One Sided

Austin Johnson

One Sided Everything

This essay is about what stories would be like from another person point of view

During WWII most of the people in the world agreed that the Axis side of WWII was the bad side. But the German people would not have thought their government to be bad; after all it was their soldiers protecting them from the rest of the world.  Their point of view was different from our point of view during WWII; most of everything written has a point of view. In the novel “April Morning” the point of view in the book was the main characters point of view and would be extremely different in the eyes of someone else in the book.

In the novel “April Morning” the point of view is from the main characters point of view, but it is not all one sided.  The second sentence in the book is his point of view where he says “my father said in that way he has of saying that cuts you down to half your size” he makes it seem like his father does not care about him.  Later on in the book he tries to make you think that his brother is annoying and selfish but in reality most little brothers are like that.

The point of view of a main character towards other characters is often just the way the other character acts towards them, but is not true about how they really are.  Adams dad, Moses cooper usually act frustrated to Adam.  He does this so much that Adam begins to think that his dad hates him and likes his little brother better than him.  But in reality what father doesn’t love his son.  He also thinks that his brother is out to get him in trouble.  He is probably right about that most little brothers or sister love to get their older siblings in trouble. In the book Adam over hears his dad talk about how he does not get why Adam thinks that he hates him.

If this book had been in the dads’ point of view it would have been a lot different. Then you would probably think that Adam was like a little child trying to get you annoyed and angry. Also you would think that most of the people at the council are not thinking straight, because they want to go to war with the British. When the rider came you would think that his worst fears have been realized.

The huge difference in point of view is big even though is just one persons view not the other peoples view. Most of the point of view is from view is from the main character therefore it is one sided. But if you put the point of view to someone else it is a huge change.  It is easy to see one side of the story but hard to find both sides.  



jugement

 

Austin Johnson

Judgment of People

Author’s note: This essay is about how the author uses the theme of defying stereotypes.

Whenever you see someone in the hallway or in a store that you never met, you most likely characterize that person into a certain category. That is judging them on how they appear. One of the themes in the novel “The outsiders” is defying stereotypes, which is proving people wrong about what they think of you.

            Most of the time, the first glance (or stereotype) of a person, is usually wrong. For example Johnny, was a guy who defied his stereo type. He was a kid from the bad side of town who looked tough.  But in reality he was unliked by his family and would have never hurt anyone, this phrase describes him in how he looks to others and how he looks to his best friend Ponyboy Johnny had a blank tough look on his face-you’d have to know him to see the panic in his eyes. He was extremely nice to his real family the gang he was in called the greasers. In a way he is kind of like his best friend Ponyboy tough but smart and misunderstood 

            Ponyboy is not the kind of guy who you think would be a greaser. Ponyboy is misunderstood by many people he looks like every other kid in the greasers, tuff, and greasy hair and never alone.  But really he gets real good grades in school and is nice to most people he even saved kids from a fire. He befriended one of the people who stereotyped him and tried to beat him up. His parents died tragically in a car accident which is something rob never knew.  He defied his stereotype so much that he befriended a person from the opposite social party, unlike dally he was exactly what people thought of him.

            Dallas Winston otherwise known as Dally, he is very tuff went to Juvie and owns a gun. He is what the opposite party of the Greasers the socs form their stereotype of the greasers from. The only person he cares about is Johnny and when he gets taken away from him he does his own special form of suicide. He makes the people he hates the most the police shoot him up in front of all his friends.

             When people stereotype you, you would always like to prove them wrong like the theme defying stereotypes.  Both Ponyboy and Johnny are great examples of defying stereotypes.  The novel the outsiders most of the main characters defy their stereotypes.   



a new family

Austin Johnson

The Other Type of Family

About why Johnny liked the greasers better than his own family

The definition any group of persons closely related.   When most people think of family they think of blood relatives but a family can be a group of people you hang out with in the case of Johnny Cade from the novel “the Outsiders” his family was really the Greasers.

            Johnny’s family was so mean to him that he chose the Greasers as his family.  From we know his parents were abusive and don’t pay attention to him because of that Johnny never wanted to go to his house.  He would rather stay out in a lot than at his parents’ house. The story tells us that he would sometimes be at his friend Ponyboy’s house. He was with the Greasers a lot and liked them way better than his family.  The Greasers treated him so well they came to see him while he was dying and when his mother came to see him he told the nurse to keep her away. He was so angry he fainted trying to move and sit up. When he died it hurt the Greasers more than it hurt his mother.

            The greasers were Johnny’s real family not his blood family. The Greasers cared more about Johnny than his family ever did .

Johnny’s’ redemption

Austin Johnson

Johnny’s’ redemption

Going off of what I read I think: Johnny will go to the hospital in a coma and will wake up the police will forgive Johnny for his murder because he has saved the children’s lives and things will go back to normal.

                Bob was one of the main reasons of how the police will forgive him. Bob could be at the most 17 or 18 so he was an under aged drinker. Bob was also drunk at the time of his murder while trying to kill Ponyboy.  So Johnny used self defense while bob was doing something illegal so he cannot get arrested.  Also Bob’s friends were also drunk in a place that they couldn’t possibly be doing something good. It is just not the kind of characteristic of Johnny to be cold hearted killer

                Johnny is the kind of guy who looks tough but usually won’t hurt anyone.  Even though Johnny had a gun he would not have intended to use it.  He even forgot about it when the church was burning down. If anything Johnny is a hero for risking his life and saving those children trapped in the church. I think he got his own punishment when he got those burns.

                If they treat Johnny like they should then Johnny should not go to jail because it is not what it looks like Johnny is innocent.  

My Country

Austin Johnson

Why I’m proud of my country

I am proud of my country because we have freedoms, unlike some other countries like Egypt also we have a military that can help maintain our freedoms. The freedom that we use the most is freedom of speech. Freedom of speech states that anyone can state, write or broadcast their opinion, because we have freedom of speech and other freedoms like it we have excelled as a nation. From us excelling we have extra materials that we must share

We have so much resources that we take for granted and other countries are less fortunate we are nice enough to give to those countries. While others want our help some wish to harm us, a good example is 9/11.  9/11 was the one time that our country failed to protect us, but sent a powerful message to all who wish to harm us when we invaded Afghanistan and destroyed all the tanks and air force in 2 days. So now we are safe from any other attack. The military helps keep all the freedoms that we love

The bomb

Austin Johnson

The Bombs
Autors note: this is a persuasive essay on why we sould not have bombed Japan.

The world never excepted the power of the atomic bombs and that power changed the way we think. When the Atomic bombs Fat Man and Little Boy were dropped they set the gears in motion for nuclear caused global warming.

            The bombs were dropped to end the World War quickly but anything done quickly is not always finished. The emendate problem was what the bomb did to the people. The initial explosion blew down brick buildings set millions of homes on fire and melted people.  There was a man who was walking home from work and his shadow was permanently burned on to wall of the building he was by and is still there today. After the explosion those who survived died slowly from radiation sickness. There is still radiation on sites today. All that could have happened to America if the wrong countries found the way and materials to make a nuke.

            The bombs being dropped started the nuclear age where now we are carful who gets nuclear technology.  But one the countries we did not want to have nukes was the U.S.S.R.  After Fat Man and Little Boy were dropped they watched the exploitation and want one for their own. So they bribed one of the guards protecting the plans and stole them and gave to the Russians. After that we were in constant fear that they might nuke us until the 90’s when they fell apart. But even now we still fear that one nuke will find its way to an unstable government. Those chances are very high because there are 36 nukes in the world. That’s enough to blow up Earth 1.5 times and with all the radiation in the atmosphere and the soil it will kill all life on Earth.

             There has all ready bean more than five nukes tested in the deserts and on lakes. They were huge contributors to global warming and caused more than 50% of global warming. We wouldn’t have to change anything about the way we use gases if we would not have polluted with our nuclear testing.  But they weren’t the only factors long lasting radiation and melt downs also helped. There was a Russian town Chernoble were nuclear power plant melted down and melted through all its containment and leaked a lot of radiation in to the atmosphere. Now if there was even a small scale nuclear war say for example Luxemburg and Israel. There would be lasting effects on our climate for more than a decade.

            After the end of WWII we made our own nuclear crises.  The bomb would be better if they were a government secret. So we would not have to fear our last days are a race.

8th grade essay one

Austin Johnson

Storm Breaker

This is a essay on what could have been done to stop the bad guy (and I forgot the names of the C.E.O. and the prime minister)

The bad guy in the book “Storm Breaker” is a rich successful C.E.O. of a mega million company.  Usually the bad guy is only bad because something bad happened and corrupted him.

            In the case of this book this book what happened to the bad guy was, when he moved to the U.K. and was bullied. The thing that everyone that was bullied wants is revenge or bad things to happen to the bully.  In the story the bully later was the prime minister of the U.K. and the victim later was a millionaire.   In most stories the bully was the bad guy but in this story the bully was the good guy.  The plan was that every computer had an incurable version of the smallpox disease and the computers were all over the U.K. and were activated when the prime minister presses a button.  The people would then think that it was the prime ministers fault for pressing the button.  But in theory if the prime minister never bullied the C.E.O. then the C.E.O. never would have turned bad and this would have never happened.  It’s really a cause and effect, the bullying of the C.E.O. was what made him evil and if he was never evil then there would not have been any problem.

            The bad thing that happened in the story could have been prevented.  The real cause to the problem is bullying and bulling is everywhere.