Review

First Review:

Eclipse

Eclipse is the third book in a series of four and Stephenie Meyer makes it just as enticing as the first two. Edward and the rest of the beautiful vampires are battling to save Bella from Victoria, an evil vampire plotting to kill Bella in revenge, all the while dealing with the werewolfs who want the vampires out of Forks. The plot has many ups and downs but centers on the final battle with Victoria, which is both alarming and bloody. The story is still a delight with the same banter of the old Bella and Edward but it changes when Edward wants something more serious from her. Bella's need to be immortal for Edward is ever changing when the date to change her into a vampire occurs. The readers will become even more engrossed in the story when this takes place. Love, passion, and death are the motifs of this novel. Meyer does a wonderful job of staying true to the series look on Bella and Edward's love but invents new motifs of passion and death. Which are both tear jerking and make the reader want more. Meyer's style is flowing and smooth with her word choice and the fact she doesn't overwhelm the reader with too much detail. Meyer's story Eclipse may be demonstrated in this quote, " The kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine- like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us."


Review 2
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter is an enticing story that provides the reader to escape into fantasy land. JK Rowling does a fantastic job of creating a movie in a reader's mind and letting them make up some of the details. Harry Potter lives with his aunt and uncle, who treats him terrible, when he is practically shoved into a new life. He found out that he is a wizard and started school at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. While at his first-year, Ron, Hermione, and Hagrid, helped him to discover his famous past with Lord Voldemort. Many ups and downs in the plot reveal Harry once again saving the magical world from Lord Voldemort. This book is a page turner in that Rowling never stops the action. The one downfall to the story is the beginning drags on more then the reader wants. I don't want to keep hearing how awful Harry's aunt and uncle are, I mean we all get it from the first chapter. The theme of this story is finding oneself and Harry has a hard time finding exactly who he is and what he wants. Rowling's style and word choice reflects greatly on young readers who flock to the series. The quote that uncovers some of the plot is, "Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love."

Meeting with the President

I guess one of the first things I would say is congratulations. I'd tell him about my concerns for higher taxes and how that would help the economy. I would also ask him if he's weary about the senate, congress and now the presidency being all democratic and how that will help unite America. Why is it that Democratic have jumped on change in this campaign when the senate and congress have both been dominated by Democrats for the past two years. Why hasn't anything changed their? The main idea I would like to speak with him about is the fact that his whole campaign was to reunite America and make us be proud of our country, so how is he actually going to do that? What are his exact policies? I think their is a difference between preaching for change and actually having change and I want to know his action plan. And then I would say thank you for your time.

In four years, I don't think much will change. I think the economy, energy, housing market, and the war will still be the same issues facing us today. I don't think a president can turn around all of these issues in four years. I think its more up to the people of America then the president. That's like saying one man can change everything, and I don't believe that. I think that in four years there will be a turn around in maybe the senate and congress because the new administration may to be radical for the American people to reunite. I hope that the economy will turn around and people will have more pride in their country. I think issues that face me in 4 years will be college and money. I will be focusing on my future, my job, how to pay for college, etc.


I honestly have no idea what will happen in 2035. I honestly cant predict what new issues we will face as a nation and i cant even guess! I hope I'm happily married and have kids and a good job and am comfortable and live somewhere nice!

HALLOWEEN

BOOOO! Oh the joys of Hallows Eve... trick or treating, costumes, the sorting, the staying up 'late'. Hmm how I miss those days! Now, I have to dress in a cute costume, go to a party, actually stay up late, and i get absolutely no candy. How stupid is that?! I just really would love to be little again and dress up as a witch! I do love Halloween though, and thanksgiving, and Christmas! only 4 weeks away till the holidays start! I can't wait for the Christmas music and fun festive baking... and TWILIGHT to come out!!! As you can see I'm a little scatter brained today but oh well! happy Halloween!

metaphor poem

My prison


The bars between us,
the shackles to my ankles holding me back,
my willingness to break the rules for you,
the torture I feel in my cold cell with you sleeping far far away,
what I do not know will hurt me with wonder,
what I can not tell you will kill me with suppression,
the cement wall between will never be breached
but only dreamt about in far away fantasies,
Sleepless nights surround me with endless cycles of nothingness,
nothingness may carry hope but will only last until the final ring of the awakening,
the torture coincides with the routines of my fate toward death,
my knowledge of where I am to report at every moment is without my love,
without my soul, without my destiny, my freedom, my love
I do wish to be free from the constraints and hold you once more without threat.


Second draft: Free me my love

The bars between us,
the shackles to my ankles holding me back,
my knowledge of where I am to report at every moment is without my love,
without my soul, without my destiny, my freedom, my love
my willingness to break the rules for you,
the torture I feel in my cold cell with you sleeping far far away,
what I do not know will hurt me with wonder,
what I cannot tell you will kill me with suppression,
the cement wall between us will never be breached
but only dreamt about in far away fantasies,
Sleepless nights surround me with endless cycles of nothingness,
nothingness may carry hope but will only last until the final ring of the awakening,
the torture coincides with the routines of my fate toward death,
I do wish to be free from those constraints,
Hold you once more without threat,
So free me you foul, who hold the power I wish you leave behind,
Free me or leave me for my heart will not sit in a cell till death.

words

Rhythm: movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.

Rhyme scheme: the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal, ababbcc.

Alliteration: the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration), as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration), as in each to all.

Anaphora: Also called epanaphora. Rhetoric. repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.

Consonance: correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.

Assonance: resemblance of sounds.

Oct. 7th

Onto a new chapter in my life. Onto new things, new experiences, changes, freedom, NEW. I've never been able to go home from school since the 8th grade. I have always gone straight through the windowless halls to the windowless gym till 6:30pm and ventured outside to the dark cold weather. I, for the first time ever, get to drive home in the cheeriest of the day, when its light out! I no longer have to recover from a long day of school with another mind encompassing activity. I no longer have to put on tights and a tank top and stand in a cool gym. I am totally free to get a job, get my homework done right after school, go to any sporting event I want to, eat inbetween lunch and dinner! I cannot believe the amount of things I will be able to do with my new found time!

Love and love is like a...

Samuel Daniel Love is a Sickness
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows,
Most barren with best using. Why so?
More we enjoy it, more it dies; If not enjoy'd, it sighing cries-- Heigh ho!
Love is a torment of the mind, A tempest everlasting; And Jove hath made it of a kind
Not well, nor full nor fasting. Why so?
More we enjoy it, more it dies; If not enjoy'd, it sighing cries-- Heigh ho!
http://www.poetry.com/lovepoems/lovepoems.asp

The theme of this poem is that love if basically a spell. If you give in to the spell and it casts over you then it will hurt you. If you refuse it, you will forever be unhappy in your life.

The author uses metaphors and similes to demonstrate love as a 'torment of the mind', a 'tempest'. The reader understands how Daniel views love by what he compares it to.




LOVE IS LIKE A...


Love is like an enchanted forest filled with scary and surprising events, leaving you wanting for more.