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.