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When you make wine, the first thing you want to do is to make sure the grape is large and firm. It won’t make no good wine if you squish them when they’re already squishy. You can’t get no good substance out of those squishy grapes. If they squishy, there ain’t nothing you can do to change their shape, you can only take em out and maybe eat em or feed em to some animal. They don’t make good juice. After picking these firm grapes you wanna squish em. Squish em real fine and make sure that all the juice is squished out. Them white folks, they squished the grapes with their feet but we ain’t got the space for all them grapes. Squish em any way you want, with ur hands, with a spoon, with a bowl it’s all good. You might think all these different grapes’ll give lots of contrasting flavors to the wine, but actually, the mixed juice makes the wine better to drink. It tastes more complete and it’s especially enjoyed by the white people. Men who you think wouldn't enjoy my bootlegged wine actually enjoy it. Anyways, after you finish squishing all of the grapes, you drain all the juice out of the grape mush. This juice becomes the basis of the wine. The taste is the driving force behind it, if the grapes are sour then the juice is sour, if the grapes are sweet, then the wine is sweet. The wine is influenced by the grapes, because once you have the grape juice, you just gotta combine yeast and sugar together with the juice. It doesn’t take much to get the wine started, just a little bit of determination and coordination. After you mix the mixture together well, you pour it into a gallon jug and place a balloon over it. After a while, you’ll notice the balloon started to inflate, the juice starting to change into wine. It’ll go up for a while, and eventually, once it goes back down, the juice has changed into wine and it’ll be safe to drink. Safe for society once the balloon has calmed down.
lol this was my attempt at making a big statement about how the ideas of many can be honed into a singular ideal ( pssttt just like the civil rights movement!) but i'm not sure if grapes was the greatest metaphor lmao
wow megan! I just came from Ridaa's blog so this is completely different, and I was not expecting this. The way you were able to use Pilate's voice, rather than just her perspective/story was so spot-on, and it's amazing how you're able to describe with this much detail such a small idea.
ReplyDeleteMegan I think your creativity was a very solid attempt! Once you said that, I immediately got it ,and that was an awesome idea! I think you very accurately captured Pilate in this post! She sounds very smart and very gentle, just like she did in the novel. I also really like how you took the metaphorical spin on this, because anytime Pilate went into some really long explanation about something in the novel, it was always a metaphor for some much bigger deeper meaning. So the fact that you did that here - with your own post - shows that you really understood Pilate's character and her purpose.
ReplyDeleteThe way you took the making of wine from Pilate's perspective was very impressive. Pilate is a very interesting character so I liked that you did your blog from her perspective. The tone and diction you used sounds just like how she talked in the book. Good job!
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