Young Forever

Author's Note: I am comparing two people who seem alike from two books i read recently.

Nobody really wants to grow up. Everyone wishes that they would stay young forever and be with their friends for the rest of their lives. In two books that I have read recently, there are two characters who have to grow up at an early age. They seem to be a lot like each other, yet completely different. I am talking about Tim from the story My Brother Sam is Dead and Ponyboy from the story The Outsiders. Some of the problems that they face are like each others, but they vary slightly in an interesting way.

In the book My Brother Sam is Dead, Tim lost many people that were close to him when he was young. He lost his brother who was executed in front of him. He lost his father who was kidnapped by the continental army and eventually died of a disease. He also lost his friend who was captured and died of disease on a prison boat with Tim's father. In the book The Outsiders, Ponyboy lost a lot of people close to him, too. He lost his father and mother who both died when he was young. He also lost his best friend Johnny who died in a hospital bed from horrible burns and his spine being crushed by a falling beam.

Even though both of these characters have lost people that are close to them and have grown up the same way, their lives are completely different. Tim comes from a war time where at any moment, a giant battle could take place right in his town. Ponyboy comes from a time where gangs rule the streets and there are gang wars. For Tim, he has to quit school to work at the family tavern because his father is gone. Ponyboy has to go to school and get a good education so that he can get a good job and earn money. Tim can't do that because the only other person who can run the tavern is his mother who can't run it by her self, so he gives up his child hood to help his mother with the work around the tavern.

There might be some differences between these two people, but they both have something big in common. They both had to grow up too fast at a young age. Tim had to so the family could keep the tavern. Ponyboy had to grow up so he and Johnny could survive on their own in the church for the time that they were hiding. They both had to endure a lot of people close to them dying which hardened them and made them tough too fast. Each one of them had to give up their childhood so that they could keep moving on. That is one of the worst possible things to happen to a kid, forcing them to grow up before their time.

Both Tim and Ponyboy lost their childhood when they were too young. Maybe if they grew up at the same time, they would have had more in common, but since they came from such different times their problems and life were so much different. They both seem so alike, yet so different. It's possible that they could have been best friends, or worst enemies. I guess I'll never know.

My Brother Sam is Dead cause and effect

When Sam ran off to go and join the war, he couldn't turn back. When he signed up, there was no turning back. If he would leave the army, they would execute or hang him. If he would keep fighting in the war, he would most likely die, and to fight he needed a gun. So he stole the family's gun and left them defenseless and with no way to hunt in the winter. Also, because he left, his Dad had to go on a trip with Tim instead of Sam. Since there were cattle thieves, Tim's dead had to ride ahead and watch out for the thieves, which led to his father getting captured and killed. Just because Sam ran away and took the gun, all this happened and changed the whole book.

Traitor Among Us

It was one of the greatest games ever. The Packers were undefeated and had a good chance of winning the Super Bowl the second time in a row, and they were playing the Vikings at Lambeau Field. Jerry was having a birthday party and took his friends to go see the game. He took four other people, John, Steve, Erik, and Jack. The only problem was, Jack is a die-hard Vikings fan. Everyone though it would be okay because the Packers are amazing but they were pretty mad once it got to half time and the Vikings were up 28-7. The whole stadium seemed like it was about to start crying, everyone except for Jack. He was having the time of his life and laughing at every person in green and gold that he could find. It really was getting on everyone's nerves when the third quarter ended and the score was 35-14, and the Vikings were still winning. Once the fourth quarter started, we really got tired of Jack, so everybody dragged him up to the top of the Stadium and we threw him down the concrete stairs. He tumbled all the way down and stopped at the bottom, not moving at all. We felt sort of bad, but then the Packers scored and we all forgot about it while we cheered. Then they did an on-side kick, got it and ran it back for another touchdown. Making the extra point and having 1 minute left meant we had one minute to get a touchdown and make the field goal for the win. We kicked a normal kick off but the Vikings receiver fumbled the ball and we scored for the win. The whole stadium erupted in a cheer. Once we got home, we realized we left Jack there, but were too tired to care so we all went to bed.

My Brother Sam is Dead Point of View

Author's Note: I wrote about two different big points of view in the story that the MC has to choose between.

In my story My Brother Sam is Dead, there is a character named Sam who left his English family to go fight in the revolutionary war on the American side. From the regular point of view from his little brother Tim, his brother and father are both stubborn and have different beliefs. Each thinks he is right. Tim thinks that one of the reasons Sam might be so in to fighting the British is because his girlfriend Bessy believes in fighting them. But from Sam's side, he thinks that it’s the right thing to do even though his decision is most likely swayed by Bessy. The Tim's father believes that they should stay faithful to the crown and that they shouldn't try to fight an army so big. Each side makes it sound like they are right and the other is wrong, and both have very good reasons. So it is very confusing for Tim who is kind of forced by a lot of people to choose one

Stalker

Authors Note: For this I just wanted to do something absolutely random and unpredictable. Tell me how you think it was.

It was a normal night, and I was sound asleep in my bed. When suddenly I woke up to a sound downstairs. A crash, like that of a window breaking, had woke me with a start. I could hear footsteps coming from downstairs. I was stuck in my bed, frozen with fear. I could hear the footsteps getting louder as the thing came up the wooden stairs. Then... they stopped. I just sat there, hiding under my blankets and looking at the door. Slowly, the door knob began to turn. The door opened to reveal, FLUFFY THE PARTY PENGUIN!!! Fluffy yelled out, "Ya, we hear footsteps, and if you are lucky you might hear tap dancing footsteps" he said with a grin. Then Fluffy started to fly around in circles around my room with glitter coming out of his flippers, and out of no where a disco ball fell down from the ceiling. And then, I woke up. I was wondering if the dream I had was real as I swept up the glitter and disconnected the disco ball and sold it for a cucumber. But then the cucumber bit me, grew legs, and ran off to go and join the circus. I chased after him on my snowboard, but I lost him because it was the middle of July. I fell on the ground, exhausted from going one inch and hour on my snowboard, when a cute little turtle crawled on top of me. I started to pet him when two more crawled on my belly. They all together said, "Ima Firin Ma Laza! BLAAAAAAAAAH!" and with that, they shot me with their lasers. Luckily a flaming unicorn was nearby because it picked up the turtles and punted them 5,000 yards. Then he picked me up on his back and took me to Mt. Everest. There we partied with a Yeti and the talking snowman from that Christmas story. Then I got tired so the flaming unicorn gave me a ride back home, right before school started. And that, Mrs. Reagles, is why I didn't do my homework last night.