Peommm!

You're the thought in my head that starts each morning,
the conclusion to each day.
I vision you in all that I do,
and everything I say.

You're the smile on my face,
the sparkle in my eye.
the warmth inside my heart,
the sunshine in my life.

The only hand that's laced to mine,
the coat upon my back.
My best friend,
I will never turn back.

You're the dimple in my cheek,
the constant tingle in my soul.
the voice that makes me weak,
You're the one who hides me from the cold.

You're all I've wanted,
all that I need.
You're all I dream of,
You mean so much to me.

Our Song

Author’s Note: This piece is about a song that Taylor Swift wrote, and how it would be different if a guy told the story.

Our Song, by Taylor Swift, really can get to you. You can understand the lyrics by hearing it once. Taylor sings many songs, but this one is, by far, my favorite. This song is written in both points of view, but she’s the one telling us the fantasy of their love life. It would change drastically if Drew, the guy she wrote it about, was telling the story.

Taylor wrote this song when she was in ninth grade, and also when she was dating a guy, named Drew, and apparently, they didn’t have a “song”. So when the talent show came up, she wrote this song, that included her boyfriend, and sang it at the talent show. When she wrote the lyrics, she was trying to say, that she wanted them to have a song, and she was telling him how they don’t have a song. In the song, she wanted him to tell her that they had a song, and that it was something special.

Parts of this song are in Drew’s point of view, but they way he is telling her was more different, than she was probably expecting. Taylor’s saying that she wants a song, but he was telling her that everything they do together is the best song there could be. He was putting their memories into lyrics. He didn’t want some ordinary song, he wanted a individual kind of song. One that would bring chills to your back one everyone heard it. Especially one that meant the most to Taylor.

If Drew had sang this song, I think we all know that it would be a whole lot different. Even though it is in two point of views, Taylor was still the main person telling us what’s going on. If you think about it, songs can really change from point of views. You don’t know a song correctly, unless you know who is the outlook of this the outlook of the story.

Prediction

Authors: This piece is my prediction, like what I think is going to happen in the book called "Lucky".

In the first couple of chapters in the book "Lucky", written by a really good writer, Rachel Vail. Phoebe, the main character, starts as just a regular girl, living a regular life. In the eighth grade with the end of the year coming up and graduation right around the corner, she finds the perfect green dress, she also might have fine her dream guy, things just keep getting better and better! Wait, did i say things are getting better? I meant worse! Her favorite green dress it out of stock, she loses all 3 three of her best friends?! What's going on? Not so lucky anymore, huh? 

When I read this story, I can actually get into it. Like I am one of the main characters. Sort of like I  could predict what is going to happen next. When I was predicting, I think that she would get all her friends back, get the guy of her dreams, and most importantly, get that green dress. I am downright positive she will get that green dress. She has been looking at it for about a little over a year now. If anything, she will just work for the money to buy it. I mean she already thinks that is what’s going to happen. That guy, you know the soccer player, will want her back. The only reason they didn’t like each other in the first place, is because of Phoebe best friend, Kristyn. You can’t always let friends come between relationships, it just isn’t right.

     I also know my prediction will be true about getting her best friends, only because no one just losses their best friends for not agreeing on who to invite to the party. I thought they were getting all worked up for nothing. If they really cared about each other, they would be friends with everyone, and not just pick favorites. These reasons are in many different books, and even movies. To many to even think about. .

In conclusion, let us just say, that in the future, you will not get everything you want. You can keep those wishbones and eyelashes, but not also keep what you dream of. Oh, and don’t let friends come between other friends. It isn’t any of their business, it’s yours. Otherwise, this is a great book so far, and I would defiantly recommend it.

Theme

Author's Note: This piece about 3 different themes that come into the book, "Touching Spirit Bear".

Touching Spirit Bear is a well writing book by Ben Mikaelsen. It’s a great book for people who like violence. I would defiantly recommend this story to others. It really gets you going. It’s your there with him in the settings, making all these decisions. I would say that bravery and courage is the major theme in this book, but there is also survival and choices, for many different reasons.

I believe that the major themes in “Touching Spirit Bear” is courage and bravery. Cole, the main character,  has the courage to try and fight a tremendous white bear, for food, which leads on to him being partly dead. How many people to you know that will be brave enough to try and fight a bear for survival food. Survival is another one on our list, that comes up in this book a lot. He survives the bear attack, on an island, with no food! That’s bizarre.

Aside from courage and bravery, choices and decisions are another big theme in this book. We all have to make them, some good and some bad. His, on the other hand, were bad ones. He decided to throw some innocent kids face into the ground! That is an atrocious decision. Then he has the choice of either going to jail, or go live on an island and think about what he had done and why it was bad. Next on our list of decisions, he goes and tries to kill a colossal bear, which, of course, the bear will fight back, and almost kills him! 

I feel like this book relates to the “Hunger Games”. I mean there is tons, and tons, of bravery and survival, even a lot of decisions have to be made! Katniss sticks up for her little sister, who gets chosen to fight for District 12, and says, “Take me instead!” Her and Peeta, another person who gets chosen, fight for their lives. In that case, they would both make the decisions on how to survive.

In conclusion, as you may have read, bravery and courage, choices or decisions,and survival, play a big part in this book. Along with Cole and the immense white spirit bear. All these themes are actually a important part in life. One day you might come across a bear, and you might need to mimic Cole and how he used his skills to survive.

Conflict and Resolution

Author's Note: This piece is my conflict and resolution on "Touching Spirit Bear" and how it is Person vs Nature.

The book "Touching Spirit Bear," is about a 15 year old boy named Cole Matthews, who was getting into fights for a very long time, but the last time getting caught smashing a boys head into the ground was the last straw. They had to do something about it. He is offered to go on the island, Circle of Justice, to change the way he acts. Struggling to survive, things can only get worse by running into the Spirit Bear. Will he survive and learn to live on his own? Or will he just give up? This type of conflict is called Person vs Nature. This is because Cole is fighting the wilderness to survive.

 This conflict gets resolved, because Cole teaches himself how to build fires, how to hunt and many more things a survivalist would have to know. He gets help by a parole officer named Garvey. He helps him in many ways, to learn how to become a better person, to forgive, and best of all, control his anger he has with others. This conflict is similar to the conflict in "Hatchet," because Brain, on of the main characters, get in a plane crash and has to learn how to survive on his own.

Changing Characters

 Authors Note: In this selection, I am writing about, in Spirit Bear, Cole can change and help other people change.

Some people never change. On the other hand, people can change there lives for ever. For example, a fifteen-year-old  irresponsible juvenile from Minneapolis, Minnesota, arrives on a unproductive island near the city of Drake in Southeastern Alaska, in handcuffs. Not willing to change, the school, his parents, and much more, force him to live in an island, until he changes. This guy bullies, and bullies, kid after kid, leaving people in misery.

When Cole arrives on the island, he is consumed by anger, acrimony, and dissatisfaction, to change. As shortly as Edwin, a Tlingit elder, and Garvey leave, Cole sets fire to his constructed shelter and supplies, he tries jumping into the ocean to swim to freedom. Getting caught by the rising tide, he is incapable to escape the island. In his first few days on the island, he has several encounters with a magnificent, white bear called a Spirit Bear, and he is decisive to kill it out of anger. 

Some days later, he saw the bear, desperately in need for food, he tries stabbing the white creature with his knife and a makeshift spear. The bear is not only hesitant but instead fiercely attacks Cole, breaking his hip and right arm as well as knocking him out. Left to die after the attack, Cole comes to realize his own liability and need to change quickly. A while after the attack, the Spirit Bear obediently approaches and comes within inches of Cole’s face. Cole  reaches out to touch the bear and grabs a tassel of white hair from its back. Cole is overwhelmingly moved by the bear’s serenity. Edwin and Garvey back to find Cole close to him death, with mosquitoes and putrefaction all around him.

Back on this small island, Cole is forced to build his own shelter, and Edwin teaches him a series of rituals that will tolerate his healing and forgiveness progression throughout the year. He is commanded to take a bath in a freezing pond every morning to clear his mind of anger. Then, he must take a large rock called the “ancestor rock” up a hill, and then roll it back down as a symbol of releasing his anger. Just as he is growing in his own development of healing, Edwin tells him that Peter Driscal, the boy he had attacked, is not doing well. The boy has developed depression and has attempted suicide, twice. Cole insists that the best way to heal Peter is to have him come to the island and see how Cole has transformed. Peter’s depressed, but desperate, parents agree on the condition that Garvey stays with them on the island. Cole shows Peter the natural wonders of the island and his own healing process, which allow Peter to understand how to forgive Cole and accept that his life has worth as well. As the two forgive each other, they see the Spirit Bear one last time, peaceful as it watches the two former enemies now reconcile. 

See, everyone can change, I mean if the want to. I guess Cole really understood what he did wrong. We can't change on our own, we need friends, or family to help. We need to be surrounded by the people we love and the people that care about us. We need to get help by letting the anger out of us. Everyone needs to realize that the best thing on earth is to be happy. To actually have friends that like you for you. No matter how hard changing your life may be, never give up. Deep down inside you are a wonderful person. 

Prediction

Authors Note: In this section, you will see that it is a prediction and why I was right or wrong, and it's about a book we read.

My prediction is that when he smelled it, it wasn't strong enough to change him. I think that he will come by Molly and he will be the same person. He probably won't change a bit. Insidious is a movie that is kind of like this. I mean this kid goes up stairs in an attic at their new house and falls. Then he suddenly goes into acoma, then the devil possess him. My brain tells me that he won't be the same person at all. Like you don't just completely change. I was completely wrong. I was so wrong. He opened the jar and it like possessed him. Like took his personality. All his emotion is gone. He isn't the same. I think that when he goes by Molly, I think she will cry. I think she will be so sad that she goes and talks to the science teacher. I think she will find all the jars, and maybe she will try to somehow fix Troy so he is back to normal. She will probably break the jars. Maybe get all the people back to normal.