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.

I Always Win

Authors Note: This is a parody of the poem"This is Just to Say". That / worked on with Sean in class to show we learned what a parody is.


I have joined the war in the south pacific. Will you forgive more for what I have done? I have made the right decision and I’m overjoyed that I joined.

It relates to the novel because he wanted to go to the war but his mom did not approve but he still felt good about serving his country. The main character Adam is speaking to his mother who is speaking to the audience. The tone in the beginning is sarcastic. It makes the reader think at first that he is asking for forgiveness and at the end the reader sees the sarcasm and takes it in as humor.

Parody for just to say using hereos don't run

I always win

I have joined the war in the south pacific. Will you forgive more for what I have done? I have made the right decision and I’m overjoyed that I joined.

Responce to Mother to Son

Keep Going

Authors Note: This is a piece to show how figurative language is used to set the tone and mood in “Mother to Son” Langston Hughes

The author uses a lot of metaphors, by having the mother talk about her life as if it was a crystal stair or a floor of a house when he says some boards torn up and bare places. The figurative language used gives a sense of comparison and it’s used to set the tone of hardship and sadness with a little bit of reassurance when she says she’s okay and for her son to keep going. The way I felt when I read the story was that if, I were the boy I would want to find my mother and help her even though she says to keep going. It makes me feel sorry for the mother.

Research Essay

Not Really


Authors Note: This is a research essay I created for Social Studies, and then I found I could use it for one of my goals in Language Arts.


A dog gets let outside, he gets a sudden rush of excitement, and he sees bird, rodents, and sticks to chase. The dog takes off happy as can be with no clue about the chain hooked to his collar restricting him to do anything he planned on. This was the same situation for the “free” blacks in the north they were told they were free, but really they were still considered different and restricted form things. It’s like a feeling of relief that only last for a short period of time to be followed by more grief. The free black in the north were not free they still had different laws and weren’t allowed to do all the things a white man could


A free white man could go and vote for his government and could serve as a juryman against criminals, and have a say in government. A “free” black man in most states was not allowed to vote or serve as a juryman; he had no say in how the country was run and how crime was handled. Often times if a black man and a white man were both suspects in a crime the black man was sentenced without much investigation and nobody cared, because there were no blacks serving for the jury.


Economic freedoms were debatable, because technically they were allowed to have a job and own their own house and land to live and thrive. The blacks argued that they couldn’t get a job because a white man would never hire them, and It was hard for them two own a business. Blacks did own land and homes, but they could only afford them in undesirable places and rundown homes, because they couldn’t get a job, and they weren’t allowed to house in the same neighborhood with the whites.


To continue on the segregation, this was the most restricted. Black men weren’t allowed to marry white women by law, and they weren’t allowed to dine or go to a theater with whites, and they had designated areas they were allowed to go. The black hated this because they were considered free, but they had laws that didn’t apply to a white man that was ultimately free and free isn’t at different levels the definition states; not subject to censorship or control by a ruler, government, or other authority, and enjoying civil liberties.


Blacks were considered free by whites, but that was just an excuse to try to get them off their backs for starting slavery. They weren’t free not by definition or in any way besides they didn’t have to be a slave on a plantation.






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Why Me

Authors Note: This piece is on the development of dynamic character Ty Lewis a thirteen year old boy much like the rest of with some very different experiences.

Ty Lewis who went from a boy with dead parents who slept in the laundry room of his uncles old rickety house, and bathed outside with crick water in a rusty tub because he wasn’t allowed to use his uncles bathroom. To a boy living with his brother who plays for the New York Jets living in a mansion without a care in the world until the mob comes back out to kill this time.

The first book Football Hero starts when Ty lives with his uncle who mistreats him and makes him bath outside in a rusty tub, and use a 100 year old outhouse as a bathroom. At first Ty is shy and he is a loner at school whose only friends are books. His uncle wants information on the Jets so that he can bet on games with the mob. Ty is told that he can play football if he gets injury information from his brother “Tiger”.

When Ty starts to get the information, and tries out for the football team, he starts to feel confident. He aces the tryouts and that gives him even more confidence and he starts to fit in at school. That is a pretty big leap from where he was, and he has a whole lot more ahead of him to learn.

The FBI finds the gambling and that Tiger was leaking information Ty and his brother are accused of the crime. Tiger admits he was telling his brother things, but Ty thought it was for his uncle’s fantasy football league. This changed Ty because then he became a target from the mob because he helped the FBI, and his Uncle and his family were put into the witness protection program. Ty was friends with his cousin who had to go with his Uncle without any contact with people she formally knew.

Ty now went from shy outcast who was mentally abused by his Uncle to a #1 target of the mob. That’s a huge change and affects Ty’s life because a mad mob member turns on Tiger and Ty had to jump and shove him down stairs so that Tiger didn’t get beaten with a crow-bar. After that the first book ended with a big cliffhanger.

The second novel Deep Zone is about Ty’s life with his brother and he has become the star football player for his school and gains tons of friends and is going to try out for a seven on seven team lead by a former giants quarterback coach. During the football season his Uncle comes back for a trial, and the mob gets stirred back up and sends killers after Ty. Tiger gets injured in a play-off game really bad and gets and infection and is moved into an ICU, and an undercover FBI agent is sent to protect Ty. During that time TY forms a bond with the officer, and the officer starts to change Ty’s life even more. The agent gives him advice to work through a cut on his hand to try-out. The coach notices Ty’s toughness and grants him a spot on the team.

While on the team one night a mob killer tried to break into Ty’s house, now Ty has even more to worry about. Ty feel the problem is fixed when he goes down to Miami to play in the championship game for his seven on seven team, and meets a girl who he seems to like. Now Ty has a girl, a mob, and a game to worry about. This changes Ty in the biggest way because he meets new friends and he goes on to win the game and he feels on-top of the world and he feels amazing, when about a year ago he was thinking he was nothing and his Uncle, would start beating him.

Ty went through huge changes in both books, but mainly the second book. Because that’s when things rise to murder attempts, (I would tell more about the murder attempt, but it would ruin the book) and Ty knows it so he has changed so much from a “nobody” to a star football player escaping death.

Character Description

I’ll do it myself
Authors Note: This piece is a character description piece using figurative language to describe better. 
Adam from the book heroes don't run is a very independent character. He is a tall boy with eyes as blue as the pure water of the Caribbean, brown hair, and a muscular frame as sturdy as a rock. When he enters the war he is only seventeen, yet appears much older. Besides age he is a lot like the character from where the red fern grows not physically, but mentally, and is motivated by a lot of the same things.

The character from where the red fern grows wants dogs, but his parents won’t do it so he takes things into his own hands with the assistance of his grandfather. Billy wants dogs which isn’t the same as war, but he deals with it the same, he goes to his grandfather and does things on his own. They both have wills of fire that never give up and never stop. Adam wants different things, but the two books are very similar.