Blog Assignment #3

1. Simple- “I was discharged from the army after nearly four years, most of it spent at Fort Bliss, Texas, in May of 1962.”(Page 5)
The sentence has only one subject-verb and it is independent clause.

2. Compound- “I was living on less than four thousand dollars a year, so that pretty much wiped out the four-million-dollar boats.” (Page17)
The sentence has two subject-verbs, and both of them are independent clauses because the clause which is “so that pretty much wiped out the four-million-dollar boats” starts with “so” to combine these two independent clauses. Therefore, this sentence is compound.


3. Complex-“Until boat skewed up into the wind when I didn’t steer and the sails slatted and awakened me.” (Page 69)
This sentence has two subject-verbs and one independent clause which is “until boat skewed up into the wind” and one dependent clause that is “because I didn’t steer and the sails slatted and awakened me,” because the sentence starts with “because” to combine them, so this sentence is complex sentence.

4. Compound-complex- “Hunger set in heavily; I was a hearty eater and used to regular meals because I’d just gotten out of the army and hadn’t started to starve as a writer yet.” (Page 66)
This sentence has three complete sentences. “Hunger set in heavily; I was a hearty eater and used to regular meals” is a compound sentence that combines two independent clauses because of semi-colon. The complex sentence is “because I’d just gotten out of the army and hadn’t started to starve as a writer yet,” which is a dependent clause. Therefore, a compound sentence and a complex sentence combines together that are compound-complex.

5.“To show me the sea.” (Page 82)
I don’t know it is a sentence or not, because of no subject-verb here. I think “to show” is infinitive that may be a subject but it does not have a verb in this sentence. I am confused that.

Blog Assignment #2

"To show me the sea. To show me myself. And never, ever to look back."
(Paulsen P.82)

I like this paragraph because it shows the feeling when the author travels with his boat. They sail many places in the wild ocean that are many creatures live in. The boat that is like his close friends brings him to discover the sea that the author has never seen and to experience the caprice ocean which seems peaceful but it is changable. Especially, "And never, ever to look back" means there are a lot of things that can be found and be experienced aftertime, so we don't need care about the past too much. It is the same idea in people's lives because we don't know what will happen to us, who we will meet, who we will talk, and what we will do next day. Everyday is difference and looking everthing in front of us because there are many things waiting us to know.