FCR 5

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FCR #5

Out of the Pocket, Bill Konigsberg. Qtr. 2, Cycle 8 Reading Response, pages 147-200

            In this section of the book, everyone is beginning to accept that Bobby is gay and they are treating him like a regular person now. Bobby's boyfriend, Byran is helping him along the way to be proud of who he is and to not let anyone bring him down. On the football field however, when they went to play at a visiting teams field Bobby was called names such as faggot and gay boy and they put up a big sign saying no gays on the field. Bobby learned to ignore all the harsh comments given to him and to just play football the way he played even before people knew he was gay.

            The author uses voice in this section of the story because he has Bobby speak up for himself when people gave comments against gays that he disliked. He grew Bobby to become a mature man and to respect people even when they don't say the nicest things to him. The author organizes this so that it is the recovery process for bobby after becoming openly gay and mocked at, he is recovering to become the best person he can be even if he is gay. The authors choice of words and ideas help to create good sentence fluency in this part because it helps to fully describe how Bobby is doing in the book like when it says that Bobby is getting used to the face that people know he's gay.  I think the author used the 6 traits good and that it is helping to create a good story.

            The author has framed this part of the book as the recovery process of Bobby as he is now becoming more comfortable with people knowing he's gay. I noticed how the author has Bobby do a lot of things to ignore the people that still do ridicule him for being gay such as toning them out or just ignoring them as he plays in the football game. I think the reasons for this is to help create more of a story out of this Bobby being gay and to explain more in detail how Bobby is dealing with open gayness as he was not that comfortable with it in the beginning.

Shakespeare sonnet analysis

Sonnet (18): Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer day

By William Shakespeare

1.)  Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
2.)  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
3.)  Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
4.)  And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
5.)  But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
6.)  So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
  So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

If you like to read about love poems, then Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day by William Shakespeare would be good for you. It is written in a way that a man tells a woman how much he loves her beauty. Each thought in the sonnet is a different description. For example, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art lovelier and more temperate means the person is more lovely and the actions they do is more temperate compared to a nice summer day.

The first thought "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate" is stating that you are lovelier and more outgoing than a summer day. A summer day is thought to be full of fun and joy and a time to relax in the nice warm sun. So by saying thou art more temperate and lovely when compared to a summer's day is like saying that the person is even more of a joy and more fun to be around.

The second thought "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer's lease hath all to short a date" is saying that winds shake the beloved buds of May, and summer is way too short. This means that summer comes and goes all too fast and before you know it, winter and spring is here when the winds are shaking the new buds of may. Just like summer being too short, it could be referring to how short ones love can be for another saying that their love for the person can come and go as fast and instantly as it may seem that summer goes.

The third thought "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, and often his gold complexion dimmed" means that sometimes the eye of heaven, or the sun may shine too bright. And often its “gold complexion”, or the light it gives off, may be shaded or dimmed by the rolling clouds over head. This is relating to ones looks and complexion being beautiful and glowing like heavens shining sunlight, and then it may be dimmed or become uglier as something happens to the person that covers up the beautiful looks, just as the clouds do to the suns bright light.

The fourth thought in the sonnet "And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed" means that everything or everyone who is beautiful will get uglier over the course of time whether it be from randomness, or from age. This means that a woman can get uglier from randomness like something may happen to her from an accident. Or, the woman can get uglier from time and age, meaning with time always going on forever she is always aging. When people age, they may not always be beautiful so when it says "nature's changing course untrimmed" it means nature is changing her through time and her becoming ugly is a naturally occurring event.

The fifth thought "But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st" means that the persons youth or young person in them will not go away, nor will they lose the beauty they have, nor will death claim you as his, because she will forever be in his heart. This is the love part of the sonnet because it is saying no matter how ugly or old, the person will always love the woman and see her as young and beautiful. It is also saying he will not let death claim her as his own because he will forever be there with her and she will forever be in his heart.

The sixth thought saying "So long as men can breath, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee" meaning so long as men are alive on this earth and can see, and so long as his love continues on like this, the love he has for her will give life to her forever. This means that as long as he loves her forever, it will give her spirit life even after she dies because she will always be thought of and will forever remain with him in his mind and thoughts because that is just how much his love for her has grown.

Citations:

-all definitions looked up on www.oed.com
-sonnet from http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/18

FCR 4

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FCR #4

Out of the Pocket, Bill Konigsberg. Qtr. 1, Cycle 4 Reading Response, pages 196-146

In the section I just read, Bobby is getting used to the fact that he is in love with men. Bobby's friends, teammates, and even parents all know that he's gay and they are learning to accept that. Bobby also got a new boyfriend named Bryan. Bryan is a guy that loves Bobby and Bobby loves him back. Not everyone knows of Bryan yet, and Bobby thinks it may be too soon to tell people about him. Out on the football field, Bobby had trouble in his first game after being known as the gay quarterback. People were calling him names from the stands and his whole arm was shaking uncontrollably. Bobby eventually was taken out of the game and taken to the hospital where his father was because his father fainted at the game due to low blood pressure. Bobby is dealing with his father's sickness and his being openly gay and he is trying to balance his life out with all these new events being thrown at him.

            The author organizes this part of the story as the main part where the problem Bobby is facing is in full effect and he is trying to get over the problem. The author put all different scenarios into this section of the story to emphasize how bad Bobby's life is going for him now, and is telling how Bobby is trying to fix and deal with it. The author uses good sentence fluency and talks as if he is the characters in the book to help the story move along smoothly and transition in between events.

            This book relates the question who am and how does language or body reflect who I am because Bobby went out with a guy, he also tried his best to play in a big football game even though he was being heavily criticized for being gay. This shows that Bobby is a man with great character and is doing in what he believes in and how he feels. Bobby is shown to be a strong person in this book taking on any problems that area shown to him and trying his best to conquer those problems.

FCR 3

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FCR # 3

Out of the Pocket, Bill Konigsberg. Qtr. 1, Cycle 4 Reading Response, pages 104-195

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In the section I read, Bobby Framingham had made friends with the school newspaper reporter and told him his secret of being gay. The problem in this section though, is that the reporter betrayed Bobby after he had shared everything with him, and wrote a story about Bobby being gay and then shared the news with the press. Soon after the story was out, everyone knew Bobby was gay. It was on the news, the newspaper, the radio, and everywhere else where stories are written and shared. Bobby has to then choose whether to deny the story, or to live up to it and come out as gay. Bobby chooses to live up to the fact that he's gay but not everyone takes it so well. For example, his mother cannot believe her son is gay and tries to get Bobby to think he's not. Even his own teammates don't want him on the team any more because he's gay and they don't want a gay guy touching the centers ass or showering in the same room as all the other guys. This is what Bobby must fight against and stick to the way he is by ignoring what others may think of him.

            The author organizes this part of the book so that it is in order of events and its like cause and effect. Bobby shares that he's gay, the reporter spreads it to the world, and Bobby then has to deal with the gay comments thrown at him. The author uses good ideas to describe how people think of Bobby since he's gay like his team thinks he's going to do gay things in the showers now just because they found out he's gay. The author uses good sentence fluency to lead from one event to the next and keep the story flowing smoothly.

            This book relates to the guiding questions for English I: Who am I, and how does language shape and/or reflect identity because it is telling how Bobby knows he's gay, and he's reflecting his maturity by taking the gay comments thrown at him and not retaliating to them. Bobby knows that he likes men, and he doesn't try to fight it because he knows that's just who he is and that's how he always will be.