Kimball Khetani

Fitz English 8

December 16, 2018

Literary Analysis Paragraph

Literary Analysis Paragraph

To Build A Fire

        Everybody has instincts, sometimes animals more than humans. In the short story, To Build a Fire, by Jack London, a man and a dog set out in the cold forrest trying to survive the seventy-five below zero degree weather. The man and the dog have to use there instincts on whether they should keep going onward or stop to warm up. The dog always has better instincts and knows that it is too cold to keep going but the man keeps going forward. The man gets up out of his bed at the campsite and is sure that he will get to his boys by noon. The dog is already up and he can tell that it is really cold. The man gets dressed and gets his stuff ready and starts walking. The man was so cold yesterday that he doesn’t even know that it is colder today. The dog on the other hand can tell the difference in whether with his instincts.

 “This man did not know cold. Possibly all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold one hundred and seven degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge. And it knew that it was not good to walk abroad in such fearful cold.”

        Instinct is so important in the story. If you don’t have any instinct, then you will not know when it is to cold or not, you will not know when to warm up. And if your whole body is numb you will not be able to tell it because you wouldn’t be able to test if you could feel your body. Instinct play a huge role in this story because the dog knows when to stop and rest and the man doesn’t. The man ends up dying to the cold but the dog does not. The dog had an instinct that told him that he should rest and warm up. The man died because he didn’t have any instinct and the dog had instinct so he rested a lot but still kept going when he knew that path was clear.

Narrative Paragraph On Tradition of Celebration

Christmas Brings My Family Together

Its not what’s under the Christmas tree that matters, its who's around it

        Christmas is a time where you can be with your family, together. It was christmas that I was excited for because I can be with my family sharing jokes and presents. When Christmas comes around, my family always spend time together, decorating the tree, watching movies, and sharing presents with each other. I actually enjoy the days that are leading up to christmas. I love being there with my family, together around the christmas tree. I had just woken up on Christmas day. My family was still asleep but we had agreed that I could wake them up at seven in the morning. I woke them up and me and my siblings had to wait at the top of the stairs for my parents to get out of bed. It was a tradition in my family that on Christmas morning, our whole family had to walk down the stairs together so we could see what was under the tree at the same time. I didn’t care that I had to wait to go downstairs. I was just excited to open my presents and give presents to my family. I love sitting around the tree and seeing everybody together hugging each other in thanks. Just being together as a family really warms my heart. From now on, I will always look forward to being together with my family and giving presents rather than getting presents from others

Kimball Khetani

Literary Reflection Essay

Fitz English 8

December 6, 2018

Literary Reflection Essay

The Power Of Tradition In The Lottery

The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions: most of them were quiet. wetting their lips. not looking around

- The Lottery

    There is the power of tradition in most things. In the short story The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson. The theme, power of tradition played a huge role in this story. This had a effect on me personally because I can relate to having a tradition in my family or in the greater community around me. In this short story, the author is trying to show the reader what it is like to have a tradition and to for-fill it every year. The author shows how the lottery is set up every year. He shows how everybody knows when it is happening. And he shows that everybody is used to being at the lottery and they know how it roles.

    The main characters in this story are Mr. Summers, who runs the lottery. And the people of the town who participate in the lottery. “They do say,' Mr. Adams said to Old Man Warner, who stood next to him, 'that over in the north village they're talking of giving up the lottery.” The main conflict in this story is the lottery. The lottery is when each of the family have a representative from their family and they get a piece of paper. If the paper has a black dot on it, then the representative gets stones throws at him or her until he or she dies. This story takes place at the beginning of the summer on November 27. This story takes happens  in a small village. The lottery also happens in other villages. 

    I can connect to the short story in many ways. One of the main themes in the story is the power of tradition. I have many traditions in my family like putting up a christmas tree during the holidays. I always going trick-or-treating on halloween with Theo. When I was reading The Lottery, I was thinking about all of the traditions that happen around me. The Lottery showed me that we can not give up our traditions.

    There is tradition in most things. Whether its at home, in the greater community, or even in the whole world. There are many things that bring tradition to life.