Assignment 4B: Group 3 Reflection

1. Choose any 1 classmate that wrote about your same essays and briefly compare/contrast their choices and ideas versus what you said (eg "In my readings of these same authors I found that BLANK and my classmate also thought BLANK. An interesting point of view I didn't think of that my classmate said is BLANK")


I choose Dawnyel we both desribed that the story is about a girl and her iranian family moving to the city of newport beach. Agreed that she wasnt used to the new lifetstyle that peopl lived in newport beach. Decribed how different it is from where she is from and her family. We both found that it is a story that is moving from old enviornment to a new one. I think that we both understood the point and kind of story that Dumas was trying to tell to the people.

For the story of Berkeley we both explained that it is all about the town of berkeley and the activites that the city offers. The only she forgot to mention was the universtiy and its importance to thsi city.


For cotton mirrors, is about children that had visited a funhouse for the day. Having the freedom to go somewhere with your friends and learning something when the day is over.

California honky tonk, we both described is about artist that performs as a bar. Looks back at her way to get in to the music business. It did not successfully happen for her but looks back on the good memories of performing.

2. Choose any 1 classmate that wrote about a different set of essays and tell us one thing you learned per author presented.

Then i read monica B. group stories. The the Arax the author told the story of his time living in the city of fresno. the city seems to have alot of history to it and the amount of flat land is the enviornment of the place.

"Paradise" by liu talks about the town of Beverly hills. Talking about the way people live, amount of luxury lifestyle that a few people live. Visitors from other places come to Beverly hills and have learning experience. The amount of things that happen everyday is crazy. Similar to SF, there is always craziness going on in that city.

The story by jefferson/parker is about a two friends that go to owens river. Parker tells Brian about the things he did when he came to the river in the past. Fishing and flyfishing at the owens river. Both came back home with a good time spent at the river and also learned more about each other.

The story by Mackey, her slipping into the lake with cold and icy temperatures. Runs into a group of ducks that bring problems for while she trying to get back on land.
She ends up taking care of the ducks that seem oddly something wrong with these ducks. After a while taking care of the ducks they scatter away and she makes her way to shore.



3. Like number 2, choose any 1 classmate that wrote about a set of essays that you didn't read.



Katy talked was in the group #1 and spoke very similar about the stories.
she explain more on the rivers location which was in folsom, the east side of sacramento and the significance on the nature setting.
For Parker's story, picture of person fishing. Her summary of the sport of fishing and time spent at the river with others.
Aime liu's story. talking about the different side of beverly hills and the types of people that change because the amount of money has. money can change a person.
Finally, "The big valley" is explained by her as the past and present of vine and tree harvest and aobut farm land the location of the story.