can I use the love of Family and Singers and Spiros for my Portf....I am also very sorry for coming late it's just that I get out of church at 11 every other night.

Yoldine Louis

November 21, 2005

Composition 7

Draft 2

 

            “When a child does a crime he or she should pay for the consequences like an adult, surely if the child is bold enough to commit the crime.” What if it’s your own child? Would that have been your first choice, lock up him and throw away the keys? Some may say yes, others may say no. If a child commits a crime especially if the child in under the age of fourteen, then right from the starts others should realize that the child needed some help.

            In life several times children are brought up with one parent or others both parent but still there are times in the house that tension is going on, so the younger child does not know what to think or say. Other times if the child was brought up on serious lock down, then it is the parent’s fault that the child had done what was done or simply the child just didn’t know how to fit in a crowed. OK, the New York State legislature is debating ways to deal with juveniles who commit violent act. There are two proposals under consideration: mandatory detention in the government –run institution for the violent incident. The second proposal will rely more the parents to discipline the child with the assist of a social worker, who recommend methods of disciplining the child and assist in obtaining psychological counseling. If ask me I would have to say that it is a tough decision, but if I was to choose I would think that the second proposal would benefit the child and society. My reason for saying so is because simply the child is too young for jail, two the child needs help and three jail would affect the child as he gets older.

                        Why would someone send a fourteen year old to jail? When that child enters jail, the thing that’s going to run through that child mind is unbelievable. The minute the child is in jail, he is going to feel like a criminal, yes knowing that the child did committed a crime, that child is going to be depresses, because if it was a problem that was wrong at home, then that child will start to question himself or herself saying, ‘See I know they didn’t care about me, and that’s why I did what I did.’ Then many evil thought starts to build in, and he tells him self that when he gets out watch I will take care of them who did not understand him. Not only that that child is too young, his not fully grown mature yet, and once he gets in that institution he will learn from what is around him, he will pick up after the others that are in there also. He will feel like what he had done was right because no one had understood him, but in jail, there are others he can relate too, they will understand that what he done he have the reason for doing it and it was the right thing to do because they also had done something the same or similar. That’s when it will be too late to offer to help to the child.

            Then again if that child had not gone to jail, may be he would have gotten the help he needed. It was obvious that the child needed help, you can’t just get up and say I am going to kill that person without that person doing you wrong, or because  nobody cares about you. From birth you should love that child, not only that you should always communicate with you child to learn more about what kind of a person they are. You should always say I love you once in while, or every chance you get, because if that child was to be taken away at the end you would feel like part of you was missing, but guess what it would be to late. You will then say to yourself I have created a monster. So it would be your fault. You were never there. Then again if from the time you spend with the child and you seen that he needed help, and then had gotten him counseling then it would not have gone that far.  And you had to do just make sure that he did not take any depression pills that would only make that child worst. So after the crime is committed the child should get help, someone to listen because usually that’s all it takes for them to feel like someone cares. When social workers would help it would be ok, but just I would just make sure that they don’t show up every day, give the child time to breath,  not only that them showing up everyday can make the parents stress out themselves, that would not help the situation.

            Now if that child was to go to jail, I know for a fact that when they leave the institution that it’s going to be hard to find a job, because on that child record it will say that the child had committed a crime. Then what should the adult to now that he is out of jail, hey it wont be easy finding a job, not only that it becomes stressful, if he was in jail the only way of him getting his money is to do something illegal. Then it is back to jail for that person right? From there that person becomes an official criminal. There you have it someone life is screw up, when it could have been prevented a better way.  This is how our children life are going to be mess up, by having them be put to jail, when all they needed was someone to be there for them from the start. The two people that are responsible are the state and the parent. The things that are shown on T.V. the way the parents act, is the child getting the right education from society and the right love from home.

             So after all that being said would you have still said yes, you sending your child to jail? I know would not I know that I would make sure that my child gets the right love he deserve, and the right environment. Wouldn’t you want what is best for your child?

Name: Yoldine Louis
 Reading Assignment #8
 Draft #3
 In the book “The Heart Of A Lonely Hunter”, by Carson Mc Cullers, the author introduces a character named Dr. Copeland. Dr. Copeland has a family with four children, Willie, Karl Marx, Hamilton, and Portia and a wife who is no longer part of the family. It is a fact that no family is perfect and there are always conflicts between families. In the Copeland family, the problem is between the father and all his children. Since his children didn't have the most happy childhood, they decided that when they grow up they would not have their father be part of their life except Portia. Usually it's the society to be blame for the way a parent raise a child, or it could even be an individual in the family. If speculate well then to most of the cause of this issue between the Copeland family, it started because of the society in which they live. It was like the lower class people had to work hard to make it look like they were in a higher class, which was how it seemed. Dr. Copeland tried to force his kids to be something which they were not.
            Families always love one another no matter the situation, and that is true because they love one another but it's something that is within that person, which make you wonder, or ask yourself questions, or feel like you can never relate to that person because of different ways of thinking, or seeing things. In the Copeland family Portia, and her other siblings felt they were raised by a father who was abusive, because he was forcing them to be what he had as their future goals for them. From the reading it said, "Hamilton would be a great scientist and Karl Marx a teacher of the Negro race and William a lawyer to fight against injustice and Portia a doctor for women and children"(80). And that's how he had seen their future, and that was not the best way to make his children love him more by saying that this is your goal, you do not get to make your own decision. When his children grew up, each went their own way, and Portia turned out to be the only one who would come around and visited her father.  Dr. Copeland should have seen that when he tried to force them to be something they were not, that his children were going to grow up may be not to hate him, but disliking the fact that this was the man they had to be raised by. Portia had also mention to her father that he thinks out everything in his brain, where as her and siblings would rather talk from their heart. He only thought about himself, and what would that make him look good, he never thought about how much he was hurting them as young children while growing up.  At last Portia told her father the last important thing she felt she had to get out of her mind. She said, “A person can't pick out their children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they want them to. Whether it hurts them or not. Where there is right or wrong. You don’t have to try that hard as any man could try. And now I’m the only one of your children that would come in this house, visitng you, and sit to talk to you like this" (78).
 One day Portia decide to  stop at her father house, and when she arrive she heated up something for them to eat. That's when Portia felt like she couldn't hold back and not say anything, then she said, "Well, this is the truth, everbody is scared of you. It’s sure would take a whole lot of gin to get Hamilton or buddy Willie or my highboy and sit with you like I do. Willie said that “He remembered you when he was only a little boy and he were afraid of his own father"(78). At that saying the only thing that Dr. Copeland could have done was coughed harshly and cleared his throat. It was only true what Portia said and Dr. Copeland knew it.
            He lost his family because of his selfishness. The only way for him to get his children to become a part of him again would only be for him to ask them to come over so they can all talk over with a nice dinner. And he can tell them “to say sorry for how raised them and it was foolish of him to try to turn them into something that they were not. Also he would like for them to become a family again and this time he promised to be a better father”. And that’s all it will take, Dr. Copeland is not the only one who should make an effort. His other children should also try set up a time for them to come and confess to their father just like Portia had done, and they should say “father this is what you did to me and I didn't like it how you ran my life, not letting me know. And after that they all should make up, and catch up on old times, like father and kids.
            We all know that we should forgive and forget, and that’s what the Copeland family should do, befor it’s too late. For there is a little saying that goes you never know how much something is worth until it is gone.
 

 

Yoldine Louis

October, 26, 2005

Quotes:

 

Part 2, chapter 3:

 

            The first quote was said by Dr. Copeland Father in-law. Dr. Copeland was the only one who was mad, but he kept everything to himself. Although he wanted to blow up and say something, but he felt like it was best that he staid quite. A reason that I feel like Dr. Copeland was mad is because already have this black pride thing and then here comes his father in law telling him that one day God will touch us and we will be white as a cotton.

 

The character speaks about religion because Portia had said that she misses Willie, and then the grandpa had told her to read Luke the chapter. In the chapter Portia found out that her grandfather was coming over, so se decided to have a family get together, and so she invited her families to her place to have dinner. During this whole time Dr. Copeland told himself that “they would listen to the old man, yet to words of reason they would not attend. These are my people, he tried to tell himself- but because he was dumb this thought did not help him now” (147). At the same time Dr. Copeland also felt like he does not belong in that crowed, because when everyone was talking or sharing drinks he chose not to take part in neither.

 

Part 2, Chapter 4

           

            On the first quote Jake is the one talking, and the lie he is talking about the world is build on, is the fact that half the people in the world just go around not admitting the truth to themselves. Everyone goes through hard time, and they all know that they want a better life but they don’t show it, they make it seem like they are all happy with their living when it’s not even true.

Yoldine Louis

October 19, 2005

Homework

 

            Relationship can be easy to build, easy to break, but it can be hard to rebuild. From reading all three characters that had some kind of issue with their father, I found out that I can relate to only one of them. From the story “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter,” there were two characters that had issues with their father. There was Mick and her father, Mick didn’t get along with her father but at the end she started to realize that her father was just lonely. There was Portia and her father, Portia’s father was not the best father to grow up with, but when she grew up she learn to forgive her father for having being do cruel. Then from the story “My Father’s Other Life” Susan and her father, Susan’s father didn’t have the best childhood, somewhat like Portia. Then when she learns about her father’s pass she felt different.

            I guess I would have to say that Mick is more relate to my experience with my father. Growing up my father was not with my mom, but I was allow to go and visit him in while I was in Haiti, then when I was about 6 or 7 years old he move to Florida, then I never seen him since. He has other kids that he needs to take care of, and I understand that, I wish he could have been part of my life, but he is not so I got to live with that.