Journal 61: Film v Book

I think the movie and the book are quit dirfferent, the book itself is quite interesting, but put into a movie it will be quite lame for the lack of action a alto of various reasons.  I think that si the reason there is more spice in the movie. In the movie brian is struggleing with the bear and even fought it two times. They also added some excitement by making the character find and eat bugs, the idea of putting a live wiggleling bug into ur mouth creeps us so much that, the whole cas short of screamed. I also get a lot of goosbumps when seeing tat scene, and typing this also make me have goosebumps at the moment. The book also have most of the scene, but her mom and his boyfriend kissed in the forest, where in the book ti sin the mall. In the movie his mother foud out that brian was peeking, while in the book she does not find out. In the book brian does not shoo the wolf nor tell ti to go away, but he does in the movie. The movie is more about struggleing with nature and fighting it, while the book is more about being in harmony with nature.

Journal 60: Hip-Hop Language

Yo man whuts up bro, I am typing a journal atm and it rocks yo,  I cannot sound that ganstar but I am still og and you do want to mess with me mate. This journal is better than the last one , which involves some epic language XXXX. And bro, my hands are aching so hard by the time im done typing it, but its cool yo. I aint feeling to well today since the teachers are droping all the sXX on me and I can’t do a damn bout it man. This is making me trippin. That aint cool at all man.  i will teach ehtm not to mess with me yo , I am gonna burn all the hw up and teach them no one can messs with me yo , they will regret it, im am get all my homies and trash this place( just random gansta talk not true) that will teach those puncks how to act next time man.( again not true) and how can I talk gansta without swearing? Gansta talk is shorta man, tats why were cool. One thing man, how am is uppose to type two hundred words in gansta? Today is cool man, not that bad tbh yo, now im just adding yo to everything but yo, that is how gansta talk man

Journal 59: Epic Language

Typing a journal,

Such an hardship and filled with pain,

The the gradual and deseprate buzzing sound of the computer,

Must finish the post before the computer’s life is drain out,

For then all is lost when the life is drianed away,

I must finish this esay no matter the cost,

With my mouse in one hand,

Another on top of the keyboard,

Dripping with sweat,

I must protect the people and the innocent,

For if I don’t finish this journal in time,

My grades will fall,

If my grades fall my parents will rage,

And if my parents rage,

The whole world will lay in shatters,

So oh god, grant me the strength,

To finish this gruesome quest, the most challenging of all,

Give me the strength to end the failures that my precedes try so despertly to avoid,

But failed,

Give me strength to end the pain that has yet to come,

I must finish this journal,

Outside rain and thunder are raging,

Reminding how little time I have left,

Soon if I fail,

It will not be water, but blood pouring from the red sky,

I have felt a trickle of doubt,

For I can’t really write in epic language,

I have trained too less,

Read too little,

Not working hard enough on wordly wise,

And I really doubt that epics are ever written in first person form,

Oh well,

I tried my best,

Used every bit of muscle left in me,

For the people,

To save others,

I will keep on typing….

Ps sorry for the rubbish, I cannot type epic poems since my vocabulary base is too small sorry, I tried my best.

Journal 58: Luck?

Luck is basically the probability of getting a benefit results, and it is really obvious such thing exists. Brian thinks that the main reason he can survive is due to luck. I do not think it is so due to the fact that his plane crashed in the first place. The events that followed are quite equal. His luck was just average, because he was not too unlucky by having an accident and dying the the woods, yet not too lucky by being spotted and rescued right away.

Like what the story said, lucky events follow unlucky events, the two are entertwined.in my opinion, I think what really saved Brian was his determination and his growing knowledge of the wilderness.

When iw as really little, I was playing with my toy car standing and leaning over the part of the couch where you lean your back on, and the couch suddenly flips over; the pointy part( the mirror part of the car) hit just below my eyes. If I was to be unlucky; I would have been blind. This is a true story by the way. So I guess I did get out of a dangerous situation just by being lucky.

Journal 57: What Makes Fire?

Fire requires three elements to generate; fuel, oxygen, and combustion. It is vital to have a fire goin in the wilderness. Fires function to scare away wild animals, cook food, keep bugs away, and also to keep the shelter warm. Brian first tried to light the fire by striking two stick together. He ahs oxygen when trying this, and also the burning fuel; the only thng that he is lacking is the heat and combustion, it takes a long time to start a fire with just two sticks. The second attempt he discovered accidentally by striking the hatchet against the stone wall of his shelter. He gets the combustion and heat when the axe struct the walla dn creates friction, which creats heat. The second attempt gets oxygen and also burning material, with a lucky stroke; the spark flew down and the faire started. All three requirements are satisfied at the second attempt.

So fire needed all thre requrements in order to start, and the first try did not achieve all three, but the second attempt did. This explaines why there are no fires under the ocean and how water and other materials can stop a fire( by blocking tis acess to oxygen and cooling it down at the same time)

Journal 56: : Lost in the Woods

I do not learned any survival tactics whatsoever, and have zero knowledge of how to get food and water in a natural habitat. If I got ditched in the wild, I guess I will just eat a poison berry accidentally and die. I kind of know how to get water in eh mountains, and know that those streams are clean enough for me to drink. The only knowledge that I get for survival is to kill animals and eat fruits. I don’t know how to start a fire (especially in a moist place like Taiwan) I don’t know how to built a shelter, not skin, catch, and cook the animal.

I guess I will have more chance of survival into eh forest than in a desert or stranded on island, since there are more water and food, also likeness to be found in the forest. I hope if I get lost in the wilderness it will be a pin forest of somewhere where it cleaner. The rainforest I would not enjoy to be in, since there are so much bug and the ground is usually soggy and wet. The chances of me surviving the desert or the ice poles is almost zero, since it’s almost a barren and I cannot stand the extreme weather

Journal 55: Personal Assets

In the story, brian got stuck ina middle of a forest due to the plane crash, as a soft city boy he, with no survival training whatsoever, he survived int eh woods for about three months until rescued. The only way he could’ve survived is his strong characteristic and his stubbornness. He was passive optimist at first, doing what is necessary for survival. In the middle of the book he turns very pessimists, after knowing that he will not be rescued, but more aggressive. He starts planning ahead and store food, make bows, shelter, and a pond to keep fishes.

        I think my greatest assets are that I am ( somehow but not that much ) responsible, I usually try to turn in all my homework and seldom miss any work. I think it’ll help me in the wild, to get what has to be done done. I am alsy pretty depressed yet sometimes very merry for no apparent reason, so I guess I will functipon preety good in the wild. But I am very scared of corpses and internal organs of my prey will probably digust me, but I guess if it was the only thing to do to survive; I’ll take it.

Journal 54: Solving Problems

I have learned a lot of things that other people taught me which I used in life, in fact, i am using what my teacher taught me in kindergarden to type this journal entry right now, which is the alphabet. Since I mostly read fantasies and nonfiction book, I did not really learn anything I can use in my life except some new vocabulary words. Ii do learn a lot form the storyline however, it is always about a bad guy getting killed in the end, si I assume being bad guy will result in a terrible ending. So be nice to people and everything should be fine.

        All those books did not really help me a lot , but I can remember knowing how to make paper airplanes forma  airplane making guild. Also making lego models from the instruction packet, those are books right? So why not? Everyboday was born without knowledge of anything, so they require something or someone to pass knowledge down to them, our whole life is about learning. I used the math skills to find the amount of money, used English my teacher taught me to write an essay. So. In short, every problem I face was solved by using something I have learned form others

Journal 53: Triolet Journal 53: Triolet

The skies are blue,

The ground is green

I have not caught the flu,

The skies are blue,

I have no clue,

Where are the beans,

The skies are blue,

The ground is green

I can fly in the sky,

Flying very happily,

I saw a fly,

In can fly in the sky,

,

I cannot die,

Cause I do not act stupidly,

I can fly in the sky.

Flying very happily,

Journal 52: You and Nature Journal 52: You and Nature Journal 52: You and Nature

Nature, I have reall mixed feelings about it, I usually doslike it very much since the first thing that comes to my mind then I think of nature is mudd and moss, of ferns and waterfalls; of sticky mudd and frog corpses. Because I use to go hiking every Wednesday and that is mostly what I see. I am quite sick of nature since it is , in my opinion very unclean. i dislike nature since I think ull get bored of it really soon, everything is green and looks alike and it gets boring very fast. But still, nature ahs its own uniqueness. Every creature is unique, unlike human products which are all the same and unified. Nature have living things and beautiful creatures as well, those are things the city cannot copy.

Another interesting thioguht is that if what other creatures creat is counted as natural, why not humans? What is the difference? So if my parents tell me tat I should interact more with nature? Why cant that mean play more computer games since those are made by living things and animals as well. so in general, I think that nature is boring and not as interesting as video games,a dn that human made stuff might also be natural

Journal 51: Limerick

There once was a guy named bob

He accidentally broke his thumb

He is very sad

So he went to his dad

But his dad gives him a whack instead.

There once was a very bad student

He likes to kill a lot of rodents

But once he got caught

He haven’t even fought

Because he is very prudent

The once was very fat dude

He likes to play with his game cube

But then Xbox came out

And he has to find out

If it was worth more than his food