WHAT EVEN MORE TASKS!!!!!.

In that moment I realized that if i wanted to conquer the girl that i liked i would have to be a man and face her or be a baby and sit by the corner

If only  i would have chosen not to believe in my friends when they told me there was a taco giveaway i wouldnt have slipped on the rain and fallen on my face

It started out as an ordinary day, but then both my grandparents and my friends called me and asked if we wanted to hang out, i had to choose between my grandma or my friends

ANOTHER TASK!!!!

Task 2

Disappointments
Getting an D on a test after i studied for 2 consequetive hours

Accomplishments
Winning a pie eating contest

Conflicts
When a friend though i had taken one of his videogames and he stayed mad at me until we were able to find it in the basement

Fears
Clowns, Animatronic animals, Aliens, The darkness, being left alone in the planet and

Luck
Finding 50 dollars while playing outside with another friend

Enemies
Tinajero

Gratitude
Thanksgiving with the family

Jealousy
Being jealous of one of the friends of the girl i like because he was flirting with her

Fear paragraph
I just wanna say im kind of a cry baby, im scared of alot of things and i get scared pretty easy, i get scared by videogames, movies, the circuis, clowns and sometimes by other people. But for soe reason i love it, i love getting scared, even if i fall of my chair i start laugh one min later.

Jealousy paragraph
I have actually never been jealous in my life, except when, for the first time i got jealous off one of the friends of the girl that i like

memoir tasks

Task 1

Awesome and happy life. Amazing friends. Loving family. Good neighbours. Joyous moments.

The ABC memories

April fools: My favorite time of the year
Buzz: My dog who i think of as my partner
Cousin: The day my baby cousin was born
Disney: First trip to Disney in 2003
Emprie state building: Going inside the empire state building
Fnaf: Completing fnaf 1,2,3
Galapagos: visiting the Galapagos islands for the first time in 2014
Horror movie: The day i whatched the movie Annabelle with a friend
Injury: The day i fell on my face
Johnny Cage: My favorite character in mortal kombat
Kiss: Kissing the girl that i like
Lasaña: Apart from Tacos this is my favorite food
Mortal Kombat: Playing mortal kombat with my friends and family
Nintendo 3DS: The first item i ever bought with my own money
October 31: Halloween my second favorite time of the year
Pranks: Making my first pranks in April fools with a bunch o friends
Quest: Going on a treasure hunt
Road Trip: Road trip to Baños
Star Trek: One of my favorite franchises that me and my father like to watch together
Tacos: My favorite food in the whole world
Universal studios: Went to U.Studios in 2008 with the whole family
Vacation in New York for the first time
Walkman: The day i got my Walkman
Xmas: my first Christmas with my family in Canada
Yolo: going downhill at full speed on a kart to with a friend to escape from an angry neighbor
Zebruh: Going to the Toronto Zoo in Canada with my family

The Taste of Deception

SUMMARY

The story Taste tells the tale of a man named Mike who usually brings a friend called Richard over for dinner, they usually bet that if Richard can guess the type of wine hes given,where its from and what company made it and Richard was always the winner ,one time Mike had gotten a wine that was like no other and he knew that Richard would never be able to guess it so Richard seeing how confident Mike was wanted to bet his two houses and Mike to bet his daughter in marriage. At first Mikes wife and his daughter were thinking of this as a crazy bet but then Mike assures them that Richard would never get this one.
Then both men make the bet, Mike gives
 Richard a cup of the wine and Richard guesses it right.
And when all seems like a big mess and that Mikes
daughter now had to marry Richard, the maid comes in and gives Richard his glasses back that he had left from the place where they store the wines when he went there by himself. And it didn't take a genius to figure out that in all this time Richard had always been cheating.



So in this story I think that the way the author ends it with the whole realization that Richard had always being cheating really makes us think on what the heck just happened, at first your all OK but then out of nowhere you read:

'You left them in Mr Schofield's study,. she said. Her voice was unnaturally, deliberately polite.'On top of the green filing cabinet in his study, sir, when you happened to go in there by yourself before dinner.' It took a few moments for the full meaning of her words to penetrate, and in the silence that followed I became aware of Mike and how he was slowly drawing himself up in his chair, and the color corning to his face, and the eyes opening wide, and the curl of the mouth, and the dangerous little patch of whiteness beginning to spread around the area of the nostrils.'Now, Michael' his wife said. 'Keep calm now, Michael, dear! Keep calm!'

Its all just so unexpected and it leaves you wondering on what just happened. Another thing I like is the imagery but more than the imagery i love how the author does everything to keep us on edge and with the feeling of wanting to read more.

Mike was not looking at anyone.Daddy!' the daughter cried, agonised. 'But, Daddy, you don't mean to say he's guessed it right! , 'Now, stop worrying, my dear,' Mike said. 'There's nothing to worry about.' I think it was more to get away from his family than anything else that Mike then turned to Richard Pratt and said, 'I’ll tell you what, Richard. I think you and I better slip off into the next room and have a little chat.' 'I don't want a little chat,' Pratt said. All I want is to see the label on that bottle.' He knew he was a winner now; he had the bearing, the quiet arrogance of a winner, and I could see that he was prepared to become thoroughly nasty if there was any trouble.

FINAL THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS 

I really liked this story, it was fun to read and it always kept me on edge and up with what was happening, i also liked how it shows that cheating never gives you a positive outcome because for Mikes family they lost a lot of money and his daughter could have married a guy she didn't like one bit and for Richard it worked for
a bit but in the end he lost 2 houses and possibly his friendship with Mike, this all comes to show us that every time, everywhere, the truth is always the one with the best outcome.

THAT THING WAS ONLY WORTH A HUNDRED FRANCS?!?!

SUMMARY


In the story the Necklace Mathilde loirel finds herself with an invitation to a fancy ball but she has nothing to wear so her husband gives her some money which she then proceeds to use to buy a dress then she asks one of her friends if she could lend her a necklace of some sort so her friend lends her a beautiful looking diamond necklace. Mathilde thanks her friend goes to the party and enjoys herself and haves fun but then its time to leave, when she gets home she notices there was something odd
, she feels like she forgot something and then realizes that THE NECKLACE WAS GONE!!! Her husband starts looking for it everywhere, but the necklace was nowhere to be found, Mathilde starts to panic and so she tells her friend she broke the chain and that she would go repair it, this earns her an extra week and so with a few couple thousand francs and a huge loan from the bank ,she is finally able to buy a diamond necklace similar to the one she lost. She gives that one to her friend but now
she had another problem, she had to pay off her
loan from the bank so after a few years of hard
work and labor she is finally able to pay off the
money she owed the bank. Then one day while
Mathilde is in the park she spots her friend and
decides to say hi, her friends panics by looking
at Mathilde all tired and exhausted, Mathilde tells her what happened with the necklace and how she spent years paying off the money she borrowed and then her friend feels guilty as she tells Mathilde that the necklace was a fake and it was only worth a couple hundred francs.


In this short story one of the things that I liked most of all was how the author gives us a strong look at imagery and how just by describing the characters we can easily picture them in our head:

"She was prettier than them all, elegant, gracious, smiling and crazy with joy... All the men looked at her, asked her name, endeavored to introduced.”

The short story was really interesting and i really liked the little twist in the end of how Mathilde had done all that hard work to pay of a necklace that was worth only a couple hundred bucks.

FINAL THOUGHTS AND REACTIONS

After reading the short story The Necklace I was left with a queer feeling, what in the world just happened? I though that that was kind of messed up because in my opinion I think that Mathildes friend who gave her the necklace should have told her first that the necklace was a fake and that if anything happened to it she shouldn't really worry about it, but, seeing as how she did not tell her, Mathilde ended up giving her a real one that cost way more than the original, and that made Mathilde all weary and tired because she spent five years paying off that thing, i mean FIVE YEARS OF ONLY HARD WORK WITHOUT A BREAK, that's got to leave some one tired for a good amount of time. But also another way Mathilde could have avoided pure hard work and labor was by being responsible, she should have been more careful with that necklace and she should have been paying attention to it and keeping an eye on it at all times because if she had kept it safe she could have just returned and lived happy without any kind of punishment.

The Giver chapters 12-18: Gaining Wisdom

SUMMARY

Later on as the days pass by Jonas keeps on receiving memories by the Giver and Jonas gains wisdom through them. He gets wisdom because when he looks at the memories he learns good and bad things that happened in the past. One day when he drops off Fiona at the house of the Old he notices that something strange had happened to her hair, IT CHANGED, he goes to the Givers house  and decides to ask him about what it was that he was seeing. After he asks him about it the Giver decides to run a little test and tells him to look at the books in the far corner, when Jonas looks, IT HAPPENS AGAIN!, but for a slit second. Then the giver tells him that he is starting to see colors. Later on Jonas starts to see colors more often and now the colors didn't disappear in a split second, now they started to stay with him. But now that Jonas could see colors he started to wonder if its right for people to live without colors and choices. One day Jonas asks the giver what

kind of terrible pain he was supposed to feel that wouldn't be like any other he had felt before so the Giver gives him the memory of a sled going downhill but this time the sled came down thew hill in full speed until it tipped over and crashed onto a tree and Jonas broke his leg. This time Jonas was in great pain, he had never felt this before and he started to panic but suddenly he woke up in the Anex, with his face wet with tears. He then asked for a relief of pain but the Giver said no, he went home feeling terrible and when his parents asked him what was wrong he just said he felt tired and went to bed. From that day forward every single training session included a memory of pain, the memory where Jonas broke his leg was nothing compared to the other ones that came. Meanwhile at home little Gabriel was always the center of attention but one evening while everyone was eating Jonas dad told the whole family that if Gabriel cant stop being so loud at night and frequently having the need of attention they might have to release him, but then he said that the decision wasn't made yet. Then he told them that one of the birth mothers birthed a pack o twins and that he had to release the littlest one. Then Jonas asked that if they could leave Gabriel sleep with him in his room for the night and not everyone liked the idea at first but then they said he could. That night Gabriel started crying and weeping, then Jonas woke up and when he went to calm down Gabriel he started remembering a quiet and calm ride on a boat but suddenly he gave part of the memory to Gabriel, Jonas tried to take back the memory but he couldn't, after that Gabriel slept soundly again and Jonas went back to sleep, then by 3:00 am Gabriel woke up again and Jonas did the same as before until the memory was gone. Jonas then did not know what to do, should he tell the Giver, then he just decided not to tell. The next day when Jonas went to the Anex he found the Giver in pain, he knew he had to go away but he asked him if he could help somehow and the Giver told him to take the pain from him, Jonas quickly jumped into action and got the place ready so that he could receive a memory. He knew the memory would be painful so he
braced himself but when he did start to see the memory he was in a place like no other, there were people crying for help, some dead and the atmosphere smelled like gunpowder, he then realized he was in a battlefield, he heard and saw how men and horses died in the middle of battle and finally when he could bear it no longer he woke up in the Anex, the Giver looked at him with a face of guilt and apologized.
After that day Jonas did not want to go back, he did not want to be the receiver, nor the memories, nor the wisdom but he had to, it was his responsibility, the following days the Giver was gentle to him. Then one day he asked him what was his favorite memory and the Giver instead of telling him he gave him the memory of Christmas and happiness and love. Then he asked him what those old people were doing there and the Giver replied that they were called grandparents and he explained to him what they were. That same day Jonas asked his parents if they loved him, and they got very surprised, they told him to watch his language and use better words like accept or enjoy. And Jonas lied telling them that he understood. The next morning Jonas stopped taking his pills. That day was declared an unscheduled holiday which was a day when every one took the day off, Jonas went to look for his friends and when he found em he saw that they were all playing a game of war. He started to panic remembering the memory then all the kids left and only his friends Fiona and Asher stayed they asked him if he wanted to ride along the river and although Jonas wanted to he said no. When he got home his dad told all the family that the next day was the day he would have to release one of the twins. The next day Jonas asked the Giver about release and about the failed receiver and the Giver told him everything and that the failed receiver was a girl named Rosemary that he really cared about her and that she was given memories of happiness and joy for the first weeks but then she started also receiving memories of pain and that one day when she left she went and applied for release, Jonas and the Giver both chuckled but Jonas saw that in his eyes he was very troubled about something.

OPINIONS AND QUESTIONS

I don't know how the elders could remove colors in the community but it seems to be something that's terrible, to live without colors or feelings. Another thing that i dont like are the old people, i dont like how families in this community are only based on mom dad son and daughter it looses the whole meaning of family, happiness and love. And finally to end this i just want to say that these chapters have all been the most exciting of the book and im left with a few questions in my mind that i want answered, what will happen to Gabriel, how will not taking the pill affect jonas, who is Rosemary and why is the Giver so sad about her?