Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Short Story Outline

Setting:
In an endless circular path of a rocky road.
In the middle of the woods.
It's a depressing, isolated sight.

Point of View:
First person.

Characters:
Narrator/Young Daughter
Mom
Man/The Enemy

Conflict:
The mom and daughter continue going in circles in a rocky path.
The daughter knows the way out, but the mom ignores her.
The mom is blinded from reality.
The Man continues being an obstacle in their lives.
He gives them wrong directions, making them stay on the same path for years.
The daughter knows exactly who she's dealing with,
but the mom is ignorant to the situation.
Mom falls in the Man's traps (A deep black hole)
and thinks that she found the way out.
The man took her eyes/eyesight.

Resolution:
The daughter runs away towards the exist.
She gains all sorts of weird animal strengths and powers.
She encounters a wall the Man build, but she ends up destroying it.
She goes and tries to find help on the other side.
She has no luck, so she returns to face the problem and ends up
rescuing her mom from the hole.
She takes her weak mom in her arms and flies over the the border
that divided both the beautiful side and evil side.
Both, the mom and the daughter were being transformed in the skies.
They weren't bleeding or in pain anymore.
Their clothes were clean and the mom got her eyes/eyesight back.
They were happy once more.

Theme:
Never give up on what may seem impossible.
Love and appreciate each other no matter if the other is in a
situation where they think that they are right.
Defeat all obstacles.
Size, age, and gender doesn't matter. We can all defeat EVIL.
*You can always let me know if you saw something way different in the theme!!! :D

Literary Devices:
I feel that I used,
Symbolism
Metaphors
Simile
Personification
Foreshadowing
Sensory Details:
I used,
Sight
Taste
Touch/Feel
Smell
Hear

I told the story, but in a way I showed what was happening.

*I hope you enjoy and understand the story Ms. Peifer!!!
Have fun!!! :D

*^__^*

Monday, February 23, 2009

Chekhov's Short Stories...

Wow, all of them were amazing!!!
The one that seriously got to me was "Before The Law".
Many people were like,
"BORING!!! I hate it!!! It was confusing!!! What's the point of it???!!! Etc."

You see,
at first I said the same exact thing.
I didn't understand why the gatekeeper and the man just stood there for years in front of the door (gate).
Also, I didn't understand why the man stayed there begging the gatekeeper to open the door until he was close to his death.
Especially,
when the gatekeeper told the man that the door was always open just for him.

I was like,
HUH???

But then my friend Gaoly explain it to me and gave me her point of view.
That's when it hit me like...
BAM!!!

I went back to read it and yeah.
What she told me about it made sense!!!

HORRAY!!!
PLEASE PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER FOR GAOLY!!!
YEY!!!
*Cheers*

*^__^*

I LOVED THE THEME!!!

So the gatekeeper symbolized as the man's conscious.

When the man approached the gatekeeper (conscious), he begged him to get to the other side.
Basically, is when you say,
"I wanna try getting over that obstacle" and what ends up stopping you is,
YOUR CONSCIOUS.
Not your family, friends, or haters, but YOURSELF.
It tells you what it feels.
It may be negative or positive.
You have the power to choose whether or not you believe in it and whether or not you base your life on it.

Now, the sad thing is that once the man begs the gatekeeper to open the door, the gatekeeper tells him, "No" and that if he wants to, he's not stopping him.
He also that tells him that it won't be easy.
You see, life is not always gonna be a piece of cake.
You have to fight and prove yourself first that you can reach for what you want.

Well, sadly, the man didn't do this.
He just sat there, time passed by, he aged, and he never got anything done.
Once in a while, the man would take a peek on the other side.
The gatekeeper tells him that the gatekeepers on the other side are stronger and tougher.
This makes the man feel even worse.
He basically was a given a BIG, DELICIOUS, CHOCOLATE CAKE and all he did was admire it and crave it, but he never took a bite out of it.
It was ALL for him, but he never went for it.

That's what we always tend to do in life.
When we hear the word "HARD", we automatically assume that we won't be able to do it.

Before the man died, he begged the gatekeeper to allow him to take a glimpse of the other side.
The gatekeeper told him that the door was always open, just for him.
The man just had to try and try harder to get through, but sadly, it was all too late.
At least, he now understood why he couldn't get through.

That part there made me really sad.
There has been many times in life where I just gave up on something just because,
I told and believe myself that I couldn't do it.
I've learned my lesson and I'm not gonna say I don't face these circumstances,
but now I have the strength to break down any wall that gets in my way.

So yeah...
This was a powerful story.

THANK YOU CHEKHOV!!!
:D

(I HOPE I DIDN'T CONFUSE ANYONE!!!)

^__^

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Graduating on time...

I HATE IT when people say,
"Oh, you're not gonna graduate on time!!!
You're a BIG failure!!!
You Suck!!! And BLAH BLAH BLAH!!! >__<

STUPID PEOPLE!!! >:-[

I BELIEVE IN MYSELF AND I KNOW I CAN DO IT!!!

I may have made STUPID decisions in the past, but like I said,
"THE PAST IS THE PAST. MOVE ON PEOPLE!!!"

I used to allow people to bring me down and make me feel like dirt, but now...
(Thanks to GOD and the people that truly LOVE me) I've learned to be STRONG.

I AM SOMEBODY!!!
I WILL BE SOMEBODY!!!
I WILL STAY A SOMEBODY!!!

One day, I'ma walk in a McDonald's with my FLY clothes and a suit case and say,
"May I have a Number 1 with no onions and light Mac sauce, please???"
(I'm not HATING on MICKEY D'S!!! I LOVE McDonald's!!! :D I RESPECT the workers too. ;D)
And all the HATERS that once talked SMACK about me would be SHOCKED.

You see,
I've learned that cussing at people or fighting back with them isn't gonna solve anything.
I need to slap them in the face with my accomplishments and the reality of life.

Many nights I cry myself to sleep, because I sometimes don't believe everything I say to myself, but...
THAT'S LIFE.
Life may be a B*tch, as they say, but we gotta STAND TALL, LOOK AT THE TARGET (Our goals), and most importantly, BE STRONG. *^__^*

Yup...
That's whats been bugging and stressing me out lately.
So yeah... O__O

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Can someone please answer this question... >__<

Ok.
So I get back from Chicago feeling very grateful and happy (I don't need surgery anymore!!! *^__^* GOD seriously healed me!!! It's a miracle. Anyways...). I realize there's nothing to do and I get bored as heck. I walk around like a crazy lion thinking to myself...
Hmmm...
What can I do...
Hmmm...
Then all of a sudden...

POP!!! Goes Ms. Peifer's face in my thoughts. :O!!!
Oh my GOOSHIENESS!!!

I SERIOUSLY got scared as heck.
(Don't worry Ms. Peifer. There's NOTHING wrong with you. ~.^)

Yup...
You probably guessed it.
She wanted me to stop wasting time and get busy with that book.
(BALZAC AND THE LITTLE SEAMSTRESS by Dai Sijie.)
Wait a second...
That didn't sound right... :[

Anyways...
I began reading the book at around 2:30pm (Non stop by the way. Hm, hm, hm. Yup.) and I finished it around 8:30pm (I believe. Yup. I don't remember that well... So yeah...).
I'm sitting there like...
Woah!!! :O
What's up with the ending!!!
Why the heck did the Little Seamstress leave her BOO, Luo???!!!
I understand the author Balzac and his story affected her life and inspired her to be a better woman, but why leave him like that without even letting him or her father know???
What was she thinking???!!!
Was she out of her mind???!!!

Grrr!!! >__<


This angers me!!!
She makes me mad!!!

Wait a sec....

WOAH!!!
FLASH BACK FLASH BACK!!!
I think I got the answer!!!
OH YES OH YESIE YES!!!

Anyways...
I still need YOUR opinion.
Please...
HURRY UP!!!
(Before I turn crazy!!! :D)

THANKS!!!
GOD BLESS YOU!!! :D
*^__^*

Friday, November 14, 2008

Oh GOD!!!

I'm an OLD SCHOOL and OLD FASHIONED girl. I stick to paper and pencil. It's hard for me to adapt to this new ERA. OH NO!!! I'M CONFUSED!!! I wonder if in a couple of years we're going to be doing all our school assignments on the computer. OH GOD!!! I'm so scared!!! Now I know how cave people felt when they had to learn new things and adapt to their new surroundings . MY HEAD HURTS... Well... It's hard to start something new, but I guess that's how life works. WE HAVE TO MOVE ON AND LEARN SOMETHING NEW. Yup. That's all I have to say... FOR NOW... *Giggles* *^__^*
:D
XD
SMILE... JESUS LOVES YOU!!!