Jared Ramos 806                                              Painting                                                       

In my journey of close reading, I chose to read a Picasso, which is a painting. In this Picasso I found that to be an artist you just need to have a little bit of imagination, and a pencil and paper. As I closely read the Picasso I found how you don't have to be an artist to make art you just need to be creative and show your creativity on paper. Closely reading the Picasso I found my self observing the whole painting, noticing details that not everyone would notice. I just felt that I could extract what the artist had been doing while she was painting.

In the Picasso I notice many thing and subtle derails that I was able to find. I found that the artist was using color to show emotion. But the colors she used was bright colors that stood out and shoes how she was feeling, and I also noticed that she used specific colors in specific places that made the Picasso stand out even more. In the Picasso I've notices how the paintings are so abstract and all over the place. I can understand how your painting doesn't have to be symmetrical or perfect it could whatever you want it to show and make it any shape or size you want it to be. That's the cool thing about a Picasso you get to express your creativity in a whole different talent that makes art more meaningful to a close reader like me.

I believe that you don't have to be an artist to express yourself, you just have to make something that could be meaningful to you, where people could see the value and emotion exerted by you art. So as a result anyone can be considered an artist because everyone views the world in a different way than when they apply their strategies and knowledge they create a master piece that has value to them and speaks to them through something other than words, in art. In my thought and beliefs I believe that art is a way of reading, it's like a page of words but in art that could mean anything the artist drew it out to be. So in general to be an artist it doesn't take much talent you just need a pencil and pepper and a hint of imagination to create something valuable to you. 

Jared Ramos 806                                   ‘The Stolen Party”                       1/14/14

The stolen party is a story about a girl Rosaura being used by Senora Ines.

Senora Ines is a wealthy woman who has a maid, and the maid has a daughter whose name is Rosaura. Rosaura had been invited to a party by senora Ines’s daughter Lucia, but at this party Rosaura had been helping Senora Ines as if she was an employee or a worker working for Senora Ines like her mother does. I wanted to focus on how Senora Ines was using Rosaura and how at the end of the story she was talking down to them, because she was a higher class in wealth. 

In the story "The Stolen Party," my group had studied closely on things that could have impacted the character and us as readers. While I was studying the text close I stumbled across a sentence that really just impacted me as a reader. The Senora Ines had said after Rosaura had finished she said, "thank you for your help my PET." That really made me think of many things that she could've meant by that, I thought she was talking down to her , talking to her as if she was her servant. This impacted me because it made me feel that people have to work for wealthy people not because they want to because they need to feed there family, and the way wealthy people would take advantage of people and kids, is just horrible. Another thing me and my group focused on was the ending. In the ending the author left us readers of thinking about Rosaura and her mother, how Senora Inez gave her two envelopes with money meanwhile the other kids got gifts like Yoyos and bracelets. This made us think about how she felt getting paid for working at the party and I thought that she probably was crushed to be paid and to be used at the age of ten, to be working and doing what her mother does but not knowing that at the time till Senora Ines gives her money.

In The Stolen Party I felt there was a lot of controversy about whether or not this story was about wealth and the different classes of earnings. But I felt that it was about the different classes because of the way Senora Ines had been treating Rosaura. She Had been treating her like her pet or servant making her work. And that was actually the only reason I think Senora Ines's mother invited her, it was to make her work and do the cleaning and helping of the party. So as a result I understand my concept and position I am taking and I think you would to. 

Jared Ramos 806                         My Favorite Book of 2013

My favorite book of 2013 was that even the most innocent person could get hooked onto crack. In the book the main character had gotten hooked onto crack and she enjoyed the feeling, because another part of her came out a more cool go with the flow kind of person. And reading this book, I found that the main character would go way out of her way to score some drugs. I don’t want to ruin the book for anyone, but this book showed a really important and meaningful message to the reader that you would have to intake from the book. But the message I had stumbled across was that drugs destroys a person’s life and hurts the people around them.

 

I found that in the book, the author didn’t really have the character have a happy moment, that really lasted after she took the crystal meth. That showed me that in life you have to make choices and sometimes these choices can impact you personally and surroundings. One example is that, the main character choice to take drugs and by taking drugs that one choice impacted her. After she had taken the drugs and it started to show it was a down fall for her, there was no light at the end of the tunnel. What that means is that, your mistake had made such an impact that it could not be cleared from your life and from the people around you.

 

As a reader I read book that deal with social issues, and I read them because they show life lessons and I could make sure that that sort of problem wont happen that I would prevent things like that from happening because I know the outcomes of that issue. In the I pick a message that I thing really described the situation that the main character had faced and that this showed me that you could choose who you want to be and make the decisions you think really fit you and that you would like to keep for the rest of your life. I felt that this book was one of the most thought provoking books and gave a valuable lesson that changed me as a reader. I just want to say if you have free time I recommend Glass by Ellen Hopkins.