Don't Take Just One View

Authors Note: I wrote my text analysis essay on how Anthony Horowitz changes the point of view in-between characters, because I think that more books should be like this. There are many books that can be improved and extended by just doing this.

Confusion happens all the time in a book. You don't know what to think about a character because someone doesn't always have the right thought about someone. Like saying they're stuck up but really just shy. In most books it's just one person's like, one person thoughts and ideas. However, in the series The Gatekeepers, by Anthony Horowitz, every couple chapters or so the point of view changes. In this book there are five  main characters that all share the same importance. It helps showing the thoughts of different characters, but also what they think about each other. The story can now be viewed by many different views. It improves the quality of the literature.

Anthony Horowitz writes great books; they really show the personality of a character. She also shows how overtime in the book they change. But not just in the eyes of the character, in the eyes of others too. This helps show what the main characters are thinking about each other. Without the changing of the point of view readers, would think that maybe a character playing the bad guys or he really has changed. In the book when Scott is with the Old Ones, it goes to his point of view and it shows he’s teaming with the winning team. This helps the ready really find out how the character is really thinking about a situation

While that is happening it switches point of views a lot and shows how every character see’s what’s going on. Some hope he’ll choose them over the old ones; some think he’s waiting for the right chance to attack. This really helps the book progress along because instead of having one person’s thoughts and one person’s actions being told. Reading books like this really keeps the reader interested in the book. Sometimes you may pick a favorite character and anxiously read hoping next they will stumble into the chapter that shows his or her point of view. Horowitz has written many books with this un-unique quality. Each book better in many ways by this one thing, the changing in point of view.

When everybody, Matt, Pedro, Scar, Scott, and Jamie, get separated. It shows the point of view of all five of them. Telling the reader where they are and how they are getting along. By doing this it really shows the instinct and the personality of the character, showing how they react when pressed with an urgent situation. Some acted with braveness and others acted like a coward. This also shows how they act.

There was a scene in the book where somebody was going to betray them and everybody thought it was a different person. It went through every character's mind and showed how they investigated. It really showed how other people thought and what they thought about each other. In a book it’s really interesting to see who characters trust and who they don’t.

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There aren’t many books like that, but the ones that are keep the reader intrigued and more interested. Anthony Horowitz is a great book writer. She perfectly describes and shows a character's attitude toward things. Anthony also gets the reader to realize and understand the motives of the characters very well. This really puts the book together not only does it help the reader realize what other characters think but it really pieces together a book. Everybody’s thoughts is way better than just one, everything comes together and in the end just makes more sense. Having the point of view change throughout a book drastically increases its literature and meaning of the story.

Reading Response Three

There are many big differences in-between the two waiters. There is a young waiter who is very impatient and is very rude. He is very unwise and doesn't care about business. Towards the end of the night when someone comes in and he has to stay instead of go home. The young waiter gets very grumpy and has no concern for the old, suicidal, man. Yet the older more wise waiter was very patient and understanding. He tried to stick up for the old man and came up with some good reasons too. I picture these two waiters like two friends, one old and one young. The older one is very wise and patient yet the younger one is the opposite. The cafe symbolizes that one place you go for piece and quiet yet there's someone there taking that away from you.

It's Not Just One Action Story

Authors Note: I wrote my text analysis essay on how Anthony Horowitz changes the point of view in-between characters, because I think that more books should be like this. There are many books that can be improved and extended by just doing this.

Confusion happens all the time in a book. You don't know what to think about a character because someone doesn't always have the right thought about someone. Like saying they're stuck up but really just shy. Currently in the series, The Gate Keepers, I'm reading, by Anthony Horowitz, every couple chapters or so the point of view changes. In most books it's just one person's like, one person thoughts and ideas. In this book there are five  main characters that all share the same importance. It helps showing the thoughts of different characters, but also what they think about each other. The story can now be viewed by many different views. It improves the quality of the literature.

Anthony Horowitz writes great books; they really show the personality of a character. She also shows how overtime in the book they change. But not just in the eyes of the character, in the eyes of others too. This helps show what the main characters are thinking about each other. Without the changing of the point of view readers, would think that maybe a character playing the bad guys or he really has changed. In the book when Scott is with the Old Ones, it goes to his point of view and it shows he’s teaming with the winning team. This helps the ready really find out how the character is really thinking about a situation

While that is happening it switches point of views a lot and shows how every character see’s what’s going on. Some hope he’ll choose them over the old ones; some think he’s waiting for the right chance to attack. This really helps the book progress along because instead of having one person’s thoughts and one person’s actions being told. Reading books like this really keeps the reader interested in the book. Sometimes you may pick a favorite character and anxiously read hoping next they will stumble into the chapter that shows his or her point of view.

When everybody, Matt, Pedro, Scar, Scott, and Jamie, get separated. It shows the point of view of all five of them. Telling the reader where they are and how they are getting along. By doing this it really shows the instinct and the personality of the character, showing how they react when pressed with an urgent situation. Some acted with braveness and others acted like a coward. This also shows how they act.

There aren’t many books like that, but the ones that are keep the reader intrigued and more interested. Anthony Horowitz is a great book writer. She perfectly describes and shows a character's attitude toward things. Anthony also gets the reader to realize and understand the motives of the characters very well. This really puts the book together not only does it help the reader realize what other characters think but it really pieces together a book. Everybody’s thoughts is way better than just one, everything comes together and in the end just makes more sense. Having the point of view change throughout a book drastically increases its literature and meaning of the story.

Don't Push It

Gentlemen: I received your letter to-day by post, in regard to the ransom you ask for the return of my son. I think you are a little high in your demands,

I think this part was important because it showed that the father didn’t like the child either. This really brought together the story. This really shows that compared to all the other kids they’d kidnapped this kid was so annoying that they’d rather pay to get rid of him than keep him. I don’t see how it’s possible to be so annoying that even your own father doesn’t want you.

There's Always Difference

Authors Note: I wrote this compare and contrast essay on Scott and Jamie Tyler because they are characters in my favorite book series and I think there is more to them that meets the eye.

Difference, everybody is different. It may be the slightest of physical difference or the personality. Often identical twins are close to impossible to tell apart. These two kids are characters in the book Oblivion. You can tell them apart from how they act. More often than not one of the twin takes over the older sibling role. Scott and Jamie are twins in a messed up life with fighting to save the world at the age of fifteen. Fighting along with Pedro, Matt, and Scarlett. Just like Pedro, Matt and Scarlett Scott and Jamie have powers too, they can read and control minds. Even though they are twins you can tell the difference in them. Despite their looks you would expect and think that Scott is the older one. He acts more mature, older, confident, and serious. Even though they look the same, they don’t always act the same.

Scott is 15 just like his brother. Scott has always been the one to act first, take responsibility, and all around just be the bigger person over Jamie. Scott doesn’t control Jamie, he protects him. He’s like the older brother to Jamie and Jamie knows it. In the second book of the Gatekeepers Series, two men came to take them away because they knew about their power. It was Scott that went out to investigate, and it was Scott who stayed behind so his brother could get away. Scott asks a lot more mature than his age. Most kids would fold under pressure, but not Scott.

Scott could be looked at the protector. But with a protector there has to be the protected. This is Jamie, he isn’t like a little kid but he still isn’t as grown up as Scott. When he is without Scott he seems lost with himself, he doesn’t know what to do and he doesn’t know where to go. Throughout the series it points out that in others view it seems like Jamie is the more grown up. Even though he is small he just seems like he would assume the role. Scott is more quiet but

he is still more mature.

Even if two people seem very alike in person, don’t expect them to really be alike of what kind of person they are. The best example i’ve ever seen is Scott and Jamie. They both had gone through the same thing until Scott made Jamie leave him behind so Jamie could get away. Scott knew he would be tortured and he accepted that, because he is so much more in control of who he is and what to do to protect Jamie. Looks may mean something, but attitude and personality change everything.

A Little Thing, Can Make Big Change

Authors Note: I am doing my figurative piece on the song “Don’t Worry Child” because I particularly enjoy this song and decided since I like it so much why not analyze it and maybe find out it’s true meaning.

The reason, not to life but to the inside reasons, pains, and happiness that song writers interpret into the songs they write. They make you feel different moods throughout the song. Sometimes I feel moody when I’m listening to a song that I actually can understand the lyrics to. I think the song ‘Don’t Worry Child,” by Swedish House Mafia, was written with excellent figurative language. Some songs can give people hope or make them happy. This isn’t because of the beat of the song or anything like that. It’s the figurative language, the symbolism, and the imagery. That was what causes hope, sadness, and many other feelings in a song.

Songs of happiness are the best songs for those people who are just having a bad day. In the beginning of the song “Don’t Worry Child” the lyrics talk about how he lived in a happy home. This creates an image of just parents playing with their child. Shortly after it says “I was a king I had a gold throne” which is a metaphor. Obviously as a kid he wasn’t a king and he probably didn’t have a gold throne, but the song artist is talking about his child like he was a king so he would have had a good childhood.

Many people in the world are people that say that God has turned his back on them. This is a sign of loss of hope. In this song one of the main sentences that really stands out is “My father said, don’t you worry, don’t you worry child. See heavens got a plan for you.” which really could give someone hope. It symbolizes that there is always hope. Whatever happens, whatever goes wrong for you, you just need to hold on. Life is a bumpy ride, not just a walk on the beach.

Throughout the piece a specific mood is brought up with one very powerful line, “Don’t you worry. Don’t you worry child. See Heavens got a plan for you.” This gives the song listener (or reader) a feeling or mood of hope. In the big picture of life it’s saying that even things aren’t really going your way, you shouldn’t worry or put your head down. In the end if you stay strong and don’t let anything stand in your way, everything will work out for you in the end. Everything that is supposed to happen for you will happen. This chorus that many people listen to, mostly don’t realize how powerful it really is. In just two sentences this song gives you a great amount of hope and a reason to keep going forward and to let nothing stop you from reaching your goal.

Some people listen to songs because they like the chorus, some people listen to a song to help them get through something or to get hope. Those second and third reasons are where the figurative language come in. If a song wanted to give someone hope, but without figurative language it would say something like, “Don’t lose hope” but with figurative language, like in this song it could say something like, “See Heavens got a plan for you.” The one with the figurative language is more inspirational and means a little bit more. Just like that figurative language can give someone hope, or in other cases an uncountable amount of emotions like sadness, happiness or excitement.

The Gates That Release Hell

Authors Note: I’m writing my character analysis piece on Matt from the Raven’s Gate series because his progress in changing is very interesting throughout this series.

Change, everyone goes through it, even adults, or even kids with supernatural powers like Matt. Matt is a part of something bigger than anything else in the world, but yet only few have  knowledge about it. His one of the five trying to keep the Old Ones from coming back into our world. Throughout his journey he never wants any part of what’s going on. He just wants to try to live a normal life as a normal kid, but with powers and a responsibility like his he can’t and he soon changes his attitude and realizes what his to be done.

There are many different types of people on this planet and some of them would jump at the chance to be a hero and help save lives, but then also theres the few people that don’t want any part of it. That’s the kind of person that Matt is, he doesn’t want his power, he doesn’t want to be able to break things with his mind of anything like that. He just wants to be normal and he hasn’t realized what is fully at stake with the opening of the gates.

Reading this book you may have a difficult time trying to find out when Matt changes his attitude because it happens so sudden, but on Pg.273 the narrator points out that, “A short time ago, in England, he hadn’t even wanted to go to Peru. But since then, everything has changed.” This really shows that he’s starting to grow up and realize that he can’t choose whether or not he goes with o this and helps. He really starts to take passion in what’s going on since more than a couple people have died trying to save him or help him. He ends up hating who did this and wants to kill him.

Later in the series when Matt is 15, he has already gone through so much horror that anybody would wish to wake up to it all being a dream. Matt has already assumed the role of the leader and his want to kill and his hatred for the old ones drive him. In a little more than a year Matt has gone through not wanting to take any part of it and wanting to just live a normal life. He doesn't just realize that he doesn't have a choice, his attitude for all this changes and he wants to save the world, he wants to defeat the old ones, and he wants to be the leader. Some things change you drasticly like with trauma or a little change like losing someone in your life. I don't think there is anyone who has changed more than Matt in this book. Matt is turning into that person that encourages everyone on, he leads and he leads well.

For a 14 year old boy Matt is pretty grown up, any 14 year old would have to be grown up if he is fighting to save the planet. But not many people would be excited to do this. For a while Matt and Richard, his friend, didn’t even want to go to Peru to help keep the second gate from opening and even refused a bit. But now as the narrator stated Matt has changed and knows that what he is doing has to be done. That he has no choice to accept it and do it. Matt really grows up in this series and changes for the better