The Letter

It was sunday and there shouldn't have been a letter in the mailbox, but there was. I ran down the snow covered hill practically falling on my face. I snatched open the mailbox and ripped out the letter out of it. My eyes filled as  I read the name Emily Ann Leslie. in the top left hand corner was my fathers name neatly written in cursive. my heart dropped over and over into my stomach.  I was terrified to even open it. i held the letter against my heart. I haven't heard from him in about 5 years... It crushed my, heart held it down like a bolder was tied to it. I walked slowly back up the slippery hill and into the house. I closed the door behind my and looked up the stairs. I ran up them and flew on my bed then began tarring the tightly glued envelope.

What do you see?

Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin. I can't get that name stuck in my head but when I see his face I know exactly who he is. A child, a harmless boy, who was killed for what? Just no good reason. When I look into his eyes I see... Innocence, pain no joy or happiness. A black life as his killer would say is a hard life I would say. Nothing is ever right. No wonder why a lot of blacks have gone mad some would say. they need freedom, they need some respect, the ignorance is what makes them upset. its isn't okay to kill anyone, no one should be killed b another human begin! We are all the same jut with a darker skin tone and a slight accent. Yes its true things can be a black thing or a white thing like church on sundays everyone does it just differently. But who says its a "thing to kill a child?"

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Whats wrong with people? Don't they understand what they are doing? God gave us a brain to use them. People don't even care what they do because they don't take a second to stop and think. Thats all it takes a second. You have two options, do it or don't do it. most of the time people chose the first thing that comes to there head which is the stupid one. your not going to be cool if you hurt someone else or your self . People are foolish. Who says that we have to listen to what people say? Its not like everyone listens anyway.This world is evil we kill hurt steal fight? But whats the purpose?

A Misunderstanding Love

Ive been here for you all this time. how could you do this? You let everyone disrespect me and mistreat me! You did nothing to help me get out of what I was in. I was stuck. You just sat there and stared right through me, you listened. That goes to show how much you really do love me. I question that A lot. And you know I love you so much, but you dint even care... Do you really love me? If you do is it real? Are you too young to do this, tell me now! We are meant to be. I wish you'd see that. Just tell em the truth and nothing but the truth! Don't waste my time, we both have our whole lives ahead of us. whats your response? Ive done everything, everything to make you happy. What about my happiness?

Trapped

Love is a trap, and I'm caught in it tight by the heart. It hurts os bad and its piecing my heart its bleeding. Im struggling to get out of this mess. I'm being controlled by this trap, i can't move or do anything. I'm screaming, I'm crying, "help me", please! I need to get away but I can't. Love is strong, love is a trap. Its like a mouse trap stuck right on my heart, right through it. Can anyone hear me, I'm stranded no one is here. i thought he loved me but is hurting me. where is he? No where to be found, no where. If you loved me you'd get me out of this damn trap of love and love me like you never did before!

He Told Me He Loved Me

He told me he loved me

And I believed him

Maybe I’m crazy because I’m young

Or crazy in love

Will I regret everything we have

If we move on

Will I be mad

Will hate you in everyway

Just think about it before

You say

I love you

Don’t want to live

With a broken heart

You cant end something you

Chose to start

Were both young

And need to wait

Only because

That love

Could turn to hate

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I chose to write this because it was on my mind. This is all true and it can happen to anyone. But the last part isn't true because I'm already in a relationship and I don't want to lave leave it. I never write poems so this shows a sign of growth.

Catch and the rye

Allies Catchers Mitt

            In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden, who is the main character in the book, had a brother Allie who passed away from leukemia when they were kids. To remember him Holden keeps his catcher’s mitt. The mitt has quotes written on it. This is his way of remembering his brother. This represents that Holden misses his brother. Holden doesn’t want children to grow up and the mitt represents him catching them before they fall of the cliff into adulthood.

            One thing that Holden really liked about his brother Allie is that “he was terrifically intelligent” (38). Holden dropped out of school and had bad grades. Allies was the smart one that everyone liked. Holden felt as though he was getting in the way of Allie’s intelligence, because he honored him so much. In that case Holden never even tried to do good in school, doing good was what Allie did so he decided to be a failure.

There are many ways to describe Allie, but the description that Holden gives of him is very significant. Holden says his brother Allie had a left-handed fielders mitt. “It had quotes he had written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere” (38). He wrote these quotes on the mitt because he was a writer, and now so is Holden. Holden tells his story as a way to cope with Allies death. By making it sound like he is still alive, and it helps Holden remember how great his brother is.

         In a way Holden feels guilty for his brothers death. When he and Allie were younger Holden would tell Allie he wasn’t allowed to go shot bee-bee guns with him. He told Allie he was a child. This shows that Holden once was against childhood in a way and now is trying to protect it. Holden says “when I get very depressed, I keep saying to him, ‘Okay. Go home and get your bike and meet me in front of Bobby's house. Hurry up’” (38). Now Holden wishes he hadn’t said that to him. Whenever Holden starts feeling depressed he sits alone and says this, and talk out loud as if his brother was right there.

         In a way both Holden and Allie are the catcher in the rye. Holden is the catcher because he doesn’t want children to grow up. He knows that once they grow up they sin and do bad things like he’s doing. He feels like a failure. Allie is the catcher too because he had a left handed fielder’s mitt. He was catching the ball, in the field of rye. Allie died at such a young age because now he gets to stay the ‘terrifically intelligent”, child that Holden wishes he could be. “You’d liked him’ Holden says. Allie was such a good person, like he was a super hero. Its almost like Allie was sacrificed from being “taken away” from the field.

         Now that Holden is growing up he hates it. He’s making bad decisions like adults do. Allie is dead so he can’t grow up. Holden thinks that growing up is bad in a way. That’s why he keeps making bad decisions.  He feels as though he should just give up now since he is turning into an adult. Allie was always a good kid so he will always be pure in Holden’s mind. Holden doesn’t want bad things to happen to the good people, which are the children, so he becomes almost obsessed with children and tries to save them all before they fall off that cliff into adulthood.