Stuffed Pets

When the landlady says" I stuffed all my little pets myself when they pass away," I knew that something bad would happen to Billy. What kind of people would stuffed their animal when they were died? Most people would burn them or buried them, and I think that was better for the animal too. Who will stuff them? This action had shown the landlady's terror. It suggested that Billy would get killed by the landlady. Landlady might preserve or stuff him after he is dead. She would put him in the forth floor with Mr.Mulhond and Mr.Temple. Billy might have to stay here with his two companies in the forth floor of the bed and breakfast forever! That will be a tragerdy for Billy. After a couple more years, mabye more preserved human will join their team( the people who got preserved or stuffed by landlady). I think the literary device of The Landlady is foreshadowing, giving hints and clues about what will happen to Billy. In the story, it has given some information about the landlady personality, where the previous guest of bed and breakfast were, and also the habit of landlady. This are all the clues for this story.

The Landlady's Perfect Guest

  The landlady liked the guest who were very young, tall, and handsome. In the book, the landlady said a lot of information about Mr.Temple and Mr.Mulholland. For Mr.Mulholland,  she said that he was seventeen just like Billy. He's a little bit shorter than Billy, and his teeth weren't so white. For Mr.Temple, she said that he was 28 years old, and his skin was like baby's. All words she said about them were about their look, age, and height.  Also, there were no ladies in this boarding house before except for the landlady herself. Isn't that kind of strange? What kind of bed and breakfast doesn't have any female guest? Only males!
  I think that Billy will be murdered by the creepy landlady, and the landlady will preserve his body just like the duchshund and parrot in the story. His soul will not be free. He has to stay here!
   

The Landlady-Prediction

The first thing of the boarding house that makes me thinks its unusual is that Billy coudln't walk away from the boarding house. When he thought that pub was a better place to stay tonight and he was walking away from the boarding house, he coudln't move. He got hypotize by the boarding house. The boarding house has hypotize Billy to walk towards the boarding house and rang the bell. Billy couldn't control his action. That was extrodinary! Also, when Billy rang the bell, the landlady comes out from the house at the same moment! It's like the old lady knew he would be here, and she was waiting for him. That is kind of creepy! There were no people in the boarding house except for landlady and Billy. That makes the boarding house more like a ghost house. If I were Billy, I wouldn't live in that boarding house. Even I got hypotize by the boarding house and I went inside the the building. I would turn my head, and run immidiately after that, cuase that is just terrified. I think Billy will get killed, because the landlady act weird, and weird in a scary way. The landlady may have taken aways Billy's sour. That is just painful! Anyway, I felt pretty sorry for Billy.

Bed and Breakfast

If I arrive to a new town, and I need a place to stay. I see a sign in a window that says, "Bed and Breakfast". There are yellow flowers in a vase and a green curtains. I look inside, and I will expect to see two old men. Two men will be playing poker cards. One person is losing the game, and the other person is winning the game. I will also expect to see a cat lieing on the rug. It will be either rolling on the rug or playing the hair bulb that his master had given it. There will also have some tables and chairs in the house. The structure of the table will be strong and tight and it will be brown. The table will be very big, and some dust are cover on it. The chairs will be in a normal size. The base of the chair is soft and comfortable, but it looks very old and fergile. I expect to see a stage in that building. The stage will be use as the counter, the place to get money from the customer. The  recieving money machine on the stage will be gray, and a dead roaches is lieing on it.

“Broken Chain,” Thinking Critically

The quickwrite's idea and the feeling of Alfonso's are pretty much the same. It has talked about he doesn't like what he looks now and he wants to change and he wants to be tough. Also, the quickwrite has mentioned about the hairstye, the teeth, his smile, and so do the book. But I think Alfonso's feelings are more detailed  than the quickwrite. In the quickwrite, it didn't put so much informations. The quickwrite is just like an overview of what Alfonso's problems and his solutions for his problems. Alfonso actually feels more than the information that. For example: hair style. In the quickwrite, it only says that Alfonso start studing hair style, he wants to make his hair look cool, but he thinks that his mom won't go for it. Alfonso's actual feeling is more than that. Alfonso liked the way Prince looked-and the bass player from Los Lobos. Alfonso thought he would look cool with his hair razored into a V in the back and streaked purple. But he knew that he mom won't go for it. And his father would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him sissy. That is Alfonso's whole feeling. So we can see that Alfonso's feelings are much more detailed than the quickwrite. Alfonso's feeling and behavior seem pretty realistic for me, because it makes many realistic examples and it can really happen.

Advice Letter

Dear Adviser
    I am Alfonso. I have a serious problem, and I really need your help. I don't look good, I am ugly! My teeth aren't in order, and my smile doesn't look good, and my hairstyle isn't cool at all! Also, I think I am not tough enough, I think I am wimp. I have got some ideas to make myself look more handsome and tougher. From now on, I have started to push my teeth a hour every single day. I am trying to push them back to the right position. But the teeth just still stay there, and wasn't moved at all. I started to study hair style. I want to make a new hair style to make myself look cool, but my afraid my mom won't go for it. Also, I started to practice my smile. I smile about a thousand times just to improve my smile. But I don't think there is any improvements on my smile. I started to train myself, I've done many push ups and sit ups a couple weeks ago. I even punch myself, just to make myself tougher than I was. Do you think this kind of training can help me become tough and strong? If you have any advice for me, just tell me. I will be love hear it.
                                                                                                                                                                                    Sincerely Brian

Broken Chain: critical thinking

  Alfonso's feeling have many similarties compare with girls. For example: he really cares about his looking and what other people thinks about him. Alfonso has spent a lot of time on making himself look good. He study hair style, push his teeth, do pushups, and also punch himself to practice his endurance. I think a little bit of concerning about your looking is ok, but not too over. Like what Alfonso did, I think that is too much. I think you should do something more valueable instead of wasting time on pushing your teeth and smiling to the mirror. You can go out and play with your friends, read some books, or go the gym.
  Girls and Boys have a lot of similarties, but they also have a lot of differences. Like boys want to be handsome, but girls want to be beatiful. In today's english class, we have discussed about girls and boys. Girls in our class think that a handsome man should be tall, beatiful nose, six petal, blond hair, and also big eyes. Boys in our class think that a handsome man should be tall, natural hair, and normal size eyes. From the discussion in english class, we can see the different feeling between boys and girls.
  I don't really care a lot about my looking and popularity. I won't push my teeth, do fifty times pushup, punch yourself, or smile to the mirror. The things I care more are my homework, watching TV and play computer, and play chess with my eighbor friend. Well, different people have different feeling and habits.
 

Popularity v Intelligence

If you are popular, you will have many friends. Many people will like you. They will want to play and hang out with you, which is good for you. But some times when you are popular, some people will be jealous of you. They may want to have a chance to bust you, or make you embarrassed. If you are smart,  you won't be tricked or being busted. You may have found someway to fit into the popular group, and that will make you popular, whcih is good for you. But in some other ways, intelligence can also hurt you! Cause mabye you are too smart, you think some really simple thing into a complicated thing. The people will start thinking that you are annoying and weird. That can also affect your popularity.
  If I have to choose to be the most popular or the smartest student in school, I'll choose to be the smartest students. I choose the that,  because I think intelligence is more usefuler than popularity. Popularity can sometimes make you into trouble, but intelligence can help you avoid from the trouble.
  Some people will try to fit into the popular group, and some of them will need to do sacrafices in order to fit in. Like mabye you have to do their homework, beat up the people they don't like, or give them gifts. 
  Unusual can be good and bad. For example: everyone in your class hate chess, except for you, that makes you unuaul. Your classmates may think that you are not cooperative, and they may dislike you. That is an example of what is bad being unusual. There is also something good of being unusual. Like if everyone in your class don't write homework, except for you. That proves that you are the best student in your class. If everyone in your class fail on the test, except for you. That proves that you are the smartest person in your class.

Thirteen and Fourteen Years Old

  I think most the thirteen and fourteen years-olds kids will either feel satisfied or inferior to themselves. They are growing up, their mind has changed. They will start worry about their look, smells, and every action they made. Like some of the popular students in middle school of America. Because of their popularity, they start becoming arrogant. They start scolding and mocking the other kids, some of them may beat the other students. I think that is very bad, because that kind of people are just like tyrants. Tyrants do things that make people unhappy and angry, and that produced enemies. So althougth that kind of people may be popular in school, but they also had many enemies. I think there is another kind of people at this age, this kind of people are very inferior. That means they think they are not good. They may think about some ideas like I'm not pretty enough, I'm stupid, or I'm fat. Well, a little bit of concerning yourself is ok, but not over. Sometimes when you ask more,  you will lose more ( Really!). So don't be too inferior, that may hurt you.
  I think the best students at age thirteen and fourteen should just act normal. Don't try to act cool or bully the others. Just be like an indifferent students, make some friends, and don't make any trouble.