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Comparison between Possibility of Evil and The Lottery

        In The Possibility of Evil and The Lottery they both have the sense that they need to carry on the tradition. In The Possibility of Evil Miss. Strangeworth has to keep the roses alive, and keep the town sweet and peaceful like her grandpa built it. In The Lottery, it is a tradition to have a lottery ever year and who ever wins is stoned to death. Mrs. Hutchinson tries to complain but know one listens because they just follow along with the tradition. Both stories also have the idea that whats seems to be good may not always be good. Miss. Strangworth is always sweet and seems innocent, but she mails the nasty mean letters to people. You may think you want to win the lottery, but if you win it in this story you are stoned to death. The two stories both have the same kind of idea how good things might not turn out to be that good.

Sequel to Possibility of Evil

           I stood there at the edge of the table with such confusion of how this could happen. My roses are gone! They have been there for generations. Who would even think to do this? I slipped on my shoes and walked out side, as I sat by my roses streams of tears came running off my face. Everyone who drove or walked by her laughed. "Looks like your street isn't so Pleasant anymore!" called a young boy from across the street. Miss. Adela Strangeworth walked back inside slowly, tear after tear still falling from her face.

        I sat there not knowing what to do, but knew I had to do something about this. I needed to make my daily trip to the grocery store so I put on a hat, coat, and shoes. I slowly stepped outside making sure no one could see me. When I finally got to the grocery store, I thought to myself angrily, why not buy  some new roses? I waved wildly at Mr. Lewis but he just kept walking. No one likes me in this town anymore, what am i going to do? I quickly got my groceries and grabbed the reddest roses in the aisle. Watching my feet step by step I walked to the check out line. Until SMACK I feel to the floor, someone just tripped me. I laid there frustrated, not knowing how to get up. I just laid there dead. No one was going to help me so I just laid there and closed my eyes.

Possibility of Evil

       
Students need to write a blog entry of an least 1 paragraph explaining the protagonists motivations for her action in “The Possibility of Evil”.  Students need to cite at least three pieces of evidence to support their analysis


    Miss. Strangeworth tries to keep the town just like her grandfather left it, the roses that her grandmother planted never leave Pleasant street. She gets mad when people would even think to take the roses off of Pleasant street. Everyone waves to her when they see her and ask her how she is doing, everyone loves her. There is one thing no one knows about her though. Once a week she writes a letter to someone in the town. The letters she wrote this week were saying things about a husband cheating and another letter saying some people just shouldn't have children. She wrote a letter to Mrs. Foster who is having an operation next month that said this, "YOU NEVER KNOW ABOUT DOTORS. REMEMBER THEY'RE ONLY HUMAN AND NEED MONEY LIKE THE REST OF US. SUPPOSE THE KNIFE SLIPPED ACCIDENTALLY. WOULD DOCTOR BURNS GET HIS FEE AND A LITTLE EXTRA FROM THAT NEPHEW OF YOURS?" Miss. Strangeworth never knew if the information was true but she sends the letters anyway.  At the end Adela says that she needs to keep her town clean and sweet, but people everywhere were lustful and evil and degraded, so they needed to be watched. 

sentences with wizened and voluble

The voluble lady on the plane would not get off her phone, until finally the flight attendant took her off the plane.

She wizened as she walked down the street to school, in the freezing cold wind.

Sentences with Commiserate and Indomitable

The girl was commiserate after she had heard her father passed away this morning in a car crash.

The fat girl could not finish the indomitable 3 mile race. 

Trip Work

11.    Describe three capabilities of the houses mentioned in the article.

One, before you even get up the house starts heating up, then at seven o’clock when the alarm goes off it signals to turn on your light and the coffee maker. Once you step into the bathroom, the news will pop up on a video screen and shower turns on automatically. Two, once you leave it will automatically lock the doors, and if someone comes to the door, you can open your phone and see who it is. If you know who it is, you press a button on the phone and it will unlock the door and let them in. If you don’t you press a button and it with turn an outside light on. Three, if you are low on anything in the refrigerator it will order groceries, and they will have the groceries there for you when you get home. Also if you start cooking something it will record you hands, so if you have to stop you will know where you left off.

22.    Who is intended to benefit from living in such homes? How? 

It is built for the elderly to make domestic life easier and to extend the independence of older homeowners.

33.  Bradbury’s home is similar to the actual homes being built because in There Will Come Soft Rains it starts the bathtub just like the actual homes start the shower. They both have some way of helping with cooking and helping with groceries. In the actual house building the heat turns on before they wake up and in There Will Come Soft Rains it heats the beds before they go to bed. Also, they have a built in alarm and built in coffee maker, and they have a security alarm.

44.   I think the most useful innovation would be the built in alarm, because my biggest struggle is getting up in the morning. I would actually get up in time cause it would force me to get up and I don’t think I could sleep through it.

Every morning they would wake up at seven o’clock, seven-nine the alarm would yell breakfast time. Eight-one they would go off to school, or work.  Nine-fifteen a song would sing time to clean. Ten o’clock the sun came out behind the rain, and ten- fifteen the garden sprinklers went off. Twelve a dog whined at the door. Two o’clock a song sang and two-fifteen the dog was gone. At two thirty-five they would play cards. Four-thirty the nursery walls glowed. Five o’clock the bathtub would fill with water, and six, seven, eight o’clock the dishes were cleaned. Nine o’clock the beds were warmed with their hidden circuits and at nine-five a voice would speak from the ceiling. Last at 10 o’clock the house began to die.

Sentences with Heritage and Doctrine

The little baby was born with a spanish and white heritage.

The student council doctrine states that you can't talk without being called on.

Sequel to Pedestrian

Where am I? I sat there quietly as people helped me and brought me to a room covered in all white. I am not crazy! Why cant people just go outside and walk around, I don’t understand? Nothing made sense, I am just a normal guy who doesn’t have a wife and likes to take peaceful walks in nature. Why do we all have to stay inside and watch T.V? I had to get out of this place fast before I really did go crazy. As I walked to room #432, the assistant asked if I needed water of some paper and pencils to draw. I shook my head, and shut the door as fast as I could. My room was painted all white and all it had was a bed and a table. How was I suppose to get out of here, there are no windows? I sat an the old, creaky bed and thought about how I could escape. After sitting for about ten minutes I decided I would go to the bathroom and get out from there. I opened the heavy door and slowly crept out in the hall. Watching my every step so no one would catch me, I could see the door. I had nothing else to but run, I counted to three in my head and took off. People were yelling at me left and right, “Leonard, get back here! LEONARD!” I couldn’t listen I just kept going. I was out at last I ran all the way to my house, shut the door, locked it, and locked all the windows. My nightly walks might have to change to forest walks, and I will have to be careful what I do, but the last thing I will do is become like everyone else.

Imagery and Figurative Language

5 examples of imagery
1. "Sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar"
2."there was a good crystal frost in the air"
3."the cement was vanishing under flowers and grass
4."tomb-like houses"
5."during the day it was thunderous"

Figurative language

    1.   “The street was silent and empty with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in mid-country”

2 2.  “windless Arizona desert with no house in a thousand miles, and only dry river beds, the streets for company.”

3 3.   “Sudden grey phantoms seemed to manifest upon inner room wall where a curtain was still undrawn against the night.”

44.   “The moon was high and clear among the stars and the houses were grey and silent.”
55.  " There was a good crystal frost in the air: it cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a christmas tree inside you."

Imagery helps you really image Leonard standing there alone in the street, and how he feels on the cold, frosty evening. Figurative language makes the sentences pop and really makes you believe what is happening. 

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Vocabulary #2

Doctrine: Noun;  a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government

Heritage: Noun; something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth; an inherited lot or portion

Commiserate: Verb; to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity

Indomitable: Adj; that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable

Rudimentary: Adj; pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary:

Savoring: Noun; the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell

Voluble: Adj; characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative

Wizened: Adj; withered; shriveled:

Fusillade: Noun; a simultaneous or continuous discharge of firearms.

Maladroit: Adj; lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless

Sentences with Paranoia, Silhouette, Sublime, and Tremulous

The crazy old lady had a paranoia of being killed in her sleep, so she slept with a knife by her side.

As I walked down the dark street could see my silhouette at my feet.

The girl sat there with sublime trying to figure out the last question on the Geography test. 

Molly tremulous after the bird had attacked her on main street.  

Sentences with winced and vigilance

 When Hailey got slapped in the face she winced before the boys fingers touched her face. 

The hunter's vigilance allowed him to shoot the deer.