Gentleman of Río en Medio Vocabulary

1. Negotiation - There was a negotiation about between my brother and I on how long should each of us use the computer.
2. Innumerable - I forgot the innumerable times I called my mom to pick me up when she threw her phone at home and went hang out with her friends.  
3. Boundaries - There's an invisible boundary between my mom and I because we don't get along with each other very well
4. Descendants - I don't think I will have any descendant because I am not gonna marry anyone.

Stop The Sun Vocabulary

1. Commotion - She couldn't move while watching the commotion in the horror movie in the theater.
2. Founder - I was foundered when my brother proposed to his girlfriend at our house last night.
3. Ruin -  Yesterday Rome was a city, today it is nothing but a ruin. 
4. Inert - I looked inert at the beautiful artwork that was turning into pieces.

Literary Focus Question # 6

Don Anselmo didn't reveal who "owns" the trees at his first visit because of many reasons. Firstly, he thought he doesn't "own" the trees so it wasn't his right to tell the lawyer who really "owns" the trees. The Americans thought they got the land and house for a cheap price, but instead, they got all these children annoyed them for another price to pay. Secondly, he didn't tell them because he respects the children and their trees, he could ask for their permission to sell them in the first place, but he didn't. He wanted them to keep their trees, and also their culture. I think it's something cultural about those trees that he didn't want the Americans to know about. And finally he honored his culture and he also wanted the children to honor the culture by keeping them, not selling them, but he decided it is their choice sell it or not, because they "own" the trees. 

Literary Focus

I think Terry was right when he asked his father about his experiences in the Vietnam war. Although his father said that talking about it doesn't help make things better, I believe he just didn't find the right person to talk and share about his time there. By asking his father about his experiences, he helped his father talk about things that mentally tormented him for years. And it helped Terry's father feels better and it also healed his heart from what he had seen in the Vietnam war. Terry also understands his father better by talking to him and cares about his father more, Terry won't be embarrass of his father again because he understands what his father had been through. I think Terry made a right choice by asking his father about his experiences in the Vietnam war.

OUR FUTURE

OUR FUTURE

“Hurry up, son! You’re gonna be late for work and we won’t be able to find enough oil for today” – shouts the Father, and he flee out of the old wooden door for his daily work at the dirty diamond mine not far from their old house.

“June 17^th, 2510,

Just another day of hard working but still no food…..” The Son closes his diary and jumps down the archaic floor that had broken for years even before he was born, and almost fall. He’s a fine young man, at the start of his twenties. He has beautiful blonde hair like his mother, big, blue eyes like his father. He is the strongest kid in the whole village, he’s always the winner in those muscle contests.

“Wait son, you forgot your lunch box, AGAIN!” The Mother calls out to her son with a tired voice from their small kitchen at the back of the house.

“Thanks, mom! Take care, don’t work too hard or you’ll get sicker. We’ll bring you some good food today for you to improve your health.” The Son talks softly to his little mother. He smiles to her, takes her hand, kisses it, takes his lunch box and runs after his dad. He doesn’t know that is the last time he would ever see her alive again.

They are living in the year 2510 of the future, at a place called Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In the past few hundreds years, mankind had created robots that is as smart as people to provide enough workers for the population that is growing non-stop, but it was the stupidest idea of our children in the future.

….Year 2450, there was a mistake in the process of creates a mind for a kind of robots. They had to destroy and throw away a thousand robots of that kind, but they didn’t do it properly. Year 2455, in only 10 years, those robots raised, mesmerizes all kinds of robots to come together and they killed anyone who doesn’t obey and rebels against them….

The Son and his dad are working in the dirty diamond mine. This is a new mine of this area, they didn’t know there is oil here until the robots took over and forced them to dig to find oil. The Son stops digging, looks around, all he could sees is worried faces, dirty clothes, they all try to find as much diamond as they could for food. The funny thing is he’s doing it himself. He was lazy; he doesn’t want to touch or even walk into these dirty mine full of dirt. He had changed, because his dad couldn’t find enough food for his mom and himself when she became sick. He loves his mom a lot, so he begged his dad so he could work here and help him take care of his mom.

“STOP!!!!....” A voice of a robot suddenly brings him back to the mine, he looks up, all he could see is hatred, he curses them, and it is all their faults that his mom is sick.

“You” The robot points at him, he steps forward, all the other people around him look scares, and they don’t want to be involved, indeed they don’t, those robots are nothing but troubles and deaths.

 “Where’s your dad????”  “I don’t know” “Go look for that old man, fools, and keep the child here, don’t let him run away.” The robot in charged demanded his soldiers. The Son knows what’s going on, he tries to get away from those robots but couldn’t. He wanted to go home to find his mom; his dad can take care of himself but his mom…. She’s sick and weak.

“They caught him…” He thought sadly and looks at his dad but. He doesn’t know what they are going to do with his dad, but when he sees the Executed robot comes, he tries to get out of this robot’s hold and comes to save his dad, but no use. His dad was killed right in front of his eyes, he tries to look away, but the robot wouldn’t let him. He couldn’t see anymore, his eyes are blurry, full of tears, and he couldn’t remember the last time he cried. As soon as the robots release him, he runs as fast as he possibly could home, but all he could find is the bloody body of his mom. He couldn’t make any sounds but his tears just keep dropping. His whole body is shaking; he can’t even stand properly. He lost both of his mom and dad, now he’s all alone in this big world

 He stayed there for hours, looking at the bodies of his mom and dad that a good neighbor brought to him. He falls asleep, wakes up, sees the bodies, cries again, and then falls asleep again. After two days, he decides to bring the bodies into his backyard and buries them.

A month after that, he is like a walking mummy. His face is pale, he never speaks to anyone, and the tears keeps falling from his eyes, and he can’t stop them. From a nice, lovely young man who always likes to help others, now there’s nothing in him but hatred. He even planned to run right into those robots to revenge for his parents, he feels like there is a fire in him, encourages him, and gives him inspiration.

Then one day, a person comes and changes his life. He explains himself as part of the rebellions who are working to overthrow the evil rule of the robots. And he would like The Son to join him. “We need more people to get things done and ready for THAT DAY” The Guy says.

The Son thinks about his dad, his mom, and all the terrible things those robots have done to mankind, the people who are still have to live under the cruel rule and deaths. He decides he needs to help them, so he joins them. For months, he goes to work at the mine like nothing’s happening, and in there, he works with rebellions to dig a way into the head quarter of the robots. They also make weapons and persuade people to join them for a better future for mankind. By working with these people, it helps him forget about sadness and makes him fit in and create good relationships with others. 

“June 17^th, 2515,

Today is the 5 years death ceremony of my parents and I’m going to revenge for them….”

“July 17^th, 2515,

WE LOST!!!! Wait for me, mom, dad, I’m coming with you, and all my rebellions friends……”