Assignment #10(A)

Question: According to Brian, what is the key to hunting and why is that the key? How might this relate to you even though you are not a hunter?

Original answer: According to Brian, the key to hunt is knowledge because he learned how to handle difficulty matters as handle the bow, point the target and kill the target. This sentence relates me because I hunt for my goal in step by step.

Revised answer: According to Brian, patience is the key to hunt because hunting requires time, if you hurry, everything will be gone. This sentence relates to me because I need time to learn matters, if I rush, in the end, I will learn nothing

Assignment #10(B)

Question: Consider this passage from Brian’s Hunt:

He thought at first he had changed again, that there were steps in how he had done so, but he realized that he was changing constantly as the world around him shifted, as he learned more.

In this passage we find Brian’s observations about himself. How do his observations relate to you exactly? In other words, what should you take from this passage?


Original answer: His observations relate to me because I learn from mistakes. If I make a mistake, I need to change it until it is correct. I also need to learn from other people because I could learn and gain more knowledge from them. In other words, I need to learn from other people and correct my mistakes.

Revised answer: His observations relate to me because I constantly grow up years after years, and my knowledge is increasing. For example, Babies learn how to talk and walk when they are one or two year-old. It is a process and knowledge. In other words, people will need to change their thoughts, actions, and everything that relates to their life when the time is reached, and people slowly gain their knowledge while their life continuely lives through future.

Assignment #10(C) - Help!

Question: consider this passage from Brian’s Hunt:

The Inuit would put a small piece of feather over the hole and stand with bone harpoon ready and when the seal came into the hole the air pushing ahead of its body would ruffle the feather and the hunter would lunge with the harpoon and bury the barbed head in the back of the seal.

Why do three different verb forms in this passage occur with “would”? What does the use of “would” convey here?

Original answer: In this passage, the author uses “would” because he saw one in the past, so he is using the past tense. The word “would” means will and always will do the samething.

All assistance that contributes to revising this answer is greatly appreciated

Assignment #9(B)

" "Come out, Miss." She tried. " I can't move." she said. The man excavated some more and told her to try with all her strength to get out. But looks were heavy on her hips, and the man finally saw that a bookcase was leaning on the books and that a heavy bean pressed down on the bookcase. "wait," he said. " I'll get a crowbar."
The man was gone a long time, and when he came back, he was ill-tempered, as if her plight were all her fault. "We have no men to help you!" he shouted in through the tunnel. " You'll have to get out by yourself." " (Hersey, 1988, p.44)

I do not get this point that why would the man left her behind while there is still chances to save her?

Assignment #9(A)

"In his dream, he had been at the bedside of a country patient when the police and the doctor he had consulted burst into the room, seized him, dragged him outside, and beat him cruelly." (Hersey, 1988, p.19)

I am just unsure that he dreamt this because he scared that the police and doctor would catch him for doing treatment for illness people without a permit?

Assignment #8(B)

"So much of what drove Brian now was instinct, feelings, what he used to call hunches but what he now thought of as logical flows of information from his subconscious based on knowledge that he sometimes did not quite understand." (Paulsen, 2003, p.62)

Assignment #8(A)

"As an extension of his mind, in an almost Zen state, but for one thing and one thing only." (Paulsen, 2003, p.56)

Four sentence types from other bloggers.

Simple: "A "boat" is the main point." (http://thaonguyen85.blogspot.com/)

• In the sentence, there is only one independent clause, so this sentence is a simple sentence.

Complex: "I think this is simple sentence because there is only one complete clause." (http://yjpapaya.blogspot.com/)

• There is only one independent clause and one dependent clause. The subject-verb combanation of the indenpendent clause is "I think"and of the dependent clause is "there is", and the author is trying to use conjunction "because" to explain to the readers, and it makes it a complex sentence.

Compound: "The sentence has only one subject-verb and it is independent clause." (http://chin-yin.blogspot.com/)

• There are two independent clausesm, so this sentence is a compound sentence.

Compound-Complex: "This passage strikes me because it tells when the author caught in the storm and the boat has been hit with the waves that knock him in the water, but he was trying to hold on and fight against the storm to get on the boat." (http://www.tinhsekhongphai.blogspot.com/)

• There are two independent clauses and four dependent clauses, so this sentence is compound-complex. The subject-verb combanation of the independent clauses in this sentence are "passage strikes" and " he was trying", and dependent clauses are "it tells", "author caught", "boat has been hit" and "that knock".