Reflection 5

Reflecting on the past week will be harder just because I was gone a couple days from being sick. But one of the days I was there ,we went through the book by annotating it I forget the pages we went over. But every time we annotate the book my understanding of the book increases dramatically. It really helps me out in every way because this book still confuses me so much a lot of the time when i'm reading. while annotating we started to talk about  Tayo's kindness. How he is kind to everyone even though most of the time he's treated harshly just because of his race. I think its cool how he can be still so kind even though he has been through so much going through WW2 and seeing everything he's seen having his brother killed and all the friends he's lost. He still at the end has a loving attitude towards everybody and really everything. Another one of the days we got to read for pretty much the whole class time. That really helped me out just so I could catch up. Because for most of the year I have been trying to catch up with everybody. and finally I'm pretty much caught up with everyone in the class.

Reflection 4

This past week has been probably the best week for me of the year in this class. We got to see the Navy Seal Clay and got to see him tell his story. I thought what was very interesting is how he gave up his D1 baseball offers to go to the army and serve his country. That has so be one of the biggest sacrifices ever and I thank men and woman like that every single day and have the ever most respect to people like that decide to go fight for their country.  The story Clay told us about how he had to shoot a little girl who had a bomb strapped to her chest really got my attention, really made me see what some of these people have to live with. I felt terrible that Clay had to be the one to make the decision on whether to let her come across the highway and blow him and his companies and everybody in the restaurant up, or shoot her .  During 7th period he told us that he could see the little girl in the back of the room, taste the blood, and hear gun fire. He said pretty much every morning or late at night he sees that little girl. He wishes instead of shooting her he would of ran out there and held her and they would of both just blown up. Through all of his missions he said that eight of his men died . He said that he would change positions with any one of them that he would rather be dead and have them alive. That really shows the brotherly love these men have with each other that he would switch positions with them. He also talked about how to be successful. you have to want it as much as you want to breathe and that really hit me and motivated me in everyway.

Reflection post 3

Through  all of last week we went through the book Ceremony and annotated it. Before going through all the annotating of.the book. It really confused me in every way possible.but as we were going over the book.My understanding of it is increased steadily and is still increasing. The book at times still confuses me and I have to go back and read over and over again. But its becoming a little easier to read day by day. Why its so confusing is just because it switches keeps switching to before WW2,  during World War 2 ,and after so at times you forget what your reading. And also its hard to read because Tayo develops P.T.S.D after the war and sometimes your reading and you don't know whether it happened or not. A thing that was interesting about the book is that Tayo is a a half breed. Half White half Indian so he's not always welcome in each of the colors or hes looked down on by some. I just think how its funny how you have to be a full breed back then to be really welcome in some areas. You have absolutely no control over whether your half breed full or whatever.