Object Poem

I am not going to say what it is about, so you everyone can think it is about a different object.

Looking out and back. Back to yourself and forward in front of you, back into your mind. Discovering yourself who you are, who you want to be, and who you were. Forward into the dark future lit by the fires of innocent lives. When will it end, no one knows. Snow covered branches, bare, reach and stretch across the land looking, searching but never finding. The other slip away, gone with the shrieking wind. Curling into every corner, every place. There is no escape. When will it end, no one knows. Looking back and forward right now. What can be seen? Is it a reflection of life, or a moment of realization. A moment of change. Change what you see on the other side, change what you see on both sides. Past, present, and future all on the same plane flying over trying to escape. Escaping the cold fingers of the past crawling to seek revenge. Crawling into every mind not resting. When will it end, no one knows. Finally everything over head is gone with everything already lost. Lost in our maze of life and knowledge, finding the way out, there is no going back. Back and forth like a snake gone mad. There is no way out from the place we have created. A place lit by the fires of innocent lives. When will it end, no one knows. Human nature gone with everything that will be lost, past, present and future. Gone with the wind, the plane of time, and gone with the maze created.

Irish Curse Poem

Why you tiny wench

You gossip and sneer

May you melt off earth like snow off a ditch

You steal, but act innocent like a deer

May you have an awful itch, you conniving snitch

I know you can hear me crystal clear,

So may you be rejected like a businessman's first pitch

I wonder why you don't have one real peer, 

So you have nowhere to go like an unwanted finch

I guess I will let you have one last tear

Flowers for Algernon
By Daniel Keyes

This book is about a mentally disabled man named Charlie Gordon. He has an exceptionally low IQ for a man his age. Because Charlie wanted to become smarter, he agreed to participate in a surgery that could raise his IQ. As Charlie goes through his academic incline, he learns about who he was, who he is, and who he will be. I would recommend this book to anyone to AS. There is a little comedy, situations with ones social status, and there is self discovery. As I reading this book, Max told us to looks for symbolism. There was this one object that kept occurring throughout the book. In our book group discussions, I really enjoyed hearing about different opinions on what the symbolism represented. For anyone who wants to read this book, I would highly recommend looking for the reoccurring object and think about what it means. For me, this really added to the book. Over all, I really enjoyed this book.

Freeverse Poetry

Riding on red is
like flying
over glossy water with a rippled reflection
the calming sway inside the wake
pulled apart, yet still connected
in sequence; flash, gone,
alone

Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon

This book is about a man named Charlie Gordon. He is mentally challenged, and has an IQ of 70. He is very nice and caring, and he agrees to participate in a surgery to boost his intelligence. As his intelligence increases, his emotional levels stay the same. Because Charlie had the surgery, he is being compared, and one might say he is "mirror image" to Algernon. (The most successful "lab rat" for this surgery.) As he is growing, he mentally surpasses his friends, the scientists, and people who he met at the college campus.
So far, this has been a great book. I really like how the story is being told through his progress reports, not as third person or first person. It is told through third person, but through a different perspective. There has been a lot of symbolism in this book, and it is really important. An example would be Algernon.Charlie and Algernon both had the same surgery so there for what ever happens to Algernon, happens to Charlie. I would highly recommend this book to anyone in AS who has not already read it.

13 Gifts

13 Gifts
Wendy Mass

This book has around 330 pages, and a quick read. This is one of those books that I couldn't put down. This is one of my new favorite books for many reasons. To add to the book, she wrote it in first person. Tera is part of a group and gets in trouble for stealling a goat in the principal's office, while trying to make friends. While her parents go on a trip to Madagascar, Tera is sent to live with her aunt, uncle and cousin for the summer. She meets many friends with very strange habits and personalities. While trying to earn money, Tera is sent around town collecting strange items for a strange women. She has help from friends and has to do strange things, but she has a close deadline; her birthday. This is one of my new favorite books for many reasons. Wendy Mass put friendship, adventure, family into this great book. To add to the book, she wrote it in first person.

Olive's Ocean

Olive's Ocean
Kevin Hankes

Normally it is really tragic and scaring for someone when they find out that someone they know is dead. Martha doesn't know this girl very well, but she knows that she could have. Olive didn't really have any friends, nor did she talk much. She was killed by someone in a car who drove off after the accident. When Martha goes to visit her grandmother over summer vacation, Martha learns many things about herself. This book has some suspense and action, mystery, relationships, and self discovery. I would recommend this book to anyone in AS, and it is also a quick read. it is around 218 pages, so it is definitely a one-week book. I would give this book a three or four out of five stars because the plot line was a bit confusing.