Dear reader,
Welcome to my blog. In this post you will see the theme of jealousy throughout. In the novel Knights of the Hill country by Tim Tharp; jealously is displayed from Blaine Kennisaw High School Hampton is having a great season as middle linebacker; Blaine Blaine ends up having just a subpar season, while Hampton Blaine Blaine is getting no offers Hampton finds out that Oklahoma University Blaine seems to be jealous of Hampton ’s success, and he realizes he has no chance to play with Hampton Blaine Blaine
Sincerely, Jacob McGinnis
Dear Diary,
The feeling of jealousy, I don’t think I have felt anything like it. It gets worse and worse everyday and sometimes I wonder if it will go away. I try hard everyday not to be jealous of him, but I can’t help it. I mean why do I feel jealous. This feeling inside me makes me feel like I have nothing and he has everything. I feel like my life is falling apart. I think of Hampton Oklahoma University or Oklahoma State Hampton
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington Dear Hampton
I would like to apologize for the way I have been acting recently and for being jealous. It is hard to see all the success you are having while I am not playing my best. I see that you will be playing college football without me. The plan we had of playing together is falling apart and because of that I have this feeling. It is hard for me and I know I should not be so jealous, but because I feel this is why I am saying I’m sorry. Also this feeling of jealousy is making me act different. Knowing that I will not be playing in college makes me feel like a failure. You have a nice life ahead of you with football and everything, and I have nothing now. I think I waited to long to talk to you and I let it boil inside of me to long. Now that our friendship is going down hill I would like you change this feeling I have. I need to be happy for you and know things happen for a reason. Well maybe we can get together something and talk about this. I would like for this to change and change very soon. This feeling of jealousy is eating away at me and I can’t take it anymore. I think I can make this feeling go away and we can change things back to how it used to be. That is all I want. I do not care about if you are better then me in football or anything like that. I just care about us being best friends like it was before.
Your friend,
Blaine
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Jealous evil hold
Holds me down until I break
Escape this feeling
The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
Reflection
The first genre I choose was a diary entry. I choose this because it was really easy to show what jealousy is like. In the entry you can clearly see what the person is feeling and why they are feeling jealous. Many people write in diaries to let their feelings come out. I had an easy time writing this diary entry because everyone has felt jealous in their live so I could relate.
The second genre I choose was an apology letter. I choose this because it shows how this person feels. It shows that the person doesn’t like the feeling of jealousy. It also shows that the person really hates how this jealous feeling is making him feel and how it’s making him act. The apology letter really shows that they want to fix this and change how they feel just like every jealous person does. This letter makes it clear that jealousy is not what they wanted, and never thought it would happen. People become jealousy many times over there lives and I think the best thing to do is just say you are sorry.
The third genre I choose was a picture with a caption. I choose this because I think this picture really shows how jealousy can take over with any age of people. Anyone at any age can become jealous. Jealousy doesn’t care how old you are or what the situation is. A person could feel left out or want something that someone else has; they will then feel jealous. The picture shows that this very little girl is jealous that the boy is kissing the other little girl and not her. I think that instead of feeling jealous and being mad she should just accept it or maybe wait and see if he will kiss her. People can’t have everything but there are some people that will have stuff you don’t and vise versa there are things you will have that other people wont.
The fourth genre I picked was a haiku. I choose this because poems can show feelings and emotions. I also choose it because I sometimes like writing poems and I thought I could try it. I think this poem I made is a great way to show what jealousy is like.
Overall I thought this project was easy. At the beginning it was really hard to choose 4 genres to pick. There were so many choices but I finally choose the best 4 that I could tie jealousy into. Once I choose the genres I was fine. It was easy because I could relate to the feeling of jealousy because I have felt it before and writing the things like the apology letter. I really liked this project because I actually had to read and if a teacher doesn’t make me I won’t read. This was a fun project and I liked having to do the different genres and trying to figure out how I would tie in jealousy to each one. I think this project is a keeper and should continue to be assigned to students.
Works Cited
"Jealousy Quotes." BrainyQuote. 2001-2011. 22 March 2011.
<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/jealousy.html>.
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