J Hobb’s Online Journal

Dear Mr. Bacca,

My name is Josh Hobbs and i go to The London Nautical school. I am writing to talk and ask some questions. In my English class my teacher introduced us to one of your poems and we have been reading it for a few lessons. While we have been reading it we have seen that your childhood was not the best. One of the reasons for that is because you were in an orphanage. Also you were left by your parents so that could have been the reason why you were in prison.

As you lived in an orphanage, when you came out you go into some bad things and went to prison. In prison you wanted to learn English literature and they wouldn’t let you so you got sent to solitary confinement and some how managed to teach yourself. How hard was it to teach yourself English literature?. Whilst teaching yourself how did you physically cope with teaching yourself in prison?. When I try to teach myself how to do thing i always get frustrated or even sometimes i’ll give up and just wont try. Also when I try to teach it ends up my mother teaching me so that is why you so inspiring and also tells us that if you try hard you will get somewhere.

When you came out of prison and settled down with your life we now that you started to write poems and then became a poet and wrote poems about your past and present. When you first came out of prison did you have any family to go and stay with or even to talk to? I think it is essential that family should always be together and be there if you need them. Also when i have issues i have my mum or dad to speak to. So that is why i think family should always be there for other family members.

From reading some of your poems in class it has given me a better understanding of your life and your past. It is amazing how you have turned your life around, do you thinks prison has had any effect on your choices to making you a better man?. From the way you wrote ‘immigrants in our own land’ i got the impression that you found it extremely difficult to accept new arrivals coming into ‘our own land’, why was this?. when i first went to school i think people found it hard to see that i was new and that could relate to your situation but then they got to now me and they found that i was ok. So that is why you should’ve tried to talk and get to now the new people that were coming in.

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your poems and learning about your life. The circumstances you went through sound horrific and you are a very strong man seeing as you have been through so much, and still remain  positive is really inspiring. I look forward to hearing your response to my questions. Your sincerely Joshua Hobbs.

“The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian” is a book (written by Sherman Alexie) about a boy named Junior and how he lives his life. Junior lives his on the Spokane reservation,he lives with his mum,dad,sister and his grandmother. Junior is arguably the most important character in the book “the absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian”. Junior has water on the brain,ten extra teeth and other physical problems. Junior likes to draw cartoons and play basket ball.He goes to school on the reservation called wellpinit  and his best friend Rowdy goes to that school as well. In the book Juniors teacher Mr.p tells Junior  that for him to find hope he will have to leave the reservation to go to Rearden high school. Sherman Alexie makes Junior the main character in the book because Junior lives a similar life to what Sherman Alexie lived when he was a child. Sherman Alexie shows Junior as an outsider in the novel because when Sherman Alexie was younger he was sort of an outsider because he went to the same schools that Junior went to.  In this essay I am going to talk about five major events that happen in the book that makes Junior an outsider.

One way in which Junior is presented as an outsider is his dual experience of living in wellpinit whilst studying in Reardan high school. We can see this because on the reservation Junior is seen as an outsider because he had studied there for his whole life and all of a sudden he wants to go to study in Reardan. The people living on the reservation think that Junior has left them because he wanted to be white. Also they think that he left for that reason but he only left because wanted to get hope. Junior is an outsider in Reardan because he is the only Indian and they all think he is weird and stupid for that. On the reservation Junior had been studying in Wellpinit high school. He had a best friend named Rowdy and they had been friends since they were little.

Another way in which Junior is an outsider is through poverty we can see this when in the book the author writes “skin thirty”. This quote shows us that Junior is poor because in the picture the white kid has a nice watch,clothes and shoes and Junior doesn’t. this quote shows us that Junior doesn’t get stuff like the white kids and that he is an outsider for that. Also Junior is an outsider because after school in Reardan he has to walk all the way back to the reservation because he can’t always be sure that his dad will always pick him up once he has finished.

Another way we can see that Junior is an outsider is his physical problems. At the start of the book Junior said “I was born with water on the brain” this quote means that Junior was born with brain grease he has a bunch of physical problems such as water on the brain,ten extra teeth and a delicate head. Juniors physical problems stop him from doing stuff that a normal kid could do. Junior can’t eat with his mouth closed because of his ten extra teeth and he is an outsider for that. Also Junior is an outsider because he so many physical problems that people think that he is weird. Junior also likes to play basketball and when he plays he got knocked out by his friend Rowdy. Juniors physical problems have a massive impact in his life such as when he does play sport he can get hurt very easy

In conclusion, Junior is presented as an outsider in many ways. One of the most affective ways he is seen as an outsider is through poverty. Just like when Junior and Penelope go and dress up as homeless people but Junior already is dressed like a homeless person. So that is why I think that one is the most important. In the novel the other ways that Junior is seen as an outsider are not as affective than the one I think is, such as the one were we talk about Junior physical problems. That is because there are many people in the world have physical and people accept them people that have them physical problems. Also another one is when Junior is seen as an Indian in Rearden and in Wellpinit he is seen as a white kid because he left to go and find hope to get a future. this is not the most affective in my opinion but is still affective. He is only seen as a white kid in wellpinit because he left to go to Rearden and all of a sudden he is a white kid. 

The film in going to be reviewing is teenage mutant ninja turtles. This film is one of my favourite films I’ve ever watched because she I was younger I wanted to be like them. In the film the ninja turtles are turtles that like to help everyone and they save the day. My favourite turtle is Mikey because he does all the funny things and is always hungry for pizza and he is a good ninja as well. my opinion on this film is that it is very good and it is a good film. There are some more good bits of this film and one of them is that when they were little they would always go and dance because the sewers is right next to a club and Mikey would be the funniest. When they were training to be ninjas they would play this bucket game and the monster that wants to catch them the shredder that play it but they attack his instead of hitting the buckets. That is my film review and i cant wait to see the next one in cinema on Sunday. Book review by Josh!!!!!!!!!

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The book that I’m going to be doing my journal about is big nate. This book is about a boy that wants to go and live his dream by being a rockstar himself and his friends had been to see his favourite band of their lives (I forgot the bands name) Nate had some of them times in school when people don’t hang around with him then other days they all want to play with him. My opinion on this book is that it could make you laugh and it is a bit cool as well. A few more things on this book is that his dad loves food mostly donuts and tea. But a few months into the summer holiday his dad decides to run a marathon. And comes first. That is my book review.

Felix is a boy who lives in an orphanage, he enjoys telling Stories and has a very imaginative imagination. His stories help to cheer people up when they are sad as he can make up stories any time at any place. His parents were polish book sellers who owned a book shop. Whilst in the orphanage he made lots of friends and was able to cheer them up with his story telling. His parents put him into the orphanage to keep him safe from the nazis as they were burning books and houses down. Felix had escaped the orphanage and he met a girl lying next to her two dead parents and there house was burned down. Zelda and Felix had a great journey together as they both went to look for there parents.Felix and Zelda had great and loads of fun along the way the nazi had made Felix and Zelda get on a train so they could take them away but Zelda and Felix jumped of the train and had bullets shot at them but they dodged all the bullets and survived also they went on to live happy Live happily together and they both went on to have a happier life together.

In the story once my favourite character is Zelda because she is bossy and very funny when she says do you not know anything. Also she is my favourite because she is only young and thinks she knows everything that is my speech.

when the Jews got to the concentration camp there heads got shaved and they had to were certain clothes. They were told that if they had children their children would be killed on the spot. In concentration camps they were often scilent. In the camps they weren’t aloud to take any thing.

one memory that Felix has of his parents is that they owned a book shop and they loved to read,and to read to Felix at his bed time. Felix thinks that his mum and dad left the carrot as a message that hey are going to come and pick him up. I think that Felix thinks that he will find his mum and dad and live happily ever after. 

The book in doing a journal about is good night Mr tom.it is about a boy and he is in the blitz with his mum.After a little while his mum sends him out to the country side,then there was a man named tom and he forced too look after the boy.when the boy arrived he was a bit shy then Mr tom made the boy some dinner and the boy Sai he wasn’t hungry.then Mr tom took the boy upstairs to un pack then he found a belt.after a few nights the boy took of his top and showed mr tom his scars that his mum made by putting on his back then mr tom threw the belt away then the boy had to go back home then his mum got him a surprise and it was a baby sister and his mum unpacked his bag and his mum realised the belt was gone.at the end mr tom realised that the boy hadn’t sent a letter for long so he went down to his house and tried to get the boy to come and live with him then they went to his house and mr toms dog could smell the boy so they kicked open the door to see the boy and they couldn’t find him then the shouted help and they found him and his sis in the basement unfortunately his sister was dead then he went to live with me tom. My opinion on the book is that it is very sad at the end that his sis died but then it was good at the  beginning.that is my opinion.

I think that my prisoners thoughts would be that he would be that to escape they would need to be silent, tricky, fast and acrobatic. Another thought I think they would be thinking is that he needs to dig underground to escape with a jail mate to have company. Also he would be thinking about family and friends. He could be thinking of maybe getting caught. 

That is what I think my prisoners thoughts would be.

Josh