I Enjoy The Forest - Original Writing

Seven years earlier, I migrated to Hawaii when I was twenty-three. I had flown away from my mother and my life in the Philippines. Like young adults and being rebellious, I wanted to live on my own away from my mother 's roof. I left the city life I grew up with in the Philippines in hope of a better life in another country.

The book I have read is Through the Woods by Emily Carroll. This is an Eliot Rosewater book for 2016-2017 so I decided to give it a try and I think you should too. It is a pretty scary read so If you are the least bit frightened by anything you might not want to read this… especially at night. I enjoy watching scary movies and reading scary books so I found it very hard to put this book down.

Another unique aspect of the rock was that the rock was leaking brine puddles when there was humid weather. It says, “By the next day it [the rock] was sitting in a puddle of brine that had leached out of the rock” (2). This

Rion calmed from his night terror easily, and he and Percival went back to sleep. When morning arrived, Rion shot out of bed with a grin, full of his typical energy. He had no memory of his tears and screaming the previous night, which was just as well; the boy deserved peace after all the heartache he had weathered.

The Beautiful Lie What does it truly mean to have freedom? Is freedom the ability to do whatever you so choose without recourse of any sort? Perhaps freedom is simply a justification that we use societally to be more accepting of decisions that we choose to make? Traditionally, one would associate American society and freedom as being one in the same.

Upton Sinclair was a well-known novelist from California. He and two other journalists, Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens, were pioneers of a different kind of journalism known as “muckraking.” He was best-known for his novel, The Jungle, published in 1906. The novel uncovered the unfair and unsanitary conditions of the Chicago meat packing industry. In 1904, the editor of the socialist journal, Appeal to Reason, Fred Warren, gave Sinclair the permission to write a novel about immigrant workers in the Chicago meat packing houses. The owner of the journal, Julius Wayland, gave Sinclair a $500 advance to do research for The Jungle.

Today children and even adults depend on technology to make use of time. Even kids are so engaged to all these technology such as smartphones and tablets, they don’t know what they are missing in the real world. Technology today has its many pros and cons, but the overuse in technology among humans is what troubles us. In the essay “Last Child of the woods” By Richard Louv he writes an argument between man vs nature to defend his position that technology is interfering with nature. He uses a wide variety of Rhetorical devices to organize his essay such as hyperboles, anecdotes, metaphors, diction and even a little sarcasm to prove his arguments.

She didn’t notice it until her middle finger scraped against the porous stone. Allison gritted her teeth and bit back a scream as she felt her fingernail peel away from the cooked nail bed. In her vision, the gray, slope shaped stone appeared to be a blob. She squinted through the tears and saw a dark mass in the distance. Allison felt the curb again and gazed back at the mountainous blur past it, A building … Water …

Over the years that the issue of the forest stretched on from 1994- 2010 the sisters von Morgen would continually meet up with their lawyers to try and resolve the issue of what to do with the forest. My godmother as the youngest sister was assigned to be the manager of the forest that would support the one remaining ancestral home for the four sisters. The sisters however did not agree to this even though it was written in the will. The sisters believed my godmother had only gotten that position because she was living with their mother when she passed away. The situation of the forest was the catalyst that opened the fight between the sisters that had started many years earlier.

I am analyzing the illustrations of the children’s book ‘Where The Wild Things Are’, Written and Illustrated by Maurice Sendak, first published in 1963 in the USA by Harper and Rowe.

It was an infected— a zombie. It was dragging one of its legs and it walked slowly and mindlessly in the pit.

1. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is an exuberant picture book which will make it a fun and exciting read. The compressed language will guide children easily throughout the book. Sendak promotes a touching message of unconditional love, a message that even if one misbehaves, there will be supper waiting on the table (Max does get sent to his room, but no matter how much he has misbehaved, his mother will always love him and cherish him). Sendak also dives into deeper psychological emotions . Max might be seen and chastised as a "wild thing" by his mother, his emotional actions are described as an integral part of his being, maybe not quite appropriate, but also not completely inappropriate, rather as a living, breathing part of Max 's being. It is these emotions, these feelings that are the impetus to Max 's adventures in the realm of the Wild Things.

The Light in the Forest is a story about a white boy, Tru Son, forced to return to his white family, after living with the Lenni Lenape Indians for the past eleven years.True Son was taken by the Indians when he was four. Tru Son’s Indian father was Cuyloga. Del Hardy, he's a character that used to be an Indian. He brought Tru Son back to his white family. Tru Son’s white name is Johnny. His parents are Harry and Myra Butler. Gordie is his white brother. Half Arrow is True Son’s Indian friend. He brings True Son back to his Indian family. At the end, True Son has to go back to his white family.

One theme that I saw in both The Giving Tree and Where the Wild Things Are was mistreating others. In both books the boys mistreat people and things around them and take them for granted. It can be so easy to treat people badly so we must be aware of how we treat the people and things around us. In the book Where the Wild Things Are the author Maurice Sendak writes his main character to be very rude to his mother and later he also mistreats the monsters. In the book The Giving Tree the author Shel Silverstein has the main character mistreat the tree. Both these books follow young boys who don’t seem to be well at heart. They also share a similarity in who they mistreat. One of the people Max mistreats is him mother and the boy mistreats his friend who he used to love very much. Both these characters were hurting people who were close to them. Although they share this theme it is still different. While Sendak writes about Max in his young age, Silverstein ages the boy in his book. This shows that the evil in the boy follows him. Max could just be the way he is because of his age, Sendak doesn’t continue the story for us to know if Max’s bad characteristic shadow him though his growth, but we see that it does with the boy from the giving tree. Another difference was that Max was told that what he was doing was wrong, his mother yelled at him when he mistreated her. On the other hand, the tree was happy to help the boy. Max goes on to mistreat the monsters while the

Have you ever had a normal day turn into a crazy day just like that? In the beginning of the storey song of the trees by Mildred D. Taylor, its starts off with the children going out into the forest to go collect their milk and eggs. This storey represents that people should stand up for what they believe in.