Having my Say

I feel that families nowadays are to disconnected. I am very close to my family but I can look around and see that not all families are like mine. I think that families need to make it a point to spend more time together. The parents need to keep their kids home at least for dinner or do more with their kids. I feel that if families spent more time together, there would be less divorce and less fighting amongst families.

Whitman

The child is what he sees. He is also his parents. The parents are who he is a part of. They gave him life so everything the child does is in part because of his parents. The child also becomes what he sees because if he sees something he will more than likely do that too.

Emily Dickinson poem

http://www.blackcatpoems.com/d/as_children_bid_the_guest_good_night.html


I think that Emily Dickinson is trying to say that any children are like flowers. The children start small but grow to be bigger. Flowers will go through times of "slumber" but they will "wake" again just like children sleep and wake the next day.

Transcendentalists

I would choose transcendental writers because their writing seems to be more optimistic. The transcendentalists believe that nature and people are good and that the truth can always be found. These themes make writing happier.

The Pit and the Pendulum

As the walls got closer, I knew my time was running short. My only two choices were to fall into the pit or to be crushed by hot and moving walls. I was gonna just wait and see if the walls would stop but my fear kept me moving closer and closer to the pit. My only other option now was to jump into the pit and hope that the rats were no longer in it. I did not want to fall so I decided to jump. As I fell everything seemed to move in slow motion. I really just wanted this all to be over with but the world seemed to stop moving altogether. Then all of a sudden I heard the unmistaken sound of rats scurrying around. I knew my chances of getting away from them again were slim to none. All of a sudden I was in the pit surrounded by a thousand or more rats. I knew my life was over then. When they noticed me they all came over running and I gave a loud and deafening scream and.....

I would choose Edgar Allen Poe. His style of writing really creates an image of what is happening. Most of his stories are a way of describing what was kind of happening around him. They were also a way for him to tell how he was feeling in his own style.

Old Ironsides

I think that Old Ironsides is an awesome poem because of what it accomplished. It saved a ship that was going to be sold for parts. That very ship that Oliver Wendell Holmes said they should sink to show it honor is now a working ship again. I think it is so cool that writing a message like this is powerful because it can get certain things to happen, not always in the ways we want them too but they can persuade people into action.