CONTENTS OF A DEAD MAN'S POCKET

CONTENTS OF A DEAD MANS POCKETS

Title of Selection: Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket
By: Jack Finney
Date Read: 10/8/10

Pre-readinglife.Top 5 priorities in my life:
1. family and friends.
2. school
3. soccer
4. love 

5. Faith

Plot/Reaction
The yellow sheet of paper was full of facts, quotations and figures that he needed for work. Tom retrieves the paper by climbing out of the window, onto the side of the building.

Questions
1. Why did he work instead of going to the movies with his wife?
2. Why didn't he care about the paper the second time it flew out of the window?

Quote
He thought of all the evenings he had spent away from her, working; and he regretted them. He thought wonderingly of his fierce ambition and the direction his life had taken; he thought of the hours he'd spent by himself, filling in the yellow sheet that had brought him out here.Contents of the dead man's pockets, he thought with sudden fierce anger, a wasted life.

quotation sandwich ~~~Harrison Bergeron

Quotation sandwich~~~~Harrison Bergeron

Claim:
The society Harrison Bergeron lives in is not at all equal.

Quote:
" Diana Moon Glampers loaded the gun again. She aimed it at the musicians and told them they had ten seconds to get their handicaps on."

Commentary:
The society was definitely not  equal at all because Diana, the Handicapper General, had a loaded gun and no handicap like the rest of the people that need one. It takes knowledge to be able to load a gun and aim it correctly. She has more power then the rest of the people.

quotation sandwich

pg.135
Claim: The society Harrison Bergeron lives in is not at all equal.

Quote: Hazel, as a matter of fact, bore a strong resemblance to the handicapper general, a woman named Diana Moon Glampers.

Commentary: the society is not as equal as the people make it out to be. Diana is higher than the other people, just because she's the general Diana has no handicaps at all, shes the one that gives them to the other people. she threatens people who take them off. But they wanted them all to be the same then they would have given them all of the same handicaps.

My short summary:

Tom was addicted to his work all of his life and neglected his wife because of it. he lost his yellow sheet of paper because it blew out of the window. he thought it was necessary to go retrieve the piece of paper, so he climbed a building and risked his life. He was hanging on the building scared for life. He had to smash a window to get back into the house. the experience made him realize that his wife was more important. so he went to find her and he only weighed the piece of paper down with a pencil and it blew away again.

-Did Clare ever find out that tom went on the journey to get the paper back?

-why was his work so important to him?

-Why did he want to get the paper back so bad?

-Where they rich because he worked so hard?

Protagonist
~the main character such as the hero/heroine.
example-Mr. incredible

telling... we had fun

showing... we had a blast as we bathed in the gleaming sun. playing volleyball in the hot sand, splashing in the blue sea. we enjoyed our beautiful day at the beach.

telling... i was surprised

showing... i was so surprised as we scored our upper 90 goal against the biggest, hardest team in the conference. we busted our tails trying to beat this team, we were drenched in sweat and about to pass out. but we never gave up.

10 Events In My Life

when I was 3 weeks old i went on my first vacation to Virgina to visit my uncle and aunt.
2nd grade-first communion
3rd grade-first soccer games
5th grade- switched schools to St. Thomas Aquinas Academy
6th grade- started playing club soccer with FC Milwuakee
7th grade-ran 7 miles with the PODS
8th grade-played my fist and only year of club volleyball
freshman year of high school and playing varsity soccer
choked on water and pizza, i almost died.
sophmore year!