Figurative Language

Author's Note:Today I will be analyzing The Train by Emily Dickinson and I will be talking about the figurative language on the poem and how tone and mood are used and what impact it has on the reader.

"Train", by Emily Dickinson, is about trains and how they ride on the railroad tracks and Emily just uses some figurative language to explain like when she says " I like to see it lap the miles, and lick the valley's up that type of figurative language is personification because it has human and animal traits. The reason Emily used figurative language is to make the tone and mood more exiting.    

In the poem train Emily compared a train and a horse because there both fast and big and she compares them by saying it stops to feed at the tanks that's just like saying when horses feed itself at a stable or when a train stops for fuel at the tanks. She also talks about  the train racing around the mountains just how a horse would if traveling through mountains Emily also tries to not really compare the two and she tries to keep it hidden and suspicious so you wonder what shes talking about.

Most people think poems are boring and just rhyme all the time and they don't this poem Train by Emily Dickinson doesn't really rhyme like some other poems it just uses alot of figurative language. In the first two lines of the poem is I like to see it lap the miles and lick the valley's up that kind of figurative language makes the poem great because nobody likes poems that just have regular words in them like run the valley's up because that would'nt sound as good as it is now. I feel like the author is telling us how she feels about trains and how they move down the railroad track the other type of tone is happy because the poem doesn't show any sadness or anger and she shows how she likes trains and also how she's trying to compare a horse and a train.

If there was no figurative language in this poem people would think this would be not as exciting and it would seem more boring because figurative language just makes it sound better instead of just describing the train with regular boring words.The figurative language "Around the pile of mountains" in the poem has effect on this piece because if Emily just said " around a bunch of mountains" it would be as powerful as it is.

I think this poem is great because it has alot of figurative language and I like how she's comparing a horse and a train and the figurative language affects the tone of the poem because instead of using boring words she used "crawl" and "supercilious". If I were to rate this poem i would give it a 8 out of 10 because she uses alot of figurative language.  

The Predicting of The Big Field

Author's Note:In this piece we needed to predict whats going to happen in the novel and compare it to other novels and see how are they the same or how they different.

I will be predicting the end of The Big Field by Mick Lupica and I will be comparing it to Football Hero and how that ended and I will be seeing the differences between them and the similarities. In the story The Big Field the main characters are Hutch and Cody and they play in a junior league and they travel around the state for the playoffs and the championship.Hutch and Cody would always watch Yankee games and Hutch's hero of baseball is Derek Jeter and he plays for the Yankees. Hutch's dad use to play baseball and he was going into the MLB but he hurt his shoulder and it ended his season.

In the story Football Hero the main characters are Ty and Thane which is Ty's brother in Football Hero Ty is this nerdy kid who cleans toilets for his uncles job and he also had to moved schools because his mom and dad died in a car crash and he had to move with his uncle so in his new school he gets bullied and really has no friends. Ty and his brother both like football and Ty's brother play in college and he eventually gets into the NFL. I think The Big field is going to end by Hutch and Cody's team will win the championship because they are winning their playoffs games and Football Hero had a good ending because Thane got a good contract deal with New York Jets a pro NFL team and Ty also got to live with Thane like he always wanted to.

I thought this was a good prediction because all the sport Mike Lupica books end with a good ending and also The Big Field could end like that because Cody and Hutch are just like Ty and Thane even though the books were written by different Authors. There are also some clues that this story could end this way and some of the clues are when Hutch and Cody win the second game to get even closer to winning the championship.

The things that are different in these two stories is that ones baseball and ones football the characters are different because Ty was a nerdy kid and Hutch and Cody were just really good friends and were both really good at baseball the themes were also different The Big Field was in the summer in Florida and Football Hero was in the country in Virginia. In The Big Field Hutch and Cody actually had moms and dads and Ty didn't he just had his uncle and his aunt. As I would see it from my point of view that these stories are alot the same but a little different at times I recommend this book to people who like sports because they both show that they you need hard work in sports and always practice to get better

The Big Fight

In The Big Field Hutch and his friends play baseball and there in a special little league that they go and play big  baseball championships and Cody is one of Hutches friends that play with him. They have a kid named Darryl on their team and he thinks he’s the best one on the team and the funniest but no one thinks he is and he always tries to fight with other people.  The story is written in Mike Lupica’s point of view from this perspective, a lot of events and characters are described in a way that creates physical emotion and emotional the reader about Hutch and Darryl when they fight at practice and Hutch gets suspended from one game by coach Cullen. One way that Mike Lupica point of view influences the reader's interpretation is how this perspective shows how Hutch and Darryl get in a fight and how Hutch becomes the team captain as he makes the play of the game for his team to win. Mike also influences me is what Darryl thinks of Hutch or if the team likes Darryl because Darryl doesn’t really like Hutch who is the team captain. I think Hutch is nice and he has good sportsmanship and he helps people in practice. I think of Darryl as a mean kid because he fights with Hutch and the coach like when Hutch got suspended Darryl was talking bad about how he plays baseball However, the reader would feel a lot differently about Darryl if the novel was written in the point of view of Hutch’s dad. For instance the reader wouldn't think that Darryl is mean because Hutch’s dad never goes to his practices so he doesn’t know how Darryl acts. As you can see, the point of view of a story forces the reader to see just one side of an event or topic. In The Big Field the narrator's perspective makes the reader feel good about Hutch and Cody but bad about Darryl. 

Point Of View

Author's Note: This essay is about Point of View and I’m writing this about song lyrics and what I think it’s about.

The song that I’m writing point of view on is I Roll Up and I chose this song because its one of my favorite songs by Wiz Khalifa. I think this song is about a relationship and this girl should break up with his boyfriend and get with him the reason Wiz says I roll up is because he will come whenever the girl needs his help and he says that he doesn't really care what her friends think of him. He's also telling her that they will be on vacation all the time and he tells her that it won’t be boring hanging out with him.

Lyrics
[Wiz Khalifa - Verse 1]
Its your anniversary isn't it
And your man ain't acting right
So you packin' your Domiar luggage up callin' my cell phone, try and catch a flight
You know one thing straight, I'll be there girl whenever you call me
When you at home that's your man, soon as you land you say that's all me
But ain't all g with him no more, you ain't entertained
Since I meet you a couple months ago you ain't been the same
Not sayin I'm the richest man alive but I'm in the game
As long as you keep it 100 Imma spend this change,

[Chorus]
Whenever you need me
Whenever want me,
You know you can call me, I'll be there shortly
Don't care what your friends say, cause they don't know me
I can be your best friend, and you be my homie
I ain't gonna flex, I'm not gonna front
You know if I ball, then we all gonna stunt
Send her my way, she ain't gotta hold up
Whenever you call baby I roll up, I roll up, I roll up
Whenever you call baby I roll up, I roll up, I roll up
Whenever you call baby I roll up

[Wiz Khalifa - Verse 2]
I try to stay out your business
But on the real you're so obvious
And if you keep fitting me in your plans and messin' up, your mans gonna catch onto us

That white sand surrounding us
He be handcuffing, he should work for them officers
If you rolling I got a spot where I can put you on this medical, and send you home doctored up
You wanna ride with me cause you say that he boring
Wake up you rollin' , cooking eggs in the morning
Ain't scared to spend this money I'll make more of it
First you was in the sky now you say you in orbit

[Chorus]

No matter where I am
No matter where you are
I'll be there when it’s over baby
Cause I was there from the start
No matter if I'm near
Don't matter if your far
All you do is pick the phone up lady
And I'll be there when you call

Whenever you need me
Whenever want me,
You know you can call me, I'll be there shortly
Don't care what your friends say, cause they don't know me
I can be your best friend, and you be my homie
I ain't gonna flex, I'm not gonna front
You know if I ball, then we all gonna stunt
Send her my way, she ain't gotta hold up
Whenever you call baby I roll up

Whenever you need me
Whenever want me,
You know you can call me, I'll be there shortly
Don't care what your friends say, cause they don't know me
I can be your best friend, and you be my homie
I ain't gonna flex, I'm not gonna front
You know if I ball, then we all gonna stunt
Send her my way, she ain't gotta hold up
Whenever you call baby I roll up, I roll up, I roll up
Whenever you call baby I roll up, I roll up, I roll up
Whenever you call baby I roll up

I roll up, I roll up
Whenever you call baby I roll up

Ty and Cole Similarities

Author's Note: This essay is going to be about compare and contrast and I will be comparing the main character of Touching Spirit Bear and Football Hero and those characters are Ty and Cole.

Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen is about Cole getting fight with everyone and Cole's parents are no better than Cole when Cole's dad get drunk he beats Cole later in the book Cole's father tries to get custody of Cole. Cole lets his anger out on a boy named peter Cole has to go to this detention center where Cole has a choice of going to jail or this Circle of Justice System. Cole must be Stranded on this island for a year because of what he did. The story Football Hero by Tim Green has a main character like Cole his name is Ty and his problem is family just like Cole Ty's parents die in a car crash and he has to go live with his uncle and aunt. His uncles has a cleaning business and he has go around buildings to wash their toilets and when Ty starts working in the business he also is going to tryout for football  and he has a hard time trying to make friends. I think I would be Ty rather than Cole because Cole gets mauled by a big white spirit bear and Ty just gets made fun of and you can always fix that but you cant fix getting mauled by a bear.

The way these two characters are similar is that they both have family problems like Ty has to live with his Aunt and Uncle and Cole gets beaten by his dad. Ty and Cole have both physical and emotional pain. Cole's physical pain is when Cole gets attacked by the bear and he gets hurt very badly and Ty's physical pain is when the football team pushes him around and throws him in the mud. Ty's emotional pain is when he got bullied by his teammates and he gets called toilet boy and Cole's emotional pain was when he kept remembering the attack of the bear. Cole also had emotional pain by remembering his dad beating him and his parents leaving.

Cole fixed his problem by just calming down and asking more question to Garvey and Edwin how to get rid of the fear of being attacked again. Once Cole had spent one month on the island he started to help rebuild the cabin that Cole burnt down when Garvey and Edwin started talking some sense into Cole he started to be more relaxed and didn't really complain as much as he did when he first got on the island. Ty fixed his pain by showing everyone who he is by showing that he can play football and hes very fast Ty also went and told his aunt and uncle and the school principle that he was getting pushed around and getting called names.

My conclusion for this essay is that Ty and Cole do have some similarities and some differences, some differences are that Cole got more physical pain because he got hurt more and his right arm didn't work as good as it would before the attack. Ty's Differences are that he had at least some of his family to help him get through his parents death and the bullying. 

Football Brothers

Author's Note: This essay was about theme "determination and hard work" the book I did it on was Football Hero by Tim Green  and how Ty changed his life and his brothers.

Ty is the main character in Football Hero after his parents death he had to move in with his Uncle Gus his uncle always told Ty that he had no time for sports. In the book, Ty goes through some struggles like his parents death and moving schools then living with his uncle. When Ty goes to school he tries out for the football team and he makes the team but when he showed up in the locker room everyone made fun of him because he cleans toilets for his uncles business. One day when Ty's brother Thane came to visit, he gave Ty some tips on how to be better in football and stay in school after football practice. The next day Ty and Thane go and practice football he taught Ty how to shed blocks and block. After Thane and Ty did that practice he took Ty back home and wished him goodnight. 

You know that you have to have good grades to play sports and you always have to work extra hard so you can graduate from college. You will always have to work for it like how Ty kept practicing and getting better at football. When Ty got in the gambling game with his uncle and his uncle's boss he had to keep a secret from his brother because he thought his brother would be mad at Ty because he was using him for fantasy football to find out all the injuries. Once Thane found out about Ty getting involved with the gambling Thane was very mad at Ty, when Ty told him the truth they had to go talk to the police about the gambling and how they can take down Lucy Ty's uncles boss.When Ty got in trouble he could of ruined Thanes career because of his uncle, if Ty never got in to the gambling he could of just kept going on with his life and just kept going to football. Just like a NFL running back Reggie Bush he got stripped of his Heisman trophy because he sold his college football jersey when he was in college and there's a rule in college football that you cant do that so the NCAA took the Heisman trophy away from him.You know that you have to have good grades to play sports and you always have to work extra hard so you can graduate from college. You will always have to work for it like how Ty kept practicing and getting better at football. 

Ty gets a break

Author's Note: In the book Football Hero Ty changes alot through out the story at first hes a little boy  and later on he becomes a star.

Ty is a little boy that lives with his uncle and Aunt because his mom and dad died in a car crash and now he goes do a different school and he tried out for the football. Ty is underestimated by people because his brother is better than him at football and his brother is big and fast and everybody likes him and his brother his known as tiger. Once his brother went to college for football Ty was very sad and he thought he would never see his brother again. After Ty moved in to his aunts house he had to get to work right away like doing yard work and working for his grandparents cleaning job. I think Ty changes in this story because he was brought down by everybody and he thought he could never play football as good as his brother and later on he really starts to believe he could because Tiger told him to keep trying and never give up.

As the story goes on Ty's grandparents can really see that Ty wants to play football and really wants to be like his brother. A couple months after Ty was living with his grandparents Tiger came to visit and ask Ty if he wants to go to the NFL draft and Ty went and asked his grandparents and they said yea. After he went to the draft Ty came back and he change the way he played football he became more aggressive and studied the plays more. If Tiger never would of came to visit Ty I think nothing would of change because Tiger gave Ty a lot of encouragement and tips on how to get better. Once he showed more aggressiveness in practice the coach said that he could tell how Ty changed the way he practiced and he could also tell that he knew the plays better.

Ty influenced his other teammates by telling them to never give up and also get better by studying the plays after he got better he made more friends on the football team and he also started to fit in. Ty influenced me by never giving up and always try your hardest. I think this relates to real life by NFL players because they always practice and make mistakes but they always help each other and they never give up.

I think Ty changed from being a geeky boy and bad at football to a really cool football player I think he also changed by being a shy boy cleaning businesses for his grandparents cleaning service to a speedy wide reciever. Ty also got stronger by gain