Story Time

The Disjointed Stories

First Story:

Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I’ve come to learn is women. I just can’t seem to understand how they work. I suck when it comes to women hence why I’m single. I don’t know if I’m ever going to have a women in my life it seems impossible at the moment. It seems like everyone does find someone so I guess there’s a small chance for me. If I did have a women it would probably be a disaster at first like a huge shipwreck. It may iron out but things would just go wrong I can feel it. I don’t know what to get them or how to act with her it’s just a mystery to me. That’s why it’s so hard for me to learn women they are all different in their own ways. I don’t know what to do. I need to learn who matches my personality but that will take some time. In the mean times there’s other things to focus on like fishing, playing with dice, and sleep. I’ll just let time do the work now because things can change. This is all a big puzzle but it’s up to me to put the pieces together and make it work. That is how I see it in my eyes and I’ll develop the knowledge to complete this puzzle. For now I’ll just go jump into the sea.

Second Story:

A race is probably one of the hardest challenges in life for someone to overcome. It’s so much physical desire on that person and it seems like it lasts forever. That finish line keeps running away and it’s like you're never going to make it. There’s many things that can set you back and make you just want to give up and quit. Although you just have to fight the temptation and keep going. You're only going to get better and improve from it and worse if you quit. This is a lot like life. Now I know “Life is like a race” is already a saying and it’s not real creative or anything but I really like it and I think it’s very true. Life is a long winding race with turns and bumps presenting a challenge to us where it’s our choice as to defeat it or stand back. Getting to that finish line is one of the most satisfying feelings because of the accomplishment to get there. I myself haven’t made it and honestly we all may have different finish lines. It’s just how you see it and when you think you’ve accomplished what you wanted to accomplish. There is going to be work which will make you want to quit many times. Instead of quitting push yourself you will be able to create new limits and get closer to that finish line. It will all pay off in the end you just have to trust yourself. So I leave it at this, ...you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.

Famous First and Last Lines

Famous First and Last Lines

First Line: “Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I’ve come to learn, is women.”

This comes from the book Middle Passage written by Charles Johnson. Johnson was born on April 23, 1948 and is currently 68 years old. He started out as a cartoonist but then switched over to writing and became an author. Middle Passage was published in 1990 and is about a freed slave named Rutherford Calhoun and his adventure as he boards onto a slave ship on a voyage headed to Africa. He does this to escape a forced marriage he was almost blackmailed into. It’s set in the 1830’s and really shows talks about the illegal slave trade in the U.S. I may read this but it seems sort of like a history book and I’m not into history. It seems like it may have some cool adventure or action but most likely will be boring for most of it. I don’t think I’ll read it.

Last Line: “...you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”

This come from the book The Unnamable written by Samuel Beckett. Beckett was born on April 13, 1906 and died on December 22, 1989 at 83 years old. He lived in Paris most of his life as a novelist, playwright, director, and poet. The Unnamable was published in 1953 and is about an unnamed protagonist. It’s a lot of disjointment and it doesn't have a steady plot. It’s a just a lot about the narrator's feelings. I would not read this book it doesn’t seem like a very interesting book to me. There’s no set plot and just seems like it would be boring. I would not read this book. I do really like the last line though it's great motivation.  

Memorable Passage

Memorable Passage

“If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lighting? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?” (The Lightning Thief)  

This is a quote from the Percy Jackson Series. It’s the first book called the Lightning Thief. This is memorable to me because I really liked the fiction it had in it and this quote explained it well. It shows that gods in this book are real and that they are just considered myths like in real life. It’s just cool to see everything in this book that can’t happen in real life. There’s a lot of cool powers the gods and half-bloods have that the learn to use. Also I like this quote because Percy just thinks he’s a normal human but is being told he’s a half-blood which means he’s half god. He doesn’t think it’s real and doesn’t want to believe but realizes it’s true. Now he’s being told that he himself could be a myth like all the other gods which he believed were myths. It’s just a cool chain reaction and it shows the good fiction. I really enjoyed reading this book back in the day it’s a great read just like the whole series.

Favorite Quotes

Writers as Readers

When I read, it has to be super quiet and I need to be sitting or lying down. It needs to be darker lighting than normal because it just seems relaxing to me. When I’m relaxed and not stressed or anything it’s a lot easier to read and focus on the book. I can get through it much quicker and understand it better than just daydreaming and flipping pages. I can get distracted sometimes when I’m reading and completely lose what just happened the last few pages. It also helps when I’m warm because it makes me feel comfy.

One of my best memories connected with reading is when I did a project over a book we had read where we had to bring items to connect it to the book. This was back in like 6th grade I choose the book Zoobreak. It was one of my favorite books growing up about kids stealing animals from an awful zoo and keeping them to try and put them in a different zoo. Anyways I did my project and I remember it being so fun and I had such a great time picking out the items. I remember I got a perfect score on it and my teacher told me it was one of the best projects she had seen.

The first book I remember reading is the first book in the series the guardians of gahool. I’m not sure of the exact name of the book but it was such a great start to a great series. This stands out to me because I just loved the plot of the book and what happened. It was the story of owls and how there was the good side going up against the main side. There’s just a lot of plot action and most importantly adventure. I loved adventure whether it was games or books I just loved adventures. There was just so much to do and I loved how you advanced and got deeper into it. That’s what I really loved growing up so I really loved this book.

My favorite series is probably Percy Jackson. I loved Percy Jackson it was such a good series. I love adventure and this series was full of adventure. It was just so cool to see all the powers the half-bloods have and the adventures it lead them to. There were battles, drama, and just everything that a series needed to keep me engaged in the series. I really liked the characters to they were funny but also serious. I just really enjoyed reading Percy Jackson.

I do think think that someone who reads more will become a better writer. They get a better understand of language sentence structure and all that stuff. They also develop a better vocabulary. They just seem to understand more how to write because they read books which is just a lot of writing. Reading does help influence writing as more reading means stronger writing. It gives people a better understanding of writing and how to write and how to think in an English mind.

Cage-Bird Piece

Wandering Questions

I Don’t Know Why many things occur in the world

I Don’t Know Why summer is so short

I Don’t Know Why there are so many acts of violence in the world

I Don’t Know Why I say world a lot

I Don’t Know Why apple juice isn’t the best drink of all time

I Don’t Know Why I am writing this poem

I Don’t Know Why the grass is so green or the sky so blue

I Don’t Know Why I haven’t bought a hammock yet

I Don’t Know Why basketball is so fun

I Don’t Know Why school has to start so early in the day

I Don’t Know Why I complain about school so much

I Don’t Know Why writing is so important

I Don't Know Why a lot

Writers Dreaming

I think that talking about bad occurrences in life whether that be a dream, drama, or news, does give them too much power. They really can take over us and how we think and view things after the occurrence. It makes us question our friends, family it can put us in a whole new world. Also they can be used to do things like gain attention as people feel bad for you or things like that. It’s just not good to talk about them because it really does affect how we feel about certain things in our life. I’ve known of this to happen because I had a bad dream once which was just crazy and I told my friend back in the day and he thought I was crazy and didn’t talk to me for like two days. The bad dream I had made my friend think I was crazy even though it was just a dream, not real. That right there shows the bad dreams do have a lot of power and can really change how people view things like how my friend viewed me.

I think that dreams do tell a lot about us. Most of the time things that we dream about our things that we like in real life. It helps us realize who we are and what we want to do in life. I dream about sports all the time just in a bunch of different ways. Sports are something I really do enjoy in life especially basketball. I’ve dreamed so much of basketball I can’t even say how many times I’ve dreamed of basketball. I also really like video games and there’s been plenty of dreams involving a video game. The things we dream about normally are in our everyday life and sometimes we have dreams that may surprise us. Something we don’t do much in life but seems fun and maybe happens later in life. Dreams are like our own personal book, about our life.

I seem to be a person who does remember a lot from the past maybe not everything but a lot. Things that appeal to me or our funny normally stay with me in my mind. There’s times I’ll tell my friends now something in middle school and they will be like how do you remember that. I feel like it’s better to have a good memory then someone who doesn’t really remember much. It’s good to look back on the fun memories you’ve had in life, what makes your life so memorable. I remember middle the school the best and elementary school I barely remember. I have a much better time recalling happy and funny memories that’s why they stick with me. There’s some angry, sad, and embarrassing memories but happy memories is about 90% it seems like. It’s just better to remember the happier memories than the sad ones.

I think that as you get older, it is harder to learn and try new things but it certainly isn't impossible. When you get older you just start to slow down, you aren’t as active, don’t want to learn as much it’s just a natural part of life. Now there will be some people with the mindset of what they are doing is boring they want to try new things and they will. Although most of the time people don’t learn as much because they just don’t have the drive or passion to. Being older it seems like the mindset is to think of what is going on or is important. There isn’t much to distract older people and they don’t seem to want to be distracted. They want to focus on their job, what's going on in the world, their family stuff like that.     

If I Were in Charge of the World Poem

If I Were in Charge of the World

If I were in charge of the world

I’d cancel chores, school, hate and also scratchy sounds

If I were in charge of the world

There’d be fairs everyday, peace all around and lots of basketball courts.

If I were in charge of the world

You wouldn’t have haters. You wouldn’t have illnesses. You wouldn’t have no WiFi. Or “limited data.” You wouldn’t even have limited anything.

If I were in charge of the world

A double layered cookie cake with icing would be a vegetable. All gas would be free and a person who
forgot to sleep and sometimes forgot to eat would still be allowed to be in charge of the world.