The Lottery

Author note: this is about symbols and their roles in a story.

Have you ever thought about the lottery? When I think about I think about something good.  But in the story "The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson it’s not. It is the opposite of what you think. What happen is that there is dot on a paper and a family member goes up and picks a paper and if there the family that gets it. There family draws again until someone in their family get and it and that person dies. 

There are a lot of symbols such as the rock. How they are symbols is that when you think of little boys play with rock you think that everything is good and nothing is going to happen. But when you read on you find out that they use the rocks for killing someone. Another one is the black box where they put the piece of paper and the one with a dot on it. How it is a symbol is that it pick who is going to die and who is not. It also show that people are scared of it and care about it is that they don’t want to change it they want to keep it the same as it all way was.

A symbols in a story can be good and can bad like it the lottery the two that I talk about were bad. But in other story they could be good just depending on what the story is about and what the author is try to teach you.

Birthday card

I'm a birthday card and I cant wait till  I see my owner of me. I look like very color with all the bright color on the outside saying happy birthday. Also with great big letters saying happy birthday. I also like when some open me and I see there face and how happy they're.  I love to be birthday card

Nailer vs Samuel

Nailer vs Samuel

Author notes: this is about the main character in the two books woods runner and ship breaker and how they are the same and different.

Have you ever thought about how to character from two different books could be the same. Like Samuel from the book Woods Runner and Nailer from the book Ship Breaker. These are two different people that wrote these books and the books are a lot different. But the many character are very much the same and are somewhat different.

Who is Nailer? He is the main character form the book Ship Breaker. This is about a crew which Nailer is in and they do to ship that are rundown and take all things that they can use for something else.  And Woods Runner is about a boy where he out hunting and the British come and take his parents. He has to go out and find them.

How Nailer and Samuel are the same is that they are both brave. How Nailer is the brave is that he go in the ship where the he does not know what is there and can get him hurt. Like in the book when he is getting copper out of boast and hits this part and all the oil fill where he is. He think how he can get out of this and not think about dying. How Samuel is brave is that he has to finds his parent by himself and a little help from other people. Some other ways how they are the same is that they are smart Nailer is smart is because he found the way out of the oil and did not die. How Samuel smart is that he was able to track the British and get his parents back without getting that hurt.  

How Nailer and  Samuel is different is that Samuel has to live by himself. Because he left his dads crew and went to a different one. And Samuel could but he had to go and get his parents. Also how they are different is that Samuel like his parents and will do anything for them. Like in the book he went and look for them and made sure that they were not hurt. But Nailer does  not like his dad because he was treat bad when he was a kid.

Two different people from and different book, but they can be the same if you just think about. It not all was the setting but the traits that the character has. So think about that then you try to compare and contrast two different people.