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A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? Edgar Allan Poe

My…kewl response to this poem:

Hope is Gone!

The Poem “A Dream Within a Dream” seems like a tensed sad and tragic poem to me. I think in this poem there is a female who is trying her level best to save someone or something form a great disaster that only she can see coming. It seems like to me that this girl is really stressed from a shock and is having a breakdown. She is at the moment realizing all the wrong things in her life. She is realizing that time is slipping away from her hands and there is nothing she can do about it. She is getting tensed and every moment asking questions to herself, which is making things worse because she doesn’t have any answers to them. She realizes that she has to do something fast but she doest know how and if she doesn’t work fast this disaster could ruin her life even more. She is in a very critical position at the moment. She wants to relax but she can’t because of these problems and questions in her head. She has lost all her hope and wants to declare that whatever she has been thinking is a dream, but the truth is her Dream is within a Dream. This basically means that whatever she wants to be a dream is actually a dream and cannot happen. The writer, Allan Edgar Poe has made an amazing theme for this poem. It seems all tensed, stressed and depressed which helps me understand the real meaning of the poem deep inside my heart. I feel sorry for this girl who is in a situation of less time and more work because I know how it feels when stubborn teachers give so much work and all of it is due like the next day. But still this is not a good relation because what the girl is facing is far more complicated. Poet Allan Edgar Poe has used his amazing poetic style in this poem just like he had done in Annabel Lee by making some really good comparisons such as he described trouble or death by saying disaster in one sentence that he made another comparison by describing time as sand grains slipping through the hand (Metaphors). There is also an example of onomatopoeia, How few! Yet how they “creep”. There are also good examples of imagery like the first and sentence of the second stanza “I stand amid the roar” “on a surf-tormented shore.” Overall, this poem has a sad theme and tensed theme, it is more of a narrative poem because the girl is mentioning all her problems and is telling us about them. I think Mr. Poe has done a great job at this poem because this poem just starts to connect deep in your heart somehow from this soft, touching and revealing, language. I hope to understand the true meaning of this poem as soon as possible because I know this poem has a lot more to it than what I have mentioned.

 

WOW!!! What a suspense!?!?!

Loch is an amaaazing… book. It’s a mystery full of suspense and it’s a type of book that you would first look and say ‘it looks interesting’ but then in the middle you would say ‘boriiing’ and in the end you would say ‘Cool! That was some good book’. In my opinion this book became very interesting when it came close to the end. This book also interests me because nowadays monsters and underwater creatures don’t really exist. Paul Zindel has yet again come up with an amazing book about endangered and prehistoric species. In this book there is a boy nick named Loch because when he was a toddler he faced a monster at a lake. Loch, his little sister Zaidee and his girlfriend Sarah find a small plesiosaur in a lake where Sarah’s dad Cavenger and Loch’s dad Dr. Sam, with a whole crew, look for these monsters so they could catch them and research on them and after that they could put it in the museum. Loch and Zaidee one day find a young plesiosaur in the lake, they tell Sarah about it and so they all make friends with it because of its incredible mind and its kind nature. Now these three go through many difficulties because they wanted to protect these creatures from Cavenger and his men. Through out the story many people die horrible deaths and many times Loch also had to face his dad and had to try to stop him. But in the end of the book I think it’s all worth reading.   I recommend this book to all suspenseful mystery lovers and to people who do not judge a book by its cover and especially to those who love Paul Zindel and his books!

                   

                                       The Book cover                                                                     The Loch ness monster!!!

???Johnny Tremain….Novel or Movie???

I have read the Novel Johnny Tremain and I have also watched the movie Johnny Tremain and if you would ask me I would prefer the novel if you want to know all the details of the story. Trust me, it’s the right choice. The novel and the movie do have many similarities. For example: Many of the characters are the same in the movie and the story is also very similar to the Novel. But even though the characters in the Novel such as Johnny, Rab and Cilla are the same in the movie, many characters arent’t there at all such as Madge, Dorcas, and Issanah Lapham, also the other two apprentices Dove and Dusty who worked with Johnny at the Lapham’s house. So as you can see if all these characters arent’t there in the movie you can tell many parts that are mentioned in the book are missing in the movie. The story is exactly the same from some parts because both the Novel’s and the Movie’s main point is Johnny Tremain’s life, But even though  the way his hand got burnt is changed and that he went to Lexington before war which is not mentioned in the  the Novel, In the Novel it is stated Johnny goes to Lexington in the very end and finds Rab dead while in the movie he is there before the battle and helps the Sons of Liberty and minutemen fight with the Redcoats which was totally not what I expected or what others would expect after reading the book. Parts such as the Sons of Liberty and the horse Goblin were there in the movie and novel except the facts that in the novel the meeting code of the Sons Of Liberty was 8 shillings and in the movie it was 6 shillings and in the book Goblin the horse was White while in the movie Goblin was Black which seemed very awkward because it was really unexpected. Overall I think the Novel and the Movie Johnny Tremain were really good and interesting even though they were slightly different from each other and anyways the main point of watching the movie after reading the novel was to understand it in a better way, which in my opinion I did.

$$$MY DREAM VACATION!!!$$$

My dream vacation would be a world tour! I prefer to have a world tour rather than a just a small mini vacation inside Saudi Arabia because there are so many places in this world where you could go and have the time of your life rather than staying in this small coastal city. In my world tour I would like to see all the wonders of the world and I would like to learn about their history because I have always been very interested in the field of exploring and discovering new things. In my world tour I would like to go Europe first, I would go to Paris and see the Eiffel tower than I would go to London to see the world’s biggest Ferris wheel and Big Ben. Then I would like to go to Italy and see the leaning tower of Pisa and the Roman Coliseum. Then from Europe I would like to go to the states and go to Hawaii, then from their to New York to see the Statue of Liberty, then I would like to go to Washington to see the White house, the Washington Monument, etc. After the states I would like to go to Canada and meet all my friends in Toronto and Vancouver. Next I would like to go to Africa to see the Mummies in Egypt and then go to South Africa and see the wild life of Cape Town and Johannesburg! After Africa I would like to go to Asia. In Asia first I would go to my country visit my family and then go to India to see the Taj Mahal! After India I would like to visit Nepal to see Mount Everest (No Climbing). After that I would want to go to China so I could see the Great Wall of China and then Australia to see the Opera House in Sydney and to see Steve Irwin’s zoo! After Australia I would like to come back to Saudi Arabia and live the life I have always been living. Well I know this is all just a dream and to make this dream true, I’ll have to struggle a lot on my own and become a successful person so I could afford my dream. I hope in the future I get a chance to have this world tour and make my dream vacation come true!

.::’I am Johnny the Indentured Rebel’::.

I am Johnny the Indentured rebel

I wonder if i could ever marry Ms. Lavinia Lyte

I hear the calls of my dead mother

 I see a light from the stars in the darkened sky

I want to see Cilla’s beautiful face

I am Johnny the indentured rebel

 

I enjoy being with my true friend Rab

I feel the breeze brush against me

I believe I wil suceed in my goals

I worry when i think of my crippled hand

I cry when i remember my dead mother

I am Johnny the indentured rebel

 

I understand life isn’t always fair

I say dreams don’t always come true

I dream I could see my mother someday

I try extremely hard to be perfect

I hope I will succeed inlife and achieve my goals

I am Johnny the indentured rebel

‘THE PATRIOT’ vs. ‘THE LOYALIST’

 If this movie ‘The Patriot’ would be called ‘The Loyalist’ then the whole movies main point would be different because then it would be based on the loyalists point of view and it would be also be supporting the British side. In my opinion it would also be persuading people to favor the British just like ‘The Patriot’ persuaded me to favor the Americans. ‘The Loyalist’ for sure would be a favorite of the Loyalists and the British because it would be show that what the loyalists said was fair and right and it would also make the patriots look bad exactly like they did in the ‘The Patriot’.            If the British Broadcasting Corporation would want to make this movie in a loyalists point of you it would be very different from ‘The Patriot’ because then in the movie there would be all negative facts about the patriots and positive facts about the loyalists because they would have to make the movie in favor of the loyalist by hiding all the negative facts of the loyalists and the British so that the movie would persuade people to be in favor of the loyalists and the British.            Even though the movie ‘The Loyalist’ would be different from ‘The Patriot’ it would still have some same things such as the facts that all the battles would remain same in the movie, the British uniforms Redcoats, the patriots three edged hats would also be the same, the British’s pride and the Patriots spirits raised high fighting for freedom. So even if there would be a few differences and a few similarities in ‘The Loyalist’ it would still be very interesting to watch just like ‘The Patriot’ which was so realistic and enjoyable to watch! 

~*~ The Foreigners to the Rescue in favor of the Americans!!!~*~

France, Spain, Poland and the African American slaves were the ones without whom I think the Americans never would’ve won the American Revolution. Ok I have to admit that Patriot Benjamin Franklin went to France to gain foreign support. But the fact that French were ready to give their support to the Americans seemed really fascinating to me and also the young French individual Marquis de Lafayette who barely had any combat experience was volunteering to fight against the British and that he also gave $200,000 to the revolution in order to aid the patriots.

Spanish governor Bernardo de Galvez was a “key ally to the patriots” because he allowed the Americans to use the Spanish port and he also attacked British forts along the Mississippi river in order to help the Americans. So the Spanish aided the patriots at the western frontier. This may not seem much but trust me it was more than enough for the Americans.

Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Kazimierz Pulaski were the Polish who came to America from Poland in order to help the Americans win the war. Kosciuszko showed his gratitude to the patriots by bringing army engineering skills to the war effort and Pulaski showed his appreciation to the patriots by helping the train cavalry units.

The African Americans volunteered by fighting for the Americans throughout the war which also made their army bigger! After receiving all this help from foreigners obviously they won but it doesn’t mean that the patriots themselves didn’t do anything. In my opinion I think the patriots just got lucky! Without this foreign help I don’t think they would have won because they British army had an army twice as large as theirs and they also had more weapons then the patriots. I think the Americans even now should be very thankful to the French, Spanish, Polish and Africans because in my point of view if it wasn’t for them the Americans might have never won the battle and gotten their “LIBERTY!”

This picture shows the three different kinds of people involved in the Declaration Act of Independence.

.:-::AdViCe CoLuMn RePlY::-:.

Dear Johnny, 

I feel really bad for you not because you have a crippled hand but for the fact that in just such a young age you are facing such harsh remarks from people. I think you should just forget about what people say. Just believe in yourself, just remember the old Johnny and do what you heart tells you to, listen to it, and you will find the answer. But if this doesn’t help my advice to you is to accept Mr. Revere’s offer. I am sure he will have sympathy in your hand and will understand your feelings. Just believe in your self don’t think about the negative facts about your life, just remember all good things about Johnny, just remember how talented Johnny is. Listen to me and from now on only think about what you can do with one hand that others do with two and prove yourself to the world that you can  do everything in the world with one hand and gain all your pride that you once lost. Just believe in yourself and believe in God. Along with me whatever god does he does it for our own good. Don’t stay Isolated from people in the house just be yourself, just be the same old Johnny and you’ll be fine. I have had some other people who just came to a point where they didn’t know how to get along with there life. I gave them the same advice and believe it or not it worked and now they are very successful people. Don’t be ashamed of your self and be proud of yourself that you overcame such hard tough times all by yourself. Trust me leave the Laphams if you think they don’t respect you for who you are anymore and accept Mr. Revere’s offer and you’ll get through TRUST ME. I also want you to know that you were never a looser, you are not a looser and you will never be a looser. Just be the same old great silversmith that you were except this time just with one hand an you will accomplish everything! Good Luck! 

Sincerely,  

Anne Hathaway