Blog 1 MP4: Creed & "Woobees"

     A Woobee is like a safety blanket. Some kids keep a teddy bear as their woobee. They keep it close to them and hold it when they are scared. Torey needs to calm down at this point because he thought he was seeing the ghost of Christopher Creed again. He was scared thought that Chris's ghost was watching him.

My cousin had a woobee for most of his childhood. His woobee was a pacifier. He used pacifiers all the time. He finally reached five years old and my uncle decided it was time to get rid of the pacifier. He tried to take them away but he started throwing fits. He couldn't cope without the pacifier. My uncle finally decided to cut all the pacifiers so he couldn't use them anymore. It was mean but it worked and he no longer needs his woobee.

Act II: Gorgon Reference. Thursday, February 5, 2009

An ugly monster named Medusa is the allusion Macduff makes to Greek Mythology. He refers to this because every time someone looked at Medusa their faced turned to stone. In Macbeth, Macduff tells Lennox to look in the chamber and see what ugly thing has happened-meaning the murder. 

Act IV Double, Double, Toil and Trouble Tuesday, Febuary 24, 2009

Grasshopper legs and a cow's hair

Watch out because I'll throw in a chair

Cow brain and a frog's tongue

I can't forget the dog's lung

Dead worms and cheese

We don't have time to shoot the breeze

We have to throw in the little boy that cannot sing

A devil's tail and an angel's wing

4/16/09 Christopher Creed

Pg. 39: "I also wondered why none of us ever picked up that Creed was so down on himself. Whatever it was that he admired me for, I figured I could have helped him. I would have, if he had just let us know he was thinking of offing himself. That made me pissed at him."

I think this quote is really powerful because it shows just how little everyone noticed Chris Creed. It was almost like he was invisible. It's really sad how no one cared enough to notice that Chris wasn't happy. His own parents didn't even notice that he was unhappy. They thought he was perfectly normal. Torey and his friends were one of the main causes of Chris's unhappiness. 

Torey was never too understanding of Chris. He was mean to him and even beat him up one time. Now that he is actually gone he is thinking about what he could have done to prevent it. It's weird how you can be so mean to someone and then care so much after they go away. If Torey cared at all in the beginning, none of this would have happened. How could they have picked up that Creed was down on himself if they never even gave him a chance in the first place. In the quote, Torey said that if he had known that Chris was depressed he would have helped him. I think that's kind of ridiculous for Torey to say because him and his friends were the ones that caused Chris to feel so alone.