The Foul Ball

Authors Note: I did this on the book A Prayer For Owen Meany. The point of view is from John Owen's best friend.

Owen Meany is a boy that is not normal. He is not like other kids where he lives. He is short and small and all the kids like to play with him. Owens best friend John tells his life story and how Owen think he  God’s Instrument. He believes that he is God’s Instrument due to the series of events happening in his life and how his life changes.

To start Owens’s  life out. A thing that doesn’t happen to most kids happens it Owen. John’s Mom, even like a Mom to Owen. Something that may that a friend away from Owen. Something that would shock a whole crowd. A once in a life time thing.

Owen was up to bat and for once Owens’s coach said swing away. Owen did just that. Owen took a wack at it and maybe wasn’t a good thing because John’s Mom was just getting to the game and walking to the bench. What she didn’t know was that the ball hit was heading right after her. Then killed her.

This was from the point of view from John. John was devastated with what had happened to his Mom. Owen kept saying, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. John kept saying back, It’s ok, I’m fine. It wasn’t though. John Mom was gone and he doesn’t know who his dad is. John is stuck with this man that his Mom just started dating. Well that was until he found his Dad.

This is a big event for Owen and John because John and Owen both have had someone that is really big in their life. It’s a life changing thing because John lost his Mom. She was even like a Mom to Owen because his Mom and Dad don’t like them and don’t want to have anything to do with him. 

Compare and Contrast

The Stanley Hotel

-          Not a place you want to be

-         Built not like many hotels

-      Was used in World War 2 

Similar Things

-          Get a good amount of customers

-          Have many employees

-       Treat people nice      

Similar Things

-          Get a good amount of customers

-          Have many employees

-       Treat people nice                        

It's a Haunted Place

Authors Note: This is my Predictions piece on the Shinning. 

The book The Shinning is a great horror book about a boy who interviews for a summer job, but doesn’t know what is to come for him. My prediction for this story is that the hotel will be haunted and they don’t know it.  I think this because I the book it says many people have died in this hotel in World War 2 and because I have seen shows on this hotel and it says that it is haunted.

In the story the man who is walking him around is talking about how you don’t want to go in the basement. That to me seems like a sign to something down there that they don’t want people to know about.That maybe because Its a bad place or there may even be something down there that may scare him away or any costumer.

Too add is that they said that the first person to stay at this hotel after World War 2 said they were hearing things at 1 A.M. I think that means that the hotel was used in World War 2 and that means that most likely people died in the hotel so they came back to where they died.

The hotel is mostly is haunted and there are people stay and working there so who knows it is something some may never know. The hotel may also be haunted but not to harm any one or anything. 

On The Run

Authors Note: This is my theme essay. 

Don’t you like having a normal life being able to do whatever you want with your friends and even by yourself. Even just going to school and have some friends to talk to and laugh with. None of this is that way for John in I Am Number Four. He has to survive his way through life with the guidance of Henri and his powers.

The book starts out with John at a party and they are all having fun up till number 3 dies. Then the party gets out of hand John is sitting on shore and his leg is glowing and everyone there is freaking out and there are even some people taking videos. The videos get all over the internet and that will give his location up. After a while Henri shows up to get him and they run away. That morning they leave to because otherwise the Morgidarians will find them. John after that is on the road to survival.

At the house though left back is a picture of him and there old license plate. The Morgidrians can smell they are close. John is still on the run, but they are after John. John finally gets there to Paradise, Ohio where he will live for a while, but the Morgidarians are still after them.

There is a magazine company house that wrote an article about the Morgidrains and they want to figure out who wrote it so Henri goes up to the house. After a while John get worried because Henri is gone for a long time. When John gets there it is a old and dark house he walks in and sees light from downstairs so he goes down there and there is Henri looked p in the corner. Not too long after the Morgidrains show up so John has to use his power that aren’t developed all the way. After a while of fighting they are on their way home and no sign of them for them.

Survival is a big thing in this book and it is one of the only themes in the book. That is because of all the big parts in the book that you remember have to do with survival. The theme survival is use in most of action books and even horror books.  

Letter to Marko

Authors Note: This is my character development piece. 

Dear Marko,

I am Adam. A 13 year old boy from Pewaukee, Wisconsin. I just read your book The Winter War, I thought it was a good book, but I am wondering about some things.

I thought that in the book you started out to be a worthless boy because you had polio and didn’t have many friends. In the book though you got to have worth because you were asked to be in the war and you had many big duties, and you even got a lot of friends in war.

I the story you had a pretty bad life with your Dad leaving for war and  your family moving to a different country. What was it like being on your own with no family? It seemed like you were fine because you had many friends to.

I the war you seemed happy also because there were so many people there and you have many friends. In the war though were you ever scared or worried? In the war you do get attacked so did you ever have bad thoughts about that after the war?

From,

Adam 

Find The Chest

Authors Note: This is my story to get graded on the writing rubric. 

James Price thanked his parents for the lovely meal. The brand new car they gave him for his birthday was perched on the street.  Now comes the long trip back to Madison. He is on his way home in the country. He hasn’t seen a house for miles. After driving for a while, he sees something in the distance. He can’t quite figure out what it is. It looks like a deer or a tree. When he approaches it disappears. When he gets to where it was, it comes back and it is a man in the road! James slams on the brakes but is unable to stop and hits the man. The man goes flying through the air. James rushes out of the car fearful that the man is dead.

 When James gets to him he says,” Where did you come from?  You came out of nowhere! Where do you live?”

The man only replies, “Find the chest.”

Puzzled, James says,” What do you mean?”

Right before the man can say anything he dies. Then James looks around and when he looks back the man is gone.

After the long and hurtful trip home, James opens the door to his house and it is trashed. There is graffiti all over the wall saying, “ get out! You don’t need anything from here”, “You are in danger,” “Find the chest.” James is convinced that a bunch of his friends did it. James walks up stairs to his room and his whole room is destroyed. All the lights are smashed and it is pitch black out so he can’t turn them on. James walked down the hall to Jeremy’s room. Jeremy is one of his roommates. His room is perfect. Just the way he left it. He walks down to his other three roommate’s rooms and they even look like someone cleaned them. James is really confused at the moment. He is thinking that someone is after him. James looks at the ceiling and sees the ladder to the attic. He knows he must go up.

James struggles to climb the old ladder. After a step brakes on him he becomes even more fearful. James is up in the attic and sees the only working light in the house. He turns it on and it flickers a lot. After a while it stays lit and doesn’t flicker. James looks around and right under the light is a chest.  James takes a good look at it and turns to go.

James Walks out to this car to go back to his parents house to stay there till his roommates are back. Finally he gets to his parents house and tells them all that has happened to him, but he leaves out one thing... the chest. After a while of watching TV and worrying about what is happening, he falls asleep. Mr. Price, James’ Dad, is up all night thinking about what is happening to his son.

“ Breakfast is done”, yells Mrs. Price from upstairs.  

 James wakes up and on the table his Mom had made him his favorite meal, pancakes and bacon with orange juice. Mr. Price wakes up after a long night up.

After they are done eating Mr. Price sits down James and says, “ James all this that is happening to you happened to me as a kid in college.  Now, listen very carefully.  Is there a chest up in the attic?”

James says, “ Yes. Why do you ask?”

Mr. Price says,” I put that up there when you moved there, I have to, otherwise the ghosts that are in your house will get me and kill me for what I did”.

” So how do I get them to go away”, James said

Mr. Price says,” Get the chest and open it and everything will go away. It won’t be in the same spot anymore when you get home”.

James left and thanked his father.

On the long drive home James has no people walking in front of him or anything. He finally gets home and the house is worse and there is no chest anywhere in site. So he walks out of the house to look around and there on the roof is the Man he hit with his car, standing there pointing at the chest.

 James says,” How do I get up here?” .

The Man says,” Use your jumping power, just jump”.

James jumps and gets up there and right after he reaches for the chest he is pushed off the roof by one of the ghosts and he jumps right back up and grabs the chest to take with him. James runs to his car and drives to his parents house. It is about 11 P.M. when he leaves and finally gets there at about midnight. James runs inside.

James yells,” I Got the chest!”.

Mr. Price says in a faded voice,” We are too late”.
James says,” What do you mean?”

Mr. Price says,” I forgot to tell you….. you have to open it by midnight, and it is 12:17”

James says,” Well what will happen? What are you taking about! I did what you asked.”

James Dad looks to the side and there is the ghost that pushed him off the roof pointing at his Dad.

James yelling,” Get out of here! No one wants you here! I found the chest and you should be gone!”

Mr. Prices last words are,” Goodbye James, I’m one of them now.”

I finally Got Them

The book the Winter War is a great piece about the famous Winter War in Finland. What is the war for though? These war was started so Russia could get land from Finland. One of the conflicts of the book was that Marko found these horses in a Russian stable. These horses were beautiful Marko has never seen anything like them and plus he really wants them. The horses are owned by the Russian so they can get around on them from base to base. Due to this country vs. self conflict resolution Marko has no chance of getting these horses. There are guards everywhere protecting them to.

The resolution of this event is that Marko is the hospital with his mom and his mom takes him in a room with his friend and outside there are the horses the Russians left back from the stable the same ones. Marko runs outside to the horses to get them. That was the ending of the book.