Thursday, April 12, 2012
And Here We Go
I've reached the point were I cant think of anything more to study and I just have to hope for the best. I can't say I particularly like that feeling because I really really need the best on this coming quiz. I didn't score so great last time and was really taken of guard by the quiz. I can't afford that to happen tomorrow but I'm not sure how confident I am. I feel like I've done everything right, I mean I've read the book, marked quotes, and listened everyday but I just don't feel like I easily take it to the next level. I also feel like my writing abilities are decreasing. I just can't get what I mean across and fail to go into detail. On top of that my words just don't form like they used to. I'm scared.
My favorite quotes
"And how can I invent my version of the story, without my crooked vision?" Adah - pg 493
"You have nothing to lose but your chains." Adah - pg. 495
"This is what I carried out of the Congo on my crooked little back. In oour seventeen months in Kilanga, thirty-one children died, including Ruth May. Why not Adah? I can think of no answer that exonerates me." Adah - pg 413
"By Anatole I was shattered and assembled, by way of Anatole I am delivered not out of my life but through it. Love changes Everything I never suspected it would be so. Requitted love, I should say, for I've loved my father fiercely my whole life, and it changed nothing." Leah - pg 399
"And no God, in any heart on this earth, was ever more on the look out for human failing." Leah - pg 393
"My little beast, my eyes, my favorite stolen egg. Listen. To live is to be marked. to live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've found only sorrow." Orleanna - pg 385
"Just for the moment it was as if she'd disappeared, and her voice was thrown into the trees." Leah - pg 363
"I see that plainly when I look at my parents. God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves." Leah - pg 326
"Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punsihed. I'm warning you. When things go badly, you will blame yourself." Anatole - pg 309
"Don't blame God for what ants have to do. We all get hungry. Congolese people are not so different from Congolese ants." Anatole - pg 308
"That time Leah fed one to the ant lion, Jesus saw that. Now his friends are all coming back to eat us up." Ruth May - pg 303
"Bangala means something precious and dear. But the way he pronounces it, it mean the poisonwood tree. Praise the Lord, hallelujah, my friends! for Jesus will make you itch like nobody's business." Adah - pg 276
"If I die I will disappear and I know where I'll come back. I'll be right up there in the tree, same color, same everything. I will look down on you. But you won't see me." Ruth May - pg 273
"God's word, brought to you by a crew of romantic idealists in a harsh desert culture eons ago, followed by a chain of translators two thousand years long." Brother Fowles - 247
"Without that rock of certainty underfoot, the Congo is a fearsome place to have to sink or swim." Leah - 244
"Bandu is my name. Nommo Bandu! It means the littlest one on the bottom. And it means the reason for everything. Nelson told me that." Ruth May - pg 238
"I knew it was only the shadow and the angle of the sun, but still it's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known." Leah - 236
"Watching my father, I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room." Leah - pg 229
"Like Methuselah I cowered in my cage, and though my soul hankered after the mountain, I found like Methuselah, I had no wings." Orleanna - pg 201
"To his way of thinking they were unearned blessings, and furthermore each one drew God's attention anew to my having a vagina and his having a penis and the fact that we'd laid them near enough together to conceive a child." Orleanna - 198
"Oh mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, they King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms." Orleanna - pg 192
and I could go on but this is already far too long.
"You have nothing to lose but your chains." Adah - pg. 495
"This is what I carried out of the Congo on my crooked little back. In oour seventeen months in Kilanga, thirty-one children died, including Ruth May. Why not Adah? I can think of no answer that exonerates me." Adah - pg 413
"By Anatole I was shattered and assembled, by way of Anatole I am delivered not out of my life but through it. Love changes Everything I never suspected it would be so. Requitted love, I should say, for I've loved my father fiercely my whole life, and it changed nothing." Leah - pg 399
"And no God, in any heart on this earth, was ever more on the look out for human failing." Leah - pg 393
"My little beast, my eyes, my favorite stolen egg. Listen. To live is to be marked. to live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've found only sorrow." Orleanna - pg 385
"Just for the moment it was as if she'd disappeared, and her voice was thrown into the trees." Leah - pg 363
"I see that plainly when I look at my parents. God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves." Leah - pg 326
"Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punsihed. I'm warning you. When things go badly, you will blame yourself." Anatole - pg 309
"Don't blame God for what ants have to do. We all get hungry. Congolese people are not so different from Congolese ants." Anatole - pg 308
"That time Leah fed one to the ant lion, Jesus saw that. Now his friends are all coming back to eat us up." Ruth May - pg 303
"Bangala means something precious and dear. But the way he pronounces it, it mean the poisonwood tree. Praise the Lord, hallelujah, my friends! for Jesus will make you itch like nobody's business." Adah - pg 276
"If I die I will disappear and I know where I'll come back. I'll be right up there in the tree, same color, same everything. I will look down on you. But you won't see me." Ruth May - pg 273
"God's word, brought to you by a crew of romantic idealists in a harsh desert culture eons ago, followed by a chain of translators two thousand years long." Brother Fowles - 247
"Without that rock of certainty underfoot, the Congo is a fearsome place to have to sink or swim." Leah - 244
"Bandu is my name. Nommo Bandu! It means the littlest one on the bottom. And it means the reason for everything. Nelson told me that." Ruth May - pg 238
"I knew it was only the shadow and the angle of the sun, but still it's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known." Leah - 236
"Watching my father, I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room." Leah - pg 229
"Like Methuselah I cowered in my cage, and though my soul hankered after the mountain, I found like Methuselah, I had no wings." Orleanna - pg 201
"To his way of thinking they were unearned blessings, and furthermore each one drew God's attention anew to my having a vagina and his having a penis and the fact that we'd laid them near enough together to conceive a child." Orleanna - 198
"Oh mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, they King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms." Orleanna - pg 192
and I could go on but this is already far too long.
BAHAHAHA!
So I was researching the relationship between fast food and food dumping and this video popped up in my google search!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZrP-AeBqI
It is a burger dumping, aka breaking up with, a coke!
Sooo dumb! haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZrP-AeBqI
It is a burger dumping, aka breaking up with, a coke!
Sooo dumb! haha
HELP!
So for my senior letters...
I'm writing it to the authors of the books I'm using for a source...
And I'm having a really hard time coming up with questions to ask because I feel like all the answers are probably in the book but I don't really plan on reading the whole thing so what is the point in even asking?
He'll probably read my letter and be like "Seriously? Why don't you just read the book?"
So I'm stuck :(
I'm writing it to the authors of the books I'm using for a source...
And I'm having a really hard time coming up with questions to ask because I feel like all the answers are probably in the book but I don't really plan on reading the whole thing so what is the point in even asking?
He'll probably read my letter and be like "Seriously? Why don't you just read the book?"
So I'm stuck :(
Nathan's Death Quotes
"He's gotten a very widespread reputation for turning himself into a crocodile and attacking children." (Pg. 485 bottom of page)
"They surrounded him in an old coffee field and he climbed up on one of those rickety watchtowers left over from the colonial days....." - "He preached the gospel until the very end." (486 bottom of page)
"He got the verse" (Page 487 towards the top)
"The kings of Kings aroused the anger of Antiochus against the rascal. and when Lysias informed him this man was to blame for all the trouble, he ordered them to put him to death in the way that is customary there. For there is a tower there seventy-five feet high, filled with ashes, and there they push a man guilty of sacrilege or notorious for other crimes to destruction. By such a fate it came to pass that the transgressor died, not even getting burial in the ground." (487 middle of page)
"The closing statement of the Old Testament: 'So this will be the end.'" (487 bottom of page)
"It was really the best way for him to go, you know> In a blaze of glory," Leah said. "I'm sure he believed right up to the end that he was doing the right think. He never did give up the ship." (pg 488 bottom)
"Tata Jesus is bangala....Jesus is poisonwood! Here's to the Minister of Poisonwood. and here's to his five wives!" (490 towards the bottom)
"They surrounded him in an old coffee field and he climbed up on one of those rickety watchtowers left over from the colonial days....." - "He preached the gospel until the very end." (486 bottom of page)
"He got the verse" (Page 487 towards the top)
"The kings of Kings aroused the anger of Antiochus against the rascal. and when Lysias informed him this man was to blame for all the trouble, he ordered them to put him to death in the way that is customary there. For there is a tower there seventy-five feet high, filled with ashes, and there they push a man guilty of sacrilege or notorious for other crimes to destruction. By such a fate it came to pass that the transgressor died, not even getting burial in the ground." (487 middle of page)
"The closing statement of the Old Testament: 'So this will be the end.'" (487 bottom of page)
"It was really the best way for him to go, you know> In a blaze of glory," Leah said. "I'm sure he believed right up to the end that he was doing the right think. He never did give up the ship." (pg 488 bottom)
"Tata Jesus is bangala....Jesus is poisonwood! Here's to the Minister of Poisonwood. and here's to his five wives!" (490 towards the bottom)
John Mayer
This song reminded me of The Poison Wood Bible:
John Mayer - Shadow days
Did you know that you could be wrong
And swear you're right
Some people been known to do it
All their lives
But you find yourself alone
Just like you found yourself before
Like I found myself in pieces
On the hotel floor
Hard times have helped me see
I'm a good man, with a good heart
Had a tough time, got a rough start
But I finally learned to let it go
Now I'm right here, and I'm right now
And I'm open, knowing somehow
That my shadow days are over
My shadow days are over now
Well I ain't no troublemaker
And I never meant her harm
But it doesn't mean I didn't make it hard to carry on
Well it sucks to be honest
And it hurts to be real
But it's nice to make some love
That I can finally feel
Hard times let me be
I'm a good man, with a good heart
Had a tough time, got a rough start
But I finally learned to let it go
Now I'm right here, and I'm right now
And I'm open, knowing somehow
That my shadow days are over
My shadow days are over now
I'm a good man, with a good heart
Had a tough time, got a rough start
But I finally learned to let it go
Now I'm right here, and I'm right now
And I'm open, knowing somehow
That my shadow days are over
My shadow days are over now
John Mayer - Shadow days
Did you know that you could be wrong
And swear you're right
Some people been known to do it
All their lives
But you find yourself alone
Just like you found yourself before
Like I found myself in pieces
On the hotel floor
Hard times have helped me see
I'm a good man, with a good heart
Had a tough time, got a rough start
But I finally learned to let it go
Now I'm right here, and I'm right now
And I'm open, knowing somehow
That my shadow days are over
My shadow days are over now
Well I ain't no troublemaker
And I never meant her harm
But it doesn't mean I didn't make it hard to carry on
Well it sucks to be honest
And it hurts to be real
But it's nice to make some love
That I can finally feel
Hard times let me be
I'm a good man, with a good heart
Had a tough time, got a rough start
But I finally learned to let it go
Now I'm right here, and I'm right now
And I'm open, knowing somehow
That my shadow days are over
My shadow days are over now
I'm a good man, with a good heart
Had a tough time, got a rough start
But I finally learned to let it go
Now I'm right here, and I'm right now
And I'm open, knowing somehow
That my shadow days are over
My shadow days are over now
It reminds me mostly of Adah, but there's lines for each of the characters in there as well.
Here's the link for the video:
Quotes Quotes Quotes everybody...
pg. 607 "If I have to hop all the way on one foot, damn it, I'll find a place I can claim as home." (Leah)
pg. 598 "Here I was, banging on heaven's door again. A desolate banging, from a girl who could count the years since she felt any really presence on the other side of that door." (Leah)
pg. 593 "To live to be marked...to live is to change, to die one hundred deaths." (Adah referring to her Orleanna)
pg. 501 "I damn them for throwing me into a war in which white skin comes down on the wrong side, pure and simple." (Leah)
pg. 492 "Carry us, marry us, ferry us, bury us: those are our four ways to exodus, for now. though, to tell the truth, none of us has yet safely made the crossing." (Adah)
pg. 598 "Here I was, banging on heaven's door again. A desolate banging, from a girl who could count the years since she felt any really presence on the other side of that door." (Leah)
pg. 593 "To live to be marked...to live is to change, to die one hundred deaths." (Adah referring to her Orleanna)
pg. 501 "I damn them for throwing me into a war in which white skin comes down on the wrong side, pure and simple." (Leah)
pg. 492 "Carry us, marry us, ferry us, bury us: those are our four ways to exodus, for now. though, to tell the truth, none of us has yet safely made the crossing." (Adah)
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