Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a classic love story written in play form by William Shakespeare. In this play there's forbidden love, with Romeo and Juliet and in the end they kill them self’s for each other. Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet make choices to benefit their love, but it ends up effecting   there loved ones. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet’s selfish choices affect their friends and loved ones in many ways.

Friar Lawrence, the town’s friar went out of his way breaking rules to marry them. The rules to marry a person you need to be married on a Sunday, Romeo and Juliet were married on a Tuesday. And you also have to keep a poster thing up for 2 Sundays; they did even put up poster things. Lastly their has to be a father or mother, or even a signed note saying that they’re allowing their daughter to be married, no they did it privately with jolliest nurse. Friar Lawrence is going to be found and going to lose his title as friar, so he'll just be Lawrence. Friar Lawrence didn’t even have to marry Romeo and Juliet but he did anyway, at it was still out of his way, if he gets "fired" then what will he do? Nothing what can he do? But of course Romeo and Juliet don’t know about that outcome because they're too young. But they did feel real love, and they didn’t realize anything. But still they should think about others before acting, do some rational choices.

Paris, jolliest husband to be, dies because of the plan they put in place so they can be together forever. Fair Lawrence made a plan that Juliet would take a fake poison that'll make her out for 24 hours or so but Romeo didn’t receive the letter about the plan so he kills himself at jolliest grave, but at the grave he meets Paris. First of all Paris had no idea what was going on, he was an open book. But when he finds Romeo he ends up yelling at him to leave and saying mean stuff to him "stop thy toil, vile Montague" then they start to fight. "Lay me with Juliet" Paris says as his last words. Of course Romeo does it but Paris should’ve dies knowing about his "Love" Juliet and how she really wasn’t his love but Romeo’s. Paris was a simple young boy who basically died for his love who wasn’t really his love so he died for no reason. Romeo killed an innocent person to see Juliet’s "dead" body that might be love to some people but not to me.

A thus, Romeo and Juliet’s choices and actions were selfish, but I was for their love. They didn’t realize what pain and outcomes they were causing. Like most people say "love makes you blind". But its' also not their fault they felt the most real love then anyone living in their then between them. Sometimes the love that people share is so strong, they lose sight of the other people in their lives.

I’M AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE INTERNET THAT YOU REPOST ON THE INTERNET

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Teddy Wayne the writer of this article, the internet is a horrible thing to be on it takes away free time and people need to take time in the real world, to sum up his long article about the internet. "which is why you’re reading me when you should be outdoors" He really doesn't like the indoors as you can tell, but i do admire how he makes fun of the internet while posting that article on the internet, it shows that he tried it and he's not being judgmental mean person. But still this article is very bias, he does this by saying stuff that just everything, "What will Mark Zuckerberg do next? Who cares!" and he says who cares, well does he know that if he doesn't care about what Mark Zuckerberg does, then why should i care about what he writes. Teddy Wayne makes no sense.

If Teddy Wayne wants people to go outside and socialize then why write this article, and as he explains internet users, what would make him think that we're active enough to actually read this? and the facts that he puts in are true but they're offensive because he thinks everyone is like that on the internet like "When’s the last time you volunteered or even gave money to a homeless person? God, we’re doomed as a race." that is just mean he says race meaning everyone, I dont do that, neither do most people i know. And I'm sorry that i dont give money to the homeless they scare me and most of the time they use that money for drugs so I'm helping Homeless in my own way. To make it worse he uses the word "You" meaning anyone who reads that article does what he explains, thats what messed up.

But we do have freedom of speech in america and thats good but the internet is a good place and even though most people use it terribly, like when you do those facebook like if you want to go to heaven or go to hell, or like if you feel bad for this person, that i can agree with him has to stop. Everything else the internet is a happy place where you can use your imagination (weren't kids taught to use their imagination ) and meet other people, and maybe watch so youtube videos that help you in life (danisnotonfire) and inspires you to do stuff and give you advice on what not to do. All in all the interent is a good place for insecure to feel like they're better then anyone. 

1,000,000,000 people watch YouTube. Are you 1?

Youtube is being watched all over the world by people everywhere. Finally over 1 billion people are watching videos on it. The company started in 2005 it was a small little website where people could share funny videos. now its a billion viewed website where you can watch music videos, funny videos, and maybe the next big thing.

This article was suppose to get you thinking 'how does youtube affect our living today?' but it didn't really do a good job of it. because it was all facts bout how much it makes or how much the company is worth today. the only good hint the article gave me was the amount of people that watch it and it says which countries its most watched in, but thats not very good.

I think youtube has affected our life today by keeping us connected. YouTube is basically the next step to our world connection. like how boats made it possible to travel across seas, or steam trains made it possible to travel across countries faster, cars making it even faster to travel, or like planes keeping the whole world together, and now we internet which has social websites that keep everyone together. YouTube is basically our next step in our social connection trip. with out YouTube the countries who just got democracy would probably still be ruled by a dictatorship.

YouTube brings everyone all around the world not only joy and happiness but also togetherness. It keeps us connected and knowing whats going on around the world faster then we've ever done before.

Kiki Strike #2

Kiki Strike is a very complex character, she's mysterious, dangerous, Clever, secretive, and very ambitious and um only in the first hundred pages of the book. She has different layers but so far she's only shown the first two, the first layer she has is a very short unhealthy pale looking kid. but the second layer is the total oppostie it's filled with danger. But its not just Kiki its how the res if the "Irregulars" are affected by her. 

Some of Kiki's characteristics rubbed off on to Ananka. Before Anaka was the quite and innocent girl stuck in a rut,  Until Kiki came into her life "All it took was a single sentence, and Kiki Strike had me hooked" like Ananka said. After that Ananka decided to follow her, and that doesn't sound like an innocent girl. After that Ananka Agreed to a Dangerous Expedition into The Shadow City, before she met Kiki she wouldn't have agreed to anything like that. So Ananka is either a follower or she was peeled away the other personality.

Kiki's personality is so strong that she has some to give away. Ananka peeled away her old personality and went with the new one she picked up from Kiki. But in away i feel like Ananka idolizes Kiki, because she took from he personality. Well Like people say "People Change You"but in a good way. But its kinda weird how Kiki found her and Ananka didn't find her, it's kinda like fait but pushed forward a little by a girl. In the end it think Ananka is going to turn into a mini Kiki and go against Kiki because if their where to Kiki's in the same room they would destroy each other. 

The Last Of Kiki Stirke

Just finished the book Kiki Strike Inside The Shadow City by Kirsten Miller. This book is about a girl named Anaka who gets mixed up with a mysterious girl named Kiki Strike. she meets 4 other girls DeeDee, Oona, and Luz that make up the Irregulars. They all go on an adventure to discover The Shadow City, but it was really a secret mission that Kiki had them do for her, but one wrong turn and DeeDee gets hurt, all the girls turn on Kiki who magically Dissapears. while all this is going on Princess Sidonia has been planning on campuring Kiki Strike and to kill her before Kiki kills her, the big event that ends up happening that Kiki is really a princess shes Princess Katerina. but no matter who Kiki said she would be people can be anyone they say they are.

even though Kiki ended up being a nice surprise of a person, she really couldve been anyone. i mean why would you trust a girl who you never saw before and just shows up out of nowhere especially if you live in New York. And who gives you the right to go ahead and follow the same mysterious girl around New York in winter at night? Hello do you want to be killed or raped? And if that same mysterious girl who you followed gives her a note saying "your not very good at following people" that gives you a perfectly good reason , its practically an invitation to give up on your so called obsession on this girl. But noooo you have to go up to her and ask, a girl you never saw before and you want to do all that in New York you are just asking to die now. thats all Anaka does it doesn't matter if Kiki turned out to be a best friend it matter what stupid death wishes she made to become bestfrends with her.

some people just need to get up and relialze what stupid thing they're doing and stop it before they get killed. but still have fun but stupid things like in scarey movies, dont go down stairs in you underwear when you hear a noise saying "hello?" no, no you just go down stairs with a bat and maybe a sweater and say "Come out, Come out wherever you are". and also dont go down a dangerous alley in the middle of the night your going to die then no doubt. Just do safe things that you wont regret the best thing to do.

Kiki Strike

Just finished the book Kiki Strike Inside The Shadow City by Kirsten Miller. This book is about a girl named Anaka who gets mixed up with a mysterious girl named Kiki Strike. she meets 4 other girls DeeDee, Oona, and Luz that make up the Irregulars. They all go on an adventure to discover The Shadow City, but it was really a secret mission that Kiki had them do for her, but one wrong turn and DeeDee gets hurt, all the girls turn on Kiki who magically Dissapears. while all this is going on Princess Sidonia has been planning on campuring Kiki Strike and to kill her before Kiki kills her, the big event that ends up happening that Kiki is really a princess shes Princess Katerina. but no matter who Kiki said she would be people can be anyone they say they are.

even though Kiki ended up being a nice surprise of a person, she really couldve been anyone. i mean why would you trust a girl who you never saw before and just shows up out of nowhere especially if you live in New York. And who gives you the right to go ahead and follow the same mysterious girl around New York in winter at night? Hello do you want to be killed or raped? And if that same mysterious girl who you followed gives her a note saying "your not very good at following people" that gives you a perfectly good reason , its practically an invitation to give up on your so called obsession on this girl. But noooo you have to go up to her and ask, a girl you never saw before and you want to do all that in New York you are just asking to die now. thats all Anaka does it doesn't matter if Kiki turned out to be a best friend it matter what stupid death wishes she made to become bestfrends with her.

some people just need to get up and relialze what stupid thing they're doing and stop it before they get killed. but still have fun but stupid things like in scarey movies, dont go down stairs in you underwear when you hear a noise saying "hello?" no, no you just go down stairs with a bat and maybe a sweater and say "Come out, Come out wherever you are". and also dont go down a dangerous alley in the middle of the night your going to die then no doubt. Just do safe things that you wont regret the best thing to do.

Kiki Strike

Kiki Strike by Kirsten Miller is a very hard book to get into, but i got through it. So far the book is about a girl (who I don't know the name of yet) who has a very uninteresting life and shes looking for something new, and exciting. Then a random girl she never noticed before named Kiki Strike comes into her life, and im up to the part where she remembers when she went into Shadow City in the crater hole. I think she thinks Kiki has something to do with Shadow City.

She Knows Kiki Strike has something to do with shadow city because Kiki has sent out so many clues. The first   clue Kiki gave away is that she came out of nowhere, like the girl said every girl in the school knew each other they also knew how much money they had, how can a random girl like that come from no where just like the crater hole. The Other clue is that when the class was going around tell the rest of the class what they wanted to be when they grew up and Kiki Strike said "Dangerous" She was the only girl who said something out of the ordinary kind of like the weird crater hole popping up out of know where. Kiki strike is just like the Crater and Shodow city.

Shadow City is very misterious just like Kiki strike, Shadow City came out of nowhere like Kiki Strike, and Shadow City has also caught the main characters attention just like Kiki Strike. I think Kiki Strike symbolizes  Shadow City in a way. But i cant wait to finish my book.

Red is for Remembrance

I finished a book called Red is for Remembrance a while ago. It's apart of a great series, this was the last book of them all. This was an amazing ending because Stacey's (the main character) boyfriend died (Jacob) or so she thought he was really staking out in a camp with amnesia. The camp was good for him but they where really law breakers. This book had everything drama, mystery, suspense, horror, and funniness but the only bad part about is that the author just gave it away at the end.

At the end of the book she finds her boyfriend right, but a couple chapters ahead the last the author gives the whole thing away. She either put the gave it away not knowingly, or she didn't think anyone would figure it out. Well I'm smart enough to figure it out and I'm in 8th grade. Maybe she put it in because she got lazy if that's it then that's bad. But the most logical reason I could think of is she put the "spoiler" in because she wanted us to feel like we're a step ahead of Stacey and to make us yell at the book like people do to the tv saying "Shell is Jacob you idiot go find him!!" That didn't help for me it just made the last few chapters a drag because I'm like "come on I already know what's going to happen.

Well I admit half of what I think she was thinking happened I said in my head "oooohhh Shell is Jacob" but now I know authors put stuff in for a reason but sometimes you don't know. It can just be put in there by accident. But anyway at the end of the book Stacey ad Jacob get back together and live happily ever after. But I really wanted to keep reader maybe a 5th one? But I know it's not going to happen so I'm just going to be here and look for another good book to read.

White Is For Magic

I'm almost done with a book called White Is For Magic. It's an amazing book about a girl named Stacy dreams about the past and it becomes the future, and now she's about to figure out she has to die. But aside from all the drama that she has in her dreams, she has relation ship problems. Her boyfriend caught her almost kissing another boy. The next morning her mom comes for a vistit. She needed to sort things out with her boyfriend but she had to stay and talk with her mother, then to make things worse her mother takes her out to breakfast.

This part of the story was hard to read because I felt that way too when you really had to do something then you have to put it aside because someone got in your way. I just wanted to go inside the book and punch her mom then told her to go talk to her boyfriend. Even talking about it now just makes me shiver, this had to be the worst part of the book but its also the best part. I think the author wanted us to feel like that so we can step inside of Stacy's head and feel the way she's feeling.

All in all the author makes us feel a was for a reason. And the purpose of this event was to make us feel how the character was feeling.

White is For Magic

I so far love this book, its equally romantic and freaky. I'm up to the part when Stacey finds the tape in her room playing Miss Marry Mack. This part is really scary but I don’t like how her friends don’t believe her they’re her friends they’re suppose to believe or even pretend to believe her, that what friend sod instead they just say "I don’t believe you" then walk out of the room.

When your friends don’t believe you then nobody believes you. Her best friend Amber is the only friend that’s the closest to believing in her because he said, "I want to believe you but I just can't" that is the closest to a real friend she has. I know its sad but it's the best she's got, because her other friend is trying to steel her boyfriend back form Stacey. So if I where Stacey I would stay away from anyone who's not her friend because who ever is blackmailing ca be anyone even the people that she absolutely trusts.

You need real friends in your life and real friend don’t try to steel your boyfriends. That’s so mean and friend don’t do that, so it might take you a while to figure out who your real friends are, but you need to not be blind and break away from all the bad friends because they’re only going to lead you into the wrong direction, and your good friends will only lead you into one direction which is up towards your dreams.

White is for Magic

I've been reading a book called White Is For Magic, its a book about a girl named Stacey and she has these weird creams that tell her about the future, and someone just broke into the house. Who broke into he house deserves justice and justice hasn’t been served yet. 

If justice were to be served it would be severed as punishment like usual. But justice has been served in a case, like her friend used to go out with this boy named Chad, when she left for a semester Stacey and Chad started to go out, when she came back she's been having feelings for him again. She already got justice in a way because Stacey gets to out with him. 

Justice can be severed in many different ways, by revenge, law, punishment, and other things. But in this case Justice came naturally, sometimes if you some one does something mean to don’t do anything something will come to them that’s even worse.

The Puzzling World of Winston Breen

I've just finished reading a book called The Puzzling World of Winston Breen. Its a good book about a boy named Winston he loved puzzles a much as a dog loves his bone, and he bought his little sister a box for her birthday. Then his little sister found a secret compartment in the box. In the secret compartment he found 4 wooden strips with letters on it. Then he found out they belonged to Walter Fredericks (the guy who founded the town he lives in) and long ago Walter Fredericks hid a ring and he has to partner up with 3 other people who also had the puzzle pieces. At the end of the first day of ring finding they didn’t find anything, but then someone who they trusted broke into Winston's house and told him to find the ring, in the end he found the ring and the guy was thrown in jail. Winston had trusted the wrong people.

Winston and the group of treasure hunters put their trust into the wrong hands. They trusted a news reporter who was a girl named Brenda, and Zach Dilmer whose dad was friends with Walter Fredericks. According to Zach her name wasn’t even printed on the newspaper she so calls works for. That wasn’t the smartest thing to do because you know she could've been anyone which she was, but having an ex-cop in the group you would think would make them more aware of this stuff but he didn’t even know about that. They should've looked her up or something especially when it's about a really expensive ring.

Winston and the rest of the treasure-hunting group trusted the wrong people. They trusted Zach Dilmer; even though they had all the right to trust him they should know the nicest people are always not what they seem to be. Winston said it himself he should’ve been more observant because they envelopes weren’t old like the other ones. I would be very disappointed in Winston because he said to Brenda that he was the best puzzle solver in the group, well if your a good puzzle solver then why didn’t you notice that before? The puzzle-loving group should be more observant.

All in all Winston and the rest of the group where really being reckless during their hunt. Yeah I know they where excited but they also had to realize that they're looking for a priceless ring that costs a lot of money and a lot of people want that money. So if your ever doing something top secret keep it top secret. It doesn’t matter if it legal or illegal you need to keep it a secret. Like if your doing something against the law your not going to tell everyone on the street “hey I’m about to rob that jewelry store down the block” that’s not smart. So be smart and keep important things a secret.

The Puzzling World of Winston Breen Part 2

I have been reading and good book called The Puzzling World of Winston Breen I am up to the part where they just figured out the second puzzle and they’re one step closer to finding the ring that Walter Fredericks buried many years ago. The main plan of hiding the ring was to make all his kids work together and find the ring themselves, but that didn’t really work out. They all ended up keeping they’re puzzle pieces they got and hiding them until they all died.

I think that it's kind of wired that Walter Fredericks went through all that trouble to make his kids work together and find the ring. I have a feeling that the ring is their but it's not the ring they where looking for. I mean really why would expect his 18 year old children to work together after they've been fighting for the whole 18 years. I think that ring wasn't mint to be found at all. 

Does Walter Fredericks seriously think that his kids would work together just for the ring, and also if it really is true about the ring being buried then how would he expect them to share it and that would turn into a whose other fight but this time it would turn legal or maybe fight to the death. Because if the siblings don’t communicate for 18 years the how don’t you expect them to fight for money. Either Walter Fredericks isn't the smartest person in the world or he didn’t think his thoughts all the way through.

If I was one of the siblings I would probably keep mine a secret, like they did, but I would secretly start becoming friends with each and everyone of them until we get the ring. Well that’s what I would do.

All in all Walter Frederick went though all of that trouble for just a bunch of people terrorizing the youngest sibling so she can give them her puzzle pieces. Walter Fredrick’s although rich but he wasn’t the smartest thinker.

"Children at War"

I recently finished an article called "Children at War" this article is mostly about the author (P.W. singer explaining who child soldiers are, and what countries thy comes from. in the beginning P.W. singer explains what a young boy says, " they killed my mother and father in front of my eyes. I was 10 years old. They took me with them." also they say how boys aren’t the only children taken they take girls too, but they're used for sexual abuse, and rape. These details support the main idea of child soldiers are abducted, are forced to be soldiers, and they also take the girls too.

The author of "Children at War" wants you feel discussed and shocked. The author does this by talking about girls and how they're used for sexual abuse, and mentioning the amount of kids that are child soldiers, which is 30,000. They also do this by telling you “captured al Qaeda training videos reveal young boys receiving instruction in the manufacture of bombs and the setting of explosive booby traps.” He also wrote “have recruited children as young as 13 to be suicide bombers and children as young as 11 to smuggle explosives and weapons” this makes people feel bad for the boys who have to do that.

This article made me feel shocked, but I can tell that it's been manipulated. It’s been manipulated because it tells you nothing about the other side, or the argument of the other side. I would like to know more and bout the other sides argument because they deserve a chance to explain them self’s. 

The Puzzling World of Winston Breen Part 1

I just started a book called The Puzzling World of Winston Breen by Eric Berlin. So far it's a good book about a boy named Winston and he loves puzzles. But he discovers something surprising in his sisters birthday present he bought her its a puzzle, or so he thinks it ends up being a bigger puzzle that will help him find something big that was hidden many years ago. The main issue in this story is trust.

Winston can’t trust anybody anymore because they might just be using him to get the treasure. For example two men came up to Winston in one day and asked him to join their team and the 2nd guy told Winston that the other guy was laying, then the librarian who knows about the treasure told him not to trust any of them. Winston probably would trust the librarian because she's old and he was told that she doesn’t want the treasure, but it seems too obvious. As a puzzle lover Winston should know that the easy way is not always the right way. So if I where him I wouldn’t trust anyone then wait until I get some more evidence or even join all their teams then take all their puzzle pieces and take the money for myself. Trust is very good.

All in all you can’t trust anyone not even your best friends. So if you have something important and you cant tell anyone don’t tell anyone but people that you trust 100% and don’t trust anyone who comes up knows everything about you. Well you should never trust anyone you don’t know but they know you. So trust is something people earn don’t let anybody speed the process.

Secrets, Lies, and Algebra

"Secrets, Lies and, Algebra" by Wendy Litchman is an ok book about a girl named Tess and she loves math. But she has other problems out side of school but she tries to solve them with math but it doesn't turn out so good she finally figures out that not everything has a solution in life. In this story the main focus is assuming.

Tess assumes about a person committing a sue aside. Since Tess loves math so much she thinks everything needs a solution but sue asides don’t always have solutions. One day at dinner Tess' mom disuses that the day of the sue aside of the boss' wife her boss was acting really weird and he always change the subject every time they talk about his wife, then she says how she thinks he had something to do with the sue aside. After that she tells her friends about it and tries to tell the police, she even goes to her mom's boss' house to look at the "crime scene".  I know she's curious and everything but she's taking her mom's word for it and thinks that it's a murder then she goes around acting crazy about a murder. Tess should've just left it alone and just said what she thought about it then left it. But no she had to go off and look inside of her mom's boss' house for "clues".  She was way off on that assume, what really happened was a sue aside, she killed herself because her husband was out on a date with another person. Tess should’ve assumed stuff especially about stuff that serious.

Tess assumes about a test to. Her history teacher was giving her class a huge test and she thought these 3 kids who got 100% of cheating because they where all wearing the same drawings of a bracelet on their arm, and that the answers where written in code.  Tess is just being naive because she doesn’t like the boys that she thought were cheating. If the boys were going to sit there a study and memorize a secret code then they would be pretty stupid because they can be studying for a test instead. Studying a secret code is a lot harder then studying for a test. But Tess was write about one thing they were cheating but they stole a test and studied that and the bracelets are just wish bracelets. Tess jumps too conclusions way too fast. Just because the same 3 boys who got a 100% on their test are wear the same bracelet doesn’t preclude that they where cheating like that.

All in all Tess shouldn’t just assume like that because you might be going crazy for no reason. Didn’t her mom teach her the lesson about assuming? So you shouldn’t assume about anything something’s in life you just need to let go of if you don’t want the stress of it.

Am I Blue?

"Am I blue?" by Bruce Coville is an amazing story about a boy named Vincent who's getting bulled because people think he's gay. Then his fairy godfather Melvin came into his life and changed it forever. At first the thought of having a fairy godfather was kind of embarrassing never mind that he's gay. After Vincent found out how much him and Melvin had in common he wished for something, he wished that all gay people in the world would turn blue. The part that really changed his life wasn't the wish it was what the wish did to butch (person that was bulling him), it turned him blue. The main issue of this story is bulling because it has such an impact on Vincent and Melvin.

Bulling in this story is not just about Vincent it also happened to Melvis. Melvin died because of the bullies. He was just walking and a kid out of nowhere came up to him and pushed him into an alley, and smashed his head against a tire iron and died. Bulling in this story sad because a bulling killing a kid for being gay or even himself is just sad. After that Vincent really trusted Melvin because they're a like in some way. Bullying is very pathetic in this story.

Bulling can really ruin a kid’s life not physically but mentally. In the story Vincent doesn’t trust Melvin at the beginning because he thinks that he's trying to make fun of him or he's all apart of a practical joke. I’m not saying that it's naive of him because I would trust him. But to think that he's apart of a practical joke. The bulling really got into his head and now he can't trust anybody because he's scared that it all will back fire on him. Bulling can mess you up in the head.

The bulling in this story is very pathetic, especially in the beginning when butch called Vincent a fruit then thought him a lesson just for not looking at him, and then pushed him into a puddle. Well to me that is a little extreme for not looking at some one, if someone were not looking at me then I would probably yell at them to look at me, but never call them such an offensive name or push them into a puddle. I think I smell a little insecurity on butch. Butch is basically bulling Vincent for no reason, he bulling him because butch is probably ashamed of whom he really is. After Vincent turned everyone who was gay blue he wished that butch was already blue. So butch was bulling Vincent to get out his anger about being gay himself. Vincent kind-of saved Butch's life because without Vincent butch probably would've killed himself. Butch was basically treating Vincent like he would've treated him self. If butch told his feelings to a physiatrist before bullying someone just like him. 

All in all Vincent and Melvin went threw a lot of bulling growing up. But before you look at the bullied you should look at the bullier. Butch should've bullied Vincent for the obvious and also because he is just like him. So before you judge or bully someone you should make sure you're perfect. For example if a person with a lot of acne make a joke about someone else's acne, that's just wrong. Before you make fun of someone you better be perfect first.

The Drummer Boy of Shiloh

"The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" by Ray Bradbury is an inspiring short story about a boy named Job who runs away to be a drummer boy during the civil war. The night before the battle of Shiloh Joby starts feeling like he should be here anymore. Then the general finds him crying the same night and gives him a speech about how he is important and he is apart of the army.

"The boy shut his eyes to hide inside himself". The general says, "Here's a soldier crying before the fight". The general realizes it's the drummer boy. The general kind-of knew it was the drummer boy who was crying but he asked if he was a soldier because he probably wanted to make Joby realize that he is important, and that he is apart of the army. Being in am army is like being in a family because they take care of each other. But they don't show their emotion because a man isn't suppose to show emotion in those days.

In the end Joby feels more important and he is apart of a family. The only reason he ran away from home because I think he wanted to help and/or he needed a family and they were there when he needed them. So at a really hard time anything can be a family if they take care of each other.

Money Hungry

Over the summer I read a book called Money Hungry by Sharon G. Flake. Money Hungry is about a girl named Raspberry she lives with her mother in the projects. She is obsessed with money, then one day her house gets robbed and her and her mother has nothing so they have to live on the streets again. So they move from each friend’s house to another sleeping there for a night. Until Raspberry and her mother go to odd job's house and Raspberry's mother surprises Raspberry by telling her she bought odd job's house from him.
 Raspberry and her mother have a great relationship they are closer then most mothers and their children. But if you think about it they kind-of have to be close. They have to be close because they lived on the street together Raspberry found out how much she means to her mother. But if Raspberry and her mother weren't close then her mother would've given her up for adoption or to an orphanage a long time ago to save money. That would've been good because then Raspberry would've gone through all of that trouble she probably would've been adopted by a rich family and could have had what every she wanted. But that could also be bad because the one-day she would be curious about her birth mother then find out the hard way that she is poor and not like her. Then Raspberry could grow attached to her birth mother then her adopted parents could forbid her from every seeing her birth mother again. So any way is pretty bad.
 Raspberry had a good relationship with her mother and that's a good thing because with out a mother or any parent you are force to grow up faster then you're supposing to. Like if a girl and her parents don't talk they never have dinner together then that girl has to make arrangements by her self. Like she has to tell herself to do her homework or make herself food at a very young age and that's not healthy. So don't take your parents for granted you need to talk to them. It’s better for you to know your parents then to not know them at all and remember they love you no matter what.