CD Taro

Jackson Wolf

3/12/12

Language Arts

Taro

Character Development

Author’s Note: This pieces purpose is to raise my score in Character Development

From being a Fisherman in a small town to being the most epic kick-butt ninja there is; Taro, the supposed next shogun, the killer of lords, a murderer. How does Taro accomplish such task? In the book Blood Ninja by Nick Lake, shows how Taro over an amount of time becomes the main character of the story.

One day he is living a normal life from being a son of a fisherman and a diver, the next he is fighting for his life when their supposed good leader, Lord Oda, sends a squad of Ronin. Ronin are ninja’s basically, with the only task of doing what they are told. Taro’s father, defenseless and in a coma from reading the book, is killed by decapitation from another ninja. Then the same ninja goes for Taro, bringing his sword around for a killing blow, when the ninja is stabbed, the tip of a katana sticking through the ninja’s back. The Ninja falls, it turns out another ninja has done that. Then it turns out that he is the “Good Ninja” in the situation. And it is revealed to Taro that the ninja was sent by Lord Tokugawa. Why, because Lord Tokugawa is Taro’s true father.

Then when Taro is rescued, the “Good Ninja” reveals his name, Shusaku, also reveals that he is a vampire. It turns out all ninjas are vampires, with their unmatched strength and agility, it makes sense. But the thing is, like in Fairy tales, they are killed by light. So when they get off the boat, they immediately head for a hut, to rest in for the day. After when it turns to night, they get a move on, but not before they are found and attacked again. But it’s the same people that they have killed already. It is then told, that the only way to kill a ninja, is either a severing of the spinal cord, or a strike to the heart. After they deal with them, they keep going. But they take at a stop, where Shusaku’s girls that he rescued live.

Their Foster Mother is an abbess, a wise woman who can “see the future” kind of deal. When Taro enters, the abbess tells his future, by going into a trance and writing something, like an excerpt of what might happen, but then after she has completed it, it is shown that Taro, will become Shogun. But afterwards, everything goes downhill when the abbess, is killed by one of Lord Oda’s samurai, Kenji Kira. The girls then find Shusaku and the others as they head toward the main “ninja camp”. After arriving they meet the other ninjas. And then later skipping the non important parts, one of the sons of the ninjas, Kawabata, or known as little Kawabata, is beaten by Taro at a match, but then he gets revenge by locking him and one of the girls Heiko in a hut where Taro would be burned by the sunlight. And as it becomes morning, he doesn’t die from the sun, which is weird, so they set up a plan to get Kawabata when he comes back.

Kawabata then comes back, and finds Taro manhandling him with a long sword to his wrist. Kawabata then vows to never hurt anyone of them anymore. But when this news reaching the camp, the rules are that if a ninja turns on another or tries to kill him, he will be punished with death. So then Kawabata and Taro fight to the death. Then Kawabata is dead, and then out of the blue after Kawabata dies, Taro bites him, and brings Kawabata back to life. Long after they head to Oda’s castle to kill him, which leads to the betrayal that will change Taro's fate forever …

Jonas

A Character Development Piece

Author’s Note: This piece’s purpose is to raise my score in Character Description

The Newberry award winning book The Giver is about a young boy whose life changes as he is assigned as reciever duty. When he is assigned to his first day, he meets the old receiver, who is referred to now as The Giver But what is it that makes Jonas the most important character in the book. In the story The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas becomes the important character by affecting other people's lives of his community.

An important event leading up to his important role, was their assigning of Jobs. On the day Jonas was a “Twelve” they were assigned duties. It was organized by numbers, when your number is called, you will be assigned a job. But when Jonas’s number was skipped, he was confused, very. Then at the end of the assigning she called up Jonas. He was then surprisingly given the role of the new Receiver. For 10 years they’ve been looking, and they have finally found the true new Receiver.

Prior to his quest on color, feeling, and music, he met the giver. The Giver could see color through memories of freedom, pain and hunger. And since then Jonas was the receiver, it was The Giver’s job to give Jonas those memories and to see that color, which was an important event, because then he started affecting the lives of the community. Like his family. For example, when Jonas felt “Love” he asked his parents and they were surprised. It was so general they said.

Finally, the most probably the most affecting event which led Jonas to his quest on color and freedom plus pain, also affecting the lives of everyone in Jonas’s hometown, he leaves his hometown, because of 2 things: He sought out an idea to find the true colors, sound and feeling. Also because of the fact that his father, was the person to kill a newborn baby, which had Jonas scared.

So now Jonas, scared and alone, oh who knows where he is, missing, still out on his quest. Now still an important character, but later only a memory. That, is how In the story The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas becomes an important character by how he affecting other people's lives of his community.

Creative Piece

Jackson Wolf

2/15/12

Language Arts

Chapter 24

Author’s note: This is an essay about the continued ending in The Giver. The purpose of this essay is showing my creativity in a creative piece

Jonas woke to the sound of crying, looking over he sees his little brother Gabriel screaming in pain as his fingers, were black. Jonas encountered this feeling when he sleds down the hill back when he was at The Giver’s side. He missed those days. Instinctively he grabbed Gabriel and hugged him close for warmth, he put his hands on the young child’s hands, but Gabriel screamed louder. If Jonas didn’t do something, little Gabriel would lose his hands.

He turned the boy onto his back and transmitted a last piece of memory of freedom, relaxation, and warmth, in a field on a nice summer day. Gabriel calmed, and as soon as he did, Jonas got up with Gabriel in his arms, putting him in the back of the bicycle, Jonas in the front, and pedaled. Pedaled as fast as he could; he remembered the forest, where he saw the deer and that small odd bushy tailed creature, he then went past, stopping at a town, a very large city. Gabriel was brought in to an abandoned building. Where, the crying was now a weep. Sunset, everyone was tired, Gabriel asleep, but Jonas. Looking at the stars, Jonas thinking to himself, “I miss my mom, my father, and my life. I am on the run, from what used to be my home, but now it is my sworn enemy” He looked over to his left, at Gabriel, sound asleep, sucking his black thumb. “Good night, Gabe”.

The Giver was worried, sitting on the leather couch on the Chief Elder’s office. He wasn’t so sure about what they would say to him. Would they understand him, being through 2 receiver releases, one, presumed dead, and the other, of which is now missing, Jonas, his most memorable student. The Giver had a tear out of his eye. Remembering his final memory of him, before he went out on his quest, The Giver then saw the Chief come out of his office. He handed him back his release form, pulled out a stamp, and slammed it onto the form.

It said in bright red,

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"Quote" from the Story Piece

Jackson Wolf

2/10/12

Language Arts

Quote From “The Giver”

Author's note: This Piece is focused on retelling a story quote in the book "The Giver"

The Giver is about a young boy named Jonah who is chosen to be the next receiver, who now is a “receiver-in-training” who is being taught by the previous receiver, but now there is a new receiver, the original receiver is now known is The Giver who teaches the young Jonah to escape his world of nothing but gray and black shades into seeing true color through The Giver via memories throughout hunger, freedom, and pain.

"Not everyone should be chosen for Freedom"

That quote is basically the plot of the entire book. Not everyone can see color, or “Plainness”, nor does The Giver can or want to have everyone to be able to see color because everything would be in chaos to have “Freedom” throughout their entire life. Like Jonah joked about having people being able to pick their own jobs, otherwise like the Giver said, those jobs will be in the hands of others that could not handle the job. But if someone selected for you you’d be able to handle and concentrate rather than goofing off or something.