Parody poem

Author's note: This is a parody of the poem This is Just to Say. The tone is sarcastic and humorous.

You know your stash

Of cash

The was in

Your closet

I have used it

So that you don’t

Waste it on

Your sorry self

So I'm sorry

That you couldn’t

use the money

On your stupid self

What to do?

Author’s note: This is a conflict/resolution piece on the book Eagle Strike.

What would you do if you were a prisoner to a maniac and you had the chance to escape? Would do you run like a fawn escaping from a lion or would you be like Alex Rider? Alex hadn't run away scared, but he had stopped to look for evidence to put the psychopath away so that he would not hurt anyone else. The psychopath, Damian Cray, was trying to get rid of drugs forever by launching America's nuclear bombs at drug facilities all over the world. Alex got caught in that conflict when he had followed Yassen, an assassin working for Damian Cray.

Alex Rider is not your ordinary kid. When he saw the person who had killed his uncle, he knew there was a problem. Instead of running away he had set out to find out what was wrong. He knew that if he followed him that he would be in danger but he did it anyway which had saved millions of lives.

Quick thinking is a trait that Alex Rider has used a lot to save him. When he was trapped in a room with almost nowhere to go Alex hadn't let panic get to him. He had quickly examined the room to find a way out. When he got out he had come across many traps. He thought he would use them to play dead in front of the guards so that he could escape behind them. His quick thinking and led him to a solution which saved him from doom.

Not all of the solutions had been good in the book. The head of M16, a secret organization, had not believed Alex when he was told that the international pop star, who was considered a saint, was up to something. That had almost led to many nuclear bombs exploding in different places of the world which would have destroyed millions. Their solution to wait and see what would happen had put the world at risk.

Millions of lives were saved because Alex decided to go after Damian and stop him from launching the nuclear bombs by killing him. He knew he would be the only one to do it because since no one believed him, not even M16, the organization he has worked for in the past.

Analysis:

Figurative language helps explain the mood of a written piece really well and this piece was no exception. The tone was easy to see because the figurative language helped explain it. At the start of the piece it was showing that there was not much hope for Mudville. Then they had used figurative language to make Casey look like the savior and angel. Because of that our hopes would have gotten up but then was quickly destroyed in a pleasant way.

They had used things like anaphora to make the piece flow smoothly. That had made the piece much more interesting than having it in a monotone voice. Not only did they have anaphora, they had metaphors to explain things in a more fun way. Personification was a great way to explain things because it created a clear image of the thing being explained. All these are a figurative language. They helped the piece by making it more fun and in the process making it have a clear image of the idea being presented.

Giant Pandas: Strength in Brawn not Numbers

Authors’ note: I wrote this to show what pandas are like because not many people know what they are like.

The giant panda is a marvelous creature and they shouldn’t be taken for granted. There are only thousands left in the world. It is an endangered species and soon it might be extinct. We should keep the panda going because it is a wonderful creature. Not many people know about the panda and its qualities.

Giant pandas don’t always live up to their name. When babies the panda is considerably small. “A newborn cub weighs three to five ounces and is about the size of a stick of butter. Pink, hairless, and blind, the cub is 1/900th the size of its mother”(park). Its size is trivial compared to its mothers size and that makes it hard for the mother to take care of her cub. “Cubs do not open their eyes until they are six to eight weeks of age and are not mobile until three months” (park). They can’t even do anything until then so the mother has to do all the work for the baby until then.

After the baby has grown it will get its food from bamboo. Bamboo is what its diet mainly consists of. The panda will have to eat lots of bamboo because the panda has an inefficient digestion system and most of the food is passed as waste so it will eat lots of bamboo to make up for it (park). It also gets its water from bamboo because bamboo has water inside of it. Since that water is not enough it will also drink water from the stream.

Food that they eat keeps them alive but not as long as we live. Pandas lives are less than 40 years. It is not known how long a panda lives in the wild but scientists are sure it is less than what a panda lives in the zoo which is 35 years old reported by Chinese scientists (park). Their life-spans might be short but it is not the reason that they are endangered. People had hunted them and made them lose their habitat. We only acted to save them after they became endangered. The reason that they cannot populate fast is because a female panda usually only successfully raises 5-8 cubs in her lifetime (park).

Pandas are simple but fascinating. They have many qualities that people don’t know because they don’t care. They should care however because pandas have the right to live just like us. We should help their species live on and not become extinct.

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.

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. 

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.