Author: João Pedro

IRJE #1 – Black boy – Richard wright

In black boy Richard wright describes his life history, since he was a little kid to get to become a full grow adult, sharing diverse histories about his life development and experiences that show how was the life of a black boy in the 1900s. The quote I chose has the context about it show because the main character has an uncle that goes to work in his saloon during late hours each day to support his family.

“One morning I awakened to learn that Uncle Hoskins had not come home from the salon. Aunt Maggie fretted and worried. She wanted to visit the salon, but Uncle Hoskins had forbidden her to come to the place.”

That quote got me thinking because i know that after that incident they discover that uncle Hoskins is actually dead by a bullet shot from a white man, what got me reflecting that Hoskins actually knew that the could get killed there and that if his wife go there she would get killed also, and anyways going to the salon knowing that he was in danger.

The view of the war – WW1 Literature

After reading and reflecting about the events that occurred in world war 1 in the book All Quiet on the Western Front, and in the exerts WW1 Prose 1 and Prose 2 that were written by the view of people that were present on the events of the war and can describe the horrible situations that they passed with accuracy. In my thought the world war was a complete massacre caused by the bad politicians that prolonged it self because of the technological and strategical advance and that the civilians knew the what the was turning and the hell that it was there, but as I read the book I discovered and realized that the war was deeper than that one example of it was my reaction after reading the chapter of all quiet on the western front were the parents of Paul kept asking how was the war like and what situations they passed there.

Another thing that got me thinking was the part of the of the Prose that shows the struggles of the war and how difficult the living at the trenches, one example could be a part that Barthas wrote saying all the effort that his team took to build a shelter to protect their self from the rain in the trenches, and adding to that the temperature goes down making them freeze along side with water in the trenches.

After reading the book and the proses I realized how bad the situations were at the war times and that people had no idea of when the war was going to end, the civilians had no idea of how the war was and many more bad things were happening at war times, that makes me fear a next incoming war in the future.

MY changing life experience

Hello, my name is João Pedro I am from São Paulo, Brazil and i lived most part of my life there. There i livid in an apartment were I had many friends and fun, I studied in a good close by school named Dante Alighieri that had a very traditional way of teaching that was really hard to follow, anyway for me it was fun because I had some really close friends there it being with them was so cool, but although the life there was amazing the most part of my mother family lived in a “small city” two hours across from  São Paulo, the city is named São Jose dos Campos and we visited my grandparents there frequently and it was very fun because I had many cousins that i liked much, for me going there was fun and it was very good for my mom that missed her parents a lot and she loved going there, even my dad liked to be there a lot because he loved to be with my uncles and aunts.

At one time my dad stopped working and retired himself making my mom the only one that needs to be in São Paulo, but them the pandemic hit and me and my family got to live at the house that my father build at the countryside that is right next to a house that my grandparents own, what was incredible for me and my family, mostly for my dad that loved the place and being close with my mom part of the family was always good for him.

After the pandemic my parents realized that staying close to my mom parents so they decided that we should move out to the city my grandparents lived, so we moved out I got to study in the school that my favorite cousin studied and there I started to make new friends and build up a life that i really loved close to my family with new friends and never losing contact with my friends that lived in São Paulo. And now I am here aiming for new experiences and memories that will build up my self.