Rafael’s Comments (group member since Sep 11, 2009)

Rafael’s comments from the Ms. J's Class J group.

"The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass is one of the book I can talk about for this critical lens because in this book Frederick planned an escape in the night time it means the dark. He wanted to escape at night time because there was no way to escape from his master (the person who owed him, that had him as a slave). Frederick and a couple of other slaves made a song, and sang it during the day when they were working on the plantations, it was a plan made to sneak out to the north. The white people from the South thought that the black slaves were too stupid to plan any escape from them. The name of the song was "Follow the drinking gourd." They invented the drinking gourd because at night the stars made a constellation in shape of drinking gourd and it will always point to the North. Only a few slaves escaped from the evil hands of the South people.

The second book that touches the critical lens is "War comes to Willy Freeman" by the Collier brothers. Willy was a girl that just had lost her father at the battlefield and just had her mother taken away from her by the British. She was a black free girl, she wanted to find her mother in New York City because she had heard rumors that a bunch of black women were taken to NY. To go to New York she was forced to make moves at night because she was a girl and she were young. So she dressed like a boy so no one could suspect nothing and made her moves as soon as the sun dropped, to look for her mother.

Hey monica i wanted to know who is she afraid of? Boys girls? both? or the people that raped her. and why do the students are making fun of her?

Be more speciific (:

The settings of my book are in many places in the United States, because as you know my book is many short stories in one single book so the setting isnt at the same place. The settings affect the plots by making the people represent where they are from and what are their origines.

Hey Leo i m doing mY WEEk six POSt i read your last week's post i think is short brief and Net but you need to be more specif, because WE readers dont know what is your book's theme about!!

take care. Try to write more next time and push yourself ;)

The major theme in my regional poem is Racial Diversity, is kind of different from what i am reading individually because till now i haven't read a story about Race but it can be the same because all the stories in my book is happening in the U.S.A like in my poem. " Dance with you, my sweet brown HARLEM girl." (Harlem, NYC : Langston Hughes)

Do you like Teenagers stories? why? why not?
Most of the stories you read are their themes?

Ooh, My book is almost the same thing is a book full of short stories about Male experience!!
Very Nice

Well in my book the characters have all different need and want different things. One of them wanted to be a superhero, another wanted to be a star of sports. One needed to be selfish another needed to do moves to not fall and die.

Justine wrote: "Hi Rafael! I'm so glad that you're enjoying the book - I thought you might. The first thing that I noticed about your book was the title; I was really intrigued by the idea that these stories are f..."

Well I think those short stories are to be read by guys because there's a connection between all the male and i think if girls would read some lines of this book they wouldn't understand things us male would. I don't know if you understand what i'm trying to say but that is my opinion. and Thank you for the compliments =D

The major theme in my book is guys past's

This theme is important because that is what the book is about guys, short stories and it talks about their past.

Today's Moral: " L'argent c'est le pouvoir!"

Rafael-Angel Gandoy Quezada

Guys Write for Guys Read
the Book I am reading is guys write for guys read, I am on page 17 right now it is very interesting this book is about different Guys writters that has written short stories for Guys to read it. Since i started reading i read two short stories one that is about family and another that is about love and humiliation. I'm eager to read the other following stories. Ms. Justine recommended me this book and I thank her very much because I am appreciating reading this book!

Moral of today : " Faites l'amour, pas la guerre!"

Rafael-Angel Gandoy Quezada