Narrative Poem Research

I chose the poem called At the Dance by Judith Pordon. In the poem, it talks about what each of the planets are doing at the dance. The poem was separated in a series of stanzas. In each stanza, it talks about one planet, especially on what they do. The author uses a couple lines, not many, to describe the planet's actions. There are no rhymes in the poem at all, it's just straight up narrative, like a story book telling a story. The style of the poem was pretty old fashioned, it's not the words that was used that was old fashioned, is the way the author uses it. The way the author uses it made the poem seem a little older than it was. The poem creates some imagery of the planets doing the actions that were described. For example when the author wrote, "Asteroids were dashing about daring each other to jump into the pool." It made me think of rock like creatures running everywhere and some are jumping into a pool. So in my point of view, it made a good use of imagery with its work choice. The author also gave the planets some human-like features which made the poem interesting.

Life Metaphor

As the character in the movie Forest Gump made a simile about life, here's a metaphor that I came up with about life. Life is a game of Call of Duty, you could choose to fool around and not stick to the objective, but of course would lead to a defeat, or a negative effect. In life, during your different stages, there are different objectives that you should be achieving. For example, as I am a student, my objective is to do good in school. This might change after a few years, after you get a job, you will not be in school anymore.  Therefore, your objective would not be to do good in school. By not following the objective, there would lead to negative consequences. By continuing the example used above, if I'm always fooling around in school and not handing in homework, I would not be getting a good grade. Therefore, not completing the objective by doing good in school. Of course, not doing good in school would definitely affect your future. This would lead to what collages you would be able to attend, and would also affect on your career possibilities in the later future.

Make The Connection - Quickwrite

If a person's life is divided into seven different parts, it would probably be the following seven: Birth, Preschool, Highschool, Collage, Career, Retirement, and Death. The first part of somebody's life is obviously the birth, the moment when you exist in the world. The second part is preschool. Preschool is when you will go to somewhere where your parents will not be helping you, and you would be in an environment with people who you might not feel comfortable with. Of course, this is where you learn your basic-of-the-basic knowledges. Next comes Highschool. Highschool is when things gets tough, and you can feel the transition once your in it. Workload would double or sometimes even triple as your teachers and courses becomes tougher and tougher, and this is all the preparation for the next stage, which is collage. Collage is a place where you pretty much redo the time you have in highschool, but twice as hard. This is when things gets serious and important, your performance during this stage would affect what your future would be like. After four years of collage, here comes your job or career. Usually the use of a job is to allow you to gain profit in order to let you live in a sustainable life. As you work for a period of time, it is time for you to stop, which is the retirement. Retiring from a job usually means you've passed the age of working. It is time for you to slow your life down and enjoy it as much as you can. Lastly, it is time for you to leave. Death would take you away from this world and bring you to somewhere else where nobody would know until they're there themselves.

Disrespected

There was once where I felt disrespected, it was when I was in a restaurant. I finished my cup of water on the table, so I put my hand up and tried to grab a waiter's attention. There was an adult who also had his hand up on the table to our far far right. In that case, I thought to myself, the waiter must come to me first since I was closer to him. In stead of coming to me, he looked at me, and then look away without saying anything or giving me any hand gestures then walk to the guy that was a lot farer to me. The fact how he looked at me and then looked away without saying or doing anything made me felt a little disrespected. I am guessing since I was still a kid back then, the waiter might think I was more unimportant comparing to the adult who had his hands up. It also made me felt unequal to other people since I was younger than the guy. To me the right way of serving in a restaurant was to see which customer was closer to you and then serve the person first. According to what the waiter did, he was seeing me as a younger person so decided to serve me later when there was someone who was older than me.

Make The Connection - Quickwrite

In life, there are different times where it is was your turning point. If might be that you achieved or accomplished a goal that you wish to achieve. Or it can be as simple as joining a sports team. Here is how I faced my turning point in my life. When school started after summer, I officially became a highs schooler. Which means that I could now have more choices to make in school, in stead of just following what the school wants you to do like when your in middle school. When it was time to choose clubs, for some reason, I decided to join the community service club. At first, I thought it was just helping the people with disorders where they have trouble doing things themselves, simple as that. After the first time going there and helping the people there, I found out that it was a lot harder than I thought it is. It's not just helping them, you still need to change the way you help or do things according to how they react. You might think you could do something in this way, but it might not work for them. After a few community services, I actually felt proud to be in it. Which then I felt like this was one of my turning points in life.

Make The Connection - Quickwrite

I have never faced a decision between having to choose something that is going to be good for me or for something good for someone I cared about. From the story I just read, "The Lady, or the Tiger", I could imagine how hard it can be. In the story, the princess has to face with the decision between the person he loved being killed, or him married with a woman than she hated. Since the princess loved the guy, of course she wouldn't want the guy to get killed. On the other hand, if the guy stayed alive, the only option is that he would have to marry the women that the princess hated. Which is something that would make her feel extremely bad. The fact how the princess loved the guy, she would rather led him live and live through perhaps a happy and enjoyable life other than being killed. It is sort of the act of sacrificing yourself in order for a person you cared about get something good. For this to happen, both the giver and the receiver would be bonded with a strong friendship. Since normally people would not sacrifice for someone you don't know well with.