Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

9-11 Poems

One month following the attack of 9-11, eleven year old Aaron Walsh wrote the following poem in his school notebook, trying to make sense of this horrible thing that had happened:

I Hold in My Hands

~ Aaron Walsh, 2001

I hold in my hands ...
The dust.
The dust and wreckage of the towers.
Even though I wasn't there,
I can still feel it.
It has damaged my hands with dirt.
It has damaged my heart with sorrow.
It has damaged my body with fear,
and it has damaged my life with war.

I hold in my hands ...
My life.
My life could soon be filled with war,
cruelty at its worst.
Miles away, I can hear the planes' roaring engines, gliding through the air.

I hold in my hands ...
My future.
My life ahead.
Whether it will be filled with war or peace, we will not know.
My future keeps me going from dawn to dusk.

I hold in my hands ...
Hope.
Hope for the future.
Hope for peace.
Hope for my country's freedom.
And hope for America to win this war on terrorism.

(This poem was not written by me but by Aaron Walsh. Poem was found on http://www.celebrate-american-holidays.com/9-11-Poems.html)

                                                                               

This poem is true for millions they could not be there to experience it but they can still feel the pain it left emotionally and the toll it had on their life in the future. I am using this poem for what I am going to write about a book next.    

This book is about a boys dad who dies in the 9/11 attack on the twin towers, after that he finds a key that he is inspired to find out what it opens, his name is Oskar and he wants to find what that key opens no matter how long it takes. This book is also a very new movie. I do want to see the movie but I can’t. This book has inspired me in so many ways.

First of all when the 9/11 attack happened I was too young to remember. I have seen videos, heard things and have seen the construction place of the memorial. I understand how this hurt the families of the innocent people who died.

This story of what I have read so far which is very little has showed me to never give up on hope. Oskar is so determined to find that lock to that key that he has pretended to be sick from school so that while his mother is at work he went searching the city for that lock. He has done research, asked people, and has done every other possible thing to find what he is looking for.

He has also taught me that to do the impossible you must thing of the impossible. There are millions of locks in New York City and not yet has he found his lock but he knows it’s not impossible.

When I finish reading this book I hope to find out something new that will hopefully change my life forever.

City of Glass

Valentine, valentine why are                                                                                              

you so EVIL!!!                                                                                                         

Destroying everything in your path                                                                              

they have to suffer from all of your rage                                                                        

they don’t even get to age                                                                                                                 

you kill them for no reason                                                                                            

doesn’t even matter what season                                                                                   

winter summer spring fall                                                                                                         

why do you have to hurt them all                                                                                    

for they have done nothing wrong                                                                                             

bet you all they want to do is sing                                                                                            

a song of hope

           

          I wrote this based on the evil guy in the city of ashes, Valentine. He is the father of Jace and Clary and he is the most evil person in any world. All he wants to do is kill and take over, not realizing he might kill himself in the line. The people he hurts literally have done nothing wrong; they are in pain they are suffering, why? Because he just want to the best, the most powerful.

            This poem shows who valentine is in real life. He tried to kill his own children. I think that he is really dumb because he doesn’t realize that people are more powerful than him and that. In the book he has found out many ways to hurt people. I think that this book even though I m not done with it, it has taught me a lot about people and who they truly are.

The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore

         In the book the power of six by Pittacus Lore, the characters made the story. John Smith, Sam, six, marina, Ella, and the mogadorians. They made the story real.

        This book is about aliens from a different planet; only people just don’t know it yet. Nin e to be exact came to earth with a guide to help them on their journey. The mogadorians are the bad guys who want those nine dead and three are already. John smith A.K.A number four must find the other five and defeat the mogadorians for good. So far he has number six, and a human named Sam. As they journey trying to stay hidden and find the other four they have faced several threats. Later on they find seven, nine, and ten. Now all they have to do is find five and eight and win. There is also marina and Ella. Marina is number seven and she was living in an orphanage with her guide and 18 other girls younger than her. As her life went by she discovered new things and new abilities. When Ella came along her adventures became more real, changing her life around.

        When I say that the characters made the story is that the actions of the characters that make the story what it is. For example john smith had a girlfriend named Sarah and they were in love. One night he went to find Sarah and she ratted him out to the police. This made the story so much better because it was something you would have never expected to happen. This is something that showed how these characters made the story.

        Another example of how the characters make the story is when marina found out that Ella was number ten. Marina thought she was just a little girl and so did I. it turns out that Ella had the power to change between ages. When I read this I was shocked because it showed me how the little details can reveal a lot about a book.

        I thought that this book was amazing because of the twist that the characters went through and how much each character has changed.