Professor Wesley

My feelings about this class is bitter-sweet. This class has taught me that I am on my own now and there are no excuses in the real world. I cannot be a procrastinator in college because procrastination kills. The professor is real and reminds me of my mother. She does not sugar-coat anything just like my mother and when it is time for things to get things done there is no time for back talk and it must be done at that moment. My mother is a hard working lady and I am pretty sure that professor is a hard working lady as well. Nobody likes a person that procrastinates all of the time and makes excuses when there is work that is needed to be. Even my own mother told me that but me being rebellious would only hurt me in the long run. People should always listen to and respect their elders because even though it may not seem like the right way in the beginning when you are not looking from both sides of the fence their way is the right way. I feel like this class has helped me ready myself for the fall semester and I thank Professor Wesley for pushing me to be better because she did not have to do what she has done for me.

Mamas

Researching a topic that you have knowledge of gives you the upper-hand on others. Gaining extra ideas about your topic gives you a lot of things to talk about. Endless ideas of arguments will definitely help you in the long run. Mothers are, and always will be the perfect, superior parent. Their love and affection for their young is effortless and there is nothing that can break the bond of the parent/child relationship. Fathers do not have that certain bond with their young. They tend to not care about their child's feelings, whereabouts or what they are up to. Fathers are very nonchalant when it comes to even the smallest situations. When the child gets old enough, the "talk" is a critical conversation and there are crucial topics that fathers should express but they are not around to do so. This leaves another task on the mother when there are too many already. Mothers that takes the role of being a mother and a father are very strong willed and very sacrificing. Only love would keep a person this motivated. Mothers should be appreciated immensely and a holiday for mothers are well needed.

Argumentive Essay

Mothers are in fact, the best caregivers on this planet earth. There are researchers that show that more mothers care for their children more than fathers do. This not only takes place with humans, there is proof in motherhood dominance and father negligence with animals. For example, a lioness is a very protective mother. She would kill for her cubs no matter what. Sacrificing herself without the thought of her own health. Fathers feel as if they have done their job and feels obligated to leave the female with such a burden as a child, a whole, needy baby or cub. That leaves a rigorous long task to try to raise that baby to be strong enough and be strong enough to stand on its own. For humans, mothers must stress the fact that their son must not be like his father and for daughters to follow her footsteps. There would not be certain people in this world that are successful now if it wasn't for strong mothers. Think about it, if your own mother struggled for almost all your life you would want to pay her back by hard work and being successful so she does not have to work anymore.

Violence in Technology

Children today, basically live off of the entertaining nonsense on the social media, and social technology. Violence dwell on the television and in new hip music today. Children would only do what any other typical child would do and follow what they hear or see on either TV or their favorite song. Young black males to me are main victims of this situation considering the fact that rap is one of the most violent genres in the music industry today. Though people try to blame rap artists of this problem that is spiraling out of control but it is not entirely on the artists fault. It is the parents that let their young vulnerable child be a listener to such material. Violence on television is and always will be existent. It is a part of history, ever since the gladiators fighting for entertainment. If parents have an issue with certain entertainment, they should try to filter their child's viewing and listening sites. In the long run that will only hinder them from the real world. Everything is not Teletubbies and Blues Clues in the actual life as an adult. There should be some type of series on the television showing deaths and crimes because in real life there will always be that. Even if there were no violence in your screen and earphones.

1965 Now it's Over

The integration in this chapter was very soothing to me. Things really change after Sula dies not because she's dead but  the fact that people see things way more clearly than over twenty five years ago. Individuals were blind to the fact that everybody was equal in God's eye and one human bleeds just like the other. When I read that the whites were moving to the "bottom" for the view I felt a sense of relief because of the torment and chaos that took place on this place thought of to be a high hell. Things really changed for the better in this chapter and there were some need for closure about certain situations, I felt like those requirements were met finally. Nel finally came to her senses with that conversation with Eva. I felt like Eva showed Nel the real world and how things really were back then when Sula and Eva were children. The question of why didn't Nel help Chicken Little out when he accidentally fell in the water and drowned. The fact that Nel thought she was over Sula in a sense was completely incorrect. Like Eva said, she was not any different than Sula in her eyes, or in fact anyone else eyes. When Nel realized that in the end she felt great sorrow, wishing for another chance in life when youth can not be replenished and what has been done is done.

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1941 Unbalanced Fortunes

When Sula died in the novel, it felt like a huge burden was lifted off of the people in Medallion at first. I mean everybody was celebrating, building things for the better of the community, Even Eva got her hopes up to go to a desegregated nursing home. But when that frost came it killed a lot of things. Not only vegetables and livestock, but inspiring dreams to do better as well. Not long after that everybody as well as everything started to fall apart physically and emotionally. In nineteen-forty when Nel said nobody would ever love her because of all of the hateful, spiteful things she done in her life to people I felt like that statement was wrong. Even when Sula is six-feet deep into the ground there is still hatred in the townspeople hearts. What is really expressed in this chapter is that they needed her for bonding. Women needed her for the better of their relationship, Teapot needed her for the sake of himself and his abusive mother. Sometimes in life there needs to be a certain evil. A certain evil that puts fear inside our hearts that would bring us closer and make us afraid to lose each other. Sula was that evil.

Sula the Snake

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1940 OD

Sula was very stupid to me. Even in her dying hours she had an attitude that showed ungratefulness and spitefulness. After all she did to her so called "bestfriend", Nel still came to her rescue to care for her. Sula did not show any remorse for what she did and said hateful things to her when Nel asked her about certain situations. I thought to myself maybe Sula does not know how to show her emotions the right way towards people that care about her. Maybe she has a really cold heart and does not care for another feelings or emotions. The way she looked at the boarded up window made me think that she wanted to repeat history and jump out but it was far more serious than that. Sula wanted to be alone and feel independent in her grandmother's house and she got that feeling by looking at  boarded up window. The prescription was a little shaky to me because I did not know what it really was. Was it pain pills? Were they antibiotics for some type of infection? I did not have an idea of what kind of drugs she consumed but obviously she took a little too much and she croaked. I know in the next chapter it will be celebrations throughout Medallion.

1939 Jet Li

Sula has been through a lot of men. She has more than enough experience in my opinion. She goes through men and does not even get attached emotionally. It is like she is doing it not only for the feeling but because that is the only thing she knew, the only thing she grew up around. Sula has her ways, so does Ajax. Ajax, to me, is somewhat of a player. He has a lot of women to chose from, well after they beat each other up over him, those remaining few. I feel like his mother taught him well about respecting women and he might have took some of that into consideration, but a man is going to do what he feels and what he think is the right way. When he brought those two milk bottles to Sula's house he knew what he was doing, he wanted something she was more than willing to give up because she thought it would just be another man. Little did she know my man Ajax had that thang for her and she fell in love. Sula fell in love with the fact that Ajax had more than what was needed at the time. Ajax, being the player he was felt like he can not wife a floozy.

1937 Infedelity

1937 These hoes be actin up.

Exodus 20:12 says that you should honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Sula did not follow as so when she came back from Nashville. She was very disrespectful, even threatening to kill her own Grandmother, someone who took care for her as a child. I feel like that is very low and disgusting to dishonor such caring people. Sula is a lot of things in this story, but i do not think that she is a home-wrecker in this situation.Although she is a whore  Nel is a little childish for not standing up for what's hers, however, Jude had a role to play in this predicament as well but he failed to do so. Holding in your emotions is not good for you at all and it certainly was not for this poor woman Nel, who had been forced to marry this man. I do not think that it was Jude is wrong for what happened but it was not entirely his fault. He is a man with hormones and just like other men and myself, sometimes we think with our wrong heads in certain situations. In Sula's case, I feel like she was ignorant to the fact that Nel and Jude had something great going on. Sula's own mother was a floozy so it was only right that she would follow her footsteps.

1927 Let's get married

 Jude Greene is Nel's husband. I feel like he wants to do better about himself, but the color of his skin would not let him find a better job that requires hard labor. At first, I did not understand why he would want such a rigorous job but thinking about it I realized that he wanted his wife to depend on him and he wanted to provide for her. Nel was the type of girl who did not press for someone to marry her. Jude wanted a woman who cared about his hurt and would be there for him. There was up to ten women that came to see Jude perform, but he chose Nel because of her qualities. I found myself to be somewhat like Jude. I want a woman , that whatever the cut of his garment, there would always be the hem. The truck and fold that hides my raveling edges, someone sweet, industrious and loyal to shore me up. That speaks with volumes on how genuine our relationship would be. I look for the type of woman that would be there through everything, as we hold each other down. I would give her all the things Jude promised his wife. I would shelter, love, and grow old with her.

1923 This Girl Is On Firrrreeeeeeeeee

Hanna was a little out of order when she asked her own mother did she love her and her siblings. Eva, the mother and grandmother of four, let her have it when she had that heartfelt explanation. Eva is a sacrificing woman in my prospective. But I don't think that she got what she deserved at the end of the chapter. I feel like Sula is going to be a stone-cold serial killer as the book progresses. For her to just stand there and let her own mother, the person who gave birth to her and care for her for thirteen years just burn to a crisp is intolerable. If that was my mother out there burning, you can bet on me being out there doing at least something.

Those dreams made it seem like the accident could have been avoided. Then again looking at it, it was kind of fate. I feel like you can not change fate and it is what it is. But at least they knew what was going to happen they just did not know when or where it was going to happen. I did not see anything in this chapter about Sula's birthmark changing and I got that answer wrong on my quiz :(

1922 Bound to Drizown

When Chicken Little was introduced in the story I immediately thought about the movie. Chicken Little was a character that was animated and exciting.

The author sort of relates their characteristics as an adventurous individual. When Sula took him up the tree he was so happy and astonished at the view. Chicken Little didn't even want to come down from the tree. Chicken Little was a character that seemed like a typical young boy trying to make the best out of living in the bottom. He'd took the hike all the way to the lake to have a good time. When the author took the book from exciting to tragic in that short amount of time, it confused me. What was she thinking? What made her change the mood of the story? Did Chicken Little deserve what happened to him? I feel as if everything happens for a reason, so I began to wonder if the reason was a good one. The author's choice to tell us how he really stayed there for that many days showed me the cruelty that was shown to blacks. 1922 was apart of the book that showed so much honesty and truth.   

1921 Crazy Legs

I felt like BoyBoy was a weak individual. It take a mentally distraught man to beat his wife let alone any woman. When he came back to pay a visit I thought it was over for him Ralph's nickname was different to me, I mean who else you know has a fruit name like plum. That would have meant if he would have gotten old they would've called him prune. Those bowel movements were pretty crucial. I can not imagine what that little dude went through when he went to the bathroom. A mother being a mother came to the rescue for Plum with the lard. I think Eva did cut her  leg off for insurance money, but I see Eva as an individual who sacrafices a lot for the better even if it would hurt her physically or emotionally. When she found out that Plum was on drugs and set him on fire I was shocked. I would have preferred a simple beatdown but she took it to the next level with the flames. Hannah was a little wild thing, she would take men to the cellar where it was cool in the summer. I dont know how i would have felt if I saw my mother spooning with a strange man.

1920 THOTS

To be honest, the Creole lady at the beginning of this chapter was throwing me off just a little bit. I did not know who she was and what kind of relationship she had with Nel and Helene. I did not know if either Cecile or Rochelle had died. When I found out the Great-grandmother had died I realized why Helene was so mad and did not want Nel to hug her own grandmother. But i couldn't blame her because she is a prostitute and there ain't no telling what she could have and give to an innocent child. Nel's encounter with Rochelle affected her immensely. I think that her not knowing her grandmother left a part of her out. Then again that side of her should have been kept away from her in the first place.On the trip to New Orleans I noticed they took a lot of pee breaks which was pretty weird and Nel did not know how to squat the right way. I kinda felt like that was a little too much information and it painted a picture that was not really needed at all. Like the writer could have left that out for a brother. The conductor on the other hand would have got the hands by humiliating me in front of my own kind, and on top of that they even mean mugged Helene's dazzling smile.

1919 Got Them Hands

The first chapter in the book Sula caught my attention off rip. I usually do not read books because I think they are boring but this book is a different way of writing to me. I felt like the first chapter elaborated on this certain character named Shadrack. Shadrack is suffering from the post traumatic stress disorder. He also think his hands are growing when they are really not. Other people in class argued that the man did not have hands and I begged to differ. In a sense I feel sorry for Shadrack because I feel like he is alone in his situation. After he woke up from his coma, I felt like it was only him and he did not have any sense of direction. It even started for him wrong when he got arrested when everybody thought he was drunk walking down the sidewalk. He turned into a hard drinker and everybody thinks he is crazy because he made up this day called National Suicide Day. Even women waited to have their baby because they did not want their child to be born on this weird day. I am just saying that my man Shadrack did not really have a chance in life socially from jump.