The Gone Mysterious Island.
It was a mysterious and unrelatable island. There were trees talking and animals singing like human beings. The trees don’t have faces and the animals were just furry and cute. But no one imagines that they would sing and talk like they're just normal humans. The people were like fairies flying around and speaking their own language like their squeaking squirrels. They were small and cute little fairies. Every fairy has special powers. Some of them can control water, air, fire, earth, others can make animals listen to them, and others don't have special powers; they have their own ability to create and make inventions that are easy for them to use.
Each of the fairies has its own unique colours. Purple ones are the ones that control water, Yellow ones are the ones that control the sunlight, the green ones are the ones that have the ability to create a special invention for them, the orange ones are the ones that can control earth, Blue control the animals, pink can control fire and all the fairies call them the feisty fairies. And all the other colours control their own special abilities.
They are just us humans but they have their own way of life. Everything was going on well with their kingdom. But everything changes when people try to capture them for experiments and search what kind of species they are. Others tried to capture them and sell them to the people so that they could make money. Their whole kingdom was afraid of what’s happening to them. So the Queen of fairies decided to leave their island and go somewhere safe because it is a life-loss island for them.
The island was an incredible place And it is now a historic island. The beautiful green and colorful island was gone. The refreshing smell of the island and its happy people disappeared into thin air. It was unfortunate for the fairies but not for the humans. They were living a happy life and enjoying every single day with a happy smile on their face. They are enjoying life without them knowing they ruined other peaceful and beautiful living creature’s homes. The things they’ve done can not be undone.
Imagine someone destroying your kingdom and your people, would you feel bad or feel good? Because when we want to destroy something we have to think if it’s a bad thing to do or a good thing. Think clearly, we might not know that other special creatures are living below or above us. That’s an important thing to do before shattering other things like what humans did to the Believing Island and its people.
Close Viewing Essay
In the film Power of One, directed by John G.Avildsen. Apartheid was the main thing in the film. It give off two meaning but there's only one important meaning that a lot of people are focusing on. It is Fear/Separate, but the main thing is Separate. An interesting character is P.K. Hes was an only child and all of hes family died. He is and English growing up in Africa. As he grew old, he wanted to change the ways of how the Germans are treating the Africans. He want a better future and that clashes with the film technique where there is a setting that match the concept and the dialogue and there's Mise En Scene in the film. He was able to escape from the place and continue hes journey.
Mise En Scene - is the arrangement of actors in a scene if a film
This is the most important scene technique the is used in the scene because while they were running things are happening around them. When they were running when they saw the school bus and Gideon said that there's only 2% can (African can got to school). Hes purpose of including the dialogue one of the most important film aspect when shooting a movie is to make us change the way we we watch and grasp on to the movie. It makes the audience feel downhearted and disappointed because they are being treated poorly because Afrikaners are trying to take over their land. They've already taken over their land and they are trying to take away their freedom too. It is similar to when P.K was in prison where there are a lot of african people.
Setting - Setting is the place where the film is shooting (eg) The Power of one was shoot is Africa.
It is another important technique it let people know the place where the film was shoot. The example was when the movie start there was an explanation of where the scene took place. The directors purpose was to show what the place look like and hes trying to match the concept of the film with the place. If you watch the film there's a sad and disappointed feeling. If you look closely to and try to imagine being a slave and staying in such a dirty place where our freedom doesn’t even shows it takes away the future of seeing a better place. There was part of the scene where P.K was talking to them in their language and after that they sang in their own language and the Germans didn't understand it.
Dialogue is explaining what the people are saying in the film.
The dialogue hints at potential aspects of the character and mentions things that may be important later in the film. Dialogue is the meat in the bread of the film. When they were running when they saw the school bus and Gideon said that there's only 2% can (African can got to school). Hes purpose of including the dialogue one of the most important film aspect when shooting a movie is to make us change the way we we watch and grasp on to the movie. When we understand the dialogue it makes us link to the scene and the audience think they are in the scene and experiments whats happening in the scene. This link to when they were running and Gideon said they can’t even read the Apartheid signs mean.
What Gideon is trying to say is that he wants hes people to learn English so they can understand it so they won’t get punished for not understanding the signs.
On The Sidewalk Bleeding
Describe at least one memorable idea in the text. Explain why this idea was memorable to you.
-Andy wanted people to see him as Andy himself, not a royal.
-Everyone who came across him didn’t help him because they saw him as a royal not Andy himself.
-Sadness because he was just a teenager
-It was memorable because it reminded me of how people get labelled in certain situations, they don’t see the person but the label -stereotype.
-Tako - Title, Author, Keywords from the Question, Outline of ideas
In the short written text “On The Sidewalk Bleeding”written by Evan Hunter. The narrator reflects on the story about a little boy who is in a gang and got stabbed. On his jacket the “royals” was printed on where people don’t see him as a “royal” and not Andy. A memorable idea is that people always judge and label someone who they don’t even know their background and their story. This idea was memorable because we always see something and then we judge too easily, and that really could put someone down. We shouldn’t judge other people, we should judge ourselves and reflect on what to do to correct what we do.
First, a memorable part is that we should focus on our life and others because we all go through different moments in life. In the text, there's a drunk man walking through the alley. He was an old man. He saw Andy and asked him “What's the matter buddy,” while he was asking Andy, Andy could not speak or move. He slightly lifted up his head and Andy smelled alcohol. He then smiled “Did you fall down buddy?” he questioned as if he knew what's happening to Andy. While he finished asking his question he said “You must as be drunk as I am”. He squatted beside Andy. While he was drunk, he mistakenly thought that Andy drunk same with him. After asking his other question, he commented "You too young to be drinking' anyway. Should be 'ashamed of yourself, drunk and laying 'in an alley, all wet. Shame on you. I gotta good mind to call a cop." Because Andy couldn’t say anything, he nodded instead; But still the old man was just just completely uninformed of the situation. The old man’s thinking that Andy is completely wasted. The author wants us to note that we should pay attention to our movements because it could also help out some problems. It made the readers feel insecure and now that they heard of this incident maybe they could be more careful of where they go just in case something like this happens to them while they are enjoying themselves.
Another memorable idea in the text was not judging a person by their appearance. We see this when a couple came running into the alley, and later on they found Andy laying on the sidewalk bleeding a lot. My understanding in this was that you/me/us/we need to help people in need not just thinking its a bad idea. The girl (aka Angela) was not a good example to us but in reality it could actually happen. During the text there's a part that a foolish thing to do was done in it where the girl (Angela) was acting foolish and saying "I want to go home, Freddie. My people will begin to worry," and after that she said “ Freddie, let's get out of here! Please!”. It was obvious that she really misunderstood that Andy was in “royal” doesn't mean he was different. The author wants us to contemplate that we should not act as if people in need are different from us. It made the reader feel sorrowful because it's actually happening in reality. And it's really making the readers feel hatred towards foolish people who only think about themselves and not seeing it from others perspective. While this is shown in the text, it is ill-mannered for them to just ignore it.
The last reason why this is memorable to me is because it reminds me of how judgemental people are when it comes to gender and identity. An example of this happening is when the cop was judging Andy,`1 because when he came to look at the incident he found that the “royal'' was printed on his jacket. Andy’s friend was not very happy with how the cop was talking about his friend. And she whispered quietly because she didn’t want the cop to hear her, she said “His name is Andy'' because the cop never said his name, he said “a royal huh”. Notice how he made it so clear that he doesn’t see him as Andy , he sees him as a “royal”. The author wants us to observe that even cops judge you and they can also be judgemental despite being someone who protects people from danger. I can totally relate to some readers that could feel betrayed because we all go around thinking it's alright because we have police officers who can protect us. But, sometimes we have to rely on ourselves for some moments in life. Relying on ourselves is probably the most important part of us being us. If other people judge us and hate us and not helping us that means that we gotta love ourselves more than anything. Helping ourselves to what we need and comforting ourselves when you feel like you need comfort from us. Why is this important? because all those hard times which we all go through no one's there forever to help you. When you were young all the way up to where you are now there was someone there for you and the person was you. You went through hardship together with yourself. Don’t just rely on other people and sometimes try doing great things for yourself, not other people because sometimes they don’t help you with how you live your life. It is up to you whether you can do this or not, it's nobody else's.
