Huck Finn

Huckelberry Finn has some troubles in his life. He lives with a widow because his father hasn't been seen in more than a year. Tom Sawyer is his best friend. Tom wants to start a band of robbers and murderers with Huck and a few other boys from the neighborhood. They all met up and followed Tom to a cave in the woods. There Tom made them all agree to be in the band or to go home. They all agreed by signing there names in blood. From this point on Huck, Tom and all the other boys basically just played being robbers and murdurers, but never actually robbed or murdered anyone. The widow was constantly trying to make Huck pure and get him into heaven. She told him to pray every night and to go to school. Huck didnt quite understand all this religion stuff so he blew it off most of the time. At one point in the story Huck kind of enjoys having to wash and dress differently everyday. Until one day his father comes back for the first time in a year. His father takes him away from everthing. He brings him deep into the woods so no one can find him. He doesne't Huck to be better than him by going to school, learning religion, and wearing nice clothes the widow gave him. His father is a drunk. He makes Huck give him any money he gets so he can buy booze.

Hatchet 2

Now Brian is flying the plane alone. He sees the radio the pilot used to communicate. He got the radio and started screaming into the microphone. When he realized he could only hear himself he remembered he has to press the mic switch. He pushes the mic switch and talks. Someone hears him. Brian instantly starts explaining what happens. All of a sudden the radio has no signal and his communications are knocked out. This makes Brian panic. Now he is contemplating his death. Finally he get a hold of his self and decides how he will land the plane when it runs out of fuel. He says he will land it in one of the lakes that are below him. He sees one as the plane is descending and crash lands it in the lake. He smashes his head of the steering wheel and is thrown from the plane. He ends up on the shore and just goes to sleep. He wakes up on the beach aching all over, but concludes nothing is broken and that he'd live. His head is pounding and doesn't know where he is. He is lost in the Canadian wilderness. All he has is his windbreaker and his hatchet. He is alone.

Hatchet 1

In the beginning of the story a 13-year-old boy named Brian is on a small bush plane. He is on his way to Canada to stay with his father for the summer. His parents were recently divorced and he is depressed about it. While he is on the plane he flashes back to before he got to the airport in the car with his mother. Him and his mother are driving and all he can think about is "the secret." He keeps remembering what he saw one day when he was riding his bike with one of his friends. He was riding by a car and he saw his mother. He was going to wave but he saw a man in the car with her. This stopped him from waving. Then it happened. She kissed him, and she didn't kiss him the way you would kiss your grandmother. After the divorce Brian knew why it had happened and his father didn't. Brian's mother gave him a hatchet for when he went to Canada so he could use it in the outdoors. Now Brian came back and he was back on the plane again sitting next to the pilot in the cockpit. The pilot started to strike up a conversation about flying. He asked Brian if he'd ever flown before, but Brian hadn't been on a plane before. So the pilot told Brian what to do and he did it. He knew basically how to fly the plane. After a little bit the pilot started having aches in his arm and his chest. He was having a heart attack. Brian didn't realize what was happening until after the pilot died.

Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano was just a young boy when he was enslaved. In his narrative he describes the conditions forced upon him and his people. He describes the hold where the slaves were as unbearably hot. It was so hot people could suffocate. Also the hold was not clean at all. All those people in one compact place at once was not the healthiest. Disease spread around quickly. He explains how the children fell into the tubs that people were going to the bathroom in. There was no where for the slaves to bathe either. Another thing was that there wasn't enough fresh air getting to the hold so people were getting very sick. The only time a slave went up on deck was when they were near death and absolutely needed fresh air. Equiano explains how the men that enslaved him and his people beat his people to near death if they acted up in any sort. Despite all of the bad things that have happened to him and his people, Equiano recognizes some good things. He recognizes the fish and that a crew member taught him what a quadrant was and how it was used on a ship to navigate.

A Journey Through Texas

The Native Americans thought the Spaniards were some life form on like an angels level of super naturalness. The Natives asked the Spanish to ask the Heavens for rain. This explains the reason why the Natives were so scared of the Spaniards. They thought the Spaniards could punish them. The Spaniards only wanted to get to the colony of New Mexico to find maize. There only a few reasons the Spaniards asked the natives to help them. One reason being that the Spaniard didn't know the land at all and needed assistance navigating to get to the colony. Another reason is that the Spaniards didn't know what was safe to eat on their journey. The natives knew what was safe and what was unsafe to eat. Also the natives knew how to cook the foods. The natives also told the Spaniards what tribes were safe and what tribes were dangerous.

The Iroquois Constitution

The Iroquois Constitution wasn't just a set of laws and an explanation of how a government will operate. It was much more than that. It was a way of life. It explains how people should live their life under the Tree of Great Long Leaves, meaning in peace and harmony. Under the Tree anger and frustration did not exist. When you lived under this constitution you lived without hatred and with love and peace at heart. You would show your peace and gratitude toward others in the confederation with four strings of shells. I the strings of shells are symbolic for love and peace. This was a place where evil was not a factor. Only love would be expressed under the Tree of Great Long Leaves.

from The Navajo Origin Legend

What? This story made no sense at all. The only thing I pulled from it is that men and women were created to be together and reproduce.