Nature's Cry

Authors Note~  This a response to the two poems "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Field Below"

"Big Yellow Taxi" is about losing something that you are never able to get back. In this case it is nature being destroyed. That is also the same for the poem "Field Below"." Big Yellow Taxi" When I listened to this song it does not seem sad. It seems happy and catchy. Does not seem like the author is sad about losing her paradise. When I listened to the song "Field Below"  I could definitely here the sad nice in her voice her you could really tell that she was yearning for something bright and happy. Something that she doesn't have now. I really think that the mood and tone of the poem and the mood and tone of the song match up really well and you can feel her sadness.

Parody

Author's Note: This is a parody to the poem, Just to Say. This poem is based off of Where The Heart Is, by Billie Letts. Enjoy! :)

I left you.

At Wal-Mart

While you were in the bathroom.

I waited for you,

You were taking to long,

So I drove on

Sorry to say

but I have a record now

I'm way better off

 So glad, I left.



 

This parody is about the book, Where the Heart Is, by Billie Letts. Willy Jack leaves this note outside of Wal-Mart when Novalee comes back and finds it. It explains why he left her all alone with the baby! The speaker is Willy Jack and the audience is Novalee. The tone of the poem Is sorry and sad In the beginning but then rude at the end! The mood is dreadful the whole way through!

What is Free?

Authors Note: This is a research paper for Social Studies. I would like for it to be graded on the writing rubric.

“Why should I strive and acquire all the constituents of a man if the privileging of the land admit me not as such, or but in an inferior degree! Pardon me if I feel insignificant and weak….”  These words are spoken from an African American student who lived in New York City in 1819. His bitter words help us understand that blacks in the North were not as free as they should have been. Blacks in the north were legally free but not treated as equals.

First, they had more freedom then the blacks in South.  One example is they didn’t have to serve the whites. They were not sold in to slavery like the blacks who lived in the South. Although the blacks in the North were not treated like farm animals, they had all the rights of a stray dog. They were not allowed to eat at the same table with the whites; also the whites would not associate with them. Though they were not showered with hatred, they were not bathed with respect.

However, blacks in the North were not able to be a part of a community unless they belonged to a church. There they were able to print a newspaper and have Sunday school. They had clubs and got to be a part of something more important than their race. The question is; if the blacks were free then why were the churches segregated? Shouldn’t the blacks and whites be able to praise God in the same building? Also what happens to the black people who do not go to church or do not have the same religion? Well they are turned away; they have no rights in the community. They just have to sit back and let everyone do everything for them which doesn’t help them want to succeed or strive to be in power of who they are or who they could be.

Even as “free” blacks they did not have the same rights of any other man. They were not allowed to vote or be part of a jury. There was only one state out of the “free states” that allowed black men to vote. That state was Massachusetts. This is more proof that the blacks were not equal. They were not allowed to take the equivalent amount of actions as the white men. They were declined the ability to have any power or say in our country.

Lastly the education of young children was unfair. The schools in the North were segregated. It’s like sorting laundry keeping the whites with the whites and the blacks with the blacks. That does not sound free. When you separate kids at a young age you are not really teaching them any good morals. You are teaching the white kids that they have all the power and they can be as rude as they want to the blacks. This makes the blacks feel worthless.

“Why should I strive…” This question should have never been asked. If the blacks were free, they would never feel this way. They should have been treated the same; equal. Then they would be free.

"Mother to Son"

Authors Note: This is a context and word choice response on "Mother to Son".

In the poem "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes we encounter the tender words of a women  speaking words of encouragement to her son . "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair." This is the main metaphor and message through out the poem. That message; stay strong. The author wanted the readers to read this and feel as though they are able to make it through the hard times. The authors tone is easy to pick up in this poem. He is trying to tell us that mother is fighter and no matter how hard her life was she got through it, and as a mother she wants to see her son do the same.

Willy Jack

Authors Note~ This is my character disruption using word choice and context.

Life is rough for Willy Jack. He isn't the most idle roll model. He talks a big game, but when its time to  play he backs down like a coward. Running away yet still holding on to his dignity. As short and greedy as a leprechaun, he  will do anything for a bit a cash. Searching the seats in his Plymouth to scrape up some coins is one of his finest hobbies. With out a care in the world he strides through a room lurking for attention, from anyone who will give it to him. He fed off the emotions of women the way Dracula would fed off of innocent children.

Match Made In Heaven

 Authors Note~ This is a predicting piece on my independent book Matched.

All choices are made for you. When you live in the Society, Officials choose who you will love, where you will work, and when you will die. In the book Matched  by Ally Condie, seventeen year old Cassia was born into the Society. It is a different way of living, but yet very safe. At age seventeen you will either get Matched or be voted to be a Single. When Cassia turned seventeen she was psyched for her Match Banquette. She was Matched with someone in her town. That someone was her best friend Xander. Though a malfunction in the micro card and she sees another boy; Ky,  has Cassia wondering... Is Xander really her true Match?

Unfortunately for Cassia, I doubt that Xander is truly her Match.  It wouldn't make since considering they are in the same town and are best friends. It doesn’t often turn out that two best friends get Matched with each other. It's so rare. I know this because after these two young people were matched the town was in an up roar.

I see this novel ending the way "The Boys Next Door" did. Lori thought she was in love with Sean. Yet she is still trying to figure out if he is. Later she finds herself in love with Adam. She went through the whole summer filled with adventure just to find out she thought she was in love with the wrong guy. That is going to happen to Cassia she is going to  go this whole book thinking that she has to love Xander, but curiosity rules and she goes through all the trouble and a few broken rules just to get close to Ky. I see her getting in trouble with the Officials, why Ky is an "Aberration," meaning he could never get Matched . Even though she says, "Officials don't make mistakes," she is starting to question if Ky is really the one who was meant to be with her and the Officials are just hiding everything from her.

In my eye's this is how the book will end. Cassia finds a hidden secret, the secret of her true match. She will find that Xander is just a cover for the mistake that the city Officials thought the Matched Officials made. When really Ky was the one meant for her. That probably had it planned all along that Cassia and Ky were Matched. Though Ky is and Aberration it is at no fault of his own, but only his fathers. Then he moved to the same Province as Cassia and Xander to live with his Aunt and Uncle, which throws everything off. There solution is having Xander Matched with Cassia to rise a little excitement instead of Matching Cassia with an Aberration and causing a riot.