Patriots Pen

Imagine placing your signature on a document that could be completely turned against you. Would you stand for what you believe even if it meant possibly having a bounty on your head? Our founding fathers had to experience this first hand and they truly deserve to be honored.

The founding fathers were very brave during the revolutionary time. Without the founding fathers we probably wouldn't be here today. They created the spark that slowly set fire to the twigs and brush around it until it was full out raging, demanding independence and respect. It wasn't the shot heard around the world that started the war, it was our founding fathers. They had the guts to stand up for what they believed and began our surge for freedom.  

Our founding fathers not only did a great job of starting the revolution. They did an even better job of setting the base for our country with the constitution. I am very thankful that they gave us many of the rights we have today. Otherwise life would be so much different. Like if they didn’t give us the right to bear arms, it would completely change my life. I say this because I love hunting and I don’t know what I would do without it. Also the right of freedom of speech because you have to be able to express yourself otherwise things wouldn’t anywhere close to what they are today. Imagine if people couldn’t say their own opinion on things. Just think of all of the things that wouldn’t be around.  Many movies, talk shows, maybe even social networks. All of those things plus more.

With all of the things the founding fathers did right I have a few things that I disagree with them on. Like not letting women vote or allowing slaves. They are people too. Shouldn’t they have the same rights? At least there are amendments. I guess you can’t get everything right the first time.

Either way you look at it our country has fixed any flaws and pushed our way to being the strongest country in the world. 

No Trust

Author's Note: This is a cause and effect piece about the book the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon. 


The curious incident of the dog in the night-time has many conflicts throughout the book. One of the biggest problems is that Chris the main character of the story finds out that he has been lied to about many things. When he does his investigating to find who killed the neighbors dog he finds all these things about his mom and dad he didn't know for most of his life. There are many other conflicts that cause this event to happen. Like the book starting out with the dog found dead, Chris's investigation and his dad taking his book. Once he tries to look for the book and do the investigating he finds the hidden letters from his mom who is supposed to dead.

This event sends the story spiraling out of control. Along with finding the letters he also finds that his dad was the one who killed the dog. The effect; Chris doesn't trust his dad anymore. Sometimes this happens in real life. Say you've known someone for the longest time then, bam they change and you lose trust in them. There have been a few times where I haven't trusted my parents but then you realize that you are overreacting and regain trust in them because you love them. Luckily this happens in the book too. Except for the fact that the rebuilding of trust is a lot slower.

The whole thing was caused by one lie and escalated to be something a lot larger. This one little event effected the whole story. Luckily it ended happily but their are many options Mark Haddon had on how this event effected the story.

Narrative

Buck Fever

Butterflies danced in my stomach; my body began to shake uncontrollably. I couldn’t stop this odd sensation. This feeling known as Buck Fever.

The deer came strolling in as my dad was standing up and stretching. I remember telling him to sit down as I pointed toward the bait pile where it stood eating, not even bothering to notice us there. As I lifted the gun toward the window of the stand, Buck Fever kicked in. Trust me this is not a rare occurrence; this happens to people all the time. Mainly it happens to hunters before they shoot their first big animal. Which pertained exactly to my situation. But many times the Buck Fever causes people to miss. Not me.

I set the gun as gently as I could on the window sill as if to not make a sound. Pointing the gun at the deer I take a deep breath and look through the scope of the old 30-30 rifle. At this point the buck had turned and started walking directly away. My dad took our call and as he called to the deer it stopped turned just enough so I could barely see the broad side of the deer. The shot had to be perfect. So I gently squeezed the trigger and “BANG”. The bullet sped through the brisk air, bringing the fatal projectile through the deer’s body. Entering just in front of the hind leg and piercing straight through the stomach and heart.

Once I saw the hind legs of the deer kick out in pain I knew I had him. I was pumped; my dad was too. We celebrated with a high-five and a soda while we waited to make sure the deer was dead before we tracked it. Even though it was hard to contain my excitement, I made it through the 30 minutes we had to wait.  Finally dad decided we could go find the deer and once he said this I was already out the door of the stand.

Even though the shot was perfect, there was one problem… it didn’t leave much of a blood trail. The reason this happen is the only place the blood could really come out was the exit hole since the bullet enter though the stomach. Plus there was no snow on the ground, making it twice as hard to find the blood trail. While we were searching the woods I began to doubt myself. I was thinking that I had missed even though that wasn’t possible. My dad and I split up searching for the small buck. While I was standing on a log scanning the ground below me I heard, “Hey Nate look what I found!”

“What?” I yelled back as I began walking toward him.

As I saw his face that was filled with happiness. I knew he had found it. My eyes followed his finger pointed at the brown lump  on the ground. Then I shouted “Yes!” and thanked God for the beautiful animal.

Conflict

Son of Neptune is mainly about two camps one Roman and one Greek. They live in modern society but we don't know they're there. The two camps don't know about each other until they something weird happens. At the roman camp they have lost three people mysteriously but one person Percy join they're camp but he fights and even acts like a Greek. They figure out that the camps have to team up to fight the army of Gaea goddess of the earth who is trying to wipe out the gods and humanity.

The main conflict in this story is person vs person. The camps vs Gaea's army. They fight until the camps are almost completely killed but they end up fighting back. The resolution is that Gaea's army is pushed back and the camps win for now.

Retelling

the curious incident of the dog in the night-time

When Christopher Boone finds a neighborhood dog dead with a garden fork in its back he is sent reeling for answers. But as he investigates this mysterious murder he finds there is more behind this than he originally thought. This one event flips his life upside-down. Finding out about all the lies he has been told.