LAM Chapter 8...

At Turtle Island his apprentices start out loving the idea that they're going to be working in the woods and enjoy it. Then as more time passes, they realize that Eustace has changed. As it started out Eustace was more lenient and didn't get mad hardly ever but as time went on he changed around them. When one of his apprentices would screw something up or not do a job to his standards he would get mad and make them redo it. If I was working for someone who acted as irrationally as Eustace I would get pretty sick of it. I know Eustace means well and his ideals are in the right places but he doesn't tolerate people not having the same level of commitment. The people that go and work for him are dedicated but it's never good enough for Eustace, which is why I wouldn't want to work for him. He's too quick to yell at someone instead of listening to them.

LAM Chapter 7...

When Eustace had started up Turtle Island he started to notice and admire the people who lived in the mountain. After he talked to and spent time with those people, he began to think he wanted to spend time being more like them. Eustace was talking to one of the people who lived near Turtle Island about horses. After they talked Eustace ended up borrowing a horse of his and after a while bought a thoroughbread horse of his own. When Eustace bought the horse he decided that he needed to be more in touch with his horse. He eventually decides to take his horse on a trip across America. After some planning, Eustace and his brother Judson start in Georgia and make their way across the country all the way to California. While they were on the trip, their mule that they brought started acting up. Eustace all of a sudden jumps off his horse and starts beating on the horse. He bites, kicks, and punches so much at the mule that it simply breaks down.

10/12

In Emerson's writing, The first chapter titled Nature was my favorite. I kind of like the idea of getting to know your surroundings. It related to Whitman's poem when he talked about how Nature needs to be more sacred to people. I really like the idea of going out and sitting in nature.

10/04

For my paper, the first thing that popped into my mind was people helping the poor. Since Lucious Newsom is involved in our school and our school is involved with him anyway. I decided to look up organizations that he has started or helped start. Anna's House is the organization I think I'm going to right my paper about. They help with kids in hardships and help them obtain the skills they need to get a good job and maybe even go to college. I think I could write this paper and even get some people liking the idea of Anna's Place and maybe some people will want to get involved.

10/02

The Fourth of July for a slave is completely different to a freed person. I didn't even think about the difference of people around the Fourth of July until I read this passage. It basically said that what we celebrate on Fourth of July is directed only to white people that own land. When he gave this speech to all the abolitionists their reaction was surprise. They weren't expecting him to say what he did, at all. I was surprised at what he said as well. He told them that they shouldn't argue for slaves when they don't know what it's like. I didn't agree with him on this because the fact of the matter is that they were sticking up for slaves and he basically told them to stop.

10/01

The chapter called, 'A New Master' depicts the abuse of slavery the most in my opinion. In this chapter you realize that Dr. Flint truely is after Linda. You find out that he is actually wanting to have sex with her and is constantly abusing her verbally until she gives in. After a while, she gets fed up and decides to have sex with someone else so that Dr. Flint will leave her alone. I don't know anything but slavery that could drive someone to have sex with a random person-although she ends up falling in love with him-Slavery forced Linda to be violated.

9/28

At the end of the book, Linda ends up being sold to someone else who gives her freedom. Linda is extremely upset by this move. She says that it beats the point of being given freedom if you're going to be sold again. It makes sense, freedom and being bought & sold contradict themselves. If I was in Linda's position I would probably be pretty upset as well considering the fact that she was promised freedom and then she was sold one last time.