Why I picked my Two-Voice Poem Charactars.

Why I choose the two charactars for this two-voice poem. The reason was that Eurydice what I thought in the myth was really, confusing because I did not understand how she was bitten, and how she went to the forest. Its suppose to be a myth so when I tried understand the part when she was in the forest, the plot, and I put in the myth and some of what I thought about what of happen, she went a forest, and a big forest because it would of taken a long time for the poison to go inside the blood.

So Eurydice and Orpheus myth story makes sense and I tried to put Hope in my story because the story about them could of changed, Orpheus could of have hope that Eurydice was behind her, Eurydice could of had hope and struggled for survival, but in the end the characters gave up. I choose hope because it was the weakest part of the story.

No man is and island. A man is a contient.

No man is an Island

"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

These words by John Donne from the 1624 Meditation 17.

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When I think of this, I think of when the world was together, Pangaea. It was together, when everyone was connected, but when it spread, you would lost connection with everyone you know. Like World War 2, when this happened, the world was separated by racism, and war. The war was with Poland and France. Imagine if Jew was in Poland? Then it would be a disaster! What if you had friends with a Jew or a German? It would be a traitors and hate each other because your parents, the army, are using propaganda on you, they would say that Jew hate you or Germans hate you or worse. This is what I think about the poem, showing that when you separate the whole, it will fall apart.

The video made by Jason Van Gendere, was not related but theres one meaning which stands out, "No man's an Island." When I remembered the word island, it reminded me of Insolated, meaning island. When it said no mans an island, it meant no mans alone, excluded from the big continent. "No man's an Island" is the what stands out during the video.

During this video, I took the one which was one of significant and true fact about the world. "Do we show empathy by donation?" "I stand by you today, I look away.". These quotes from the video are significant mostly the donation. Do you donate because you feel like it? Do you donate because you pity them? If you feel pity then act. I think that's the voice of the quote. I gave donate money but I never felt i did anything good because money does not make happiness. "I stand by you today, I look away." this quote means when you see a poor person, you ignore, he's not important, go live your life but full with ignorance like Jesus Colon. You ignore the weak (woman) and leave because of prejudice. Gendere has shown that mankind that they don look at the poor and ignore them, see them who didn't succeed in life.

I think this video is based on reality, what everyone has done, did not care for people who did not succeed education and life.

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Why I choose this picture?

I choose this picture because its small, alone deserted, and even though you are in a beautiful beach, you are alone, isolated.

Poem of a voice

The Poem


What do we do with a difference?
Do we stand and discuss its oddity
or do we ignore it?
Do we shut our eyes to it
or poke it with a stick?
Do we clobber it to death?
Do we move around it in rage
and enlist the rage of others?
Do we will it to go away?
Do we look at it in awe
or purely in wonderment?
Do we work for it to disappear?
Do we pass it stealthily
Or change route away from it?
Do we will it to become like ourselves?
What do we do with a difference?
Do we communicate to it,
let application acknowledge it
for barriers to fall down?
James Berry

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The Questions

• What labels does he place on the groups to which he belongs? on other groups?
• How did those labels shape the way he perceived his choices? the decision he made?
• Why does he have regrets? Did he make the right choice?
• Would your answer be different if he were a white American?
• Who is the victim in this story–Colón, the woman, or the larger society?

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Ideas not starting

• Jesus Colon "Do we pass it stealthy" the poem is similar when Jesus Colon wanted to sneak away so no harms in his way because the segregation in the time making him fear the white people.
• The blokes "Do we stand and discuss its oddity or do we ignore it?" No one in the school could nor stand up or help the victim being bullied. The Blokes also made them have no choice by making them be feared.
• The island "Do we shut our eyes to it or poke it with a stick?" When the people on the island found the man, they want to kick him away because their not their kind. When the quote of "Do we shut our eye" this mean"t that they will take care of him and have no worries. Soon the poet tells us that "or poke it with a stick?" this quote. This quote is significant because in the end of The Island they threw him out, the quote meaning that they don't want the responsibility of taking care off him.
• The Blokes "Do we stand and discuss its oddity or do we ignore it?" When John get blackmailed by The Blokes, "A little birdy tells me your dads a kid killer" which is really nasty. When he gets blackmailed, the people who are watching him in pain are just watching him being bullied up, their like bystanders watching, but can't help him. The people watching couldn't stand up for him, or even look at the problem. They just ignore it as it were just nothing.
  

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What shapes our identity what I think is people forcing you, apperence, emotion, how they look. Same as Jesus Colon, he was forced by the people so he left the woman who was not prejudice but the other people but not her. For example, If I forced a young boy to hate a certain person many times or talk about, the boy would be already learned and know about the certain person so he would be already controlled by.

Apperence is important, even now, it immediately tells who you are and what you are. If you wear proper clothing it means you are smart and really delicate. If you wear bad clothing means not rich, bad, and not smart.

These character traits tells and makes people do what they do, what makes the shape our identity.