Hi there my name is Austin I live in Wisconsin. I sleep in a body bag. I am an old fela i am about one hundred and fifty years old. My skin is falling off and you can see half my brain when I get out of my bag people always run and scream they act like I am going to eat them or something I only want to get some fresh air the body bag gets kind of smelly.

theme of the lottery

              I think One of the main themes is humanity because if the people in the story are really humane they would not kill the winner/loser.  The reason that the people in this story are inhumane is because they do this every year. 

              In our society it wouldn’t happen once because people wouldn’t stand for it. In our society if someone falls we help them up. We could not kill people mercilessly without a good reason. In our execution system they don’t feel any pain it is done by lethal injection and they numb them before how would we be able to stone someone that is innocent.

Heros of 9/11

Authors note: this is a five paragraph essay about heroes of 9/11.

In the book Heroes of 9/11 there are many stories of heroism. In this essay I will take you through the point of view of a fire fighter and a terrorist. On the day of September eleventh  two planes flew into the twin towers this was a national tragedy.

On September eleventh the call came in that something happened to the twin towers. Only when the emergency personnel got there is when they realized how bad it was going to get. They thought it was an accident until the second plane hit. Then a plane hit the pentagon and every airport went in to high security.

When the fire department got the call of high rise fire. Every fire department got the call there had to be at least 20 fire trucks at the bottom of the tower. Then fire fighters started pouring in to the building. Then the other plane hit I ran into building two and when I was on the twenty seventh floor I saw a man in a wheel chair I could not stop to get him down  I have to get higher I have to save more people then I got to the fortieth floor . I heard a rumbling like an earth quake I looked out the window all I could see is smoke there was no tower it had fallen. I rushed people down the stair. After each floor was cleared I would do the one under that until there was no more people below the fortieth floor.

Now we are going to take a look at the terrorist point of view. We got on the plane all I could think about is getting to the cockpit. All I could do is wait for my coconspirators to start the actions that lead to what we were Destin to do. What we were born to do, what we were trained to do. After we took off we all stood up and three of us stormed the cockpit. The others kept the passengers at bay. We were going to start the war on America and this was going to be the thing that gets us the 72 virgins. Before we hit we all said a prayer  we praised ala and then we saw our mark and drove straight in to it

In this essay I hope I have illustrated both points of view of the terrorist and the fire fighter. In the terrorist point of view he thinks he is doing something for his religion and country. In the firefighter point of view the terrorist is doing something that is just a monstrosity. In the terrorist point of view you understand why he is doing this and for the fire fighters point of view you hate the terrorist and think that he is a monster.  When the planes hit the towers all terrorist and all passengers instantly died. What the terrorists did was terrible I think it was one of the worst things that ever has every happened in American history.

the common cold

 

Do you know that what the common cold really is? Well the common cold is a viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory system which affects primarily the nose. Symptoms include a cough, sore throat, runny nose, and fever which usually resolve in seven to ten days, with some symptoms lasting up to three weeks.

            The common cold is caused by a virus. More than 200 different viruses are known to cause the common cold. Some, such as the rhinovirus, seldom produce serious illnesses. Others, such as parainfluenza and respiratory syncytial virus, produce only mild infections in adults, but can cause severe lower respiratory infections in young children.

     Well over 200 viruses are implicated in the cause of the common cold; the rhinoviruses are the most common.  Upper respiratory tract infections are loosely divided by the areas they affect, with the common cold primarily affecting the nose, the throat, and the sinuses. Symptoms are mostly due to the body's immune response to the infection rather than to tissue destruction by the viruses themselves.              

 The primary method of prevention is by hand washing with some evidence to support the effectiveness of wearing face masks.  No cure for the common cold exists, but the symptoms can be treated. It is the most frequent infectious disease in humans with the average adult contracting two to three colds a year and the average child contracting between six and twelve. These infections have been with humanity since antiquity.                

The typical symptoms of a cold include cough, runny nose, nasal congestion and a sore throat, sometimes accompanied by muscle ache, fatigue, headache, and loss of appetite. A sore throat is present in about 40% of the cases and a cough in about 50%, while muscle ache occurs in about half. In adults, a fever is generally not present but it is common in infants and young children.

In all I hope that you have learned what the common cold really is. When you touch a door knob or a public phone you could have just contracted the common cold. If you don’t want the common cold here are some tricks that you could use, wash your hands often use hand sanitizer and always cover your moth when you sneeze to help others and they might return the favor.\

the woods runner

Samuel is a young adult that grew up in the woods. He became a part of the woods and the woods became a part of him. He felt more secure in the woods than he did in his own cabin with his parents and the other people in the settlement. I will be analyzing how Samuel as a person develops threw out the events in the story.

In the beginning of the book he is just a normal settler’s child. He hunts, dose chores and helps around the settlement. He hunts mostly and when he goes hunting he brings back food for the whole clearing. The other settlements help with his chores for the food he cannot do the chores and go hunting all day. He feels more at home in the woods he loves hunting and tracking. He has to go deeper into the woods every time he goes in to them. This is because the deer and other game is not venturing near the clearing for fear of being shot.

When his parents get kidnapped by the British and the Indians he changes in so many ways. Then he gets hit in the head with a tomahawk and almost dies. But that is not as a set back as the tragedy that befalls him and Annie when Annie’s family gets massacred by the hessians.

Near the end of the book Adam goes to New York and rescues his parents.  His fathers with the rest of the men are held up in an old sugar factory like pigs in a pen. His mother is a maid in a house and is treated better. She brings his father food every night but the guards take the good things out first.

In the end when they are running from New York Samuel won’t even let them talk till they are 15 mile from New York and even then they have to whisper then when they are almost to Philadelphia they are crossing the road and they run into a British patrol and Samuel shots the caption but they are five other men and a bunch of American solider shot the men just before they get shot.  In the end they get to Philadelphia safe and live there. There was much housing available because of the war a lot of people just up and left because of the war.

the woods runner

Samuel is a young adult that grew up in the woods. He became a part of the woods and the woods became a part of him. He felt more secure in the woods than he did in his own cabin with his parents and the other people in the settlement. I will be analyzing how Samuel as a person develops threw out the events in the story.

In the beginning of the book he is just a normal settler’s child. He hunts, dose chores and helps around the settlement. He hunts mostly and when he goes hunting he brings back food for the whole clearing. The other settlements help with his chores for the food he cannot do the chores and go hunting all day. He feels more at home in the woods he loves hunting and tracking. He has to go deeper into the woods every time he goes in to them. This is because the deer and other game is not venturing near the clearing for fear of being shot.

Samuel is at a new clearing that he has never been before and he is awestruck by the beautiful landscape. He hears a branch break behind him and he sees a black bear takes aim but he notices smoke coming from the direction of his settlement. He started running as fast as he could towards his settlement he had eight miles to run. He ran eight miles in an hour and a half he got to the edge of the clearing and stopped.

When he looked at the clearing he could smell something it was something he had only smelled once. He smelled death he walked to his cabin it was burned down. his first thought was look for his parents he walked in a circular pattern spreading outwards  toward the edge of the clearing. He found eight bodies, he gave each one of them a proper burial.  None were his mother and father where none of the bodies. He looked for tracks he found tracks leading away. All he could think of now was killing the invaders.  Undying rage crept up from within him until he started to mourn he wept all night he cried himself to sleep that night.

Samuel changed in the way you get when someone in your family gets hurt by another human. His thoughts all consisted of killing the people that took his parents. When before his thoughts were tracking and killing the game doing his chores helping with the garden.  In all Samuel changed in a violent grief stricken way that will ultimately lead him to harm and possibly death. When he dose find the people that took his parents I don’t know how he will deal with them. He is only on kid that has a double barrel musket and has never killed a man.

I think the purpose for writing the poems were to express how the author feels about the subject of city expansion in the big yellow taxi . In the field below the it is a similar purpose to writing but I think he/she was a little more lonely.

The songs are not my type of music. but the big yellow taxi is a complete contrast to the tone of the original poem. The field below is a similar tone and emotion to the original because it is sad and depressing and weird.

How Adam changes

Authors note: this is a five paragraph easy on how the character Adam changes emotionally and physically through out the story.

When he joins the war he is in great condition he got and a rating on his enlist physical. Adam is a taller kid. He is a good sized kid has muscle from working on his grand fathers farm. He has brown hair and typical American kid.

Then when he actual joins the war there is not much good food. A lot of crackers and chesses for breakfast some more cold food for lunch and dinner. Except for when they get a break from the war and great letters and coffee and hot meals. He gets skinnier.  When he was on Okinawa he got skinnier because they didn’t eat a lot .then he got wounded and had to use crouches and a cane. His leg will never look the same.

Emotionally he in the beginning he is headstrong and confident. Then he joins the war and becomes paranoid and nerves when he gets home from the war he is still paranoid. He even looks for shelter when he first enters a new room. And if he here’s a loud noise he ducks for cover.

In the beginning of the story he wants to join the war. His family has been in war for the last three generation he is fun loving and innocent. The part he wants to do is be a hero like his father was who died in Pearl Harbor in the first book.

 He goes all the way around the country just to get signed up. He enlists with his grand fathers permission his mother would not let him. He was so determined he had to beg his grandfather to sign the papers needed for him to join.

adam

Adam is a taller kid. He is thin and has brown hair. When he was on Okinawa he got skinnier because they didn’t eat a lot .then he got wounded and had to use crouches and a cane. His leg will never look the same.

             Emotionally he in the beginning he is headstrong and confident. then he joins the war and becomes paranoid and nerves when he gets home from the war he is still paranoid. He even looks for shelter when he first enters a new room. And if he here’s a loud noise he ducks for cover

How Jonas feels

authors note:this is a five paragraph essay about how Jonas feels about his family.

Jonas has felt a lot of feelings and he just remembers the name on the feelings like he has known all his life. When he feels something it’s like DE-ja-vu. he remembers everything about it.          

He has felt almost every emotion that I can think of including love, hate, pain, envy and sorrow.  He has coped well with the emotion I would have probably committed suicide by now.

The emotions affect him in a variety of ways when he sees his father poke a needle in to the Childs skull. He start saying “I know it hurts” he is shocked by what he sees. And he knows he is shocked because he remembers the emotion.

The emotions don’t affect the people around him as much as the way he views them. I think he views his father as a bully or mean but still seeing him as caring for his job. When he dreams about taking a bath with Fiona he sees her differently

Jonas has felt a lot of feelings and he just remembers the name on the feelings like he has known all his life. I think the memories are a curse and a blessing for him. It makes him run away and share memories with gabe.

Authors note: this is a letter from Jonas to the giver about his new life and how the giver affected him

Dear giver,

You have touched me in so many ways I am sorry I had to leave but I did not think it was right that they were going to release Gabe. You changed my life in a way that I could have never imagined and I am forever grateful. I have endured many hardships with the time I have been outside the community. I have experienced hunger, cold, pain and love. It is much different than what I thought it would be, but I don’t know whether to embrace the new feeling or shun it from my life. The memories are almost completely gone. It is making me sad to think I won’t have the memories in a little bit but it is for the best for Gabe I don’t want him to be released. I have shared some memories with Gabe. He is starting to cry more often he might be getting his stirrings. He is also talking a lot more. Is it true that the memories are breaking through, is everybody starting to feel things now and remember emotions? If so I think it is right everybody should be able to feel things.

Sincerely, Jonas

“He killed it, my father killed it”

                 

Authors note: this is a three paragraph response to a quote from the book the giver He “killed it, my father killed it”  

 “He killed it, my father killed it” that what Jonas says after he sees his father release a child in the story The Giver. This is an important point in the story because he sees that his world is not perfect that child could have gone on to do great things. He starts to have this feeling that everybody should see what he saw.

If everybody saw what he saw things would not be as happy when people get released. They might be afraid to be released because they want to spend more time with their family. They would be experiencing fear which is an emotion they are not allowed to experience emotion. They can’t even see colors how will they respond to emotions will there be a mass suicide or will they just live with it or with they just live with the pain and suffering of their lost loved ones.

In all I think this is a really good quote in the story because you can see how shocked he is to see his father kill a child. Jonas is really complex character to try and understand. Because we can feel emotion we don’t know how it is to see/feel these things for the first time ever. If I was to have to feel every emotion for the first time I would probably commit suicide it would be too much to handle for one person to take in at once.