OBITUARY
Childhood,
You will always be remembered as a hero in the eyes of all. You were the one that started my life, giving me great times. Often you and I would do silly things, like shooting the cat with squirt guns, pushing our friends into pools and watching their surprised look as they plunge into the cool water and even fooling around in school classes when we became bored of addition, subtraction, commas and periods. All of those times were great and filled with fun, but there were also serious times we had when you were still alive inside me. Like the time we learned how to speak, and then later on how to read and how to write. There were also the times we learned right from wrong when parents or teachers put us on time out or took away the TV. We also were furious when we were punished, but now, later in life, I realize it really did help. You have gotten me so far in life and I want you to know that even though adulthood is inside me instead of you, adulthood is not replacing you. Childhood, I will never forget you.
RANSOM NOTE
By now you have probably noticed that your precious adulthood is nowhere to be found. The reason you can not find this adulthood is because I have captured this adulthood of yours and am keeping him in a top secret location. Now I say top secret because there is no way you will ever find me or adulthood. It is simply not possible. You are probably wondering why I would just tell you I have your adulthood and just keep him from you, but there is a reason. I will return your adulthood, but only for a price. To get your adulthood back you must give me your childhood. You see, you can’t have your childhood and adulthood at the same time. You can’t have all of the silliness and learning of childhood and the independence and seriousness of adulthood conflicting and fighting inside of you. It’s just like having a pet cat and a pet dog and just putting them in a cage together. There bound to fight, just like childhood and adulthood would if you tried to keep them both. I know that it will be almost impossible to just give away your childhood, the thing that taught you what is right and what is wrong, gave you loads of fun doing stupid and goofy things with friends and the feeling of discovery each time you learned something new. It may not seem like it, but I stole your adulthood to help you out. If you want your adulthood you will give me your childhood.
WELCOM LETTER
Welcome Adulthood,
Throughout all of my previous childhood years I have waited for you to arrive. Everywhere people and things were trying to help me so I could reach you. Teachers were teaching me functions, equations, graphs, commas, compound sentences, paragraphs, density, volume, solutions and basically anything I may need to achieve you successfully. Although you are just a newcomer in my life, I believe that you and I could become great friends. Together we can share some moments full of ebullience. There will be the time when we get our drivers license, and then later purchase our own car. Farther down the road we will get a good job, which will lead to our first home that we could call our own. Later on we might meet a girl that we might really like and get married; maybe I will even have some kids. Heck, we could even go to space if we wanted to, the possibilities are end less! Even though you and I will have some outstanding times I know that you will also bring bad times. You and I might have an argument. I might lose my job, struggle with money, but I know that much more of our times will be positive and we will still be friends, even if we have a few disagreements. I can’t wait to see what you and I have in store later in life. I know ill enjoy every second of being with you.
Sincerely, Jake DeLapp
RULES TO A GAME
Rules for the game “Grow up already”
*****The objective of this game is to travel through the entire board and make it to adulthood, which is at the very end of the board.
~To decide who moves first you must roll a simple six sided dice. Whoever rolls the highest number gets to move first.
~To determine how many spaces you can move you must roll the dice, much like you did when deciding who got to move first. Whatever number you roll is how many spaces you can move. (can be effected when landing on “special spaces”)
***** When moving along the game board you may land on a “special space”. The rules for “special spaces” are below.
~If you land on a “special space” marked MISTAKE you must skip a turn. MISTAKE symbolizes when you make a mistake when you are growing up. When you make a mistake you are almost always punished, so in the game you must skip a turn.
~If you land on a “special space” marked LESSON you get to double the amount of spaces that you rolled that turn. LESSON symbolizes when you learn a important life lesson while growing up. When you learn these lessons while growing up you grow up faster and get closer to adulthood, which is why your roll is doubled when you land on one of these squares.
MOVIE REVIEW: To Kill a Mockingbird
The movie To Kill a Mockingbird was great. In the movie I witnessed all sorts of amazing things such as amazing camera angles, a fascinating plot, well formed themes or morals, very well developed characters, but the thing that stuck out the most for me was the way Jem grew up throughout the movie. In the beginning of the book he seemed to be a foolish child who did foolish things and made bad choices, but at the end of the book he was helping others, being nice to everyone, understanding other people and just acting as if he were an adult. I thought it was amazing when Jem told Scout not to kill the roly poly beetle because it hadn’t done anything to her. It really marked the start of an incredible transformation. From then on Jem just continued to grow. He did things like realize that reading for Ms. Dubose really wasn’t that bad and started looking at the way other people saw things. All these little things indicated that Jem was growing up, but at the end of the story there was one event that showed us that Jem really was all grown up. This was when Jem saved his sisters life. When he was attacked he risked his life and tried to stop his sister from being killed when he could have very easily just left his sister for dead because she didn’t have a chance of keeping up with him in her ham suit. Everyone behind this movie did an incredible job and put together an excellent movie. I enjoyed this movie just as much as I enjoyed the classic Romeo and Juliet, a fantastic tail of two star crossed lovers. In many ways I see lots of the same things in both stories. One thing that I really noticed was that in both stories characters had to overcome huge obstacles. In Romeo and Juliet both Romeo and Juliet had to overcome the fact that there families were enemies, and they were bound to run into troubles throughout their relationship. In To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus had to try to overcome the fact that everybody in Maycomb was racist when he was trying to defend Tom Robinson, a black man.
Sincerely, Jake DeLapp
Sincerely, Jake DeLapp
