Hitting a Home Run

I have done it

the ball 

it went over

the fence 

and have 

you been watching 

taking pictures 

for me

I forgive you 

it was good though 

so good

and it was far 

In the Alley

Authors Note: This is my figurative langue piece. It is on a boy walk home through a alley. 

The night sky gives the alley a ghostly feeling. If I had to walk a million miles to get home or the alley I would take the million miles, so I would not have to take this dark and terrifying way. Tonight, this is my only option as I have to get home fast for dinner. When I step into the alley it feels like I am swallowed by darkness. I can hear every step I take. Hearing the gun shots in the distance, followed by glass bottles breaking and sirens. My heart is pounding like a marching band of drums. Every step I take I feel like I am getting farther from the end. My blood is rushing through my body faster than a cheetah running in an open field. I’m already late for dinner, should I just run through or turn around? I dart for the end. I’m running faster than Bolt in the Olympics. I am finally at the end. Dinner is ready for me when I get home. Not a word is said by me about the alley. 

The Big East

The Big East Conference has had many teams and legends come and go. The Big East has been known for their outstanding basketball teams, coaches and players throughout the years. Now that the Big East is turning into a Catholic Conference most of the teams will be forced to leave the Conference. There are many historic places that teams have played in and for some of the players that would have been 1 time for some players. Out of the 7 teams how started this great conference 4 will be staying in it for the Catholic Conference, but should this new conference  be called the big east.

There have been many teams to come and go but there were 7 how started it in 1979 with Boston College, Connecticut, Georgetown, Providence, St. John’s, Seton Hall, and Syracuse. All these teams stuck with the conferences, but Boston College. Out of the 7 who started it 4 will stay. This conference has been so good through the years that there has been so many teams try to get in it, but some of the teams didn’t want them to be in it.

Now that the new conference keeps adding and adding more teams it isn’t even the big east anymore. They shouldn't be able to even kept the name because of how much it is changing. For example they have two teams from the Atlantic 10 Butler and Xavier. These teams are Catholic, but neither of the teams have ever been in the big east. Which is unfair to the teams that have been in it for many years and now they are just getting kicked out of it. Also they are getting put in the Atlantic 10 which could be a good or bad thing, but they aren't in the conference they want to be in.

I think now that there is no real big east basketball will be different because the big east was a big basketball conference with all the good teams in it. Now it will be mostly basketball in the conference, but it will never be the same as the first big east. 

Owen Meany

Authors Note: This is my character development piece. I wrote this on Owen Meany. 

Owen Meany is the main character in the book A Prayer For Owen Meany. Owen is like no other kid in his generation, he is very short and doesn’t do things like a normal kid would. Owen is a Christian. Owen believes that he is God’s instrument. This is because of all these events that happen throughout his life. Owen and his best friend John go through a lot through their lives that change them in many different ways.

There are a lot of thing that change Owen is the book. The main thing is John’s Mom dying. She was a big thing in Owens’s life. She was always there for him. She was more of a Mom to him then birth real Mom was. Also a big thing is that Owen was the one to kill her some it was really hard on Owen because of that and how it all happened.

Owen Changes through the story after this happen for a while. First he feels really bad and isn’t really talking to anyone. Then after a while he starts to help John’s Dad because he doesn’t know who it is and Owen also because the same as he was before. Owen helps and helps him and also makes him feel better to like doing all the fun stuff they did and everything. Both of their lives go to how they were in the beginning how it was the best friendship someone could have.

Owen Changes a lot when this happens and this is a lot on a kid like him because he gets picked on and isn’t like most of the kids at his age. He can’t even do what most of them can do like play sports well run around and that may change a boy a lot even after he kills his best friends mom. 

Point of View (revised)

Owen is a boy how isn’t like many. Owen is smaller than most boys and is a very big Christian. Owen believes that he is God’s instrument. Everything that happens in Owens’s life that happens, all the extraordinary events happens because he believes he is God’s instrument. The story is from John’s point of view. John is Owens’s best friend and what happens in the story is heart breaking to both of them.

One of the biggest events in the story is Owen  hits a foul ball and hits and kills John’s mom. This is a big event because John is left with his Grandma for the rest of his life. Before John’s Mom died she never told John who his Dad was and she never was planning it. She wouldn’t even tell anyone. Owen felt so bad when this happen he was saying I’m sorry and also I can’t help it everything I do is because God has a plan for me and I am God’s instrument. It also was the same response back from John every time, it’s fine I know it was an accident.

If this story was in Owens’s point of view I think that the story would change a ton. I think that it would change a lot because of how Owen acts from John’s point of view. The most thing that would change is how excited Owen was when he actually made contact with the ball and what he was thinking and doing after it all happened to make John feel better.

I think if it was from Owens’s point of view it would have made the reader feel different about Owen. They would have felt bad for him because they would have figured out how important John’s Mom was to Owen and John. John’s Mom was more of a Mom to Owen then Owens’s real Mom. She cared for him and even bought him all his clothes.

There could be so many great point of views in this story, but I think that John Ivring picked the best one because of all the details he adds in and how he describes what happens and how it happens within it. From a point of view from Owen it would be a lot more think of what he did and how he kept saying how sorry he is and everything. John Ivring couldn’t have picked a better point of view and that is what makes the story. 

Under Attack

Authors Note: I wrote this based off of one of my favorite movies Red Dawn. 

Beep bee beep beep went Jake Wilson’s alarm and 7 in the morning for school. He walks down stairs, no one is there. He looks out his window and no one is there, so just decides to eat and get ready for school. He is waiting outside and the bus never comes. Jake fells and big boom in the ground and he looks in the distance and there is a car coming. The man in the car rolls down the window.

The man says,” Get in the car”.

Jake gets in and says,” What’s going on where is everyone”.

“ The country is getting attacked and they have millions of people locked up”. Said the man

“ Who’s are these people”. Says Jake

The man says,” They don’t know yet, even if they are people”.

Jake looks out the window and sees something in the distance. With it is his Mom. Jake jumps out of the car and runs over there.

Jake yells,” Mom!”

“ Go find your sister and take her back to the cabin and stay there till these things leave. Stay on the run don’t let them get to you”, Said Jakes Mom

Jake Ran Home didn’t even stop.  He ran inside grab a bunch of clothes and food and ran out. Jake jump into the car and there was his sister in the back.

“ Why are you in here?!”, said Jake

“ Mom told me to hide in here”, said his sister

“ OK well, were going to the cabin. Stay down so they can’t see you I’m going to try to get out of here as fast as I can”. said Jake

Jake drove out of the town as fast as he could and finally got to the cabin. The cabin is deep in the woods so we should be ok for now.

Jake says,” I will sleep in the living room so I can keep an eye on outside make sure no one is coming.”

After a while of sleeping Jake wakes up to some noise coming from outside and he looks out and there is his Mom and the things that were with her.

Jake runs to his sister and says,” There out there get your stuff we are leaving.” 

They go out the back door and then run into the woods where it is safer.After running and running they find a place they can stay for a awhile deep in the woods. 

Jakes sister says,” What’s that down there.”

Jakes says,” Stay I will go find out.”

Jake walks down and he sees green jackets. Like U.S. Army Jackets. He walks down. The men see him and are about to shoot.

Jake yells,” DON’T I JUST WANTED TO NO WHAT WAS GOING ON DOWN THERE!.”   

        

One of the men says,” We don’t know we have been trying to find out we can’t find out all our soldiers are locked up in the city.”  

 “There is a place up stairs we can stay my sister is moving us in up there and there is a good view of what is going on.” Said Jake

They started to move in when Jake walked out to watch look out to the city.

Jake staid to his sister,” I hope Mom is ok.”

Jake looks down to the city wondering what he can do to help.

The next morning every one wakes up to a loud sound outside. Jack and Rick(The U.S. Army Men) run out to see what it is. Jack was sitting there with something is his hands.

Jack says,” What is that?”

“ It’s a old radio I found.” Said Jake

“ What did they say about down there?”  Said Rick

“Everyone is down there from the city were going down. Also they say its robots down there they are programmed to do this” Said Jake

They get down to the plant and there is everyone down there.

Jake says,” I’m going in I found these radios I will tell you when to open the doors right here.”

Jake ran in before anyone could say anything. Jake was running and they was the big building to open all the doors Jake walked in the building and all these people were in there and Jake saw in there is was the unlock to the doors all of them. Up there though was to guards by it. Jake went the back way to get there and he got up to the floor it was on. He walked right past it and there was a cart a way away Jake picked it up and through it through the window and it landed on the 1^st floor. Jake ran for the key and got it and unlocked it and everyone started running for the door he looked out the window and saw everyone running for freedom.