Living A Lie

Author's Note: Watching the Truman Show in class reminded me a lot of the novel I had just finished reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. Both of these things had a similar theme lying. The main characters in the book and movie both were lied to and both tried to find the truth and I wrote this piece tng to compare and contrast what they did to find the truth. Also I think the theme of is lying ok came up in the movie as well as the novel.

Being lied to in the first place is wrong, and then to find out that everyone was in on this major lie makes you feel even worse. Truman and Chistopher were both lied to about big things that happened in their lives and they both used determination to find out the truth. Lying isn't the exact right thing to do even thought we all lie because there will be a time when lying will back fire.

Parent's lie to their children all the time to protect them, but really what are they protecting them from? Eventually they will find out most kids will end up mad or sad. Most parent's lie to their kids about the Easter bunny or Santa Clause and say that they are real but when the kids find out from  their friends or even their parents they feel betrayed. Truman espeacially felt betrayed in the movie because of how many people he had trusted and how there were in on this giant lie that was used to entertain America. Chistopher from The Curious Incident of the Dog and the Nighttime relates to Truman as well because he was betrayed by his father about his mother and parents are supposed to be people that are trusted.

To make sure that these characters never found out about what people were lying to them about people made sure that they were fearful of something that had to do with the lie. We live in this world were parents force fear upon their children. You often hear parent scolding their kids saying "If you do this again you will have to go to your room for a lifetime" and they lie to keep their children in fear. Once the kids are in fear they will stay there and think twice befor doing what they were told not to because they know if they do it they will have to face whatever the fear was that their parents forced upon them. Trumans  fear was water and that's how the producers of the Truman Show kept Truman in his own speacial world that they had provided for him, and whenever Truaman brought up ideas about leaving the island people shot his ideas down, so they thought that he would never try to leave. Chistopher was a kid with autisim so no one ever thought that he could leave to find the truth by himself because he feared groups of people and chaos. Both characters managed to do exactly what they weren't expected to do to find out the truth in life.

Lying for big thing most of the time will backfire at you, and most of the time it will affect you negatively . Truman and Chistopher were both lied to about big things and now they can't trust anyone really. Lying about little things is ok but lying about things that could impact someone's life isn't the right chioce to make.

Spring Break Writing

Author's Note: I just decided to post everything together that I wrote this break. These are three posts that I wrote I tried to write a fourth but nothing cam e to me. I think that the more I wrote the more ideas that came to me but they all seemed kind of the same, but I think writing this much helped me take a step towards my writing goal that I want to achieve.

Paint

Author's Note: I guess my inspiration for this came to me last year in soccer. One of our coaches were telling us to be creative on the field, and then I came up with a quote that landed me with the name Picasso for the rest of the practice. Paint the field. This basically meant get creative with movement on the field. The rest of the practice I was coming up with little saying to add on to paint the field, and this poem is a combination of all of them.

The field is your canvas,

And you are the paint brush.

Get creative

And paint a picture.

Go out on that field and be the paint brush!

Paint your game,

Soccer.

 

Thousand Laughs

 

Author's Note: The inspiration for this poem is HARRY POTTER! My least favorite parts in the movies is when Harry Potter feels like he is alone and there is no one he can talk to that actually can relate to him, so this is my poem about how he must feel.

Laughter fills the air---

And voices of chatter

Then there's

Me.

Sitting all alone

By my self

Thoughts on my mind

And no one to tell

Just me and my thoughts

Fill the air that echos laughter

I am alone.

In this world of danger.

No one cares that he,

Is near again.

Life

Author's Note: I am not really sure where I came up with this but here it is. I also don't think it's very good, so give me some feedback please. Thanks.

In life things don't go your way,

But you have to channel strength

And get through life's promblems

Once you get through it

Life will be great

And you will feel stronger

Than you did before

So tighted your seatbelt

And prepare yourself for the rough

Yet best ride

You will ever take.

 

This Dangerous Ocean

This Living Hand

By John Keats

This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of blood
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calmed--see here it is--
I hold it towards you.

Authors Note: I had so much troubles coming up with a poem that I could write an imitation poem to. I looked at other people's in the class and their poems like exactly mimicked their poets. However when I tried to do this I just couldn't so I settled on this poem. This poem This Living Hand uses a technique that makes the reader face what the poet is facing in this case death. John Keats knew he was going to die soon when he wrote this poem so it makes the reader feel how the poet feels. In this poem there is no rhyming or repetition so I just attempted to do what John Keats did in his poem This Living Hand.

This Dangerous Ocean

This  dangerous  ocean, sweeps me away with it's tide

And it's waves crash down on top of me

Sand and rocks beneath my feet are lost

The sky is no longer above me

Salt water rushes into my lungs

And stings my open eyes

As I try to grasp onto something,

But nothing is there

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