Heather DeAnda

The hook to this piece is the fact she states what her grandma would say if she heard this and how she lived in the 1920’s and how sales were booming. THis catches out attention because sales are currently not booming so its interesting to see when they actually were.It also talks about how someone stole her silver dollar right out of the floor when times did get really hard. She lost her house, her car and her husbands education money. She also talks about how she fell in love with stories she had read about a lady whose boss left a $5 bill on the ground? That is lame why is that interesting?  She also talks about how they peddled cake flavoring and boxed sausages, axtioned tobacco and sold rum etc.. to make money. She also talks about a woman who stitches shoes and quilts and clothes and stuff to make money also.I think this is a very boring post, maybe interesting to some but not to me.

The hurricane was pretty cool.

The whole class was bored.

I drove into a clown on the road.

1) My brother and me were flying home for christmas and looking out the window at all the citiess and towns we passed over. It was so clear out I swear I saw people running. Suddenly a glimmer and shinny image caught my eye. A huge gust of water was flowing through a whole city and cars, houses, people, objects flowing along with the gust of water. My heart was pumping with a high adrenalin rush as i couldnt hold back my smile.

2) Blahh blah blah! Mr. schnookums is blabbing away about god know what, and I find my self catching my head from falling back as I fall half asleep. The guy next to me is snoring a little and drooling all over his hand, its quite discusting. The kid to my left is tapping his pencil annoyingly. as mr. Shnookums continued murmering.

3) I was driving down the street listening to Justin timberlake when I look over to read the billboard saying Circ dus olay in town. When I hear caplump and my car vibrates. I continue driving along, when I hear Squealing over and over again. At first I thought it was just Justin hitting the high notes. So I pulled over looked under my car when I see a  neon pink fuzzy fur ball. I grab it and out comes a clown all scraped up and bloody. WHOOPS looks like the ccircus is in town.

1. How does Rittenberg hook the reader? What’s happening?
2. What specifics does Rittenberg use to emphasize how older generations saw horrible things in their lifetimes?
3. How does Rittenberg use specifics to demonstrate his hopefulness?
4. How does Rittenberg use the title to make his point?

Personally I do not like this post Mr. Stearns showed us on this website. I think this lady  who wrote the post contradicts herself too much. She sits there and says I don’t like the digital and modernized computer world. But yet she’s online chatting with guys and writing posts like this. She met her husband online, I think this tells you something. Why do you care so much about the way someone writes whether on paper or not? If anything I would think she would like the computer since she got married to a guy she met online.

My experience with writing has been different every year. In Elementary school I used to write children’s stories all the time I thought that I was amazing at it and even wanted to become a famous writer like my grandpa. but come to find out I was a terrible writer when high school hit. This really shut down my confidence. My imagination is gone now that I’m older and I have no idea what to write about so I think thats the problem. I have horrible grammar and punctuation thats something teachers always comment me on when i turn in papers. Last semester I took Creative writing and we wrote a ton of poetry and short stories. I really struggled with rhyming and thinking of things to write about. I don’t know how to put words together and make them sound interesting, I’m such a boring writer. Lets just say writing is not my best subject. My writing always turns into more opinionated work then unbiased for some reason.