The House/Henry

Imagine if you couldn’t change if something very important to you is gone, and you just can’t tell. You could be completely alone in the world but still live on when there was nothing there. Or what if your wife died and you couldn’t tell but mourned every time it turned to the day she was supposed to come home. How would you like to be compared to a house? Something that has no feelings, no real thoughts but in a way you, a human, are just like it.
In the story There will Come Soft Rain, A house lives alone after society destroyed its surroundings. This house in nothing like a house we know of today, but it is in the future. This house is ran by a “brain” and is set to a daily routine. When society kills everyone, burns everything, but this house still stands. It cannot tell the change, it continues its routines when there is no one to cook for. Society made it so it could not realizes this. Even at the end of the story when the house is almost completely burned down, the wake up alarm goes off like nothing happened.
What if a human was like this? How would it be if you a tragic event happen to you can you couldn’t tell because society keep you from it. In A California’s Tale, Henry lost his wife 19 years ago to Indians. He could not see it just as the house could not see what it had lost. One week out of the year Henry remembers of his wife and that she was supposed to be coming back “today.” Once again, Henry is put through a sad moment of thinking his wife is gone but still can’t completely realize it. Just like the house, who was burned again but still couldn’t tell that everyone is gone. So both Henry and the house continue on with their lives, not realizing what has happened.
Though, the reasons why they can’t realize everything is gone are a little different. The house has no feelings, and is only programmed to do what it does. It is really not capable t realize anything. Where as Henry, he is capable, being a human, but his friends prevent him from remembering. Then, there is the part where they are different because Henry is a man, and the house, well, it is just a house. But, just because they are two completely different things, don’t be so quick to think that they are completely different.

" The Son of America"

Symbol- Money symbolizes new things and a different way of living, Berl and Berlcha represent a way some people already live and are happy without modern technology

Outline the plot-
Exposition- When we are told about Berl and Berlcha's way of life and that they have everything they need. We are told about their son and the money he sends them. and that no one knows where it goes or who it is for.
Inciting event- Samuel arrives home
Rising action- He live with his parents and sees they way they live, he goes to church, and helps get ready for sabbath
Climax- When samuel asks his dad where the money is at
Falling action- He talks to his dad, goes for a walk and talks to and old man at the synagogue, he goes home and helps his mom while his dad goes to church
Resolution- Samuel realizes that his parents are happy, and that the village did not need to change

Protagonist- Samuel

Antagonist- Samuel's parents

Theme- Some people like they way they live and that they don't need or want to things because they have enough to survive and are thankful for that.

Conflict- person Vs. Self; Samuel had to realize that not everything needs to be new and some people are just thankful for what they have

Summarization- A husband named Berl and a wife name Berlcha (Pescha) live in a little, old fashioned village called Lentshin in poland. Their son moved to America when he was 15 and made a huge living there. Every month their son sends them money, known knows how much or were it goes. The husband and wife do not use the money because they already have everything they need to live: food, a shelter. The make just enough money to buy what they need. Then one friday their son, samuel comes home. He helps his family get ready for sabbath and joins them in their lives. His plans were to bring money andother funds to the town. He had presents he wanted to give to the village. Then one day when he ask his dad where the money he had been sending them was at. Samuel was shown a boot hid under the bed filled with money. When he asked why it was not used the only reply he got was they already had everything they needed. They didn't not want new stuff. That night, Samuel went for a walk, he went into the synagogue and met an old man there. The old man had no teeth, was poor but he was happy. The old man told Samuel that if god gives health, one keeps on living. When Samuel went home and remain with his mom while is father went to church, samuel realized that this ton did not need or want anything.

The vocab words from the first test

Ponderous; adj. slow and clumsy or awkward
Ineffable; adj. to great or extreme to be described in words
Inured;V. to be accustom to something unpleasant
Irrevocable; adj. Not able to be changed or reversed
Myopic; adj. shortsighted or narrow minded
Increments; N. increases or additions, especially on a series of fixed scale
Immutable; adj. Unchanges over time or unable to be changed
Grievous; adj. very severe or serious
Apprehension; N; anxiety or fear that something bad will happen
Recoil; V. to suddenly spring or flinch back in fear, horror, or disgust

The Bet

Setting- time- November 14, 1885
Place- In the lodge

Plot- Exposition- You find out who is in the story, the argument over the death penalty
Inciting Event- The bet is made
Rising Action- They years pass, The banker tells us of the stories the lawyer reads, the bet is coming to an end and the banker goes in to kill the lawyer, they lawyer has written a letter.
Climax- The banker reads the letter
Falling Action- The banker kisses the lawyer on the forehead, he goes home and cries, the guard tells the banker the lawyer has run away and the bet is over
Resolution- the banker puts the letter in the safe

Protagonist- Lawyer, The lawyer is the protagonist because the story revolves around the lawyer and how he has changed. If it is Person Vs. Society then it would be the lawyer because he is against the way society works in the end. In the beginning the bet represents they way society works and the lawyer is proving something.

Antagonist- The banker, (Side note: the banker turns into the executioner) he holds the money which is what the bet was for. So the banker represents society

Symbol- the money that the banker owes the lawyer represents greed

Conflict- Person Vs. Society, the why society worked is what starts they bet, society is what made the lawyer change because he read all of the books that say the way society works. The lawyer has given up on society, they way he saw society work changed him.

Themes-
Meaning of Home - To many home is a place where you can be comfortable. Be yourself, and feel safe. The lawyer might have felt himself but in a way he had lost his home. He was not comfortable in his surrondings and had given up on societey and other human beings. You are supposed to be able to act like himself but he was not himself he manipulated, when he read those books he had only seen one side. On earth he have never comfortable, he believe everyone would be wiped off the face of the earth. If his life, house, earth where home to him, he would not have starved himself. He would not be slowly killing himself. He did not believe in home, life; he hated it all. By the end he had no home.

Meaning of Freedom- If you have freedom you should be able to do what ever you want. Your own voice, ideas, you should be able to speak your own mind and thoughts. The lawyer lost all his freedom. Thought at the end he could do what ever he wanted he did npt think his own way. All the books he read over they year, with onyl thier side. They made him believe in things that he rally had no understanding. No personal experience or anyone on othersides input. He was physical free but mentally I believe he has lost it. But it was his fault he turned this way. Greed made him want the money, so he chose to stay in that house. He read those book when the whole time he could have asked to let out. When he was let go he was almost had less freedom,than when he was locked up. What he believe was not really accepted in the real world. He has lost his mind, and so he has lost his freedom.