"My End" - Nonsense Poem

This poem was inspired on the Disney film Ariel's Beginning on how queen Athena, Ariel's mom, died. I just added more detail and extended it to make it my own poem.

Rules: Week of 2/24/14

Prompt: What have you been reading? What does it remind you of in your own life?
Pages read: 32-96

     I do not get how could someone be embarrassed by their own brother or sister? Well actually I do know, but Catherine, the main character, is embarrassed of her own brother's sickness. My argument is that no one should be embarrassed of their brother or sister just because they have autism. Catherine's brother has autism and because of his behavior and slow learning she is too mortified to be around him. My sister has her legs crooked and I am not embarrassed by it at all. I can't control what she has or what makes her, her. If I had the power to cure her I would though. She wants to take dancing classes and do other fun sport but she can't because of her legs. She also takes a lot of other medical care. I can relate a lot to Catherine but I do not feel anything like she does towards her brother. Overall what this book reminds me of is of my little six year-old sister, Monse.

     The reason why this book reminds me of my sister would be because of how much attention my sister would get because of her legs. My whole family revolves around her just how Catherine's family does. Catherine also takes trips to the clinic for her brother to get a check up every week. I take trips to the clinic so Monse could get a blood test every month. Another reason why this reminds me of my own life would be because Catherine loves to draw and has offered to draw Jason some words cards for him because he can't talk. I would draw movie covers for my grandpa when I was little  because he owned lots of movies. Catherine has also made a new best friend next door of her house. When I moved I made a best friend who just lives two houses away. At first we were both a little shy but we became best friends.

     In my opinion no one should ever be embarrassed of their own sibling because of what they were born with. Even if that person is like your step-sibling do not be embarrassed by them either because blood does not really matter it is how the person treats you. No one has a perfect life. If someone were to have a perfect life then that means that person is in heaven. Hopefully my sister will have her legs fixed soon and that Catherine figures out a way to appreciate having a brother.

Expanding Minds

      What I find so fascinating is that there are no measures in a humans creativity. That is why there are so many great artists of all kinds. Movies come along in this situation and so does music. They all start with writing, though. Humans have active thoughts and when they are able to keep those active thoughts in writing. All those famous books like The Hunger Games, I used wonder how does someone think that big? It is very possible thought. The Mortal Instruments (TMI) has motivated many people to use their talent to do something based on TMI.  For example there is this YouTuber, Beth Crowly. She is a song writer, singer, and pianist. She is also a teacher and used all of her talent to write a beautiful song for TMI. Beth is trying to get her song in one of the future upcoming TMI movies. I can see cause and effect function in society. Someone creates an amazing idea and others enlarge that idea or they do something based on what that piece of work. Like blogging helped me do many great things with books. It gave me different view of how I see books.

     I intend to wait until the last minute to do homework assignments. It is a terrible habit of mine that I am determine to improve. The procrastinating has helped my write even better, though. Before, I would do an egregious job on my work, if I were to wait the day before to do my blogging. Procrastinating is sort of like a motivation. A motivation that I actually shouldn't have but I will be improving it. Another thing I have noticed is not of my blogging skills but reading, since in blogging I write my own thoughts on a book, sometimes I do not know what to write. I have found a method to solve that. I would annotate as I read a book. I would do the annotating in my head and try to remember it for my blog. Finding the meaning of the text or making predictions in the stories then sharing it with my classmates on blogging. I sometimes would want to know what my classmates think about something so in my blog I ask them to please comment on their own thoughts. I would like to compare mine to theirs. My word choices are also improving. I read all my blogs in juxtaposing order. My word choices were great at times but were not used as much. Then later to my other blog posts I see so many words and phenomenal paragraph organization. I actually could not believe that I wrote that. Just having this blog has reshaped my thoughts and writing style.

     For these last two quarters I hope to have my summaries a better. I intend to put a little too much entail into them. I would also like to talk how I write which is with the word choices. I also want to improve everything in my blogging in order for me to do that I will ask a family member to give me ideas to improve a post before uploading it. My all time favorite post would have to be Infinite Brightness the reason for that being would be because of the point of view and just knowing I gave a lot of effort to that blog post is a spectacular feeling. It was based of the book Perks of Being a Wallflower which tell a beautiful coming of age story. I summarized the story but in a teacher's point of view which helped me think about other characters instead of the main one. Prompts and main points I plan to include in my blogs guide me in many things. I think it is oddly strange for me to have over one thousand page views. I guess my thoughts have expanded so much into a world of fantasy but I just don't see it that well yet.

Rules (Little bit of John Green too) : 2-17-14

Prompt: Write a summary of what you have just read.
Pages read: 1-32

     Before I begin I would like to talk about The Fault in Our Stars. I know what John Green did to his readers. He first created a huge bundle of happiness throughout most of the story. Taking a pistil he shot that bundle straight in the middle, disintegrating all that happiness that he built up. The rest of the story he little by little glued all of the pieces back together. Green did that by telling the good sides at the end of the story. Teaching all of us this huge life lesson in the end which slowly recovers us. I am not just talking about this one book though, this also has to do with Looking for Alaska. This is the unique talent of John Greens writing. You just have to be valorous to read his novels.

      (I am not so good at summaries so I want to improve my summary writing.)

     Twelve-year-old girl, Catherine just cannot stand her brother. She wants a normal life but it is very hard when her brother, David, has autism. She struggles to get her brother to wait in the car. When David asks Catherine a question like, "What time will dad come home from work?" the answer has to be either "Yes" or "No." David does not allow "Maybe" or "I don't know," but Catherine truly didn't know what time her dad will come home. She didn't think on replying to that question so in the car he threw a tantrum. Then out the window they were looking at the men outside a truck moving stuff into their new neighbor's house. Catherine's old neighbor, Mrs. Bowman, told her that the new neighbor will have a daughter around her age so that is one thing to look forward to. Catherine is always alone in the summer because her best friend, Melissa, spends her whole vacation with her dad. Now she won't be so lonesome.

     When they arrive to the clinic that is the only time Catherine gets to spend with her mom. As she colors her mom reads Harry Potter to her. Catherine has drawn almost everything and everybody in the clinic except for this 16 year old boy, Jason, he can't talk fro some
unknown reason and he is always on a wheelchair. He has this book on his lap full of words so that he may communicate with others by pointing at the words and phrases. Jason's mother is sitting next to him and notices Catherine drawing Jason. She tells Catherine to stop in an impertinent way. Catherine gets upset but Jason's face expression is unobservant so she can't tell what he is feeling. As Jason and his mother leave the clinic he caught a glance of a different drawing Catherine made and he liked it. As a generous act she gave it to him. That is the start of a new friendship for Catherine.

"Foul Kings"

Spine Poetry

   
   

     The main point of the poem is that there are these evil kings who rule most of the world. My inspiration for this poem was the first book and the second to last book. Combined it created a poem about foul kings having control. Almost in all of my own written poems I likes to leave an empty back story so that the readers may use their own imagination to fill in the missing piece. I would love to know what my classmates think what the mysterious story is, so please comment your story.

"Dead Promised Love"

Found Poetry

(In case you can't see it)

"Dead Promised Love"

Night thoughts warmed at the memory

Sweet love is dead

We're all God's people

acquaintance 

You can't be honorary

Aren't you even listening to me?

You promised

     The main point is that a person is talking to his/her dead lover. There is a missing story with an unknown promise behind this poem and can only be filled with your imagination. I drew a city underneath because of the third line and the setting of night clouds of the memories that lover is having. Nothing was really inspired to do this poem probably just the word choices this page has is what made me wonder what kind of poem I can make. Please comment what you think this poem means or what is the missing story, I would love to hear my classmates ideas!

Rules: 2-10-14

2 Voice Poem on Rules by Cynthia Lord

Why can't I have a normal life?

Remember the rule to appreciate what you have

It is hard to appreciate what you don't have

Why can't I have a normal brother?

I'm sorry

I want some attention from my parents

When are we going to the video games store?

I do not know, maybe at 5:00

NO! 

Sorry, at exactly 5:00

Ok, I can't wait!

Is there a cure for autism?

Why do people see us differently?

Look my airplane!

He causes lots of attention.

I like having fun!

I do not even get invited for parties because of him.

Parties are fun too!

He ruined my drawings!

Your drawings are ugly

I can't wait for the new neighbor

I just want a friend

I want to be the neighbor's friend

I am just worried that she won't like me

I have to say "Hi" to her that is the rule

She might not like me because of my brother

Or if a person says "hi" to me say it back

That is why I give him rules so that he may be normal

I forget the rules sometimes

Always got to follow the rules

My only time alone with mom it's when he is at the doctor's

I don't like the doctor's that much, but they are still nice.

Mom reads me a book while I draw

There are fun toys there

When we leave there I still feel lonely

I wonder who else has rules...

I need a friend to understand me

I need someone to play with me

Will no one understand?

Poem

The Fault in Our Stars - Week Of 2/3/14

Prompt: Discuss what you like and/or dislike about what you are reading.
Pages Read: 130-230

     I find this book so adorable (I am such a girl). Everything that happens between Hazel and Augustus is just perfect! Do not get me wrong, though. I am not saying this book is perfect because to me not everything is perfect. There are always some flaws in a book but these flaws are just in my opinion. Author, John Green, is the kind of author who makes small things in life seem something much bigger. Which, I value that when it comes to realistic fiction. The idea of making a book about two cancer lovers is just adoring but tragic at the same time.

     What I did not really appreciate though, was how fast the story line was going. Hazel, a 16 year-old girl with stage four lung cancer, just met Augustus, 17 real-old boy with an artificial leg whom he lost because of cancer, and they take a trip together to Amsterdam. Of course, with the adult supervision of Hazel's mother. I just feel like how can they go on a trip together when they just met. Well, I actually do not know what bothers me about that. I just feel like something is missing there, maybe like something bad to happen. There are people who have read this book tell me that I am not in the sad part yet but still, the story is dragging for me.

     What I did like about this book is how much humor it has! I find myself laughing out loud at times. Like when we do silent reading in class, it is hard for me to keep myself reticent. I also loved how John Green would describe something in the book but since it is in Hazel's point of view it would match her personality. For example when describing Augustus smile, "Deliciously crooked smile..." I thought that was creative. After reading John Green's other book Looking For Alaska and reading this book too makes me wonder what did it take for John Green to write books like these. Those two books are mostly set in teenagers point of view then there is always something tragic happening. Green then makes the stories small events into something bigger and valuable. I just really wonder about his teenage years...

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