Canto Poem

My hand swung to my side, feeling the sharp stone puncture layers of skin and muscle. Wailing in agony as blood spurted out of the wound, I run towards nearby shelter. The shrill screams of dying men rip through the air, accompanied by the sounds of arrows whizzing through the air and the Indians whoop when they hit a target. Dizzy from pain and hunger, I lay in a more comfortable position, just hoping to survive this wretched attack. ”Why did I ever come here?” the thought pounded through my head. “Oh yeah, I remember why. Land. Money.” That irritating know-it-all voice answered. I hear feet pounding around me and realize that the Indians have gone inside the town. One enters the door and maliciously grins when he sees me. He runs toward me and my eyes widen with shock as the spear plunges down, and becomes closer and closer….

The story Woods Runner is about a 13 year old suffering from a ‘savage attack’ that has got his parents taken away by British soldiers and Iroquois. He discovers unexpected allies and people that help him out on his journey, such as Coop. In this article I will explaining how Coop helped Samuel on his journey and some other people that helped him as well. I will also be explaining the Human conditions of the attacks.

All children go through a stage in life where they feel unmotivated and disempowered to do what they want to do. The short story “Distant Lands” is written by Tim Winton and explores ideas of the disempowerment, power and isolation. Through the use of narrative conventions such as characterisation, setting and symbolism, the reader is influence to respond to the ideas with sympathy, frustration and hope for the main character, “Fat Maz”.

In Conor Grennan’s “the little princes” a young man by the name of Conor Grennan is bored with his typical day to day life and decides to spend his life savings on a yearlong trip around the world. Before he begins his worldwide trip, he volunteers at an orphanage in Nepal named “the little princes” mainly out of a sense of guilt rather than an actual desire to help. Expecting it to be a short and meaningless time he soon finds himself on a long and difficult journey that will change him in ways that he never expected. Through his time with the children of the orphanage Conor finds himself changing in ways he did not expect as he experiences the world outside of his own country, develops a genuine desire to help others before himself, and eventually gaining a new sense of purpose. This change brought on by his time spent with the children is apparent throughout his journey as he is tested again and again to see how far he will go and just what kind of man he will be in the end.

This story is told from the perspective of an adolescent boy, Yunior. As the story

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Vinh was a boy who loved reading every day, he’d be trapped inside the magical world of books where his imagination would run wild like a unicorn running in the wild. While, he was reading Gregor the Overlander in the corner of his room, it permit his thoughts to bring him to Regalia, where a battle was taking place people frantically ran away from the rats as Gregor and his group jumped onto their bats to flee. He began to ponder on how it’d be like to travel an underland world like Gregor but little did he know that the book he was holding was his way to the worldly world of fantasy. As he slept, peacefully, the wind blew open the book, Gregor the overlander, it flashed a blinding light, it also swallowed Vinh and his monkey friend into

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