freewrite #2

What concepts did you discuss? How did your concepts add to your definition of that concept or complicate it?

The concepts that I discussed with one of my partners was violence, that added more definition to the definition I already had. She said that how the thieves were going and stealing from them and how they were poor and that they were going to kill whoever was coming in their community to steal. For example they started having shifts were two people at a time from the community had to be guards so t;hat no one would go inside and steal. And if they saw someone they qould shoot them. Laurens dad said they had the authority to do that because If they called the cops, they could not afford paying the fees that the pilice would charge.

Another concept that my partner mentioned, and I added to my concepts was privatization. She mentioned how people before the economy was this bad, they would make their food with corm and acorn and now they have to buy their own crops. Also I believe water was privatized and one day when they were having a town meeting or something like that laurens dad was talking and it started rainng outside and people left from there to their homes so they can hrab buckets and collect the water that was pouring because it was free and it hadn’t rain in a very long time.

What character do you care about? Why? Whatd does that character add to the story?

I think I care about Lauren most in this character because she seems to have agency in herself even though she is only 15. I say that she has agency because she is thinking about how things really are and she wants to get prepared for it. And she told her friend about what she knew and she just scared her friend away. Her dad gave her good advice though. He told her to not only tell people what they should do. That she should teach them what is going on and what can happen and how they can be prepared/ if she only tells them what she thinks and others do not know why she is saying that, they might believe her but if nothing of she says happens then they are just going to take her as a joke the second time she wants to prepare others for something big that can happen. I like the advice he saisd. TEACH PEOPLE, NOT JUST TELL THEM WHAT TO DO.