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Monday, April 19, 2010
Yeah! I'm so very excited to introduce a classroom blog. We will use this space as a forum for class discussion and communication. All my students and parents are welcome!
"Four Skinny Trees" from Sandra Cisneros' novel The House on Mango Street has many poetic devices shown in prose, including rhyme, rhythm, symbolism, repetition, and alliteration. Among all of them, personification struck out the most. Esperanza treats the trees like people when she says "They grow up and they grow down and grab the earth between their hairy toes and bite the sky with violent teeth and never quit their anger" (74). This statement is an example of personification elaborating strength and vigor. Esperanza says this because these trees represent how people feel on the inside. In a person's heart, people can grow in anger and not let it go. She also mentions "Let one forget his reason for being, they'd all droop like tulips in a glass, each with their arms around each other" (74-75). This statement is an example of personification elaborating support and friendship. Esperanza says this because this is something she wants. She wants someone to feel her pain and have their arms around her. Lastly, she says, with allegiance, the trees are "Four who reach and do not forget to reach. Four whose only reason is to be and be" (75). This statement is an example of personification elaborating dedication and drive to keep going. Esperanza says this because she knows the can do whatever she puts her mind to. And that could be part of the process of finding her full potential. From this, it is clear that the trees are described as people and send a message about strength, support, and dedication. Around my room, there are many colors. I love, love, love bright colors. You could say that each one is a symbol of an emotion, feeling, or condition of mine. The color white represents me feeling fresh, pink represents me feeling girly, red represents me feeling overwhelmed, yellow represents me feeling free, green reminds me of school, blue reminds me of love (I don't know why), orange reminds me of going out with friends, and so on. Each color reminds me of things and is a part of my daily life. I see colors and go through emotions every day. Another symbolic item to me is the pine tree in my front yard. It represents my maturity and life as I've grown up. When we first planted it, I was the same size as it. Now it is taller than my house. It has grown over the years and so have I. As it changes leaves and seasons each year, I change a little bit myself. I could be changed by age, clothes, grade level, etc. The pine tree and the colors around my world are some of the things that represent me. Summer Meacham
The paragraph Four Skinny Trees is about how Esperanza needs to reach for her dreams. She is trying to do this not only in this section but throughout the whole book. She is being held down by her culture and she needs to break free from that. She is someone that can make these dreams happen aswell, and the author is trying to show us this by how everyother women thinks they need a man in their life to take them away. The reason that the author uses trees is because they are tall which is refering to her reaching for her dreams, and it is also refering to how trees have strong roots. These strong roots means she needs to hold onto her culture, but she needs to change the things she doesn't like. - Matt Zauber
The vignette "four skinny trees" is about how the trees and Esperanza fight threw hard times. Such as the nuns making fun of her. Her mom's rice sandwich and the small house on mango street. No matter what the consequence Esperanza fights through discouragement and keeps her head high. Zachary Hernandez
In Four Skinny Trees, symbolism is used when Esperanza compares herself to the trees. She and the trees are deprived attention, but they still grew strong. Sandra Cisneros uses personification to bring the story alive. She also uses repition and rhyme to really get her point across. My flowers are like people. Flowers need sun and water. People need love and care. Insects depend on flowers, people depend on people. Flowers and people are so different yet so much the same. Frankie Garrett
My old shoes. They keep me going even when times are hard. They give me a strong base to rely on. They are there when times are going good, and will be there from beginning to end. These old shoes not are not just a pair of shoes. They are symbolic by showing that I am strong and resiliant. They show that I can resist pressures and stick to my values. My old shoes will keep me going until the day I die. -Matt Zauber
Esperanza had no one to believe in her. The trees grew through concrete wich symbolizes that they both had to fight through something in their life. She had to fight through her culture bringing her down and the trees had to fight through the concrete.
the lamp my house my house symbolizes me because it makes my day brighter and i make my families day brighter. spencer tietjen
Sandra Cisneros uses multiple poetic devices in the vignette "Four Skinny Trees" in the book "The House on Mango Street". one of the poetic devices this author used is personification. she gives the trees many living characteristics such as weak elbows, or skinny bodies. Sandra Cisneros also uses the device or repetition on page 75 when she used the word keep, multiple repeating times.
Music
my ipod is there when i am bored. when i have nothing better to do. when i want to hear the new lyrics to a song, or when i want to hear the guitars in my ear. i listen to the music as the songs get stuck in my head, i listen to music all the time.
Sandra has no rhyme in her poem but used a lot of personification throughout, Four Skinny Trees. She described the tree's as if she was describing a person. The trees are used to symbolize the she doesn't belong where she is. She says that from her room she can hear them screaming, but Nenny cannot hear them, she symbolizes herself screaming to get out of the city but Nenny doesn't understand her pain. Sandra describes the trees strength and how their strong and never stop trying to grow, just like she never stops trying to get out of Mango Street. The poem shows many forms of repetition, repeating words over and over again to get the feeling through the reader. There are only a few alliterations but none meaningful enough to take note of. Prose Poetry Elements took a huge part in this poem.
my own poem. The bench-press sits there quietly, awaiting a chance to prove his strength. Stationed still and silent in the corner of the room, begging someone to help him prove his strength. Preying for the time he gets to show the world he is good at something. The silent, steel bench-press awaiting a chance to prove his strength.
Although the poem Four Skinny Trees uses little rhyme, it uses a lot of personification. The way Sandra describes the trees, it is like she is describing a person she is looking at. She uses the tree's to symbolize herself wanting to get out of Mango Street like when she says "From our room we can hear them, but Nenny just sleeps and doesn't appreciate these things." This symbolizes that she is screaming to get out of Mango Street but no one understands or cares. Alliteration comes about not as often in this poem but repetition is used a lot to get the point into the readers mental image. Prose poetry elements are used well in this poem.
My Poem
I stare at the picture, as the picture stares back at me. Frozen, frozen, frozen at that happy moment in time, remembering that memory happy, happier than I can remember it being. The sun shining that day everything going as planned and everyone smiling as they were smiling for the camera. Not having to force a smile for the camera feeling true happiness for that moment. Now, now, now the happiness caught in the picture isn't real but posed, not true happiness but a pretend smiling screaming out for real happiness that I was feeling in that one, smiling, smiling, smiling picture.
Sandra Cisneros seems to use every literary element I know, but in "Four Skinny Trees" she uses some key literary elements to create the mood and tone. She uses repetition when she states "Keep, keep, keep..." as well as rhyme as she continues "Keep, keep, keep, trees say when I sleep." Cisneros uses simile when she writes "they'd all droop like tulips in a glass. There is a use of rhytm throughout the vignette also.
The Ball Field, My Home When I am not feeling well, or in a bad mood, the ball field is where I go to just free my mind. I take all my anger and emotions out on the ball. This improves my game and also keeps me tame. In the summer I live at the ball field. When I'm not there I am at the batting cages doing whatever I can to keep my mind off of all of the things going around in the world today. The ball field for me is almost like a heaven on earth where I just escape. The ball field is not only a place to have fun, but a place to relax and focus on nothing but the game. When your at the plate and taking batting practice or in the field taking ground balls, baseball forces you to think about nothing else but doing what you are doingright then. You have to be so focused or you ultimately fail at what you are doing. Repetition is what makes me the best I can be at baseball. I can only do this at the ball field where it is ground ball after ground ball after ground ball and pitch after pitch and so on. Someone just can't pick up a bat and be great. This takes skill, mentall toughness, and an outstanding work ethic to be great. This is why the ball field is my home. I expect to be great and for that to happen I am willing to do whatever it is to get there.
"Four Skinny Trees" from Sandra Cisneros' novel The House on Mango Street has many poetic devices shown in prose, including rhyme, rhythm, symbolism, repetition, and alliteration. Among all of them, personification struck out the most. Esperanza treats the trees like people when she says "They grow up and they grow down and grab the earth between their hairy toes and bite the sky with violent teeth and never quit their anger" (74). This statement is an example of personification elaborating strength and vigor. Esperanza says this because these trees represent how people feel on the inside. In a person's heart, people can grow in anger and not let it go. She also mentions "Let one forget his reason for being, they'd all droop like tulips in a glass, each with their arms around each other" (74-75). This statement is an example of personification elaborating support and friendship. Esperanza says this because this is something she wants. She wants someone to feel her pain and have their arms around her. Lastly, she says, with allegiance, the trees are "Four who reach and do not forget to reach. Four whose only reason is to be and be" (75). This statement is an example of personification elaborating dedication and drive to keep going. Esperanza says this because she knows the can do whatever she puts her mind to. And that could be part of the process of finding her full potential. From this, it is clear that the trees are described as people and send a message about strength, support, and dedication.
ReplyDeleteAround my room, there are many colors. I love, love, love bright colors. You could say that each one is a symbol of an emotion, feeling, or condition of mine. The color white represents me feeling fresh, pink represents me feeling girly, red represents me feeling overwhelmed, yellow represents me feeling free, green reminds me of school, blue reminds me of love (I don't know why), orange reminds me of going out with friends, and so on. Each color reminds me of things and is a part of my daily life. I see colors and go through emotions every day. Another symbolic item to me is the pine tree in my front yard. It represents my maturity and life as I've grown up. When we first planted it, I was the same size as it. Now it is taller than my house. It has grown over the years and so have I. As it changes leaves and seasons each year, I change a little bit myself. I could be changed by age, clothes, grade level, etc. The pine tree and the colors around my world are some of the things that represent me.
Summer Meacham
The paragraph Four Skinny Trees is about how Esperanza needs to reach for her dreams. She is trying to do this not only in this section but throughout the whole book. She is being held down by her culture and she needs to break free from that. She is someone that can make these dreams happen aswell, and the author is trying to show us this by how everyother women thinks they need a man in their life to take them away. The reason that the author uses trees is because they are tall which is refering to her reaching for her dreams, and it is also refering to how trees have strong roots. These strong roots means she needs to hold onto her culture, but she needs to change the things she doesn't like. - Matt Zauber
ReplyDeleteThe vignette "four skinny trees" is about how the trees and Esperanza fight threw hard times. Such as the nuns making fun of her. Her mom's rice sandwich and the small house on mango street. No matter what the consequence Esperanza fights through discouragement and keeps her head high. Zachary Hernandez
ReplyDeleteIn Four Skinny Trees, symbolism is used when Esperanza compares herself to the trees. She and the trees are deprived attention, but they still grew strong. Sandra Cisneros uses personification to bring the story alive. She also uses repition and rhyme to really get her point across.
ReplyDeleteMy flowers are like people. Flowers need sun and water. People need love and care. Insects depend on flowers, people depend on people. Flowers and people are so different yet so much the same.
Frankie Garrett
My old shoes. They keep me going even when times are hard. They give me a strong base to rely on. They are there when times are going good, and will be there from beginning to end. These old shoes not are not just a pair of shoes. They are symbolic by showing that I am strong and resiliant. They show that I can resist pressures and stick to my values. My old shoes will keep me going until the day I die. -Matt Zauber
ReplyDeleteEsperanza had no one to believe in her. The trees grew through concrete wich symbolizes that they both had to fight through something in their life. She had to fight through her culture bringing her down and the trees had to fight through the concrete.
ReplyDeletethe lamp my house my house symbolizes me because it makes my day brighter and i make my families day brighter.
spencer tietjen
Sandra Cisneros uses multiple poetic devices in the vignette "Four Skinny Trees" in the book "The House on Mango Street". one of the poetic devices this author used is personification. she gives the trees many living characteristics such as weak elbows, or skinny bodies. Sandra Cisneros also uses the device or repetition on page 75 when she used the word keep, multiple repeating times.
ReplyDeleteMusic
my ipod is there when i am bored. when i have nothing better to do. when i want to hear the new lyrics to a song, or when i want to hear the guitars in my ear. i listen to the music as the songs get stuck in my head, i listen to music all the time.
Jenna Vetere :)
Laurel Quinto.
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Sandra has no rhyme in her poem but used a lot of personification throughout, Four Skinny Trees. She described the tree's as if she was describing a person. The trees are used to symbolize the she doesn't belong where she is. She says that from her room she can hear them screaming, but Nenny cannot hear them, she symbolizes herself screaming to get out of the city but Nenny doesn't understand her pain. Sandra describes the trees strength and how their strong and never stop trying to grow, just like she never stops trying to get out of Mango Street. The poem shows many forms of repetition, repeating words over and over again to get the feeling through the reader. There are only a few alliterations but none meaningful enough to take note of. Prose Poetry Elements took a huge part in this poem.
my own poem.
The bench-press sits there quietly, awaiting a chance to prove his strength. Stationed still and silent in the corner of the room, begging someone to help him prove his strength. Preying for the time he gets to show the world he is good at something. The silent, steel bench-press awaiting a chance to prove his strength.
Sarah Biehunko
ReplyDeleteAlthough the poem Four Skinny Trees uses little rhyme, it uses a lot of personification. The way Sandra describes the trees, it is like she is describing a person she is looking at. She uses the tree's to symbolize herself wanting to get out of Mango Street like when she says "From our room we can hear them, but Nenny just sleeps and doesn't appreciate these things." This symbolizes that she is screaming to get out of Mango Street but no one understands or cares. Alliteration comes about not as often in this poem but repetition is used a lot to get the point into the readers mental image. Prose poetry elements are used well in this poem.
My Poem
I stare at the picture, as the picture stares back at me. Frozen, frozen, frozen at that happy moment in time, remembering that memory happy, happier than I can remember it being. The sun shining that day everything going as planned and everyone smiling as they were smiling for the camera. Not having to force a smile for the camera feeling true happiness for that moment. Now, now, now the happiness caught in the picture isn't real but posed, not true happiness but a pretend smiling screaming out for real happiness that I was feeling in that one, smiling, smiling, smiling picture.
Conner Combs
ReplyDelete7th Block
Sandra Cisneros seems to use every literary element I know, but in "Four Skinny Trees" she uses some key literary elements to create the mood and tone. She uses repetition when she states "Keep, keep, keep..." as well as rhyme as she continues "Keep, keep, keep, trees say when I sleep." Cisneros uses simile when she writes "they'd all droop like tulips in a glass. There is a use of rhytm throughout the vignette also.
The Ball Field, My Home
When I am not feeling well, or in a bad mood, the ball field is where I go to just free my mind. I take all my anger and emotions out on the ball. This improves my game and also keeps me tame. In the summer I live at the ball field. When I'm not there I am at the batting cages doing whatever I can to keep my mind off of all of the things going around in the world today. The ball field for me is almost like a heaven on earth where I just escape. The ball field is not only a place to have fun, but a place to relax and focus on nothing but the game. When your at the plate and taking batting practice or in the field taking ground balls, baseball forces you to think about nothing else but doing what you are doingright then. You have to be so focused or you ultimately fail at what you are doing. Repetition is what makes me the best I can be at baseball. I can only do this at the ball field where it is ground ball after ground ball after ground ball and pitch after pitch and so on. Someone just can't pick up a bat and be great. This takes skill, mentall toughness, and an outstanding work ethic to be great. This is why the ball field is my home. I expect to be great and for that to happen I am willing to do whatever it is to get there.