Because I don’t think that what happen to the pig is more important than what happen to his dad. It’s careless what happen to a pig when the one that had died was your father, this is a really absurd question.

List examples of what Jerome says and does that indicate that he is an absurd character.

Because through the story Jerome was always trying to hide how his dad had died. He is very embarrassed how he had died, so he is scared that people will make fun of him.

Explain why “A Shocking Accident” is an ironic title for Greene’s story.

It’s ironic because when we read this title, we never expect that a pig will fall on a man’s body from a building. People think that the shocking accident may be a car accident or another thing, but never a pig falling from a building.

Describe what happened and why it has become a problem for Jerome. Then, tell how you would feel about this shocking accident if you were Jerome and had to explain the situation to friends.

A pig had fallen from a building and hit and killed Jerome’s father. Explaining how his father had died to all the people was getting embarrassed because he expected that his father had died in war fighting for his country, no in this absurd way. If this happen to my father I would definitely feel very bad, but I would tell the story as it happen not been embarrassed.

He visualize luck, as same as his mother, with money. If he have luck they will have money, and if they don’t have money it’s because they don’t have luck. His mom is always telling him that his dad didn’t had any luck and that’s why they where poor. At one part of the story when the rocking-horse was giving him name of horses, he realizes that they were the ones who will win on the races. Then he started  gambling and winning.

What does the rocking horse symbolize, or represent, in the story?

It represent luck and ambition. Luck because every time he bet to the horse that the rocking-horse had told to Paul he wins. He started winning a lot of money and there was where he felt that he was getting lucky. And ambition because when he knows that he always win, he couldn’t stop wanting more and more money, and it reach a point where he died because of always wanting more than what he really needed.

What types of relationships exist among the family members in the story? What keeps the family members, especially Paul and his mother, connected to each other?

They all agree that having money was a sign of luck. When they had money, the feel happy and lucky. What kept Paul and his mother connected was that his mother was always telling to Paul that they didn’t have money, so Paul started thinking what to do. When he discovers that when he bets, he wins money, he kept betting so he can send money to his mom and kept her happy.

“best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking horse to find a winner”. What does Uncle Oscar mean? Do you agree with him?

He means that now he is in a better place where he don’t have to worry of the unlucky of his family. Now he don’t need to be riding a rocking-horse and betting, only to make his mom happy, but never himself. I agree to Uncle Oscar because I wouldn’t like to become crazy just because my family think that we are unlucky.

Consider the importance of class, or one’s position in society, to the characters in The Rocking-Horse Winner. How does it compare with yours?

In my society people is always looking how to have more money, without considering how it affect to themselves or to others. I hadn’t yet been in the need of this, but I hope that when it is my turn to work I don’t become ambitious and affect not only me, but others.

Pakistan is suffering a lot because of the awful floods that are hiting their cities. Floods has forced millions of people to move out of their homes and leave all behind. They had lost everything, they only have the cloth that they had on the day of the disaster. They are threaten by a disease because of the polluted water. A lot of people had died. Even though they are reciving a lot of help for many places it looks like they don’t are receiving anything because of the amount of people that need help.

So here is where all starts.

But I have a proposal for you people. I am completely sure that you have heard about all the catastrophes that had been occurring here in Guatemala. The Tropical Storm “Agatha” that left us very injured, not only structurally but also economically. But what make it worst was that as the same time that Agatha was smashing us, the Pacaya was making a very strong eruption. So this two natural catastrophes together make us suffer a lot. Small towns where completely flooded and there was no way to get in or out.  Here in the capital as well as in other towns was full of sand,  all the streets and roof’s houses, cars and everything! But one of the things that amazed me was the gigantic sinkhole that was created by this catastrophes in zone 2. It was a hole about 20 meters long and 30 meters deep.

So here is my point. As you had read, there is a huge hall in the middle of the streets of zone 2 and the government don’t know what to do with it. It is making people start to talk bad things about the government and start making protests in front of the President’s house screaming him that they want that sinkhole filled up.

Well, now I will give my modest proposal. As I had said before the gangs are making our life miserable, disgusting and scary because you never know when it will be your turn to be robbed. So why don’t we take all the criminals and gang leaders that had been taken and throw them into the sinkhole!? Knowing the huge quantity of criminals that are in Guatemala the hole would be definitely filled up. And it could not only be filled with the criminals of Guatemala but also with the ones of other states. In this way the period of criminals would be over because in the moment criminals starte hearing where their new jail is going to be they would no longer be criminals and change their way of life. And as you know the start and continue of all gangs where the children, so when the children also found out what would happne to them if there get into gangs they would definitely think it twice before accepting being and doing stuff with them.

So little by little what had been feared, and never controled would be finally finish! I am sure this will have good responses if it is constant and done it with any fear.

This happen in a house to a just married couple. They had bought a house near a graveyard and were spending their first night after their wedding  in there. What they didn’t know was that the house was hunted by the souls of the graveyard that was just behind the house, and the souls didn’t let anyone to stay in the house because they disturb them from their eternal dream. So the couple arrived very happy to their house and the first sign of the souls appeared, !Get out of our land! They didn’t matter and walk in, the souls were furious about that so one soul possed the wife’s body, the husband didn’t know what to do, just ran out the house, but a soul also possed him and they were never seen again.

Love:

Love is sometimes very hard to find, but other times it turns very easy. There was a boy who went on his own to the movies to watch Toy Story 3. Waiting on the row, by himself, to buy his ticket he saw a beautiful girl just infront of him. He finally decided to talk to her and they watch the movie together. After this lucky day, they continue talking and getting together for the rest of their lives.

Shortest story:

There was a boy who loved to sing, a music producer heard him and turned him famous, and his life was happy for ever.

So my voyage started, I was very anxious of what fishes I will catch so anxious that I didn’t notice that a storm was coming toward my location. I had like half an hour of fishing and with no lucky because I hadn’t caught anything, and for my bad luck it started to rain. The sky turned black and there were thunders every five seconds. I get really scared and put on my life jacket. Huge waves crashed my boat and in one of them I flew out the boat and get into the angry and dark ocean. Luckily I had my life jacket and I was able to float. One day passed and I was still floating in the ocean, I was really angry, scared and thirsty. Out of a sudden I saw land at the distance, I gave all my strength to swim toward that piece of land and finally I arrived, but I was so exhausted that in the moment I touch land a passed out.

When I woke up some strange tiny monkeys had tied me up from my feet, hands and body, I could barely move. I talked to them waiting no answer because I thought that they would not speak my language, but for my surprise they did. They told my that they will going to conserve so they could eat me because I could maintain their whole city for years. Very frightened I answered: ” No please, I come in peace!” They thought that I was there to kill them and conquer their island. I explained them all what had happened to me. They were very comprehensible and let me free, and fed me with their fruit and vegetables. They only asked me for one favor before I leave, they asked me if could grab some of that huge bananas that where in that huge banana trees so they could have food for many years, when I so that huge banana trees they were talking about, it was of my size so I do that easy favor for them in few minutes.

After that I had no idea how I will return to my house so I asked them how could I. They told me that they had a special power that was that they could teleport to wherever they wanted, but they told me that I should never told this story to anybody because bad consequences would happen. I agree on that so one tiny monkey touch my feet and send me to my house at the beach.

While we were in the street a strange sound start going out from a crack that was about two blocks away from my house. We get closer and tried to figure out what was happening, but at the moment we where just behind the crack it began to make a stronger sound and it was getting bigger and bigger. We tried to see what was happening but we couldn’t get to close because we can fall down. When the crack was not more getting bigger it was like 50 meters long. We decided to get close and saw how it was, when we get near the edge we couldn’t see the bottom because it was very dip. A strange thing about this enormous hole was that it had like some steps made by rocks so we were able to go down and explore the place. We started to walk down the hole when we reach a place where we can’t even saw our hands. We were thinking if we should go back when suddenly from the walls strange little animals that glow in the dark start to come out so we were able to continue going down without any trouble. The more time we spend walking the stranger things were happening. Now the walls were not of rocks, instead they were of a strange material that I had never experienced. They looked like crystals mixed with some rubies. Finally we reached the bottom, we looked around for a moment until my cousin saw a tunnel that had some light at the end so we decided to explore it. When we get in everything was very strange, our celphones doesn’t work neither our watches.  We didn’t care about this and continue walking, suddenly we arrived to a

Some solutions to fill this gigantic hole may be:

• Use all the sand and ash from the volcano’s eruption and throw it in the hole. I’m sure this will fill it.
• Build a bridge from side to side, this can be a little dangerous but it can be discuss.
• Place a huge piece of bullet proof glass on top of the sinkhole and in this way the people can be able to see the hole.
• This can be a little bit expensive but filling it with concrete can help.
• If the government don’t want to spend a lot of money they can leave the hole there, just build it some fences around and built a highway beside it.
• Using all the trash of Guatemala would definite fill this enormous hole.
• Leave it there as a touristic place, just take safety measurements for the tourists.
• Don’t do anything with it and let scientific make some experiments for new things about the layers of earth.

On my first son:

• The speaker feels bonded about his son.
• His son died and he feels very sad. He said his sin was loving his son too much and hope to much from him.
• If the speaker hadn’t hope so much from his son it would easier for him to let his son go without suffering so much.

Song: to Celia

• He refers to a girl named Celia.
• He is so in love with her that everything he touch that had been touch by her, he fells like he actually is touching and felling her.
• If he hadn’t fall so much in love with her, he wouldn’t feel so bad when Celia sent back the roses.

2.)  Young suitor:

• Be a gentleman, treat her how she deserves it.
• Talk to her nicely and lovely.
• Respect her in all ways.
• Pamper her.
• He has to be sure of himself.
• And most important, he has to love her so he can achieve all the previous points.

Woman being courted

• Feel attracted by the boy who is courting her.
• Be open to the boy’s flirts.
• Show interest on him.
• Be friendly.
• Trust the boy.
• Like to spend time with him.

I think that the characters of this poems don’t follow this characteristics because the show all the contrary.

3.)

To Lucasta, on going to the wars

In this poem the speaker is talking to his girlfriend and telling her that he will go with a new mistress wich is the first foe en the field-war. Going to war shows his honor so he have to go.

The speaker cannot love himself if he is not honorable so he cannot in turn Lucasta.

“I could not love thee (Deare) so much,
    Lov’d I not Honour more.”

To Althea, from prison

The speaker is in prison dreaming with his girl, Althea. Also for his friends, thinking that are drinking together. He also can sing about his king.

He explains that when he has freedom in his love and loyalty with his soul, he is free and cannot be caged by iron bars.

“Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage,”

5.) A modern Lucasta

I understand darling, that you have to demonstrate honor to your country. But I hope that you understand that you don’t need to demonstrate me your honor in that way. There are other ways to show me your love and honor, so I hope you think what is the best for us because if you go to war we will never meet again.

So I don’t force you to do anything you don’t want. I will let you decide what you think is the best choice.