My Constructed Response

Constructed Response on “The Day I Got Lost” and “The Dark Brown Dog”

By: Martin C

Period 3

09/30/13

            In the story “The Day I Got Lost” by Isaac Bashevis Singer, the authors tone is humorous because as you read the story you can imagine in your head how this guy must look and the way that he is acting it is as if you were reading a story by The Three Stooges. I say this because the author quotes “It is easy to recognize me. See a man in the street wearing a too long coat, too large shoes, and a crumpled hat with wide brim, spectacles with one lens missing, and carrying an umbrella though the sun is shining.” In this story the author decided to make it from a first person point of view. I say this because every time that the main character Professor Schlemiel talked he would say me, I, I’ve, Mine etc…. There are also a lot of positive connotations because Mr.Shlemiel would describe himself in a negative way but using positive connotations as if they were trying not to insult him that much. As I was reading the story, the tone helped me a lot because you get a much clearer picture of the setting and what is going on.

           In the story “The Dark Brown Dog” by Stephen Crane the authors tone was dark because as he explained the characters and their feeling he would describe them in a very negative way. I say this because the author says “But the Father was in a mood for having fun, and it occurred to him that it would be fine if he threw the dog out the window”. In the story the authors decided to use third person omniscient as the point of view because I think that there were a lot of cruel and mean moments so it was very important to describe how the characters felt as they happened. I say this because the author says “One day, however the father of the family got quite exceptionally drunk, he came home and held carnival with the cooking utensils”. In the story there were many positive connotations. I say this because the author states many big words like peculiar, weary, retreating, contempt and he used many bold words to describe what was going on and how that affected the other characters. As I was reading the story the point of view really helped me understand how each and every character felt towards other characters options so you really get both sides to the story. The tone of the story also helped me identify what type of people the main characters really where and how their actions also reflected on their kids actions.

Response to poetry

  For this assignment i choose to do my response on the poem "We Breathed You In"

1). In the poem "We Breathed You In" by Patti Tana the authors purpose is that she wants us to remember the attack and to let people know that when they died a little part of us died too.

2). The authors tone is sad depressed and worried because in the poem she describes what had happened and how she had felt while the attacks where going on and that is why she felt this way.

3).In the poem, "We Breathed You In" by Pattie Tana, she talks about the horrible day in which thousands of people died. In the poem the author says"My body, your body, my hand, your hand, take heart dear ones, we breath you in". The author says this because we remember the victims of 9/11 and they are still alive in our hearts.