Helen vs Massie

Author’s Note: I will be comparing/finding differences of two different people from two different worlds.

Helen. The beauty of the Trojan War. She started so many wars between guys. She ends up running away from her husband with another guy. Her husband was the king of Sparta, and they had two kids. Helen was also a very inspirational person. Massie on the flip side, had four friends who loved her, and she was the popularity in the school. She didn't have much of a love life, except getting her number one crush taken away. These two had very little in common, but what were they?

Maybe it was that they were both girls, or maybe it was because so many people loved them. Helen was known for the ruler of starting wars, and Massie was just the ruler of her school. They had controlling in their blood. These two are hard to compare. I mean, they are both super gorgeous, but one was a goddess and the other was just a small town girl. You could say they had love life problems, but they were totally opposite. Massie was from The Clique Series. Helen was from a city of many fighters willing to kill themselves for her love. 

Trojan

Person verses person is pretty much saying, Side verses side. The war between the Greek and the Trojan. It all means the same thing. They were trying to make peace by sending the Greek a giant wooden horse, that meant, but surely didn't actually mean, "This magnificent wooden horse is their offering, to say how sorry they are for all the needless death and destruction they have caused. Only bring it inside your walls before night falls, because unless I am far wrong, there will be gold and treasure hidden deep inside the belly of that wooden horse.” All of it was lies. That only meant one thing, the Trojans were getting back at the Greeks. Sending one of the Trojans soldiers over to the Greeks side, was very sneaky, they could have lost them, but by sending him, he lied and said he is no friend ofOdysseus, and then later escaping and lighting fire to send a message to his boss. By sending the horse they made enough room down deep in the stomach of this creature, and planned to attack at night, when guards and soldiers were sleepy and drunk. 

I highly doubt that something this bad could happen nowadays. We have much better security systems. Locking people up in cellar, or behind the bars. We have smarter people now that can actually take care of themselves and are ready for the attack. Yes, yes it could. People can attack anywhere they want, but what I do think is that we would have police or highly trained people to check out this 'Wooden Horse." I honestly can't say I have. Actually yes i probably have, but not recently, where i can think of what happened. 

Are you a guilty person?

Author's Note: In this piece I wrote about an amazing book, and what the theme is, and how it relates to me and society.

Have you ever felt so guilty, that you want to cry? What about breaking something, running away and never telling anyone about it except your best friend? These connections are real similar to the book I Know What You Did Last Summer. No one can explain guilt the way Lois Duncan can, and she uses the theme of guilt differently with altered characters. The four friends are driving down the street, when something pops up out of nowhere, so tragic, it turned out to be a little boy on his bicycle.

“A ten-year-old boy was killed last night in a hit-and-run accident…” Reading those words, and knowing you had everything to do with that, just doesn't make sense. The emotions going through your body and that point makes you want to faint, and never want to get up again. Let’s stop and think for a minute though. Was it really an accident? Did he really not mean to see that little boy on his bike? Maybe they had “had a few beers and smoked a little pot,” but they still could have seen that innocent little boy on the side of the road.

I have never, ever, smoked or drank beer, but I have still had that feeling of guilt lodged in my stomach. Society these days does not even think about what they are about to do, or what they have done before stepping a foot in that car. There has been so many accidents from drunk driving, and there are so many people out there asking for another chance at life. Barry Cox, the one driving the car, didn't even want to go back and say sorry for hitting the poor kid. He wanted to create pack for the four people that were in that car. A pack that you couldn't break.

Although you have your pack, do they really have your back? What would you be thinking if someone figured out you killed someone last summer? Receiving letters, strange phone calls, feeling like people are following you, and news papers from last year. What’s wrong with these people? Sometimes, I feel that people get I kick out of scaring people, but why? I have received many calls, saying bad things will happen to me. I never even get scared anymore, just hang up. It isn't worth my time.

Not only are those few things creepy, but seeing them in other books and stories just means that you’re not the only one. Although I Know What You Did Last Summer,  was the only real “Mystery” book that I have read, Ms. Shay had told me the book,  Who Killed My Daughter, was very comparable. Not only in analogous did Lois Duncan write this, but it is just so similar in the accidents. A “random-drive-by-shooting” and a “hit-and-run”, are so identical. Also seeing that they have never really found out who did it in the beginning. Having to search and search for that one individual person.

Not only can it be strange but this is devastation all tied up in a story. Not only is it devastating to hear that you killed a kid and not trying to, but to have someone nagging you on about it, when you have finally might have forgotten it. The story to the book can connect to so many people in this world. Kids who have been hit, and even kids you haven’t. These lessons that you can learn in these books are wonderful. Think before you always do something that could change your life, and you should never run away from your problems. Face them! Changed characters with different themes, and still can explain guilt the best way possible.

Wooden Horse

Person verses person is pretty much saying, Side verses side. The war between the Greek and the Trojan. It all means the same thing. They were trying to make peace by sending the Greek a giant wooden horse, that meant, but surely didn't actually mean, "This magnificent wooden horse is their offering, to say how sorry they are for all the needless death and destruction they have caused. Only bring it inside your walls before night falls, because unless I am far wrong, there will be gold and treasure hidden deep inside the belly of that wooden horse.” All of it was lies. That only meant one thing, the Trojans were getting back at the Greeks. Sending one of the Trojans soldiers over to the Greeks side, was very sneaky, they could have lost them, but by sending him, he lied and said he is no friend of Odysseus, and then later escaping and lighting fire to send a message to his boss. By sending the horse they made enough room down deep in the stomach of this creature, and planned to attack at night, when guards and soldiers were sleepy and drunk. 

I highly doubt that something this bad could happen nowadays. We have much better security systems. Locking people up in cellar, or behind the bars. We have smarter people now that can actually take care of themselves and are ready for the attack. Yes, yes it could. People can attack anywhere they want, but what I do think is that we would have police or highly trained people to check out this 'Wooden Horse." I honestly can't say I have. Actually yes i probably have, but not recently, where i can think of what happened. 

Torture or Hobby?

Parents in China thought that beauty was having small feet. Bending their feet in to half of their regular foot size. Rapping ribbons around their tiny new sized feet, to stop the growing of them. Being able to have small feet, and to wear very small shoes, meant to parents that they would marry someone rich. Disgusting right? You can’t really stop feet from growing.

In the U.S, I would say makeup, and to a lot of people, a lot of makeup. Having a lot of makeup to a lot of girls is beauty, but it is just plain gross. I know that what I think is beauty in your natural self. A lot of parents believe that natural beauty is the best. The significance of the title, Ribbons, Stacy Dancing, they all are very important in this story. Ribbons, for “Paw-Paw” means torture. For Stacy, it means dancing, and her favorite thing to do.

Who may I be?

Two left feet and still walks straight? Has holes that can sing the beautiful tune of a violin. Yeah I’m pretty cool! I have a great neighbor that loves me dearly. Plays his music ever so well. I have a job that I love, and I am the best in the business. I always am ready for work. Always riding my unicycle, happy as ever.

My boss has an evil nemeses, who ever so sadly, works right across the street from us in a bucket. Always trying to steal something dear and important to my heart. It’s not so bad that he lives, and works in a bucket, because he is right across the street from a lobster trap, which is ever so famous in the rough waves, down deep with all different creatures.

I’m as yellow as the sun, and as square as box. My teacher is very puffy and ever so lovely. I have been in school for as long as I can remember. I started way back in December. Always trying to achieve that main goal of getting that rectangular piece of happiness. I always end up going back home to my favorite snail, that thinks he is a cat.

Here's a view tips to you!
 The best time to wear a striped sweater, is all the time. Especially the ones with the turtle neck!

Abuse It.

Author's Note: In this piece, I wrote about a book A Child Called It, and how abuse is something that should not happen. I also related abuse to other things in life.

Little things in everyone’s childhood are brought up in their adult life, like the way their mother’s food used to take, the way their clothes were washed, or the way there clothes smelled. Adolescence is the most important part of anyone’s life as they age, it’s the time when kids know right from wrong and when they know what they want to me. Imagine being abused as a kid, having no childhood that is worth remembering or reminiscing about. In A Child Called It, the childhood of young David is taken away from him when his mom locks him in their basement, beats him, starves him, and deprives him of the basic necessities. There are obvious ways that abuse from his childhood to his adult life have shown through.

For starters, even when he is being abused, early signs of the abuse that he is being given is taking a toll on him when he stops believing in God, or that he would be able to get out of the living hell that he is in. (184) “Inside, my soul is so cold I hate everything. I even despise the sun, for I know I will never be able to play in its warm presence. My stomach coils whenever I smell food that is about to be served to somebody else, knowing it isn’t for me.” It is obvious that he doesn’t have any feelings towards anyone but hatred and remorse. In other ways than just feeling hatred for other people, he also lacks other emotions -- trust.

When Dave finally runs away from the nightmarish house that he lives in, and he finds himself in a nearby pizza shop. While there, it is clear that he doesn’t trust the owner of the shop to tell him anything about himself; he doesn’t want to give away too much about himself to make his mother look like the bad person in the situation. The ability to trust and to be able to tell somebody your secrets is key to being a healthy person -- you can’t live without someone to lean on. Clearly, Dave struggles with that. Throughout the second and the third book, his trust remains dangling by a thread, as he struggles to get along with his “brothers” at his foster home, and with his foster parents.

The story of Dave Pelzer’s life is heartbreaking enough, let alone the fact that it was a true story. This book can connect to the lives of kids that have been abused, and even kids that have not been abused. Although the books are extremely sad and gruesome to read, the lesson that can be told is that you will overcome the obstacles that you face. It may take time, but there is always a silver lining, and you will always get out of the abuse or neglect that you are in. It connects to people that haven’t been abused to tell them to be appreciative of what they have and let them be aware of things that they don’t always know what are going on.