English Homework on stories about other

You must follow and complete this assignment in the exact format listed on the assignment!

Essays about other stuff start on page 22!

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DUE AT 5 PM

Here is another student’s response to this assignment. You must use to complete section 3. Responding of the assignment.

Hope Harden 

Neurod(i)verse Sounds Like Universe” By Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

1a. Line [869-871]: “I am still adjusting. To prose. The endless line. Adjusting to nonfiction. To motherhood & writing mothering so my “I” has nothing to hide behind. The lyric stripped of so much music & light. I used to turn to moon, then the stars. Now, my son turns to them too, & beyond them. Satellites, gas giants, black holes. He says he wants to feel them, wants to be farthest from where his feet touch ground.” 

1b. Line [878-880]: “No, he protests. He wants to touch the body of the planet, its hydrogen & helium, his hands outstretched towards black matter. He wants to sink into something. To be consumed wholly. If only we could detach from sense, unbind from gravity, from our eyes, our senseless feet. Unbound by our “I’s” too” 

1c. What stands out to me is how the speaker compares her life to that of a prose that is endless, yet her sentence structure consists of short sentences and it has an end to it, giving a deeper meaning to the writing. The imagery that is in the short essay about the planets and how her son wants to physically touch them gives the readers the ability to find a deeper meaning.

 “Women These Days” By Amy Butcher 

1a. Line [897-899]: “An Ohio woman was shot dead while cooking Thanksgiving dinner; witnesses report that at the time of the shooting, she was standing at a kitchen table, preparing macaroni and cheese. The body of a North Carolina woman was found in a shopping center parking lot at dawn. A Texas woman was grabbed from behind and attacked in a “bear hug” after finishing several laps at the Austin High School track.” 

1b. Line [923-926]: “ The suspect denies ever seeing the victim before. The suspect denies being at the bridge at the time of her murder. The suspect alleges he was at the mall at the time of the shooting. The suspect denies being in the park that morning. The suspect reports he was grocery shopping at the time of the murder. The suspect remains at large. Police ask for anyone with information about the suspect to come forward.” 

1c. The thing that stands out to me about this piece is the brutal description of reality. There is nothing being compared, but rather it is the exact telling of what happened. From crimes that took place to telling that the suspect was let go. Everything was simplistically told, but it still held its strong theme/meaning.

 “Joyas Voladoras” By Brian Doyle 

1a. Line [964-967]: “Consider the hummingbird for a long moment. A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second. A hummingbird’s heart is the size of a pencil eraser. A hummingbird’s heart is a lot of the hummingbird. Joyas voladoras, flying jewels, the first white explorers in the Americas called them, and the white men had never seen such creatures, for hummingbirds came into the world only in the Americas, nowhere else in the universe,” 

1b. Line [1002-1005]: “So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one in the end—not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend. We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart. Perhaps we must. Perhaps we could not bear to be so naked, for fear of a constantly harrowed heart” 

1c. What stands out to me in this short essay is the fixation on one thing at the beginning (the hummingbird), then another thing (a whale), to which it leads to the deeper meaning. This gives the reader time to digest what is wanting to be discussed further and what the deeper meaning will be. 

2a. “Joyas Voladoras” 

2b. “Midwestern (Minnesota Specifically) Love” 

2c. Consider the Midwestern walk for a moment. The pace of a Midwestern walk can take your time to 12 minutes per mile. Long strides to get you where you need to go. It is a tedious process that will have you pouring sweat that will immediately freeze in the aching negative temperatures. If you are not from the Midwest, your calves will be on fire and that sweet treat after your walk will be that much more enjoyable. Past all the aches and pains, so much is held in that Midwestern walk. The heart-to-heart conversations that give you more knowledge and advice than you could imagine. The laughs and connections that can be made. Perhaps we take all of this for granted. Perhaps we think of a walk as a chore. Take this from those Midwestern walks; people think about you, they want to go on that walk with you, they don’t do it solely on exercise, they walk to show their love.