One With the Forest

Author's note:
This was my creative writing piece and my figurative writing piece. I wrote about a hunt from the perspective of the hunter, and the frustration of a failed hunt. 

Dawn, -5 degrees, and suspended in a tree. To most people, this not a place they would like to be. But this is just where I like to be. From dawn to dusk, I sit, motionless, in the pattern of a tree. It takes some of the most skillful eyes to spot me, and if anything spots me, it's too late.

As I sit, I hear the faint crunching of leaves, that seems to be coming toward me. After a few moments of the sound growing more intense by the second, I spot it; a 10 point white tail dear. "Finally, this is what i have been waiting for." As I raise my rifle, and aim, I mouth a small prayer, and ready myself to fire. Finally, it has entered a clearing, and I have a perfect shot. I aim, and pull the trigger... "CLICK!" No bullet fired. I had felt like I had almost won the lottery, but found out that it was just another number. At the sound of that, the deer and I lock eyes. We can almost read each other's thoughts. Then it happens, it runs away, into the thick underworld of the forest, never to be seen again. 

Revised Forging for Freedom

Author's note:
This was a piece I wrote about a month ago, but I decided to revise it to make it into a better piece. In this piece I will be analyzing the cause and effect in the story Forge by Lauri Halse Anderson, witch tells of a young slave seeking freedom during the American Revolution. 

When Curzon ran away from his cruel master, to join the Continental army, he never though it would change his life... forever. He had thought he would be caught again. But he ran away for reasons that need no explanation, he was a slave and wanted to be a free man. He had been born into slavery and separated from his mother and father at an early age. He was able to escape with the help of a friend named Isabel; she would later become a major part of the story.

The climax or main turning point of the story was Curzon escaping his master. His reasons for escaping, were obvious, he was a slave. He then finds refuge in a small town working for a military supplier, who is secretly stealing goods from the war effort. He is then forced out of the city, and not long after, Isabel runs away. Heartbroken, by Isabel's decision, Curzon decides to keep heading toward the closest military camp, where he successfully joins the army and makes friends.

Later in the story, Curzon's old master finds him, and plans to manipulate Curzon to have him come back to his control. He is successful at this. As an effect of Curzon running away, Bellingham (his master) wants to make sure he learned his lesson. He commands Curzon to call him "master", and do the most strenuous jobs, he could think of. When Curzon's plan of escape reaches Bellingham's ears, he has another slave come work for him. And when Curzon saw who  it was, he was speechless. There Isabel stood.

Curzon is then more determined to escape then ever. He gets in touch with his old military friends, and work out a plan for both of them to escape. They folow thorough with the plan and successively escape. And for the first time ever, both Isabel, and Curzon stood free. After all the years of pain and suffering, Curzon had been through, it was finally over. But had Curzon had never escaped from his master the first time, he would have never lived free. While George Washington and the other Founding Fathers were fighting for freedom of a nation, Curzon was fighting for his own freedom, something unheard of with all slaves.

A Look Inside The Lost Hero

Author's note:
This was my traits, piece. I will be analyzing the trait of survival in The Lost Hero. All through the book the characters are faced to survive. But not always for themselves.

Thought the book The Lost Hero, one main theme of survival is clearly shown. All of the characters, not even the main characters are trying to survive. And for the unfortunate three main characters, their lives have recently been turned upside-down. But as they begin to uncover what is truly going on, the deadlier, their lives become.

First off when we look at the main characters, we see the trait in action. The main characters, Leo, Jason, and Piper, have had an unusual week. It started out with Jason, somehow appearing on a school field trip, to the Grand Canyon, next to people he did not know. But the thing was, that they all thought they knew him, they had been tricked. And followed up by that they were attacked by some kind of wind spirits  where they were forced to survive. Which then shows the first evidence of survival.

Secondly, all three are flown to a "magical camp" for kids that are the children of Greek gods. All of them are claimed by their god-parents, but Jason turns out to be the son of the king of the gods. They are then shown a prophecy that they must save the queen of the gods, and some evil force from rising. Which then  shows that they will need to survive against many enemies.

Finally, while they are on their "adventure," they are attacked by monsters, and tricked by spirits. All of which are trying to stop them on their journey. Thought the rest of their adventure, they must survive and overcome huge obstacles. Through the book, and the characters, give us their reason's for trying to survive. For some of them it is just to be able to live. Others are trying to get back what is rightfully theirs. While others are surviving for someone they care about. Some of these same situations can be seen in many other survival- type stories, and are what keep readers compelled to keep reading.