Thursday, January 20, 2011

3rd person narratives - "The Creepy Brother"


For I have tried writing in the 2nd person perspective, I would like to try writing in the 3rd person perspective. This is a story about a younger brother who has strange habits, especially strange sleeping habits. He always wakes up at 2 A.M. and asks his older brother to get some water, and many more. His requirements are getting more strange and strange, day after day. That's why the title is The Creepy Brother.

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     Usually, Ricky sleeps very early for he thinks that enough sleep is the most important factor for him inspite of the enormous work that he hasn't done. However, tonight, he decided to stay up at night and finish all his work, for his history teacher has told him that his parents will have to come to the school if he does not do his homework properly until the due date. Tonight is the last chance for him to prevent his parents coming to school, so he knows that he has to concentrate on his work tonight. Rickys' little brother Jack who sleeps at 9 o'clock, which is the time when they both go to bed, is getting ready for sleep. Ricky envies him very much, for he is in elementary school and does not have much work to do. Jack is in bed, and Ricky is at the desk. Ricky thinks that this is unfair, but tries to calm down himself with the thought that Jack is going to have a hard time anyways, when he comes to highschool.
     Ricky is concentrating on his history presentation that is due tomorrow. He cannot understand anything from the thick book that is supposed to be used as a primary source. He uses the dictionary, but it is useless. He decides to get some background information from the internet and turns on the computer. He looked up in Wikipedia about the history topic, but it was also difficult to undestand. While he was having a difficult time preparing for his presentation, suddenly he hears a sound. He looked around, trying to find where that noise came from, and found out that his little brother was talking in his sleep. Ricky though it was funny, so he just laughed and kept on preparing for his presentation. He tried to concentrate on the book, but his brother was continuing making strange noises.
"Be quiet, Jack. I have to prepare this." Ricky said, in a silly voice, not even thinking that Jack will reply to it.
"Hey, go get me a cup of water." Jack replied in his sleep. Ricky was surprised, but he knew that talking in one's sleep is not an uncommon thing. He found it fun, and kept on trying to have a conversation with Jack, but Jack only said one thing as a reply, which is "Hey, go get me a cup of water." Ricky began to feel creepy. A few sleeptalking is what Ricky can understand, but repeating for about 30 times is not. He felt creepy, but just ignored Jack and concentrated on the history presentation.
     The next day, Ricky woke up early, nervous about the presentation that he will have today. While Ricky was brushing his teeth, Jack woke up.
"Oh, I'm so thirsty." Jack said while rubbing his eyes. Ricky was surprised. Jack was repeating the command to bring water yesterday night, and in the morning he is sayin that he is thirsty!!
"Do you know that you commanded me to bring water for you?" Ricky asked.
"No, not at all. Did I?" Jack answered in wonder. What he did for the whole night was sleeping.
"You did. You talked while you were sleeping. It was very creepy." Ricky said, wondering if he is acting.
"Really? That's interesting. I don't remember anything." Jack said, picking up his toothbrush.
"Go clean you teeth." Ricky said, "Don't forget to drink water."
     Ricky hoped that Jack won't make any strange noises again. At night, Ricky had to get ready for the speech. He always have a lot of things to do. While Ricky was organizing his speech, he heard a strange sound, but it was different from yesterday. Jack was mumbling in his sleep. Ricky wondered what he was saying.
"What are you saying, Jack?" Ricky asked. And suddenly, Jack came off from his bed and lied on the floor and said, "It's too small..."
"What's too small?"

"No, it's big."
"It's big?"
"It's too small!!" Jack shouted. Ricky was surprised. Jack never had a sleeping habit like this before. As time passed by, Jack's sleeping habits became more and more creepy. Due to this, Ricky told his mother that he wants to use a separate room, and his mother accepted. And now, nobody knows whether if Jack goes is into Ricky's room while sleeping or not.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Wacky Web Tales - A Crazy Night at the Library


One night something really wonderful happened at the library. The characters in the stories started shouting from their books!
Harry climbed into Charlotte's Web and started sleeping with Wilbur the Pig! Ron wandered into an encyclopedia and ended up lost in Seoul!
The craziest part was when Hermione wandered into Twilight and said, “Button, I don't think we're in Canada any more.”
Then Mrs.Traeger walked in and said, “It's ridiculous!!!! Everybody back in place!”
The characters ran around the room. Just in time! The students in grade 3 came in to get books for their reports, but it was safe. All the characters were back in the books where they belonged.

Wacky Web Tales - The Best Town In the World


CNblue came to do a concert in Julieville once, and the band liked it so much they never left. Now every wednesday night, all the people who live in Julieville put on their beautiful, blue pants and walk their penguins to the town square. Then they sit on the grass, listen to CNblue play kpop music, and eat chocolates.
No one has to go to school in Julieville unless they want to. Of course, everybody wants to because TVXQ and Hyunbin are two of the teachers. TVXQ teaches history and Hyunbin teaches badminton.
One day TVXQ said to Hyunbin, “Maybe we should take the students on a field trip.”
“That's a(n) disgusting idea, TVXQ,” said Hyunbin. “Let's take them to the most fun place we can think of.”
“But that would be Julieville,” said TVXQ.
“You're right!” Hyunbin exclaimed. “Call off the field trip! We're already here!”

Monday, January 17, 2011

2nd person narrative - "Before the Dance Party"


This is a fiction short story about before the dance party. It is written in the 2nd person perspective, in a position of a high school boy that is urging to know the time when the dance party is going to start. He calls three people and they all do not give him a clear answer. One doesn't even answer the phone. At last, a phone call comes from his best friend and every mystery is solved...

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    You wake up and realize that today there is going to be a dance party at the gymnasium. However, you do not know the exact time when it is going to start. You call your best friend, but he does not answer. You call him again and again, waiting for him to answer the phone. After fifteen calls, a textmessage is sent to you from your best friend, saying that he is in an important conference that might change his entire life. You decide not to bother him, let him participate so well in the "important conference", more important than a friend. Instead, you decide to call a girl in your class that you had a crush on. After about 10 seconds, the girl answers the phone with a sleepy voice. You feel guilty of waking her up due to your call.
"Hello?" the girl says to you. You sudddenly want to play a trick on her.
"Hi, I'm the postman.." You answer, trying not to laugh.
"The postman? There's no reason to..." She said in a confused voice.
"Ha, ha. It's me!!" You shout in an excited voice. But there is no answer from her for 30 seconds.
"Hello? Hello?" You say, but the girl does not answer. You check the phone but the call was already cut off. You feel very futile, regretting the prank that you have played on her. You feel sorry to call her again, and she would have probably noticed who you are with the phone number. Now, the last and only person to call is the class representative, someone you dislike very much. You try to call him, but he also does not answer the phone. You call him about five times, and on the sixth call, a woman informs you that the phone is off. You feel very lonely, regretting your life and relationships made in school. Just then, a phone call comes from your best friend.
"Hey, the conference ended." your best friend says in a gloomy voice.
"Yeah, yeah, the conference that is more important than you friend." you say sarcastically.
"Ah.. the dance party." your friend replies.
"By the way, who do you have a conference with? A conference? you?" you ask in wonder.
"Our classmates, you weren't invited."
"Why not?" You say, kind of irritated.
"It's because..."
"Because?"
"You have to disguise as a woman." That was the most shockng thing that you have heard throughout today. 

Wacky Web Tales - Our Class Project

This year our class is doing a special science project. We have a(n) elephant that we are taking care of. It is very delicious and it has blue eyes. It lives in a(n) eraser in the back of our classroom. We feed it bananas and sunflowers every day, but I think it really wants to eat my computer. Everyone likes our elephant.
One day, the elephant got out of its cage and started running all around the room. It made a loud brrr. I think it was trying to say, “I love bananas!!!!

Thursday, January 13, 2011

S.A.T. Style Reflective Essay: "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring"


      The teacher is trying to teach the young student that you should not do things that you wouldn't like to others. The student doesn't like a big rock tied on his back, while he has tied a rock on other animals and gave them pain. He also learns the importance of the freedom and life of animals.
      I usually forced my younger brother to bring a bottle of water when I was eating my meals while watching entertaining programs on TV. I felt lazy so I did not want to get up and get water from the refrigerator. My younger brother became irritated and shouted at me, asking why he has to do errands for me. I replied, "It's obvious. You are younger than me." I used my power as an older sister in a wrong way. My mom heard me saying that and made a plan to give me a lesson. From then on, there was so many things that she told me to do. She told me to go get some water, turn on the lights in the living room even though she is the closest person to the lights, bring some cookies, turn off the television and many more. I was very irritated and asked her to do it by herself.
"You have to do it." my mom said to me with a smile.
"Why do I have to do it?" I asked.
"It's obvious. You are younger than me." my mom replied, saying the same thing that I said to my little brother. After then, I stopped commanding things to my younger brother but my moms' errands just decreased a bit but did not stop. She is starting to command errands to my younger brother too. Maybe my brother and I should think of a plan to stop her errands. Anyways, I have earned a good lesson that I shouldn't do or order things that I wouldn't like to others.

Diamante Poems (ver.3)


New-year
happy    delightful
starting    celebrating    earning
family       age       Santa       couple
ending    concluding    rejoicing
chilly    lonely
Christmas


I  picked New-year and Christmas for it is the main celebrations that people have once in a year.
They both make people delightful and is significant to people, but there are some differences.
The Christmas takes place when the year is about the end, while New-year takes place on the first day of the new year. Just like this, there are several differences between them.