Prompt:
I personally love the quote found on page 170: Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get as still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long."
Response Required: Cover all parts of the question.
- Find a quote you love in the text. Type it for us to see.
- Explain why it helps you make text-to-text or text-to-self connections.
"Talent wins games, Teamwork wins championships" - Michael Jordan. This quote has inspired me to achieve and go for goals that I want. It shows a lot about how every individual talents can be helpful, but a full function and communication of teamwork can help achieve. This quote relates to my numerous sports teams because it shows how important each person on a team is. It also inspires people on a team to become enthusiastic no matter what role they play. This quote also can be applied to bees, not literally but the overview. Each bee can be individually good at their jobs in a hive. But their communication to function as a team or one is the key to making honey and surviving as long as possible. I think Michael Jordan meant to show that communication and teamwork is more important than individual skills.
ReplyDelete"July 28 was a day for the record books. I look back on it and what comes to me are people going over Niagara Falls in barrels. Ever since I'd heard about that, I'd tried to imagine people crouched inside, bobbing along peacefully like a rubber duck in a child's bathtub, and suddenly the water turning choppy and the barrel starting to thrash around while a roar grows in the distance. I knew they were in there saying, (Poop)bucket, what was I thinking?" on page 165 is a quote that I personally love. A text-to-self connection that I can make is one time when i went to Niagara Falls and went to a museum where they had all of the barrels and different devices that people have gone down the Falls in. Because of that, i was about to relate to what they looked like and how claustrophobic it is and how chaotic it is. I can relate even more to the end of the quote, and being in situation where i act before i actually think about what I'm doing, in which cases I think to myself, "What was I thinking?". One time my brothers dared me to climb a large rock ledge at the Ramapo Reservation, and i accepted the challenge and climbed up, not really knowing what i was getting myself into. When I reached the top, I was unable to get back down, and was stuck. After panicking and thinking about how stupid i was, I finally found my way down around, which took about 10 times longer than the time it took to climb up.
ReplyDelete"Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get as still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long." i love this quote as well. I make a text to self when i go about my day it seems my brain is always racing and i can never accomplish anything. But, when i lay down at night i can make plans for the next day ,think about what happened today, and dream a dream in my head. I really feel like it relieves stress and unhappiness when you lay down and breath depply, letting youre mind race to wherever it wants.
ReplyDeleteThe most memorable quote in this story for me is, "I hope you will not need any kind of wall up there. And if you see Mary, Our Lady, tell her we know Jesus is the main one down here, but we're doing our best to keep her memory going." this connects to the story because all of the women so far mentioned in the story are people who love Mary. The Boatwrights have a statue of her and the praise her everynight and even have two days a year in which is only dedicated to her.
ReplyDeleteOn page 115, the quote, "How did bees ever equated with sex? They do not live a riotous life themselves. A hive suggests cloister more than boedello." This quote made me laugh to how awkward it was. Bees have secret lives and nobody knows how they live like everyone else in this world. We are not capable of knowing all of what they do. In another way it reminds me of chapter seven where I found it. In this chapter Lily meets Zach and falls in love with him because she thinks he is a load of good looks. Zach is also intelligent alwell. That is why I like that quote. It is strange for this book but funny too.
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ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the amazing imagery and figurative language used in this quote on page 150: "The bees began to light on my shoulders the way birds sit on telephone wires. They sat along my arms, speckled the bee veil so I could scarcley see through it. I love you. I love you. They covered my body, filled the cuffs of my pants." I have not personally been covered in bees, but just by Sue Monk Kidd's descriptions, I can feel them perching on my shoulder and wiggling in my pant cuffs. I really is incredible what words can make someone feel.
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ReplyDeleteIf I could pick a month to be named after it would be March. March falls at the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Not only that, “[s]he’s the mother of every bee in the hive, and they all depend on her to keep going.” All of the months depend on March to make the transition from winter to spring- the two most opposite seasons. I also like the simplicity in it- the way it sounds. So simple yet so sweet. It is like honey. Honey is one of the simplest foods, and yet the sweet taste is so satisfying and kind to your taste buds. You can taste the effortless perfection in the making of honey. You can hear the laughter and feel the sun staining my clothes as March rolls off your tongue. In March I would be treated to my favorite breakfasts each morning. Breakfast, being my favorite meal, would be blueberry pancakes one day and French toast with drizzled honey the next. March- one syllable and yet hundreds of memories.
The quote that I happen to like is one right as May was walking to the Wailing Wall. "In life there are things you can't get over no matter how hard you try, and that sight was one of them." This quote is a text-to-self conection. It's a long story so I'm gunna have to tell the shortened version. I was ten when my Great Grandmother Sarah passed away. I used to go and visit her every Sunday with my grandfather at her nursing home. the last time I saw her was two weeks prior to her death. I don't remember one single detail of that visit exept for when we were leaving. She had given me a hug and a kiss goodbye and as my grandfather lead me out the door I looked back and saw her looking at me. She signed I love you to me. (She was deaf) I signed it back to her, blew her a kiss and waved. I have never tired to unsee that moment but if I did ever try, it would be completely impossible.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite quote is, (pg 98) “The worst thing was laying there wanting my mother. That’s how it had always been; my longing for her nearly always came late at night when my guard was down. I tossed on the sheets, wishing I could crawl into bed with her and smell her skin. I wondered: Had she worn the nylon gowns to bed? Did she bobby pin her hair? I could just see her, propped in bed. My mouth twisted as I pictured myself climbing in beside her and putting my head against her breast. I would put it right over her beating hear and listen. Mama, I would say. And she would look down at me and say, Baby, I’m right here.”
ReplyDeleteThis quote helps me make text to self-connections because I am a complete mommy’s girl. I will never forget the time that I was first diagnosed with diabetes. A couple of weeks after I got home from the hospital, my mom and dad went to Aruba, and left my sisters and I with my grandparents. I was not letting my mom go out the door to catch her plane. I wasn’t comfortable without her, and I needed her to sleep with. I would always go into her bed in the middle of the nigh, and when she went away, I couldn’t. Every night I would cry before went to bed, because I knew that I had no mommy do cuddle next to in her king sized bed, and make a sandwich, as my dad called it when I was in the middle of him and my mom. I made sure that I took her squishy pillow she always sleeps with, so I could cuddle it, and think of it as if I was cuddling her.
My favorite quote is, (pg 98) “The worst thing was laying there wanting my mother. That’s how it had always been; my longing for her nearly always came late at night when my guard was down. I tossed on the sheets, wishing I could crawl into bed with her and smell her skin. I wondered: Had she worn the nylon gowns to bed? Did she bobby pin her hair? I could just see her, propped in bed. My mouth twisted as I pictured myself climbing in beside her and putting my head against her breast. I would put it right over her beating hear and listen. Mama, I would say. And she would look down at me and say, Baby, I’m right here.”
ReplyDeleteThis quote helps me make text to self-connections because I am a complete mommy’s girl. I will never forget the time that I was first diagnosed with diabetes. A couple of weeks after I got home from the hospital, my mom and dad went to Aruba, and left my sisters and I with my grandparents. I was not letting my mom go out the door to catch her plane. I wasn’t comfortable without her, and I needed her to sleep with. I would always go into her bed in the middle of the nigh, and when she went away, I couldn’t. Every night I would cry before went to bed, because I knew that I had no mommy do cuddle next to in her king sized bed, and make a sandwich, as my dad called it when I was in the middle of him and my mom. I made sure that I took her squishy pillow she always sleeps with, so I could cuddle it, and think of it as if I was cuddling her.
“But she’s white, August.” -June, p.87
ReplyDeleteThis quote relates to the text because Lily is white and white people usually discriminated against blacks. However, Lily is now facing discrimination against her and gets very angry." There is no difference between my piss and June's." Is what Lily says after she overhears them. She finally realizes what the black people have to deal with on a daily basis.
“The whole problem with people is they know what matters, but they don’t choose it. The hardest thing on Earth is choosing what matters.” August says this to Lily after she questions why the house is bright pink. This quote makes me understand August’s philosophy on life. She says that even though she loves May and the most important thing to her was seeing May happy, she still found it hard to get herself to paint her house the Pepto-Bismol pink color. When I step back and think about this quote, it really helps me understand why I don’t always choose what matters. Sometimes, there is a difference in choosing what matters and what you want. In my opinion, people don’t always choose what matters because it might not be exactly what they want. People get so caught up in the little things in life that they sometimes forget to step back and look at the big picture! I have found myself on more than one occasion in the last week having to make important decisions. Sure enough, I caught myself thinking about this quote and about what August explained to Lily. I realize now more than ever that ever decision you make is important and it shapes who you are and choosing what matters truly is the hardest thing on Earth.
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