chapter 29 and 30

After the guy on stage is done, jurgus goes and talks to that ostrinski guy. He tells jurgus about a party or something and they go to his house. I don't remember when he came into the story. Anyways, they talk about socalizm and boring stuff for like 30 minutes. Stuff like where they came from, how they got taken advantage of and under paid. Then I fell a sleep.

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chapters 27 and 28

after jurgus got out of court. he walked home with merija and they talked about boring stuff. but i think it will be an important part of the story because its always like that. the stuff you think isn't important, turns out to be the moral of the whole story. any ways i thought that he got lucky that he didn't have to do time in jail. also that his friend gets his bailout lower so he could pay it. but then he goes out and looks for a job. after a day i think he gives up and goes to a play or something. he falls asleep in there and snores, then the book basically just tells of what the guy on stage says. about how the society isn't working as well as it could. i don't know how but he stretches that out into like 3 pages. oh and there was some lady next to him that he finds extremely interesting and stares at he for a long time. jurgus might get married again. that would be weird, because his other wife just died and all of his family to so why would he want to go through that again.

chapter 26

Hmm...indeed.after reading chapter 26, i began to think that, things are sort of going good for jurgus. well besides a few minor setbacks, like beating the crap out of Connor. that was funny! well i thought it was. any ways he starts being charge of people, which is a turn in luck. since he came to america hes be being bossed around by every one. hes also finally making enough money to actually support him self. hes always had to live paycheck to paycheck. i was happy to see he was actually kind of happy with his life for once. it said that he was enjoying his drink every night without touching his savings. thats a major accomplishment. think of having nothing, and then suddenly being able to sleep in a shelter, drink with friends, and enjoy life for the first time in about a year. if i were him id be pretty okay with that.

Chapters 20-23

well chapter 20 starts out horrible. Jurgus's wife is dead, a few of his kids too, and he fails to get his job back. he spent his last money on drink the day before and didn't realize it. so hes heartbroken, jobless, and poor as hell. its so messed up how things just happen right after another. life has gone from really bad to worst imagined. Oh and that guy who promised him a job, and then he shows up 30 minutes early and hes just like "oh, i cant use you." think how hard that is to hear! so messed up, i mean if your going to promises a poor person a job, that's like putting a 1,000 dollar bill on a fishing poll and waving it in front of him. Then he just takes it back! you cant do that! that should be illegal. anyways, i must have missed something because some how he winds up on someones farm and some one offers him another job and food and a barn to sleep it. i thought that was just what he needed at the moment. but then i thought, wheres his kids? did he just leave them at home? anyways after the barn thing happens, he start trespassing into other peoples barns to sleep in at night. now that's just right up desperate. then it talks about how if a guard dog barked at him, he would just hit it unconscious . that's....kinda funny though, to think about not to see. that would be upsetting to see.

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The jungle 7-20

in the chapters 7-20 things go from bad to worse.as summer turns into winter, work at the factory gets harder. plus the company starts making improvements to make more meat in less time to not pay the workers as much. as massive blizzards make some people almost die, jurgus is working on the manner part of the factory. yeah, poop. he starts to smell really bad and his family cant eat because of it. that would suck so much. but then when hes working inside, the fog makes it really hard to see, and one of the pigs got loose and rammed into jurgus and sprained his ankle really bad. when jurgus is injured at work, and cant walk, the famlie turns to the kids to make them money. each day they send there kids on a 5 mile walk to the city to sell newspapers. i thought that was funny how the first couple of times, they failed and came home crying because the didn't make any more. well, not the crying part, mostly that they sent there kids out to make money off news papers. i mean, that's kinda lame and put allot of pressure on the kids, because if they don't make money, there family starves! that's so messed up! any ways, jurgus waits 3 weeks and cant take not doing anything anymore. so he trys to go back, but he cant make it because he cant stand because of his ankle. and just when things seemingly couldn't get worse. guess who gets sick? his wife. she starts acting all crazy and stuff. i thought it was funny. kind of, but not like if she was going to die. thats not funny.

kbai

...Topic

i chose the 3rd one, the perserving the union. the war was going to happen anyways so why not just go with it? thats all i have to say

chapter 8 to page 40

as i read this, i began to feel lost. so i read it again and i only got so much information out of it. the only parts i really remember where when he was sent to Baltimore and he learned to read. then he couldn't go back to just being a slave because now he knew how bad his life was. then he kept taking about how his gift to read was more like a curse because if he thought about his situation he would get depressed. some where in here he talks about how he should have killed him self or gotten himself killed, that just gives you an idea on how much he hated every thing about being a slave. when his new master died he was auctioned back off and was sold back to his old owners brother. he is a mean old drunk but he dies anyways and Fredrick runs away in fear of being auctioned again. thats what i got out of it.

Comments/question on chapters 5,6,and 7 Kal and Eric

Chapter 5:                                                                     
why was Douglass chosen to go to Baltimore?
it was probably just luck
Chapter 6:                                                                      
whats so much better about the new master?
maybe hes nicer or gives them more food
Chapter 7:
why did the mistress help Fredrick in teaching he to read?
she probably feels bad for him

Amistad

today in history we watched part of a film called Amistad. it was about slaves being sold by other Africans to make money and get equipment to fight wars against other African tribes. the story follows one of the guys who is captured by another tribe and is sold to the Americans. it shows how brutal the white people were to them, they had a priest "purify" them when they got on board. they whipped them around and some guy just shot one for no reason. then it showed them getting the slaves being thrown on the ground. they were punching and kicking and throwing the slaves around. very very unnecessary. then some slave lady has a baby on the ship and then commits suicide by falling off the boat with the baby. yeah some two guys were getting whipped while that happened. i think it was the main slave guy's wife or something. i think in the circumstances they were in i would have done the same. it looked pretty bad and i bet if was way worse than that.

The naritive of a story of a story written by fredrick douglass about fredrick douglass in the 1800's

chapter 1

its about a slave way back when and its mostly just about what he did and how bad his owners would abuse and torture him. well the don't actually torture him like lashes and razor blades but like in the way that he cant do anything he wants. he all ways has to do what they say and it really makes me hate my ancestors. yeah that's all i have to say about it. i don't get how other people can write like whole essays on this little subject.