I am the messenger

Why is Ed's mother so harsh on him? She thinks his job service is a disgrace to the world and absolutely hates it. If only she could see him now for who he truly is  and what kind of person he has become. Anyone could have gotten the card, but not everyone would have went to the addresses and actually helped the people there out. Ed's mother thinks that he is a disappointment and a no good person who drives a taxi around. He does drive a taxi but a lousy person does not help other people out so therefore Ed is not that. I completely disagree with his mother's opinion on him because he is not the person that she thinks he is. Ed is a loving and caring guy who just did the right thing for these poor people that need help. Also, he stood up to a robber in a bank with a gun. He got the robber caught and became a local hero. I bet if Ed's mother saw that she might change her mind, but for now she is wrong about him.

Sacredness Of The Ordinary

Sunday, October 4, 2015

A Hero’s Cap 

  

Ever since I was a little kid I adored my grandfather. He was such an honorable person. He joined the military and fought in the Vietnam War. He lived in Tuscon, Arizona after he retired from the military and that’s where I saw him most of the time. After the war, there was something wrong with him and we had to put him in a electric wheelchair.

He was the nicest man you will ever meet. He used to give me rides around on his wheelchair when I was too lazy to walk somewhere. He was a funny guy too, always making fun of my dad in the funniest of ways. Them too were pretty close and loved each other a lot. We often visited Arizona because of this.

One normal day we had got a call from the doctors in Arizona and said that my grandfather was in the hospital. We hoped so much that it was minor, but a couple days later they said that he had passed away. Now this was about three years ago, but I still remember it like it was yesterday. This was a bad day for everyone especially my dad. I don’t think that I have ever seen my dad cry, but that day he was in a lot of tears.

We went out to Arizona for the funeral. This was probably the saddest I have ever seen my grandmother too. Everyone there was sad because a great man had passed. When I had got  to my grandmother’s house after the funeral she said that she had needed to talk to me about something. She said that she wanted to give me the hat that he would always wear around. At first, I said,” no I can’t take that because I didn’t deserve something like that”. Then she persuaded me into taking it because of the fact that I needed something to remember him by.

To this day I keep that hat secure in my house because it actually is the only thing that I have to remember him by besides picture. I can still remember when she gave me that hat I was so honored I couldn’t talk. It was the greatest gift that I have ever gotten. I can still remember him giving me rides on his electric wheelchair with his hat on. Rest in Peace Grandpa

Light Vs. Dark

               In the book A Tale Of Two Cities, there are many ways that are shown how light and dark express how hopeful or hopeless the characters are. Like on page 30 When Dickens says,"He had put up a hand between the light.", which is saying that Doctor Manette has been imprisoned for so long that he has not seen the light for ages. He has been in the darkness most of his life. On page 32 Dickens states,"Darkness had fallen on him and in its place.". He was trying to remember Miss Manette or Mr. Lorry and he had at first, but then he realized that it was not coming back to him. He had thought it was hopeless what they were trying to do. On page 35 Miss Manette is holding her father keeping all of the surroundings around him blocked and just her hair around him, the quote,"Her hair drooping over him curtained him  from the light," In the quote on page 36 Dickens infers,"The darkness deepened and deepened, as they both lay quiet,until a light gleamed through the chinks of the walls." Dickens is trying to say that the darkness of the place they were in was being lightened by the outside because they were about to escape and he would need to go out into the light to do so. That is a sign of hope for both the Manettes and Mr. Lorry because they are about to get him out. Hope and Hopelessness is a common tone in describing light and dark in this book of A Tale Of Two Cities.