What she saw

Authors note- This is a piece that shows what the old lady saw through her eyes.

In the story" Thank you ma'am" an old woman is about to get her purse stolen when she catches the boy and took him back to her apartment. When she was in the apartment with him she was feeling a sense of forgiveness towards the boy and felt she should help this kid out with his dirty face and give him ten dollars. I agree with her choice I'm sure it made him feel real good and it probably made her feel better. She made a good decision with herself and because she had gone through that road she knows how it feels like.  In the end it all about knows how being in a bad community feels like this old woman knew about.

Year of the Hangman vs. The Patriot

Drew Barth

Year of the Hangman vs. The Patriot

             How would you feel if your two of your sons died in the Revolutionary war? Well in the movie The Patriot A farmers boys both want to go into war but there dad doesn’t want them to. So the eldest boy Gabriel goes in the war and fights until he comes back to his dad’s house wounded and his brother Thomas tries to protect the family and dies. Soon later the eldest boy dies too ; now his dad Benjamin Martin has lost two off his children and he wants revenge. Revolutionary war was such a big influence of what America is today. Now imagine if we didn’t win like the book Year of the Hangman. We would maybe still be a part of England. In The Patriot the Americans did win and we became a free country. These stories are nothing alike and it shows us what could happen in every scenario. This is why these stories show us that the war was a triadic lost on both sides the Americans and the British.

            The Year of the Hangman and The Patriot are two very opposite stories. In the Patriot they win the war and all is well. But in the Year of the Hangman they are struggling to survive and need to get some help from people because the British is after them. In the book year of the Hangman George Washington is caught and hanged right away in The Patriot George Washington leads his troops to victory with the French.

            Some Similarities between these stories are the close loved ones who were lost in war. Like the Patriot who lost both his sons. Also in the Year of the Hangman the main character Creighton lost his father in war when he was very young. And then when he moved to America because his mom didn’t like him very much she shipped him out to stay with his uncle. Later there ship got taken over by Patriots. When they got back to their camp they considered him harmless and allowed his to stay with them where he made a lot of friends. One day the patriots were planning a sneak attack on the British and one of his best friends Colonel Arnold died in battle. The people in these stories get hurt the most by their love ones missing or dead.

            These stories show that this war could have gone either direction. These books show that if General Washington didn’t lead us to win the war who would? The British had the better army and supplies but we had endurance and won. Both sides had a chance of winning. But on both sides there would be terrible lost of loved ones that would bother families for the rest of their lives.

Prediction

Authors Note: I am predicting on the story of Dead Man's Path.

  

In the story Dead Man's Path the main character Michael Obi  just got a brand new promotion as a head master at Ndume Central School. With that his wife and him moved to a new house. When he  gets their he is very happy about his new job and the people surrounding him. But when he notices a path were the villagers go and seek their departed relatives and ancestors he wants to shut it down before the big annual check up of the school.

What's going to happen? Well I think there is a few logical ideas but this is the most clear version is the school is going to get a bad check up and the school will look worst than it does already.  This is going to cause the school to shut down and the villagers will win their argument and have that ground forever. This is what I think will happen in the story of the Dead Man's Path.

Journal

During this break I had a basketball tournament. It was super fun. Except for one when we went up against a team from Illinois. They were super physical and I had bruises all over my body it was terrible. There were all sorts of trash talk and the game got rapidly out of control. Two players were warned about technical's and one of the players had a intentional foul. At the end of the game we won by 16 but it felt like we were tied at the end of the game.