Brandon R -- Blogmeister

Dear Freshy,

Now that you have passed eighth grade, know you move up the scale of education. New teachers, more freedom to do what your talent and skill can be used for; also a time where your grades start counting for college, where they look from ninth to twelfth.

It’s really not that hard. All you have to do it pay attention, try your hardest not to get into any trouble. Not all the teachers will help you, and also can’t always teach the right way, but majority of the teachers are really good educators. Be organized; keep on top of your school work. Pay attention matter what; take notes. Don’t slack off, or you'll pay when you see your grades.

There is really no ninth grade difference from eighth grade to ninth grade, same drama, and same people; just a different grade, one closer to the end.

Sincerely,

Brandon Rogers

For this our love has ever been so groomed, so smooth? What if this is a lie and our love is not so groomed so smooth? This is not just a romance, but a journey into my life. The song “this one’s for you – Of Mice and Men” the meaning of this song is about two lovers that describe their love like Romeo and Juliet.

Saying “I’ll be the Romeo and you play the Juliet.” The song describes how he will be nothing without her, and that it’s not just a book he read, its reality, and that she will forever be in his heart. That she is so beautiful “so bright so bright.” That he’ll show her a heart that will never fail.
I agree that the allusion is clear in the song “this one’s for you – of mice and men” it does make you see what the song is talking about. It does catch your emotions, your eye in the song. The accuracy was dead on.
This was a amazing song to choose as a allusion, and relate the play Romeo and Juliet, by taking quotes from the play and putting them into their song, and also putting their names into the song. It also really described them, their love for each other, and also making it emotional, and visual.

May Free Write:

Have you had the time to think things over?
the time to wonder whats the next move?
Ever been surrounded by the dead.
Dieing over and over?

Every second;
I think of these memories that lay in my hopeless mind
Every minute;
We use to lie under these stars watching the world go around.
Spinning in circles;
Lost, not knowing where to go.
Blindfolded and delirious.
Trying to hit this piñata, but no luck what’s so ever.
Every hour;
I’m lost in these nightmares of the untold secrets
These secrets haunt my every moment;
For where it leaves me waking up screaming in the darkness.
Every day;
I lay here in this infested room
Where I crawl to the corner.
I curl up in a ball;
Hoping this dreadful feeling will go away, but we know it will never go away.
For I am death, because
These moments,
These memories,
Every second I wish something could relieve this curse.
Ever minute I kill another with the touch of my finger.
Every hour I scream for forgiveness.
Every day I die alone.
It’s all the same.
It never ends;
It never ends..

April Free-write

Death By Love?

In these shadows of darkness am I here by myself? Will I live in fear of finding another? There are so many questions. Do I have the time? who knows..

Excuse me love, sorry for the inconvenience, but may I have this dance?..
(Months pass, memories crash and burn into ashes;
For this shall be suicidal love).

For my memories shall lay in peace;
For my thoughts shall rest.
Under anesthesia where I must lay in these forsaken grounds;
Where we dig my shallow grave under this rotting oak tree;
Woken up from the lack of oxygen;
Clawing at the surface of the locked casket;
Looking into the dark;
Facing my fear of being buried alive;
Soon shall take my last breath.
The crows sitting on my grave stone
Which over years it crumbles to nothing
Where the maggots etching to find a way into my casket to eat my rotting flesh;
For after all the months without sleep,
I shall sleep forever
We sleep forever

March Freewrite

written by me

Ever thought what it would be like to be alone, lost, and hopeless?
Having a ticking timb-bomb in your hand. If you dont mind? Would you bury my corps in the sand..

Watch as the boat sinks in the middle of the ocean.
Watch as the captain takes his last breath.
Watch as this poor ship drowns in this ocean.
All the sorrow with its madness.
A recipe for forgiveness?
Lying flat on the ground of the sea.
Watching the last of his air vanishes as it hits the ocean’s surface.
Leaving nothing but water.
Given up waiting for his savior.
Given up on hope.
Given up on his dreams.
Watch as the sharks swim toward the wreck.
Watch as they turn towards the lonesome captian.
Watch as the sharks rip my body apart.
The blood going through the water.
Like food dye in your glass.
Watch as the chunks of his flesh get swallowed by the blood thirsty sharks.
Watch as no one will realize that he is lost at sea.
Swimming with the fishes..

January FreeSpeak
Cheeseburgers(:

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Februrary Free-write
I wrote this poem(:

So many questions, and there's so little time. So many thoughts, not enough dreams; what shall my prediction be, what to think?

would you tremble to the touch of my lips?
If I touched your lips?
You take my breath away
Waiting for the moment when our lips collide
Almost stops the earth.
Take my hand?
Dance in the moonlight?
You’re the light.
I’m the moth
You’re the brightest star.
I’m in love? It’s a beautiful day
I don’t care what the weatherman says.
Without you I can breath
Without you I can’t see
I have a purpose once again forgetting all the problems
Focusing on you
And only you

Extra Credit

Brandon CP English 9
Miss Transue
10 January 2012

Characteristics of Mr. Dark
Through the thought process, have you ever tried to read, or figure out Mr. Dark’s characteristics? Tried to figure out his ways? Here’s my summarization of finding the characteristics of Mr. Dark in the book Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Mr. Dark has many characteristics. The top three characteristics are powerful, evil, and freaky. He has a powerful characteristic because he controls the carnival. Freaky because he manipulates Will and Jim, and finally evil, because of how he threatened Mr. Halloway to stop his heart.
Mr. Dark is the freak with the leashes! He knows what strings to pull, and when to pull them. He is the alpha male of the carnival! Want reasons? Well, as Mr. Dark stood in the middle of the meadow. He made one gesture, and the train came to life! Like in the book ‘’All dark suit, shadow faced, he walked to the center of the meadow… He gestured once, and the train came to life’’ (Bradbury 52). Along with the carnival, Mr. Dark controls the freaks in the carnival. Every Freak Mr. Dark has in the carnival is on his body as a tattoo. “Mr. Dark and his mob of illustrations surged forward on the pine platform a jungle beneath each arm, and Egyptian viper scrolled on each bicep... and strange monsters gaped their fang’s from his chest, a Cyclopes with a novel for a squinted moron eye twitches on his stomach as he strobes” (Bradbury 110,111). Also the showing of the leashes that he holds “the freaks leaped in a frolic of shock, then calmed as the carnival owner continued with great ease, patting and soothing his own illustrations, which patted and soothed the freaks’’ (Bradbury 111).
Another characteristic is evil. Mr. Dark is evil because he was trying to find the boy’s. Mr. Dark threatens Mr. Halloway, Will’s dad, that if he doesn’t tell him where Will and Jim are that he’ll have the Dusk Witch give him a heart attack. “One of my friends, outside can fix you so it seems you died of most natural heart failure’’ (Bradbury 210). Also, Mr. Dark told Will that he put his mom on the carrousel and made her very old, so that Will would come out of hiding. ‘’William… Where’s your mother tonight? She was out riding the night wind… We put her on. Around. We left her on. A year, another year… around’’ (Bradbury 216). Then, Mr. Dark found Will and Jim. Mr. Dark, Will, and Jim saw Jim and Wills Moms outside going into the church, Will’s mom was perfectly fine. Then Will realized that Mr. Dark was bluffing. Will screams, and then Mr. Dark mocks him. Then Mr. Dark says to Will ‘’we’ll let her in?’’ Then Will starts to scream saying ‘’mom, come save us!” “Mom, Will screamed… Mom, Mr. Dark mockingly, Come save us… Well Let her in. Will strangled a sob. No. no. no” (Bradbury 221-222).
Mr. Dark is freaky! Mr. Dark controls the carnival, so he controls all the rides, and all the freaks that are involved. What’s freaky is that Mr. Dark can live forever! This is implied because he has the carousel, and he can go backwards however many years he wants to. So he can stay young forever! Another example of his freaky characteristics is when the Lighting Rod Salesman is walking down the street, he passes Mr. Halloway’s shop, and see’s the most beautiful women, and it reminds him of all the beautiful women he’s ever seen. Well that attracts him, so he touches the door, and it opens up by its self, and then he steps in and it closes. ‘’The Lightning-rod salesman stood there for a while… His hand touched the shop door. It swung open… He Stepped in. The door shut’’ (Bradbury 45) Then there is where Mr. Dark is looking for Jim and Will. He is looking for them, and it describes how he stalks, tippy toes trying to find them which is really freaky. ‘’Immensely patient that soft voice, ever the warmest friends to chilly creatures burrowed away, nested amongst dry books; so he scuttered, crept, scurried, stalked, tip-toed, wafted, stood immensely still among the primates’’ (Bradbury 215). The last reason why Mr. Dark is freaky is when he shows Mr. Halloway Jim and Will’s faces on his palms. “The Illustrated Man thrust out his hands… Tattooed in bright blue ink, Will’s face gazed up at him from the palm of the right hand… The left palm, Jims face was indelible and natural as life’’ (Bradbury 17)
As I stated that Mr. Dark is a powerful, evil, and freaky man. He tried to manipulate Will and Jim, threatened Mr. Halloway, lured The Lightning-rod salesman, completely controlled the carnival, and all that was associated with the carnival. Now that you read my essay, do you have a different thought process of Mr. Dark?

Work Cited
Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. New York, NY: William Morrow, 1962.
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