Point of View

My Brother Sam is Dead

                   Authors Note: 

In My Brother Sam is Dead, strongly fight about what is right and wrong. His dad turns to the British side. Then Sam, the oldest brother in the Meeker family decides to turn to the Colonists. But the youngest, Tim Meeker, is pressure to put a view on things himself.

 The point of view is told by Tim meeker. Tim is the youngest son of two in the Meeker family. Tim is pressured to fight against his father but he doesn’t what to fight against Sam. I heard before that would go with this book. That is “The dead will pay for the living”. It seems like Sam’s death was for another man’s doing.  

Tim’s view on stuff makes his  brother sound like the brother everyone wants or has and his dad sounds like he is the meanest father ever. But what if it was told by the British soldier that executed Sam or it was told by Tim’s and Sam’s Dad. Their dad would probably think of Sam as a trader and a coward for fighting beside the colonists. But Tim doesn’t think of anything or anyone being bad or being a betrayer.

If this story was in the point of view was told by a different person in the story it would come out totally different. The scene and thought in everything, the feelings. Everything except the time period. So the next time you ever read, try to think of the story in a different characters point of view.   

Compare and Contrast Re-do

The Patriot

Authors note: I wrote a compare and contrast the two main characters Sam from 

My Brother Sam is Dead and Benjamin for the movie The Patriot.

Even though My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier is about the Revolutionary War, it isn't really like the movie The Patriot. There are some like how the families fought. But it is a book I wouldn’t recommend for a history report.  But it can make you see what is happening right at the moment.

There was one really important man in The patriot and that is Benjamin Martin that is played by Mel Gibson. He is the father widow that was 7 children. He lead the rebels into War. The reason why he was a good leader was because he fought in the French and Indian War.

In addition Benjamin knew what War was like. He knew how it was like to kill a man. The reason why he knew how war was like is because he fought in the French and Indian War. He had the worse memories after him and his soldiers did a gruesome thing.  

On the other hand the book is way different. The oldest brother Sam that wants to fight against the red coats was raised by royalists. He thinks they deserve to be free but his dad thinks it is fine how it is. Sam thinks it is all about killing but thinking and hoping that god is watching over him so he doesn’t get killed himself. His little brother even thinks of fighting too. Then his dad turns and is going to fight on the British side. So Sam’s little brother has to choose to fight with his brother or fight with his dad.

Of course there are comparisons for both Sam and Benjamin are that they want to be heroes again. They both want to be free in America. They both knew how it was like to kill something. But for Sam on only things he has killed was animals and Benjamin killed everything from animals to humans. They both were judged really hard by people.

In the end the book and the movie are both are good. They both can make you see or make you feel like you are there in the spot light. There is a lot that you  could learn from both of these things about how it felt or something you never heard of.    

Compare and contrast

Gym Candy 

Gym Candy by Carl Deuker is about a teen that wants to find his true self. His name is Mick Johnson and he is out to beat his enemy that is keeping him from being a starter on the varsity football team. His enemies’ name is Cam that isn’t a true talent. Unlike Cam, Mick has football in his blood.

              Cam thought he could get away with anything in life because he was the top player on his football team. Cam is a bigger guy, so he can plow through people. Unlike Mick that is just fast. Cam got kick off the team for when Him and another player got caught at a party drinking.

            Mick’s dad was a pro football player till he got fired. That’s why Mick has Football in his blood. Mick was the second string running back but now he is in at first string for now. Mick has a better attitude and a better mind than Cam, till Mick took a wrong turn. Mick made that wrong turn so he could be and stay better than Cam for the years to come till Cam graduates. Mick knew the consequences to what he did if the team finds out.

            They both have same comparisons. Like they both love the sport of football. They are both really good at football. Both of them were coaches pets and fought for number one till one is marked king. But it might end up bad for both of them 

            I can clearly relate to this book. This book I think is more close to realism than some of the other sports books I read. This book made me see the events in the book as they happen. I have been in some of their footsteps. The book I think is trying to say that there will always be a person to beat in life and that it won’t be use to do.     

A Piece of My Life

A Piece of My Life

Have you ever had to lie so you didn’t get yelled at? Did you ever get made fun of? I know, I’ve had and done those thing and they aren’t fun.   For Ty Lewis it is life for him every day. The main theme is determination in Football Hero.

Reason one for determination is because The stuff Ty goes through around in school and football. The reason of determination is because Ty doesn’t let people really get to him. Like if someone makes a comment on what he is wearing or what he does he brushes it off and forgets about it. 

Second reason for determination is getting made fun of for the job he has for his uncles cleaning business. But when he started playing football it got a lot worse. People started calling him names like, toilet boy and all the bad things you could think of. Ty’s enemy Calvin West started the name calling when he saw Ty at one of his jobs cleaning the toilets. Ty’s brother, Thane was picking Ty up from practice one day and saw that Calvin was cheep shooting Ty and Thane was sick of it.

So Thane showed Ty same tricks that thane used on players he hated. One day at practice Ty put on those tricks and taught Calvin a lesson no not to mess with him ever again. Ty has determined to show his teammates that he deserved to be there. Ty was there to show them that he is one of them but even better than all of  his teammates.

I can relate to this book because a lot of those things happened to me. Things started happening when I switched schools in 3^rd grade. There were name calling and physical stuff started happening. Then when I started playing football people started saying I wouldn’t get anywhere, that I suck, and all that stuff. But I prove myself more than anyone now.  

The Prediction

Football Hero Prediction

authors note: I'am reading this book for my reading group. so far this is a good book and if you like football books this is one for you.

This is probably the tenth sports book I have read. I'm reading Football Hero by Tim Green for my reading group. So fair it is a good book. It is one of those books that u won’t know what will happen. I think the main character Ty is going to go pro in football like his brother Thane or his nickname Tiger. His brother is suppose to be the third pick to the Jets. But I think there will be a break out. Then that he will live with his brother because of what they do to him.

 Reason why I think those things is because it is like that with like all pro sports players younger brothers. Like the Watt family the reason why they are getting watched is because of JJ Watt who plays for the Texans. But they still have to be able to play good too. But Ty has talent with football too like Thane.

Then the reason I think Ty will tell him the real reason why I think his brother will get custody of Ty. I think why I think Ty will tell Thane is because he wants to live with a real family not people that don’t care about him. Then that Thane will give them same money and their uncle is going to bet or gamble it away. Thane then will finally see why Ty is a shy and not talking person.  

But I think there will be a twist in it. The reason I think this too is because his uncle made a bit with a mob boss that if Thane doesn’t go to his bar he is going to come after the uncles family and Ty. Because they made a promise with his uncle that if Lucy (the mob boss) got Ty to go with Thane to the draft to get Thane to work with Lucy at his bar. 

The Nightmare Night

Matt The Slender Man

The smell of the smoke coming from the fire that is going full blast in my back yard and the fear in the air after the varsity football game. A full moon shining hard and the puffing clouds that are floating there. My and friends decide to play a night game that night. We fight till we decide in between ghost in the grave yard or haunted gray wolves. We settled on ghost in the grave yard. I was it so I had to find them and tag one of them.

We were playing for ever till a scary object kept moving in the yard and in the woods next to my house. So everyone was scared and didn’t want to play. Well me being me, I go to investigate what they kept reporting. All of a sudden I found what I’m looking for. All I see is  a white face, no body. I ask him who he is. He turns around and starts walking towards me. Out of the blue he disappears. I lose it and start running back to where my friends were. 

 Fright in everyone's voice, everything stops for a bit. So I enter my garage to get something to drink. All of a sudden I hear same thing moving. I approach with caution. I just cross the line from my drive way in to my garage. As soon as I pasted that line there was a white face right in my face. I will admit it I did scream like a little girl and ran way like a little girl. 

The game went on for around a hour till I figured out that it was my older brother Matt. One of my friends decide that now we know who it is so lets  tackle him. Well the idea went so so. We tried to take him down but you got to remember that he is on the varsity  football team and he is a beast. He took down all of us at once. So that show the wrath of my brother. 

After we figured it was him it wasn't that much fun anymore. Of course my mom was frantic that my brother was going to hurt one of us. The reason why is because he was throwing us like rag dolls. It is always the parents that stop the fun. That wouldn't be the last time we are attacked by Slender Man, Michael Meres or better known as “The Blaze”.   

re do retell The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

authors note: this is a retell of the hunger Games. I wrote is to show the type of writing is retelling 

The Hunger games is a book series of love, violence, trust and about a girl that volunteers to flight to the death against other people from the other districts. It is of course a fictional story, but you can compare it to our Wars. Through out the book people of the districts start to realize how crazy it is for kids to fight each other to the death for war not to break out in between the districts and the government. In the end both of the main characters win the brutal Hunger Games. But that will not be the last of their troubles.