For the past two weeks, our ELA class has been reading a very fascinating novel titled, "Bridge to Terabithia". The book has a great introduction to the plot, characters, and setting. Jess Aarons is an eleven-year-old boy living in the South who loves to run. He dreams of being the fastest boy in the fifth grade when school starts up in the fall, feeling that this will for once give him a chance to stand in the spotlight among his family, and might win him the attention of his father. He loves to paint and draw, but he knows very well that this labels him a "sissy" in the eyes of most of the world, particularly his father. His family is so poor that he has little time to really explore his own identity during this time in his life. He has therefore built up the importance of winning in his mind after training every morning before his parents wake up. He practices each morning, always dreaming of his upcoming victory. When he sits down at his desk on the first day of school, Leslie Burke, who Jesse has seen earlier, attends his class and is seated awkwardly. However, when the races come around Leslie Burke, who just moved next door to Jess, boldly crosses to the boys' side of the playground and beats everyone at the race. This surprises everyone and gives a bold first impression to Jesse Aarons who is surprised as well. He sits next to his little sister, May Belle in hope of not sitting next to Leslie. However he is fascinated with her. The first three chapters of this book was very intriguing to me and made me want to read the rest of this novel.
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Philippe Petit is a famous tight rope walker who never gave up on his dreams. He bought a few juggling pins to juggle from a juggler. He practiced and practiced with them until he was a master at juggling balls and pins. He went up to a famous juggler and showed him his tricks. The juggler was unimpressed and stated that his juggling was not professional since the pins were dented and obscure. He started juggling really well on stage and did many cool tricks. So Petit went to a magician and learned a magic trick. It was to make a card disappear into thin air, behind your hand. He mastered that too and showed it to a magician who discouraged Petit because he wasn’t fast enough. So he practiced again and made the trick only two seconds to do. He then wanted to try tight roping. He tied many ropes to a tree and then tied them to another tree. He used big shoes to walk across the ropes. After he could walk across them, he would cut off a rope. Once he mastered walking across that one, he cut off another, until there was only one left. Soon he mastered that and went on to walk across the World Trade Center and other land marks. Petit never let go of his dreams and kept on believing he could do it. He had faith in doing what he liked. Like Petit we should never let go of our dreams. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit
This month, Ryan Sulka, Diego Moreno, Isaac Lopez, and I have been working on a film for our film class. Isaac made the script and we are already done with the screenplay. Our movie is about war and family. The film depicts a father going to war in Afghanistan. He says goodbye to his son and drives to the airport. There he takes a flight to Afghanistan. Then, almost two years later, he is going home. He gets in a car with his two teammates and drive to the airport. Unfortunately, terrorists attack the car. They shoot at the car. The car drives off and thankfully loses the two terrorists who attacked them but, the car hits a rock, causing the trio to walk to the airport where they will go home. After hours of walking, they arrive at the airport where they fly home. The father comes home and opens the door. His son, which is played by my brother Liam, runs up to him and gives him a big hug. This will bring a message to everybody telling them to be thankful for their family, because many families are affected by war like in the Middle East. I hope we win the competition so the film gets shown at the Csun film festival. We have been working for weeks, coming up with the story board and script. It is a very complicated process with many different camera positions. Although it will all be worth it when we finish the movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematography “Bullied”, which tells the story of a gay boy named Jamie, is very inspirational and can boost one’s self esteem. One can infer that the story was heart-warming and showed that no matter who you are and what you do, you will always be loved by God. One can dislike the teachers in this movie because they did not help Jamie in any way. When he talked to them personally and in meetings, the teachers did not do anything to help him. When they were sued for doing this, they denied having meetings and talking to him. Luckily, the witnesses said otherwise and the teachers were found guilty. I am happy for Jamie because he inspired so many people to be themselves and put up against bullies and mean people who ruin dreams. Jamie attempted suicide after being beaten up countless times every day at his high school. After that, he ran away from home twice and was forced to go back to the high school he dreaded and hated because of all the bullies that want to kill him. Fortunately he managed to struggle through and tell his mom who sued the entire school for nine hundred thousand dollars. This inspired me to be myself at all times, even if someone tells me to not be myself or try to be something different. I enjoyed the short movie a lot because It can inspire people to be themselves.
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