I come from poem

I come from the hill,

A home with just the three of us.

Living life like every day is the last,

Reaching life to it’s full potential.

Why sit at home, and let the world go by,

Get out there and do something just like we do.

Life and money is for living and spending,

So why save live your live whilst you can.

Reflective Commentary

My idea behind this is to show how life is for living, and how me and my family aren’t people to sit around and do nothing. Why should you sit there and be boring, we only get one life so get out there and live it. Therefore I wanted to put my ideas about this across in the poem, family is important to treasure and do things with so why not.

Commentary on flash fiction

Commentary on flash fiction story

During the choice of choosing the theme for my Halloween story, it was quite difficult because our audience was only about 13 years old. Therefore they have quite a lot of knowledge about the world but I didn’t think it was fair to really scare them.

Something  I really considered was the name choice of the characters, because the scene was actually Hallowee night I wanted to give it the whole scary feeling to it. This is why i choose the name 'Mary' to represent Bloody Mary, and I also choose the name 'Ripper' for the evil plant in the story to represent Jack Ripper.

The purpose of my flash fiction was based around the film little shop of horrors, i included some of the elements from the film. This is because I knew this film wasn't really a horror film, therefore it would be appropriate for the younger audience that we were targeting.

In parts of the story I included some speech, this is because I wanted the audience to feel engaged and feel part of the story. Therefore it hopefully added to the dramatic and scary parts of it.

Overall it was quite hard to try and think what to include because we had a certain age range to write for, but this made it a bit easier than having to generalise it to everybody. This helped me to keep the context the same.

Flash fiction halloween

Flash Fiction Halloween

It was a dark, dreary night on the 30^th October Mary was in her room after she had been shopping, she has a real passion for Halloween so she bought this plant that she thought was traditional for Halloween. Mary was staring at the plant in excitement she thought she would name it and decided on the name Ripper.

It was a dusky night, Mary was just getting off to sleep and feeling super excited for Halloween the next day. She started hearing voices calling “Mary, Mary, Mary talk to me” she was so confused and didn’t have a clue where it was coming from. Mary falls fast asleep…

It’s the 31^st October (what does that mean) it’s Halloween! Mary flew up out of her bed but little did she know it was Ripper that was calling her last night. Ripper starts to move across the room just as Mary goes downstairs.  She had slept all through the day ready for the electrifying night of Halloween. Knock, knock, knock! Mary answers the door “Trick or Treat” shrieks children at the door, Ripper heard the noise instantly any sound of children and he awakes.

Mary heard the noise coming from her bedroom so up she sneaked, as she approached her door there was crashing, banging and thumping noises coming from there. Normally Mary isn’t anxious about Halloween but this whole situation was petrifying her. She heard somebody say “Mary FEED ME” it was all so confusing Mary pushed open her door to find Ripper going absolutely crazy.

She was gobsmacked to see what was going on, meanwhile the children at the door were still waiting for their sweets. Ripper had now escaped and was on his way to the door, he had taken a chunk out of Mary’s leg just to get through. He was now staring directly at the poor children, using his powers he sucked the children from outside the house to inside his plant.

The children screeched and bellowed for help but nobody could do anything in time, the children were swallowed up in one go never ever to be seen again.

As for Mary she was deserted upstairs surrounded by a pool of blood, Marys parents had just stumbled through the door listening to the cries of Mary. Ripper was enjoying his supper of flesh he reached for her mum eagerly trying to bite her arm, Mary’s dad ran to the kitchen and picked up the biggest knife he could find.

Mary’s mum is frantically trying to pull away from Ripper, and then Mary’s dad pulls out this knife from nowhere and slices Ripper to pieces. Suddenly Mary sprung to mind and he panicked about where she was, so he runs up the stairs hastily to find Mary laying there dead.

Mary had been bitten and had bled to death, with the poisonous liquid that Ripper had put into her it was too much for her little body to take.

Rest in peace Mary.

Travel Writing

Antigoni Hotel Cyprus
This 5-storey hotel comprises a total of 172 rooms. The lobby welcomes guests with its 24-hour reception desk, sitting area, and lift access. Dining options include a bar and an air-conditioned restaurant, while further amenities include a TV lounge to make use of as well as public Internet access. Room service completes the offerings.
This appealing hotel is located in the centre of Protaras, about 300 m from the wonderful sandy beach. Countless shops lie only a few metres from the building, while it is about 1 km to Ayios Elias church and some 5 km to the Cavo Greco National Park. The hotel is roughly 60 km from Larnaca.
The tastefully appointed rooms all come with an en suite bathroom with a shower, bathtub and hairdryer. Standard fittings include a direct dial telephone, satellite/ cable TV, a radio and a minibar. In addition, carpeting, air conditioning, central heating, a hire safe, and a sitting area are also provided in every room. Moreover, all accommodation units feature either a balcony or terrace with a view of the pool or the mountains.

Travel republic have used the adjective 'Appealing' because instead of using the word nice, they wanted to make the customers more attracted and drawn to the place. And the adjective 'Tastefully' is like a bit of a contrast. Because clearly you can't eat a hotel, but it means that the place looks very nice and that people really want to go there.
Both of these adjectives describe the hotel as a very pleasant place that many people would want to go to, people feel that they realy want to go here because of the persuasive descriptive adjectives.

Also by using the conjuctive 'In Addition' this is trying to emphasise the fact that the hotel has many features, therefore they want to make the list sound endless. By them having all these useful facilities it makes the hotel customers feel home from home, and then they are more likely to go there. This may stop them from having any worries like feeling home sick or anything.

And the company use 'Wonderful' sandy beach, this is suggesting that the beaches that are near the hotel are really good. This may attract certain customers rather than others, by using this adjective it makes people who are really fond about beaches want to come there.

Review about Dan Freedman

Dan Freedman The author was really good to listen too and he was very inspiring. The way he repeatedly mentioned that he was going to give up on many occasions, but he never did he always carried on especially made him good to listen too. Also the way he answered peoples questions were very good and he answered them in thorough detail, so everybody got all the little details about his life. He also showed everyone that if your career doesn't workout straight away get some advice and see what you can improve on, it actually is good to have knockbacks as this only makes you more passionate about your career. Anybody can do the career they wish to do as long as they have the willingness to do and know what they what to achieve. Overall he was very inspiring and it was good to see an author so passionate and very fond of his books, and wanting everybody to engage with him on his journey he's been through.

Headlines Homework CHARLOTTE KENDALL

<!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]-->The style of the font ‘KING ELVIS DEAD’ is done in a way to inform people immediately and straight away to draw their attention to the text.

King as the pre modifier suggests that Elvis was a superior man and very well thought of which dramatizes the situation.

Dead as the post modifier creates tension when reading the headline, people may start to panic and worry making them read the rest of the story.

Those particular modifiers were used to create dramatic effect in the headline about death.

<!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]-->The style of the text is that some words are small and then ‘STEALS’ is a bigger, bolder and in a different colour. Also by choosing the word steal makes people think negative things, and somebody isn’t going to literally steal a man. It’s just a catchy saying for somebody now dating somebody else’s partner.

Kim as the pre modifier suggests that whatever she is stealing wasn’t her possession before but now it is.

Eva’s man as the post modifier suggests that also it was Eva’s possession but not anymore because Kim has taken him.

These particular modifiers were chosen to create emotion for the audience. So we believe that Kim is the bad person, and Eva we should feel sympathy for before even reading the article.

Due to the type of audience that would read this magazine, these words are best suited. This is because people are most likely to read the magazine to find out gossip, therefore the editor probably chose these words so that people want to read this magazine in particular.

<!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]-->The style of the text is very plain and straight to the point, it’s a very informative headline and it doesn’t go into any detail. The colour black suggests a very dull mood of death.

There isn’t a pre modifier it gets straight to the point and uses a name to shock the readers straight as they read it.

The post modifier is ‘DEAD’ this describes what has happened to the noun. It’s straight to the point and it says it how it is.

The modifier was chosen to straight away tell the reader look what’s happened to create some sort of emotion whether it is happy or sad depending on the public’s perception of him. And there was no pre modifier this could be to get a reaction from the audience because Hitler was a very well-known person and didn’t need to be described in any way.

<!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]-->The audience that read this newspaper I imagine may be older or intellectual type people. Therefore this headline would appeal to them, it’s quite bland and this will create some type of emotion.

The style of the text stands out from the background because it’s white text on a black background. And the wording I’ve makes the headline personal.

The pre modifier ‘KILLED’ creates a sad, shocking feeling, because somebody has been killed it makes you wonder why somebody did something like this.

The post modifier ‘MORE’ would make the reader thinks oh no he has killed more than one person. It’s certainly bad to kill one person let alone more.

The modifiers were chosen to really emphasis how bad of a person this man really is, and the readers will want to find out why he killed all of these people. It may make people sad to think there is someone out there behaving like this.

<!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]-->The style of the text is bright and very personal to connect with the reader of the magazine.

The pre modifier ‘I SAVED’ makes the reader feel an emotional connection with the text, saved is a good thing and it makes people happy. Also the choice of the word ‘I’makes the headline feel very superior and heroic.

The post modifier ‘MY SON’ is very personal, the audience will see the mother and son bond in the article.

The modifiers were chosen to show possession and to create a happy but sad response, it will engage the readers. In particular female readers, because normally they express more emotions than men do.

The audience for this type of magazine is generally women and older girls, the words are a bit soppy. This would make the girls and women feel some sort emotional connection with the story and wonder what it’s about.