vocab #2

Vocab

1. faith - complete trust or confidence in someone or something
2. Threshold - a strip of wood, metal, or stone forming the bottom of a door way 
3. Tarry - stay longer than intended; delay leaving a place 
4. Resolve - firm determination to do something
5. discern - perceive or recognize 
6. Martyr - a person who is killed because of their religion 
7. Mirth - amusement 
8. Catechism - instructions for Christians 
9. pious - devoutly religious
10. Frenzy - a state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior

YGB questions

1. I think the purpose of the story is how people could believe anything.
2. I think Faith's name doesn't suit her, because she's not who Goodman thought she was, at first he did have faith in her, but at the end, he didn't trust anyone.
3. I think the pink ribbons signified faith.
4. I think everything Goodman saw was just a dream, because the next morning he walks into Salem and is greeted by by the minister and ask him a question about God.
5. I think the old man was the Devil, i know this because the old lady who worships him said so.
6. For me, the staff represents deception because he see's the snake moving but he's not sure if it is or not.
7.If Brown wouldn't of gone out into the forest, he wouldn't have meet the devil, seen how his town truly is, and would still have faith.

Vocabulary

Theme: center message of a story
Tone: to repeat the author's attitude toward the audience, or the topic, or the characters
Mood: readers emotion while we read
Diction: the words an author uses to tell a story
Syntax: the way the author puts the words together
Stupid: lacking intelligence or common sense
Adumbrate: report or represent in outline
Apotheosis: the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax
Ascetic: characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons
Bauble: a small, showy trinket or decoration
Burgeon: begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish
Complement: a thing that completes or brings to perfection
Contumacious: (especially of a defendant's behavior) stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority
Curmudgeon:
a bad-tempered or surly person.
Didactic: intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

Young Goodman Brown

i thought the story was weird. I think that actually happened, that it wasn't a dream. the village is probably satanic but Goodman never knew.

response to "Conscience of a Hacker"

i thought the story showed how some are different from others, but same in a kind of way. How curiosity can be dangerous, but we still try to find out what we want.

Big Question

It doesn't let me comment, so I'm just gonna put my questions here.
Is there an afterlife ? Is reincarnation real ?

Earth on Turtle's Back Notes

Katie said people would rather listen to the original version instead of a new one.

Ancient stories

i think the language is the same as modern time, nothing's really different. I think it's pretty important for a story to stay original, if someone says it differently then it's a different story.

response to "The Earth on Turtle's Back"

I liked this short story because I've never heard one like this, about how the earth began because of a woman who fell from the sky.

Richard Cory

Welcome!

I'm Luis from 3rd period

Response

Richard Cory shows how being rich doesn't always mean you're living a happy life. I think being being rich would be nice, but I wouldn't let it control or change me.