Theme

Have you ever been in a life or death situation? Probably not. Mainly all of us day to day people haven’t. We try to keep to ourselves not bother other people, go to school or go to work, go home watch some TV eat sleep and do it all again the next day. In the novel “Among The Free” Luke the main character has a new adventure of life or death situations every day. Ever since the population police had made it where third children were illegal Luke had to be hidden from everyone. Not knowing whether he was going to get caught and killed or be unseen and safe, that isn’t a life anyone should have to live. He eventually is able to be out in the open but with a fake name and I.D. Still it doesn’t help his situation being a population police officer himself. Luke is faced with a life or death situation when he is handed a gun and told to shoot an old women who disobeyed the population police order to go to the towns center for new I.Ds. He Can either shoot the old woman or drop the gun and have a huge chance of getting killed by the population police for being disobedient. No kid should be given a gun to kill an elder. Luke has been put through more life and death situations than anyone I’ve ever heard about.

Prediction

I predict that in the end of my book "Among The Free" Luke the main character will soon find out that the population police have officially fallen and third children are finally free after several years of living in fear. I believe this because in the middle of the book a small town takes a weapon that Luke dropped and kill a population police officer and then Luke runs to a different town and faints and the town gives him something to drink and they overcome the population police by refusing to give him to them. In my mind that shows that in the end the population police will fall.

Character analysis

Luke Scrawny doesn't like having to leave a form of shelter Can't read people relies on friends always hangs on to things from the past scared of every possibility Luke Changed Stronger Leaves shelter when information or survival items needed Still can't read people but tries anyways doesn't rely on friends for everything he does still can't forget things from past still worries about every possibility

Truth or False

I never met my grandpa, he died before I was born. He was a sheriff down in Texas for a long time.
He was divorced from my grandma. He lived to be ninety then had a heart attack and died. I don’t know if he was a nice grandpa or mean, but I guess I'll never know.

Symbolism

http://www.slideshare.net/wrestler6/sybol-45-12898095

Sleeping

Authors note:I wrote this for writing circles.

Sleeping is my favorite time in the world because dreams are fun. When you’re sleeping all you’re thinking about is not waking up. I sleep sometimes but during the school week i cant sleep because school has to start so early!

Rhymes

Authors note: I wrote this because it was the topic for our writing circles.

There once was a rhyme that traveled for quite some time the man who wrote it was quite fine. He wrote using quote on quote, word on word, when he was done he attached it to a little bird and that bird was given a cheese curd. The bird flew directly through the sky after the man had said bye, bye. The rhyme was great the rhyme was good until the bird was hit by another man’s truck hood. The man found the paper he balled it up and said see you later little piece of paper. The rhyme ended up where it started with the same man so the man threw it in the can because clearly no one had been a fan.
By: Pierson