After reading and summarizing this story, I would like for you to select a "golden quote." A golden quote is a quote that you found particularly interesting, insightful, entertaining, or important. When you have selected your golden quote, please copy and paste it into a comment. After your quote, I want you to explain why you selected that quote as your "golden quote."
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Mrs. Sampson's example quote (my quote is from "How to Tell a Story").
ReplyDelete"but the teller of the comic story tells you beforehand that it is one of the funniest things he has ever heard, then tells it with eager delight, and is the first person to laugh when he gets through. And sometimes, if he has had good success, he is so glad and happy that he will repeat the "nub" of it and glance around from face to face, collecting applause, and then repeat it again. It is a pathetic thing to see."
This quote stood out to me because I can easily picture the situation he is describing here. I have seen people get really excited about telling a funny story or joke, and sometimes, they are more entertained by the story than the people who are supposed to be listening. I think it's funny and interesting that Twain described this type of comedy so well; the comedians of today can't rely on only telling "funny jokes." Instead, successful comedians have to be good at the PROCESS of telling something funny (like the humorous story tellers in his text).
-Mrs. Sampson
And Smiley says, sorter indifferent like, “It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, may be, but it an't; it's only just a frog.”
ReplyDeleteThis quote stands out to me becasue its says that its not a specially trained animal its only jsut a frog. it doesnt have to be special it can be just ordinary. i liked how a regualr frog can show people that you dont need to be special to be noticed.
Kirsten Miller
"Thish-yer Smiley had a mare; the boys called her the fifteen-minute nag, but that was only in fun, you know, because, of course, she was faster than that, and he used to win money on that horse, for all she was so slow and always had the asthma, or the distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind. They used to give her two or three hundred yards start, and then pass her under way; but always at the fag-end of the race she'd get excited and desperate-like, and come cavorting and straddling up, and scattering her legs around limber"
ReplyDeleteI choose this quote because it stood out to me because I can really see what he is talking about. In addition it really shows the mood and tone of the story.
-Logan Schmidt
“Well, I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.”
ReplyDeletethis quote stood out to me because it is saying the one person is not better that the other. like how your parents always told you people are no better than you. No one, or thing or race is superior to anyone else.
Well, I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.”
ReplyDeletethis quote stood out to me because it is saying the one person is not better that the other. like how your parents always told you people are no better than you. No one, or thing or race is superior to anyone else.
nate tesmer
“He's good enough for one thing, I should judge he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County.”
ReplyDeleteI pick this quote because that person is judging another person. Mike Leffler
"I've got my opinion, and I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."
ReplyDeleteI picked this quote because everyone has their own opinion. People will do things that they will regret just to get their point across.
josh sopa
And Smiley says, sorter indifferent like, “It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, may be, but it an't; it's only just a frog.”
ReplyDeleteAlyssa Smentek
It's random and straightforward. I just like it
“What might it be that you've got in the box?”
ReplyDeleteit's pretty suspensful.
-amanda johnson
If there was a horse-race, you'd find him flush, or you'd find him busted at the end of it; if there was a dog-fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a cat-fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a chicken-fight, he'd bet on it; why, if there was two birds setting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first; or if there was a camp-meeting, he would be there reg'lar, to bet on Parson Walker, which he judged to be the best exhorter about here, and so he was, too, and a good man. If he even seen a straddle-bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get wherever he was going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle-bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road.
ReplyDeleteI think that it just puts the point out there and is funny because it is making fun of some things
-Logan Hobbs
My golden quote from the story is: "Why, blame my cats, if he don't weigh five pound!” because it is humorus to hear a southern man to say tha the frog is heavy and something is wrong with it. Also he is saying that he is astonished by the wait of the darn frog.
ReplyDelete-Austin Hobbs
Smiley says “He's good enough for one thing, I should judge he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County.”
ReplyDeleteI chose this quote because it talks about how the character made a huge mistake and it lets us understand the title.
-Elizabeth Teofilo
“What might it be that you've got in the box?”
ReplyDeletei think this is interesting because he is really serious about it.
-Rachel Berquist
“Just set where you are, stranger, and rest easy I ain't going to be gone a second.”
ReplyDeleteI said that this is was the golden quote because it shows that the main character never gives up.
Caitlin Mahan
“Well, I'm only a stranger here, and I ain't got no frog; but if I had a frog, I'd bet you.”
ReplyDeleteIt's intersting because it he wants to beat the other dude and he really wants to win.
-Megan Babcock
“Maybe you don't,” Smiley says. “Maybe you understand frogs, and maybe you don't understand 'em; maybe you've had experience, and maybe you ain't only a amature, as it were. Anyways, I've got my opinion, and I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.”
ReplyDeleteI say that this is an important part of the story, because Smiley is convinced that his frog can beat any other frog, and he bets a high amount of money on it. But it was unfortunate because he got cheated.
That's all right—that's all right; if you'll hold my box a minute, I'll go and get you a frog.”
ReplyDeleteThis quote is my golden quote because it's a key moment in the story. It's when the contest is about to start and he cheats.
"There was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley, in the winter of '49 or maybe it was the spring of '50 I don't recollect exactly, somehow, though what makes me think it was one or the other is because I remember the big flume warn't finished when he first came to the camp; but anyway, ..."
ReplyDeleteI thought that this was funny because the guy went off on a little tangent, when trying to figure out the year, even when it doesn't matter to the story.
-Bryant
And then Smiley says, “That's all right—that's all right; if you'll hold my box a minute, I'll go and get you a frog.”
ReplyDeleteI liked this quote because it showed what lengths Smiley went to, make and win a bet.
-Kathleen O'Connell
“Just set where you are, stranger, and rest easy I ain't going to be gone a second.”
ReplyDeleteThis was my golden quote because the main character is talking about how he'll never give up.
-Jena Nelson
“Maybe you understand frogs, and maybe you don't understand 'em; maybe you've had experience, and maybe you ain't only a amature, as it were. Anyways, I've got my opinion, and I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.”
ReplyDeletei chose this quote because it shows how he doesnt care what you think he'll still bet .