What to Do?

        In English class, we have to post about things that we talk about, but whenever I try to think about what to do I always come up with a blank. I can think of topics but when I try to go deeper into the topic I just can't think of anything. I don't what to be wrong about something, and don't want to do something that I don't really care about. Something that I have always had trouble with is talking about things that are  strange for me and I think that a big portion of blogging is that. I need something to make me think more about what I want to write.

Flower Garden

Flower Garden,

            This is a story about how a new women named Ms. MacLane and her son Davey coming to live in a new town and have to adjust to life in the different society. It is written in the 3^rd person in the point of view of Ms. MacLane’s neighbor Mrs. Winning.

            In my post I am going to write about two topics for the book. One is foreshadowing and the other is person-against-society. In the book it foreshadows a lot, like Mrs. Winning’s name. I think that this is a piece of ironic foreshadowing because her name implies that she will be the happier person in the story, but she is jealous and thinks ill of others by stereotyping. In the story she starts to be nice and happy but by the end she is resentful of her neighbor Ms. MacLane. In the story all of the people in the town go about their predictable day-by-day lives, they don’t change, and do what is expects of them.

This reminds me of what is the stereotype for the Amish. People believe that they might not be as excepting because they maintain what people thought a long time ago. Ms. MacLane starts off like them, the same, but in the story she starts to change and starts to break away from what they think that their perfect lives are. This causes the other people in the town to get mad with her and start to think that she isn’t as good as they are.

This brings up my final topic person-against-society. Near the end of the story the other people in the town including her supposed friend Mrs. Winning. She starts by defending her and by trying to make the other towns people except her but they convince her that Ms. MacLane is the one who is making their town worse and not that they are doing that themselves. The book ends with Ms. MacLane considering going back to her old life and Mrs. Winning “with great dignity, walked back up the hill toward the old Winning house.”