Omam Blog two

Book: Of Mice And Men
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Author: John Steinback
by:Michael Hoover
Prompt:"From your brainstorming session, choose at least two conflicts to explore more in depth in this blog. Be sure to include textual evidence and support and also identify the effect that the conflict has had on the plot so far."


      The first conflict that I thought was big was Curley's wife, I think this because wherever she goes Curley thinks that she is doing something and she is always starting trouble with other people for example she said to crooks that she could have him killed so easily "Shut it nigger, you know I can have you hung so easily that it aint  even funny!" this shows that she is causing trouble a lot to the other people. The conflict that this has had on the plot is that it makes Curley out to get everyone because he thinks that she wants every person that she talks to.

  The second conflict that I thought was big was Lennie's problem with touching soft things. I thought this because since he likes it so much he touched Curley's wife's hair and then he would not let go when she started screaming and he held her mouth because he said that he would not be able to tend to the rabbits if George found out so he accidentally killed her. That is why I think that a big conflict in the story was lennies addiction to touch soft things because it gets him in so much trouble.

9 Questions That Really Make You Think Blog

Michael Hoover

    In Mrs.Larsons class this year the three most important things that I have learned are, Learning to pay attention better to the directions in her class. The second thing that I have learned in this class this year is to analyzing my reading and not trying to go fast and finish the book first. And the third thing that I have learned this year in this class is to write better and be more organized.

   Something that happened this year that I think I will remember for the rest of my life is reading of mice and men mostly because that was a really good book when you read it slowly. Also because it had an ending that was realistic and the book taught me a really good lesson. Another thing that happened this year that I think I will remember for the rest of my life was when Sebastian ripped his pants because it was funny.

 The nicest thing that somebody did for me this year was that they let me borrow a pencil there was probably something better than that that I cant remember but that is something that I remember the most and that was the nicest thing that they did for me I think that it was Siri.

One thing that I think that I taught the teacher and my classmates this year is that my favorite lesson is poetry because it is fun and creative and mostly because anybody can do it even if they try a little bit.

The area that I feel I made the most improvement in was being neat I think that this was my biggest improvement because before I came into this class my computer desktop screen was a mess and was littered with documents every were and now it is clean and neat and every thing is organized in folders, well almost everything. I feel like my biggest accomplishment this year was reading 30 books and even though I did not reach the 40 book goal I still feel proud that I made it through 30 that is why I think that is my biggest accomplishment this year is reading 30 books.

The most challenging part about this year for me is I think would be turning in all of my homework on time because I was really bad on that in third quarter mostly. I think that this would be the most challenging part of the year for me because it was something that happened a couple of times.

The best piece of writing that I think I did this year was the nonsense poem, this is the best piece of writing that I did because I took a lot of time on it and made sure that the words were good nonsense words and not easy to make out ones and also because it was in my opinion the most fun assignment that we had done.

 Of the books that I have read this year the one that I would choose as my favorite would be the Maze Runner Series. I chose this because the maze runner series was a really great series and there was so much suspense and the plot line and how everything in the story fit so well together. Well except for the last one because it was so rushed and was medicare.

One piece of advice that I would give to the kids next year that are in this class are to remember to do your homework and have a clean computer and folder because that helps a lot with getting your  work out fast. One other piece of advice is never to rip your pants on one of the chairs.

Michael Hoover "paradox and Dream" Reflection

  Paradox: "By natural endowment, we are great rifle shots and hunters- but when hunting season opens there is a slaughter of farm animals and humans by men and women who couldn't hit a real target if they could see it."

  This paradox shows that even though we are good at shooting guns and various weapons that we say that we are good at some thing when really we aren't as good as we say that we are but in reality we aren't that good in shooting and we could not shoot a target if it was right in front of us.

 The connection that I feel that I have with this paradox is that even though I can shoot a gun we still do not hunt but instead we just go to the market and buy meat that was slaughtered on a farm when we can be getting fresh meat. Another reason I can relate to this paradox is because we used to have farm animals and we would just sell them off to some people and then they would slaughter them even though they knew how to shoot and hunt.

Paradox 2: "Our lives as we live them would not function without electricity, but it is rare that a man or women who, when the power goes off, knows how to look for a burned out fuse and replace it."

  This paradox shows to me that even though that a lot of us are self reliant on electricity we would not be able to function without it,  and also that it is really rare to find a man or a women that knows how to fix a fried circuit or burned out fuse to replace it.

 I can relate to this because even though I am really self reliant on electricity to do stuff for me. That if the power goes out I would not know how to fix it even though I use it all of the time. One time I was home alone and the power in the apartment went off and I did not know how to fix. So what I did was I went to my moms room were the generator was and I went and looked at it to see if I could do anything. I had no idea what to do so I had to sit in the the room and read and you know how much you rely on technology.

Michael Hoover Symbol Blog

        The reason that I chose this symbol was because it means peace and appreciation and I may not show it but I am pretty peaceful when I'm alone and I know that a lot of people think that this symbol stands for killing and getting rid of the jews because of hitler but that one is at an angle and not straight up like it was when it was used by the Buddhist monks . I also think that this symbol represents me because I like to  appreciate things like the out doors.

     The reason that I made this symbol in the color of red is because red
shows love and compassion and I think that that kind of describes me because if I see someone that needs help I will help them the best that I can and I do have care in my heart and that is the reason that I chose for the this symbol to be bright red.


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OMAM Book And Movie

Movie or Book
Author: John Steinbeck

The way that the director showed the incident in weed in a different way was that you could see the girl screaming and running through the field from being scared of Lennie which is different because in the book George is just talking about how "Dam stupid..." Lennie was because he did that even though it was not his fault but it was a memory that they were having not a whole scene. I think that the reason the director did this was because he wanted to show that something was wrong and also so that he could add the scene of George and Slim talking and the people would understand what was going on better than if George and Lennie had talked about it in the beginning of the book. One major way that this changes the story is because it shows why George and Lennie moved away from Weed and also shows how Lennie likes to touch soft things.

    I think that in the beginning scene when George was on the train, I think that the director did this because it shows how George and Lennie are moving away to get somewhere else. I think that one thing this shows us about Georges life is that he is a farmer that moves around for work a lot because of the dust bowl so every one was looking for a person to work for and it that was what it was like back then.

  I kind of think that he made a bad choice with her because she looks way different from the book in the movie I thought that she would look really informal and chewing with her mouth open. She does not look the way that I thought she would look like in the book with ugly hair and a huge nose because it kind of does not describe her in the book and I did not thing that she would look that nice but I guess that they changed it up a bit. The person that I would have chosen would be nanny mcphee, I would choose her because that is the person that I thought of when the book introduced Curley's wife.

  The first scene where Lennie and Curley's wife meet that do not happen or happen differently in the book is the scene in which Lennie is working in the field and then she appears and starts talking to him and then he says that George will give him hell if he talks to her because George does not want Lennie to get in any trouble. Another scene that is different in the book to the movie is when George is in the barn and she comes in and starts talking to him but in the book she is in the barn before he comes in. I think that the director did this to show that she has a wandering eye and is usually looking at the guys but that she is kind of more attracted to Lennie.

 The flash back at the end of the movie shows George and Lennie throwing barley into the back of a wagon and then after they do this they start to walk the opposite way of the wagon into the bright and perfect field. I think that the flash back at the end of the movie leaves the audience thinking and it shows them that George shot Lennie not because he was mad but because it was out of love and compassion for Lennie.

The line of dialogue that ends the book Of Mice And Men is "now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?" One big thing that I think that line tells us about that person that said it is that they are kind of suspicious because they looked so sad and depressed and that person is kind of baffled about why they just killed what they thought was a killer and then the person who killed him is all sad and why would that be. I think that the main feeling that is left with the reader is like wonder mostly because they would wonder what would happen next and if George keeps working on that ranch. What I felt when he said that was kind of anger mostly because it's like you don't ask that question, is it not obvious he literally just killed the person he loved the most in the world.

  Some of my general thoughts or feeling on the book "Of Mice And Men" is that this is a real book and it has an actual real ending not something that people want it to be but what it really would be. Another general thought that I had was that it was that I felt a little sympathy for Lennie and also for George because they both had it really rough and they both had to make really hard choices and decisions. The biggest impact that this book had on me is that I really learned that I think that mercy killing is justified because before we read this book I thought that killing was not right no matter what and I still think that killing is not right in any form I just like to think of it as releasing that person from being hurt really bad. I would recommend this book to my neighbors mom because she is a good reader and likes books like this and also because everybody else that I know has already read this book.

Aow Impressions Blog

Aow Impressions blog reflection
Michael Hoover

   This week I learned a lot from the articles that my piers chose to talk about for the Aow gallery walk. The thing that was chosen the most common was the Baltimore riot's usually about the "Baltimore Riot Mother." Another thing that got picked a couple of times was the Nepal earth quake which affected a lot of people.

   One thing that I found Interesting that I learned this week was that mercury had a man made satellite named the messenger that was gathering data about the planet mercury and what happened was as it was orbiting around mercury the messenger ran out of gas to be able to stay in orbit. so what  they had to use was helium as extra fuel which gave the messenger an extra week of orbit and then the spacecraft finally ran out of air and plumped at about 1,786 miles per hour to the surface of mercury. It was okay because they gathered all of the information that they wanted or needed to have to make more discoveries about that planet.

 Another thing that I found interesting from the articles this week was the cause of the baltimore riots which was a man was arrested for having a knife so they took him in a truck and threw him around and then he died from hitting his head to much. The reason that I found this interesting was because all of the police officers in that truck got charged with murder and they all lost their job because the baltimore riots influenced the decision of the court.