The Poem Analysis

Authors Note: This is my reaction/ response to the two poems "The Big Yellow Taxi" and "The Field Below." 

In the poem the "Big Yellow Taxi" you get a feeling as a reader that saddens you. It also makes you feel bad about what happen to the writer. I take it as a calling, not to take anything for granted, and you don't realize what you've got until its gone. Although in the song you get a amped up feeling, if you didn't know the lyrics and what the song was about you would get a good feeling out of it. The tone in the song is happy and glad, but the tone in the poem is sad and regretful. Then the mood of the song is amped up but in a sad way.

In the poem "The Field Below" you get the same feeling in the poem as the big yellow taxi, a feeling that saddens you and makes you feel bad. While reading the poem you are sympathetic to the author. Then in the poem the tone is sad and regretful. Then in the song it’s the same way even though you could barely understand what the singer was saying. The mood of the poem is calming and sad. Then the mood of the song is also the same way. It was sad and calming, it reminded me of the songs that are on the human society commercials.

Doons Rising Moment

Authors Note: This is my character Development Piece to show how Doon from The City of Ember is a Rising Soul And how he affects others.

Imagine a world full of darkness, a world that has been stripped down almost to nothing. Not because of robbers, but because of the people living in it, taking what they want whenever they want it. Now life is shortening, just like the supplies in the city. In The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau, Doon is a rising soul in a falling world; he is determined to save the city when everybody else is losing hope.

            Doon is a 12 year old boy and has just been thrown out into the world with a job working in the pipe works. He was originally a messenger but with a simple trade he got his dream job. Doon and all of the people that live in ember rise as people when they turn 12 they get jobs and work almost every day. Doon as a character rises more than anyone in the city. He realizes that the city is dyeing and that he is smart enough to figure out how to fix it.

            When Doons dad says this quote you get a feeling from reading other books that he is going to save the city. “The main thing is, pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, everything you see. Notice what no one else notices, and you'll know what no one else knows. What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, that's more the point.” Doon rises as a person when the mayor is telling everybody that everything is ok. He takes that as a challenge to prove that the city is not alright and that they have to leave.

            When they have to leave, Doon is taking his challenge from the mayor to the extreme by figuring out the impossible with his friend Lina. They are playing scrabble with a chewn up, torn up, and slobbered on piece of paper that they don’t even know is important. When they think they figure out some of the sheet, they know that they have to find an E in the pipe works so Doon goes down there and finds the E then they have found a way out, now they have to escape.

            As a reader you realize that Doon is rising after every page, and he is becoming more mature. He is realizes that when he gets to the new world or the other city he has to become a man and grow from a child to a man. Doons actions are affecting the way Lina is acting, Lina used to be a laid back messenger that just got the job done. Now she is a mature determined Woman.

             Now with Doon, Lina, and Lina’s sister Poppy they have left a world of light, a world of warmth, and a world of supplies. No more scarcity, no more problems with people taking what they want whenever they want it. Now they will find a new world full of people, full of supplies, and full of hope.

Am I Realy Sorry?

I have captured

Your men

That tried to kill me

And yet I know

You were gonna kill me

Yet I have Sam

Now leave me Alonzo

You are weak

I am strong, and with friends

You’re in jail

This parody is from the book zachs lie. This is about how Alonzo is trying to kill zach. Although zach knows that Alonzo wants to kill him he has still taken his men knowing that it would make Alonzo want to kill him even more. The tone of the the parody is snobby.

The Description On the Mother To Son

In Langston Hughes poem “Mother to Son” you see many things, some more obvious than the other like figurative language, the mood, and the tone. The figurative language in this poem is a metaphor and it states that “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” That is referring that life has its ups and downs but you have to pull through it. Then “and places with no carpet on the floor” is another metaphor because In life it may seem like there isn’t any carpet of the floor as in it bare it may be a bad time,  it may be a time where a loved might have been lost. Then the mood of the poem a calm time where the mother wants to tell the son how life is. Then the tone of the story is the same but also it is stern. The mother wants to get her point out to the boy so she has to use a stern voice to back up the calmness.

The New Zach

Authors Note: This is my character description on Zach from the book Zachs Lie.

Imagine walking up to a person that you haven’t seen for months, and then you say “hello” to them but them not knowing who you are, so after you explain  who you are. They will ask where you have gone for all this time. You are going to want to tell them but you can’t. You feel like your insides are going to burn inside of you.

Zach is a taller boy with brown hair like the bark of a tree and blue eyes that look the oceans waves, which is new to him. He has broad shoulders like a strong rhino. When he walks, he walks with a slight limp just like he got out of a fight that is because he broke his leg when he was younger. The leather backpack he carries acts like it has its own swag.