Nothing Gold can Stay

There are 2 metaphors in the poem Nothing Gold can Stay. There is also a personification in this poem.  Today we will be focusing on 1 of the metaphors and the personification. We will focus on the metaphor first and then we will transition into the personification.

The metaphor we  are focusing on is “Natures first green is gold”. This metaphor describes that natures first green is a beautiful sight no matter what it looks like. The first green of nature is worth a lot and that what  the author feels this metaphors tone is. We still have the personification to go over.

The personification we will be working on is “So Eden sank to grief”. This personification tells us about nature losing its leaves and summer changing to fall. In the garden Eden he believes that it lost its color and looked sad. 

When you read this poem you think that the leaves and the grass are coming back. You also think that summer is here and winter is gone. Also that trees, grass, and plants come back to life and that “Natures first green is gold”. But the poem is also saying that summer changing to fall that nature loses its beautiful colors.

So Nothing Gold can Stay is a popular poem that many people like and enjoy to read. Some people like analyzing text of certain poems and that is what I did in this poem for the people that want to know the tone of the metaphor and personification I have analyzed. 

Another point of view

Percy Jackson and the Olympians is wrote from a 2^nd person point of view. This story is wrote in different point of views but Percy Jackson is the main point of view. He influences his friends that help him on his journey to finding Zeus’s lightning bolt that has been stolen.

If this book were written from a different point of view It would have made me think differently about this book. This is a book that probably could only be wrote from Percy’s point of view because it is about a kid that is the son of Poseidon and Zeus’s lightning bolt has been stolen. So Percy and his friends have to find the bolt and return it to Zeus. He influences other characters in the story by not giving up even though he has a lot of tough times to go through he just doesn’t give up. By not giving up he influences others by them not giving up on Percy or giving up on themselves.

If the story was written from Annabeth’s point of view she would not have faced the medusa. The story would have probably ended right then and there but form Percy’s point of view he did face the medusa and killed her because he didn’t give up and neither did his friends because he influenced them by him getting hurt.

So if this book was wrote from a different point of view it would have been a different book and the book would not have as much action as it does now. Percy is a very unique character in the lighting thief.  So there u have it the book would be very different in another person’s point of view.

Will Vs. Percy

Both The Lightning Thief series and the Rangers Apprentice series are packed with suspenseful action and plot development.  Both feature both battle strategy and detailed descriptions of battles. Percy Jackson has more mythological characters. Although both series are fictional adventure stories, they both teach you something about history and culture. In Percy Jackson books you learn about Greek mythology, and in Ranger’s Apprentice books you learn about Medieval times.

Percy and Will have to face different creatures such as Percy having to fight a minotaur and Will having to fight wargals. Percy has many different things he has to learn not to be sad about such as his mom fought off the minotaur to help Percy escape to get to safety. Will had traveled to Arauel. But when they travel there they here that Morgarath has advised an attack. When Will and Horace travel to neighboring Celtica to deliver a message about the looming war, they find the area has been abandoned. Morgarath has enslaved the Celts and is using them to build a bridge that will allow his army to descend from the mountains and take Araluen by surprise. Along the way, Will and Horace find a terrified girl named Evanlyn hiding in bushes. The Wargals attacked her party, and she was the sole survivor. She also helps burn the bridge that the Skandians have built.

In both books there are 2 major battle scenes. Such as Will having to burn the bridge the Celts were forced to build. Will, Horace and Evanlyn had to fight to burn the bridge down which is a major battle in the Rangers Apprentice. If they had not burned the bridge Araluen might have been taken over by Morgarath. Percy also has a major battle such as facing Medusa one of the evilest creatures known to the gods. Percy and his friends have to find out a way to kill her. The only way you can kill her is by cutting her head off. That is exactly what he does to kill her. But if you look into her eyes you will turn to stone. That is the only challenge he has to face while the verses Medusa.

These 2 books have many differences but also have their similarities. Major battle scenes are books that will interest many different people. There are many different books to each series and they are all very good books but different plots and characters. All though they have differences they will always have similarities.   

The Compare and Contrast Piece

There is a Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief book and movie. They both were amzing. The book is far better than the movie because it was more detailed than the movie. There was so many differences between them, but there was hardly anything the same about them. 

There are a bunch of differences between the book and the movie. One of them was about how Percy Jackson fought Ares in the book. The book told us that Percy, Annabeth and Grover encountered with Ares. After Percy figured out that Ares was the one who put Zeus's master lightning bolt in the bag Ares gave him, Percy found himself fighting Ares on Santa Monica beach. Ares was also the one to blame about the disappearance of Hade’s helm of darkness. Till then, Percy Jackson challenged Ares to a battle. Percy won the battle and got the helm of darkness. 

ln the movie, it didn't mention anything about Percy, Annabeth and Grover's encounter with Ares. lt also didn't mention anything about Hade’s helm of darkness being stolen. Percy Jackson didn't fight Ares. Instead of heading to Santa Monica after they got out of the underworld, they just went straight to the Empire State Building. Percy fought Luke instead of Ares. 

There were only a few similarities between the book and the movie. One of them was that Percy and his accompanies got trapped inside the Lotus Casino/Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Each of them got in a trance because of how there was so many things they can do In the Casino.

Steve Harmon's point of view

In Monster the Steve Harmon is the main point of view in this story. The story is written in Steve Harmon’s point of view.  From this perspective, a lot of events and characters are described in a way that creates Steve’s mother to be sad that he has to go through this even though he is innocent. Fear is running through his mind as he is a suspect of the murder of the clerk and the robbing of the drug store.

One way that Steve Harmon’s point of view influences the reader's interpretation is how this perspective describes how he is innocent. When Steve says he is innocent and it’s kind of hard to believe him because he is an acquaintance with King. King is the man who shot the drug store clerk and he also robed the drug store. A little before the robbing of the drug store and the murder of the drug store clerk, a man saw him walk out of the drug store and he was a suspect.

However, the reader would feel a lot differently about Steve Harmon if the novel was written in the point of view of Petrocelli. For instance, the reader would react if she said that Steve was guilty without an explanation. They would most likely be confused because they would not know what was going on in the story without an explanation from Petrocelli

As you can see, the point of view of a story forces the reader to see just one side of an event or topic. In Monster, the narrator's perspective makes the reader feel that Steve is innocent. In the end of the story Steve Harmon is innocent

Book Vs. Movie

 Authors Note: This piece is the comparisons and differences between a book and a movie.

Imagine when people used to ride horses for transportation, or used candles to light there house at night. That is how it is in the movie The Patriot. and in the book Give Me Liberty. There are many things that you can compare and contrast between the movie and book.

One of the first things that are the same is it is based around the same time in the movie and book. 1775–1783 was the time of the revolutionary war which is the time setting in both the story and movie. In Give me Liberty they talk of the war and how it works and The Patriot shows it. The biggest topic they bring up all the time between both of them is war, but they also have many differences too.

A difference between the movie and the book is they have different point of views. It is different in the book it’s a first person point of view, everything is being told by a slave who is traveling with a musician. The movies point of view is a third person so you see everything that is going on. Sense the story is told by a young kid he does not know as much so it does not talk about slavery as much.

In the movie it talks about slavery and shows them and free used to be slaves. The books talks about slaves and how the character is a slave, but does not talk about any free slaves. Both books talk about how if slaves join the war they will have their freedom given to them.

In conclusion they both have many things alike, but also has just as many different things. So they both have slaves that will be granted freedom. They are based in the same time, and talks about war a lot of the time.

Michael Oher: Prediction piece

I predict that Michael Oher will have a successful time of getting in college but first he will have to get his grades up. I think Michael will be able to get into college and play football because he is actually a really smart person when he tries.  All he needs is a tutor for a couple subjects and he will be able to get his grades up very fast.

He will also have a successful time in a football career because his new family got him into football. A football coach for a college saw him play in a video and said he was a very good player. So that coach showed the video to other coaches and they said we are going to try to get him on their team. But to do that he has to get his grades up.

During the book people were being racist towards him. In the beginning of the book he was playing basketball and some kids were making racist jokes about Michael and he flipped them off. Also closer to the end some more kids were making racist jokes about him again. Michael pushed him into a bookshelf.

My prediction was the Michael was going to have a successful time in college and football. Further in the book you will learn that he did have a successful career in football and he did get into a college. This was based on a true story. This story was a great but sad story.