"The Wz"

“The Wiz” is a remake of The Wizard of OZ. This is a fictional movie about a kindergarten teacher named Dorothy who is brought to Munchkin land by a snowstorm. Munchkin land is a like a dream/nightmare that Dorothy is having. This place and the people she meets there help her to find her independence and how to deal with pressure of her family. She uses independence to try to find her way home.

The first person Dorothy meets is the Scarecrow. When she finds him he is being teased by crows because he doesn’t have a brain and is not able to get down from the pole. Dorothy helps him down and invites him to join her on her trip to see the OZ, so that she can get home and he can get a brain. By helping the scare crow she learns how to think for herself. Together they find the yellow brick road which represented a way out. The next person they meet is the tin man. They find him in an amusement park, where he is rusted. Dorothy and the scarecrow help him by finding his oil can. The tin man needs a heart so they invite him to join them on their journey to find The Wiz. By helping the tin man I think Dorothy learned how to care for someone other than herself. The next person they met along their journey was the lion. The lion was a big scary creature but he had no courage. He was afraid of a lot of things, so they asked him to join them on heir trip to see the Wiz. By helping the lion Dorothy learned to be brave and in control.

In this movie Dorothy learns how to stand up for herself and others. By the beginning of the movie Dorothy aunt teases her about moving out and changing her profession so that she go out in be in the real world by herself. I think that by the end of the movies Dorothy is ready to explore the world by herself.

Desiree's Baby

The short story “Desiree’s Baby” is a love story about race and slavery. The story starts off with Desiree’s mother Madame Valmonde telling the story. It then ends with the thoughts of Desiree and her husband Armand. Desiree is the protagonist in this story because she’s the mother of the black baby. Armand is the Antagonist because he accuses Desiree of being black and of ruining his name in Louisiana.

Armand and Desiree are married with a baby boy. It seemed like it was love at first sight. Armand was in love with his wife and his baby. Desiree thought that he was so happy because it was a boy but Armand denied that. In the beginning they had a good marriage until the baby got older. When the baby got to be 3months old Armand began to change. He began to ignore her and treat her differently. One day Armand comes in the house and Desiree asks him what’s wrong with the baby and why he looks like that. Armand ignores her few times but then finally answers and says “he is not white …you are not white”. Desiree denies this accusation but her husband was not trying to hear her. Desiree quickly writes to her mother asking her if she is black but her mother replies and tells her to come home. Desiree goes to Armand and shows him the letter from her mother telling her to come home. Armand tells her to go so she leaves. Armand is upset so he burns everything that was in the house of her.

While burning things he finds a letter from his mother saying that she is grateful for the life that God has blessed her with and hopes that Armand will never find out that he is cursed with a mother who was born of slavery. So in the end Desiree was not the one who was black it was Armand who was. He made such a big deal about it and blew things way out of proportion. Burning her things was very unnecessary but I think he did it because he was hurt. Even though Armand did all of this Desiree still loved him. So in conclusion Armand wan left alone with no wife and no baby.

Phillis Wheatley (incomplete)

Phillis Wheatley was a black slave who was brought to Boston. Her owners were Susannah Wheatley and John Wheatley. Phillis was a very intelligent child. Mrs. Wheatley taught her how to read and write. It was just a matter of time before she began to read Latin, bible verses and English poems. She later went to London but returned home shortly after because Mrs. Wheatley was dying. She ended up dying in 1774 and john Wheatley died 4 years later. Phillis Wheatley was either 19 or 20 when her poems published in London.

The poem “On Being Brought from Arica in America” she was expressing how going to American made her except Christianity. She also expresses the change from Africa to America. In the poem “To His Excellency General Washington“ Wheatley wrote to George Washington telling him that the British want freedom.

Huswifery

The poem Huswifery by Edward Taylor is written in ethos style. This poem is very emotional and straight to the point. The writer seems to have a tone of hope for the future; he wants God to give him a purpose. There are many metaphors used in this poem which makes it more interesting. The mood of this poem is joy that he serves the God he serves. The theme of this poem is that if you give your life to God and he is number one in your life you be accepted into heaven,

In this poem Edward Taylor compares house work to his work of God. When he said “thy holy worde my distaff makes for mee he meant to have God supply him with needs. This poem sound like it could be a prayer instead of a poem. He asks God to help him with affection, judgment, conscience, and memory. He feels strongly about God and his religion. Taylor turned his life over to God.

sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

This passage is very emotional. The writer feels very strongly about his religion and the
way the Israelites act. Ethos is the style of this writing. He also uses imagery to get his point
across. The Israelites are known as God’s visible people. They were believed to be sinners.
They were wicked and bitter people. They were always the cause of destruction. This is a
sermon about a Christian’s opinion of hell. The writer wants to prove to his readers and
listeners that hell is a real place. That God has given us the chance to be forgiven for our sins, and that’s why most people are saved from not going to hell. Many people are uncertain of God’s power and his existence. He is trying to express the need of the Christian lifestyle. He also tries to convince them to leave their old ways and convert into the Christian ways.

God chose not to send some of the sinners to hell. Jonathan Edwards talks about the pain and horror that sinners will have going to hell. He describes hell to be a bottomless pit that is full of fire that God holds you over. The devil stands ready to fall upon them and take them as his own and God will be willing to let him. Hell opens its mouth to receive the sinners so that they will be swallowed and lost forever. Being saved and turning your life over to God is the way to have life after death. God will not put up with people who don’t believe in him so when their time comes God will just watch them fall. He will have no pity for them, if they cry with loud voices he will act as though he doesn’t hear them.

I think that Edwards really got to his audience with this sermon. He scares his audience by saying “I will tread them in mine anger, and will trample them with my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments (Is.63:3). At the end of the sermon after putting the sinners down and scaring them with his view of hell, he reaches out to the sinners trying to make them follow Gods path. He asks his audiences are their souls as precious as the people in Suffield rejoice day to day for their Christ. I think this sermon opened up a better understanding to being a Christian and being a sinner. If you are a Christian then you are protected by God. If you’re a sinner the devil is waiting to make you one of his.

I am convinced that he wrote this sermon out of love for his people and his God. He is encouraging them to be reborn by Christ and become righteous before Christ.