Fake Identity

Authors Note: This piece is about the conflict and resolution in the book Zach's Lie. I focused on the climax(the point of no return)  and the events that lead up to that lead up the climax.

Imagine being placed in the Witness Protection Program so you have to move to whole different place and change your name and looks, you basically have to change your life. Then every day you worry if these people who want to kill you know where you are, and with one little slip up like you telling your friend who you really are and the secret spreads and just before you know it these people who want to kill you know where you live. This is what Zach to face throughout the whole the book, and when Zach make that one little slip it creates the cause of the story.

Zach creates the Cause the story when he leaves his journal in his mom bookstore and it falls into the wrong hands. In that journal it contained all of Zach journals about who he really was before he was in Witness Protection program. When the journal fell in to the wrong person hands this is how the climax was starting to be created.When Zach creates the cause of the story the effect of it is the people that are looking for Zach find were he is living and take him The climax of the story is when the people that are looking for Zach are holding him captive and threatening to kill him, this is the turning the point of the story because Zach has to leave Elko and go back in the Witness Protection Program leaving all of his friends behind him and have to start a whole new life. A connection that I make with Zach, is that I saw a movie about a women in Witness Protection Program and it's not an easy thing keeping your secret which is the problem Zach faced throughout the book. Zach's life in the Witness Protection Program was not easy, considering you couldn’t tell anyone who you really and it probably is the same for people that are in the Protection Program today.

Are you Hungry?

Authors Note: in this two paragraph writing piece, I wrote about the conflicts and resolutions in the book Hunger Games. Please give me any feedback if you think any changes need to be made.  

Visualize being trapped in a arena full of other teenagers wanting to kill you so they can stay alive and be the outright winner of the Hunger Games. In the Hunger Games there are many conflicts like Katniss having to leave her family and sadness that Katniss and her mom and sister experienced, the biggest conflict of the story though was  Katniss fighting for her life against 23 other contestants wanting to kill her.

In Hunger Games there were many conflicts that sometimes would drive Katniss crazy, but towards the end of the book most of these conflicts were resolved in different ways. The main conflict of the story is an example of a person vs. person as Katniss fights for her life against 23 other contestants. There is a little of person vs. nature in the story, because at one point of the book it talks about these poisonous bees attacking the contestants in the games.One connection I can make with the main conflict of the story, is when I'm playing paintball it's me verses 9 other people fighting for their life not to get hit by a paintball. Even though Katniss had to go through all of hard times she faced in the games like starvation, being attacked by people, and seeing people in her alliance die, beyond all of these conflicts all of them were resolved including the main conflict from Katniss winning the Hunger Games.   

Every Kids Dream

Author’s Note: This piece is Personal Narrative of my family trip to Florida that my Family and I take every year.

Envision yourself in a scorching climate down in Florida, then entering through the gates to where every kid’s dream is to go to Disney World. Then after you spend the day in Disney World you and your family go to a beach by were your staying and you see many things you never see at beach like jellyfish and exotic fish. Lastly you spend your last day at a swimming with dolphins place and also getting to hold stingrays. Swimming with Dolphins, Disney World, and Exotic Beaches were some of the things I experienced on my family trip to Florida.

On the first day of our trip we took a direct flight to Tampa Bay. Once we arrived at Tampa Bay we had to drive to Englewood, Florida to my grandma’s house where we would be staying for most of our trip. When we arrived at my grandma’s house we got settled and swam in her pool till the sun went down. We went to bed early that night because the next morning we were going to swim with the dolphins. That next morning I woke up very early to see if any alligators were in the pond behind my grandma house, and sure enough a alligator seemed like it was stalking its prey(a duck) on the mini Island.

Finally just as everyone in my family was woken we were going to swim with the dolphins. All my sisters filed in the car and we were off, the drive the drive was long and tiresome but when we got to Dolphin Cove everyone was ready and energized . We entered the building and my dad quickly paid for us; we got a fast tutorial on what we were going to do when we with the dolphins. My family and I all entered  the water quickly eager to swim with the dolphins. We all got to touch the dolphins and do other things together as a group, then once we finished with that we got to ride on the dolphins back while they swam. The dolphins were very friendly and they were as smooth as silk, this was a once in a lifetime experience. Once my group finished with the Dolphins, we trotted over the sting rays were we got hold the sting rays and pet them. My second day in Florida had been a blast and I knew I’d never forget it.

Seeing that yesterday was a great day I was excited for today. My grandma gave us a suggestion of going to the beach near their house, despite my grandma saying that we deiced to go check it out. When we arrived there we ran right for the water but instead of jumping in the water we sat there in amazement. As we looked in the water we saw all kinds of different fish, beyond that on the shores of the beach we saw tons of shark teeth this beach this was one great beach. We spent the rest of our day at that beach having a great time, snorkeling and looking at the fish or searching through the vast amount of sand for shark teeth.

On our last day in Florida we got to tackle Disney World, I was really thrilled because I hadn’t been to Disney World in a long time and I hadn't really remembered it a lot. When we arrived in Orlando went straight to the Animal Kingdom and rode some of our favorite rides. After we rode the rides we wanted to go to a different park and we still had some time, before it got dark so we toke the monorail to Magic Kingdom to ride some of my mom’s  favorite rides. As soon as we got to magic Kingdom we headed for my mom’s favorite ride Splash Mountain, on the ride Splash Mountain we got soaked during the ride. After the ride it started to get dark and we watched the exciting light parade, alongside the light parade we had a enjoyable time at Disney World.

As we bordered our plane I sat there in my seat thinking of what great things we did in Florida, beyond that this trip was a great bonding experience for our family and we all had a entertaining time. Some of things we experienced in our trip were Disney World, Beaches, and swimming with dolphins were great memories that should never be forgotten.