"Let America Be America Again"

The two perspectives shown in "Let America Be America Again" are that of those to try to gain the American Dream, and those who have accomplished the American Dream and try to take the dream from others. In the “dog eat dog world” in which the successful feast on the weak and misfortunate only inequality rises. The only way that the inequality could possibly end would be if not even a single person accomplished what they set out to do, and that is not what the American Dream is. But if everyone achieved the American Dream than most would continue to try and place a wall between themselves and others, to try and keep more power to themselves. If they one gained more power than the other than they would separate each other again because of inequality in power and wealth. The poor think that there is more hope in America than anywhere else, so they travel here only to find that things are mostly the same. But they don’t lose their hope like anyone who goes through hardships.

If Wilson was the Narrator

“Hope you get better Wilson. I better go back to the restaurant,” said Michaelis.

I still have a faint hope that I’m wrong and that Myrtle isn’t cheating on me. If she is, then it must be with Michaelis. Deep inside me, I truly never trusted that man. Well soon enough both of us are going to leave this place and move west with the money I make from selling Tom’s car. He truly is trust worthy, even helping me by giving me the car I have been asking for a long time now.

 I started on my way to bed when Myrtle left her room. I tried to stop her from leaving the house but it all ended in me and her fighting. I couldn’t stand it any longer, the fatigue that I have been feeling since earlier and now a fight with the person I had loved the most. I couldn’t stop myself in time, I hit her. If there was a time that I would want to erase from my life it would be right then and there. I felt more pain in hitting her than she did. I truly believed that.

“Beat me!” she said. “Throw me down and beat me you dirty little coward!”

I didn’t even try to stop her; I just stood there and listened to her last words.

Winter Poem

Snow Flakes

Sunshine through empty hands,

moment ends instantly,

untouchable but reaches for you,

Father and Son

The man cares for his son’s life more than his own, and the only reason he still doesn't commit suicide is that he wants to create a life for his son. Even the mother knew that the "boy was all that stood between him and death"(29). He doesn’t want his son to suffer dying, and that’s the reason he leaves the pistol with him. Rather a bullet to the head than the fact that he might get eaten alive by the cannibals. If they lasted any longer without food he would have let his son commit suicide. Many people are scared of dying but the son has no fear because the man is trying to make him as joyful for as long as he can without worrying about death. The treats that he gives his son like the Coca-Cola and letting him go into the water near the waterfall. He allows the boy to have toys allowing him to be distracted from reality. He doesn’t want to talk about the things that there were before the disaster because he only wants to mention the things that the boy will experience; he doesn’t want to raise his hopes of seeing them and then topple them over.

The man is acting just like any man acts in modern day, except there is no suicide if necessary going on. Fathers today would act the same if that disaster happened to them; their child would come first and they would do anything to protect them. 

Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

God, he has the ability to punish does who sin. The Puritans have fear in God when they think they are sinning. This fear is still present even though they think that they are the chosen ones that will go to heaven. That has made the Puritans live in a very strict manner as if their lives are on the line. 

I am not religious at all so I can't say much about the powers of God and what else he is able to do if you disobey his rule. I think that the Puritans had lost their reasoning when they thought that God would punish them for all the tiniest things that they did like read a book that's not the bible, and basically anything else from the bible. Like I said earlier I don't know anything about religion so I don't understand why people follow the bible in such a strict way as the Puritans did. What made the Puritans think that God prefers them over other religions? Why do they believe in predestination?

Introduction

Hello everyone, I’m Ivan Gil a sophomore at Whitney Young High School. This is the first time I have actually made a blog for any reason. Well, I’ll start talking about things I like. I’m a big soccer fan and my favorite team is Pumas, a team from the Mexican soccer league. As for music I will listen to pretty much anything at least once, but I prefer Jimmy Eat World, Lupe Fiasco, and Coldplay. I play a lot of video games on my Xbox; right now I mostly play Cod4 (in my opinion the best game ever). Now as for siblings, I only have one younger sister. At home I only speak Spanish because my parents don’t now English. That makes tings hard on all of us because I’m not that good on translating things for them, but I’m proud to have the Hispanic heritage in me. That’s all I have to say about myself.