Where am I?

Author’s note: For language arts class we wrote an essay for the theme of a novel. In the book “Between Shades of Gray” the theme stuck out to me the most is bravery.  

Imagine being stuck in a pitch black train with nothing and no one you know, not knowing where you’re going or where you are. Each day you and everyone else struggle to get food and water. In the novel “Between Shades of Gray”, by Ruta Sepetys, the main character Lina Vilkas faces many challenges and has to have bravery for her and her family.  

To begin with the NKVD took a cluster of people from all over the US, and took everyone that was alive to Lithuanian. From the day they got there they started working, from fall to spring and didn’t have a lot of warm clothing throughout the winter. So Lina, her mom, and her brother Jonas along with everyone else had to deal with little food, water, shelter, and warmth as the arctic weeks turned into months. Therefore with everything they all had to go through with they must of had a lot of bravery.    

In addition Andrius and his mother have to do many things for and with the NKVD to help everyone else even if they don’t like it. Unlike everybody else these two get to stay and sleep in the building in which the NKVD people stay. Although since Andrius stayed with those people he would sneak the leftover food over to Lina, in which she would share with the rest of the people. Mrs. Arvydas and her son Andrius have bravery because of everything that they have done to help protect everyone else.        

While reading this book it reminded me of the book “Deadly Little Games”. In this book the main character Camelia got locked in a tiny room in the middle of the woods. This room was mysteriously black and had no windows, she didn’t know what was going on. So Camelia had to of had major bravery, since she was entirely unaware for where she was and what was going on.        

Throughout the book the main character had to have plenty of bravery with everything going on. In “Between Shades of Gray” Lina has to have bravery for herself along for her family. If something like this would happened to me I probably wouldn’t of been so brave.  

Thank You

Author's Note: This is alternet ending to the piece "Thank You Ma'am". I choose to do it on whent Roger comes back to say thank you.

At the same time as Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones shut the door Rodger stood there just looking at the door, making a memory in his brain. A memory of what her door looked like, and the building, so he could come back and visit her again. When Roger first met Mrs. Jones he hated her but, in the end her started to like her because of what she did of him.

As their lives went on Roger decided to go back a visit Mrs. Jones since he never got to say thank you for what she did and gave him. So the next day Roger head out to and remember what her building looks like. Once he got there he knocked on the door and asked for Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. When Roger first saw her there he couldn’t believe it, she looked so different. At first it was a little awkward between them but, after a while they just kept on talking. The first thing Roger said to Mrs. Jones was thank you. Mrs. Jones was all confused she didn’t know what was going on.

“I’m sorry, what are you saying thank you for?” Asked Mrs. Jones

“For the lesson you taught me and the money, you know when you brought me to you house.” Replied Roger

“Oh yes of course, I’m happy to help. And the lesson did it help you?” Asked Mrs. Jones

“Um, yes it did.” Said Roger

“Good, so how have you been, what have you been up to?” She asked, as she made some lunch.  

“I’ve been good the usual, just got a job a few months ago and you?”

 “I’ve been great and still working here throughout the years.”

They continued talking until Roger had to leave. And from that day on Roger went back every month to visit  Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, and they would just talk for hours until the day ended.       

I choose this ending because Roger was being taught a lesson form Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones and he never got to say thank you. So I decided to do a ending where Roger goes back to and visit and say thank you. 

The Golden Hook

Authors Note: In the writing lab we read a story and didn’t finish it completely. So we had to come up with a reasonable ending of what we think will happen.

A few months after Cody buried Clarence and took home the golden hook. He put it on the shelf right above his trophies in his room. A couple of days after he brought it home he realized that the hook was gone as if it vanished. He searched everywhere but it just didn’t show up. After a while Cody just stopped looking. He didn’t feel that bad since he took if from Clarence. Cody continued to look throughout the days but it still didn’t show up. After that he just stopped looking and caring. Then one day out of the blue the golden hook showed up, and through the days that it was missing Cody was having  karma and bad luck. He hadn’t realized it at first but then when the hook showed up it all seemed to disappear. While the hook was missing Cody kept on dropping some of his most valuable things or losing them. Since that was happening Cody couldn’t figure out why that kept on happening. Until one day later, he realized that he had never had karma before until those past days while the hook was missing. Since Cody didn’t want karma any more he decided to visit Clarence’s grave and return his golden hook. Once he returned the hook Cody’s life continued on and didn’t have any more bad luck.                 

Changing Personalities

Author’s Note: This piece is a character analyses. For my piece I am doing a bio poem. I choose  Mona from the “Pretty Little Liars” series. Throughout the series Mona has three different personalities.    

Mona

Daughter of Mark and Joanne.

Lover of school, family.  

Who feels happy when at school and cheerless when rejected by the popular girls at school.    

Loved when with family.  

Who gives a pleasant mood.

Who fears getting made fun of.   

A resident of Rosewood, Pennsylvania.

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Mona

Daughter of Mark and Joanne.   

Lover of shopping, make-up, and friends.

Who feels happy when with friends.   

Loved when with friends and family.  

Who gives friendly advice and support.

Who fears losing her friend.

A resident of Rosewood, Pennsylvania.

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Mona

Daughter of Mark and Joanne.

Lover of evil, making peoples life miserable, and playing cards.   

Who feels safe in the clinic.

Loved when friends come to visit.

Who gives a bad scene to people.  

Who fears of losing her friend, Hanna.   

A resident of Rosewood, Pennsylvania.

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In the end Mona is the way she is because Mona got sick and tired of her friend Hanna not listening and not being there for her. Also because Mona always got picked on and bullied by Hanna's friend Allison. So she goes against them and tries to get back at them for everything that Allison did to her.           

Mona reminds me of Matt from the book “Deadly Little Secret”. In a way there are somewhat alike because in the beginning of each book they are both innocent and nice. And then comes the middle of the book and Mona turns into the popular girl and is snotty to everyone. While Matt is getting suspicious by the minute. Then comes the end of the book and Mona has turned into evil, she is trying to ruin everyone’s life. As Matt turns into the bad guy who tries to kidnap someone.                 

Our Founding Father

Author’s Note: This essay is for Patriots Pen. I wrote about  what I thought about them. If we wanted to we could choose to enter this into a contest.

Do you know who the founding fathers are? The fathers are George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, and James Madison. Therefore if you had a chance to tell them what you thought about them what would you say? I would tell them that they were successful in forming our government, religion, and freedom.

In the year 1920 women of America were allowed to vote. If it wasn’t for the founders then men would only be the ones to vote. One reason why the  fathers were successful was in our government because of being able to vote. And without being able to vote then the people of America wouldn’t get a chance to elect who they want for president. Then there probably wouldn’t be demarcates and republicans.
   
Religion is a big part of the US, and without it then people today wouldn’t be who they are. Every Sunday there are people who go to church, Sunday school, or bible study. Almost every summer for one week my friend Molly and I participate in a bible school event. It’s called Vacation Bible School, and you do a bunch of religion activities such as; crafts, games, sings songs, plus more. This is one example of a religious activity.      

If we didn’t have freedom then what would we have? Without it we very well could be slaves right now.
But since we do there’s so many possibilities as to what we can do. In July 4, 1776 the 13 colonies declared themselves independence from the English.      

Maybe not everything the founding fathers did was successful. But overall they were doing well with our government, religion, and freedom. However if they didn’t exist then this country wouldn’t of been as successful as it is today.    

What's the cause and effect?

The Hunger Games 

Author’s Note: For reading lab we got to chosen if we wanted to write about a book or a really life situation. I chose to write about the The Huger Games (book). In this piece we had to explain the main event and what the effects were.  

The main cause of the story is every year, once a year the Capitol holds the annul Hunger Games. Which is a games where one girl and one boy from each district get chosen randomly and, they have to compete against everybody. From district 12, Peeta and Prim were chosen. But Katniss didn’t want her little sister to go so, she took her place.

The effect of this story is when Katniss and Peeta win the Huger Games. They were the second people to win the Huger Games from their district. Normally there could only be one winner but, the Capitol let them both win. If this event didn’t happen then there would have been one winner or maybe even no winner. If that were the case then the whole ending of the story would have to change.

Have You Even Been Stalked?

Author's Note: We had to write a short responds to a cause and effect. I wrote about a book that I read last year so, see if you can look for my effect on the cause.  

In the book Deadly Little Secret by Laurie Stolarz, the main conflict of the story is that Camelia is getting stalked. And this mysterious person was Matt, Camelia’s ex-boyfriend. Yet she doesn’t know who this person is or how closes they used to be. So during the book as Camelia is getting all of these strange phone calls, letters, pictures of herself, plus he broke into her room. The only reason as to why Matt did this was because he was mad at her and he wanted her all to himself. Towards the end of the book is where the conflict mainly happened. While Camelia and Matt were talking he handcuffed her wrists together and carried her to the trunk of his car. She tries to fight back but her smacks her across the jaw and knocks her out. And next thing she knows is that she wakes up and finds herself in a tiny room.    

This conflict gets resolved by when Ben comes and finds Camelia and Matt fighting. So Ben starts to fight Matt and eventually he passed out. After that Ben called the police and Matt was taken away. And then Camelia never got another weird letter or phone call again.