Max’s+Hero+Essay

If you ever want to read a great children’s’ book you should read Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree. In this book a very kind tree and a boy are friends. As the boy gets older he gets more and more selfish and starts forgetting about the tree. The tree gives her apples, branches, and even her trunk to the boy because he wants money, a house, and a boat. She gives all these things to the boy because she truly loves the boy. The book ends with the boy sitting on the tree’s stump enjoying each other’s company.

This story is a metaphor, The tree is Mother Nature and the boy human kind. Humans over all are greedy and selfish, taking resources like oil out of the ground and cutting down whole forests, yet the earth is giving and loving and kind. We would not be here if it wasn’t for the earth, yet we are punishing it with cars releasing Co2 into the atmosphere. The moral of the story is to be kind and selfless and you are doing the right thing. I agree that humans should be kind and selfless to our earth or we will all come to an end.

Ps. I know I sound like a hippie but it is true.


 * ===**Orator was Abraham Lincoln.**===
 * ===**1000s died.**===
 * ===**July 1-3d 1863.**===
 * ===**Four scour and 7 years ago, referring to American Revolution.**===
 * ===**All dead soldiers were buried hastily.**===
 * ===**Abraham Lincoln spoke for less than 2 minutes.**===
 * ===**I think that he made a very good point for 2 minutes.**===
 * ===**The man who spoke before him, Edward Everett, spoke for over 2 hours.**===

===**I think the Gettysburg was a very well written speech because Abraham said what he wanted to say in a short time. I also think that it was cool that the guy that spoke before spoke for 2 hours and his speech probably wasn’t as good an Abraham’s. this speech is very moving and I think it is up there with the “I had a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr.**===

="The Little Mermaid"=

=If you have ever read the original Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" you would know that it is a story of murder, suiside, and love. It is about a little mermaid that falls in love with a human prince. She went to a sea witch and begs her to make her human. she seaid yes but only if she could take the voice away from the little mermaid, so she cleaved off the tounge of the young mermaid. Then she made a potion that turns her into a human but causes her much pain and if the prince gets married before she can be married, she will die. When she drank the potion she floated to the suface of the water only to be greeted by the prince. She did not have a home so he let her stay with him.She was in agony, every step she took burned and it felt as if she had been impaled. One day the prince found a bride. On the day of the marrage her sisters poked there heads out of the water and gave her a knife and told her to kill the prince and let his blood drip on her feet and her tail will grow back and she will live. But the little mermaid let her self die.=

Little Mermaid: Gallant, she lets herself die instead kill the prince and live. Unobtrusive, she never spoke that much around her family. Amorous, she loved the prince a lot. Sea Witch: Malevolent, she took the tongue of the little mermaid. Acquisitive, she made the little mermaid pay for the potion.

My Hero.

According to [] ,” a hero is a man/woman of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his/her brave deeds and noble qualities.” An unsung hero is someone that is a hero but isn’t acknowledged for it.

One example of an unsung hero is my dad. My dad is my hero because he works tirelessly on his business but he does not get paid that much. He sacrifices time and energy for his not that much payback. He is like a pyramid builder in ancient Egypt, working tirelessly and not getting what he deserves.