Book Review

The world where every day is a dangerous game, Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins.

           Katniss lives in a time where they have The Hungar Games, games where one girl and boy from each district must fight to the death against other districts. Katniss and Peeta were hunger game victors, and they thought they were safe, until the capitol made a shocking decision for the quarter quell, the games every 25 years. The vistors had to return to the games. Then another shocking event occurred, the uprising of the citizens, Peeta being captured, Katniss becoming the Mocking Jay and much more.

O. Henry

• O. Henry is a pseudonym for William Sydney Porter

• Wrote one story per week
•  O. Henry published ten collections of stories in his career that was nearly even ten years.
•  His most famous stories had very ironic endings

• This style of ironic endings were in many movies and television programs.

•   O. Henry lived from 1862-1910
• Born in Greensboro, North Carolina
• Dropped out of school at age 15 to work in his uncles drug store.
• Did not actually start writing until his mids-30's
• Founded a weekly humor magazine, The Rolling Stone, in 1849

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The Green Greed

Erin H

Mrs. Zurkowski

10/27/10

The Green Greed

            “The Masque of the Red Death”, by Edgar Allen Poe, has many colors that are very symbolic to the story. There are seven different rooms with seven different colors in each. The colors are blue, purple, orange, white, violet and black. Another one of the rooms was green, and had green casements and matching green window panes. Green is symbolic to many things; wealth, adolescence, energy, environmental, envy and sometimes it is even associated with evil and the devil. In the “Masque of the Red Death”, by Edgar Allen Poe, the green room symbolizes greed.

            The color green has to do with the earlier part of human life, around the ages of 13-20 years old. During those years people start to gain money and know what it is worth. They begin to become greedy and then want to have anything and everything. Once people start to gain their own well earned money they either spend it and want everything or save it and not spend it on anything. So, they become greedy with either wanting everything or greedy with wanting more money.

            This color relates to me very much since I am 14 and in that age group of 13-20 years old. I do not save my money at all; I like to spend it on everything. Whenever I get money, whether it’s from Christmas, my birthday or my allowance, I go right out and spend the money, usually on clothes or jewelry. But, on the other hand my brother saves his money very much. He never buys anything with his own money, he always asks my parents to buy it for him. When humans reach their teenage years, they want to own and have everything and they do not really think about the cost of it. Teenagers can be very greedy.

Edgar Allen Poe Web Quest

 

1. Edgar Allen Poe was born in  Boston on January 19, 1809. He died on Sunday  , October 7, 1849 in Baltimore Maryland.

2. Five theories of Poe's death are that he drank too much,  he had something wrong with his brain and suffered brain fever,  he had rabies,  the cooping theory, and there had been an early incident that had later implications for his health, TB, physically abused, murder. 
3. The state that Poe called his home was Virginia.
4. The famous military academy that expelled Poe in 1831 was the U.S Military Academy at West Point.

5. Poe married  Virginia, his cousin, and she was 13 years old.

6. I think that the marriage of Poe and Virginia is very strange. Usually two people do not get married where the man is more then twice the women's age.
7. "The Raven" was published in  late 1844.
8. "The Tell-Tale Heart" and  "The Black Cat" were both  written in late 1842.
9. Some tragic childhood event of his that influenced his writing was his mother dying and his father left the family before his mohe died.

10. I signed the guest book at Poestories.com

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"Poestories Gallery: Portraits of Edgar Allan Poe." Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories, Tales, and Poems. Web. 01 Nov. 2010. <http://poestories.com/images.php?category=portraits of edgar allan poe>.