Do as I say.

The “Lottery” is a short story based on irony because if you win you get stoned until you die. You have no choice or way to get out of it and if you’re picked you die no other options. This shows us that the theme of the story is control they are controlled and they have to follow the traditions.

They are controlled to show up and each father or man in the family picks a slip if there is a black dot on it their family is chosen. If a family is chosen they all draw slips and if they have a black dot on theirs they get to have the whole town throw rocks at them until they die. This obviously shows the theme control because they have no option to die or not and they all know that so people don’t put up a really big fight.

The whole story is based on control they show up and have no choice not to come. They pick a slip and have no choice not to picks one. Not even the family that is chosen argues that one their loved one is picked and has to die they all know they are being controlled and it is shown widely throughout the story and is one of the biggest themes that controls the story.

"Wash me"

Here I am ignored and full of dust and dirt and lonesomeness. People see that there is dirt all over me and they think I'm bad just because I don't look okay if someone would spend some time fix my problems and wash me up I could be a as clear as day, but since I have dirt on my people don't because I look bad that isn't the motive that should be flying around the world. If you spend time with something they slowly become clearer and cleared the most care I have seen is someone writing in my dirt wash me. Turns out the little bit doesn't go a long way I have never been cleaned or cared for just a window with the word wash me sprawled across but nobody cares.

That's what you think

Authors note: This is a writing piece on a quote to meet a goal of using quotes in at least three writing pieces.

                Hal Stevens or better known as Ralph Steven’s son spends his time living in a huge shadow of an all-star third basemen and heavy hitter for the Cardinals. People start to think that Hal gets to start on his baseball team just because of his dad knowing the coach and being famous. People always think about people before they really know who they’re really dealing with and they can be wrong and way off from the real thing.

               

 “It’s not easy being Ralph Stevens” is stated throughout the book and it is a really big quote in the book. A senior on the team especially doesn’t like hall because he beat him out for the job at second base and he made an excuse so that in his own mind he doesn’t have to face that Hal was better than him.

                

 People often think of other people from what is around them and not from the real person and they are really never completely correct. The quote in this book really states that just because his dad is famous doesn’t make his life easy it can actually make it worse.

Little Boy Big Heart

Authors note: This is piece for point of view for the book Old Yeller to meet a goal of getting a ten in point of view.

Travis is just a boy on a farm with a little brother that causes trouble and mother that has many things to do and a Pa who works hard for a living and mentors Travis. When his Pa has to leave Travis is the man of the house and steps up to provide. Travis meets what is to become his new best pal with a rude awakening and starts by instantly hating him because from his point of view the dog is a “thieving rascal”.

                 

“He was a big ugly slick-haired yeller dog.” From Travis’s point of view and needed to be disposed of and ran out of there sight. Little Arliss doesn’t see it that way instantly he loves the dog and was happy because the yeller dog was stick thing and starving and he sees it as helping the yeller dog out, but since the book is told by Travis’s point of view the reader views the dog as a thief and doesn’t like him.

               

 Little Arliss was just a young kid maybe four years old and he didn’t understand what it meant that they had no meat because of the dog he saw it as a new pet for him to have. If Little Arliss was the one that had to provide for the family he might have hated the dog too because he would have to go hunting for more food when they had a whole deer ready to be eaten.

               

 Travis has a point that the dog was a thief, but it is natural for a dog to seek the easiest way possible to get meat when they are starving, but the book doesn’t add that because it is told entirely from Travis’s point of view. If the book was told in third person a reader might have the choice to see it from another point of view and then they wouldn’t like Travis. The point of view decides how the reader feels a d shaped if they like the book or not they same sequence of events could happen is Little Arliss’s point of view and the book would be totally different.

               

 Little Arliss has a completely different point of view than Travis and the book is told by Travis’s point of view so the entire time you are relating to Travis not little Arliss so you feel for Travis about how he has an annoying little brother that always ruins everything. From Travis’s point of view at the beginning of the book old yeller is a rascal that has no business with him because he is a thief.

The Truth behind the Cough

The common cold is the most common illness and the most contagious. Universities and medical science are always trying to come up with a cure, but try they do they have never succeeded. The common cold is pretty interesting and remarkable yet simple.

               

 First off getting infected is hard to prevent and is easy to do. You can catch a cold by getting contaminated fingers or touching even the smallest of droplets from coughs and sneezes (How Cold Virus Infecction Occurs). It doesn’t take much to get infected just a few tiny droplets that you don’t even know are there so they get ignored and you become infected.

               

 The simple infection matches how the cold virus works a cold is simple and like many other viruses that infect by direct contact. A cold is an illness when you become infected in your nose. It also affects you sinuses throat and ears (What a Common Cold Is). A cold usually passes in one to two weeks but can lead to bronchitis and other illnesses that last a lot longer (What a Common Cold Is).

                 

There are no proven cures for the common cold. There are medicines that are always advertised to cover the symptoms of a cold but never cure it. They might have found a cure for the common cold. It is a thing that can kill viruses even after the person becomes infected, but it is not yet tested on a cold virus and most likely will just cover symptoms (New Clue to Fighting Viruses ). On the news we see things like this all the time and this is from a couple years ago and there is no cure now so apparently it failed like all the others, and the common cold continues on its path of nasal destruction

                 

The common cold can’t be stopped. The cold virus rampages on even though people are working countless hours trying to conquer the virus, but the virus always wins. The common cold is intriguing and question raising although it is a simple virus that isn’t complicated to understand how it works. 

"How Cold Virus Infection Occurs." 2007. Understanding Colds. 18 April 2012 <http://www.commoncold.org/undrstn3.htm>.

"New Clue to Fighting Viruses ." 2 November 2010. NHS Choices. 19 April 2012 <http://www.nhs.uk/news/2010/11November/Pages/common-cold-viruses-fought-in-cells.aspx>.

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Huge Changes

Auhtors Note: This is a character development piece on the main charecter of the book "Woods Runner" to work on my goal of getting a ten.

Going from a provider to a savior may not seem like all that much, but for Samuel he never saw it coming and was changed and formed completely. Samuel is a innocent boy with little worry, but just to hunt and feed his family and other families he helps out, but when the task changes Samuel also changes greatly.

When death comes into a young man’s mind it can mold him and he can take either of two ways he can change for the better becoming a great man or can take the easy route and use death as an excuse for everything. The thought of death pushed Samuel to go on a great journey, death pushed Ty Lewis to become great at the things he does, and keep pushing on. Without Samuel his parents would have died because Samuel was a hunter and knew the woods and had to get all the food for his family. He affects his entire village because he’s only thirteen and is the main provider for his family.

Sam is a natural hunter, but is not used to a man hunt, he has to go after his parents and survive in the woods. This molds Samuel to learn more about man and their tendencies and the knowledge of the woods allows him to do that. Samuel changes greatly because he gains so much more knowledge from people he has met and people that have helped him.

Samuel gets helped by many people, but there is one in particular that changes him the most. The narrator even states that "Sam Can't believe how much his life changed". Annie a little girl and her family he came across that fed him and offered him knowledge of how the Brits were that captured his parents. Hessians come and kill the little girl’s parents and now he has to take care of the little girl. Without Samuel Annie would have died a long hard death of starvation. By now Samuel had went from a hunter to a care taker, man hunter, and savior. Without Samuel’s maturity growing with all his responsibilities others would have died.

To conclude on Samuel went form a hunter to a caretaker, man hunter, and savior in just a few months. There is a part in the book the narrator explains the Samuel was amazed by how much his life had changed when he had just ate dinner with a nice family and within two hours he had a little girl to take care of and a family he just met had died. Samuel goes through huge changes and take the higher route and changes for the better.

Song vs. Poem

The Poem Big Yellow Taxi has a mood of Big Yellow Taxi is sad and depressed and it makes people feel sympathetic. The tone the author wants you to feel is sympathetic and regretful. As compared to the song when the singer sings with an upbeat voice and the mood is almost happy and you feel picked up and feel good and that’s what the singer seems to want you to feel.

The author probably didn’t like the song because it contrasted everything he wrote the poem for. When he wrote that with a tone of sympathy and sorrow he wanted the audience to feel that way and when people heard the song it contrasted what the poem said and the song made it seem weird and think how that’s not right.