"Little Talks"

Authors Note: This is a song that some people might of heard at some point, but they probably never thought what the song really meant. The song "Little Talks" by Monsters and Men is a song that is about love and loss. In this song, there are two people singing. I wrote this piece in the guys point of view. The lyrics are in Italics and what I wrote my interpretation underneath each section of the song.

Hey! Hey! Hey!

I don't like walking around this old and empty house

So hold my hand, I'll walk with you, my dear

The stairs creak as I sleep, it's keeping me awake

It's the house telling you to close your eyes

Whenever I see you my dear, you don’t seem to know who I am. All I want to do is help, but I know there is nothing I can do. I will just sit by your side. I will guide, watch, follow you to wherever you may wish to go.

Some days I can't even trust myself

It's killing me to see you this way

'Cause though the truth may vary

This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

Hey! Hey! Hey!

There's an old voice in my head that's holding me back

Well tell her that I miss our little talks

Soon it will be over and buried with our past

We used to play outside when we were young

And full of life and full of love.

It’s killing me to see you this way, my darling; to see the glimmer disappear in your eyes. When you talked to yourself, I worried for you. You saw things that weren't there. I kept telling you that your mind was playing tricks on you, but I never knew if you believed me. You say that there is a voice holding you back, but listen to that voice my love. It will show you the way.

Some days I feel like I'm wrong when I'm right

Your mind is playing tricks on you, my dear

'Cause though the truth may vary

This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

Hey!

Don't listen to a word I say

Hey!

The screams all sound the same

Hey!

Though the truth may vary

This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

Hey!

Hey!

You're gone, gone, gone away

I watched you disappear

All that's left is the ghost of you.

Now we're torn, torn, torn apart,

There's nothing we can do

Just let me go we'll meet again soon

Now wait, wait, wait for me

Please hang around

I'll see you when I fall asleep

I sat by your bedside; I watched you disappear. We are now torn apart, and there is nothing I can do to bring you back to me my sweet. But please wait for me! I never wanted you to go! I hope you understand that I’ve always loved you.

Hey!

Don't listen to a word I say

Hey!

The screams all sound the same

Hey!

Though the truth may vary

This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

Don't listen to a word I say

Hey!

The screams all sound the same

Hey!

Though the truth may vary

This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

Though the truth may vary

This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

Though the truth may vary

This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

All life will end one way or another, but until then my darling, wait for me because we will see each other some day...

Compare and Contrast

Compare and contrast

Matt	Same	Maria
©     Clone     ©     Quiet     ©     Smart     ©     Can play music     ©     Worried a lot	©      About the same age    ©     Live in the Big House    ©     Both live in Mexico	©     Person     ©     Talks a lot     ©     Not that smart     ©     Scared about everything     ©     Likes animals

We just don't fight to fight

S.S. Revolutionary War Essay

Author’s Note: The Revolutionary War was a time of pain and suffering, but it turned out okay. In the movie The Patriot and the book Cast Two Shadows almost talk about the same things. This essay will show you that even two different stories can have the same meaning.

Movies and books can have many different things in common. They could be set in the same time period, they could be set in the same place, or they could even be about the same thing. That is what the movie The Patriot and the book that I read called Cast Two Shadows by Ann Rinaldi. This book and this movie both have to do with family, slaves, and rebels.

Caroline Whitaker’s father is in prison; her brother is off fighting for the Loyalists; and she, her mother, and her sister are confined to one room as a British colonel occupies their plantation house. She will do anything to fight for her family, just like Benjamin Martin in The Patriot. Caroline’s fight starts with going to help her brother who is injured. In The Patriot, Benjamin’s fight starts by helping his son try to win the war. I think that these two situations are alike because they both have to do with their families. Real people in the Revolutionary War had to cope with family situations. They didn’t really know if their love ones would ever come back to them. Some people though as their slaves as part of their family, but they also had to deal with knowing that they might have to go to war and never come back.

Slaves had to do with both The Patriot and Cast Two Shadows. In the movie, the slaves of Benjamin are like family to him. When the British come to take them away, Benjamin and his family feel like they are taking their most beloved relatives. In the book, Caroline had a special connection with one of the slaves at her family's plantation, because one of the slaves is actually Caroline’s grandmother! To make sure her grandmother, Miz. Melindy, won’t be taken away; like the slaves from The Patriot, Miz. Melindy had to pretend that she had marle fever. In both the book and the movie, the portray slaves as family, I know I would. But fighting for slaves wasn’t the only thing; some people fought and rebels.

Rebels were people who rose in a armed resistance against an established government or ruler. That is that Benjamin was. He made a armed resistance to go after the Red Coats. He was fighting for his freedom; just like Caroline’s father did. Caroline’s father was put into jail because of him being a rebel. Caroline and her family really wanted him back, but being a rebel was in their blood. Afterwards, Caroline because a rebel, but she fought in a different way than Benjamin. She fought to protect her family; to make them free in their own home again, and to also get her father back. I know that some people in the Revolutionary War did both of these things. All they wanted was to be free to do what they wanted to do; to not be ruled by a selfish king.

In the Revolutionary War, people had to deal with family, slaves, and rebels; just like The Patriot and Cast Two Shadows. They fought and fought till they couldn’t no more. But in the end, all of this fighting was worth it. Not we are free people, and that is all they ever wanted.

Sources:

Rinaldi, Ann. Cast two shadows: the American revolution in the South. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1998. Print.
The Patriot. Dir. Roland Emmerich. Perf. Mell Gipson. Columbia ;, 2000. Film.
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Living Through Loss

Theme Analysis

Author's Note: Everyone has to experience loss at some point in their life. I know I have. In the book Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver, Lena experiences loss but she copes with it differently than I thought she would.

At sometime in our lives, we will have to deal with loss. Loss is something that is hard to prepare for, because you will never know when it will happen. Losing someone close to you can be a difficult thing to cope with. In the book Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver, Lena is dealing with loss by struggling through the sadness, accepting the loss, and finding out the surprise loss can bring.

Loss can be a overwhelming thing. At the end of the book Delirium by Lauren Oliver, Lena’s love was shot as they tried to escape Portland, Maine. That was the last time Lena ever saw him. He was the only person she really trusted in her life. After a few days of finally realizing that her was truly gone, Lena became depressed. She was in the middle of the woods, all alone; she felt alone. I knew the same feeling three months ago when my cat died. To Lena, Alex was a beloved and trusted friend. I felt the same way about my cat. When I began to read this book, I longed to help her because at some point, you have to accept that they are never coming back.

Accepting death can be a hard thing to do. When Lena had to go back into Portland, she met a boy named Julian. Julian is an important figure in Portland because of his fathers strong belief of the procedure. Lena had spent some time with him and was starting to feel more comfortable around him because they had been captured together. Lena didn’t have enough time to think about Alex, just about keeping Julian and herself alive, knowing that all of Portland would be devastated if something happened to him. After a while of being with him, Lena had this strange feeling that she was falling for him. When I read this I was outraged. How could she get over Alex that quickly? He was her first love! It seems like she fell in love with Alex; she thinks he dies; then she falls in love with another boy! But I just read on, knowing that there would be more surprises to come.

Even the deepest wounds can heal at some point, but I didn’t know that Lena’s could heal that quickly. At the end of the book, Julian falls for Lena but then Alex comes and she finds out that he really isn’t dead. This wasn’t a surprise for me because I knew he was never dead and I knew that he had to come back. This came to Lena as a shock because the boy of her dreams had come back from the dead, or as so she thought. 

By struggling through the sadness, accepting the loss, and finding out the surprise loss can bring, Lauren Oliver explained through the story the struggle loss can bring. When I was reading, I wanted to convert Lena because i felt with loss too, but everyone deals with loss at some point in their lifetime.