Book Retelling

Author's Note: Find out about the book The Dealer, by Robert Muchamore.

If you like action and crime fighting then you will love the book "The Dealer", by Robert Muchamore. It's about an organization called CHERUB. Here the train children with no parents or families as government agents. James Adams a recently new recruit member of CHERUB is sent off on a dangerous mission to find evidence against one of the worlds top drug dealers.

Not Broken

Author's Note: Look for what is compared to breaking a bone in my story.

Have you ever broken a bone in your life? lucky for me, I have never broken a bone in my life, however, I have had some other weird things happen to me in my life. For example, when I was little I played youth baseball. We had just won our championship and were tailgating afterwards. Tasty burgers and hotdogs were being grilled on small portable grills while we were playing Tag I tripped over one of them and my leg landed right on the grill. As you can imagine, it wasn’t a very fun experience. Later I found out I had third degree burns and something to remember my whole life.

Happy and Evil

Author's Note: For everything that is good in life there is something that is bad. Look for that transition in my diamond poem.

Ponies
joyful, silly,
sparkling, glittering, galloping ,
shimmering, leaping; hunting, spying,
howling, running, sniffing
predator, fierce,
wolves

Why Bother?

Author's Note: Look for my simile in this piece and my view on lotteries.

Lotteries are overrated! You have a one in a million chance at trying to win it. It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. If you ever do win one it will just make up for the money you spent on the seven million lottery tickets to win! I would just like to stop or lower the price of the prize and make the chances fairer. That would make lotteries worth it.

Tasty

Author's Note: This is my writing circles piece from May 9th. Be sure to look for symbolism and semantic devices.

Since L.A. is the class I have before lunch starts it is the hardest class for me to focus in. Especially since all my friends constantly talk about steak. They treat steak like gold. It’s not that big of a deal but they make it sound so important. I keep telling them if you’re so hungry why talk about it? Their response is always the same: Because it’s that amazing! I don’t know if I can take it much longer but I’m sure they will stop soon, they are my friends.

Semantic Devices

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Animals and Humans

 Author's Note: Humans can treat animals wrong, but animals are people too.

Have you ever thought about what your hamburger is made of while eating it? How the cow has been in a confined area almost its entire life just waiting to be slaughtered for humans to enjoy? In the story Man vs. Beast, by Robert Muchamore a struggling group of Animal Liberationists are fighting to save these animals and stop animal abuse through violence. Muchamore uses realism and society to make this book give readers a mixture of feelings.

There are many groups that would stop this way that animals are treated. Some examples are PETA and the ALF. They mostly keep their actions at a passive state but sometimes things get out hand. In Man vs. Beast, This group tries to express itself by using violent protest and attacks on workers who work at animal testing labs. Throughout the book these protests and visits to animal holding compounds really visualize how poorly these animals are treated

The realism here in this book is the icing on the cake. A mixture of sadness and disgust overtakes you when you read about how they travel to a holding for experimental dogs. How they’re locked up in a cage with nothing to do and smelling terrible. Imagine seeing this for yourself. I would feel terrible just seeing them in there and feel like I have to do something. These are some recruitment methods used by other organisms like this; showing people what’s really going on and make them take a stand. Using society also helps the mixture of emotions in this book.

Society is key to this book. Using all these people who don’t know about this and showing them what is actually going on behind the red curtain is effective. This just sets off a chain reaction those people will tell more and this chain will continue until pretty much the whole world knows about it. it will go rather slow , telling all these people and proving what really goes on is hard work. In the end it is worth saving the lives of these tortured animals. 

Using society and realism gives the meaning to this story and it sends a message to the world. It can provide great emotional mixture and persuade many to do something and support these groups.