Free Write: Close Forever

                                                                 Close Forever

                                     

                   Sorrow picks at her soul.  She bows her head in pain.  She suffers excruciating agony, all seems lost.  She's about to die in her misery.  The torment of the past floods into her memories. It feels like there's no one there to grab hold of her to help her find the light.  No comfort. No joy.  Just the sting of a time bygone.  Time seems to tick like it's already stopped.  The world is sheeted in a black blanket, and she can feel its choking hold.
                  Then comes a piercing hope.  A joy that no one's felt.  Her seemingly forever lasting hurt seems to suddenly fear.  It wars with the exhilaration inside her.  Then the twinge has passed its limits, and dreading to become a detainee of a crusade. The time's painful plodding is dispatched, and it reaches a high velocity.
                  The darkness marches its armies away, and the light reclaims its elated memories.  Her heart is dancing a radiant gyrate.  No wall can barricade her now.  No torment can oppress her.  No tribulation can win a war against her exuberance.
                  She knows that her dead is close.   She knows she will always be there.  She feels her dead's endearment and senses her help.  Her dead loved one watches, shields, assists her.  She can't discern her lost friend, but she can almost touch her.  Her heart is overwhelmed with joy, and the tears sky dive from her eyes.  She has a knowledge, a testimony.  One day she'll be with her dead again. The lost has been found and she can discern her company.  No, expiry cannot tear love apart.

                               

Current Event: Search goes on for Malaysia jet

        In Malaysia there was a plane that went missing.  The plane has been missing for more that twenty four hours, and they have ships and planes searching for the plane.  They began searching again on Sunday.  The plane contained two hundred and thirty nine passengers.  Two of the passengers got on using stolen passports.  The Malaysian investigators at trying to figure out how they got on.
        There's been some debris found but no one can tell if its from a plane or not.  The article says that the weather was great, but the pilots had no time to contact anyone.
        I think its absolutely terrible and that the worlds getting more wicked people in it.  One of my guesses is that the two passengers with stolen passports took over the plane.  Then I think they took them to a secret base, maybe to eventually to fore the government to pay money to get the passengers back.  They could also be terrorists and decided to kill them all for no good reason.
        The other guess I have is similar to the first.  I think maybe the two passengers with stolen passports went to get rid of the pilot.  Then the pilot put up a fight and then no one was driving the plane.  Desperately they fought over the steering wheel, causing them to crash.
       I feel really bad for those people.  There's lots of families that are really hurt because of there lost.  There's hundreds of families who will be mourning for their lost, can you imagine how hard that would be.

Wish you were here-- Pink Floyd

                   The first poetic device I noticed was, "Cold comfort for change", and it is an example of Juxtaposition.  Another poetic device I found was "And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?" is figurative language.  One other one is "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl", which is a metaphor.
                  I think the guy singing this and the girl he likes are both kind of depressed and confused.  They aren't sure if they want to get back together after they broke up.  I think it tells this when it says "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl".  Though the guy can see that his old girlfriend is confused, nothings changing, and so he does nothing.  His life goes on with him being miserable.  Its says this when it says "Running over the same old ground ".  I think he also feel like he's been betrayed by his old girl friend.  It tells this when he says, "And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts."

Casey at the bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

           The poetic devices I found in the poem were "Five thousand tongues applauded", and, "And now the air shattered."  "Five thousand tongues applauded", is an example of personification, and, "And now the air shattered", is an example of a hyperbole.  The other one I found says, "...a death like silence sat", and this is also an example of personification.
          In this poem Casey (a baseball player) pridefully, purposely misses the first two ball the pitcher throws, and then he tries to hit the last ball.  He thinks for sure he'll hit it, but he misses, and loses the game for everyone.
          I think this poem teaches that we shouldn't be prideful.  Even if your the best at what you do, pride can destroy your talent.  I've had an experience like this.  I thought to myself as I played flute I'm the best, and I had been in one of the top chairs in my past band.  Since I was prideful I became part of the flutes that weren't as good the next year.  Then I tried to get rid of my pride, and I was able to become one of the best players again.  So don't be prideful.
         

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

       There were many poetic the devices in this poem.  Two of the ones I got read, "And each separate dying ember", and "the darkness gave no token", which are examples of personification.  "My sad soul is smiling", is also an example of personification.
       This man is dreadfully sad, and misses his dead love, Lenore.  He's scared that she's come back to haunt him.  He drifts off to sleep and awakes to a tapping at his window.  The man freaks out and checks the window but sees no one.  Then the tapping comes to the door, he checks it, and again sees no one.
      Then a crow flies in and perches on a statue of a goddess.  The man believes the crow came from the under world and starts asking it questions about Elinor.
      The crow answers never more for each question.  I think really that the mans imagining things more scarier than things need to be.  He's scaring himself and making his pain of losing Elinor worse.  He's so focused on his misery that he can't let go of his pain.  The poem ends with the man feeling terrified.

Lullaby (Goodnight my Angel)-- Billy Joel

                  I think the speaker is referring to being with his daughter as she was growing up.  He's dealing with her worries about him leaving her.
                  The meaning behind this poem reveals a father putting his daughter to bed and telling her to dream while shes still young.  He says no matter how far they are from each other he'll always be close by.  When you love someone your always close by to them in their heart.  He's telling her that love can never be destroyed, and so he'll love her forever.  It says this when he tells her, "You'll always be apart of me", and this is figurative language.  When he tells her to dream on he says, " But lullabyes go on and on...  They never die", and this is personification.
                  I like how the speaker shows how much he loves and cares about his daughter in the words of his song.  Its a common thing for children to worry about leaving their parents when they get older.  So he's comforting her and telling her not to fear.

The Candy Shop War book two by Brandon Mull

            In this book the teams that have been employed by Jonas (an evil magician) compete against each other to get the items that he needs.  When a team loses the kids in that team would vanish.  I liked this idea because it made the story more intense, and harder for the characters.
            When they had the second challenge it was violent.  The kids with tanks powers threatened people a lot. The tank powers gave the kids super strength and durability.  The tanks accidentally break or twist a girls ankle, but they don't hurt much more than that.  They just act and talk violent.
             Closer to the beginning Summer, Nate, Trevor, and Pigeon find out that John (a police man that keeps the magicians under control) and Mozag (a powerful good magician) have disappeared.  They then go to arcade land to investigate and find something out of the ordinary. 
             They find that four stamps are worth the most tickets.  The stamps are a tank, race car, submarine, and jet.  Only four kids can inherit each stamp and will get to enjoy an unlimited supply of them.  They will also get to join a special club.
              Thinking that they'll be able to gather important information and bust John and Mozag out, the kids start earning tickets for stamps.  While earning their tickets they meet Roman, who is also earning tickets for a stamp.  He claims his friends told him that the stamps are awesome, and encouraged him to earn one.
               Roman and Nate have a few competitions with a basketball game, and Nate wins two of them with the help of magical candy.  Roman tells Nate that if he and his friends earn enough tickets for a stamp, they shouldn't take the last two slots for the jet stamp, because he wants to be with his friends.  Roman is helpful by giving Nate hints on how to earn more tickets playing games.
               Then later in the story when Roman becomes a tank he also becomes violent.  He no longer is nice to Nate.  He isn't nice to his friends Chris and Risa either.  His personality really changed.
               One thing I didn't like is that Nate and his friends carelessly used magic candy to get tickets faster.  The thought even occurred to them that the owners would be suspicious of them earning so many tickets so quickly, and winning big almost every game.  I thought it was just dumb when they still continued, not trying to cover up.  I think that Brandon Mull should have changed this part.

Beyonders book one by Brandon Mull

           This book begins out OK.  Jason gets hit with a baseball and doesn't feel so will.  He rides his bike to his job at the zoo.  Then the author talks about a few unimportant things, which slowed down the story.  Jason leans over the hippopotamus tank because he hears music playing, falls into the tank, and gets swallowed by a hippo.
           I thought it was confusing when Jason was swallowed by the hippo because it wasn't described will enough.  When I read that part it was strange, because he was in the tank and then all of a sudden he was in a whole new world.  I had to reread the paragraph to truly grasp what the author was trying to say.
            After the hippo incident, Jason takes about two pages to get out of a tree, and realize that he's in a whole new world.  He goes to the river where he had seen raft with magicians on it, and then follows a boy to the waterfall.  He tries to save the musicians even though they don't want to be saved.  Sadly, they end up going over the falls.
           I don't know, but I think maybe Jason should have felt worse about accidentally shooting a guy in the arm with an arrow, and not being able to rescue the musicians.  Jason just kind of seemed insensitive to the trouble he caused, and only focused on himself.  I also think that Brandon Mull shouldn't take so long to explain things in his book.  It really gets old, and you literally start to drift off to sleep because of too many long boring descriptions. 
           I did like how Brandon Mull made part of the story goofy.  In it there's a woman who lets a man steal from her because he refuses to accept charity.  There's also a man who creates impossible puzzles only for one person to solve them.  Then there's a blind king who lives in a mostly collapsed castle.  His servants pretend he has a grand castle, and that he's a great king, but he's really not.  He knows about the castle, he just plays along, making the servants believe he doesn't know.
           Another thing I dislike is that when Jason was at the Respiratory of Learning, the author told you what Jason read  in an unimportant book he read.  It made me start to fall asleep.  The author needs to work on making his book more interesting.  Besides the boring things the books fine so far.  I haven't gotten to the action yet.

The Candy Shop War book two by Brandon Mull

             I liked how in this book Brandon Mull had so many interesting ideas.  One of his interesting things was Uwenya, a model of the earth.  If you blew on the model earth it would cause a tornado to be born.  If you put your thumb on it, it would squish everything in that area. 
             I didn't really like how there was only one challenge guarding the protector that would lead them to Uwenya.  I also didn't like how one of the challenges to get to Uwenya was the same as when they went to get the protector.  Brandon Mull probably should have  done something else.
             In the next book, (if there is a next book, because the author hinted there would be a next book), I'm guessing the evil magician, Camilla, will own some kind of place that attacks  kids (like an arcade or ice cream shop).  I also think she'll have some kind of food or treat that makes it so no  one would notice her magic, like the nachos or white fudge in the first two books.  I also think that Camilla will use kids to get something that will help her destroy the world.
             To me its obvious what the outline of the next book will be, because the author used the same outline for book two as he did book one.  In my opinion he should be more creative and come up with a new outline.  After awhile it could get boring reading a book with the same outline. 
             Two other predictions I have is that Chris, Risa, and maybe Roman will join Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon in stopping Camilla.  I also think that the treasure Camilla wants will be in their town or a town next to theirs.

Vocabulary for Beyonders, book one, by Brandon Mull

1)  Unbalanced-  I think this word means to not be totally even.  Like when a chair has one leg that's longer than the others.  The real definition is "not keeping or showing an even balance; not evenly distributed".

2)  Through-  I think this word means to continue to go into something until you come out the other side (this can be emotionally, physically, intellectually, etc.).  Some definitions I found state that it means, "past; beyond, from one to the other of, moving in one side and out the other side".  Since this word is used slightly differently than the definitions it doesn't match up as well with the definition.  In the book it says that Jason is pushing through his emotions.  Its the same thing as physically getting through something, its just emotional.

3)  Half-  I think half means that something is bisected in the middle.  The definition I found read, "either of two or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided".

4)  Violent-  I think this word means to that someone (or something is used in descriptive writing) treats you or an object roughly.  The definition claims that this word means "using or involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

5)  Pounding-  I think this word means to continue to hit something for a while.  The definition I uncovered testified that this means the "repeated and heavy striking or hitting of someone or something".

6)  Processes-  I think this word means a cycle that someone or something goes through.  The definition I found describes that it means "a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end".

7)  Noticed-  I think this definition means that someone picks out (not literally grab, just in your mind) something that they see in something.  Maybe something they hadn't seen before.  They definition recited that this word means to "become aware of".

8)  Debris-  I think this word means dirt or the the remains of something (like a building).  The definition says it means "scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed".

9)  Current-  I think this word means a strong pull in the water.  The definition I found lists that it means, " A body of water or air moving in a definite direction, esp. through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement".

10)  Scramble-  I think this word means to clumsily move or to wriggle while moving.  The definition I read declares that this word means "a difficult or hurried clamber up or over something.