Character Analysis

Author's Note: I wrote thus piece to show that sometimes you just need to stand up for yourself. Please look

at my word choice.

For my character analysis I am doing Stanley Yelnats from the book Holes. In the beginning of the book Stanley is a weak overweight nerd who gets bullied everyday at school and doesn't do anything about it. But then Stanley is accused of stealing a famous baseball players shoes but they really just fell on him, and he must go to either jail or camp Green Lake. He decides to go to camp. When he gets to camp Green Lake he expects to just drag along and go with the flow for 18 months. But then he meets Armpit and X-ray. Armpit and X-ray have been there for a while and they show Stanley that you can’t drag yourself along you have to work for it. Stanley loses weight gains mental and physical strength. When Stanley came home he surprised everyone with how in shape he was and how intelligent he was. Back at school no one wanted to bully him but if they did Stanley could stand up for himself. 

Creative Ending To Thank You Ma'am

Author's Note: I wrote this piece to show that it is nice to thank people especially if they didn't have to do it for you in the first place. Please look at my grammar.

After the boy was given the money he decided he didn't need the shoes. He needed the knowledge that Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones gave him. So he went to the market and bought flowers and chocolate for her. He set it on her doorstep, knocked on the door and ran. He was trying to give her an anonymous present. But Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones was quick on her feet, she got up to the door looked down and saw the flowers and chocolate but no one there. She looked down the street but her vision was blocked by a truck but she could see the running bare feet of the boy.

Overcoming Conflict

Author’s Note: I wrote this because it has a clear conflict and resolution. Please look at my word choice in the piece.

In the book Gender Blender by: Blake Nelson the main characters, Tom and Emma are in an accident together and when they wake up their minds are in each others bodies. They have to live someone else’s life. Later they find that if they stay in the wrong bodies for more than three days it will become permanent.

On the third day they still haven’t found a way to go back to normal. They are at a party and feel hopeless and might not ever get back their bodies. But when they knock into each other at the party they go unconscious and wake back up in the right bodies! Tom and Emma can now live normal lives and be themselves. 

George Washington Time Travel Letter

Author’s Note: I wrote this ‘time travel letter’ to George Washington because he may certainly have been the greatest leader in the history of this nation. Please look at my word choice.

Dear George Washington,

            I’m writing you this letter so you can have an idea of how great of a president you are and I’d like you to know how the decisions you made shaped the United States of America into a great nation. I would just like to commend you on some of your greatest accomplishments. This will include war strategies and establish a federal government in an eight year, two term presidency.

Recognizing your great war strategies means a lot to me because you are one of the best in history at this and I hope it means a lot to you also. The best decision in my opinion that you made was to stay neutral during the French and British war. Swaying to a certain side could have been the unraveling of such a young country.  You were receiving recommendations of taking a side. If you did sway to a side and that country went on to lose the war that could have proved catastrophic for America.

Establishing a fair government was most likely your greatest feat, post war. Much of the laws you and some of the other founding fathers still stand to this day. Your efforts to make rights and laws is why we now have a nation where you will be punished fairly for doing something against the law.

What you have done for this country will forever be remembered and you will always be the first and one of the greatest presidents in this nations history.  You need to remember to do what you think is right because you are one of most wise men I have ever known existed. This country will become a power house around the world partially because of what you and other founding father have done. Lastly I would like to say thank you for all you have done for this country.

Into The Gaunlet

39 Clues, Book Ten, Into The Gauntlet

Author’s note: I wrote my retelling on this book because there is so much going which made this an easy book to write a retelling about. Please look and see if I held you in suspense so that you would want to read it because that was my goal.

Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Genre: Fiction

 A family with a long violent past, split into five groups. While Amy and Dan try to bring everyone together a mysterious prize for a cue hunt could split them farther apart. The family must learn, if they want true power they must all work together. 

White Fang

Author’s Note: I wrote this piece on this book because White Fang is an outcast and it’s sad to see outcasts in the world. Please look at my sentence beginnings.

In the book “White Fang” by Jack London the main character, White Fang was going through some problems in this book. He was abounded when he was just a little half wolf half dog puppy. White Fang went to go find a new home but that didn’t work out the way he hoped. While hunting a rabbit he finds a tribe of native Americans. The young pup attempts to run away but he can’t help his curiosity to try to find a new family. One native American takes him in but all the others in the tribe including the other dogs didn’t accept him.

If everyone in White Fang’s life that hurt him or made fun of him he wouldn’t be as furious, strong and smart as he could. The book made the Native Americans look like bad people but what they really did is turn him into a great wolf. His family wasn’t there to teach him the native Americans were the ones to do that. 

Why There Are Rails on Escalators

Author's Note: I wrote this piece because every year I remember less and less about this so if i write about it I will never forget it.

When I was four years old I was at the mall with family friends. We just entered the mall and were deciding where to go first. While my sisters were looking at a map two older boys and I decided to have a contest, who could go on the outside of the rail and up the rail the highest. I'd have no idea what would've happened to me that night.

It was the first boys' turn and he made it about four feet and he thought it was pretty impressive. I knew I could beat that. The second boy made it about six feet up I wasn't so sure I could beat that but I was sure I was going to try. I wish I hadn't though.

Now it was my turn to go and I was determined to beat six feet. I did. But I didn't come back down. When I got to a certain point it was too high to jump down! I had to keep going up. Luckily there was a lady who pulled me up over the railing and took me down to my sisters!

I was twenty to thirty feet up in the air if that lady hadn't saved me I might have died. One of the worst things about this is I don't even know who saved my life. If only I knew so I could find her and thank her.