"'It's a sullen, evil-tempered animal,' she said. The doctor sighed. 'Clones go that way in the end. I did think this one was brighter than most.' Matt said nothing, hunched as he was in a corner as far from the pair as he could get. Long days of solitude in Celia's house had taught him how to be quiet, and any attention from Willum or Rosa could result in pain" (Farmer 43).
This quote again shows the prejudice against Matt because he is a clone. Matt doesn't talk because he is afraid of being punished by Rosa and the doctor, and justifiably too because that is all they ever do to him. But they assume because he doesn't respond to them any more that it is because Matt is a clone, not because of how they treat him. This again adds to the hostile feelings towards the people who have mistreated him.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Important Quote #1
Ok so in case you don't know, I read The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer for outside reading this quarter.
"'What's going on?' came a voice Matt hadn't heard before. A large, fierce-looking man burst into the room. Steven immediately straightened up. Emilia and even Maria looked alarmed. 'We found a kid in the poppy filds, Father,' said Steven. 'He hurt himself, and I thought the
doctor...the doctor--' 'You idiot! You need a vet for this little beast!' the man roared. 'How dare you defile this house?'" (Farmer 23).
This quote shows how disgusting Matt is found to be because he is a clone that he needs a vet and not a doctor to treat him when he is bleeding. It also shows the extreme prejudice against him when he never did anything wrong. This adds to the sense of confusion that Matt is feeling because he doesn't know what he is or really what's going on. It also builds a feeling of distrust and dislike against the people who are discriminating against him and mistreating him when he did nothing.
"'What's going on?' came a voice Matt hadn't heard before. A large, fierce-looking man burst into the room. Steven immediately straightened up. Emilia and even Maria looked alarmed. 'We found a kid in the poppy filds, Father,' said Steven. 'He hurt himself, and I thought the
doctor...the doctor--' 'You idiot! You need a vet for this little beast!' the man roared. 'How dare you defile this house?'" (Farmer 23).
This quote shows how disgusting Matt is found to be because he is a clone that he needs a vet and not a doctor to treat him when he is bleeding. It also shows the extreme prejudice against him when he never did anything wrong. This adds to the sense of confusion that Matt is feeling because he doesn't know what he is or really what's going on. It also builds a feeling of distrust and dislike against the people who are discriminating against him and mistreating him when he did nothing.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Sorry Daphni...
So I am totally going to copy Daphni and post a poem I like. I didn't write it, which is a good thing since my poetry is really bad, but I found it a few years ago and it's been on my bulletin board every since because I think it's amazing and it really struck a chord with me. It's long, but seriously read it, it's worth it. So here you go, enjoy!
Please Hear What I Am Not Saying
by Jill Zevallos-Solak
Don't be fooled by me.
Don't be fooled by the face I wear.
For I wear a mask, a thousand masks, masks that I'm afraid to take off, and none of them is me.
Pretending is an art that's second nature to me, but don't be fooled.
For GOd's sake don't be fooled.
I give you the impression that I'm secure, that confidence is my name and coolness is my game, that the water's calm and I'm in command, and that I need no one.
But don't believe me.
My surface may seem smooth buy my surface is my mask, ever-varying and ever-concealing.
Beneath lies no complacence.
Beneath lies confusion and fear and aloneness.
But I hide this. I don't want anybody to know it.
I panic at the thought of my weakness and fear being exposed.
That's why I frantically create a mask to hide behind, a nonchalant sophisticated facade, to help me pretend, to shield me from the glance that knows.
But such a glance is precisely my salvation.
My only hope, and I know it.
That is, if it's followed by acceptance, if it's followed by love.
It's the only thing that can liberate me from myself, from my own self-built prison walls, from the barriers I so painstakingly erect.
It's the only thing that will assure me of what I can't assure myself, that I am really worth something.
I don't like to hide.
I don't like to play superficial phony games.
I want to stop playing them.
I want to be genuine and spontaneous and me, but you've got to help me.
You've got to hold out your hand even when that's the last thing I seem to want.
Only you can wipe away from my eyes the bland stare of the breathing dead.
Only you can call me into aliveness.
Each time you're kind and gentle and encouraging, each time you try to understand because you really care, my heart begins to grow wings, very small wings, very feeble wings, but wings!
With your power to touch me into feeling you can breathe life into me.
I want you to know that.
Who am I, you may wonder.
I am someone you know very well.
For I am every man you meet, and I am every woman you meet.
Please Hear What I Am Not Saying
by Jill Zevallos-Solak
Don't be fooled by me.
Don't be fooled by the face I wear.
For I wear a mask, a thousand masks, masks that I'm afraid to take off, and none of them is me.
Pretending is an art that's second nature to me, but don't be fooled.
For GOd's sake don't be fooled.
I give you the impression that I'm secure, that confidence is my name and coolness is my game, that the water's calm and I'm in command, and that I need no one.
But don't believe me.
My surface may seem smooth buy my surface is my mask, ever-varying and ever-concealing.
Beneath lies no complacence.
Beneath lies confusion and fear and aloneness.
But I hide this. I don't want anybody to know it.
I panic at the thought of my weakness and fear being exposed.
That's why I frantically create a mask to hide behind, a nonchalant sophisticated facade, to help me pretend, to shield me from the glance that knows.
But such a glance is precisely my salvation.
My only hope, and I know it.
That is, if it's followed by acceptance, if it's followed by love.
It's the only thing that can liberate me from myself, from my own self-built prison walls, from the barriers I so painstakingly erect.
It's the only thing that will assure me of what I can't assure myself, that I am really worth something.
I don't like to hide.
I don't like to play superficial phony games.
I want to stop playing them.
I want to be genuine and spontaneous and me, but you've got to help me.
You've got to hold out your hand even when that's the last thing I seem to want.
Only you can wipe away from my eyes the bland stare of the breathing dead.
Only you can call me into aliveness.
Each time you're kind and gentle and encouraging, each time you try to understand because you really care, my heart begins to grow wings, very small wings, very feeble wings, but wings!
With your power to touch me into feeling you can breathe life into me.
I want you to know that.
Who am I, you may wonder.
I am someone you know very well.
For I am every man you meet, and I am every woman you meet.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Blog Blog Blog...AH!
Ok well I am super behind in blogging so I will try to catch up here as fast as I can. I've been sick and then really tired from being sick and trying to catch up in everything, so I do have a good excuse for not blogging in forever. Plus it's the Milwaukee Regional for robotics this coming week, so I'm trying to get ready for that. We leave Wednesday and I'm super pumped!!!!!! But of course that means that I'll be missing more school which sucks, but oh well, it can't be helped. Robotics is life. School is death. Robotics beats school. Period.
I actually went to the semi-final and final hockey games this week. Semi-finals was for band and finals was just because. It was quite intense, although it was disappointing when Edina lost in the finals. But I'm not a huge sports fan to begin with so I wasn't crushed. I care much more about robotics than hockey. Not that that's at all relevant. But I'm tired so I will ramble as I so choose. I will soon be blogging about my outside reading book for the first time this quarter. Until then, I don't know, eat a muffin. Just kidding. You'd have to eat a lot of muffins. So maybe don't. Because then you might get sick. So...take a nap. And then eat a muffin. And maybe by then I'll have blogged about my outside reading book. If not rinse and repeat! Just kidding. Wow this blog makes no sense. It rapidly deteriorated from actual ideas to randomness in the extreme. Oh well.
I actually went to the semi-final and final hockey games this week. Semi-finals was for band and finals was just because. It was quite intense, although it was disappointing when Edina lost in the finals. But I'm not a huge sports fan to begin with so I wasn't crushed. I care much more about robotics than hockey. Not that that's at all relevant. But I'm tired so I will ramble as I so choose. I will soon be blogging about my outside reading book for the first time this quarter. Until then, I don't know, eat a muffin. Just kidding. You'd have to eat a lot of muffins. So maybe don't. Because then you might get sick. So...take a nap. And then eat a muffin. And maybe by then I'll have blogged about my outside reading book. If not rinse and repeat! Just kidding. Wow this blog makes no sense. It rapidly deteriorated from actual ideas to randomness in the extreme. Oh well.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Post M
Well I haven't really been very good about blogging over winter break, but, in my defense, I've been very busy. Not only did I go on the band trip to Disney World over New Year's, but it was also KICKOFF yesterday!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!! So now we know what the game is, and the crazy 6-week build season has begun! This year's game is called Overdrive, and it's quite complex. I'm rather disappointed though that there isn't really a way to build a defensive robot as most defensive actions are illegal. So Zerkit will actually have to be offensive. Oh well. Should you wish to learn more about the game, you can watch the kickoff webcast at http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/2008_frcwebcasts.php. I would highly recommend it. But if you're in a hurry, feel free to skip to the last few minutes of the webcast and just watch the part about the actual game.
Florida was also awesome! I got tan thanks to the fact that I forgot to wear sunblock on anything but my face every single day! And it was WARM! Quite a change from the cold and snow here at home. However I was so incredibly tired by the end of the trip that I don't fully remember what I did. I do remember sleeping in the bear show in Magic Kingdom though. That was wonderful.
Now I must quickly finish my other homework and go to bed so I can be ready for school tomorrow! :( I should probably blog about my book too...
Florida was also awesome! I got tan thanks to the fact that I forgot to wear sunblock on anything but my face every single day! And it was WARM! Quite a change from the cold and snow here at home. However I was so incredibly tired by the end of the trip that I don't fully remember what I did. I do remember sleeping in the bear show in Magic Kingdom though. That was wonderful.
Now I must quickly finish my other homework and go to bed so I can be ready for school tomorrow! :( I should probably blog about my book too...
Friday, December 21, 2007
Post L
2 and a half hours until break. I WILL make it!!! And then I will go home and then go to work and then go to a Christmas party. Exciting! And then I get to go home and sleep. YES!!!!!!! This has been an incredibly stressful and busy week and I cannot wait to relax...at least for a couple days before Christmas and then the band trip. I'm super excited for the band trip though!!!! It should be a good time--Disney World for New Years with my bandee friends and no parents. Well, technically there are chaperones, but not my parents! And then it's KICKOFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of the most exciting days of the whole entire YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Second only to competition days. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, it's my life--ROBOTICS!!!!!! And I am SO PUMPED for the season to get started and find out what the GAME is this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While I am very sleep deprived right now and that can probably account for some of the exclamation marks and capitalizations in the previous paragrah, the robotics stuff was not an exageration. I pretty muh live for robotics. It is what gets me up in the morning. Ok, that might be just a little much, but it's basically awesome. Clearly since that's pretty much all I'm talking about now...But we got our GAME HINT this week which is SUPER EXCITING!!!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEE ROBOTICS <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Now there are two hours and 15 minutes left until break. Yippee!!!!!
Happy holidays to all!
While I am very sleep deprived right now and that can probably account for some of the exclamation marks and capitalizations in the previous paragrah, the robotics stuff was not an exageration. I pretty muh live for robotics. It is what gets me up in the morning. Ok, that might be just a little much, but it's basically awesome. Clearly since that's pretty much all I'm talking about now...But we got our GAME HINT this week which is SUPER EXCITING!!!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEE ROBOTICS <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Now there are two hours and 15 minutes left until break. Yippee!!!!!
Happy holidays to all!
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Post K
So I have to blog again goday, despite the fact that I really have nothing to say. Oh joy. Well I hope my blog post last night made sense as I was constantly being distracted by my friends. We were supposed to be studying AP Euro at Panera, but we were really just goofing off and blogging! Woot. But then we got bored, so we went to Target. That was fun. But I don't really feel like talking about it. So I won't.
Omg Sadies was on Friday and I am proud to say that I did not go! Instead, I stayed home with Emma and we watched Ghost Whisperer and then Titanic and then the last 4 minutes of the Late Show with David Letterman (which was really just the credits) and then half of the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (I hope I spelled his name right) and ate pizza and chips and brownies. And then stayed up until 2:30 in the morning talking. *Sigh* Good times. But I hope everyone who went to the dance had fun!
Hopefully this will suffice for my second blog post of the week. I have nothing more to say. Other than the fact that I have about four million hours of flute recording to do in the next two days. AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'd better go get started. ONE WEEK TO WINTER BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL make it!!
Omg Sadies was on Friday and I am proud to say that I did not go! Instead, I stayed home with Emma and we watched Ghost Whisperer and then Titanic and then the last 4 minutes of the Late Show with David Letterman (which was really just the credits) and then half of the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (I hope I spelled his name right) and ate pizza and chips and brownies. And then stayed up until 2:30 in the morning talking. *Sigh* Good times. But I hope everyone who went to the dance had fun!
Hopefully this will suffice for my second blog post of the week. I have nothing more to say. Other than the fact that I have about four million hours of flute recording to do in the next two days. AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'd better go get started. ONE WEEK TO WINTER BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL make it!!
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