Ghost Kittens
This is my creative piece for Langauge Arts Class.

It is past midnight in my house when I am jerked away from deep sleep by the shock of someone touching me. I shoot straight up and examine the room. There is nothing there but my usual things. But an opened door screams suspicion as I just gaze at it. Its beckoning me with curiosity but at the same it is telling me KEEP AWAY. But I couldn’t take it anymore, so I stumbled towards the door and into the darkness.

Just kidding, its not really that dark. In my living the TV was already on, which was really strange. Whoever did it, they have horrid taste in entertainment because when I walked in there Jersey Shore was on. I continued past the TV, not really frightened that there might be a ghost. The only frightening thing about that is that people watch Jersey Shore. I lazily stalked into my kitchen, mindlessly opening the fridge. I hoped there was something to drink but instead I was greeted by my cat, Squeebles. I literally freaked out so much I flew back and hit my dinner table. I guess it’s okay because cats.

I got back up on my feet and started to explore more. I had just heard the upstairs floorboards whine in pain as weight pressed down on them. All of a sudden the ceiling snapped like a twig and wood clattered to the floor through the now gaping hole in the ceiling. Nothing else fell though. For some odd reason I could feel the presence of some sort of a cat. Speaking of cats, an invisible claw or blade ripped my new “swag” pants. Out of fear, I jumped back and rushed to my pant’s side like a paramedic. I started talking to myself asking if the pants were okay. I was suddenly interrupted by a cat appearing out of nowhere, and it wasn’t my cat either. I closed my eyes and prayed I lived as the cat sprang towards me, its sleek black fur engulfing my face until I was in complete darkness.  

I woke up but I wasnt really awake. It was like hovering between dreaming and reality. My brain was broadcasting me what was going on but yet I couldn't move. I tried to wiggle and to my suprise I moved! My  face showed an expression of utter joy.....until my eyes fell down upon the ropes around my ankles. How did that happen? All I remember was a cat attacking me, then black. Maybe it was like some kind of evil cat wizard thing! That would be so cool! My excitment died though when I remembered my feet were tied up by this evil cat thing. Just as I was thinking about the ......thing, a cat's little paws trotted across the hardwood floor and by the time the sleek kitten as black as a void it suddenly shifted into human form leaving a cloud of      black mist. In front of me stood . . . Barack Obama.

I don't know why but as soon as I saw him, I said "Untie me and I'll vote for you." To my surprise, he took a sharp blade out that shined like bright like a diamond. The knife screamed as he brought it down on the rope, barely missing my ankle. After that, he just . . . left.
And I lived happily ever after.

Songs About Scarecrows

You know how there’s always that one person that disagrees on you with everything? Imagine you wrote a book from your point of view, and guess what he does? He writes a whole other book about the same thing  except from how he sees it. Think about how Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend feels about all those songs about him. How do you think you would interpret Taylor Swift’s boyfriend’s version of her song? Instead of a Taylor Swift song, I’ll take a trip into the song “Tin Man” by Future Islands from Scarecrow’s point of view.

“Tin Man” by Future Islands

You couldn't possibly know how much you mean to me
You couldn't always view inside my tarot
You couldn't possibly find it in your heart to forgive
me
You are the savage sun and scarecrow

And time goes by and you've got a lot to learn in your
life
And our hearts, locked inside(?), and Ive got to find
the one that's just right
You offer all our amends In hopes of saving me
You'd never imagine life could be straw without you
You often leave the branch out the piece that peeks
through
As long as it welcomes me, it must be truth
And time goes by and you've got a lot to learn in your
life
And our hearts, large inside/large in size(?), and Ive
got to find the one that's just right
And time goes by and you've got a lot to learn in your
life
And our hearts, locked inside(?), and Ive got to find
the one that's just right

I am the Tin Man
I am the Tin Man
I am the Tin Man
I am the Tin Man
I am the Tin Man
I am the Tin Man

It seems like this song is about a love story or a very good friendship between two people, but then one of them did something wrong. The song clearly is based off of The Wizard of Oz because of two character names in the song; Tin Man and Scarecrow. It appears that Tin Man did something that hurt Scarecrow but Scarecrow dosen’t know how much Tin Man loves him. Scarecrow wants to forgive him but finds it unbearably challenging. This song could also ccould be a real life story but put into Wizard of Oz form.

If this song was from Scarecrow’s point of view, the readers would interpret it as a person who was betrayed by someone very close to them. They want to forgive them but they don’t want to also. In the second verse, it talk about how Scarecrow offers to fix everything up and welcomes him. Scarecrow has had a hard time forgiving Tin Man but eventually just realizes that two wrongs won’t make a right.

If Scarecrow wrote this song, it would go something like this.

“Scarecrow” by Scarecrow

You couldn’t possibly know how much you hurt me

You couldn’t have ever known my feelings

I couldn’t possibly find it in my heart to forgive you

You are the savage night and Tin Man

And as time

goes by

 I’ve got a lot to learn throughout my life

And our hearts, unlocked inside

When I stand

By your side

I offer all my amends in hopes of saving you

You’d never imagine how dark life would be without me

I’d often leave a branch in my hand that peeks through

And hoping that it welcomes you

And as time

goes by

 I’ve got a lot to learn throughout my life

And our hearts, unlocked inside

When I stand

By your side

I am the Scarecrow

I am the Scarecrow

I am the Scarecrow

I am the Scarecrow

I am the Scarecrow

I am the Scarecrow

                In conclusion, it is important that the readers know Scarecrow’s point of view, or else they would not the whole story of how Scarecrow forgave Tin Man for the bad things he did, even though he didn’t want to.

The Perks of Being a Hitchhiker

This is my Compare and Contrast piece for Language Arts.

Comparing two completely books can be difficult, but truthfully, in books you can find any similarity even if one book has talking robot birds and the other is just a story of a troubled teenage boy, and that just happens to be just like the two books I just read. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and the perks of being a wallflower sound completely different. In reality though, they’re actually somewhat alike. For example, they both have extremely long titles. These two book are actually very opposite though.

The Perks of Being A Wallflower is similar to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy because in both books there are two characters that fall in love, but when they think everything is working out, something breaks them apart. For example, in The Perks of Being A Wallflower, the main character Charlie falls in love with Sam, but he doesn’t share his feelings until she leaves for college. In Hitchhikers Guide, Trillian and Wowbagger fall in love but Wowbagger wants to die so he gets himself killed.

A second similarity is that these books both have extremely long titles. They are both at least six words long. They also have hidden nuggets of humor throughout the books, but the humor is less subtle is The Hitchhikers Guide.

These two books seem so different, but in actuality there are very similar. From failed love, to extremely long titles, to hidden humor these are both amazing books.

 Theme

Your plane just crashed. Flames flicker as you drag yourself to a ripped piece clothing to stop the bleeding on one of your injuries. You’re stuck on the top of a mountain capped with snow. Good thing you brought your survival guide…Survival is everything. Its what keeps you alive. When  there is a threat to your life or anything, the only way to get through it is to survive.

In the book My Side of the Mountain, Sam Gribley feels crowded in his New York City apartment with his family so he decides to run away to the Catskill Mountains. Sam can’t just walk into a wilderness and live there though. He is going to need to know how to survive using hunting skills, hiding, building, awareness, etc.

Even towards the end, the theme is always survival. He’s always talking about how to skin animals and build houses and fires out of trees, etc. Some of it is almost like a survival guide sometimes.

Island of the Blue Dolphins is another book about survival. Karana, the main character, is part of an native tribe on an island that looks like a dolphin. One day a ship of Aleuts from Russia come to hunt sea otter but the natives want to be payed back. One day the Aleuts try to leave without paying though, so a battle breaks out. The tribe leaves the island after most of their people die, hoping to find new land. But they leave Karana behind, making her face the wilderness alone. There is a pack of vicious wild dogs after her, and she has no house yet. By collecting whale bones and other things, Karana builds a house. Later, her brother swims back to the island to live with her. They tough out the rest of the book by using whatever they can find to survive. Island of the Blue Dolphins is a perfect example of survival.

Throughout these two books, the theme of survival stays strong. In My Side of the Mountain Sam realizes that if he wants to live in the wilderness it comes with the risk of having to get everything on your own and live independently without starving or dying or anything, and I think that’s what survival is all about.

Prediction

This is my prediction essay about how I think the book Another thing would end.

And Another Thing is about a man named Arthur and his adventures through space. In this book, Earth gets destroyed, a god dies, Arthur’s wife falls in love with an immortal alien, and Earths new colony on Nano is saved by Thor sacrificing himself. Anything could happen in a crazy universe like this. This is my prediction about what will happen after all these events. The star-crossing lovers Tricia and Wowbagger should have to die, because Wow bagger has made half the universe angry, and well…everyone else would be envious of their happiness together.

In the dark abyss of space, a square-like alien spacecraft pulls itself sluggishly towards a colony of Earthlings on the planet Nano. Inside the ship, the aliens were eager to blow up a planet, especially after coming here once only to be thwarted by a god. The ugly aliens were giddy with excitement of finally exterminating the Earthlings after countless trips through hyperspace and back. As they loaded up first round of torpedoes and launched them out, you could probably hear them from the surface and just anticipate destruction.

Tricia MacMillan was off happily insulting every person in the universe with her true love, Wowbagger. Wowbagger was a green alien that was once immortal until Thor had hit him so hard that it went right out of him. Back in his days of immortality he would go around insulting nearly everyone in the universe in alphabetical order for no real reason. Wowbagger suddenly thought about what the point of this was. He went to Tricia and told her that they needed to go back to Nano. He just felt like he had to be there. In less than an hour, they had already reached the atmosphere of Nano, only to find a massive fleet of torpedoes coming right at them.

               

               

Rationale for Prediction

In space, anything could happen. Anything. Space doesn’t care if you’re the main character, they’ll kill you with a sandwich anyway. Stuff like this happens The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. Earth was blown up right when the not-so-blessed Arthur Dent returned to his home planet. Although he managed to escape, his wife fell in love with a green immortal alien. With the assistance of Wowbagger the immortal, they made it to “a second Earth”. The relentless Vogons tried to blow up that planet too, but they were thwarted by Thor, the Thunder God, who blew up all their missiles. Everything was happy, but my prediction says something different. I believe that the new lovers should be sacrificed to save the people of Earth for a third time.

I think this prediction would be most accurate because in this series, the books tend to end very…unhappily. What better way to do that than kill off the new lovers? They could be happy together in heaven, or whatever religion they are.

Another reason I think it should end like this is because people hate Wowbagger. He tried to insult everyone in the entire universe..in alphabetical order. A lot of people Hate him. A lot of people want him dead. Ending it like this would make mostly everyone more happy.

I’m not being mean but Tricia and Wowbagger should get hit by a missile so they can go be all lovey-dovey in the afterlife. Everyone else could live their marvelous lives sipping on tropical drinks with little umbrellas in it while the sunshine adds a little flavor to the drink. Just think about it. Nothing good comes without giving something up.

Character Analysis

This is my character development piece on the book Vladimir Todd. I will explain how the main character changes throughout the story.

Vladimir Todd was pretty used to living secretly as a vampire. His aunt brings him blood bags from the hospital every day. He keeps his fangs hidden at all costs. But when his teacher disappears and is replaced by a mysterious substitute, everything will change.

Vladimir’s new teacher, Mr. Otis knows Vladimir’s secret. Vlad starts to be more cautios because this could change the entire way he lives. If everyone in the town knew he was a vampire he’d probably be dead. Later in the book Vlad becomes scared because Otis and another mysterious man are trying to find his dad. He thought his dead had been dead for 3 years now. Vladimir gets really curious and searches around his old house but before he can find anything the mysterious man shows up and takes his aunt. Vladimir suddenly realizes that saving family is more important and that he must save his aunt.

Vladimir changed in many ways throughout the book. His life was pretty normal until the catalyst, Mr. Otis came in. He started to be extra careful not to reveal his secret.  Another book that has a similar character development is The Maze Runner. In this book, when an odd girl enters the camp of all boys, people are extra careful around her. Sometimes in books odd figures can frighten people and change the way they act.

Patriot’s Pen

This is my Patriots Pen essay about what I would tell the Founding Fathers if I saw them.

What is patriotism? Ask yourself that. Is it wearing an “I Love America” shirt on Fourth of July while fireworks burst in colorful explosions in the ink black sky? Is it putting your arm up to your heart and singing the National Anthem every day? Or is it the men who leave their families behind and sacrifice their lives for our country, just because they unconventionally love it? That is true patriotism.

            I’m in Independence Hall next to all the Founding Fathers, the bright July sunlight shining into the quiet building as the last person scrawls their name in perfect cursive. Would I want break to our country’s forerunners that would they worked hard for would just eventually fade into something that is in an American’s daily life? For example, lazily reciting the Pledge of Allegiance every morning during school or taking off your hat at a football game reluctantly as someone’s angel voice pierces the air. If any of us lived in a less blessed country, we would realize how special America is. In Africa, their leaders would rather kidnap children and cause bloodshed. In America, at least the government only steals your money.

            After hearing information like that, how do you think the Founding Fathers feel? Would they work so hard to make a country if they knew people would just eventually take it for granted? If the Founding Fathers knew how America was today, we probably wouldn’t have America.