Patriots Pen "What Would You Ask?"

         Authors note: I got this idea partly from the "Patriots Pen" from 2011 and I tried to get as much detail, and different choices of words.

   If I had one chance to talk to one of the founding fathers, I would ask them to rethink the idea of “All men are created equal”. Because even though others may have different colored skin, it doesn’t mean that they, or anyone else are less than the other.

            They should have thought about what it was like in the others point of view. If the founding fathers had realized what they were doing was so horrible, it makes you wonder if they would have changed their mind. Imagine if that one decision was different. How it would impact our everyday life.

            The Civil War wouldn’t have happened, and thousands of lives would have been saved. The men and women from Africa may have not come until later in our history, and everything would have changed. If we have not had slaves, then many may have not had a chance to invent the things they invented. Those people would have had most likely been working in the fields, or may have even been dealing with something else.

            In my opinion, all of the slavery should have never happened, what happened was horrible. Because they were different, they were treated bad. This is like everyday life now. There are many examples such as the presidential election of 2012. Both of the runners up are different races, which may or may not affect the way people vote.

            In history tough decisions will have to be made, and many tough ones have already been made. The way things happen in life will always be the same. It’s part of being human, to blame the weaker, or join forces and go against others. We can’t change what happens, or what happened. We just have to live with all of the choices we make.

Retelling

Among The Hidden

          The shadow child named Luke can finally fight to get freedom. He’s not allowed to go to school, have friends, or do anything social at all. Being a shadow child means that Luke is the third child in his family, which the population police say that is a crime. America is in serious trouble because they are running out of food, and fast. The population police think this can be solved by only having two kids in each family.

          Jen, another shadow child helps Luke and his family fight in the rebellion and help save many other children. The whole rebellion is based on these children because they can’t have normal lives, even though there is still plenty of food. Luke, he is going to light the spark, and make it into a flame-with the help of others.

Conflict/ Resolution

Authors Note: I wrote this essay on the main conflict of Touching Spirit Bear and explaining the conflict and how they fixed it.

            In the book Touching spirit bear there were many conflicts like Cole vs. Person, Person Vs. Self, but the main conflict is Cole trying to recover from being attacked by a bear, but it’s almost impossible because he is by himself, and ripped to nothing. The conflict in the story is Person Vs. Nature, but Cole can’t get back to the island and prove himself, until the end of the story at least.

            In the book you can tell that Cole is having trouble with everything, like getting in fights with kids in school, cheating on a test, or not doing homework. But Cole is also stuck with an alcoholic Mother, and an abusive Father. Even going to get a candy bar he finds a way to get in trouble.

            The conflict was resolved when he was attacked and realized the beauty of nature. Because of his near death experience Cole had to eat grass and animals. He realized how lucky he was, and how he can fix things for himself. He started trying harder, and doing extra things. Everyone noticed he changed so much.

            The main conflict in this story is like the conflict in The Shadow King where Max got attacked by a demon kid named Ray. Then Ray tried to burn Maxes body, but with the help of his friends they got him out of the field. Maxes parents were rich, fought, and got divorced and Max was going through just what Cole was going through.

In the book Touching Spirit Bear, the main conflict is Cole trying to find his place in the world. The book gets there after he gets attacked by a bear. He survived and became a sort of hero to his Mom, so he did find his place in the world.