Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Truman Show Response 1

I wrote a thing then turned it into a poem by pressing "enter" a bunch of times
It's called "Truman Show Response 1"

I like to stare
off into the distance.
Into far off horizons
so real that they
look like oil paintings.
When I'm looking at
those certain gleaming horizons,
they never change much.
Always the same picture
They are always perfect,
but I do not
Want to see them
for the rest of
my life. There are
other landscapes in places
that are far away
and those distant horizons
will lose their beauty
in the years that
I must stay here.

I don't really like it but, it's something to look at.

Monday, April 4, 2011

District Assesment

Many people have died for the sake of one. An uncountable amount of people gave their lives to a king. Millions have been slain in the name of a god that they didn’t believe in. Jane Yolen’s “The hundredth dove” is a story that shows how placing all of our trust into one god or government to fill a void in our lives can have terrible consequences such as disappointment or the death of others.
Some call their blind loyalty faith or patriotism. The main character in the story, Hugh, devoted his life to a monarchy, for reasons that were clear only him, blindly the kings every word. Not only did he give up his life as a master Fowler because of his undying loyalty but, he knowingly killed his kings fiance.
The Hundredth Dove represents a part of us difficult to accept, even to those as loyal as Hugh was. Our nature, where we choose to put out trust, matters more than we believe it does. At times it has shaped history. Other times it has changed lives.