Coloring Outside the Lines

Author's Note: This is a text analysis of a specific sentence in a specific section of the book, Speak.

"Maybe I'll be an artist if I grow up."

This line in particular made me think about things, because I mean look at it. The whole, "If I grow up" thing really means something. It means that if you believe that you will never grow up to achieve something, what do you think is going to happen to you? I suppose she is saying, "Well I guess I will try being an artist, but if I can't grow up, oh well." It is like she has no belief in herself that she can do something.

The section as a whole means that she really likes art and it makes her happy to be around it. It is a free thing for her to do and no matter how many times she messes up, she can always restart. It shows that she has a passion for something, but she would rather watch other people be creative. At least that is sort of how the section explains it. 

wing$

Author's Note: I know this isn't a book that I wrote about, it's a song. I found that listening to music really makes me think about things. I thought I should write about something that I actually care about.  

*Before reading this, feel free to listen to the song first, here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAg3uMlNyHA

Why do we dream at night? Because we have an imagination that can take us anywhere, and if you can dream it, you can do it.When you first say what you want to do with your life, everyone tells you that you can't do, the dream is too large. Dreams are never too big, and you are good enough. "I wanna fly, can you take me far away, give me a star to reach for, tell me what it takes, and I'll go so high-"I think that the song "wing$" by Macklemore gives a great sense of hope, inspiration, and encouragement to make me go after my dreams. 

You are probably hopeful for a lot of different things. Maybe you want to go to college or have a painting in a museum. Maybe you even dream about something like hitting the rim on the basketball court just like the song says. "And I was like, "Momma, this air bubble right here, it's gonna make me fly" This part of the song really describes how somebody is hopeful that something is going to happen and that is all what leads up to dreaming. Hoping that you can achieve something greater than what you think you can do. 

Something extraordinary just happened; you are inspired to do it again. That is very important too, having something to push you further in what you want to do. Everybody has inspiration for something but it takes a certain something in a specific someone to make you feel like you are worth something and that you have a chance. "I touched the net, "Mom, I touched the net," this is the best day of my life"" If you listened to the song, you would know that his shoes are what gave him the inspiration to be better, and with that, he felt like he was successful at something.

You've reached it, yes. It might be difficult to push on, but you have to keep going to succeed. Being encouraged is a strong part of reaching your dreams. When listening to the song, I noticed that everything revolved around his shoes, and because he had better shoes, that made him feel more confident and thinking that maybe it was possible to do what he wanted. Maybe it would to you or maybe it wouldn't, but that is how he became encouraged to do something.

Hope, inspiration, and encouragement are three strong aspects that the song "wing$" by Macklemore carry. This song has a real example being that you can have as much money or as little money as you want, but money will never make everything possible. Everyone has exactly the same chance at being good at something and this song really taught that. You just have to find what speaks to you, and makes you want to go after your dreams.

Awkward

Author's Note: Yeah, things are just awkward.

People that used to be such great friends

Turned into people you just see in the hall

You don't say hi to each other anymore

It's sad in a way

But not totally...

Because they did something to get themselves that position anyways

Don't be sorry that they are gone

They should be sorry

Crushed Me.

Author's Note: This is how I feel towards certain people right now. "We can have a problem, we just need to figure out if it is worth fighting for."

Sometimes,

You have to hurt those

Who hurt you

To let them know how it feels.

That feeling of being crushed by someone

Who you thought 

Would never.

Ever.

Leave your side.

Finding A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Author's Note: In this piece, I wrote a similarities and differences essay that would compare the short story, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," with the short film with the same title.

Nothing can be exactly replicated; it's impossible. No toy, painting, or dance move is interpreted in the same way and simply cannot be duplicated the exact way it was thought of. Similarly, the short story, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and the short movie with the same title, are just the same way; you cannot make it exactly the same, and that is where I am finding the difference and similarities.

When you are watching a movie, you don't pay any attention to the camera angle unless it is a horror movie and you are waiting for something to be hiding behind the camera, or something like that. With this short film, I really noticed that the camera angle was dead-on pointing at the people that were being displayed in the scene. That is not how I envisioned it as I read the story. I don't know if that was possibly supposed to be like that, but it was just one thing that I would've considered changing to give the scenes more character and texture.

One thing that I thought they displayed very well, was how the characters had gruff in their voices and you could tell that they were angry by the way that they carried themselves. Clomping feet, lagging voice, and sitting in a hunched position compared to sitting up-right, looking at the old man, and tears slowly falling down his cheek. You could just really tell that they were feeling two totally different emotions, and that really stood out to me. You can also tell that they put lots of emotion into it as well.

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," the movie and the short story, had things in them that I would've thought of different and carefully picked out, and a something that they did really well, too. Though things cannot be perfectly replicated, I thought that the short story to the movie did a pretty good job making it very close to what the story was written by Ernest Hemingway. 

You're Obviously Not Cinderella

Author's Note: This piece has two parts, and it is just describing how things can be different and how life isn't a fairy tale. 

Ever lasting love...

As precious and adorable

Like Cinderella

That's how she thought it would be

A fairy tale

Something you can't mess up

But maybe her glass slipper was never destined to fall off

Because her prince didn't want to find her again

Bippity Boppity Boo

He's gone

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It starts as a carriage, rather

Not a pumpkin

Because as you see

The story is backwards

The opposite of a "happily ever after"

Nothing went well for our Cinderella

Nothing at all

Fabian and Christopher

Author's Note: I wrote this piece because we have just recently finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and we had to write a piece on it, so this is what I did. I was supposed to write it about text analysis and it sort of is, but I already finished that goal so my piece is a little different. 

For Christopher, everything has its way, and everything has a pattern. His day stays mostly the same constantly. Without a standard schedule that he lays out for himself, he feels off and it just isn't right. He has to teach himself subjects because it is confusing otherwise. For Fabian, nothing has a pattern that anyone can see, just him. His day is always changing. With a standard schedule, he feels calm. Fabian needs to be taught all the subjects, because it is too difficult to concentrate otherwise. Fabian, in my mom's fourth grade class, and Christopher, from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, are similar and different in a couple of ways. 

Everything has to be perfectly perfect and nothing can be off...Not. This is how Fabian and Christopher are different. Fabian doesn't always have an organized schedule, however this causes him to have break downs. He needs to be helped by somebody else to make it, too. Christopher has his own mental schedule, and he does what he likes to do, when he feels it is necessary. Another way that they are different is that they Christopher is much brighter than Fabian. Because Fabian comes from a family that speaks Spanish all the time, he had to adjust to English at school and that really confuses him with learning and it makes it more difficult. 

In case you haven't been able to tell, because I haven't made it a statement yet, Fabian is autistic. This is the main way that him and Christopher are similar. They both shared the same difficulties when they were young and they went on their own path from there and that is how I believe that they are similar, mainly. Another way that they are similar, is that their parents are split up or divorced. This has made it more difficult on both of them because they either don't know their other parent is alive, or they have to go between households.

Christopher and Fabian, two people with the same disease, autism, are different and similar in a couple of ways. This just goes on to show that just because some people around the same age level are diagnosed with the same disease, nothing is perfectly similar or precisely different in either of them. They are their own person and they function just how they want to and need to, and that is what is important.