Thorpe Short Story

In this story Noel it is displayed that the children are treated like property or an object someone can use. This is demonstrated in that they rent the children and that the customers are expanding. They use the children to make money in this atmosphere it feels gust like a store. A store where you can pre-order and just go pick up and also some where you can go shopping and look at the merchandise. The children symbolize an object or a piece of property.

On an island called Crete there was a giant minotaur who would eat any human he came across. King Minos was asked by the people of his island to kill the minotaur but he decided to capture it so he could punish his enemies by letting them face the minotaur. He ordered Daedalus who was a skilled craftsman to build a labyrinth that would be impossible to escape. Daedalus completed the labyrinth and lured the minotaur inside with a giant piece of meat. The king figured he had no use for Daedalus after the labyrinth was complete so he threw Daedalus into the labyrinth with his son Icarus. He believed that Daedalus and Icarus would both be eaten by the minotaur. However, they escaped because Daedalus knew his way around the labyrinth since he built

creation to the edge of the world, hoping he would fall off, never to be

The Earth was too wet so the animals sent the Great Buzzard from Galun’lati and told him to go and make it ready for them. He flew all around the land, but it was still soft. By the time he had traveled to Cherokee country, he was tired – as his wings flapped the ground, they created mountains and valleys. The animals concluded that the land was too dark so they made the sun and gave it a path to travel on each day from the east to the west. After the plants and animals, humans were created. They

He traveled through the forest across the dead deserts, flew over the bold lakes until they

and he did. All the people(fish) started to love him and the Rainbow Fish was happy. In The

-Because he was one of the gods, he was unable to eat the meat, but could only smell of it. He covered his tracks and went home to Maia.

When you are reading a mythology story, does it ever feel like the greek gods seemed to get into trouble when were arrogant and caused more trouble than good? Here are three examples of how greek gods took their powers out of hand and lost control of what they were meant to use their powers for good.If you read closely you can find how the greek gods got into trouble.

The panther clawed his way up the hill, which grew steeper than he anticipated near the top. He huffed, exhausted from the burden, and greedily took in sweet air. Once he caught his breath, he howled an ear-shattering screech to the moon above, one of the abilities the moon god had remembered. “Great god of the moon, I beg your divine assistance! You have created me, put me on this earth below you, and gave me many qualities to make me a fearsome predator of the forests, and for all that I thank you humbly. However, you have also plagued me. I cannot see in the darkness, even with the help of your pale, milky light. Please, gracious god, even if eyes you will not grant me, I beg for anything that might aid me to find my way through your

The Myth of Sisyphus caught my attention the moment I saw the word “gods”. I have always loved tales and myths of human who interact with gods. The human within this story was Sisyphus and his interaction with the gods was not so great. I loved how they showed the twisted side of a human’s wrath and greed. He wanted revenge on his wife but when he was shown the world again he didn’t want to leave. I found it interesting that he was punished for his deadly sins by the gods, to constantly roll a stone up a hill just so that it may fall back down and for the process to repeat for eternity.

Tree” which was the only tree that came from the Exodus. He did this in hopes of landing

Kathrine (Kit) was moving to West field from Barbados to live in her Uncle Matthew and Aunt Rachel's house. When she was sailing she met Nat, John Hard-Brook and she ate with good wife Cruff and her husband. When the ship got to the shore they went to Kit's Aunt and Uncle's house. When Kit got to the house Judith, Mercy, and her Aunt Rachel were there to greet her. Kit's Uncle soon came home after Nat and good man Cruff.

He used his speed and size to his advantage and escaped the river monster. Swimming

1.How would you describe Monty at the start of the story? From this information, how do you think he feels?

while swinging on the tire swing ,Ida, Fenton and Jordan requested to go fast and slow on the swing.