So much depens upon...

So much depends upon
dreams wide as the sky

and reaching
for the highest point

never letting go

Sophmore year reflecton 2

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The end of my sophomore year. In my head I feel like a ninth grader still because that is the grade almost all my friends are in. However, outside my head I realize the truth. I am one year from graduation...

Wow. That is kind of scary...I like the thought of getting away from all my tenth grade drama and moving on. Even though I am sure there will be eleventh grade drama as well. I do not know what to do with myself.

This year has been pretty amazing despite the drama. Let me tell you there was loads and loads of drama. However it was needed. Sometimes bad things have to happen for you to realize the truth about people.

A way to explain my actions and everything that happened to my friends and me through the course of this year is by a quote from Ferris Bueller's Day off :

I am not going to sit on my butt as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it.

Junior year here I come..

The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a collection of very short stories called vignettes. This book is about a young Latin girl living in Chicago and its only one hundred and ten pages...I know what your thinking -" Boy, a book full of short stories and its only about a hundred pages! I would love to read that!"
NO! I thought that too.

This book was so BORING. I thought I could read it in one night no problem and be done. However I read the first couple chapters and I nearly pulled my hair out from the horror. She tells little stories of her life but she NEVER explains fully. You never know what happens after. You never know how things start. It is so incomplete.

I would say don't read this book. However, if you are an eleven year old boy.. this book is awesome because my little brother LOVED it.

Anthem

Anthem by Ayn Rand is a book about Equality. No, not equality as in sameness in state or continued course; evenness; uniformity but Equality 7-2527. Equality is in a community where everything is chosen for him. He does not decide when he eats, what he eats, or what job he has. He wants to change his community and give everyone choices.

He somehow he realized that there was more out there and he was missing it and so was the rest of his community. Equality is the hope for his community.


Although this story is about oppression towards the people but it is a story of hope and liberation. How? Well, if Equality were not in the story then the citizens would be desperate and lost. However, because of Equality they can have hope for the future that their lives will get better.