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Cider House Rules #7

Getting started on the writing portion of this project was rough. I struggle a lot with writing during class, so my only time was after school. My softball and work schedule is full force this time of year, so this was a true testament of scheduling my time.

I spent probably 3 straight days at Starbucks typing my paper, and I actually got a lot done. I spent my time during lunch annotating, and it took a lot of work but I got the outline and most of the bigger chunks of my paper completed. I struggled more with how to format my paper. It took writing super long paragraphs and then breaking them up in order to figure out how to format my pages. I was also struggling with the quality not quantity part, but working towards the goal of writing a lot of quality helped me a lot.

This project wrecked me but once you get on a roll everything started flowing.

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Cider House Rules #6

This one never posted🙃

So Gracie and I decided to go to the library right after school since we have release. We went, and in the first 5 minutes we got lost. I’ve never been to that section of OU before so it was a struggle to find the library, and then it was a struggle to find a parking spot. When we finally got to the library that’s when the mess started. We went to the front desk and asked about literary criticism and we got sent to the research desk. The research desk was the worst. We were talking to the librarian at the front and she was very confused as to what we were asking for. I had to keep writing down what I was looking for and she told me that she couldn’t find any criticism but we should check this section. So Gracie and I went up to the third floor and found an ENTIRE SECTION of literary criticism. Multiple books. A lot of books. So we forgot our wallets in the car and didn’t have any money to print, if it even costed money. So we sat in the corner of the library and took 50 pictures of our book pages. We then went downstairs and asked the same librarian if we could have computer access, she was then super confused that we weren’t students at OU. So then she sent us back to the first desk for computer access and then all of the computers were full and it was just a mess. I still couldn’t print so I just emailed all of the criticism to myself😭 And then we went to Starbucks and they forgot Gracie’s drink😭

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The Cider House Rules #5

While reading my book I began to come to some realizations. In the beginning you can see the close relationship between Dr.Larch and Homer wells. One would almost say the relationship is fatherly. Dr.Larch looks out for Homer as well as makes it CLEAR that Homer is to stay at the orphanage until he is ready to leave. There is also the case where Dr.Larch even teaches his own practice to Homer. I also found it interesting how Dr.Larch also said goodnight to his kids as well how he treated them. He had this quote that went, “Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England”. This quote alone showed how Dr.Larch treated the boys because it was his special saying and he always wanted them to feel special. Even when a young boy at the hospital died, Dr.Larch didn’t tell them, he told them he got adopted instead. This was a true turning point for me because it showed how much Dr.Larch cared for the boys. There was even a case where Dr.Larch gave Homer his first real fatherly kiss and I thought that was interesting as well because of all people it was Dr.Larch who provided that for Homer. Overall I felt that the relationship between Homer and Dr.Larch really captured my attention.

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The Cider House Rules #4

As I begin to get farther and farther in my book I realize that there are minor and major themes throughout the novel. I find it really interesting that this book is different than anything I’ve ever read before and since it was written a while ago it is interesting to me that the events that take place in the novel can somewhat relate to the talk of the news that is happening now. One major and very obvious theme that I found throughout my book is the idea of abortion just because from the very beginning of learning how Dr. Larch practices medicine one can see that he is obviously an abortion doctor, but he also is a doctor that delivers babies as well, this has always been very interesting to me that a doctor like that could do both. In a way I feel that many people wouldn’t agree with the story line of this book because someone who disagrees with the idea of abortion or does not believe in that practice would have a hard time reading it.

I also found a minor theme being that people have to learn to make their own choices. This was seen in the beginning of the novel when Homer made the choice to stay in the Orphanage his entire life, as well as the choices women in the novel make everyday. I find it interesting that a lot of the characters have two separate kinds of choices they can make, choices that are few and far between, as well as choices that they can’t even act upon.

Just a couple thoughts on minor and major themes I found🙃

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The Cider House Rules #3

OKAY. So this book is kind of wild. So now I'm to the part where Homer is 16 and he is now Dr. Larch's prodigy. Dr. Larch now has Homer performing autopsies on dead cadaver bodies and learning all about child birth and abortions. What I thought was very interesting is how, Dr. Larch trusts this 16 year old boy with treating patients. One event in my book was when Dr. Larch was gone searching for one of the cadaver bodies that missed the stop at the orphanage/hospital, and In that time a distressed pregnant women showed up at the orphanage to give birth and of course, Dr.Larch was not there. Honestly the wildest part wasn't Homer being allowed to perform on cadaver bodies, but he then began helping this patient through child birth and ended up saving her and her baby all without the help of an actual doctor, and he was only 16! I find this wild because never would this ever happen In this day and age. This really shows the reader how times and teaching is different. 

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The Cider House Rules #2

Okay so throughout Chapter 1-2 I really received more insight on Dr. Larch. He is a doctor at the orphanage, however, this orphanage also doubles as a hospital. The expectant mothers come in for their birth and leave their children behind at the orphanage. However, on the side Dr.Larch also runs an abortion clinic. Chapter 2 takes us more away from Homer and focuses in on Dr.Larch. It takes us through his early years where he helps women who cant afford births at real hospitals. However, his early years were also spent performing abortions. This to me feels very contradictory because the births were more of an up front and advertised thing while the abortions were more of an under the table job. He was often brought into rich families or to help younger girls who were raped but he never advertised this practice. 

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The Cider House Rules #1

With the first chapter of this book I was already hooked on my main character Homer Wells. The first chapter took me through the early years of Homers life. This chapter talked a lot about everyone at the orphanage but really only focused on Homer and how his life was so much different from all of the other children. I found it very odd that Homer was adopted three separate times but was always brought back because he was too “quiet” of a child. He was also often abused In these homes which really makes you think about how the foster care and placement in homes really changes children. I also was really taken back by the fact that this orphanage in particular was said to be Homers only home from the very beginning. In this day and time that is almost never the case once the child reaches a certain age. I also thought it was very interesting how the final family that Homer thought was really going to work out, was suddenly swiped away by a river. Overall I felt that it was very interesting how Irving gave the reader a lot of insight on the character in only the first chapter. 

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The Cider House Rules

When thinking of books that I would want to use for my final project, I truly struggled with choosing which book would work best for me. I am 100% not a big reader and it really does take a lot for me to finish a book. Because of this I decided that I would really have to find a book that I could dive into. Thus I headed to Barnes and Noble with Gracie and the search began. We started In the appropriate section and began just flipping through books that I thought would be interesting. Gracie found her book, and after reading the first few pages of her book, I realized that I really liked the way the author wrote. I began to search for that certain author and I found “The Cider House Rules” by: John Irving. I sat down and immediately began reading the first couple of pages. The beginning of the novel grabbed my attention because of the way that Irving rights. In this chapter specifically he began describing and giving background of all the main characters and I got to learn about the main character and was immediately hooked. After checking for sources on Google Scholar, I found myself In the checkout line and short $18. 

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Original

When you think of something that is original you often think of a song created by a composer or a photograph or piece of artwork. However,when thinking of something that is truly original one must look past all of that. One thing that I consider to be completely original is the idea of Hair Dye. Hair Dye was created by Eugene Schueller in 1909. Before then,hair dye had never been created leading one to believe that Eugene Schueller is original in the creation of hair dye

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Secondary Source #3

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/meet-homeless-nyc-teens-rose-head-class-article-1.2688105

Attached is an article about a teen and her family who came here from the Dominican Republic. After not being here long they found themselves homeless and struggling.

I chose this source because of one of the lines in the first couple of paragraphs. This line reads, “People would ask me where I lived and I would cry,” said Amarfi, 17, a valedictorian at Pan American International High School in Queens. “I was so ashamed.” This is similar to what Regina had said. People would ask her constantly,teachers and friends, where she lived and she would often make up lies and in order to not allow people to find out about her living situations. This bothered her completely. She began to not allow herself to have friends and to shut people out completely.

I believe that Amarfi and Regina can relate in the sense of not having a secure place to live and certainly not wanting people to know about it.

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