Post Reading

At the beginning of the story the narrator disliked Mr. Kelada, he laughed on his name, on his luggage, his personality and his behavior. 

At the end of the story he starts to realize that Mr. Kelada is not a bad person as he thought, the narrator says that he does "not entirely dislike Mr. Kelada", the narrator  started to change his mind about him.

The narrator was more restrained towards Mr. Kelada, he started to listen to what Mr. Kelada had to say, he opened his mined to his ideas, and started to take him more seriously.

He started to see Mr. Kelada as a good person, with good intentions to help others and not just to himself.

He saw Mr. Kelada as a reliable person, after that Mr. Kelada lied about the necklace to help Mrs. Ramsay he knew that his a smart man, that he isn't a selfish person and started to trust Mr. Kelada.

Mr. Kelada was seen by the narrator as a real English gentleman, as a man he wants to be with, a man with 

good qualities and good personality.

For the rest of the sailing the narrator bond with Mr. Kelada, he loved his company, he accepted Mr. Kelada as his friend and as an English gentleman.  

Reflection

Reading the story was very enjoyable, the story had surprising events and it was funny to hear what each character think about other character.

The story was surprising, moving and amusing.

The story surprised me when it turned out that the pearls that Mrs. Ramsay wore were real and not fake, and that Max Kelada knew about it but preferred to lie to her husband so he won't hurt her.

In the end of the story I was moved by the narrator, I was moved because he started to change his mind about Max Kelada and he started to like him.

I find amusing the way that the narrator behave to Max Kelada,I enjoyed reading how the narrator wanted to ignore him throughout the story.

Learning the thinking skills of Explaining Patterns and Uncovering Motives helped me understand the story behind each character and to understand the behavior of each character in the story. Explaining Patterns help me to understand the behavior of the narrator, it helped me to identify his personality, identify who he behave to another type of

person. In the story it is seen when he dislike Max Kelada just base of his luggage and base of his name,

with the explaining pattern we learn that he is a judgmental person and a close minded about new things.

The Uncovering Motives skill helped me understand the behavior of Max Kelada throughout the story.

Max Kelada did many things on the ship, "he managed the sweeps", "conducted the auctions",

"collected money for prizes at the sports, "he was everywhere and always".

With the Uncovering Motives skill I learn the real motives about his actions,

Max Kelada was not a typical English man, he was born in a colony of the British Empire he wanted to all the people who were on the ship to like him,

so he did all of those action so he will be accepted as a real English man.

Mr.Know All - Compare and contrast

On a ship at the end of world war one,two entirely different people were put in the same cabin ,those two men are the main characters in the story. 
One of them is the narrator of the story and the second one is called Max Kelada.

The narrator of the story is and english man who traveled from San Francisco to Yokohuma. The story of the narrator begins with his encounter with his room mate's luggage.
The narrator is judging his room mate based on his name
and his luggage. As the story continues, we learn that the narrator is an intolerant,
cynical person that won't accept new things if they don't seem right to him.
As the story moves on it seems that the narrator starts to like Mr. Kelada.
Throughout the story the narrator "did not like Mr.Kelada" and as the
story continues he changed his opinion about Mr.Kelada ,he "did not entirely dislike Mr. Kelada".

Mr.Kelada is the narrator room mate ,he likes the narrator.
Mr. Kelada is also an english man but is seems that he didn't came from englend,

he came from a colony of the english empire,he was born under a bluer sky.
Mr.Kelada is a short, sturdy man, clean shave and dark skinned with a fleshy
hooked nose and very large lustrous and liquid eyes. Mr.Kelada is a chatty,hearty
and a jovial man, he is patriotic, he is familiar and a stubborn person.Mr. Kelada traveled to Japan to look at the Japanese pearl business
that makes the cultured pearls. He works in the pearl business,he knows
all about pearls.
At the end of the story turnd out that Mr. Kelada is a smart man,
he noticed the little things about a person and before he acts he thinks about the consequences.

At the end of the story we see that the narrator and Mr.Kelada are getting along.
If I had to choose which one of the two main characters I want to be I would have to
choose to be Mr.Kelada because of his nice personality and because he thinks outside of the box.

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Daphna

My Diary

Dear diary,
I want to tell you about two days of my week,one of them was very good,I did something for a good friend that needed my help.
On the second day I did something I believe is selfish and bad,and it turnd my day in to a bad day.

1/10/12

Dear diary,
Today was a good day. I remembered that my friend needed my help with his big science project,(Start a new sentence) he and I worked on the project for many hours, we searched for information for his project,we bought materials and we finished it,(New sentence)afterwards I heard that he got an A on his project and it made
me happy.

2/10/12

Dear diary,
Today my day went bad,I didn't meant(gr.) to be so selfish.
I woke up and I remembered that my father asked for my help for the entire day and I said I would help him.Instead, I forgot about it and I went with my firends(sp.) to the beach.
When I came home my father was very angry at me and I felt very bad.
This day was definitely a bad day for me.

In conclusion I think I need to be more organized with my

priorities
so I could make a change,and become a 
thoughtful and better person.

This is much better.

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Daphna

 

Count That Day Lost- Bridging text and context – activity 2

Count That Day Lost- Bridging text and context – activity 2

George Eliot (pen name for Mary Ann Evans) was born in 1819 in Warwickshire, in Victorian England. The Victorian age was characterized by huge gaps between the classes.The lower classes lived in extreme poverty. The children were put to work in factories and mines to help support their families.
This information adds to my undertanding of the poem "Count That Day Lost".

From the infotmation about Mary Ann Evans I can understand that her goal was to create a better and equal  socity to live in.With  this information I can relate to the poem.
By saying she wanted to "sit down at set of sun and count the acts that she had done",she didn't accept the conditions that she and other writers of that time had  deal with(phr.+gr.) . Eliot's books often pointed out the differences between wealthy landlords and poor, ordinary people and often criticized the behavior of the upper classes.

Moreover,She was concerned about the responsibility that people should take in their everyday lives and with the moral choices they must make.She wanted the peopl to make a change. It can be seen in the poem with the poet's request that each person has to "sit down at set of sun and count the acts the he has done"
he wants the pople to think about their acts and their results and then decide if the day is a "day well spent" or a "day as worse than lost".

In conclusion, I can say that the information about Eliot is very important in order to undertand more
easily the connection between her life and the moral in the poem , it makes it easier to understand the poem from the  poet's  point of view. I can undertand from the poem and from the information about Eliot that her main efforts were to make a better and equal  society  to live in.

This is much better, well done!

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Daphna