Reading Response on Incident

            In the poem, "Incident", by Countee Cullen is about an incident that had happened in old Baltimore. Racism is an issue in this poem and shows how people will be affected by it. A young boy, eight years of age was a victim of racism and  was  hurt. People can be hurt just by saying words, but in this case, the little boy spoke one word and the victim was hurt. This poem made me realize how racism is building up and racism is falling upon younger kids.

            Racism shouldn't be caused by anyone no matter what age they are. In "Incident" it                                             shows that racism is being caused and affected by younger kids. In the poem it states "Now I was eight and very small and he was no whit bigger..." This shows the age of the suspect and how small he is.  Racism  is falling upon younger kids and they are being hurt. The little boy is having a nice day and enjoying it, when he says, " Heart filled, Head filled with Glee", then this other boy comes along and says one word to make his day horrible.

            Racism hurts and when somebody is affected by it stays with them for their whole life. For example, " I saw the whole of Baltimore from may until December, of all the things that happened there, that's all that I remember". This quote shows that when he was affected by racism , he was very hurt by it.  Everything that had happened there, that is all the things he remembers. The words stuck with him his whole life and was very hurt.

            This text made me realize how people all over the world are causing racism and it should be stopped. The age doesn't matter, nobody should be causing it. Racism could lead to other big things that the other victim is feeling. The victim was feeling very bad and if I were in his shoes I wouldn't feel any better. I would be sad and hurt because somebody is judging you on how you were born, and where you came from.

#8: Something that Drives you Crazy?

Something that drive me crazy is my brother. He is 4 years old and in pre k. All he does is watch, eat and sleep. He had a coloring assignment to do for class and i had to finish it for him. He gets what he wants and nobody can do anything about it. When he doesn't get what he wants he will go in a corner and cry and you will just feel bad. One day i was playing online on my ps3 with my friends and he wants to play. He asks me and i say no, this is too violent. He cries and yells and then sees the ps3. I was on a really high level and was excited to beat my score. He goes to the ps3 and presses the off button. At that point i didn't know what to say. He brings my mom over and she yells at me, to give him the ps3. So i do, and then my mom lets him play the shooting game i was playing. He doesn't even know how to play. The next day i played again and gave him a fake controller. He fell for it. When he realized it wasn't, he cried and whined and he closed the ps3. It isn't easy dealing with him. He's the king and where his slaves. He watches TV all day. Day and night, and when he's not watching TV hes on my phone playing games. I think he's using my phone more than i use my phone. It's just not fair dealing with him, he will do anything that he can to get what he wants. Other than all of that he is the BEST!

Reading response: The BFG

     In the book, "The BFG" by Roald Dahl is about a little girl and a Big Friendly Giant. The little girl named Sophie is an orphan. The book is also about Sophie and the BFG saving the world from the disgusting flesh eating giants. In the story the BFG, seems very scary and disgusting, but his personality makes him look like a very nice person. One major theme in this book is people shouldn't judge people for how they look.

     One day Sophie was laying down in bed and couldn't go to sleep. She sees a Big Friendly Giant(BFG), nut thinks he is a horrifying creature. She tries to hide from him but it was too late, the Giant has seen her and taken her from the room. The BFG takes Sophie to the land of the giants. Immediately, Sophie thinks that she will be eaten by the giant. Some how she figures out that the giant is friendly and won't hurt her. The BFG shows her the other nine giant that are bad. They are flesh eating giants that will eat anything. This shows that judging somebody by there appearance isn't a good thing because you won't know how they act. 

     Sophie tries to help the BFG by making all the giants go away. Using the BFG's skills that could make a dream in the queen of England, that would show how bad the other giants are. Also to make it sound real the BfG makes the dream show Sophie in her bedroom when she awakens. When She awakens she knows the Giants are real. That afternoon the BFG comes into the bad giants territory with the army. Soon they were all gone. Sophie had helped the BFG. 

      Judging somebody by there appearance isn't right because that's exactly what Sophie did and soon found out that the Giant was actually very friendly and helpful. And they both became friends and helped each other out.