Larten Crepsly

Author's Note: I wrote this as a theme assay. I also looked at the introduction sheet to help me get better intro.

Imagine being new to the vampire clan trying to make an impression that you can be someone important. Grasping the important Evanna the witch to your life is a match that is imposable, and overcoming a very deadly illness that kills almost all contestants. Larten Crepsly is determined to over come these life changing events. Determination is a major theme in this story, for several reasons.

Learning the ways of a vampire clan requires a lot a determination. Larten has to prove that he can be noble and is worth a room in the vampire mountain.  To earn a room larten has to be nice and smart about his decisions. You have to fight in a battle to get attention in the group of the blood thirsty beasts.

Larten is also determined to learn how other vampires use their powers, Like drink blood and live in the outside world with humans. Every year they have a festival and meet other vampires from all over the world, wiithc new vampires try to make their name know. As he learns the outside would larten meets a wonderful girl that can help him learn. That take determination for larten to trust the outside world.

Another story that has determination is Dessert Angle by Charlie Price. Angel the main character is determined to get away from her killer step-dad. The killer, Scotty trades guns and catches illegal animals for money, if he doesn't get what he wants you'll dead in a second. Angle has to hide in a banded houses and moves away from the area where she is threaten.  This takes a lot of determination to overcome the fear of living a life that could end in the scope of any gun.

Parody

Author's Note:  The poem is a short summery about Dessert Angle by Charlie Price. I wrote this poem as a parody. The point of view in the poem is the killer, Scotty.

I have killed

Your mother

She was trouble

You loved her

She is gone

A hid her

Now

I'm going to

Kill you too

You might

Run

But ill find you.

Pony Express

Author's Note: I wrote this piece for Social Studies. This is about the Pony Express in about 1860's.

David quickly grabbed his newspaper sack and got on his horse.  David hated his job because the pony express was deadly and dangerous. Like David most riders are orphans that nobody wants. At age 18 he was let out and lived for pony express. Clickity clack the horse was running faster than lightning. I was almost dusk when David got to the inn near Sacramento, California. He started at St. Joseph, Missouri.

"Would you like a room son" a man said as he opened the heavy wood door. "yes please, Sir" he replied. "well there is a room in 14, ill cost 10 cents." David hesitated, but to him this was a once in a life time opportunity. He saved all his money for the year to stay in a hotel. When he got to his room he saw a shiny thing hanging form a wall, After a look stare down he saw that is was a telephone. He hated those things because he over heard gossip that it might ruin the pony express.

The night was wonderful sleeping in a bed. David always sleeps on the ground or hay in barns when he delivers mail. He grabbed his heavy bag that was full of paper. Although the paper was tissue-thin paper he carried at least 1,000 pieces of paper. The horse was awake when David got to him and he slipped on and started riding. It was day seven when he got to the mansion size house.

Ding. He rang a bell hanging above the door. "hello, who is it?" his lips were dry but said "it's pony Express here to deliver you mail." she came running to the door and received the package. David walked away and rode on his horse. He had more mail to deliver. Once he got back to the station David heard the telegraph to over the pony express. October 1861 was when it fell.

Summer Grass

Author's Note: I wrote a figurative assay on Summer Grass by Carl Sandburg. 

There is a lot of personification in this short essay. "Summer grass arches and whispers it wants something. "  The personification makes it sound like the grass is whispering for something, almost like it need something important.

There is a language that effects to mood of the story. When the grass is whispering for something it sets a mood that it needs something like water. That makes the reader feel sad. When the story says "the rain answers" it sets a mood that is happy because the grass gets an answer for water.