Friday, November 11, 2011

Saving Thanksgiving

     Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, there was a group of mischievous goblins hiding amongst the humans. Thanksgiving was coming up and the goblins became angry because they were jealous of all the happy little children in the world. They wanted everyone to be miserable like them, so they hatched up a plan to ruin Thanksgiving for all the kids in school by making their turkey dinner become gross with out anyone realizing it until it was too late.
     In order to do this though, they needed to get strong magic, so they decided to go and steal Santa's apple juice. They knew Santa's apple juice had special magic in it so they went to the north pole, stole his apple juice, and came back to test out their spell. They poured the apple juice on the elementary school's turkeys they were planning to use for lunch. Instead of the turkey becoming gross tasting, though, the turkeys became zombies and started roaming the school, biting anybodies fingers that tried to catch them. The children, in a desperate attempt to stop the finger biting zombie turkeys from roaming the school, wrote letters to Santa, promising to be good children for the rest of the year if he got rid of the finger biting zombie turkeys fast.
     Santa, receiving their letters, realized that the goblins had done this with his missing apple juice. He flew right over and poured his special grapefruit juice over the finger biting zombie turkeys. They instantly turned back into normal turkeys and Thanksgiving was saved.
     Before Santa left back to the north pole he wisely said "Now, don't steal things that don't belong to you. It can get you into big trouble." With that said, Santa Clause took all the mischievous little goblins with him to the North pole. To this day the little goblins no longer steal Santa's apple juice and work in the back of his workshop, preparing the coal for all the naughty little boys and girls.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Beowulf


     Needless to say, the movie was completely different from the story. The movie seemed to go on about the religion Christianity and how great it was opposed to the Pagen religion. The book did have references to both religions but besides a few references to how great Christianity is, overall it wasn't a very important matter. The religions, in my opinion, weren't that big of a matter that the movie tried to make it out to be. The point of the book was to get rid of the killer monster, not to convert all the people who hear it.
     The people who created the movie tried very hard to insert twists to the story to keep it interesting. They made Grendel almost human and even added a baby Grendel in the story as well as having the baby's mother being the town's witch. They also had a major problem of not being able to catch or find Grendel. It was no longer just about this evil monster that killed people, it was a angry looking guy, known as Grendel, who was avenging his father's death.
     The changes they made to the move weren't very effective overall and it left me feeling like it dragging on unnecessarily sometimes. Between going on about the religions and the attempt to somehow keep it interesting for viewers with random twists to the story, they lost my attention. They payed so much attention to things like that that when they actually killed Grendel and his mom it ended quite fast compared to the rest of it. I did like Beowulf's personality better in the movie then in the story though. He was more human and humbler in the movie when in the story he was unnaturally amazing and proud.

Writers

It seems as if the day will be just fine,
Then comes out all the things that we don't seek.
Now it's as if life just ran out of time
And now things look so down and bad and bleak.

Nothing will work, things come up to and end.
Wars, death, and pain and torturous strain stand aground.
They laugh in glee for all the pains they send
Then the search for any hope that can be found.

From strain and stress, unwillingness, came hope.
They slipped it in, sudden, quick and quite slick.
We see what's wrote and seem quite able to cope.
They grin and laugh with evils wrath. Another trick.

Tortures pleasure be it wimp or fighters.
This is all that occurs while with writers.