Where I am From

I am from the bright
from the moonlight of the night
I am from a place full of stars,
from the skies of the night.

I am from my house
from the brick built structure.
I am from a room
full of light and dark.

I am from a school,
from a class of happiness and family.
I am from a class,
where i get to be myself.

I am from a city
from mountains and wood,
I am from a hill,
from winds, bushes, and flowers.

I am from a place
where they speak gibberish,
I am from a house
where I belong to.

Tea Cup- Poetry

Tea Cup
Waiting, and waiting to be used
Here the time comes,
Now I go.
Hot liquid poured into my little tea cup,

I wait again to be drank out of
Touching my little handle,
Now take a sip,

Seeing their faces,
Peaceful and calm,
Another day, has gone pass,
Now I rest in the glass closet again.

New Article Connections to the Pearl

http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/13/real_estate/Nicolas_Cage/index.htm

This article's title is "Nicolas Cage: Movie star, foreclosure victim". Through the title, I thought that since he is a movie star, he would have a lot of money, and maybe a little bit greedy, too. When I read this article, he had a great amount of debts. Cage borrowed money for his two houses in California and Las Vegas. Now that he doesn't have money, he owes more than 6million dollars. I think that this relates to the theme of the Pearl, because if Cage didn't have greed to buy houses that costs so much, he shouldn't have bought it. Again, i think that one house would have been enough, but maybe he wasn't satisfied with what he had already. Like Kino, Cage might thought that it was for his family, but later, his greed brought him down.

“The Pearl” Reflection

What is the meaning of this parable?
How do we read our own life in this book?

I think the meaning of this parable is that, wealth brings greed to people. When I was reading this parable, starting with the part where Kino returned with the pearl, I read or felt the greed in the people. From the middle of the parable, Steinbeck starts to describe about the neighbors’ eyes on the pearl, and I just thought that he was trying to explain what wealth brings in people’s minds.

Also, by reading this parable, I am assured that wealth doesn’t always bring happiness to people. I say this because ever since Kino brought the pearl back to his home town, all he faced was trouble. Because of the pearl, Kino ended up killing a person (by accident), and by killing the person, his family had to leave the town, and leaving his home lead Coyotito to death. Just because of one thing, wealth, Kino’s family faced misery.

In this parable, I relate my own life with the neighbor. I’m a person, and other people’s wealth brings me greed. Whenever my friend ends up with a good ending, I don’t seem to congratulate her because of my greed. Just like the neighbors around Kino, I don’t get satisfied with other people’s success.

Although I relate to the neighbor, somehow I relate to Kino as well. When I get a jack pot like Kino’s finding of the pearl, I am relieved and happy at first, but as time passes, I get tight around me, and self defended.

Through this story, I think that Steinbeck is trying to tell the readers what wealth brings.