Literary Treasure

Ghost of a Chance
by Adrienne Rich

You see a man
trying to think.

You want to say
to everything:
keep off! Give him room!
but you only watch,
terrified
the old consolations
will get him at last
like a fish
half-dead from flopping
and almost crawling
across the shingle,
the raw, agonizing
air
till a wave
pulls it back blind into the triumphant
sea.


the first time I read ghost of a chance
I really didnt get it, so i had to read
it again then I got it more than I did
before. I it is talking about a person
who sees a man trying to think and the
person that is looking at him and wants to
talk to him but he/she is saying to leve
him only, give him room! but you only watch
terrified,I think that means that the person
wants to talk to him but you are terrified so
you are watching him

Where I'm from

modeled after George Ella Lyon

I am from the crazy

part of los angeles,

I live on 18 and uion

I go to a shool called

West Adams.


I live by the Staple Center,

thats were I go see the lakers

play basketball,and around there

there is a movie theather, and thats

where i go to see movies.


I am from the crazy part of LA,

There use to be alot of gang violence.

there will always be gun shots around

my hood, you can here cops around there,

you can here lady next door srcaming,at

her husben or here kids, and thats is were

i am from.

Vocabulary narrative

The word is fanfare

When the first time i here'd the word fanfare I thought it was like a type
of fare that was is like at the park were they have rides and games.
I thought i heard a couple of people saying it but I thought they were talking about a fare
at the park,but when i heard what the word meant and it was a celebration.
I thought to myself that I was dum because I was thinking that the word
meant that it was a fare, and know that I know what it means i know what
people are talking about. So now I now it means a celebration.

where im from Modeled George Ella Lyon

I am from DownTown LA,
i live were everything bad happens.
i live by the staple center
i go to west adams high school,
that school is the gayest .