Heroes

Author's Note: This essay will tell you how our country works together to fight for that we believe in. 

Millions of courageous men and women have served and protected their country in times of conflict. Those heroic people put their life on the line to save our country and bring us freedom. It shows how much patriots care for our country, when we see all the brave people that volunteer to go fight for our country. It shows us there are people out there who care for everyone. No matter how hard some things might be for people in the army but they never give up on our country.

More than 650,000 American lives have been lost; more than 1.4 million service members wounded in battle. We remember and honor all that these heroes have sacrificed for America’s freedom. Many people have crushed hopes and dreams from trying to save our country. A lot of families have lost loved ones in war, but all the people lost in war are remembered forever as a hero and will never be forgotten throughout the history of our country. Most patriots go to war knowing there is a big chance they won’t come back but everyone hopes for the best. A lot of young men leave behind their wives and all their plans for the future for when they come back from war, often people have plans for the future that don’t always work out.

In the United States we encourage each other’s choices even though sometimes they aren’t the right ones. Anyone who leaves their life as they know it to go fight for people they don’t even know but care about just as much as people close to them in their lives are the true heroes of America. These great humans give up their life for us. Many leave their growing families to help our country. The people who fight for us are the reason why we have freedom to make our own decisions and why a lot of people can do things we would have never imagined without freedom in our country. I want to say thank you to all the brave soldiers that are out there fighting for our freedom and saving our country.  

The Hunger Games

Authors Note: This is my conflict and resolution piece for the book The Hunger Games. This piece shows what happens in the Hunger Games and how things would be different if they hadn't happened. 

The book the hunger games is based on North America in the future and they have 12 different districts and one capital. Every year the Capitol of Panem hosts an event called the Hunger Games where two "tributes" – a boy and a girl – are drafted from each of the twelve districts to be brought to an arena and fight to the death, only one person can win. This is to remind the country not to rebel and for entertainment. This year, unfortunately, Katniss's little sister is selected for the Hunger Games, so Katniss volunteers to take her place.

If Katniss didn’t volunteer for prim there would be no chance of her surviving because unlike Katinss, Pirm didn’t hunt and didn’t really care to be outside so she mainly helped her mother with nursing sick people. If Katniss wasn’t there for the whole thing Peeta probably wouldn’t of tried to win in the hunger games because he wouldn’t of had anything to fight for, but because he told everyone that he loved Katniss they were expected to be together and fight together to the end. 

The Last Song

Authors Note: This is my cause and effect piece for the book The Last Song. This shows what things happened in the book The Last Song and how they effected the things that went on throughout the story.

The main conflict in the book “The Last Song” is Ronnie has to spend the summer with her father that she hasn’t talked to for three years. While she is there she has to deal with all the emotions for Will, her new love throughout the summer. As she is focused on Will and the fact that they are going to completely different collages she finds out her father has stomach cancer only has so long to live. Ronnie finds it hard to forgive her father after her parents divorce and blames him for the separation.

The resolution of this book is after Ronnie realizes there is nothing else she can do to help her father’s fate, she finds playing the piano helps her always have a connection with her father, and forgive him and get over all the hate. This made her father happy while helping him hang on to life a little longer. Ronnie is going to Julliard and Will changes schools to be with her. She realizes Will loves her for who she is and doesn’t try to change her. 

TJ

“ TJ is dead”. The words lingered in my mind as my whole body went numb I fell to the ground, my mom’s arms wrapped around me. Sobbing we both sat there, I had a million questions but I couldn't find the words; even if I did have the words I couldn't speak them. I couldn't process the thought. It felt like a bad dream but as I sat there it all became more real to me. One of the only people I could tell everything to was gone forever.  As I sat there it never hit me that the closest thing I had to a brother was gone just like that.

The words played over and over again in my head. Those are some of that last words that I thought I would ever have to hear, I wish I hadn't of had to hear them either. The pain still sinking in, I thought about all the funny things that made TJ such a fun person to be around. I thought about how he was just about to start living his life when suddenly he had no life to live. I thought of the last time I saw him and I could just play the scene in my head. I realized I couldn't just go to his house whenever I wanted just to talk to him, I can’t hear his joyful laugh that when you hear it you can’t help but laugh with him. He just made me happy whenever I was around him.

Before all of this happened I remember thinking about how sad I was going to be when he went off to college this year. Now he went away but never came back. My life will never be the same without him here, every time I’m outside doing something I turn around expecting him to be standing there waving at me with his skateboard in hand and his purple hat that made his hair look like a vibrant orange. That’s how I remember him the last time I saw his face and the last time I talked to him.

That morning I could tell there was something wrong when I saw his mom standing by my back door she just looked lost but I didn't talk to her because my mom answered the door. Awhile after his mom came to my door I heard my mom come back in and she called me down, usually she would just yell up to me and tell me what she needed or something , but I could tell it was different as I slowly walked down the stairs and saw her crying my last thought would have been that he had died.  As the words that came out it stung my ears. People say you never know what you have until you have lost it, but I knew what I had I just never thought I would lose it, he was supposed to be there with me through everything. That day realizing he was out of my life killed me inside but no matter what he will still in my memories forever.