Rock

As i walk through the forest seeing all its beauty i step on something hard. I pick it up and examine it. As i throw it I walk around the river bank searching for more of these things. The Joy and laughter of people filling the air rustling through the forest. the sky blue and trees all around. The water smashing over the rock as it holds against the current.

Stars

Authors note: the light stands for the path in life that we take. When we stray from that path we go into darkness which stands for those things that would ruin us. This poem is describing life and what happens when you stray from the light.




shining bright
the light that shines the path
the beauty of it all
the gleaming star
showing you
that none can prevail
as the darkness rises
the light fights back
the darkness strong
the stars last stand
and the sky's last song

In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Nighttime Mark Haddon is trying to say that when you believe in the thing that you love most you will do whatever you can to help that thing. Christopher is a teenage boy with autism that has a belief whenever he sees four red cars he will have a good day and when he sees four yellow cars he will have a bad day. Now weather this is true or not he believed in having order throughout his day and his responsibility was to believe in what he thought to be right. In life we all have good and bad days but is it our emotion that makes us believe we will have a bad day or the surroundings around us. The world filled with sin has the order to make your life miserable though you try and many get through the pain we have gone mad with power. Those who defy us the right to believe are those to scared to embrace it.

In the novel The Power and the Glory Graham Greene talks how when we stand for something we believe we must take risk. Both of the priest in the novel stuggle with the fact that life is worth living for when you know you do something right.
When the priest is running from the police he realizes he has nothing to lose yet he is the key for people to repent their sins. He is standing for what he believes and not hiding away like Padre Jose. Padre Jose was a priest who beilieved in something yet he doesnt stand to do anything about it. He is an example of those who believe but are to scared to try and take risk." It is the voice of Life that calls us to come, and learn."
The struggles in life are too great that we must stand firm and only hope that we are doing what is right. The priest goes to prison and he realizes that though he has been caught he knows that he has made a difference in the world. When God sent down Jesus to die for our sins he could've easily just said that he didn't want to die and gone away. But instead he stood firm for what he believes in and he took the punishment so that people would know to this day what he did for all.

In the novel Guliver's Travels the race of humans is tested to the limit. When Guliver goes to the land of the liliputans he is okay being their servant and doing work for them. When he comes to the land of theLuggnagg. he finds hhimself ready to answer questions about life and helping others in their ways to make the world better. Then he finds the true disgusting part when humans are given a chance to live forever they destroy it by doing things unimaginable. Then and there the hope of man kind has gone lower than the set bar that is the standard of living. Next he went to the land of the Glubdrubid were they gain power by cruel and wicked things. the crimes that destroy those who stand in their way of having more power. After all this Gulliver's ideas of the people were destroyed to nothing. Just dust in the midst of the true people that show life the way it is suppose to be.

Guliver's Travels

In the novel Guliver's Travels There are things that are meant for a purpose in life and those that are there for no actual reason. When Guliver comes to the island with 6 inch people he realizes that he has entered a world were people want to be the best. the Empror wants Guliver to help him take out his enemy's. During this time England and France were in a fight about power. England as the bigger countrty was able to over power the poor people of Scotland. Jonathan Swift is making fun of the idea that power means everything but really we are all equal and we have control over our own lives.

words to know

Uncanny- Mysterious
Remorse- regret
Corrupt- dishonest
Abstract-difficult to understand
Bias-prejudice

In the novel Life of Pi He realized that life means more than riches. When Pi looks over the boat he sees a world of fish that shine bright beautifully.The first time Pi sees Richard Parker he sees his gleaming coat that shines orange and black. When Pi cathces the first dorado the shining scales on its body were to beautiful to kill. Then Pi realized that riches are nothing, the real treasures in life are things we don't really take time to look at like fish. But they are really there.

Atomic

death
destruction
decay
no sign of life
going into the dust
searching
looking
crying
saddness
sorrow
fear
despair
Death

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury talks how in this world we have freedom;; freedom of speech, freedom to do whatever we want. We don't have to listen to anyone as we are in control of what we do. In this novel the government takes control and makes it so the people are all happy in their little world. They do not know what is going outside their little happy lives. Guy Montag realizes this mistake and starts to take control of his own life as he starts hiding books and reading them. Sometimes to do what we think is right, we have to stand up for it, Even if it means standing up to those who intimidate you. " I don’t know anything anymore." (pg.18)the signifance of this quote is that Montag realizes that he is in a world were he doesn't know anything going on around him.