Desiree's Baby

When I began reading this story Iwas thinking oh this is nice but towards the end my perspective started to change. First it changed to anger then sadness then both at the same time.Why so emotional because this passage was just that.It began as a nice little story about a woman who was visiting her daughter and the baby.The woman was reminiscing on the past about she came to even have a daughter.The story goes on to talk about how the daughter whose name is Desiree was standing where she was found eighteen years ago was spotted and admired by a man named Armand Aubigny.It said that he fell in love with her from just seeing her as if struck by a pistol shot.Later on you find out that Desiree and Armand get married she moves to Armand's land and stays there.You then read that she has had a child and she's happy ,Armand is happy because it is a boy and, his slaves are happy because he is happy.Then the downfall comes you then read that when the baby was three months Desiree feels something in the air and it isn't love .She was lying in her bed one hot afternoon being fanned by a quadroon boy,her baby asleep on the bed.She was playing with her hair looking at her baby absent-minded when she looked at the slave boy and then her baby and then the boy and back and forth.Her husband entered the room she asked him why the baby looked the way it did he told her because he wasn't white because she wasn't white.She laughed and started naming a whole list of things that possibly meant she was white.Anyway the story goes on her mother sends for her Desiree kills herself and the baby and Armand finds out he is black. Now,you might say oh how sad yes I know but what i was more worried about is why did she kill herself and the baby?She really didn't have a reason but then again she didn't have a reason to live if she didn't know where she cam from.I just wanted to say that it was crazy how Armand automatically jumped to the conclusion that she wasn't white like he knew his whole bloodline.Evidently he didn't know enough.I also had the thought of why didn't she just go home with her mother but then again why would she her mother owned slaves as well.Desiree probably felt that oh if I'm black then the code doesn't apply to me anymore so anyone can do anything to me and my child as in make them slaves including her mother.Would her mother really do that? She could have and probably would have. Armand on the other hand must have wanted to die after pushing his wife to suicide .It must have hurt a lot to not have nothing when you had everything. And than there's Desiree oh how she must have felt to be taking from all that she thought she knew ,how she must have wanted to cry.I wanted to know what was her real reason for suicide besides not wanting tzo be unhappy was she scared for her baby,scared for her life or just thinking in general.If I don't know where I'm from how can I know where I am going comes to mind.

Sinners in thee Hands of an Angry

Sinners in the hands of an Angry God
In this confluence Jonathan Edwards did either one of two things;scared you to death, or opened your eyes to the world of sins and God.He began strong and kept it that way the whole time. The reason behind it was to keep you awake,alert,and afraid.He started his ceremony off as any pastor or preacher would with a scripture"their foot shall slide in do time"(Deuteronomy 32:35). What was he implying when he read that aloud at this particular time and place(the awakening age)? Was he warning them that their downfall could happen at any time?That they couldn't be saved because they were damned from the start? I have a theory to answer these questions.First, Jonathan Edwards is not God so he could only speak of words that were true,but he reversed them to make them seem harsh and misleading as if God himself was saying everyone was doomed.Did he mean for it to come off that way,yes.Why because the awakening age was when people really needed to see what was real, they were letting other insights stray them from what was original.They began questioning of God and his power some even went as far as praising inanimate objects.Yes,everyone has a right to their own religion but how do you think you got the right to that it surely wasn't the first amendment for it wasn't even thought of yet.It was God.He gave you the free will to do whatever you wanted and all he asked for in return was for you to acknowledge him as Alpha Omega.To me that's what Jonathan Edwards was trying to do .But in the text it seemed like he strayed himself.He started to point out the flaws in one religion and another.Judaism when he recited the scripture he was talking about them .He said that they would fall but he was wrong. They are on top they are one of the greatest civilizations in the world. But Edwards wasn't totally wrong there was a time when the Jewish civilization fell but it wasn't due to them it was due to one.A half Jewish man named Adolf Hitler. But through the humiliation and torture the Jewish community rose against it.To me Edwards already knew of greatness and chose to use them as an example.He goes on to talk about the wicked hand of God and what would happen if the floodgates were opened but in a way the flood gates were already opened when Edwards began his ceremony . He talks about great fire but his words were just that, great fire that couldn't be stopped he was God's wrath. He was the wicked hand that God cast onto the people to show his disapproval of man.He was the damnation to hell that the living experienced.

Rowan Poem

The new leaves of the Japanese Cherry tree were like the painted wings of a dove.