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.

Good or Bad?

 Author's Note: A book with no clear good or bad side can propose many questions for a reader


Have you ever read a book that made you think which side is good and which side is bad? Has a book ever had 2 sides that are both good and bad? Well, the book Divine Madness, by Robert Muchamore, it can be hard to designate a good and bad side. Muchamore uses realism and a common problem shared by many to make both sides seem good and bad.

In Divine Madness the Australian version of the F.B.I, A.S.I.S, and the “terrorist group”, Help Earth are the two sides presented to you in the book. Throughout the book there are minor conflicts between revolving around pollution; mainly around gasoline and finding a cleaning fuel. For many adult and young adult readers this book will probably remind them of the news at night because it discusses pollution and oil prices. By using these commonly shared problems; Muchamore makes it difficult to point out good and bad sides.

With the commonly shared problems; Muchamore just isn’t making the book a simple read. In the first encounter between the two sides, Help Earth aims for an empty group of oil tankers to destroy the trade route of one of the most unhealthy fuels. This immediately suggests Help Earth is the “bad side”. But later in the book A.S.I.S. bombs a small town thinking that they will disable  one Help Earth’s recruiting facilities; but instead just end up killing many innocent people. This new info can have the effect on readers that perhaps A.S.I.S. just isn’t thinking clearly and may designate them as the “bad side. Realism also backs up a commonly shared problem making the choice even more difficult.

Realism is the bee that pollinates the flower of a commonly shared problem. The realism when oil tankers are targeted by a so called “terrorist group” make adult readers make text to world connections and younger readers think about why this has to happen and how it possibly can be put to an end. However this can also be a downside to the book; making adult readers stressed thinking about all the world is going through and perhaps making the younger readers find it boring instead of satisfying. At that point making a decision on who is good or bad may not even matter to them and they might just want to put the book down or rush through reading it.

Thinking about which side is good or bad in a book can be an interesting read for many readers. Muchamore obviously makes it clear that he doesn’t want people just skimming through his books without caring but reading them with deep thought and make a reader’s mind conjure many questions.