Something to remember for Thanksgiving

By Mary Schmich

     When reading the column, I think Schmich wants us to feel like, no matter how little we give or receive, it's significance may be found out later in life. This is backed up by what Schmich said in her column, "... no matter how little you think you've gotten, you may understand later that it was huge." This shows that the quantity of items received may not be appreciated immediately, but later down the road the recipient may understand it's importance. 

     Schmich wants the reader to remember her personal anecdote because it is what occupies most of her column. And also because she connects the anecdote to her main message of the piece. "Off and on for years  since then, the vision of my father giving me money that was hard to spare had come back to me," this was said by Schmich in her column. This further backs up my point, because she says that the memory; that was hard to forget. is coming back to her. Here she connects her story to her message.

      The purpose of this column is to inform or to help the reader realize that little things can go a long way. The quote here is the same as the one used in the first paragraph,"... no matter how little you think you've gotten, you may understand later that it was huge." This... again shows that the quantity of items received may not be a big deal at first, but later down the road, the recipient may understand it's importance.

     The author incorporated a variety of paragraph lengths throughout the column. There are short paragraphs, there are long paragraphs... there are even one sentence paragraphs. For example, "Again, I turned around," was a one-sentence-paragraph. This variation in paragraph lengths shows us which part is important to understand and what Schmich feels should stand out. 

     What this column adds to our society is that we shouldn't we too greedy with the amount of gifts we want to receive... or the amount of gifts we think we 'deserve'. I feel like this goes along with any movie that features rich kids who think they deserve wayyy tooo much, but at the end they turn around and realize that they should be thankful for what they have. Overall this column teaches us to become a little more modest. 

So, do you agree with how I interpreted this column. Did you interpret it in a similar way, or was I way off? Let me know in the comments below!

     

     

     

MY SPRING BREAK!

Over this Spring Break, I decided to go study, work and basically 'school' free. Well, except this blog, and studying for Spanish... So, sorry Mrs. Leitsch but this one's not about a book :) This one's about what I did over Spring Break 2K15. 

My weekend was nothing but mundane. We went to a hockey game at the US Bank Arena. This was my first hockey game ever so I was pretty excited to go! It was the Cincinnati Cyclones vs Fort Wayne Komets. The cyclones was in the lead by 3-1 until the last 4 min of the game. I think they thought that they had the game in the bag, and they loosened up. But they probably regretted this, as the Komets caught up and the game ended in a 3-3 tie. But the worse part happened during over-time. Komets scored another goal to take the win! Let me tell you, I did not see this coming.

Lets jump to Wednesday, 3:00 am. My friend and I went to San Francisco; without any adults! We went from Cincinnati to Detroit. And Detroit to San Francisco. We arrived there by about 11 PST. And then we took an Uber to a Hop On- Hop Off tour bus. We visited most of the major attractions SFO has to offer. Some of them were Union Square,  Golden Gate Park, California Academy of Science, Palace of Fine Arts, China Town, Pier 39 and the daddy of them all, Golden Gate Bridge! We visited all of this within the day as we had to leave at 11 pm.  Over all this was an amazing trip, I met numerous people, and they were very kind and welcoming. 

When we arrived back in Cincinnati, both my friend and I were extremely tired and felt very jet-lagged. I slept around 11 hours that day. But I guess this is the price we both had to pay in return for 24 hours of fun. I definitely enjoyed this experience and I hope I can do something like this next year too.