Journal Entry One
Walter Cunningham
You know how sometimes you get that feeling in your stomach like something is bound to happen? That’s how I felt when I left our farm to go school, though the sky was cloudy I couldn’t wait, I had gone to school 3 other times, but had to quit to help my family with the farm but now I can go to school. I have never really minded being poor, as far as I can remember all of the Cunninghams have always been poor especially now with the great depression.
Farmers had been hit the hardest with too many things growing and not enough people wanting to but them. My daddy had mentioned something about it to my mum last night. I think he's really worried how we will survive winter. Once I arrived at School I saw that the new teacher was, different to the previous teachers I had. As I enter I see some writing on chalkboard which said that her name was Ms. Caroline Fisher, from North Alabama, Winston County. As I looked for anyone I might have seen in town or new I saw an empty desk, so I went and sat there.
The teacher started class and a girl kept on getting in trouble, finally the teacher said everyone take your lunch out and I thought what she would say when she say I didn’t bring a lunch. After doing a quick scan around the class her eyes finally set upon me, she asked me “Did you forget your lunch this morning? I just shook my head, she then asked me if I wanted to borrow money, once gain I said no, then the red hair girl tried to explain the situation at school yet she got into trouble once again.
After we were excused I was roughly introduced to the ground by the red hair girl, her brother told her to stop and she ceased rubbing my nose against the ground. They then invited me over for lunch, I just said yes and we were off, I wonder what’s for lunch?
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Journal #1- Chapters 1-3 from the perspective of Walter C.
Posted by Ramon at 10:07 PM
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2 comments:
1. I think it was good how you focused on one specific time in a chapter. Maybe next time you can incorporate a longer section to make it slightly more interesting. I think it was good how you interpreted the chapter though.
2. I like how you chose Walter to show the pespective from because I was wondering what he was thinking. Maybe next time you can show more of his feelings instead of just what happened, but overall I like how you interpreted the section.
ps: Make sure it's a full page single spaced, you might get marked down.
1. I like how you started off with relating the character to the reader by having the character talk to the reader. It really grabs the attention of the reader because of it being a question first. I don’t really feel that the entry is an entire page, but it is still filled with information and dialogue. You forgot a ending quotation (”) when the teacher asked a question, and when the character responds you should turn it into another paragraph. Other that that I thought it was a really well written piece.
2. I really liked how you put yourself in the characters shoes by bringing up the fact that the character was poor but that he didn’t care about it. That really shows how you are bringing up the characters opinion. I think that you could’ve gone on the explain the characters emotions when he ate at Jem and Scouts house because he wasn’t used to eating meals like that. Overall I thought that you captured the characters perspective really well.
- Madison Dunkin
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