Lost in the Woods

If I were stucked in the woods, I will first start screaming and shouting for help, see if there's anyone around me. If yes, I will be delightful. If no, I will sit down, and start worrying about my furture. One thing I learn about survival is never get lost! That can kill you! I will get a stick on the ground, and draw a very very prominent line while I am walking, that way I won't get lost, I still know how to go to my initial place.What I will do to make me live is try my best to make a shelter for me to live. I will try to get wood, stone, and grass. Even though I don't know how to make a shelter, I will try. After shelter, I try to collect food and water from forest. Well, there may be some fruits in the forest, I am not sure, but if you wanna survive in a forest, you gotta try. Lakes can be around the forest. Even though lake water is way more terrible than normal water, it is much better than sea water. I will try to make fire at night. Thay way, I can see objects at night, and calling for help. Lost in the forest and lost in the desert will be different. Desert is a very dry, arid, desolate, and empty place. Forest is place with many trees, changing weather, and some water (higher possibility to find). You may die easier if you are lost in the desert, because desert is a hot place and lack of water. Forest is a warmer and more water place compare to desert. However, people stucked in the desert has higher possibility to be found by others, because no barriers can block them. Well, I think lost in the forest is still better than lost in the desert.

Personal Assets

In "The Hatchet", Brian's assets are some conis, a dollar bill, a broken digital watch, a hatchet, and luck. All of these can help Brian to survive through wilderness. Another asset for Brian is he has watched some shows about how to live in a forest. That teaches him some knowledge and some skills about survival. For example: he knows that berries are hidden inside the bushes. His personal attributes are he needs to be more independent, he needs to learn how to control his temper. He always thinking about the foods and their family when he is living in the forest of Canada. This may hurt him in the furture! He needs to stop thinking about that! Well, I think my greatest assets is that I am pretty good at jumping. When there was a long-jump test, I always jump the farest. Also, I think I jump pretty high. I was one of high jump member at my old school. Another asset is I know some martial art. That case, I can defend for myself. I think I have some qualities that might hinder my survival. I will complain a lot about the mosiquitos and bugs in the wilderness, I will keep saying that they are so noisy. Also, I am afraid of killing animals. It frightens me!

Solving Problems

I have learned 2 useful skills after I arrived PAS. One is how to play basketball, and the other is how to speak proper english. Before I was a sixth grader, I rarely play basketball. That was because my local school didn't teach basketball, they taught more stuff on track and field. We ran a lot.  The only thing they taught us about basketball was shooting and dribbling. They didn't even tell us the rules of playing basketball, so I didn't know the rules. After I arrived PAS, I started playing different types of sports. The most common one is basketball. I learned how to play basketball. The second thing I learned is speak proper english. Before I arrived PAS, I speak terrible english. That was why I didn't speak a lot when I first came to PAS. After a couple years of learning, my english improve a lot, even though I still need a lot of improvement to count as a good english speaker. English is a very useful language, because it is the international language. I know I will use it in the furture. I also used english to communicate with my two counsins in America. They are better english speaker, cause they born and have edjucation in America. They are not really good at chinese, so the only communication tool that I can use is english. Without english, I will need to use hand gesture, which is not more useful than language.

Long Life

I don't think it is fair to keep the secret so that only a few people know. Even though I say it's not fair, doesn't mean I like the secret. If the secret is found by the people on earth, everybody will be coming to moon just for have longer life. Well, if that's the case, the United Nation should think of a solution. I will suggest the United Nation to limit the amount of people that go to moon. I will say that only the rich people can go. It is like if you are richer, you will have more money to pay for medical care, so you will live longer. People may start working hard and saving money for going to moon, that way, world economy will grow. Mabye expose the secret will be good for the world! I think living 200 years will be good for the people who have wonderful life but bad for the people with miserable life. If the people with wonderful life live 200 yeas, they can enjoy their life even longer. That means they can still play their video games, still playing cards with their friends, or reading his unfinished book. It will be bad for the people who miserable life, the life will torture them longer. That means they will still live in a small box, eat a slice of bread for each meal, or living alone with no company. Well, it depends. I won't like to live 200 years, cause that's way to long. I will like to live until 104 years old. That is longer than normal people, but not like 90 years older.                     

The Secret

In the story "The Secret", Mr.Henry Cooper has found out something weird and suspicious on moon. The people on moon were much colder to him compared to when he first came to moon. The people used to talk to Mr.Henry Cooper and be generous to him first, but they started to ignore him later. Dr. Hastings discovered that on the moon, a hamster live over 5-10 years, when hamster can only live 2 years on earth. On earth, people and aniamls spend a lot of time in their life time fighting against gravity, your heart has intense tension, and so as your body parts. However, there is no much gravity on moon. People can use less strength but have the same work. That is why living things can live longer on moon than live on earth. Dr. Hastings doesn't want to reveal about his observation, because if he reveals, everyone is coming to moon to live. In the story, it says that the earth is already to crowded and people need more space for living. If people know that you can have extra life time if you come to moon, many people will come. In that case, moon may be crowded as the earth. Mabye not many people will stay on earth if they know the truth, earth will become a abandoned a planet. Dr. Hastings doesn't want that happens, so he doesn't reveal the truth.

Setting and Plot

Setting plays a important role in the story. Setting is actually the thing that causes the plot, which means that the setting causes the chain of events. A story changes by the setting, if the setting changes, the story will be different. For example: a girl was selling matches during winter. She was very anxious that somebody could buy a match from her. Unfortunately, no one needs match. The girl really wanted to sell some matches in order to buy some foods for her little brothers. So she just stood there for a whole night. The next day, people saw a body lay on the snow floor, and that person was the match girl. She was died, because it was too cold out there. She froze to death. If you looked back, you could find out that the setting had killed the girl. If the climate wasn't so cold, mabye the girl would be able to live longer. Mabye someone would buy matches from her, and she would earn some money, and the story would be totally different!
Another example will be during the Mongolia Empire. About 800 years ago, the Mongolian had conquered tons and tons of lands. They had defeated the Byzantine Empire and the Song Dynasty in China. The Mongolia Empire was one of the biggest empire in history, it's land was about 2 times bigger than Russia.  Well, when the Mongolian conquered a place. They would rob, kill, or burn. They would do whatever thing to make they happy. No one will do that in modern day. War will hardly happen in modern. That is because the modern people hate violence, we love peace. From the two examples I gave you guys, I hope you can understand how setting affect story.

Writing is Difficult

Ray Bradbury, the autor of "There Will Come Soft Rains", says that writing is a agonzing, dreadful, and a terrible occupation. I agree with him. Writing is painful for many peoples, especially for students. You need to think about something to write with before you actually start the writing, and you need to check if there's any spelling or grammer mistakes in your writing. Anyway, writing is hard. Even though he says that writing is a terrible occupation, he still write. Well, I don't know the actual reason, but I think he writes because writing is the way to express and relieve himself. He put his feeling into his writing. The words in the essay can be changed because of the writer's mood. Second possible reason for him to write is because he likes to challenge himself. He knows that writing is hard, and that is why he is doing this. Third possible reason for him to write is because he is a writer. If he stops writing, he won't earn any money, and we all know that peoples need money. That is why he writes, because he wants money! I don't think I will become a writer when I grow up. I won't, because writing was not my best subject since elementry school. Also, I am not really in to writing. I don't enjoy writing a lot.