Perdiction - Speak

I predict that Melinda will run away because all of her friends are now her ex-friends that don’t talk to her because she called the cops on a drinking party and got a lot of people in trouble. because of this no one talks to her anymore and the whole school picks on her. With no one to fit in with she makes friends with the new girl, Heather but gets annoyed with her easily. Her life is terrible and that’s why i think she will run away because she has no one and is all alone.

    she reminds me of this girl named Gabi from the book “The Beast” because in the book Gabi goes through a bunch of life changing conflicts, like Melinda, were you resort to doing something you thought you would never do. Gabi resorted to drugs and i predict Melinda will resort to running away.
    The story is realistic, and I think it will end up being a tragedy. If Melinda runs away, this will represent the death symbolism in the end.

Invisible Part One

Monday February 13^th, 2011

            “Oh… my… god! Have you seen the new guy?” Avery whispered as we sneaked a peek through the shelf in the library.

            “Well don’t stare forever you freak!” I whispered in a funny tone back. Avery is one of my best friends and I tell her everything. Of course she already has a date to the Valentines dance on Friday, which is the most romantic dance of the year! I mean seriously...wow… that was fast, she is so pretty. The sad thing is she doesn’t see it in herself and her personality is an amazing combination of humor, caring, independence, trustworthy, smart (sort of), risk taker, impatient, and very unique.

            Unlike her I don’t have a date to the dance. This guy is new and his name is Luke. He is as cute as heck!!! You can even see the six packs through his shirt. He is new and already one of the most popular guys in our school.

            “Oh, he’s wonderful… I just wish he knew I existed,” I told Avery in a disappointing manner.

            “You never know until Friday. He didn’t ask anyone yet,” she said trying to cheer me up.

            “All the other girls like him as well. I doubt he’ll ask me. Why would he ask me anyways? There’s nothing about me that would stand out unlike the other girls,” I pleaded. Avery told me not to worry about it too much like the good friend she is, but I knew I would be thinking about it till after the dance.

Tuesday February 14^th, 2011

            I see Avery in the hallway by her locker checking herself out in the mirror. “Dang shawty work dat thang!” she says to herself obnoxiously.

            “What a goof,” I told myself. As I walk towards her I drop my books that were in my hands because some idiot bumped into me!

            I started to pick up my books when all of a sudden a shadow casted over me. I hear a voice say “You need a hand?” As I look up I start to say “Please that would be nice” and at the end of my reply my voice got quieter and slower. I looked up in shock! Who would have guessed that it would be Luke’s shadow over me? Not me that’s for sure. He kneels down and helped pick up my books, and then when we stood back up he introduced himself to me saying “Hey, I’m Luke. I’m new to this school, and I moved here from Green Bay.”

            I introduced myself by saying “Nice to meet you, I’m Taylor.” He has the most gorgeous eyes and his amazing smile blew me away like a leaf on a windy day.

            “Great to meet you, I have to get to class now, but maybe we can talk sometime?” he asked me.

            “Sure,” I replied. As I walk towards Avery, he’s walking the opposite way to class.

            “Sup Aves,” I said walking towards her happy as a clam.

            “Waz up Tay?” she answered back while looking at me with a smirk.             “What’s with the smirk?” I asked her.

            “I saw you over there with Luke. Did he ask you anything?”

            “No, but he said maybe we can talk sometime!” I said excitedly.        “O…M…G! Taylor that’s great!” she replied.

            “But it doesn’t mean much I’m still dateless and there is only 3 more days left till the most romantic dance of the year.”

            “I’m sure you’ll be fine,” she says trying to cheer me up.

            “Shoot! The bell is gonna ring we gotta go to class.” I said. As we are practically sprinting to our class the bell rings we run into the class room as our teacher is shutting the door.

            “Your late,” the teacher exclaimed. “One more tardy and that’s after school detention!” 

            “Yes, Ms.Ewegly,” We both said at the same time.

            “Now class, open your biology books to page 535.

Johnny

          A person who teases someone else can bring out the worst in the victim. It’s like a ticking bomb inside them that every time they get knocked emotionally and physically they get closer and closer to blowing up and finally one day they just explode and take guard. In the novel “The Outsiders” people get pushed too far and take defense.

            Guarding your own life may cause you take the life away of the person who is taunting you, just like Johnny had to. Johnny was a greaser who in our day we call the “poor kid”. He didn’t have as much as the socs, which we are also known as “rich kids”. The socs think they are all cool and think they have the right to do whatever they want, including picking on the greasers.

            Johnny was teased a lot by a soc named Bob and he almost had beaten Johnny to death. After that near death experience Johnny started carrying a knife on him to protect him in case it ever happen again. Then when Bob came with his friends to tease Johnny and his friend Ponyboy, it drew the line. He got out his knife and slaughtered Bob. It wasn’t intentional but he was getting beaten up. What else was there to do when you and your friend are getting harassed to death? If I were in his shoes I would most likely do the same thing but like I always say you never know what you’re going to do unless you’re in the situation in real life.

            Sadly Johnny died in a church fire that Bob’s friends lit to get there revenge on him. Ponyboy was heartbroken, his best friend just died. It’s not like it was an accident, it was on purpose and no one got punished. How would you feel being burned to death? My guess is not good, because I know I wouldn’t be feeling the best at the moment.

            Life is a gift for all of us. To be able to find love and have friends and fun times and possible even fulfill our dreams. But if we treat life with disrespect then karma will come for you. You have to be grateful for what you have because there are many others out there who aren’t as lucky and don’t have a place to stay or nothing to eat.  

Craziness

            When someone looks sane are they really? They can come off normal but really be insane. You can never actually know someone because people change all the time from good to bad or vice versa. This is the same thing as being ordinary to turning crazy. In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is a crazy individual.

            It’s plain and simple for why he is crazy and it’s because he killed someone. Unless it was self defense and there was no other option but in this case there was another option. He didn’t have to kill someone instead he should have talked to a therapist about his emotions and possible visions. He made it sound like he was enjoying it, now which is one seriously messed up person.

            The narrator is a crazy human being. To suffocate someone is just not right for another person to enjoy. It’s like saying you can do whatever you want and get away with it. Don’t people know the laws? Haven’t you ever heard if you have a problem with someone go talk to them about it? Or if you have been feeling weird, like you need to kill someone, or commit suicide, you should go talk to someone? Next time if this happens, and I hope It doesn’t, try talking to someone please it would star t by saving the world a little trouble one step at a time.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

 -Author's Note: This is my opinion of what "nothing gold can stay" means. I would like feed back on if you agree with my opinion or not.

Nothing gold can stay means to me that you can be really happy at one period in time but the later your world comes crashing down. This relates to the "The Outsiders" characters because the greasers will be chilling and being happy but then the soc come by them and start picking on them. It turned a gold moment into a blue moment.

Darry - summery

Darry has light blue green eyes, sandy brown red hair and is tall. He is the oldest out of three brothers and his younger brothers are Sodapop and Ponyboy. He takes the parent role because he doesn't have any parents. I think he will die later in the book because there will be a twist.

Conflict

Ponyboy likes Cherry but there is a problem. Cherry is a Soc and Ponyboy is a greaser. They are in different gangs.