Maria’s blog

 Richard Cory poem The laughing heart poem Of mice and men book

We are all going through some stressful times right now that we are all in quarantine because we can't go out to have fun. For example we can't  really go camping, hiking, going to the beach, traveling or going out to go dance. But it's for our own safety to stay home  and to take precautions. And to try our best to keep ourselves busy.

During this pandemic it's hard for us to do our activities or our regular routines. But I try to keep myself busy as much as possible because I can't do my normal activities and routine that I used to do because we have to stay home as much as possible as we can. Therefore how I work from 6 am to 4 pm and then I get home and do my school work and my responsibilities it takes up all my time and that's how I try to keep myself busy.

The author Joseph Heller had so much fun with the names in the book because they had some type of meaning that people didn't even know about it. His tone toward the characters is satirical because he exaggerates the actions of the characters in a specific way that had drawn the attention to the insanity of war. He was trying to tell the reader about his personal experience he had in world war 2.

So if school had opened tomorrow my family and I wouldn't trust it to be safe unless we see that they are actually taking precautions. Also it wouldn't be safe because you  are risking your life. For example when you go to lunch or when your going to next class because your passing by everybody else so closely and during lunch people are all sometimes in all one place which is a bigger risk of contaminating each other more.

well if the government had done that then life would be different for me right now because my mom wouldn't have to go to work and I wouldn't try to be looking for work in the field to help her out. Because we would have all the things  we need to live a stable life in this pandemic  but it's not like we have to work to be able to pay or bill our rent and our necessities that we need.