Graduation by Maya Angelou

Graduation, by Maya Angelou tell us her experience duiringher stay in Arkansas Elementary School in 1940's wherein she discovers the attitude of the mainstream culture at her graduation.

In her course of study, she felt burden, frustrations and had experience uneasiness and self-doubt, because as what she stated it was awful for her to be Negro and having no control over her life, and at their young age instead of enjoying their chilhood moments, they are trained to sit quietly and listen to every charges brought against their color having no chance to defend theirselves. Not until her graduation, wherein she realized that it is indeed a great honor to be a member of the beautiful race of Negro.

The moral lesson is that weshould be confident for ourselves but not too proud there must still be humility within us. No matter what color or race we are included what is important is we are morally upright and we avoid things that can cause conflicts and may hurt other feelings. What is important is we believe in ourself and we should take this in our minds that doing our best is more important thatn being the best.

The Man with the Hoe

The poem entitled 'The Man with the Hoe" depicts the life of every great toiler who are brutalized by their masters.
The burden and sufferings that they had experience in their masters or rulers are so true in our present life situation. The poem implies that it isn't the Lord wanted to happen, to have superior over his creation. This implies that we must be just in all aspects especially on how we treat farmers. God created all things fairly and he want to see us doing the same way too. In our vast changing world, we should realize the essentiality of the great farmers and their role in our life, because they are the one who is responsible for providing our basic needs, which is food.
The basic premise in this poem is that we should be humane to all our fellows not considering their statue in life, their color and race, of who are they, instead we should give them all the support they needed and respect that they deserve.

The Great Gatsby (reaction)

FEDERIS, CHRISTINE L.

The novel entitled The Great Gatsby written by one of the sought writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald consider as one of the Modern classic book of all time.
The piece has its own uniqueness and length that when readers get the very essence of the message they would easily understand and be able to relate this in the present situation or contemplate to what is happening in the real life. Though, there are several words that were new and first encountered but then, when you try to read it carefully and precisely you yourself can define and understand the alien words and be ab le to understand the real message of the story that was being convey. In the setting of the novel, i can tell that it was well elaborated , that it gives easiness to the reader to understand when and where is the occurence of that particular scene,which makes reader at ease to go with the flow of the story. The character in the story has its different role to play, wherein the names are always being mentioned and the character was well introduced which gives free-confusion to the readers.
The unity of the story addened to the greatness of the novel. This novel is another inspiration of ours to make our own as well.

Great Gatsby

Ma'am I just wanna to say thank you for sharing us to read this novel,we learned a lot from this novel, This novel its all about life of Gatsby,he came from west egg and he was a lieutenant army,and was in love to Daisy,but she was already married to Tom Buchanan of Chicago with more pomp and circumstances than Louisville,and at the end Gatsby was killed by a man,all of their relatives was shock of this accident,
I learned in this novel we should know how to forgiveness in a one thing.and try to move on,because life is meaningful and we must enjoyed it,Ma'am honestly I'm not fully understand this novel,because is not easy to understand this,I promise to read again.
by:honeylene

my reflection in Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart was an interesting novel,because we know some information about the culture of the African,this novel is about the tradition of the tribe that all of the male children should join on the wrestling competition,and all the female child will offer and serve a pot f water on a bowl to give on the wrestler mach.In their tribe it is common to have three or more wives,but yo must give them their own hut.and they also believe in the''kula''where it give strength in their daily living,I'm really inspired by Okonwo,because he do their responsibility as a leader of the tribe,okonwo he was considered a famous wrestler and a prosperous farmer with three wives and known a natural leader of whom great thing were expected and he was the member of Ibo tribe in Nigeria.
by:honeylene

Things Fall Apart (Formalist Approach by group)

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Things Fall Apart, a novel written by Chinua Achebe.


It is an African novel that portrays the African way of life. Africans, as our group have read, value and play great respect and importance to their gods. They even have festivals in order to give thanks to each of their gods.


The characters, especially the prominent ones (and even the narrator) used figurative expressions like metaphor, simile, personification and etc.


The novel is in the third person point of view because the one speaking in the story is not a part os not a character in it. The novel also made use of the "stream of consciousness technique" because there are times that the store goes back to the past to show the things that has happened for the readers to understand the present.


Things Fall Apart is indeed a great and classical novel of all times!!!

Things Fall Apart

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my reflection:


I didn't know that I will appreciate this novel, Things Fall Apart, so much because I'm not very much into African Literature and Culture. But as I continue to read, I really got "hooked" on reading the novel. It gave me a hint on how is it to live with Africans.


I was able to relate with Okonkwo, the central figure, because like him, I also hate failure (who elso do? =), and I also have this sort of being "hard-hearted" attitude. I also appreciate Okonkwo for being hard-working and for his determination to succeed. BUT!!! I disagree when he said that "to show affection (except from anger), is a sign of weakness (chapter 4). For him, women are weak and their jobs include cooking, taking care of her children and other nurturing roles like that. In the novel, it was shown that the men are superior to women.


Anyway, another thing that I like was when the Missionaries came to Umoufia to preach about God, Jesus Christ and also about the Holy Trinity. But the Missionaries have different impact in the tribesmen. Some belived them but some didn't, some joined them but some have mocked and even cursed them.


I think the story really happen in the real life situation because some churches (like our church) send Missionaries to different countries or continents like Africa.


I appreciated the novel but I think I will be more satisfied if Okonkwo hadn't died. Maybe it will be happier if he hadn't committed suicide and my heart really goes with what had happened to him..
posted by : HANNAH lOIS d. pAMOR