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This blog was made in my english class with mr hide in my school colegio jorge washington in cartagena, colombia i hope you like it!!

Thursday, November 09, 2006

[(·Staying All Alone·)]

One day I had to stay with my sister all alone in my house. It was at night so I was really scared. This was the first time I ever stayed in my house without my parents. My sister and I always fight and she never let me go in her room so I had to stay in my room all alone. Before my parents left, my mother rented a movie and bought me some pop corn so I could have some distraction while they were gone. My parents instructed me not to open the door to anyone, and if I felt very scared to lock my room. I was so scared that I was constantly checking my back to see if anyone was there, it was so funny, I looked paranoid. When my parents left I put on the movie and locked my room. I was really nervous and thought about a thief breaking into my house or a ghost haunting me.

During the middle of the movie, I was so concentrated that when my sister knocked on my door I jumped and screamed really hard. My sister laughed really hard and I immediately knew it was her, so I opened the door to see what she wanted. She wanted some pop corn, she took some and as soon as she left I went back to the movie. Now I was more scared than ever, I kept thinking that something bad would happen. Later, someone else knocked on my door, I asked who it was, but no one answered, the first thing that came to my mind was it was a thief, I kept thinking on what to do. I finally decided to open my door and, it was my father! I felt so relieved and safe when I saw him. After all this, I went to bed feeling safe. Next morning my sister, my parents, and I all laughed at the funny situation.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

((Great Teleplay))


The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street has a very interesting message that almost any other stories have. This message tells us about how people hurt each other, not by guns or bombs but other kinds of weapons such as prejudices and suspicion. These thoughts that are being created on the minds of persons do not only hurt that person but the rest of its generation. For example if you kill someone because of a prejudice and that person has a family its son or daughter would be rais withought a father or mother and that will obiesly cause psicological problems. This example aplies to the story, when Charlie killed Pete Van Horn now the rest of its generation will be hurt as well.

I think that Monsters are Due In Maple Street’s message is a very deep message in which if you think of it, it is very real, people really do this. I think that this message has and will always have significance on human’s life because that is how we humans solve problems in the easiest way. We just want to get rid of problems by picking a scapegoat and blaming him about every thing, and that’s it is over the scapegoat is guilty for everything. I can tell you this because something similar happened to me. When I was in sixth grade my class and I had a project in groups of 5. My group and I were very behind and the due date was very near by. I decided to make a little bit in my house by myself so we wouldn’t be as behind as before. We finished the project and on the next day we gave it to our teacher but we didn’t got a good grade so all of my group told me that I was guilty for all. They had chosen me as the scapegoat just because I helped by doing a little bit in my house. I felt very bad they just got rid of the problem by blaming me. This happens very regularly.

Monsters Are Due On Maple Street is a very old teleplay that’s why I would update it in many ways. First of all now people don’t get so alarmed by a simple blackout since it happens very regularly. Second children in present day do not belive in such stories about aliens, much of my cousins do not believe in them. In third place when there are blackouts there is usually a machine that supplies the energy. In fourth place people would not blame each other instead they would blame the factory that gives power. And finally I would change the message to some problems that we are facing now instead of the communist party.