Creative Writing VII

Character I: Darth Vader

One impact that Darth Vader has had on our culture is the roles of fathers in kids lives. Darth Vader is the parent of Luke Skywalker and reveals that to him in The Empire Strikes Back. We find out that Luke never knew his father when he was growing up, a sign of a bad father. Also the sole person whom Luke is trying to kill is Darth Vader is father, another sign of a bad father. All of the messages between father and son that are bad are shown in the relationship between these two. But one good thing happens in the end, they reconcile with eachother and Vaders love for his son overcomes him and he throws the sith down that big pit of electricity. This shows that there is possible hope for redemption in father-son relationships.

Character II: The Cookie Monster

The cookie monster is an interesting character. He only needs one thing, and thats a cookie says Mr. Oz from the In Character NPR article about the cookie monster. This shows that only one thing makes him happy and that is a cookie. Unlike most of us where we need many different things, or we say we need things, the cookie monster is happy with one cookie. This impacts our culture to either motivate us to live more simply or to twist his logic to say that we need more and more cookies, or in our case items. This Monster can be taken in two different was and how we view him is dependent on how we take his philosophies of needs.

Character III: Homer Simpson

Homer Simpson is seen on the TV show the Simpsons produced by Matt Groening. Homer may seem like an idiot that has no affect to anyone, but quite the oppisite is true, except the idiot part. Homer Simpson is a very intriging person because of his stupidity. The view never knows what Homer will do next, and he always manages to get out of it alive, thanks to Mr. Matt Groening. Even though this is a TV show and the impossible becomes possible, he affects our culture by wanting to try the stupid things he does. Homer doesn't always do the smartest things, and neither do people, but we can almost learn from our mistakes by taking off of Homer Simpson.

Creative Writing Blog V

1. I think stories are very important in childhood because they allow the child's immagination to run free. Most of us when we were little kids probably had a wild immagination and maybe even an imaginary friend. The stories allow the kids to go into their immagination and pretend they are a hero going to save a princess or a little kid who has to escape an island of monsters.

2. When you get older people start to relate to the stories. People take events from their own lives and relate them to the lives of the people in the story. Older people may read stories to fuel their immagination but it seems mostly as entertainment or to create a relation of their own lives to the story. Also, usually with the main hero, people want to become that person, they may forget part of their life which is boring or dull and image that they are the hero and going through the fun adventures.

3. Stories in the nation are kind of like legends. For example the story of George Washington and how he turned a bunch of farm boys to defeat a world power in the Revolutionary War. Stories of the underdog winning is a popular theme in America because America is known as the country with the phrase "rags to riches." Those types of stories is what seems to fuel the desire for stories in our nation. Stories allow people to do the impossible. What we normally may not beable to do in the real world we can make into a story.

4. One story that stands out in my is when I threw a rock at the playground and it accidently hit our car window. My mom was furious and I didn't even mean to hit the car. This story stands out to me because it was a time when I felt guilty of doing something but also terrified for my punishment. I usually connect this story to people who didn't mean to do anything wrong but accidentaly created a problem and get punished for it.

5. Characters should have depth
Characters should be developed throughout the story bit by bit till we know the whole story
The story should have time a place and have that time and place explained and set up
The story should have more than one conflict
The story should be somewhat realistic and not completely farfetched
The Characters should have their own style of talking and acting
The conflict should make sense and have a resolution that makes sense to the conflict
The Story should have some mystery until the end when the resolution is revealed