Let It Be Forgotten by Sara Teasdale

I chose "Let It Be Forgotten" by Sara Teasdale. There are multiple reasons why I chose this poem.Anitially, I chose this poem because I was having a bad day and it seemed like the perfect poem to make me feel vetter. Then, I realized that it has a very clear message that many people should and can live by. It basically says don't sweat the small stuff. It says to just forget about it and keep living your life. This poem reminds me to just be myself and live my life.

Preparing to recite my poem in front of the class has been kind of stressful. It makes me quite nervous to get up and recite it in front of my classmates. I have been practicing at home and on the bus ride home from Kennewick. I think I will do okay but maybe not as well as I hoped. I am hoping to get in the top ten and earn some extra credit points.

The Road Not Taken

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost was a very powerful poem for me. To me, it means that you should not always take the path that others are taking. It shows you that it is okay to go the other way every once in a while. It shows human struggle in the sense of, it is not always easy to go against the grain. It shows that he also doubted himself many times too.

I chose this poem because, it has a lot to do with my life. Through the coarse of my life, I constantly tell myself that I'm going to do what is best for me and not to do what everyone else is. I tell myself I am going to do something against the grain but I almost always end up doubting myself. As I look forward to the future, I realize that I need to do what is most beneficial for me and not for what the class of 2012 is doing. For in 5 years, I won't even know 99% of the people that I am trying so hard to impress right now.

The movie

The movie, To Kill A Mockingbird, and the book were very different but very much the same. There were parts of the movie that i believe were better. For instance, the fact that they left out Aunt Alexandra was very good in my opinion. There were way too many characters in the book which made it harder to follow. Also, leaving out parts of the book that were least important, really kept the flow of the story going and made it less hard for my mind to wander.

The scene in the movie that was my favorite was definitely when the Dill, Jem and Scout tried to peek through Boo's window. This was my favorite part in the book and was even better in the movie. Most of the parts of the scene were very similar. Some differences were, the shadow on the house of Mr. Radley. Also, this scene was different than I imagined from the book because the gun shot was much later than I expected. I love how this scene lead to the conversation between Scout and Jem about how when Jem went back, his pants were folded over the fence.