Author: BowenD

Mozart is a well known character in music and contributed many pieces that will be remembered even in our generation. He was a prodigy, a musician, and a composer. Even though he was always poor and quite a jerk, he is still today’s most renown classical musicians ever.

At a really early age, Mozart started to play the piano and his dad, a composer, was astonished about how Mozart could make his own pieces and play them almost perfectly. His dad then decided he had a child prodigy son. He spent a lot of money on trips to other places besides Germany (their current home) and Mozart performed there. At first he just performed with some people that just wanted to enjoy music and explore, but very soon word got around about how good he was. Soon enough he would be playing for kings, princes, and nobles. However there were many people that were jealous and envious about Mozart. Those people came to Mozart’s performance to see if he was for real and in the end, there was no question. Mozart was a prodigy.

After Mozart traveled around the “whole world” back then, he started to grow up and settle down his childhood. Soon he got married and started to compose new pieces. A total estimated amount of pieces he wrote during his VERY SHORT lifetime includes: 15 masses, 50 symphonies, 25 piano concertos, 12 VIOLIN concertos, 17 piano sonatas, 26 string quartets, 600 individual pieces, and even more that he didn’t have enough time to finish. See, he was a very busy man, whenever a good song came up to his mind he would immediately write it down and start working on that. He has too much unfinished work and he wasn’t really competent. He simply didn’t care about earning money, only his music (He also wasted his money on lavish things). In the end he was really poor unlike other composers so he died a pretty young age because of sickness. However even though he died with so much unfinished work, he still gave us plenty of masterpieces and wonderful music. He simply left a great influence and taught the future generations his genius and work.

In conclusion, Mozart was a great musician! He experience many hardships such as poverty and envy but in the end, we still remember him as a great musician and a very influential composer.

He likes to be the leader, but he instead’s a dreamer

He wants to be mighty , but he actually is tiny

He thinks he’s so great, in reality he’s a grape

But he thought he could kill with his lefty?

But that was all a dream

He tried to fend the Germans, alone with a plane

He defeated the German soldiers, and was deemed a real hero

But that was all a dream

He was a innocent, a man, a hero

But fate was cruel to him, so he got blamed for murder

The firing squad was upon him

But that was just a dream

So here is Walter who is much of a dreamer,

But in the end he’s still…

A good man

A Rose for Emily

She married and unmarried, but never had love,

She wanted to buy arsenic

To decimate the rats

She married another man

Whom she actually pretty loved

But in the end, the man died smiling

With her strand of hair besides

She died a mysterious death, but there was no rats in her house

She probably used the arsenic to try to end HER LIFE

But that ain’t the case, since the villagers proved it

So instead we worship Emily because she died a great death.

Everyday use is about a family of African American people and about their daily life.

In the past, the main characters Dee, Maggie and “mama” had their house burn down for a unknown reason. Dee didn’t help Maggie or mama to get the fire down because Dee didn’t like the house, thinking it was too old.

The main thing in this story is when Dee wanted a quilt that was owned by Grandma saying that it was a valuable memory. The quilt was originally supposed to be given to Maggie, but Dee said that Maggie already knew how to make a quilt. Ironically Dee’s reason that Maggie already knew how to quilt just proves the fact that she thinks its just a quilt, meanwhile earlier, she said that the quilt is special and cannot be REPLACED. Furthermore, Dee came to their house in a fancy dress and jewelry, and after the encounter, Dee was a completely different person from who they knew.

I know its short but this is all i can think of.

In this short story, the narrator is writing out a proposal to solve economic crisis and poverty. He wants the poor to sell their children for “food” to benefit both the poor and the rich.

This “solution” of selling children and “eating them” for food is meaning that the poor should sell their children, get a handsome amount so they aren’t poor anymore and the poor would be able to benefit to society. This is technically slavery in its finest but the narrator doesn’t seem to be fazed about that.

This way of doing things could “solve economic crisis” by selling children and making them do labor so both the poor and rich could make a good profitable amount out of us innocent guys and gals.

In this short story, the main character really likes this girl in his class, and he tries to impress and be friends with her by going to the same French class as her.

He is constantly thinking about the girl, Teresa, and when the teacher asked him to say a proper noun, he said Teresa. He constantly tries to impress her and during French class, he tries to impress Teresa by saying “French”, even though it was complete gibberish. At the end of the class Teresa was impressed and started to talk to him and asked if he wanted to study with her. The boy was obviously excited and said yes, but this was still at the end of French class. Even though the teacher knew that the boy was faking it, the teacher didn’t interfere, having sympathy for him.

The moral of this story is that we shouldn’t fake who we are, if we do, in the end it would be us that will get a hard hit. Fake it until you make it.

The landlady is about main protagonist Billy, and how he gets trapped in the landlady’s house.

Billy is trying to find a new job, and once he gets off the train, a porter tells him that Dragon and Bell is a good place to stay for the night and he should stay there, but if Dragon and Bell is full, you could always stay at bed and breakfast.

It was cold and raining so Billy became weary and instead of going to Dragon and Bell, he went to Bed and Breakfast. He decided to stay there because the price was cheap and the lady was nice. Once he got his room all set up, he was asked to sign the guest book, and above him was 2 names, which he later found out to be the names of missing people.

After a while he started to become suspicious and when he was drinking tea, his tea had a weird almond taste to it. A drink with a bitter almond to it, especially in something that shouldn’t have a almond taste is probably rigged with cyanide which is a poison. He doesn’t find out, but later that night, he mysteriously died.

The moral of this story is to not be so trusting and not to be afraid to ask questions since Billy was speculating but he didn’t ask anything about it.

Marco Polo was a merchant and traveler in Europe. His main achievement is writing the book about his adventures and also traveling to China and Exploring what China was like back then.

Marco Polo was from the family of merchants and travelers so they usually traveled around. One time Marco Polo’s father traveled to China and told Marco about all the wonderful things in China. Marco Polo was really awed and wanted to go see for himself how wonderful China was. He decided when he grew up he would go and visit China.

When he first went to china, the the king/emperor welcomed him and was really fascinated by him since he knew how to speak 4 languages and also because his culture: Christianity. After a bunch of time spent there, he was sent to Europe back again, but the next time he comes back he brings 10 priests, so the Emperor could study Christianity and increase the knowledge of his people.

So now, Marco Polo came back to Europe and he’s ready to travel back to China WITH only two priests he managed to convince. He met a lot of hardships when crossing the deserts to go to China. There were sand dunes that “lured” people in, but Marco Polo evaded that. There were bandits to rob you, but Marco evaded that using the “golden passport”. If somebody were to rob somebody with a golden passport, they would be against the WHOLE army of China. However even though Marco evaded them successfully, the priests hated traveling like this and they had to drop the priests off back at Europe.

When Marco Polo returned to China, he was greeted as a royal guest and was really popular. Many people wanted to have a good relationship with him and he was treated to the best food, the best wealth and the best things in China. After a couple years in China, he decided he wanted to go back to tell his people of the amazing wealth and power of China, also because the recent Emperor is close to dying and who knows how well the next Emperor will treat him. Even though the Emperor was reluctant, he agreed but he wanted Marco to accompany the princess to another place for a arrangement/peace treaty. The trip was really dangerous and in the end, only Marco’s family survived and the princess.

So now that Marco is returning home, what will happen when he gets to Europe? Well things did not look good for him since he was going to be sent to jail. At jail, he and his “roommate” shared stories, but Marco’s story about China intrigued him. Together they made a book about Marco’s adventure to China and once they were out of jail, they sold the book and the it turned out to be a over-night bestseller.

Marco influenced many people and also made plenty of enemies. Lots of people thought he was not saying the truth because one, they simply didn’t believe it, or two, they didn’t like the idea of another empire being significantly greater than them.

Overall Marco’s adventure told us lots of information about history, especially China, and even though we don’t know too much about Marco himself, we will always remember the adventures the he went through and the great feats that he did. His last words were “I have not told half of what I saw”.

This story is about how a girl called Waverly grew up in San Francisco, Chinatown and how she suddenly became a chess prodigy.

One day, during a Christmas gift opening, Waverly’s family received a chess set and when Waverly started to play, she began to be really interested in chess. She started to practice and learn about the strategies and rules of chess, and soon she was able to beat her brothers. One day, when she challenged a guy from the park to a match of chess and the guy easily wins. However the guy offered to teach Waverly chess strategies and before you know it, she became really really good at chess. She became so good at chess that she didn’t really have to do chores, but to practice chess and also even attend tournaments for chess. She ended up becoming a national chess champion and her mother was really proud of her. However her luck changed when her mother started to brag how she was the mom of this amazing national chess champion. Waverly began to get mad and soon storms off. When she returns home, her mother was really mad at her and soon when in her bead she drifts off to sleep. Dreaming a chessboard, and how her mother’s pieces sweeps her pieces off the chessboard.

This story is about a fictional ritual where in a town, they “sacrificed” one person for the ritual. The lottery was when the people from the town each chooses a piece of paper from a box, and the person that chooses the piece of paper with the black dot is sacrificed and essentially stoned to death. This was done so they “could have good fortune and crops”. The main people in this story is Bill, and Tessie.

When they were choosing the box, Tessie was complaining because she claimed Mr. Summer, the guy doing the hosting the lottery didn’t give Bill enough time to choose the paper. (Note that Bill was choosing a paper for Tessie) Once everybody started to open up the paper, many people got blank so they were fine. However when it got to Tessie, Tessie’s paper wasn’t blank. It had a black dot. Then they started to stone her, and Tessie’s last words were “IT WASN’T FAIR!!”.

The moral of this story is that we shouldn’t always follow according to a old tradition, especially since the tradition could be bad and we shouldn’t do it anymore like the one in the story.