Christopher

2, 3, 5, 7
That is the order they must be
Not 1, 2, 3, 4
Only prime will do

Things must be in order
Nothing can be out of place
His words must be truth
He has no sort of facade

What you see is what you get
He will not conform
Being his own special being
Nothing will get in his way

Analytical and not creative
Excelling at Math and Science
Art and Language Arts not so much
That's just him

Deal with it or leave
Nothing can hurt him
He exist in his own world
What you see is what you get

Simply it's Christopher
Being Christopher

A Priest Who Tries

Hope is a concept that can be adapted by all people, in any sort of situation a person can cling to hope for something to turn around. The priest in the novel, The Power and the Glory, is trying to find any sort of hope in the world that he lives where he is illegal and is being hunted. He truly shows how even though he has made mistakes he still does good in the world. Nobody is perfect by no means, and everyone is going to mess up at some point or another; the sort of person you are is not determined by your mistakes but rather how you recover from them.

In the church that I go to, there was a big mess earlier in the year. One of our pastor's came out and said that he had an affair with a woman. He told the church that he is going to step down from his duties because he did not feel eligible anymore. My pastor did a bad thing but he admitted to it and works to be a better person because of it. The priest in the novel is an alcoholic and knows it but in the book Graham Greene places little moments of pure gold for the priest in order to show case that he is trying. "This was what he was used to: the words not striking home, the hurried close, the expectation of pain coming between him and his faith. He said stubbornly, 'Above all remember this -- heaven is here." (70) Instead of fleeing like a coward to escape the police he stays and reads the longest prayer possible. He is trying to overcome his failures and show the world that he is trying.

Mistakes happen it is just a part of life that we all have to deal with. Nobody in this world is perfect. You don't need to be perfect to be good, you just need to try and put forth effort. The priest really does make an honest effort, so show a little bit of concern, and maybe the world will turn around for you.

A Different Jenna Portrayed

I decided to change an exerpt from the novel Rules of the Road. This is the part where Jenna is about to go to the zoo to meet her constantly drunken father. I have decided to change Jenna to realize that she is stronger and better than how her father treats her. In this writing, the main character Jenna will be talking.


I stayed in my house for a long while, reflecting on all that had happened. I saw myself growing up one step at a time, one mile at a time. I contemplated whether or not to go to the zoo to meet my father. Their he would be waiting for me. I so badly wanted that picture perfect dad running to me sober saying things are going to change. However, with the way I had grown I knew this was just a figment of my imagination and that what I wanted would just dissolve into a faded memory. I was sick of giving chances to this man who had ruined so many. I was done with him forever, I will keep him in my thoughts and always pray for him, but having anything deeper I now didn't want. My appearance had changed, my self confidence had changed, my entire being had changed. I realized that then and their I didn't need my dad. I am a strong and independent. He is the weight that I lag behind every day. It is time to free myself from his chains. The road has changed me, and as far as I'm considered I just entered another long stretch of road. No looking back and no U-turns, it is all straight on from here.

Drinking Facts Report

This piece is a research paper in the response to Rules of the Road. It is supposed to show you the affects of alcohol on a family and there chemistry with one another. This way of life --obsessively drinking-- is no way to solve problems. These statistics were all researched and not made up.

Drinking in the United States has begun to reach new heights. Countless numbers of lives are being loss and also causing unnecessary divorce between families. This step is taken in order to try and protect the family. This is what has happened to Jenna, a young teenage girl. Although I cannot relate to this topic to myself because luckily my parents have chosen to live an alcoholic free life, however, I feel that this a very interesting topic that I would like to further explore. Currently in the United States there is about 75% of adult above the age of 18 who have used alcohol. Around 61% of these people will continue to drink for most of their lives. Only about 14% will eventually make the decision to quit.

Jenna has a life filled with trouble and worry. It starts with her dad who is an avid alcoholic. She desperately wants him to quit, but the odds are against him with only 14% being able to find the strength to quit. Luckily for Jenna she is a strong girl and is able to push through difficult times. Only about 20% of people who have an alcoholic parent will break the trend and go on with their life, in other words going to college. Jenna is strong and knows that she can defeat her odds and lead a good life.

Alcohol can not only affect someone mentally, but it can also affect a persons financial stability. Between the paying of the obsessive habit, down to the worst possible outcome, accidents. Over half of fatal crashes in the United States are due to someone being drunk. Now a person who drinks has to pay for that, if they are alive. Also, tickets for drunk driving are very pricey and can cost someone big bucks to cover the cost of these. Alcohol over all has no positive side to it, other than the social aspect of it. The cost of the habit, fatal outcomes, physical and mental problems, and family problems far out weigh the good. It is said that many abusers of alcohol want to quit but just feel as if they can't and sink farther into their addiction. For Jenna, she is fortunate to be as strong and smart as she is to be able to realize that there is more to life than what she sees every day.

Life in a Nut Shell

Life
A dwindling clock of time
Tick Tock
That will never stop
A cycle that will not be broken
Life
Shoes
Are these a form of life
To most they are not
But for a girl with a broken life
A shoe can piece it back together
Shoes
Roads
A never ending path
Or a way of life
Twist and turns and winding ways
It can teach you the simplistic things of life
If you don't let it get to much in your way
Roads
Rules
A way of living
Confines of how you act
Limits you to your ability
Or more simply just something to hold you back
Life
A new idea has been formed
Life is where you want it to take you
To selling shoes to form a life
Or driving on a road with many turns
Life can teach you a thing or two
One thing it has taught me
Never Stick To The Rules
Life

Animal World to Our Own

Society: where people live in a cohesive unit that operates and works in simultaneous motion. The gears are aligned and every things runs smoothly, with the shafts and wheels and oil all helping everything move. For instance all of us are grouped together in some way or form. We wake up and use appliances which someone has made, then we ride a bus or go to work, and continue on. Everything we do someone has made, or is operating. People we don't even know have made the very contraption that we sit in every single day, a contraption by such means and power it has the potential to be a death trap but is simply known to us as a car, but a car made by a stranger. As you can see we are all intertwined in some way or shape, but we don't even know it. In the novel, Life of Pi, animals and humans are so closely related that if someone was to look at each of them, that person wouldn't be able to tell which one was human or not.

The hustle and bustle of a city is seen all over the world. From the depths of Chicago over to the chaotic noise of Tokyo. Compared to a jungle, we really aren't all that different. In our world there is a pecking order or a food chain, where the wealthy are at the top and the impoverished are at the bottom. Just like a jungle the meek are at the bottom and the strong and mighty are at the top. We in all actuality are very comparable to these animals in so many ways, the only real difference is our imposable thumbs, and the size of our population, and our brain structure. "With just one glance, I discovered that the sea is a city. Just below me, all around, unsuspected by me, were highways, boulevards, streets and roundabouts bustling with submarine traffic. In water that was dense, glassy, and flecked by millions of lit-up specks of plankton, fish like trucks and busses and cars and bicycles and pedestrians were madly racing about, no doubt honking and hollering at each other." (pg.175) Here it is clearly shown that our own city is like the depths of the ocean. The school of fish, the travel as if a highway. Our city that we live in every day is just like the vast blue of an ocean.

Not only does our city compare to animals but the personas of the characters in this book are so closely related. Pi is a young lad that starts off to be very curious. He loves to explore different methods of religion, he searches and ponders over everything and is never satisfied. This is very much so like many animals. They are in a search, whether it be companionship or food they are "hungry" for what they want and they search for the fulfillment as well. If you were to even more closely depict Pi, he really is like a tiger. "Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. Every animal is ferocious and dangerous. It may not kill you, but it will certainly injure you." (38) Pi has to defend his life, in other words become a rather savage beast. He turns from what he has so desirably searched for in his roots of religion, and breaks from what he knows. Killing becomes a common practice, but mixed in with prayer. It shows the paradox that Pi was under. Having to face two total extremes and break from what he knows shows that he is like an animal. Calm and nurturing at times and killing at others

Pi clearly shows to everyone the true type of animal he is, but the real problem that needs to be identified, is if whether or not we are all like Pi or like an animal. In our normal life we have certain rules or boundaries that confine us within our limits. The thoughts of society keep us in check to make sure that we do not do anything to out of the ordinary. Deep inside of us however there are these inklings or feelings that make us all different. "All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive." (41) We all have to fine ways to adapt. Just like an animal has to adapt to a new environment. We all are like chameleons, changing our skin constantly to appear normal, but the fact is that we can turn from it. We really are no different than animals

Here on Earth there are so many different type of species, from water to the land. We all loop together in a way that cannot be explained. Our personalties relate in some way, we are just the species that dominates. As Pi knows however, he is no better than a tiger that had lived with him, in fact maybe he was the tiger. Animals and us need to learn to relate, we need to study them and they need to study us, because we are their siblings.

Persona

The human body is a fascinating piece of engineering held together by millions of small particles. Organs fill each person, and are used for daily maintenance and upkeep. People however are not known for what is in them and how they are comprised, but rather by how they act. Eventually people develop individual characteristics unique to themselves. A persona is identified quickly and a person lives by this. Very rarely do people break from what they believe, unless they are in such a dire need to that they turn from everything. "I descended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible." (197) Pi was forced to do this in the novel. Breaking from his vegetarian diet was the first step, in other people it could be to simply stop attending church or just doing something completely out of the ordinary. Soon changes keep coming more rapidly and appears to be at a seemingly never ending pace. Most of the time a person does not realize it until it is to late. When they do see the error of their ways, it feels like a hopeless battle and they just succumb to what they have become.

For Pi he recognizes this fact, but in a situation of full on survivor mode, it doesn't matter to him. When a person has reached this state their morals and their typical behavior is thrown at the window. For Pi this is completely true, and he fights every day for his life. It made him grow up a little but lose what he knew and love. This concept goes back to conventions. People have conventions of their characteristics, certain molds they refuse to break from. That is until they see what the real world is like and how easy it is slip away from these and turn into a monster of themselves. This happens to many people, maybe not to the severity of Pi, but rather in small ways people conform to society, and break from their real identity.