Please
reply to this post with the "shrink lit" that your group composed. Be
sure to include the title of the novel, as well as the writer's name.
Follow the same format for The Catcher in the Rye shrink
lit that I shared with you on Google Classroom. (Focus on plot and
theme.) The shrink lit should be posted by 7:00 a.m. on Friday morning.
If you run into problems, share your shrink lit with me as a Google
Doc.
Then identify two chunks of language (word, phrase, sentence, or paragraph) from the reading. •The first should be a piece of language that is significant to you personally and why it is significant to you. •The second should be a piece of language that you believe is significant to the overall meaning of the work (and why). •Then comment any two of your classmates' posts. •Please complete your post by 7:00 am on Thursday.
Cruisers by Craig Nova
ReplyDeleteFrank Kohler,
Whose mothers murdered,
No longer nurtured,
Meets up with a red-head to go to church and,
Get away and escape to Berlin.
Katrina,
Frank’s Wife,
Wasn’t there at the time of the fight,
Despite all the sirens and lights,
Letters on letters she writes,
To get her brother to America, to unite.
Zofia,
Who Katrina befriends,
And later she depends,
On her for money.
Unaware soon later,
That her husband’s time was coming.
Russell Boyd,
Isn’t ready for children, Zofia annoyed.
State Trooper employed,
Sends the fatal shot,
Frank’s heart, destroyed.
Officer paranoid.
Mother’s murderer caught,
Frank Kohler shot a cop.
Boyd tells him to stop,
Before he sends a bullet, drop.
Russell gets a month off,
Now his kids call him Pop.
By Garrett William Shafer and Aidan Waterbury Moore
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
ReplyDeleteDr. Larch
performed abortions
While raising and
teaching orphans
But Homer Wells
Faced desertion
Homer was
no more a virgin
While studying
with the surgeon
He wouldn’t leave
Was the assertion
But Homer left
Despite Melony’s pleas
To a farm
To harvest apple trees
While his home
Was taken over by trustees
Homer found
love at first sight
But Wally and Candy together
found delight
Until Candy lay awake worried
one night
Finally once Wally
went off to war
Candy and Homer’s
true feelings soared
And Wally’s presumed dead
by the air corps
Meanwhile,
Candy bears Homer a son
But, it turns out
Wally’s not done
He’s paralyzied
So he’s chosen as Candy’s hun
Homer’s abortion beliefs
come into question
When a man, against his daughter,
commits a transgression
Homer goes back
And keeps the orphanage in session
By Lily MacVeagh
Snow falling on Cedars by David Guterson
ReplyDeleteIn a courtroom, a murder trial
Conflicting stories making noise
Kabuo sits and waits a while
He knew the victim as a boy
But now his race makes him reviled.
Kabuo’s wife, Hatsue, testifies
Her old love, Ishmael, remembers when
She used to look into his eyes
She broke it off with just a pen
And in the war he almost dies.
Set on an island in the Pacific Northwest
Harbors and strawberry fields abound
The entire community put to the test
For they have to find a common ground
Or resentment and anger will manifest
Upon the island a storm descends
Swift and hurling ice and snow
The cedar trees stretch and bend
Branches white and drooping low
With this weather, the islanders must contend.
Making notes that clear Kabuo’s name
But it takes Ishmael a time that’s long
Not knowing where he stands in the game
If Ishmael decides to do what is wrong
Oh that would just be a shame.
Emily, Eamon, Nacio
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
ReplyDeleteTo Mississippi the family moved
Working hard; a somber mood
House-work and field work take up the day
Florence and Hap give help along the way
Laura married Henry, but he keeps to himself
Until his brother comes back with questionable health
Jamie drinks alcohol and likes to play yahtzee
Buts bonds with Ronsel cause they both fought the Nazis
Ronsel was black, and Jamie was white
Some of the locals went looking for a fight
So they donned white robes with tall pointy hoods
And they captured poor Ronsel; this was no good
They put rope ‘round his neck and started to pull
Then Jamie burst in with his gun loaded full
Then realizing his dad was under a mask
His family connections complicated the task
He was overpowered and knocked out cold
They tied him down for being so bold
When he came to, a tough choice must be made
They asked Jamie where Ronsel would be maimed
“His eyes. His tongue. Or his balls” they said
Jamie was scared, and he filled with dread
Reluctantly he made his choice
And poor Ronsel lost his voice
When Florence found out what they had done to her son
She was distraught; and started to run
Over to where the old man was asleep
When she arrived she started to weep
Looking down his old grizzled face
She suffocated him with his own pillowcase
By Ryan Pepe
Sleepers By Lorenzo Carcaterra
ReplyDeleteMichael, the thoughtful leader
John, the cheerful teaser
Tommy, the enthusiastic eater
Lorenzo, the outgoing reader
The Hell’s Kitchen youth
Had trouble with a hot dog booth
It is never what they meant,
But to reform school they were sent
A nightmare they never dreamed of
A prison that gave them no love
By the guards they were abused,
Leaving the four scarred and bruised
Life never stopped moving forward
Yet it was preposterous to smile, forgive, forget and move onward
Lo and behold the boys retaliated
Against the guards they bitterly hated
A long trial that revealed the guards’ past
Allowed the boys to gain some closure at last
If you read this book, trust us,
You’ll learn about justice
And you’ll find that what goes around, comes around
By Casey, Morgan, Colleen, and Frank
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
ReplyDeletePi was stranded out on sea,
But alone he wouldn’t be,
For an animal he would meet,
An animal much bigger than he,
Fiercely striped and a coat so clean,
A tiger approached and Pi wished he could flee.
But we’d feel the same way, now wouldn’t we?
To him everything was unknown,
He wished he was simply alone,
Or with a dog so he could throw it a bone,
Rocking on his little life raft all alone,
He started to worry and let out a groan,
Looked like he was in the danger zone,
Too bad there wasn’t such a thing as a phone.
Richard Parker was the name,
Of the tiger we acclaim,
Many challenges he overcame,
Pi’s closest friend he soon became,
Their time together was a long waiting game,
But they worked together all the same,
His realness is uncertain I must disclaim.
An island green and vast,
He stumbled upon land at last,
Many meerkats the tiger snatched,
And just like that time flashed past,
But very soon they had to dash,
For in the trees teeth were stashed.
Human teeth if you have to ask.
They all wanted to know,
The story of Pi’s woes,
Their faces were aglow,
But when he told them though,
They did not believe him so,
A tiger? An island? He must be lying, no?
But for Pi it was real not faux.
By Grace, Elle, and Hanna
City of Thieves
ReplyDeleteby David Benioff
Lev is anxious and weak
Surviving at seventeen
Jewish blood, like his family before
Mom and Big ‘Sis fled, his dad not to be seen
Kolya is crafty and handsome
Wooing women; how obscene
A daring soldier, who’s quite constipated
And treats writing like it’s protein
Both are criminals; spared but with a task
Fetch a dozen eggs, or meet the Soviet machine
And so they embarked unclean
Sweep the markets of Leningrad
Nothing but booze, cannibals, and fight
All the while becoming friends
Lev was teased alright
They need shelter; Lev’s apartment?
But an old friend offered to let them stay the night
They found out; a rooftop man with chickens? Oh, did it seem bright!
But the captured bird
Was a rooster; a hard smite
The journey was to resume at first light
Following the train tracks,
the snow was hard packed.
Desires for food arose,
dreams of warmth and safety had stacked.
The cold was bitter,
but motivation was never lacked.
The girls gave them a bite to eat and a place to sleep,
most certainly a kind yet rare act,
But were found by the German’s,
though they had yet to be attacked.
Lev and Kolya were unsure of what to do,
so they opened the door and saw the Germans had been tracked!
A smile on Koyla’s face had cracked.
They took off with the Partisans,
to continue on their quest,
But soon found imprisonment,
that would end with a game of chess.
Lev won and his opponent was bewildered,
it conjured up a fight that left a bloody mess.
And now Kolya was gone,
the eggs are collected, and there was less stress,
Lev had to learn and act on.
colonel was happy, and has four dozen, and no reason to obsess,
Him and his daughter now had a wedding to put on.
learning, growing, changing, and a wedding dress,
Made Lev the one that was called upon.
A truly insightful read,
war teaches, makes difficult and changes people,
Throughout wondering about creed,
Trust, hope, and coping are taught,
City of Thieves is an excellent book if you need a good read!
By Tyler, Morgan, and Olivia