Chapters 21-26: What Jail Taught a Preacher

Casy realized that everyone was in jail for a reason, they needed something but the only way they could get it was to steal. He realizes while he is in jail that you can easily get your way by doing certain things to get what you want. If you dont like the food then start yelling at the top of your lungs and everyone else may join along and the guards will give in and bring something else to eat. Casy also implies that you have to figure out everything that goes on in jail by going there yourself. He tells Tom that maybe he cant tell him, that he needs to find it out. The larger idea of this realization is that you can pretty much always get your way. You just have to do certain things and you can have anything you want, like different food in jail. I think that Casy liked this discovery and is going to try getting his way with everything from now on. He sees you can always make a change in a situation and make things better off. Casy wants the American Dream to keep living on and wants everyone to be able to live it. Casy is going to keep on fighting for what he believes in until theres no fight left in him. He also thinks that Tom should know this already because he has spent time in jail, but Tom just cannot relate for some reason so Casy gives up trying to explain it.

Creative Piece

Adam Alwood

1-19-2012

2^nd hour English B

My Life

My life has always been crazy. Whether having my sister go through multiple brain surgeries or the amazing trips my family has had. I love my life and everyone in it. I could not survive without my mom and dad. They have both greatly influenced my life, made it better, and have done whatever it takes for me to do well. My father wanted to open and own his own business. Everyone told him that he was crazy and wouldn’t succeed, but they were wrong. My father is a very successful man and from his success my life has been greatly influenced. He opened his business when he was 22 and has kept it going the past 34 years. By his success it makes me want to succeed and become great and do great. Even though it may not always seem like it, my father is my hero and has influenced my life. My mother has also greatly influenced my life. With my mother she was always told she will never have kids, well now she has two children that are biologically hers and are doing fine. My sister Alicia was born two and a half to three months early and doctors would always say she wasn’t going to make it. The doctors need to realize there’s a God that lets miracles happen. I haven’t lived my life completely how I should but I’m trying to change different things around. Also another thing about me is I’m adopted. If I was never adopted by my family I don’t know how my life would be now, maybe became a foster child or be with a family that doesn’t care. I am so happy that the Alwood’s are the ones that chose me. Me and my family have been through it all, Good and bad times we have done it all and stayed strong as a family.

I plan to get some tattoos to remind me of the past and who I’m missing. Also cause I’ve always wanted certain ones. There are different tattoos for different reasons. One I would like to get is a design I have had for a little while now. Its going to be a cross with a cloud outlining and it will say came and went, Stacy. I would also like to get my nephews name, Jayden on my chest because I feel like he’s almost a son to me and I always want to be in his life. I also want to get my last name tattooed on my back. I like how people that get it done looks and it kind of shows that family means a lot. After certain people from my family pass or just because they make a big impact on my life before they pass I will probably get there names tattooed on me somewhere.

A mistake I made is leaving one of the people I love the most. Her name is Allie Strong and I am glad I have her back. I made a mistake of breaking up with her during the summer but I am so happy she took me back once I realized I need her in my life. This girl means the world to me and I see myself spending the rest of my life with her. We have been through a lot together. Whether it’s me not using my head, getting arrested, or fighting, she has always been there for me and I love her for that. We always talk about how perfect we are together, so were not perfect, perfect who is? We have our moments where we get angry with one another but in the end we always get back to being the happy couple we are. Allie has been one of the greatest parts of my life, and it’s a plus that my whole family likes her too. If something were to happen to her, whether her just leave me some reason or just not being there one day I don’t know what I would do with myself. I have not felt like this towards another girl, sometimes I thought I’ve had this love for someone else but my head and heart were just not thinking straight. The thing is though nothing else matters now because I have her and we are happy as can be and we both see a future ahead with each other in it.

Altogether this is some things about my life that not everybody may now and I’m happy I have this life. This is my life and I am happy for it. Through all the mistakes I have made and everything else I am happy to be an Alwood and I’m glad I have a family and girlfriend that cares so much about me, without them I would be lost. I’m just gonna keep living my life, one day at a time.

Chapters 7-13: Personal Connections

There is some in this book that has brought great interest to me but at other times i find it not as exciting and hard to read. I liked the Used Car Salesman, he knows how to get his job done, make money, and is great at persuading people to buy his cars. He knows all about the car selling business and knows what a buyer looks liker and what a browser looks like. At times i just find the book hard to read but i do my best to get through it.

I am not really liking "The Grapes Of Wrath" By: John Steinbeck, because it does not bring great interest to me like other books have. it is most of the time boring and hard to read. An example of what i mean is on page 80 its hard to read at parts. what was you doin', hidin'?" "well, no. but a fella shouldn' butt his head in where a fambly got fambly stuff. i was jus' settin' a-thinkin'." So far the Joad family reminds me of something important in my life, and that is family will always be there for you no matter what.

I am kind of looking forward too finishing the book. I just hope i get use to the text more so i can read it better and understand it. I predict that Tom Joad will randomly get locked up again somewhere during the book just because. In the end i hope the Joad family stays together and is a happy family always there for each other like they are now minus really bein to happy

Chapter3-6 Economic and Political Pressures

The Banks take everybodys land because they can no longer afford for them to live on it and everyone is struggling to make money. The banks just look at the people as people that are just using them for their land and arent gonna give much for it. Some family were lucky and the banks let them work with them in order to keep their land. The families that were chosen by the bank to work for them did not care about anyone else they just worried about themselves and keeping their own land.

The Grapes of Wrath. Chapter 1-2

In chapter 1 it talks mostly of the setting and about the dustbowl and how bad the land is becoming. In chapter 2 it is talking more of the Characters and bringing them into the book. In this part it shows that Tom Joad is good with his words and able to talk the truck driver into givng him a ride even though it is against policy. The truck driver helps Joad because he wants to be nice to him instead of listening to some rich man that says he is not allow to have passengers. He wants to beable to make his own choices and not be bossed around.