other ethnic groups as lower racial groups. Americans think they’re superior.
Trait #3: Freedom
Example: The Americans can follow the religion that they want and no one can tell them what religion. The government cannot tell then what religion they can follow and what they can’t they follow.
Comment: The Americans have freedom of speech, press, religion, peacefully assemble. The Americans are free to do what ever they want. If they want to protest for something they can without any fear that the government can do something to them. The same thing with publishing a text in the newspaper or a book.
