parody to “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams

Author's note: this poem is a parody to the poem, Just to say. It is based off of a different version of Rumpelstiltskin

I gave away our first born child, to a tiny man whose name I could not figure out

I know you were hoping to raise this offspring

Forgive me but he offered hay spun into gold and it was so shiny

This parody is about where Rumpelstiltskin actually gets the child from the prince instead of the princess to be. I thought of this at home after make a rope from a product like hay. It was written in the same type of style as the poem, Just to say. The tone is a type of apologetic mocking. The mood is actually sad and happy.

Eragon

Author’s note: I am writing this to analyze the genre type and why it would be that genre for the book Eragon.

The book Eragon could be classified as a Adventure, Action, and Fantasy. It would be considered as an adventure because it takes place over a multitude of areas and throughout the book the Author creates the scene at every individual place as well as showing the motion. It also shows the actual adventure taking place as if it were real, and it brings the reader in. For the Action genre there is plenty of actual action in the book along with fighting, great battles, running, magic, and flying. It would fit with the Fantasy genre because it focuses mostly around Dragons, Magic, and weird creatures. I would have to say it fits the best into the fantasy column because fantasy is what the author included the most and focused on the most.

Poem

Author’s note: I am writing this to show figurative language being used in the poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes.

There is only one example of figurative language. That example is a metaphor. The metaphor is found at both the start and the finish of the poem where she relates life to a crystal staircase. She relates life to a crystal staircase to show that no matter what no one’s life is perfect and pretty like a crystal staircase because every life has its ups and downs.

The Sight

Author’s note: I am writing this to predict what will happen next in my book The Sight by David Clement-Davies. I am predicting what will happen after the current scene and giving my opinion of why it will happen, as well as other events.

I believe that Fell, Larka, and Kar are going to experience the same thing Kar did when his pack was killed but they are going to be able to escape because they were beyond the meeting place where they were supposed to usually stay. Another prediction for it is that both Larka and Fell find they have The Sight, as well as having to battle Morgra who is their half-aunt. I also believe somehow their whole pack other than Fell, Larka, Huttser (their father), Palla (their mother), and Kar are going to die.

Why I believe this is accurate is from text evidence in the book. For the first prediction I believe it is accurate because of evidence that that is how Kar survived the first time because he wandered off and the people that attacked his pack didn’t bother looking for him. For my second prediction I believe it is accurate because on page 77, paragraphs 3-4, it contains a bit of a description of him getting a vision while looking into the water which is a power of The Sight. The reason I believe they both have it is because they are twins and on page 38, Morgra blesses them with what appears to be a blessing of The Sight. For my last prediction there is evidence because of a curse that Morgra puts on the pack by the power of The Sight. The curse is on page 68 that reads as follows, “By Wolfbane I curse you. By the power of The Sight, the power that has cursed me all my life, your little ones shall grow, and as they do, you shall all suffer. One by one your pack will be broken, until you are ready to give me the cubs. And if you do not, they too shall reap your fate.”

I am going to describe what might happen in the next scene if my first prediction comes true. What might happen is that after a while of trying to catch fish they are able to catch a few and start to head back to the den, but when they get there they find that the den has “ransacked” so to speak and that everyone is either dead or heavily injured.

Ender Wiggin's evolution

Author’s note: This writing is about how Ender has evolved throughout the book so far. The book itself is Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.

Ender Wiggin is a Third, meaning the third child of a family, in the far future of earth. In this future Earth is constantly in danger from a Formic (a new race of aliens that look like humans and bugs put together) invasion. The Formic fleet tried to invade earth twice before; the second time they were pushed back for good. The Formic fleet scared earth so much that now earth feels as though they have to take kids at the age of 5 or younger and testing them to see if they have ample enough skills to join the army. If they do they are taken from their families, AT THE AGE OF 5, and put into battle schools. Some kids are the lucky ones and they have the choice to volunteer to go to a school made to create the officers and even higher positions, which Ender is chosen for.

Throughout his school life Ender becomes more and more like his brother Peter, who is extremely cruel. Ender starts to resent the feelings he has that anything that annoys him, he should kill.  For example, when he is playing the computer game set up for the students at battle school, and he gets annoyed that he can never get out of the trap set for him by the twisted giant, so he goes straight for the giants eyeballs like a hyena going after its prey, and tears it out and rips it apart as easily as if it were cheese. At that moment he realizes how much like Peter he has become, how much of a monstrous murderer he would become, and he feels ashamed of it thinking to himself “I have become a murderess fiend even in something as petty as a game. Peter would be so proud of me.”