Be Confident

Authors Note: This short piece is going to tell you about to main characters from two different stories and how they are similar to each other.

In the book Night Hoops  by Carl Deuker the main character Nick goes through hard times with his parents breaking up and a kid across the street from him. He is a big kid and great at basketball. He helps this one kid get good at basketball so they could play together on the varsity basketball team and become better friends. It is very hard for him to get this kid named Trent to basketball practices and games so in the hole book he has to stay strong and keep helping Trent through his hard times.

In the other book Million Dollar Throw by Mike Lupica the main character Brady is going to throw a football in a target at a football game if he makes it he gets a million dollars and if he gets the money he has to make a big decision whether to pay for a surgery that a girl he knows is going to have to save her life or to keep the money for later use. He decides to pay for the girls surgery. He had a very hard time making that decision.

In conclusion these books were very similar because they both involved dealing with a decision both helping someone and  both involved with sports and how you can get involved with that and making hard choices takes some thinking whether or not helping someone change their life around If you were in this situation what would you do I would be the good person and help them. So stay strong like they did and help anyone that needs help. 

My family and I love to ski and snowboard I like snowboarding better then skiing. My brothers and my dad and I wanted to go skiing so we went to Colorado and to a couple different resorts. We went to Vail and Breckenridge.When we were at Breckenridge I had a scary thing happen to me. So we get of the chair lift and there is a cat track is a long flat trial and it is hard for snowboarders to go on because you need speed so I was going along and there was kind of a small cliff and I was losing speed so little by little I was going  down I got to far down and had to take my board of and my two brothers and my dad were far up ahead and were waiting for me. So when I took my board off I put it in one arm and tried to climb back up but my feet kept slipping and I lost grip of my feet and slid down and my snowboard left my arm and slid down and I thought for sure I was going to go over the edge and badly hurt myself and I just randomly just stopped without trying to stop myself and my board stopped to. So I took my board and tried to climb again this time I got out and so I put my board on and road the rest of they way and went down the mountain I saw just my brothers there and went down to them and told them what had happened and they told me that dad went down the mountain and that he was going to ride the chair back up and try to find me so we waited and waited until he found all of us and he told us that we have to stay closer to each other and to not get lost again. 

Keep Going

Authors Note: This piece is going to be from a main characters point of view in a novel and what his life is like and how he changes it and how the story would be different from a different characters point of view.

In the novel Night Hoops by Carl Deuker the main character Nick has lots of great people helping him like his dad and mom. He is living a hard life in the book, his parents have split up and doesn't get to see his dad that much anymore. His dad wants him to keep playing the sport he loves the most and his mom wants him to focus more on school work then basketball. He isn't the only child in his family he also has an older brother who is always in his room playing an instrument and nick can never get him to play basketball with him.

In the book the point of view is coming from the main character in the novel we here what he feels an is thinking. From nicks point of view there is this one mean kid the same age and he is always mean to him and other people and he is afraid to even go near him. I will give you an example. So when nick was walking home from school they both didn't like each other so nick saw trent coming to him and trent pushed nick into a ditch and almost killed him by trying to drowned him. If the point of view was on the mean kid Trent lots of things would be different in the book. Trent would think that nick is kind of annoying and he would think he is the best at basketball. Trent is a bad kid and he gets in trouble lots of times by the police if we heard that from Trent's point of view it would be way different then nicks and how he thinks he is bad. Trent's reason why he pushed nick in the ditch is because when they were both playing football nick pushed trent really hard out of bounce and that was what started this whole thing.

If you read this book you will learn a lot about life and to keep going even when times are tough. I have never been in this situation before like nick and how there is this mean boy coming over to his house and playing ball on his court or hurting nick and almost killing him. hopefully you have never been in this situation like nick if you have I bet you had to fight through it and try to stay away from it. So when you get stuck try have people help you and try your best.

There are many sport books out there and with not always the main character as kind of like the narrator which everyone thinks it is going to be that way there are other sport books with different narrations in them. If you don't like sport book you should try and read this one and I think you will like it. So keep pushing even when times get hard.

  

Don't Stop

Authors Note: this short piece is going to be talking about the movie The Patriot  and compared to the book Jump Ship to Freedom and how they are alike.

This book and movie are very similar to each other and kind of tell the same story. In the movie there was lots of characters but in the book there were not that many. The book was about a mom and a son who where both slaves and his dad died in the war. They both were living with people that had the dad’s soldier notes and they were trying to take them so they could have their freedom. Back when  blacks joined the army they didn’t treat them nice and they had to spend a certain amount of time in the army to earn their and their families freedom. In the movie there was a slave fighting so he could be free just like Daniels dad.

They both were different in many ways. The book talked about what they family did when the dad was off fighting. They movie was just about how the war was fought and what they did. They were both in the same time period but they just showed how a family was like back then and how the war was. It was a very sad time for both the families that were living at home and the soldiers fighting for our freedom. And how some loved ones had died.

Over all, I thought that the book and movie were great and it told a lot about the revolutionary war and what slaves did during that time. The book didn’t tell that much about anything else only how the slaves tried to get their freedom. But I thought the book was great. I also thought the movie was great and the story line to it.

In conclusion I just want to say that If you were put in this situation what would you do different or do the same. They fought hard and never gave up they wanted to get their freedom badly so they could live a lot better live instead of having the British invade their homes and tell them what to do so they stayed strong and risked their lives for us.

Be Confident

Author’s Note: This short piece is going to tell you what my prediction was and what I think was going to happen at the end of a book I am reading.

The book Holes by Louis Sachar I think is a really great book for young and old who like to read books. Holes is about teenagers who do a crime and either go to jail or to a camp and at the camp they have to dig a hole each day five feet deep and five feet wide and if they find something interesting they show it to the warden she’s like the runner of the camp and she decides if they get the rest of the day off. It teaches people lots of different things. One thing it teaches is that you have to keep working hard even if you are in a hot place or a cold place.

I had lots of predictions in my head about this book but I will tell you one of them.  I predicted that The main character Stanley will find something interesting in a hole that he is digging and he will show it to the warden at the camp and he will not have to dig holes for a week because how cool the thing was that he had found. The reason I predicted that, is because Of what I said about them getting the rest of the day off if they found something cool. That prediction just stuck out to me for some reason and I thought my prediction was a good one to say.

We all have our own predictions for every book and people can’t tell you that the prediction is wrong because we all have different predictions and there can’t always be that one person that thinks whatever they do or think is right. Our predictions are sometimes right and sometimes wrong it depends on the outcome of the story so make good predictions and see what happens.

Stay Strong

Author note: In this piece I will be telling you what the theme is in the book holes and what the characters experience throughout the book and what the author is trying to say.

In the book Holes by Louis Sachar the author proves to readers that bravery and courage go with the book because of many different events that happened. Many people that read this book learn a lot about life ,and what it does to you if you make the wrong choices. The characters in the book have to stay strong through the very hot days that they are at camp with not a lot of water each day and not good food to eat. Each person there has to listen to their instructor and do the right things. 

There are many characters in the story and how they have bravery and courage and how they each stay strong and don't give up digging there holes or helping other people. Each character in the book learns to listen and once they are done spending their time there they can go, and will never want to come back because how hard you have to work there. It is very hard on them because they don't get to see their family for quite sometime.

The main character Stanley is not a tall , or strong kid he is the opposite and it is hard for him to dig his holes. When he was coming here he thought there was a lake to swim in there so he wouldn't be so hot ,and it turns out that there is no such thing as a lake. He was not happy when he found that out but at least he got to take showers but the showers went for a short time. He teaches some other kids at the camp to stay strong and to not give up and let nothing stop you and fight off the pain and most important keep moving forward never stay back.

There is another book that I have read and it has the same theme in the book holes it is called Travel Team and the main character has to stay strong and never give up and not  listen to what some people say to him He also helps people and gives them good advise to help them in life and to keep them moving forward. So when times get hard try to stay strong and let nothing stop you and let the pain slide of you.

Work Hard

Author’s Note: I am writing this piece to let other readers know about the main character Danny in the novel Travel Team by Mike Lupica and how he helps others throughout the book.

Danny isn’t a big tall kid as lots of you would think he is, lots of you think he is because it is a sports book and usually the main character is big and strong but Danny is the opposite. Throughout the book Danny becomes wiser and a great influence on other people. There are many great examples of what he does in the book.

His dad was a great example for him at the beginning he really wanted him to play basketball on the same team he did when he was in 6^th grade. Danny tried out for the basketball team and didn’t make it he was very upset and it felt like his life’s goal was no longer possible he tried giving up because he thought he wasn’t good anymore. He then decides to practice a lot more and try to make it on another team that he’s dad was going to coach he said he was never going to give up from this point forward and he made the team I think that was one great example of not giving up and trying harder.

On the other hand why’ll he was going through this his dad was watching him and seeing what he was doing if he wanted to come back and play basketball or not.  His friends were also great influences on him they kept saying you should go back and start playing the sport you love.  He was also a great influence on other people too because when you should fight back to what you want to accomplish you should do it and never give up and he decide to never give up. And lots of people saw that and learned something from that experience that Danny had.

Giving up is a really bad thing because if you want to go back to it later then you are not has good has you were before when you were doing what every you were doing.