Journey Toward Freedom fifth journal entry

pg 200-253
Five things I understand
1. Truth was able to meet Abraham Lincoln.
2. Went to the Freedman’s Village to help the women that were there learn house keeping.
3. Abraham Lincoln had died.
4. Truth had s lot of trouble in order to get on a bus because of her color.
5. She died on November 26, 1883.
Four questions I Have
1. Was Abraham Lincoln actually racist?
2. What happened to Truth’s daughters?
3. How many people did Truth help?
4. Did she know what she was going to say in her speeches beforehand?
Three Vocabularies
1. Clerical pg 204: A member of the clergy
2. Peevishly pg 215: Something about which one frequently complains; a particular personal vexation
3. Ramschakle pg 219: So poorly constructed or kept up that disintegration is likely; rickety: a ramshackle cabin in the woods
Two literally elements
1. “Smallpox spread like a brushfire” pg 201- Simile.
2. The falling action would be the President freeing the slaves.
One sentence Summary
1. Truth was able to open the eyes of many people that need help in order to see what was in front of them.

Journey Toward Freedom Fourth journal entry

Five things I understand
1. Sojourner Truth wrote a book and started selling it at public hearings.
2. Truth traveled with Thompson and gave many speeches.
3. Truth met Harriet Beecher, the person that wrote the book called Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It was a book that opened the eyes of many people on what slavery did to many black people.
4. Abraham Lincoln had become the president and he had promised to free the slaves.
5. Truth decided to help in the Civil war by helping in the aid of many, one thing she did was gain donations.
Four questions I Have
1. What made Truth ask is God was dead?
2. What had been happening with Truth’s daughters?
3. Did Truth’s grandson die?
4. Did the troop ever get an equal pay?
Three Vocabularies
1. Scullion pg 175: servant employed to do menial tasks in a kitchen
2. Solicitously pg 175: Anxiety is a multisystem response to a perceived threat or danger
3. Wagged pg 189: To move briskly and repeatedly from side to side, to and fro, or up and down
Two literally elements
1.”Thunder Clashed” pg175: This is imagery. There is also end rhyme on page 198, with “law” and “saw”.
2. “The young lawyer was trembling like a leaf about to be torn from its tree” g 175. This is a simile.
One sentence Summary
1. Truth reaches an older age but till continues to fight for what she believed in.

Journey Toward Freedom Third journal entry

Pg 100-150
Five things I understand
1. Belle heard that God would return to Earth. She though that that was a wonderful thing.
2. Mathias and Pierson set up a community called the kingdom and Belle was invited to be one of their faithful and she accepted.
3. Belle was accused by a newspaper man of being the person that poisoned one of the leaders of the kingdom. She sued and got money back for it.
4. Belle worked with Mrs. Whiting on Canal Street for nine years.
5. Belle never heard from her son after he left on a boat to work on the sea. He did write letter but never got a reply even though Belle wrote the letters. Belle decided to leave the city that she was living in and head east, she also changed her name.
Four questions I Have
1. What happened to Belle’s son?
2. Why did Belle’s letters not reach her son?
3. Does Belle ever find peace in her town?
4. What made Belle open her eyes to her surroundings?
Three Vocabularies
1. Omnibus pg 103: long motor vehicle for passengers
2. Vale pg 106: valley, often coursed by a stream; a dale
3. Hoarding pg 110: A temporary wooden fence around a building or structure under construction or repair
Two literally elements
1. Round character: Belle used to be really weak in her mind thinking that her master was God and that she was suppose to follow what he always said. As the book goes along, she begins to learn about God and that her master really isn’t a person really powerful. She also becomes a lot braver than what she was before.
2. “God’s voice sounded in my ear as clear as the blast of Gabriel’s trumpet.” Pg 103, this is a simile.
One sentence Summary
1. Belle changed her name to Sojourner Truth, she began to follow God and his teachings.

Journey Toward Freedom Second journal entry

Pg50-100
Five things I understand
1. Dumont sold Belle’s son Peter. He was four years old when that happened. He was born free but his rights could still be sold I guess.
2. Belles’ master said that if she worked hard that he would free her one year before the due date. The master lied to her and for the first time Belle saw her master as someone normal and not high and mighty.
3. Belle and her baby were sold to Isaac Van Wagenen and his wife Maria for 25 dollars. They were Quakers.
4. Belle son was sold to southerners. Now he could never be free if he stayed there. She made a complaint to the office and her son was brought back but not given to her.
5. Belle was able to get her son back.
Four Questions I have
1. How did Levi Rowe know of the people that could help Belle?
2. What happened to the children that Belle left behind?
3. Did they hold a grudge against their mom for leaning them?
4. How was it that Belle heard of Jesus?
Three Vocabularies
1. Lanky pg 59: Awkward, tall and thin
2. Clambered pg 73:To climb with difficulty, especially on all fours; scramble
3. Affable pg 77: pleasant and easygoing
Two literally elements
1. Pg 58 “The first rays were barely touching the ridges across the Hudson when Belle’s lanky figure carefully stepped through the door” this is personification.
2. pg 67 “the trees they waved and waved in glory, and every little bit of stone on the ground shone like glass” this is both personification and a simile.
One sentence summary
1. Belle was able to win a case without being able to read of write and without even having proper clothing.

Journey Toward Freedom first journal entry

Pg 1-50
Five things Understand
1. She was born a slave in Ulster County New York. Was born around 1797, not sure because slaves didn’t know the days that they were born in or how old they were.
2. Was named Isabelle, shortened to Belle by other slaves. Her master was Colon el Hardenbergh. Colon Hardernbergh died and his son Charles became the new master.
3. Charles was dying, that was bad because slaves thought that an old master was better than a new one. Belle’s parents were freed and she was sold to John Neely. Neely was a bad master and would always hit Belle.
4. Belle was sold to Martin Schryver, he was a fisherman. She liked being with that master because her days her full of nature. Belle was really tall. She was like six feet tall, towering over most men.
5. She was sold to John J. Dumont. Belle had to marry Tom. She had her first Baby.
Four questions I Have
1. Did the masters now how old their slaves were?
2. Is Belle going to have more children?
3 Did Belle like the person that she married?
4. Will she ever forget Bob?
Three Vocabularies
1. Lithe pg 8: Means flexible
2. Queer pg 11: Funny or perplexing
3. Jovial pg 17: cheerful
Two literally elements
1. Pg2 “Small brooks and twisting creeks trickled and tumbled trough those hill.” This is personification. It gives human qualities to things.
2. Pg9 “He had shot through the house like a patridge flushed by a hound.” This is a simile. It is comparing something using the woes like or as.
One sentence summary
1. Belle goes through three masters and learns to do as her mother had told her. To listen to the mater and not steal.

The Namesake Movie Journal

Five things I understand
1. The movie is different from the book. I noticed that one important part of the book, when Ashoke and Gogol go to the ocean he was little was also in the movie.
2. The movie was better than the movie but I like the actor that was acting as Ashima.
3. I imagined the teen scene of Ashoke in the high school room to be different than the one that they showed because I would have thought that he was more introvert.
4. There was a long shot with the big white building shown in the movie.
5. I understand that the Bengali girl that Gogol married was a cheater and I really disliked her when I found out when I was reading the book.
Four questions I have
1. Did the director read the book before making it?
2. What happens to Gogol after the bad marriage?
3. Does Gogol change his name back to how it was?
4. When Ashoke made the call to the hospital did he know that he was going to have a heart attack?
Three vocabularies
1. There was an over shoulder when Ashima was speaking to her library friend in the table after Ashoke had died.
2. There was an establishing shot at the beginning of the movie with India.
3. There was a long shot of the train that nearly got Ashoke killed.
Two literally elements
1. There was foreshadowing with the sign in the airport with the cross. The cross would usually mean that something bad is going to happen or has happen since the hospital is symbolized with a cross.
2. It was Ironic when Maxine came down from speaking to Gogol that they had just broken up and a lady thought that she was crying because Ashoke had dies.
One sentence summary
1. In the cover of the movie it said that the greatest journeys are the ones that bring you home.

The Namesake Fifth Journal Entry

pg 232-291
Five Things I understand
1. Went to visit Astrid and Donald. Gogol thinks that that’s a way for Moushumi to keep concentration on her ex fiancée.
2. Moushumi means damp wind.
3. Moushumi meets Dimitri and has an affair which makes me mad at her.
4. Gogol wants to go to Italy with his wife.
5. Gogol found out that his wife was having an affair.
Gogol starts reading the book that his father had giving him about the man that him his name.
Four questions I have
1. Will Gogol ever get married again?
2. Does Gogol ever have children?
3. What holidays do Bengali people have?
4. Did Sonia live a happy life?
Three Vocabularies
1. Incestuous pg 236:
2. Clandestine pg 250: underground, secret
3. Lucrative pg 254: Well paid, worthwhile
Two literally elements
1. The falling action I think is Gogol and Moushumi getting married.
2. “He felt the chill of her secrecy, numbing him, like a poison spreading quickly through his veins.” Pg 282. This is a simile. Gogol just found out that his wife was having an affair with him.
One sentence Summary
1. Gogol learns to appreciate his name a lot more and also begins to appreciate the time that he spends with family.

The Namesake Fourth Journal Entry

pg 175-232
Five Things I understand
1.Gogol remembers a time when he was small that him and his dad went to a light house near the ocean.
2. Gogol stopped going out with Maxine and later found out that she had gotten engaged to another man.
3. Went on a date with an Indian girl that her mom told her to named Moushumi. He had met her before at the parties his parents had when he was small.
4. Gogol and Moushumi are going to be married in a year.
5. Go to Paris for a vacation.
Four questions I have
1. Did the author write the story from her experience?
2. Was the author born in India?
3. Does the author’s son go through some of the thing Gogol went through?
4. When are they planning on having children?
Three Vocabularies
1. Anoint pg 189: smooth
2. Appalled pg 209: Shocked or horrified
3. Obscured pg 210: hidden, covered
Two literally elements
1. “The train rattles forward” pg 184, this is a pun with the word rattles.
2. Gogol is a round character. At first he did not like the Idea of marrying a Bengali girl but then changes his mind.
One sentence Summary
1. Gogol marries the Bengali girl and starts having a new life being married.

The Namesake Third Journal Entry

Pg 116-174
Five things I understand
1. Ruth and Gogol broke up. Gogol changed his name to Nikhil.
2. The train that he was in stopped because someone had jumped in front of it.
3. Ashima and Sonia go to India for a wedding when Ashoke decides to tell his son what his name means.
4. Gogol meets Maxine and starts going out with her. He meets her parents and sees the difference with his.
5. Gogol has never seen his parents showing affection. Ashoke dies of a heart attack.
Four Questions I have
1. Will Gogol marry Maxine?
2. Will Gogol end up marrying an Indian girl?
3. Why don’t Gogol’s parents show affection in public?
4. How old is Maxine?
Three vocabularies
1. Chiding pg 165: to scold or blame
2. Baffled pg 124: perplexed, you don’t know
3. Perpetually pg 163: It keeps going
Two literally elements
1. “Down creeping into the sky” pg 158 This is personification.
2. “The sun’s strength already draining from the sky” pg 163 This is personification, the sun’s strnth does not drain, the earth just moves around it to make it dark or day.
One Sentence Summary
1. Ashoke, Gogol’s father dies of a heart attack.

The Namesake Second Journal Entry

Five things I understand p 58-116
1. Gogol’s parents wanted him to be called Nikhil at school but then the teacher decided to call him Gogol, since he preferred it. It made me really mad that the Americans didn’t understand the feelings that the Indians have about the pet names and who can call them.
2. Ashima had another baby.
3. At a ceremony, she played with the mud and dollar and refused the food. Gogol hadn’t played with anything at all.
4. Gogol is growing up and is starting to see the discrimination shown against the Indians.
5. Gogol goes to a cemetery but doesn’t find his name. He thinks that his name is weird. Gogol starts going out with Ruth.
Four Questions I have
1.Is it hard to live in America in that time?
2. Will Gogol grow up hating his name?
3. Why are there so many restrictions in the Indian culture?
4. Will Sonia go through the same hardships?
Three Literally elements
1. “Lingering sadness” pg 87. This is personification, a sadness cannot literally linger like a person can.
2. “Thick clouds conceal the sky, which appears only here and there like the small lakes on a map” pg 102. This is a simile. It is comparing something using like or as.
3. “Setting sun feverishly beautiful” pg 111 this is imagery. It is describing the sun.

Two vocabularies
1. Parched pg 111: Means to be dry
2. Prominent pg 112: Well known

One sentence summary
1. On these pages we learn more about the life of Gogol as a young adult and the hardships that he goes through being an Indian.

The Namesake first Journal Entry

Five things I understand Pg 1-58
1. Ashima’s grandmother got stroke and her right side is permanently paralyzed. Pg37
2. Ashima Ganguli got pregnant, she’s from India and came to America.
3. Ashoke is her husband; he’s a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at MIT. Bengali wives don’t call their husbands by their first names.
4. Ashoke was in an accident while on the train, he remembers what he felt as there was a smell of blood and dust in the air. P18. Ashima means “she who is limitless without borders”. Ashoke means “he who transcends grief.” Gave their son the pet name of Gogol, because the letter from the grandmother did not arrive..
5. Ashima’s father died of a heart attack. Decided to move to a University town outside of Boston and then named Gogol, Nikhil.
Four questions
1. How did Ashima feel about the arranged marriage?
2. Could she have opposed her parents?
3. Why is the Indian culture so strict?
4. How will Gogol’s life in America be different from India?
Three Vocabularies
1. Sari pg1: A sari is a strip of unstitched cloth, ranging from four to nine meters in length that is draped over the body in various styles.
2. Concoction pg 1: A combination of many ingredients.
3. Roused pg 12: To awaken
Two literally devises
1. The setting is in India and then it moves on to being in America.
2. “One steel colored winter morning” p11 this is imagery.
One sentence Summary
1. Theses pages introduce the characters and how their culture is compared to others.