Descriptive Writing About The Duckling

Self-esteem is a huge issue in North American culture, especially within young people. Knowing this fact, it is not surprising that one of the most well-known classic fairy tales, The Ugly Duckling, deals directly with the very subject. In the story, the ugly duckling goes through a significant inner transformation based largely on the way the others around him view his appearance. Since he is fully capable of keeping up and swimming along with his mother and siblings, the ugly duckling is accepted at first; however his self-esteem plummets as others begin attacking and condemning him based solely on his physical appearance. The transformations from acceptance to extreme prosecution he faces, along with the eventual acceptance by the flock of swans serves to emphasize that self-esteem is largely influenced by the superficial opinions of those one interacts with, rather than demonstrations of other skills

One night a young girl named Lily Foster is left alone for the night in her very large country house, while her parents drove out of town for a party. This was fine with Lily especially since she had her faithful dog, Scout, and her cell phone. Finally, her parents said, ‘’Be safe and don’t go outside.’’ Lily gave them a hug and said, ‘’Of course and have fun!’’ Once her parents drove off in their car, she made herself something to eat and sat down at the kitchen table.

Howard the Duck is strange reading material and in a completely different category than what we read last week. I think it is really interesting as an example of the “funny animal” trope. This is when an animal (in a comic, cartoon, etc.) walks around on two legs like a human, and acts like a human, and is saddled with human problems. Usually, I associate this with silly characters meant for kids, like Goofy or Mickey Mouse. But I think the character type is much more interesting when its creator subverts these expectations and turns something as ridiculous-looking as Howard into an instrument for commentary on the human condition. This is what Steve Gerber did- and I think his success in doing so was best summarized when Professor Borenstein compared the humor within the comic to Louie C.K.’s standup and TV show. Howard the Duck is frequently depressing and troubling. Within the first issue, on the very first page, he considers suicide. In issue 12, he is institutionalized as his brain has turned to “duck’s head soup.” Reading Howard the Duck reminded me of a similar depiction of a funny animal. The show Bojack Horseman on Netflix has a similar character, a horse named Bojack, who does silly horse stuff like eat apple fritters and wear apple pajamas. But he is also deeply depressed and an alcoholic, and often incredibly self-destructive as a result. His pain is not played for laughs, as it might be on a lesser show. Instead, his terrible behavior gives the showrunners an

“You are what?!” Most of the time wherever I go, the same tone follows me; a cross between shock and disgust.

Waking up before the rising sun on the morning of the hunt left me feeling groggy with my eyes slow to open and close when blinking. Being extra quiet to not wake up my mother was a main challenge, trying to tippy toe around the cabin and dodging the creaky spots in the floor. Prior to eating breakfast, I began getting dressed. Due to the fact that I was in northern Minnesota, the weather was bone chilling and the wind would seep right through your layers onto your unexpecting skin. Once I had put on my long johns, sweatpants, and long sleeve shirt with a tee shirt on top I began to make my breakfast. I had decided to have scrambled eggs that were cooked to perfection with the yolk golden mixed in with the pure snow white egg white and flakes of pepper sprinkled throughout and toast with butter melted onto the crunchy outside making it soft with homemade strawberry jam spread thick on top.

He seems to not believe me but this man I met at the gym has been following me ever since I met him. “louis I swear there is a man after me, I have been seeing him at night, I really think he is trying to kill me”

“I was thinking about the lagoon...I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away too a zoo or something and they just flew away” (13).

An invasive species is an organism that is not native to a certain area but it resides there anyway (What is an Invasive Species, 2016). There are many of these invasive species that are now in Florida. Such as the Muscovy duck, the Burmese python, the Asian sword fern, and many others. Invasive species can be a huge burden on nature, and society. This is why certain species that are not in this region of the world should stay out.

My artifact is brown and black with almost 2 decades’ worth of memories; this object is my stuffed Rottweiler named Max. This artifact, although motionless with four legs, has walked to the moon and back with me as a child full of imagination. This artifact stores the most precious memories and has been with me at every step in my life. Max is very meaningful to me because we have shared many memories, from birth until now. My stuffed animal has been with me through every ups and downs in life, every change that has ever occurred to me, has been a part my past and present; and represents my future.

“Gosh, someone's mad,” I said in a mocking voice. We ignored each other for a while, but then noticed he was walking very slowly behind me. “ZAC!” I yelled to get his attention.

She finally found the person that was crying, she didn’t know what kind creature he was. She was frightened to talk to him because of how big he was, when he heard her she froze and he grabbed her. His name was Charlie Stump, he has brown hair, green eyes, tall and slender but built. She had asked him why he was crying.

The Ducklings would go swimming everyday in a near by pond. The Ugly Duckling was also not the greatest at swimming in the pond. The Ugly Duckling wasn’t very good at anything. It’s not pretty, it can’t fly, and it can hardly swim. Sometimes the Ducklings would play with the ducklings next door. The Ugly Duckling would sit there and not socialize with any other Duckling.

As I walked out of my car, I begin to put my earphones on and played music from my new favorite Khalid. His song put me into a good mood as I was walking down the beach and enjoying the fresh air. Since I was already down the beach, I decided to walk to the pier. Everything was fine up to this point, but a stranger came out of nowhere and started to follow me. This continued to happen for about ten minutes before I took any action. I started to walk in a circle and the stranger copied my exact movements. A lot of things were racing to my mind, was this man a serial killer or a pedophile. What were his intention, why would he be following me. All of these things were coming from my head and I needed to calm myself down. I was saying to myself

“Get away from me, you’re being very creepy and weird because I have not seen you once in my entire life”

In the modes of literature there are four mode lines to follow off of. One of the mode lines are romance, which is most commonly used beside comedy. In the beginning of the story there is a mild conflict, and in this case the ugly duckling is driven away and excluded from society because he looks differently and he acts different from everyone else. He tries to find his place everywhere around the land but he can’t find anywhere, where he is accepted. The final point on the mode line of