My Life in Photos

A Place To Stand memorable scene

Kaitlyn Kirkpatrick
Professor Young
ENGW 1101
12 June 2018

A Place To Stand

A Place To Stand is a very interesting novel based on The life and struggles of the author, Jimmy Santiago Baca. A scene that really stood out was when Baca's mother just dropped them off and ran off to California with her boyfriend. The reason why that seemed so like such an important detail in the reading was because it was the turning point in Baca's life. It was such a pivotal moment that he keeps on referring back to. It all came down to his mother leaving. Due to that he got moved around from his grandparents home at first then to he orphanage with the nuns and finally to a juvenile detention center. It was around that time that Baca started school and found that he was very behind in academics, but excelled in football. He stayed at school for a while until he dropped out. Throughout all of the stuff he had endured his brother had for the most part stayed his rock. He went with his brother everywhere so when he showed up at the detention center Baca left with him. It was after he left the detention center did he really start getting into fights and drinking and smoking. He did that for years with his brother until one day they split off and went there own ways. baca had some moments in his life where he would get on his feet for a while and hold down a job, but they never lasted. One day Baca found out that his mother had moved back in town and went to her house. She was living the fancy life and had a big house and kids and she introduced her other children to Baca as "a friend". It was hard for Baca because he had always had a small hope that his mother would come back for him and his siblings, but in reality she just dumped them and forgot about them.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Reflection of Do The Right Thing

Kaitlyn Kirkpatrick
ENGW 1001
29 May 2018
Professor Young

Reflection Of Do The Right Thing

Out of all of the character in the script for Do The Right Thing I'd have to say that the character that I relate to the most would have to be Mother Sister. The reason that I relate to her the most is that she is just the person who watches over everyone else, like a friend who watches out for you. I feel as though i am the same way with all of my friends. I'm the person who makes sure that everyone is alright. The character that I feel as though I relate to the least in most likely Sal. The reason I think I am least like Sal is because Sal is way to prone to being violent or even wanting to resort to violence. For example, whenever someone disagrees with him on basically anything he breaks out his baseball back, preparing to hurt someone else and I am nothing like that.

There are a lot of point in the play where character are torn in deciding what the right and wrong thing to do in different scenarios. For instance, when Sal broke Radio Raheem's boombox. Sal had a choice and in my opinion he chose wrong. He should not have gone as far as he had as to break the only important item that Radio Raheem owned and cherished. However, other characters in the script do the right thing. For example, Mother Sister, she is the person who can be seen helping others and watching out for them, making sure that they are not getting in trouble.

According to the script the right thing to do is to stand up for yourself as well as for others. The way I see it is when the police officers came and started freaking out with Radio Raheem and then when he died the whole neighborhood banded together and while they did not do the right thing by burning down the pizzeria they showed true loyalty to their friends that day. The right that they they could have done instead of resorting to the extreme measures that they did was handle the situation peacefully by reporting the officers or something of that sort, because instead they handled the situation rather radically.

Do The Right Thing

Kaitlyn Kirkpatrick
ENGW 1001
24 May 2018
Professor Young

Do The Right Thing

Do the right thing had a multitude of different themes going on throughout the play. The most obvious one was the difference between right and wrong. This theme was constantly occurring on who was right during all of he different scenarios. Some of these scenarios were easier to pick a side on to argue about whereas, some of the situations it was difficult to pick a way to argue about. Another theme that appeared multiple times throughout the script was the theme of Caucasian versus African American. Due to the fact that the neighborhood in the script is primarily African American with only 3 or 4 caucasian character there tends to be a bit of friction especially regarding a character named Pino. Pino is a Italian Caucasian man who works at his fathers pizzeria. Pino is very racist and likes to mock or pick on an African American man named Mookie who works there. These are only two of many themes that are happening. The setting is in Brooklyn and the scenes are constantly changing from a pizza parlor to a front apartment stoop to a a convenient store. The characters that are present at each location differ as well. The overall basis of the script though is that after an encounter with the police officers a person of color ends up dead. In this case it is a well known character named Radio Raheem. The citizens of the neighborhood create an uproar in light of his death by dramatically burning down the pizzeria that that was owned by the Italian family in the neighborhood.

English Class

Kaitlyn Kirkpatrick

English 1001

23 May 2018

Professor Young

The Basis for English 1001

English is such an interesting subject. For me the reason that i love english class is partially because of my fondness for reading, but also because i actually enjoy writing. I like to write because then i can express my opinion through it.