“When he went back up on deck again to look for the boy the boy was not there” (McCarthy 228).
- During the summer of 2003 my family and I took a trip to our native country of Bangladesh. Overall I didn’t like the trip since most of the time I was getting bitten by mosquitoes. One incident my mom didn’t appreciate was when we took a trip to the bazaar and I went to the candy shop while she was shopping for groceries. The bazaar was very packed during that time of the day. My mom thought she lost me because it is easy to kidnap in Bangladesh. She searched frantically for me but soon I come up to her. She was crying but during that time I didn’t know I did anything. I learned to stay where I am.
BSGE Zakir Hussain
11th 7/1/11
Double Entry Responses for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Could write in Elvish, could speak Chakobsa, could differentiate between a Slan, a Dorsai, and a Lensman in acute detail, knew more about the Marvel Universe than Stan Lee, and was a role-playing game fanatic” (Diaz 21).
- During the sixth grade I was a huge role-playing fanatic just like Oscar. The greatest computer game I thought ever made was Runescape. Runescape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game that was very popular during the time I was playing it and even now it has hundred of millions of players. The reason I actually started playing the game was because all of my friends were playing it and whoever didn’t play it would seem like an outcast. As soon I started playing the game I immediately became addicted to it and I couldn’t stop. But after realizing what it was doing to me, a couple of months later I stopped.
“She sits next to me in SAT class” (Diaz 35).
- Like Oscar I had to go to SAT class too. I went to SAT class over the school year at Sunnyside Community Services. I thought the classes went well but my score didn’t keep in par with what I should have achieved. I received a score of 1550 which if I took the test as a junior I probably would’ve had a worse score or a score similar to that which is terrible. That’s why this summer I’m going to take Princeton Review and see if my score is going to review. Also during the school year I’m going to take the Sunnyside courses just for extra help.
“I’ll buy you a house in both places just so you can know how much I love you!” (Diaz 126)
- After my oldest brother graduated from college this year my mom has told him to do either two things: go back to school to achieve his master’s degree in economics or save up his money from his job to buy a house. To help save his money my parents are letting him stay rent-free in our home even when students his age are trying to get by living in the real world. Buying a house doesn’t really have to do anything with love but more with readiness. My mom wants my brothers and I to work on getting a house as soon as were settled down to have a roof over our own family’s heads. Another reason could be that when our cousins come over there would room for them to stay over.
“Reading and writing and watching TV with his mother” (Diaz 200).
- My mom has a philosophy were it is impossible to multi task while doing work. For example, in humanities when we started working on regent’s prep we had an assignment of copying down notes from a packet and putting them on index cards. My teacher told the whole class that she recommends people to listen to music to pass the time writing down the notes. I took my teachers advice and started listening to music while copying down the notes but this didn’t suit my mother so I had to copy all the notes without music.
“The burn nearly killing her” (Diaz 255).
- Five or six years ago before the entire kitchen got remodeled my family used to own an oven that told time. As a kid my vision was bad but over the years my vision has gotten even worse. Back when I was a kid I’d wake up every morning and stick my face at the oven time. I’d also do that during the day because for me it was better than actually telling time. One time my mom was cooking and took a pot off from the range but the fire was still on. At time I wasn’t so bright so I went to go look at the time but the upper part of my arm got burned and I was in screeching pain. After I put on some antibiotics on the pain stopped but I was still crying.
BSGE Zakir Hussain
11th 7/6/11
Double Entry Responses for Black Hole
“We got divided into groups of two because we were all going to be dissecting frogs” (Burns 1).
- The closest I got to ever dissecting anything was an owl pellet. I had to do that for a lab during living environment. Basically we were looking through the food the owl ate. If I was taking forensics during the ninth grade I would have had the chance to dissect a frog but I had to take living environment. I heard from my peers that dissecting the frog was a great learning experience. All I know though is that next year in the eleventh grade I’m going to have the experience to dissect a pig.
“It was some guy…he…he was like creeping around…” (Burns 15)
- Whenever I’m walking around the city in the night it feels really awkward and spooky sometimes. You can never have a certain feeling that someone is following you until you turn around. It always feels someone is going to or is following you. That’s why I always stay prepared for anything.
“I want to show you how to make the best sandwich in the world” (Burns 117).
- While I was over at my friend’s house with a couple of other friends we were asking for food so my friend’s mom makes us Nutella sandwiches. The mom claimed that the sandwiches she makes are the best in the world. I never had Nutella before but for some reason everybody loves it. After I bit into the sandwich I didn’t find it as great as everyone else did. It was sub par on my taste levels.
“I’m fine, mom…I just have to study for this stupid geometry final” (Burns 265).
- During the ninth grade, the math class I took was geometry and the class was pretty intense. For all the problems we did we always had to have to have an explanation, which I thought was very stupid. As a student I’m a very good math student but I didn’t like my math teachers test. For example, one night I was very mad because I had to study for this very stupid geometry final.
“He was acting kind of nervous but I didn’t think anything of it” (Burns 473).
- On a regular seventh grade day the class and I were waiting for our teacher to come through the door to teach his class. He came about five minutes late to class. He seemed kind of nervous than usual shuffling his paper in a noticeable way. Out of all teachers he was my favorite because he was able to bring math into a real world analysis. Our teacher stops shuffling his paper and tells us that today will be his last day teaching us. I was shocked because I didn’t suspect nothing like this to happen today.
BSGE Zakir Hussain
11th 8/11/11
Double Entry Responses for Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth
“So get out and enjoy it! Highs in the seventies will make it great for boating or biking!” (Ware 17)
- Out of all the seasons during the year, my favorite season has to be spring due to the fact that it is neither hot nor cold. Hot to me is if the temperature is in the eighties or higher. Cold to me is when the temperature is lower than fifty. Any temperature between is considered spring to me. I enjoy spring the most because it’s a perfect weather to play a good game basketball. Whenever it starts to get hot a cool breeze would roll by to cool everybody down.
“Dad are we home yet? Are we there I’m tired” (Ware 124).
- When I was young my dad liked to take trips to Woodside where my cousins lived. He thought that this would be a healthy walk for us even though my dad smokes which causes cancer. I never liked the walks because it was so much easier to take our car but I would always hate the walk back due to it being very long.
“Does everything look sort of pink to you?” (Ware 136)
- I usually wear glasses but when I started to break my glasses I got contact lenses. I decided to get the contact lenses on my own because my mom didn’t want to waste her money. So I secretly got the contact lenses but the quality was very bad. When I put the contact lenses and took them off it was very uncomfortable. When I woke up from sleep everything was looking pink to me and this made me stop using those contact lenses and get better brand new ones.
“James…you’ll be pleased to know that no “burglars” were here yesterday…” (Ware 215)
- Burglars are the worst. The first place my family and I moved into was a huge apartment complex in Manhattan. It was a one-bedroom studio. Since we were poor this was the best we could afford. One day when my mom took me to the hospital and my dad took my brothers to Burger King, a burglar took down our door and robbed our home. All the robber took was a watch and a couple of dollars but the impact were tremendous. We didn’t trust that place anymore and moved to Astoria were we’ve been living for 12 years.
“Get away from me!” (Ware 315)
- I hate when my brothers tries to get close with me. Him seeing me as the youngest makes him want to hug me and kiss me all the time. In my personal view I really don’t like it because it makes me mad. It always makes me to tell him to get away from me.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Burns, Charles. Black Hole. New York: Pantheon, 2005. Print.
Díaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. New York: Riverhead, 2007. Print.
McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Vintage, 2006. Print.
Ware, Chris. Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth. New York: Pantheon, 2003. Print.
