Assignment MM3

#1
Some things that I found frustrating about the form were that you couldn't tell the audience what the actors were thinking. When I’m writing short stories there are always running commentaries of the characters' thoughts and feelings, which wouldn't ever be said out loud. The strengths in the form are that the dialog helps the story move along. Pleasant surprises I found were that its fun to write dialog. Unpleasant surprises; sometimes its hard to write believable dialog. I don’t think I ever will want to write more in this genre or its sister genres. It really cramps my style of including description and thoughts in the text. (108 words)

#2
I could write about things that happened to me in England. I could write about how guilty I felt when I changed the clock on Ms. Maggie’s Desk and made the sub let us go early. That’s like the worst thing I’ve ever done :P I could write about various experiences I’ve had at summer camps, I could write about skating at Grandmother and Granddad’s. I could write about the MS150 when Deanna and Ben and I helped out. If I could just write like twenty-one more words I would be finished. I don’t really have very many ideas, maybe something will happen over break. (105 words)

#3
be proud of your name
don’t date until your sophomore year of college
praise the Lord your God with all you’re heart soul mind and strength
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Be forgiving
Be caring
Be gentle
Quality over quantity with your friends
careful who you trust
Keep who you have a crush on to yourself or you’ll never hear the end of it
Make and be nice to your guy friends, but realize that you don’t ever need to be more than friends (again, until sophomore year of college)
Be joyful always
avoid quarrels
make peace
listen to me :P
(131 words)

Assignment MM2

Theme takes a back seat to other parts of the writing such as decent plot and good voice and whatnot because without that the story sucks to read. But i do think that without theme a story would be pointless and leave the reader wanting. So yeah, theme is important. Ok, 50 words, I’m half way there. I guess I don’t really know why theme is so important, maybe you just want to write something for fun, to make people laugh, but in that case you’d still have a theme- it’d be ‘lighten up’ or something along those lines. So I don’t think you can escape theme even if you want to. Theme is the purpose of the story, the driving force behind the actions of the characters. (128 words)

Great works last as long as there are people out there who appreciate them. It helps people to appreciate them if they are well written and have a message that is almost transcendental in how it can apply to people of all times and of many ages. Morals help books live longer, stories that apply to all generations. Pride and Prejudice for example is a story that girls can identify with, even though the processes of courtship and such have greatly changed. (82 words)

The lasting impact I want to have on the world is not so large as one might expect. I want to make an impact at home, on the people around me. I want to be an example as to how God’s love is real and good and even though I’m not perfect and they wont be perfect, we can get along and respect each other and not worry about someone coming to excommunicate us or something for hanging out with people of a different race, color, or religion. I want to have an impact on my children and let them grow up in a good environment like the one I just described, and then I want them to take what they learned from being kids and grow up and be what they want to be. I guess to sum all that up I’d say that I don’t want to change the world, I just want to have bettered the lives of the people I encounter. does that makes sense? (169 words)

i'm very curious as to who voted that I should always go to dances. :P

Assignment MM1 (Mr. Miles 1)

3. What is one piece of art (painting, movie, book, song, whatever) that has greatly inspired you? What is that piece and what about it has inspired you? Explain in detail.

This is not going to paint me as a person the way I want others to see me. But I have been inspired by this series of books and movies, both in how they were made and the actual content. That does not make me a freak or obsessed (ahem britta) nor does the poster on the door to my room; all that does is mean that I think Legolas is hot, which I dont think anyone can deny anyway.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien is a masterpiece of literature. The fact that he invented an entire alternate world with its own languages and cultures and histories and even its own mythology! And the conflicts that his characters go through are very real and applicable and inspiring! And if I ever was to pick a book or world to land in as a character, that would be it.
The reason the movies inspire me separately from the things the characters overcome is how the cast and crew worked together to keep the movies as true to tolkien as possible and how they were able to bring something so dear to people's hearts to life without breaking their hearts. And the amount of work and effort put in was a real testimony to what people can acheive when they're all passionate about a common goal.
So yeah, thats why I'm inspired by LOTR