Response to Tangled

Authors Note: This is sort of a rough draft. I'm not sure if I want to use it as my response to the movie.  If you have any ideas please let me know. My 'thesis' is to keep dreaming. I hope that's understood in this poem.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!

Little does she know that that's not fair.

She takes her power,

Then locks her in a tower.

But this does not stop her,

For she will still dream.

She'll dream, and dream,

'Til she bursts at the seam,

To one day be,

Sitting on a boat,

Deep  in the sea,

Watching what lies before thee.

Lanterns in Tangled

During the movie Tangled, there was one major symbol. They were the lanterns. I believed they symbolized Rapunzel wanting to leave her castle. The lanterns were free, and flew wherever they wanted to. This is exactly what Rapunzel wanted to do.

Creative Writing Piece

Authors Note- These are the words I had to include in my story: Anteaters, Bulge, Cookies, Delightful, Fezor, and Helicopter.

Your are driving across a bridge, toward a country you have never visited before. On the other side of the bridge, you can barely make out what seems to be a series of holes that look to be abandoned, for there is no one in sight. There is a train station with a steaming locomotive parked on the track.

 You see a middle aged woman sitting on the locomotive. She is carrying a crate filled with something you can't make out, until your car starts to approach her. Just as your eye sight is able to see what the woman is holding, the train starts to take off at a racing speed. You decide to take your car off road to follow the woman. Then you begin to hear some heard of animals stampeding.  You look to your left and find anteaters at every angle of the locomotive, and now your car, for some reason. Your head starts to spin as you take in the crazy scene that lays before you. What is going on? You ask yourself constantly.

 You can't seem to take your foot off the gas pedal. Soon your car starts to smoke. As you take a look at the speedometer you realize your going way over your cars capacity. An anteater to your right starts harassing your car, and soon there is a slight bulge on the passengers' seat door.  What do I do, what do I do?! Then, you dream up a master plan to get you out of this situation . First, grab your lunch filled with a sandwich and cookies just incase you get hungry. Second, take your foot off of the gas pedal. Third, jump out of the car door and roll on the ground to insure for a safe landing. Now there's only one thing left to do-actually do it. You gang up the courage and begin your master plan step by step. You've got your lunch in hand, and your foot off the pedal, ready to make a delightful leap into the heard of anteaters.  Your hand grips the door handle, and you take a look out the window. Everything around you is moving, except you of course. Then, you quickly clench the handle, leap out of the car and start to roll.

 Luckily the heard of anteaters are way ahead of you, continuing to follow the locomotive. You begin to feel like the only normal thing in this unknown country. But then, a lonely anteater left behind by his group begins to approach you. It's elephant like trunk drudging along. It looks a little sad. As you begin to move closer to it, you notice a nametag around it's collar. It reads 'FEZOR'. What kind of name is that? What language is it? Where am I? You need to take a break from all of this thinking, so  begin eating your  lunch; every now and then giving a crumb to Fezor. He gives a look that seems as though he's saying  'What is this garbage?'  He starts to have a fit, spinning his trunk around like a helicopters propeller until the food lands on the ground. You take a glance at your car, still smoking, then start to walk away with Fezor towards the train station hoping to catch a ride home.

Short Story Respnse

A young child loses both of his parents in a fatal accident, and is forced to live with a dominant uncle who not only manages his business, but manages his family too.  How would you go about living? You would probably like a friend. This is the exact setup in the story Luke Baldwin's Vow. Luke finds a friend in life that is priceless; a dog whom he relies on deeply. Luke vowed to  his dying father that he would try to learn things from his uncle, but rather, Uncle Henry manages to learn throughout the story from Luke that some things in life are priceless.

During the story Uncle Henry decides that Dan, the Dog, is useless since he does not contribute to him.

"…he just eats and sleeps and gets in the way." Luke knew that Dan benefited his life. It does not seem as though Uncle Henry understood that.  Luke knew that his dog was worth more than money, even though Uncle Henry didn't see it that way. This is a terrible and tragic point of the story.

Although the mode seems tragic, the ending turns out to be romantic. This is because Luke got to keep Dan.  Some words were mentioned that were symbolic such as "dream, luxuries, and gentle". These are all characteristics of the dog. To Luke, it was a dream to him that he had a friend, someone who was gentle, and made life feel like a luxury-at least when they were together.

No matter who you are, you will always have something that means nothing to others but everything to you. These things in life are truly priceless, which is the lesson learned in the story Luke Baldwin's Vow. To some people it seems as though Uncle Henry was cruel, but together Luke and his uncle learned from  each other. Luke Baldwin's vow to his father was achieved.

Animal Farm

During the story Animal Farm, each character develops a personality that resembles someone in the Russian Revolution. The author, Orwell, meant for this to happen. This story is really about what Orwell is saying about those who became the leaders of the revolution.


It seems as though the pigs have taken control over the farm. Even though it is a communist farm, there are still leaders that appear to be ruling it.  Those three leaders in the story are Napoleon, Snowball, and Squealer. There were also three leaders in the real Russian Revolution. They are Trotsky, Stalin and Lenin. Throughout the first few chapters I thought that Snowball resembled Lenin since he was intelligent, although he changed. Snowball is truly Trotsky because he is the only one of the leaders that has disappeared. Napoleon is definitely Stalin since he has a strong military-like feel on life. Lastly, Squealer is Lenin because he was the first ruler, until Stalin took over. This happened in the book too.


Orwell didn't really like the idea of the Russian revolution. He created this book to sort of make fun of it, and let people know what his opinion was. That's how the novel Animal Farm tells the story of the Russian revolution.

Fun Poem

Authors Note: If you guys have any ideas on a verse I could add to the ending that would be great. I ran out of time so I just stopped. 

There's no where to go,

there's no where to be.

The only things,

are me and the sea.

But then it changes,

the sky goes dark.

The wind picks up,

and the air turns stark.

I feel so small,

compared to it all.

FInal Prompt for Peace like a River

Authors Note: This is my final prompt for Peace like a River. It was a really hard book to read and understand, so I still haven't finished it. It was kind of hard writing this so if you have any comments please write them! 

In life, I see many people who say they believe in forgiveness. But is it really true? Even in a time of grief, are you still willing to forgive someone or something? Here’s an example. A man that you don’t know comes along and randomly shoots your dog. What do you want to do to that person? There’s two ways you can handle this situation. You could forgive this stranger-but let’s face it, you want revenge. Some might say that they would call the police and get him arrested, but is that because he performed a crime, or because you’re upset you lost your dog? I thought of this constantly while reading the novel Peace like a River. There are two main characters that each have to decide how they will handle a situation. This led me to thinking that revenge and forgiveness is the main theme in the story.

While reading this book, the plot could be easily confused. This is because there were so many important moments in it. Although, it’s mode was simple: Irony. All of the important moments had something creepy or frightening to do with them. Therefore, I believe that the first scene that should be placed on the story’s plotline is the shooting. I believe this because it matches the first section on the Irony plot which is World in Chaos.  Next, there is a serious conflict. In result of the shooting, Davy gets thrown into jail. This is where the decision of the two main characters comes to play. Davy decides to get revenge off of two high school kids by shooting them, but Mr. Land doesn’t do anything. Instead he prays. He prays for Davy who is now in jail, and for the lost lives of the two students. There really is no answer to what the right thing to do is. Lastly on the Irony plot is Death or Insanity.  Davy decides after he goes into trial, to break out of jail. In conclusion the mode or plot of the story is Irony.

The author of the novel Peace like a River is Leif Enger. He is known for his fictional style of writing, as seen in this story. I feel that the message he was trying to send out was that forgiveness is key, and you can’t always get revenge off of someone. Sometimes all you can do is wait, and let things handle themselves. There is a reason that Leif Enger had Davy and Mr. Land handling the ‘shooting situation’ differently. It was to keep you wondering What would I have done. So ask yourself, what would you have done-forgiven the two boys or gotten revenge off of them?

Peace like a River is one of those novels that makes you constantly wonder. While the actions in it aren’t realistic, the consequences are. Remember, there are two ways you can handle something or someone when they’ve done wrong: forgive them, or get revenge off of them. What will you choose?