As Small As An Elephant

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Prompt: Tell me about the main character. What kind of person is he/she?

There are a lot of ways to describe the main character Jack.  For one I think he is adventurous.  When his mom goes missing,  he decides to have a look around town.  When he doesn't find her there, he looks around places he and him mom visited along the way to the campgrounds.  Then at night he decided to sleep in the woods nearby to avoid unwanted attention, and more money loss.

I also think he is a friendly person.  When he goes looking for his mom at the beach, he befriends a young child, Aiden, and his family.  Later on in the book the family invites him to go with them to a lake outing and he accepts to go with them.  Aiden really seems to like Jack so Aiden's mom decides to put her trust in him to.  She even wants to check um on Jack's "ill' mother.

I also think of him as deceiving.  He tells a lie to Aiden's whole family saying that his mom is sick and does not want to be bothered to keep them from finding out his mom was gone.  Whenever they notice that Jack's mom is gone "again"  he makes an excuse saying that she went to get food, medicine, and other stuff like that.  She never seems to be at the tent when Aiden's family asks about her.  She always seems (conveniently for Jack to help keep people from finding out) to be gone.

As Small As An Elephant

Prompt: What do you think will happen next?

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Well, where I left off,  Jack who is the main character awoke to find his mother gone from where he last saw her.  He thought she may have gone outside, but still he could not find her.  He started into town and was about to ask around, but instead he asked where he could find a delicious brand of hot dog.  He started to look at the beach, then decided to go for a swim.  While doing that, he spotted a young buy and he seems to have befriended the boy and it appears they are staying at the same campsite.

So, here is where I left off, and where I start to make assumptions.  Earlier in the book he feared that his mother was in a very bad car crash because the car they were using was also gone.  I think he will see somewhere that there in fact was a car crash and he will do nothing but stay in his tent for a few days, then someone will come looking for him and they will claim to be his father.  It will actually turn out to be his biological father, but Jack will be reluctant to trust him.

After comforting Jack and helping him get over it with a little father son bonding, Jack will start to trust him.  Jack will go back to his fathers house and they will start to live together.  One day, Jack starts to get a suspicion that his father may not be telling him the whole truth.  That's when Jack starts to do some investigating and uncover that his father actually killed his mother.  Though accidental, Jack is still really mad.

Poetry Reflection

Poetry does belong to everyone and poetry can sometimes have great importance in my own and everyones life.  Sometimes when I read a poem about a certain thing I do not necessarily  like and I start to see in a different light.  It may change my mind in how I see that thing.  It may make me start to like it, it may make me hate it even more.  This is not only for me either.  Some other people were inspired by poetry and wanted to take action in things like saving the planet, or helping out people in need.  Some people strive to live by quotes from poems because they found those words very powerful.  

When we read “The Names”  I knew 911 was very bad, but I did not know how badly the aftermath on the emotional level was.  It brought me to a new level of understanding.  My eyes were opened to how people were affected.  Like things were completely different on how I saw how things were when the plane crashed into the twin towers because of “The Names”.   It changed my mind on how I saw things.

The other question I am going to answer is does poetry belong to everyone.  I think poetry does belong to everyone.  When I write poetry in Lit studies, we usually write to reflect or to educate others on something.  Then those people will learn what we wrote about.  Then the knowledge and the poem will keep spreading.  Poetry does not belong to a single person because it can be very inspiring and beautiful.  

Like many things poetry is something that can change people’s mind or point of view.  One more reason why poetry belongs to everybody is because poetry is something that expresses feeling with other people.  That is very important because if you do not express yourself than nobody would know how you are feeling, then you will get upset if you are having a bad day and then somebody just starts dropping their problems on you.  Another reason about not expressing yourself is because if you just keep your feelings in then you will just be a hot mess.  So I believe poetry belongs to everybody and poetry has importance if everybody’s lives

The life experiences that a poet has had in their lives will affect what they write because of something they feel strongly about.  If they feel strongly about something that has happened in their lives than it is likely that they will write about it.  When they write about it they tend to explain why they chose to write about that and how this made them feel.

If they had those life experiences and they did not feel as strongly about it, they might not have written it in such a serious matter or in such a light hearted matter.  If they did not have a serious matter, then they would affect the mood and tone the poem would be in.  

Another reason why the life experiences would affect the poem would be because if he or she would have a positive experience, then they would not be as serious as they would be as if they had a negative one.  Like if I had a bad experience happen to me, then I would be writing in a serious manner.  So yes, the life experience that the poet has had will affect what and how they will write the poem.

The Alchemyst

• Prompt: How have your feelings changed as you’ve been reading?

My feelings have changed while I am reading because there are many things that change what I think is going to happen.  I could think I know what 's going to happen and then it changes.  Like when the seemingly harmless book store owner gets attacked and fires fireballs and deadly mists.  This gave the book more adventure than I thought it would.  This made me feel more eager to read the book to find out what was going to happen.

Another thing that changed my feelings towards the book is when the book store owners loved one dies.  This made me feel a little sorry for him because losing somebody you love is devastating.  He was very sad about her death but he quickly recovered because the fate of the world was at stake.  Dee (the antagonist) had stolen the book with the worlds darkest magic and the magic that made Nicholas Fleming immortal.  He knew he had to snap out of it.

One of the most recent things that changed my feelings towards the book was when the sister of Josh, accidentally ripped two pages out of the book when Dee was trying to grab it.  This changed my mind because those two pages could have ended the world.  This changed my mind because the main characters would have felt a sense of urgency to stop Dee.  Though it did give me a sense of relief, I still was a little disappointed. 

Revised "The Defeat"

The Alchemyst

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Prompt: What do you think will happen next?

When I stopped reading the antagonist, Dee, stole the book that made Nick Fleming immortal.  What I think will happen next is that,  Nick, Josh and his sister will go to gather some resources for a long trip going to find Dee.  I think when they go to a shop, the clerk will act suspicious.  Then when they are about to leave,  they will be attacked with a magic fireball and when they discover the clerk is working for Dee,  he will be killed by a dark mist.  Then  when they start to go on their journey,  they get attacked by golems.  They will barely win and when they do,  one takes them and their stuff through a magic portal.

When they get out of the portal, they are in the middel of nowhere and their stuff is almost destroyed.    They are in the middel of a wood when the portal opens up again.  Then they setup camp.  When they are all sound asleep, enemy ninja monsters come out of the trees and attack them.  Nick will attack them with his magic mist and other magic spells and will defeat them all.  All but one.

The last ninja  will take Josh's sister and run off with her.  The two boys chase after it but  the ninja gets away.  They have to take a detour to save Josh's sister.  That will take them a few weeks so while they are doing that, evil will start to build forces.  When they finally save his sister, doomsday is almost at hand.  They save the world at the last second, but Dee gets away with the doomsday spell and vanishes through a magic portal.

"The Defeat" Key

Protoss: An advanced alien race

Zurg: Monstrous alien creatures that will stop at nothing to accomplish the Queens goal

Uncrufeled: Horrible and meaningless

Furk: Fight

Humgned: Wounded

Squabbily: Quickly

Screep: Die

Ultralisk: Giant tough Zurg military units with giant crushing claws

Mutalisk: A Flying Zurg unit that shoots projectiles at enemy units

Zealot:  Protoss grunts that attack with melee laser swords.  Not very powerful or effective

Phoenix: Protoss air superiority fighter jet

Zerglings: Ferocious little monsters with razor sharp teeth and protruding claws

Colossi: Giant Protoss robots that shoot lasers

Immortals: Robots the size of a car that have guns on their shoulders

Leviathans: The biggest and most powerful Zurg units.  They launch projectiles and impale enemies

Brutalisk: Zurg units that are shaped like a scorpion and have spikes for hands

Brood Lords:  Zurg units that attack units by sending little minions to do their work.  They morph from Mutalisk

Nexus: Protoss command center

Chus-giant alien units

Gurf-completely

Jikuing-remaining

Beshiv-arrived