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>.

"What a Common Cold Is." 2007. Understandiong the Common Cold. 18 April 2012 <http://www.commoncold.org/undrstn2.htm>.

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.