What about the world you live in makes you uncomfortable?

There are a lot of things I like and don’t like about my surrounding world, but there is one thing I can’t stand. I hate it when people judge others because of what they are wearing, where they come from, what the parents do for a living, or how they look. I think that this is just ridicules; people can’t change anything of these four things. These don’t show anything about the character a person has, or how he/she really is like. Just because someone is wearing a t-shirt of a brand, or his/her parents are employed in a higher rank then one of their friends, they aren’t better, or more special. There are too many people that judge others by the first view or what they have heard from others. This really has to stop.

The Pea-Pod Man creating the World

Characters: Raven (creator, bird or man)
Man (created-new to Earth)

Plot: Raven (bird or man) is the creator of everything and can create what ever he wants (out of clay), so he creates food such as raspberries and animals such as humans, fish's, birds, or bears. He created a man out of clay. But soon the man gets too happy with his life, so Raven creates a bear to fear the man because he doesn't want him to be completely happy. At the end of the story, Raven creates a Wife for the Man and they have children, and this is how we were created.

Power Paragraphs

Mark Haddon writes with a lot of evocative description. Evocative description means to describe something with imagery, meaning that the reader can visualize what the author was writing as an image; he/she can imagine what the scene looks like. As seen on pg 131, we can perfectly image what is going on: "I counted the letters. There were 43 of them. They were all addressed to me in the same handwriting. I took one out and opened it. Inside was this letter….." The reader can perfectly image what it looks like, the 15-year old boy sitting there, with the big bunch of letters, looking surprised, and opening the first one he can grab. This is a perfect example of an evocative description.

 

In addition, there is a lot of clarity involved in big portions of Haddons writing. For example, on pg. 141, “Mother had not had a heart attack. Mother had not died. Mother had been alive all the time. And Father had lied about this." This shows that he really tries to clarify exactly what’s going on, how he feels, and what he thinks happened. This gives the reader the chance to completely understand why, what happened, and how. Haddon completely understands how to write with clarity.