Thursday, February 21, 2013

The power of water


I was racing down the ocean trying to get to the Island before the evil titans did. I have to save the world from the brink of destruction by using my water powers to destroy the evil titans. Will I get there in time or will the world be destroyed. On the island there is an atomic bomb but of much bigger scale. Big enough to destroy the world. I don't know why the Russians ever made it but they had and they put it on this deserted island. I have to get there before the titans set it off. I reached and there they were. I shot my water at them and they went flying but the bomb was already set. I put a water fortress around it so that it couldn't go past but it would still destroy the entire island and me. But then my trusty Pegasus saved me and the world was saved because somehow the fortress stayed there and I got away just in time. Once again I saved the world.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The Real Story of Little Red Riding Hood


Once upon a time there was a girl called Little Red Riding Hood, nicknamed Red. But this story isn’t about her because she is the villain. Yes, the villain. And where there is a villain there is a hero. Today’s hero isn’t the common Prince Charming, since he is a wolf after all. A wolf who thwarted Little Red Riding Hood’s evil plan.

The wolf was doing his everyday business. He would go out to the store to buy groceries and deliver them to his grandma who lives by herself on the other side of the woods. The wolf would always go around the woods since there were bandits around there but this time he was running late so he went through the woods. What a mistake that was.

As the wolf went into the woods he thought he was safe, but that was because he didn’t know he was being followed by Little Red Riding Hood. Red was one of those smart villains who used trickery instead of brawn. Red knew that he could not take on the wolf so he would have to use a trap. Red and gotten to Wolf’s grandma before Wolf got there. She set the most elaborate trap ever used. There were invisible laser beams which if touched would activate the trap. Then a net would come out at lightning speed catching the wolf.

As wolf neared the house he didn’t go through the front door. He went through the back which his grandma always left open so he could surprise her. As he went in he noticed grandma was nowhere to be seen. He looked in her bedroom and noticed the bed sheets were ruffled. Grandma always tidies up after herself. He knew there must have been a struggle. He looked for where the culprit could be hiding and that was when he heard a thump. It came from the attic. Wolf went up to check but there was nothing. Then he got thumped in the back of the head. He got up woozily to see that it was grandma. “Why’d you do that,” wolf asked.

“Whoops, I thought you were the little evil one who put me here.” Grandma replied.

“Evil? Who would be evil enough to capture a harmless old lady?” Wolf asked with curiosity.
                                                                                                                                                                                             
“I think I was bait,” grandma said with a smaller tone.

“Bait. To get who,” Wolf said in a larger tone.

“You,” Grandma said in worry.

“There you are,” A figure in the shadows said.

“Who are you,” Wolf asked

“I am Little Red Riding Hood. Call me Red.” Red replied. While saying that Red launched herself at Wolf but that was where it went downhill. If she had kept using trickery she could have won, but she lost her cool when her trap didn’t work and tried to use brawn. That’s why she ended up in jail by the hands of Wolf. That’s the real story of Little Red Riding Hood.
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In the story that all of you might believe in Little Red Riding Hood is usually the good person. Since the view changed your thoughts would have changed too. Now you like Wolf better because the narrator was on his side. Because of that you were on the narrators side which made your thoughts bias. Your thoughts are one of the features about you that can be changed easily which is why narrators take advantage of it and make you think one way instead of having you consider all the possibilities. 

Friday, February 8, 2013

Deciding Against Demons


Author’s note: This is my piece on Fablehaven. I want you look at the cause and effect in it.

The world is about to be destroyed by demons who escaped by a prison by many different actions. Other actions however save the world. Those actions were made by the heroes. The effects were sometimes extreme but it had worked out in the end.

Some decisions had helped the demons in their cause. One of them was made by a boy named Seth, who was fooled by a demon. The demon had helped out Seth and then befriended him. Seth made a promise that he would heal the demon when he came back from his quest but when he realized that the demon had just wanted him to heal him so he could get away from his prison, it was too late. Because of that the demon had almost destroyed the world. When you are dealing with demons, even the bad decisions can look like it is for the good.

Seth however did not only make foolish choices.  He had made the decision to follow his uncle’s clues which led to him obtaining the most powerful sword ever created. With that power he had helped slay the demons and save the world from destruction.  Only he could have completed that task because he had the power in him. It was his decisions that had the effect on the world, not the sword.

The boy was not the only one who had made life changing differences. The fairy queen had made the decision to lose her home so that the world could be saved. She knew that we wouldn’t be able to defeat all the demons because there were just too many of them. But she made the plan to destroy their leaders so that the lower demons would lose hope and flee to the queen’s kingdom which was now their new prison. Because of that decision the demons had not lain waste to the world but instead were recaptured and put away.

The effects of these decisions were tremendous. There were terrible effects but they were quickly replaced by effects that were quite admirable. That’s what decisions can do. Some can be life-changing but they won’t always be bad.