desiree's baby response

Briana Weems
Desiree’s Baby
“Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin is about a black woman who has a baby but doesn’t know she is black until she has her baby. Desiree was abandoned by her parents when she was a baby and left by a big stone pillar. Valmonde, her adoptive mother, found her there and decided to take her home with her. When she awoke she began to cry for her “Dada.” She was so young that that was all she could do or say. Valmonde didn’t really care how she got there or why she was there, but she believed that she was sent to her to be “the child of her affection” because she wasn’t able to have kids. Desiree grew up to be a beautiful woman that was the idol of Valmonde and she loved everything about her.
Desiree met her husband eighteen years after Valmonde found her lying in the shadow of the pillar. Her husband, Armand Aubigny, drove past her and fell instantly in love with her beauty. It was the way that all the Aubignys fell in love. He too was adopted from Paris and brought to America to live with his new family. He knew exactly what he wanted and went after it. Soon after meeting they got married and not long after that they were married. They got married in France and then moved to L’Abri because Desiree loved her country too much to leave and live somewhere else.
When Valmonde decided to go see Desiree and the baby it had been a month since she had seen them. They had slaves that kept the land up for them and made sure that Desiree and the baby had everything they needed. However Desiree had a white woman as her full time nurse after she gave birth to her baby. When Valmonde walked into the room where they were sleeping, she first kissed Desiree on her forehead. But when she turned to the baby she noticed that it looked differently. She could tell that baby had changed since the last time that she came to visit. She didn’t want to say anything to Desiree but she could tell that the baby was definitely not completely a white baby. She just went along with what Desiree was saying about how big he had gotten and things like that because she didn’t want to worry her.
However the truth about the baby didn’t take long from coming out anyway. When the baby was three months old Armand noticed the difference as well and started acting differently. He didn’t want to be around Desiree and the baby and he made sure he kept his distance from them. But soon after he noticed Desiree noticed too and became instantly worried. She looked at one of the black servants and to her baby and noticed an incredible resemblance and she couldn’t believe it. She ran to her husband to ask him what was going on with the baby and he told her that there was no way the baby was all white, which meant that she was not all white either. After talking to Valmonde she decided the best thing for her to do was just go back to live with her.
The story is truly filled with irony because at the end instead of going home Desiree goes into the fields with the slaves because that’s where she feels she truly belongs and is never seen again. Armand then decides to burn all her clothes because he is so embarrassed and ashamed that he married and had a child with a black woman. He also burns some letters that Desiree wrote him but along with those is one from his mother to his father. At the end of the letter it says that she doesn’t want Armand to know that “he belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery.” This means that he was the one that was black and not Desiree. He gave the baby his black genetics.

spontaneous me response

Briana Weems
Spontaneous Me response
Poems “From Children Of Adam” are passionate poems about romance and love. They also have some sorrow and pain involved with them. Most of these poems have a deeper meaning to show that sometimes you can’t always have what you want, and those things can be the things that you want and look forward to the most in life. For instance like true love or having kids or just truly living out your complete destiny and figuring out what God put you on this earth for, which can be a really hard thing to do in life. The author of “Spontaneous Me,” talks about being with a woman and how it makes him feel after she leaves and they are done. He talks about how he yearns for her body and wants her to be there with him. He also talks about how he wants a son to carry on his legacy but all he can produce is girls.
At the beginning of the poem he paints a vivid picture with his words. He talks about a fall day and he describes it with bright words like “loving, happy, friend” and he uses fall colors like “red, yellow, drab, purple, and light and dark green.” He is trying to get the reader to in vision what he is talking about and see it without even closing their eyes. He also talks about the how the grass is rich in color and touch and how the pebble stones are all around and the apples are bright red and gorgeous. He is talking about his favorite place to sit down and write his poems and it is somewhere where he can concentrate the most. However this is not the true topic of his poem. The true meaning he is trying to get to is how poems should be written and how you should go to a place where you are most comfortable at to do so.
In the next paragraph of the poem he talks about how even masculine men he can write poems about love and they mean something. He then continues on talking about him and a woman being together. He describes how he is able to touch and feel her and how she is so close to him that he is able to smell her hair and skin. He also talks about the way her body is made and how gorgeous it is and how it looks to him and makes him feels. He compares her to his dreams because she is something he could only dream about and he never thought he could actually have someone like her in his life for real.
He then uses pathos afterwards to describe when she leaves how he feels. He feels sort of empty and like something is missing when she is not around him. He yearns for her body and wants her to come back because he likes the way it feels when the two of them are together. He also talks about how he can only “lie willing and naked,” until she returns because things are just not the same when she is not around. He continues to talk about how his heart beats fast when she is not around because he is missing her and he can’t really concentrate or write anything else without her around to be his muse.
When she finally returns he feels excited and so is his body to have her back with him. Every part of his body physically and mentally missed her and he can’t help but show it to her. And they have to girls together but he is not completely satisfied with his life yet. He wants boys to carry on his legacy but all that he can produce is girls, which saddens him. However at the end he basically says that he realizes he can’t have everything in life that he wants and comes to terms with those things and he will just put them in God’s hands. If they were meant for him to have them he would and he refuses to continue to worry himself about them. He decides to be grateful for the things he does have and enjoy life.

sinners in the hands of an angry god respnse

Briana Weems
Sinners In The Hands Paper
Pastor Jonathon Edwards is the pastor of a church who openly speaks his beliefs. He tells you that what he believes is the truth and is all that matters. He uses both pathos and ethos to get his point across. He tells the story about how when you do things wrong God will punish you for them. He also talks about how he thinks the world is going to end because he thinks that there are so many people doing things wrong that God is going to punish them all at once.
In one part of his speech he uses ethos to get his point across. He uses the bible as his credibility. “The same is expressed, Psalm 73:18. Surely thou castedst them down into destruction.” He is talking about how when you are always in places where things are not right you are destined to have something bad happen to you. He is using the fact that what he was talking about had to be right because it was in the bible. He does it again when he was talking how when you do wrong things you don’t know when you are going to get punished for doing those bad things and when it happens it is going to be worse than you expected it to be. “Which is also expressed in Psalm 73:18, 19. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; thou castedst them down into destruction: How are they brought into desolation as in a moment!”
Edwards also uses logics to prove that what he is saying is what is best. He talks about how just as easy as it is for us to do people wrong, it is easy for god to send us to hell. So that basically is you think it was easy for you to do someone wrong, watch and see how easy it is for God to punish for doing someone wrong. He is using logics here because he is saying its not faulty logic because why should it be hard for God to punish you for the wrong doings you have did to others.
Edwards also uses pathos to try to get people to do right and believe that what he is saying is the truth. “God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth: yea, doubtless, with many now in this congregation, who it may be are at ease, than he is with many of those who are now in the flames of hell.” Edwards is appealing to fear to make people think about what they are doing and what is going to happen to them. He is basically telling them that God is more angry with the people that are sitting in this church right now, meaning that just because you are in church doesn’t mean that are not saved from his wrath, than people burning in hell for the things that they have done to others.
Edwards uses descriptive words to describe how God punishes those who does wrong doings. “The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened its mouth under them.” Edwards uses scary words to scare his audience into doing the right things. He uses words like “wrath, burns, pit, fire, furnace, flames, and rage” to paint the picture of what is waiting for these people if they continue to do the wrong things they are doing. He is using these words to paint a vivid picture by using all these imagery words.
Throughout his speech Jonathon Edwards talked about the wrong doings with others. He talked about how when you do things wrong what is going to happen to you. He talked about the punishments God has in store for you and how you will burn for those things. He makes his audience see what is in store for them and how it will affect them in long term. And how just because you don’t get punished immediately for what you have done don’t think God has forgotten and he is just waiting for the right time to execute his plan.

poems response

Briana Weems
Poems Responses
7-8th period
Anne Bradstreet is a writer of many poems. She is the first female poet and made a lot of history. One thing that makes her such a famous poet is that she was a puritan and puritans didn’t like poetry. Another thing that makes her a famous poem is because she was a puritan and she never really uses her religious beliefs in her poems. She has wrote many poems and among all her many treasures are “The Author to Her Book” and “To My Dear and Loving Husband”. The first poem is about how a woman’s friend betrays her and steals her idea and publishes it. But the idea doesn’t come out like how the author intentionally wanted so she tries to fix it, but when she fixes it, it only comes out worse. In the second poem it talks about a woman who is deeply in love with her husband that she even believes when they die, they will still be together. While these two poems are about two different things, they are alike in a lot of similar ways.
In both poems Bradstreet uses a lot of similes. In “The Author to Her Book” she compares her thoughts to offspring. She trying to show how much her ideas mean to her and how precious they are to her, like a child. In “To My Dear and Loving Husband” she compares her love for her lover to rivers. She says that it is more than any river can quench. She is trying to represent how much she loves him and how deep it is. Using similes makes the reader think and wonder why she compared her love or writings to certain things.
In both poems Bradstreet also uses rhyming words at the end of her sentences. She uses words like “true and view, trudge and judge, and small and call”, in “The Author to Her Book”. And in “To My Dear and Loving Husband” she uses rhyming words like “we and thee, man and can, repay and pray”. Words like these make her known as a well known writer and famous for her poems ending like that. Each time she rhymes it gives her poems a special effect and makes the reader think twice about what she is reading.
In both poems Bradstreet has deep meanings but it takes some thinking to figure it out. In “The Author to Her Book” she talks about how her friends stole an idea from her and published and made it their own. She talks about how it’s not right because they can’t express her emotions and thoughts like she can but when she tries to and fix it only comes out worse. She says all of this but doesn’t come right out and directly say it. For instance she calls her idea her offspring. In “To My Dear and Loving Husband” she talks about her love for her husband. How she loves him so much and how they are meant to be. Also how powerful and strong their love is. In this poem as well she doesn’t directly come out and say this. She compares their love to riches and how it’s worth more than all the riches from the east.
In both of these poems Anne Bradstreet has deep meanings. She goes deeper and she wants you to think about what she’s talking about instead of just putting out there. She goes for a deeper meaning each time she writes and she uses different types of diction, details, and syntax. Anne Bradstreet puts her heart into each poem she writes and it shows in her writings.