What Horror To Awake At Night by Lorine Niedecker

What horror to awake at night
and in the dimness see the light.
Time is white
mosquitos bite
I've spent my life on nothing.

The thought that stings. How are you, Nothing,
sitting around with Something's wife.
Buzz and burn
is all I learn
I've spent my life on nothing.

I'm pillowed and padded, pale and puffing
lifting household stuffing -
carpets, dishes
benches, fishes
I've spent my life on nothing.





I think this means a women who goes through so much with her husband
and he possibly could of had an affair with someone's wife. He stabs her in
 the back and she feels like nothing. She's done so much, she has cleaned,
cooked, fought, and loved, for nothing.

Civil Peace

 

 

1. After reading the story i think after everything that has happened to Jonathan he still has an amazing outlook on life and he is so grateful for his life, his wife, his kids, and his house.

-Jonathan gets his money from taxiing people around, trading his money, and wine.

- Jonathan's money gets stolen by the thieves.

3. Jonathan has an incredible outlook on life. Even after he lost one child, fought off thieves, and gets his money stolen, he's just thankful that he has most of his family, and have a house to protect them. He knows that most people are not allowed to have this, so he becomes very thankful.

4. "Nothing puzzles God" means that things may happen and you don't understand why but God knows why it happened" - ms. a quote haha.

5. After the war, ordinary citizens are left with nothing, no jobs, no money, no family, and no house. Just like in the story, if men and woman had money, it would most likely get stolen from thieves and other citizens.

8. I think Jonathan was just extremely happy and so grateful for the fact for what he had after war. His life, his 3 out of 4 kids lives,his wife, his house, and his bicycle.

Dialogue, for the most part....

These are two make believe people by the way (:
Derreal: yo maami how you be doing tis evening?
Sara: excuse me sir, but do i know you?
Derreal: nah ma, but you're about to know me.
Sara: Oh wow, thanks, but no thanks!
Derreal: why you gon' be playin me like dat?
Sara: bye
Derreal: iiitchhyooo, whateva P3@c3.



okayy, you get the point. hah

Dead Mans Path Questions

1. He's going to get hit in the head with a shovel and get beat up by the people because he did what he wanted instead of what the people wanted. People from the burial grounds, The deads mans path is what connects through the school grounds. The school gets vandalized from the local tribe.

2. Yes because he wouldn't have changed his mind. He's gotten a chance already. It wasn't the priests idea, it was his people's.

3. Poor. He thinks all their stuff shouldn't exist and he's responsible for whatever happens to the village and the school. He really enjoys his work though. He gets one chance and screws it up.

4. Modern Techniques. She admires him. They are suited from each other because they are so much alike. Her ideas are adapted from him.

5. If there was no problem, i think that it wouldn't have been serious as it was by attacking the school. There would be more words than actions.

Dead Mans Path Assignment 2

Performance Review

Name: Michael Obi

Job: Headmaster

Start: January 1947

Rating: Poor

Assessment: He tries to modernize the school but it didn't end up working, he didn't even bother asking about what the villages' likes and dislikes were, Obi blocked off the path, which the village did not like. The people then ripped up the schools garden to make the sacrifice.

Suggestion: To try a little bit harder, maybe get some advice or some information from the people to see what they want. He's being sellfish by not asking what they want.

10 New Year Resolutions

1.  Say goodbye shy woman.
2.  Keep faith in the young heart.
3.  Risker of falling.
4.  Superhuman love.
5.  Hard-worker of the supporter.
6.  Strong-headed intelligence
7.  Faith-rewarding
8.  Keep my undesirable warmth for family
9.  The gallant captain of the softball team
10. College-bound student

The Illad, Book 24.

1. My opinion of Achilles still remains the same. Just because he has some emotion, doesn't mean he's changed. Priam asks Achilles to remember Hector, and his father. Priam and Achilles cry because they're grieving over their son and father who they've lost.  Achilles shows hospitality to Priam by feeding him, giving him food, and by letting him stay the night. Achilles agrees to not attack Troy in 12 days so Troy can have a proper burial for Hector.

2. I feel more sympathetic for both Achilles and Priam. Not only does Priam lose his son, but Achilles realizes something about himself, he's compassionate and he does have some emotion towards Hector. Priam needs to stop grieving over Hector.

3. Achilles is defined by his anger. Achilles other qualities that are revealed in this episode white Priam are compassion, fear, grief, sorrow, and checks his own behavior.

4. Greeks believe that fate cannot be changed, it's something you are born with and you cannot fix it. Zeus's passage about jars doesn't really make me have an understanding.