Dreams

Author's Note: this is my figurative language essay.

 Figurative Language is a really good way to add voice. Voice is a nice thing because it puts emotion and feeling into what your reading. That way, you can lure the reader in .

 Metaphors are used in this poem two times. The metaphors are, "Life is a broken-winged bird" and "Life is a barren field." Those two phrases are metaphors because the author is writing life as if it was a broken-winged bird or a barren field. The over all tone that you get when you read these two, is depression. You get a sense of sadness and loneliness.  The way you can tell is because there isn't really anything happy or cheerful about a broken bird or an empty field. By the author using those two specific metaphors, you can kind of guess that his life isn't easy and that life isn't treating him as well as he would wish.

By the author using personification in this poem, it shows you that the author can look outside the box. Personification is giving human traits to something that isn't human; like an animal or something like that. So in the phrase "For if dreams die," you get a sense of worry. Like the author is worried about letting his dreams die down, otherwise known as waking up from a good dream that nobody would want to end. Even if it was better than you life is.

In the first stanza, it talks about how if his dreams die, then life would be a broken-winged bird. In other words, he is thinking that when he wakes up, he will be brought back to the miserable reality. I get a sense that he will come back to the world that might misunderstand him. One that he won't be able to accomplish anything in life because there is no sunlight.

In the second stanza, he is talking about that how if his dreams go, then he will come back to this barren field of life frozen in snow. How I take this is that he feels if his dreams end and he wakes up, its back to this empty life that isn't anything but horrible. There is no excitement what so ever. It’s just boring and empty.

Voice is the way to go when your writing because it is an upper level in writing. By using voice, your giving the reader the emotion that the character is feeling. By giving the reader this experience, it can really draw them into the book and not want to put it down. 

Deadly Little Voices.

Author's Note: this is my second attempt to my Point of View. This time, I have decided to do it on my recent book, Deadly Little Voices.

 Have you ever been eager to help someone out? Even though you know you haven't done them any good? Have you ever been warned by voices in your head? The voices are telling you something is going to go wrong, and you want to make it right?

Camellia has. Her whole teenage life has been nothing but a blur between reality and dreams. Lately, all her visions have been leading up to one thing, Danica. Camellia thinks that its her duty to protect Danica from any danger headed her way. As Camellia is trying to gather clues on what might happen to Danica, Danica refuses to talk to her. Danica's reason is Camellia was in the popular group called the Candies. One day the Candies went with some guys to Danica's house. The guys were calling out to Danica to have her come outside. When she stepped outside onto her porch, they attacked her with avocados. Camellia wasn't one of the people throwing them, but she feels  guilty because she just stood there and didn’t do anything to help her. Now Camellia is doing everything in her power to try to make it up to Danica by trying to save her.

This book is based on Camellia's point of view. When reading this book you see Camellia is a girl who is having a really hard time with coming to terms with the drastic change in her life, she is gaining new "powers" that allow her to see in the future. She is trying to help Danica but is not having any success. The reader can't see Danica's point of view. It's hard see Danica's feelings on how awkward it is to have some random girl she doesn’t know following her everywhere and not realizing the girl is just trying to help her. You can tell by the way Danica talks in the book that she is completely uncomfortable with Camellia stalking her .

Now, if the book was based on Danica's point of view, it would be a completely different story. Imagine what it would be like being in her shoes. She has this girl one day come to her house, school and job harassing her with many questions saying that she is in danger. How would you react to a stranger approaching you? Telling you that you are in danger! On top of it, everyone in school is talking about how crazy Camellia is.

As you can tell, the point of view in this book depends on the opinion of the readers. This book can change people's perspectives a lot regarding different situations. As the point of view changes, so does the story. Camellia and Danica are different people, with completely different thoughts on things in life. Camellia thinks she's helping,  but Danica thinks she crazy. What would you think if you were in either one of these girls shoes?