In the essay packet 1, there's a new story on almost every page. On the first page I become confused already with the statement that the author used she said " the air of the loom." I don't get this what is the author trying to compare the air to? It tells about a fox and a hawk . I think that its telling the story of a hawk hunting the fox but in the end it the fox got away and everything was back to being ok. There was a story on a recipe that was the the great grandfathers in a drugstore in central Illinois. Everybody loved his Mint Snowball invention, people drove from all over just to buy it. But everyone dies so his time came and he before that he decided to sell his recipe to somebody for $100. This decision didn't make too many people happy because they felt that it should of been inherited down to the rest of the family to be carried on.

'The Mute Dancers: How to Watch a Hummingbird' explains the story of hummingbirds and what they do, who they are and basically whats important about them. It tells facts that people wouldn't even think of or know unless they did some research on them. It compares the birds to many things such as dancing, cats, dogs or humans and even places. It tells about how there's 16 species of hummingbirds in North America, and it just goes on to let the reader know more and more interesting facts about hummingbirds. Inside of the story is a story about a neighbor and how she was attacked by her bird. That's something I could never think of a hummingbird being aggressive to that extent.

The Essay on the Sublimation of Dying has 6 synthesis in it, why?? I honestly don't get it. There's like little poems at the end of each page.It had a story that on one side that was like a contradiction to the story that is on the opposite side. For example Synthesis I, the left story was mythology and the one on the right was a homonym. then under it was a little poem I guess which was about the word moth and how it was burning and on fire. I don't get how that relates to the sun but this whole little story is just really confusing me. Synthesis III and IV are different they have different endings. One has lines with no words at the end and the other has a picture of something that I cant really make out but it doesn't look like it has anything to do with the story  just like the poems at the end of the first two.