If you win you will die

Authors note: This piece was written to meet my final goal of scoring a 9 or higher in themes and the explain some of the many themes in " The Lottery" 

      If someone told you  won the lottery wouldn’t you be ecstatic!! Well if you won in the story "the lottery", you wouldn’t be. The short story, " The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson  incorporates many themes. In the beginning villagers gather in the square as they have done for many years. Every body who lives in the village, their family name is placed in a big black box. The names get shuffled and drawn, and the winner ,well they die.

     To begin with, one of the many themes in this short story is tradition. We all have traditions that we tend to follow. Same with the characters in the story. The tradition is the actual lottery. Every year one person is picked and the winner dies. This tragic event takes place because of tradition. The people think change is not normal an scoff at the villages who stopped the tradition. 

   This theme takes place in another book called the Hunger Games by Suzan Collins. Theme takes place in  this book with the annual hunger games. It is a 74 year long tradition The citizens cannot  put an end to the reaping ceremony. Also it is similar because the "winner" or the person picked is most likely going to die.

  Overall, " the lottery", is filled with many themes. It has tradition and death for no sane reason. Theses characters must follow tradition and in the end tradition bring terrible end to person or peoples lives.

The Sad Birthday Card

Authors Note: This piece was written to showcase the feelings of a birthday card. he is a sad little card trying to share his feelings with the reader.

     Squiggle squiggle , polka dot polka dot. Happy birthday, hope your birthday is great, have a great birthday. So far my dream of being unique is not coming true.  I have been lying smushed in between many other papers that look just like me all packaged in plastic, sitting on the arts and crafts shelf 

     Since the day I came hot of the press I had dreamed to be used for something unique and creative. I have waited for many days to taken out of the pack of paper and be used. This day isn't as special as I had imagined . So far all that is being written on me is the same old happy birthday, and the cheesy clichés written inside. To top all of that off the person who is using the markers are pressing so hard that the ink is bubbling out of the markers tip. Poor marker, but his ink is splashing everywhere on me and making me look a mess.

        Well my life hasn't been all I had imagined, but I guess maybe it never is. I could be worse. also I am home made unlike those store bought cards, I show love and know the reviver of myself will know someone took time to make them a card, instead of just buying one. That counts.

Keep living and move on

                             

Authors Note: this piece of writing was written to meet my goal of getting a 9 in text analysis, and to break down the quote “Life for me aint been no crystal stair”

            "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes is about a mother telling her son about troubles she had in her life. She is also telling her son that life can be hard but don’t turn back and give up. She wants him to go out his best foot and keep moving forward and continue to climb the stairs of life. No matter how hard it gets, she tells her son she is still climbing.

First of all, using this quote, Hughes creates a tone of motivation and perseverance. The meaning of the quote is encouragement, and telling the kid to keep going in life and don’t give up if life gets tough. The mother explains to her son the difficulties she faced and is still facing.

Secondly, Langston Hughes uses words like, “Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, and splinters, and boards torn up, and places with no carpet on the floor --Bare.” He describes this poor staircase as the mothers of life. I believe that this quote is perfect for representing life.

 I can relate this quote in my everyday life. Life has never been perfect for me. There is always a time when something that you do not expect jumps up and gets in your way of things. Like the mother’s life, my life can be going smoothly and sometimes, you have to fight to get to where you want to be; the places that are all torn up and the places with no carpet on your grand crystal staircase.

Finally I can relate this quote to the book Zach’s Lie. His life was going smoothly with its occasional tiny annoyances. Then one night three men broke into their house and held them hostage in their own house. Zach did not expect this but just like the mother in “Mother to Son”, Zach kept climbing the staircase of life.

Overall, I learned from the quote “life aint no crystal stair,” that whatever life throws your way, whatever crack are in your staircase of life to just keep going. Jump over the cracks dodge the bad things and keep climbing. This piece has taught me to never give up no matter how hard life gets.