Day: 16 November 2016 (Page 2 of 2)

It was Halloween night, one of my favorite holidays. I was going to go trick or treating. We didn’t really decorate but that was okay. I pranced around in my snow queen costume, being careful not do accidentally step on anything (Like the cape part or the end of the dress). My costume was basically a sparkly blue dress with a lace cape-like thing attached to it. I also wore some sparkly blue shoes to match. I took one last peek in the mirror and shouted, “Mom! I’m ready!”

“Coming!” My mom shouted back

My little sister walked towards me. Because she was so little, she wasn’t wearing anything fancy. My sister was wearing a pink skirt and a green flower head band. She was supposed to be a fairy but my mom couldn’t find any fairy wings so my sister looks more like a ballerina than a fairy. “C’mon, let’s go get candy!” My sister said as she jumped up and down with excitement.

“Okay… we’re going!” My mom and I said.

We walked to the mall. I was really crowded and busy. I could hear the delighted squeals and screams of children as they ran to each store trying to fill their buckets with candy. I pointed to a store and my mom nodded. I giggled and ran to the store. “Trick-Or-Treat!!” I screamed as a man put a handful of candy in my bag. “Look mom!” I said, pointing to the candy in my bag. She smiled and we walked to another store to get candy.

Soon my bag was getting a little heavy because it was full of different kinds of treats. I started to eat some of my candy to make my bag lighter. The candy smelt wonderful! I grabbed a lollipop. It tasted like green apple. One of my favorite candy flavors. “Save some of your candy for when you get home…” My mom said.

“Aww! Can’t I have ONE candy I pleaded. My mom nodded and said, “Okay, just ONE”

I smiled and happily ate the lollipop.

Once we got home, I ran to my room and grabbed a book. I started to read as I ate my candy. “I love Halloween…” I thought.

Mr. Browne’s precept for October is:

You deeds are your monument.

It means that you are remembered for the things that you do. Things are not important at all, action are more important than what you say and what you look like.

Why does August think that? Remember, people treat August badly because he look different? They look at his face weirdly? They judge him only because he looks weird? And don’t even look his act? People never sit beside him, or don’t say anything to him, expect the bad word.

The people who died, but they still in their monument. If you walked in the hallway normally, the people may not even know who you are; but if you did play in a big, famous concert. They know you are player or the singer, they’ll remember you for a long time, or maybe even forever?

“August is a monster” other people say. “Your deeds are your monuments.” Auggies writing for his essay was specific and sounded like he thought about it very hard. That it was very close to his heart, he provided a lot of evidence to support his statement.

I think that “your deeds are your monuments” mean so much to August because he wants to be remembered of something special. August wants to be heard, he doesn’t want people to remember him because of the way he looks!

This precept is so important to Auggie because all that people see when they look at him is a monster, well some people. August thinks that he is ugly, even though he has friends. His enemies bringing him down.

August is a kind and caring person. He knows that inside and his family! It’s the people around him who put him down. If only people stop judging a book by its cover.

I think it means everything good the other kids do to August that is nice (talk, getting to know him, and being his friend etc.) he will leave a good memory of them.

It may mean that, all the good things August has done, like going to a school to be like the rest of the traditional kids that go to school. He stands up to the kids that have disorders because kids are old enough to know that everyone is special and I think August needs to remind that their special in their own way.

It could contribute to the story by what Auggie is going to do, it’s going to leave a memory behind him.

Last year, under a sky with sparkling stars, my sister and I went trick-or-treating. We started our trip at a fully decorated house. It had all kinds of Halloween decorations on the front yard, ranging from little transparent ghosts to pitch black cackling witches. It even had a glowing jack-o-lantern on the doorstep. So we went up the stairs and knocked on the door while cheerfully exclaiming “Trick- or-treat. ’The man who opened the door gave us each two chocolate bars and so we left. The next house we went to was the complete opposite of the house we went to before. It had no decorations at all! In fact, the only clue that they were giving out candy was that there was a dimly lit jack-o-lantern glowing eerily on the windowsill. As soon as we saw the jack-o-lantern we raced to the door and knocked on the big wooden door. A woman with dark hair and brown eyes opened the door and gave us some Smarties. We went on to many different houses and got all kinds of candies ranging from lollipops to gummy bears until finally I was starting to get tired so we headed home.

I think the October precept means deeds or monument and that what we say is not as important as what we do .It also reminds us what we do to ourselves and other people is the most important of all. It also reminds us if we say or do something mean especially, if we do something mean we can cause a big impact on someone and sometimes even your life in a bad way, we also need to remember if we do something mean to someone it can ruin their life permanently and if we do or say something we do or say something we have to be remember if we do or say something we have to be positive and know it is true before you say it.

On Halloween night, I saw lots of children wearing costumes and Trick or Treating. I wore a “fade in fade out phantom costume. It came with weird looking glasses which you put it on with the hood. Then you move a small switch that’s connected to the glasses and it lights up red on the eyes. When I went Trick or Treating. The first candy I got was “nerds.” It’s a small crunchy candy with lots of different flavors like strawberry, grape, orange and other. After I’m done Trick or Treating I say goodbye to my friend and go home. I ask my Mom to check if there is dangerous things in the candy then I sit down on my bed and enjoy!