Blog Assignment #11 (b)

All day, people poured into Asano Park. This private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples were still alive, and the green place invited refugees-partly because they believed that if the Americans came back, they would bomb only buildings; partly because the foliage seemed a center of coolness and life, and the estate's exquisitely precise rock gardens, with their quiet pools cure; and also partly (according to some who were there) because of an irresistible, atavistic urge to hide under leaves. Mrs. Nakamura and her Children were among the first to arrive, and they settled in the bamboo grove near the river. They all felt terribly thirsty, and they drank from the river. At once they were nauseated and began vomiting, and they retched the whole day. Others were also nauseated; they all thought (probably because of the strong odor of ionization, an "electric smell" given off by the bomb's fission) that they were sick from a gas the Americans had dropped. When father Kleinsorge and the other priest came into the park, nodding to their friends as they passed, the Nakamuras were all sick and prostrate. A woman named Iwasaki, who lived at the neighborhood of the mission and who was sitting near the Nakamuras, got up and asked the priest if she should stay where she was or go with them. Father Kleinsorge said, "I hardly know where the safest place is." She stayed there, and later in the day, thought she had no visible wounds or burns, she died. The priest went farther along the river Settled down in some underbrush. Father LaSalle lay down and went right to sleep. The theological student, who was wearing slippers, had carried with him a bundle of clothes, in which he had packed two pairs of leather shoes. When he sat down with the others, he found that the bundle had broken open and a couple of shoes had fallen out and now he had only tow lefts. He retraced his steps and found one right. When he rejoined the priest, he said, "It's funny, but things don't matter any more. Yesterday, my shoes were my most important possessions. Today, I don't care. One pair is enough." (P 35-36)

Could this paragraph be divided into at least two smaller paragraphs? Leave a comment to address this question and explain your position.

Blog Assignment #11 (a)

He thought he would skirt the fire, to the left. He ran back to Kannon Bridge and followed for a distance one of the rivers. He tried several cross streets, but all were blocked, so he turned far left and ran out to Yokogawa, a station on a railroad line that detoured the city in a wide semicircle, and he followed the rails until he came to a burning train. So impressed was he by this time by the extent of the damage that he ran north two miles to Gion, a suburb in the foothills. All the way, he overtook dreadfully burned and lacerated people, and in his guilt he turned to right and left as he hurried and said to some of them, "Excuse me for having no burned like yours." Near Gion, He began to meet country people going toward the city to help, and when they saw him, several exclaimed, "look! There is one who is not wounded." At Gion, he bore toward the right bank of the main river, the Ota, and ran down it until he reached fire again. There was no fire on the other side of the river, so he threw off his shirt and shoes and fairly strong, exhaustion and fear finally caught up with him-he had run nearly seven miles-and he became limp and drifted in the water. He prayed, "Please, God, help me to cross. It would be nonsense for me to be drowned when I am the only uninjured one." He man-aged a few more strokes and fetched up on a spit downstream. (P 30)

Could this paragraph be divided into at least two smaller paragraphs? Leave a comment to address this question and explain your position.

Assignment 10 (C) - Help!

The Inuit would put a small piece of the 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 barded 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?

The verb “would” in this situation expresses what happened in the past. Yes this verb conveys here because the whole sentence is in the past. (What else?)

Assignment 10 (B)

These are the correct answers for questions from assignment 10A.

He had the bow, a laminate straight, almost a longbow, that pulled forty-five pounds at twenty-six inches’ draw.

In this case, what is “draw”, and what does “pounds” refer to here?

The “pounds” refer to how much strength he uses to pull the bow. The "draw" refers to how far he pulls the bow.

A coyote, perhaps, brush wolf as they called them up north, or maybe a timber wolf, two wolves, one begging from the other.

What is the sentence type here, and why?

This is not a complete sentence because it does not have an independent clause.

Assignment 10 (A)

These are the incorrect answers.

A cayote, perhaps, brush wolf as they called them up north, or maybe a timber wolf, two wolves, one begging from the other.

What is the sentence type here, and why?

This is a complex sentence because it has one independent clause and two independent clauses. It also has two subject and verb agreements. The first one is “they called them” and the second one is “one begging from the other”.

He had the bow, a laminate straight, almost a longbow, that pulled forty-five pounds at twenty-six inches’ draw.

In this case, what is “draw”, and what does “pounds” refer to here?

The “pounds" refer to up to how many ponds it would kill.

Assignment #9 (B)

To-him faced way from the center and looking at his paper-it seemed a brilliant yellow. Startled, he began to rise his feet. In that moment, the hospital leaned behind his rising and, with a terrible ripping noise, toppled into the river. The Doctor, still in the act of getting to his feet, was thrown forward and around and over; he lost track of everything, because things were so speed up; he felt the water. (Page 11)

It is hard for me to understand this passage. It is hard for me to picture what is happening. It happens so fast and the author explains it so fast that I can't understand it.

Assignment #9 (A)

After the storm Mr. Tanimoto began ferrying people again, and father Kleinsorge asked the theological student to go across and make his way out to the Jesuit Novitiate at Nagatsuka, about three miles from the center town, and to request the priest there to come with help for fathers Schiffer and Lassalle. The student got in to Mr. Tanimoto's boat and went off with him. Father Kleinsorge asked Mrs. Nakamura if she would like to go out to Nagatsuka with the priest when they came. She said she had some luggage and her children were sick-they were still vomiting from time to time, and so, for that matter, was she-and therefore she feared she could not. He said he thought the fathers from the Novitiate could come back the next day with a pushcart to get her. (Page 39)

This passage confuses me because it goes back and forward between characters, too fast from one to the other. It makes me loose sight of what is going on.