Text-world

 I think these 3 stories really connect to each other. In the LA times there is a story about the US army killing the wrong people. They use drones and when they see people that look very suspicious they shoot them but most of the time they kill the wrong people. I think this connects to the sniper and pat Tillman story because in the sniper he kills the wrong person, his brother. In Pat Tillman they shoot the wrong person witch ends up in his death! In all stories they end up all killing the wrong person.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/10/world/la-fg-afghanistan-drone-20110410

The Sniper

 

 In the stories “Sniper” and Pat Tillman’s death, they both had a large connection. In both short stories the biggest connection is; the relationships with all the main characters family are torn apart from the wars. In “Sniper” his relationship with his brother was destroyed because they were fighting against each other. I think when your fighting against your brother it digs trenches between the two in reality and mentally. In the story of Pat Tellman’s death, when he leaves I think everyone is devastated that he is leaving and just thought of they might never see him again. Throughout the war I think the relationships between the family fades. In all I think the big connection is both the sniper and pat went to war there relationships with their families were destroyed.

Text-World

 The story of Courtney and Margot I think are extremely similar. One reason I think they are similar is because the both of them weren’t stood up for. Secondly I think there a like is because the both of them didn’t want to go to school because they were being picked on so bad. It also hurt both their families and with Margot it got so bad hat they were considering moving back to earth. I think this bullying should be stopped both these girls have been through so much and it is terrible.

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 Text-self

People discriminate for many different reasons. I think one reason people bully is because they are jealous of the person. The next reason I think people bully is because they have been bullied before and they take out all their anger and years of bullying out on one person. The last reason I think people bully is because I think the bullies feel just because they have been bullied someone else has to be bullied too. When I was in grade 3 one of my really good friends was picked on because she was tall, very pretty, and the bully was jealous of her so she picked on my friend. In the end the bullying stopped and she apologized.

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I have chosen the song mean by Taylor Swift to compare with “all summer in a day”.  I think these to texts are very similar they were obviously both bullied very harshly; the bullies made them both feel like they didn’t matter and that they were nothing. I think the difference between the two characters is that Taylor stood up for herself in the song and Margot did not stand up for herself. The song describes how Taylor was pushed around and bullied. In “all summer in a day” describes how Margot was bullied at her school for her differences. I think both of these stories are very similar and are very sad!