Allison's English Blog

The time when I was laughing at my best friend while he cried to me. It shocked me since I've never laughed at him while he was being vulnerable towards me. I remember just muting myself during the phone call and just laughing as he spoke to me. I was expecting to feel sympathy for him or any soft emotions. But I didn't, I just laughed. I was trying to tell myself it was okay because he was trying to paint himself as the victim.  Today in class I worked on annotating the poem "Out Out" by Robert Frost and then did some analysis. I learned two messages from the poem; Danger is around us all the time and Life can end within a blink of an eye. I also learned how to do a complex account and more literary techniques.

 I remember when I was told my friend lost his battle against cancer, I felt lost. I didn't know for a month since he lived in another state and I just thought he was busy with life and school. I wasn't aware he had cancer but I do remember getting upset and mad at him since he wouldn't answer me as frequently anymore. When I was told after a month later that he had cancer and passed away, I felt lost. His sister reached out to me on September 7, 2022 and told me what his final words were to me. I remember crying and not being able to talk about it to my parents since he was a boy and my parents didn't like me talking to boys even as friends. Also didn't help he was from another state. I couldn't talk to anybody about it,I felt completely alone and lost. Today in class we just worked on our one pager and was given a vocabulary sheet we have to work on. I learned how I was able to have a personal connection with the story. It impacted me by making me realize that...