Wemmick's Second Personality

Wemmick acts cruel and heartless at work, but once he leaves Jagger's office, he evolves into a loving, care-free individual. His different personalities seem to be the fault of wanting to be accepted by society but also by his peers and family. Wemmick does not seem to comprehend that, although he has people who respect his effciency, who dread his arrival, he also has what everyone deserves, the love of his family. When Pip and Wemmick arrive at his house, Pip experiences a more pleasurable side of Wemmick he had not known existed. The flagstaff, located at Wemmicks house, is when you first start to realize that Wemmick is more than just a uptight clerk, but a kind man who is made joyous by the simplest of things in life. "That's a real flagstaff, you see," said Wemmick, "and on Sundays I run up a real flag"; as Wemmick says this you can almost see the smile alight upon his face. How a man be so horrible at work, but turn in to a completely loving person at home? How can you claim to want to be accepted, but then act the way the very person who you want to be accepted by, would frown upon? Wemmick wants too many people's acceptance and affection, which seems to be his flaw.

The Home Life of Pip

Throughout the first few chapters the main character, Pip, has a horrible home life. Since Pip is an orphan he is forced to live with his brutal sister, Mrs. Joe. Mrs Joe is very cruel to Pip, and even mistreats her husband. When Pip misbehaves Mrs. Joe takes a cane called "The Tickler" and hits him several times. Also she does not make quality meals, just a simple bread and butter. Mrs. Joe even forces Pip to drink medicine at ponderous amounts. As you can see Pip is living in a home in need of improvements.

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The Horrible

He spoke to me,
On All-Hollows Eve,
A night I won't forget.
Through the trees,
He came to me,
And asked me to understand,
"I'm just a boy like all the others,
But people can not comprehend,
That although I try to be like everyone else,
I fail again and again.
The Horrible,
They call me,
For my skin is much too fair.
The Horrible,
They call me,
For I have lost my hair.
The Horrible,
They call me,
For I'm sick and can not run.
The Horrible,
They call me,
For soon my life will be done."
I could not understand why,
All these years,
The boy was different.
But now I know,
The hurt he feels,
Struggling to fit in.
The boy begins to weep,
And collapses on the ground,
"My life is done,
And now you know,
The hatred I have found."
The Horrible,
They called him,
As though that were his name.
The Horrible,
They called him,
As though it were a game.
The Horrible,
They called him,
Is gone from us now.
The Horrible,
They called him,
Is now safe and sound.

Writing Goals

This year in language arts I want to be able to improve my time management along with my sentence structure. Even though the other two goals are very important the one I want to focus on the most is to use a more advanced vocabulary in my writing.

Essay

Here is my response to the novel "The Good Earth"
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Good Earth - Wang's uncle, and the City to the South

Throughout the chapters of the Good Earth you are introduced to a very selfish character. Wang Lung's uncle is a very selfish man who only seems to care about wealth and materialistic objects. To me, it seems, that when his uncle says " I am a man of evil destiny. This year out of twenty seed beans, one came up and in such poor growth as that there is no use in putting the hoe down. We shall have to buy beans this year if we eat them", he is trying to trick Wang Lung into feeding his family, because he is a lazy man and does not want to work. During one of the chapters I was appalled when Wang's uncle lead a riot into his nephew's home and took all his food. When that accrued I was shocked because they are family and family shouldn't act behave so horribly.

Wang Lung, and his horrible misfortunes, move to the city to the south. Once there their life improves greatly, and he is able to feed his family by getting a job pull a cart. Soon his life is better and he even has a house of his own to live in. He has shelter, food, and a job to provide it all, and during a famine many others would die for the chance at all of this. Wang Lung seems grateful, but is he really?