News Article

     An article called ''Autistic teen reunites with dog 5 years later" from the website News4jax was published on December fifteen, and the publisher is not named. Chance Morgan, an autistic teen, reunited with his husky five years after it went missing. He found his dog Bleu on Thursday, and the dog was his best friend. A family in Macclenny had found the dog and took him home and put it up for adoption. When Bleu was taken to the vet, they found a microchip and they found out it belonged to Chance's family in Lake City. His mother said they got the dog to be therapeutic to their son, and she always prayed to find the dog. His mother said that the day before they found Bleu, she had bought her son another dog, so they now have two dogs. Chance said it was his Christmas miracle.

    This article is a great article about hope and miracles. The dog was gone for five years, and God saved him from death. He was taken in from a great family, who gave him the love until Chance was reunited with him again. It is a great feeling to be reunited with someone you love, even if it is just an animal. Miracles are possible if you hold them true to your heart.

''The Fall of the House of Usher''

     In the short story '' The Fall of the House of Usher'', written by Edgar Allan Poe, there are many psychological aspects being added to make it more Gothic. The description of the exterior and interior of the house already gives hint about the story's plot and ending. The outside of the house is very dark, scary, old, and gothic. The eye-like windows give a sense of sadness and fear to the house. The house is being compared to a sad face, and that foreshadows a deep sadness coming his way. The house compares to the Usher family, because just like the house has many problems, the Usher family is all intermarried, and thus have many genetic and psychological problems.The inside of the house is also sad, because all the furniture is torn, and it gives a sad vibe.
     The house affects Roderick as well. His mind is full of vivid details filled with sadness and misery. There are also fissures in the house that make it feel like the house will collapse at any time. Another psychological effect is the sister's ''death", and Usher's psychological problems that come along with it. Usher feels a presence in the room that the sister is still alive, and hear loud thunderstorms. The sister was Usher's twin, so they had a strong connection, and it affected him too.
    Edgar Allan Poe is a great Gothic writer, because he adds suspense and thrill in every paragraph. He does not tell the reader what is going to happen quickly, but he slowly drives the reader into a vivid imagination. He made the ending very suspenseful and scary.

Newspaper Article #7

     The article called "Man sentenced to six years for shooting at neighbor's barking dog" was published by Esmeralda Bermudez on December 9,2011. It talks about a Baldwin park man who shot his neighbor's dog for barking in front of a seven year old girl. It happened on May 25,2011 when a little girl was playing with her dog named Smalls outside their house. Carleton States taunted the dog until it started barking and told the girl to go inside her house and then shot the dog. The dog ran into the house after the girl, and he followed the two of them into the house, and threatened to shoot the little girl who was holding the dog in her lap. He was accused of child abuse, using a firearm, and shooting.
     This article was sick. There is no reason to shoot a dog for no reason. The little girl was out enjoying a day with her small dog when this psycho neighbor came and taunted the dog. He might have been a pedophile and was after the girl, and used the dog as a way to get her. I do not really what to say about this article except that it was the stupidest reason to use a gun.

"The Raven"

     "The Raven" was written by Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar wrote the poem in a gothic way, since he was known for his mysterious, scary, and frightening tone. Gothic literature was common during his era, and it consisted of four main aspects. The aspects were: Set in a bleak and remote place;characters are in a psychological/physical torment; a supernatural element has to be present;plot involves macabre, or violent incidents. Gothic literature would not be called gothic if it did not consist of these aspects.
     The setting of "The Raven" was in a humongous house, during December, at midnight. It was set in a bleak place, so it has an aspect of the Gothic literature. Violent incidents were not common in the poem, but it can give hints to what happened to Lenore, and what he wanted to do to the bird since it was annoying him. The macabre can be symbolized by the raven itself, because it was dark and scary. Psychological torment means when a soul or a mind is troubled, like the narrators. He was having problems with accepting the fact that Lenore is gone. The narrator actually believes that the raven is speaking to him and trying to tell him something important. The mysterious events that happened in "The Raven" include the stuffiness of the room, the narrator thinking there are ghosts in it, and him trying to think nothing is wrong. The bird, for the narrator, was a way of trying to turn him away from Lenore, and all the thoughts he had about her. He had lost Lenore, and was in utter grief. When he asks the raven if he will ever see Lenore in Heaven, the bird responds "Nevermore", and that drives him crazy. The ending ended with him full of sorrow that the bird never leaves, and the shadow of sorrow that will never leave.

Newspaper Article #6

     I found a news article on LA Times website, and found it quite interesting. The article is called, "OC hockey mom charged with having sex with teen players." It was published on December 2, by Richard Winton. Kathia Davis is a forty- four year old mother of three, who is divorced, and molested a thirteen year old boy on her son's hockey team. She also had unlawful sex with a sixteen year old boy from her son's hockey team too. She threw parties for them and offered the two boys alcoholic beverages. Davis had offered the thirteen year old boy to drink in her presence and fondled with him a little bit. Apparently, the sixteen year old boy went to her house in Laguna Niguel and Davis had sex with him four times in her own bedroom. The sixteen year old boy told his parents about his sexual relationship with Davis, and his parents alarmed the Orange County Sheriff Department. She had in total six felonies. If she gets convicted, she will spend twelve years and eight months in prison.
     This article made me gag the whole time I was reading it. It is disgusting and wrong. It is related to "Scarlet Letter" because it deals with adultery, but she is actually divorced. In my opinion, this girl was desparate enough to sleep with a sixteen year old teenager, but she deserves to go to jail for twelve years.

Favorite part of Scarlet Letter

     I have read many books for school, which were not interesting whatsoever, but the "Scarlet Letter' was the best one yet. It actually had a message in the story, and gave many foreshadows and ironies throughout the novel. My favorite part out of the whole novel would have to be the ending because it tied the whole story up. The ending was not what many people would have thought it would be, but Dimmesdale's death was significant. He died from his wound, the letter A, which was a sign of his guilt and he kept getting sicker and sicker because of that. When he was dying, Pearl kissed his hand, proving that she knew that he was her father all along, but had some doubts about it. Pearl finally got her question answered that had made her so sinister like, the identity of her father.
    The ending was kind of a closure for Dimmesdale, since the crowd knew about his affair, his child, and his suffering. Pearl had finally recognized him as her father, Hester and him were allowed to show their affection in public, and he escaped his suffering with the truth.