6 Word Memoir # 2

This is a 6 word memoir I did. I try to change myself for the better. So this is a memoir that kind of describes me most of the time.

 Don't wait-Be the change, now.

The Brother that Couldn't Hear

This is my play I wrote for Creative Writing class. I got my inspiration from my brother's godfather, he has to son's named Ryan and Paul and something similar happened to them. I wish I could've had a better plot to the play, but I worked with what I had.

 

Cast of Characters

PAUL-The eldest brother, he is 24. He wearing a blue shirt and khaki shorts with flip flops. He is visiting his younger brother at college. After a long week he is just ready to have a good time. Has never taken Sign Language in his life, but is fluent in many other languages.

RYAN-The younger brother, he is 21. He was wearing dark green polo and khaki shorts with Vans. He is excited to see his brother for the weekend and go out for a good time with his brother and two of his friends.

CHARLOTTE-Friend’s with Ryan. She is wearing a pink tank and jean shorts.

ASHLEY-She is a friend of both Ryan and Paul. She is wearing a yellow sun dress.

POLICE MAN 1-About 6 feet tall and looks as if he has been working out lately.

POLICE MAN 2-Police man 1’s back up.

POLICE WOMAN- Police man 1’s back up as well.

Scene 1

Lights come up on a street in, what looks like the middle of the night, the four are walking along the street after all the bars have closed in town and they have all had just one glass to many. Ashley has linked arms with Paul, while Charlotte and Ryan are walking hand in hand when a police car pulls over.

POLICE MAN 1: Good evening.

ASHLEY: (giggling) Good evening officer.

(Others laugh)

POLICE MAN 1: Had a bit too much to drink tonight? Would you like a ride anywhere?

RYAN: Hey man, she’s my brother’s girl, back off.

POLICE MAN 1: I was just asking if you guys needed a ride home. I wouldn’t want two young men and two beautiful women like yourselves to get caught up in anything that would get you into trouble.

RYAN: (becoming angry at the officer) We can handle ourselves.

POLICE MAN 1: (in a calm but stern voice) Sir, please calm down. I’m just trying to help you out, please calm down.

RYAN: (becoming more angry) Let’s go guys. (as walking away Ryan bumps into the officer) (shouting) Man! We are just trying to leave why do you have to bump into me. (pushes officer down)

End scene

Scene 2

Ryan is in the back of a police car, while his brother and friends are trying to figure out what to do to keep him from going to jail. Now there are three police officers, the man from before, a new man, and a woman. Paul, Ashley and Charlotte are getting nervous about the situation.

PAUL: (Moving his hands in a way to make it look like it is sign language)

CHARLOTTE: Officers our friend here is trying to tell you something

POLICE MAN 2: (speaking to Ryan) Well, what is it boy?

PAUL: (more movements with his hands)

POLICE MAN 2: Well, what is it? What’s wrong, cat’s got your tongue?

PAUL: (more movements with his hands)

CHARLOTTE: Officer, he can’t talk, he is deaf. He was born deaf.

ASHLEY: Yeah, and his brother was just trying to protect him, people are always picking on poor Paul or taking advantage of him because he can’t hear.

CHARLOTTE: Yes, please, you have to let our friend go, he was just trying to help his brother.

PAUL: (moving his hands in wild gestures)

CHARLOTTE: He is saying, “I’m so sorry for all the trouble I have been causing everyone tonight. It was my idea to come out tonight and my brother just wanted to keep me safe. It is entirely my fault for everything that happened tonight.”

POLICE MAN 2: Wow. What a hard life this poor kid must have had. I feel so bad for the kid; it looked like his brother was just trying to help him out. I have to let him go if he was just trying to protect his brother.

End scene

Scene 3

POLICE MAN 2: (un-cuffing Ryan) Hey man, I’m sorry for everything that happened tonight. It must be hard growing up with a brother who can’t hear.

RYAN: Uh..yeah man. Sure was.

POLICE MAN 2: Now you guys have a good night and try to stay out of trouble will you?

RYAN: Sure thing.

End scene

Scene 4

The four walking back to the college campus, they have all sobered up since the run in  with the police.

RYAN: Hey, what the hell just happened? One minute I’m sitting in the back of the cop car the next the guy is letting me out saying how sorry he is for me about have to grow up with a brother who can’t hear.

(Paul, Charlotte, and Ashley all burst out laughing)

PAUL: Well, it’s kind of a funny story…

Lights fade out on the backs of the four walking away.

End scene

6 Word Memoir

This is a 6 word memoir I made. It is a visual  memoir so I painted it. I wish I had more time to paint it so the pictures would look nicer.

Affection

This is a poem about a trait. I had to giving a trait, such as affection, human qualities tell what they are like. This is the revised version, the first one was in paragraph form, but I thought this way looked nicer.

Affection walks around

 handing out her

 kisses and hugs.

  Loving almost much

as Love loves.

 Affeection’s favorite past time

 is cuddling with her boyfriend, Devotion.

 They are the really cute high school

 couple that stay together

 all through high school and college

 ending up getting married and

 having adorable kids together.

 Affection hangs around with

 Adore, Care, Kindness,

 Love and Passion,

 they all just happen to be

 the cheerleaders of the school,

 who show support to all the jocks,

 even the ones who scare them

 like Rage and Anger.

 Affection just wants to show everyone how much she cares.

Rain Rain Go Away

This is a vignette I wrote in class. I took it from a memoir start we did a few days earlier in class. This is something that happened to me when I was about 6 and my brother was about 3 or 4.

The rain poured down for days and days and felt like it would last forever. The clouds were a dark grey that usually means it isn’t going to stop raining for a while. But my grandparents insisted on going to the museum.

    Dressed in our rain coats and rain boots, my little and brother and I rain our little legs to the car. It smelled like the smell that you can only describe as grandma’s house. Sitting behind grandpa in the car I could smell the faint smell of his cigars that make my nose wrinkle and my head pound for the longest time until I can breathe fresh air, and that’s when the pounding in my head will stop. The silence in the car is loud until my brother turns to me and says, “Let’s count the green cars!”

    The streets were so flooded; I remember our car looking like a boat in water at certain times when the water got really high. I thought that maybe it would rain so hard that maybe our car would turn into a submarine, and how cool would that be? I would be able to go back to school and tell everyone that my car turned into a submarine because it was raining so hard.

    When I saw the car coming I didn’t know what would happen, but the next thing I knew it was sparing water up at our car. There was so much water it looked like an ocean wave crashing over me to my little six year old self.

    I’m not sure when the rain stopped, maybe three or four or maybe five days later, maybe a week later, but that car spraying water up, you couldn’t even classify it as spray because there was so much water all around.

My Burning House

This was a project for Creative Writing called the Burning House Project. I had to find more than 5 and fewer than 20 items in my house that I would take with me if my house was on fire. Here is the website to many other people's Burning House: http://theburninghouse.com/

Name: Heather Rosson

Age: 17

Location: Walnut Creek

Occupation: Student

Website: http://meatcat8950.blogspot.com/

List:             

·         My two dogs; Max (left) and Honey (right)

·         My four favorite books;  Just Listen and Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen and I’d Tell You I Love You, But then I’d have to Kill You and Cross my Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter

·         Hairbrush

·         Foundation and mascara

·         The Seely Booth drawing from Jimena

·         My Kindle

·         NCS medal for water polo

·         Earthquakes scarf with win pins on it

·         Laptop

·         [not pictured] The baby blanket my grandma knitted me

Friends and Family

This is an essay I wrote for my English class. I wrote my essay about how friends and family help you through things. I wrote about the friends in the movie The Station Agent and family  in Win Win. And I wrote about a personal experience about how a family member helped me make a choice.

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked,” Bernard Meltzer. Friends are important in life, because they know when things are bad, and they want to help. Family is also important in life because they will always be there, even when friends are not. In both Win Win and The Station Agent, the main characters find that their friends are important in their lives.

            Finn, from The Station Agent, seems very simple in the beginning of the movie, having a routine that he does every day, but when his business partner dies he moves to Newfoundland, and he meets two unlikely friends who show him just what friendship is. “It’s funny how people see me and treat me, since I’m really just a simple, boring person.” When Finn says this he wishes he could just be left alone, because he never has had real friends before. So when Olivia and Joe’s friendship with Finn starts to grow, Finn does not know how to be a friend back to them. They want to be friends with him and want to help him in his struggle at be a dwarf. So at the end of the movie when Olivia says, “Would you do me a favor and not look at me right now,” Finn wants to help her with her depression.

            Kyle is a lost teenager who just wanted to get away from his mom and her boyfriend by staying with his grandfather, but when he finds the Flaherty family instead, he discovers what family really means. Mike’s wife is hesitant to trust Kyle because of his appearance: “We have kids, Mike. I’m not taking any chances with Eminem down there.” But when Kyle shows interest in the wrestling team, and turns out to be really good, the whole family starts to warm up to him and believe in him. “The kid’s got a chance to do something special, maybe even change his life,” Mike remarks regarding Kyle’s wrestling talent. But all goes wrong when Kyle’s mom shows up demanding he return to Ohio with her. Kyle lets it get inside his head right before the state championships and loses. After Kyle loses the wrestling match, he no longer trusts Mike because Mike had lied to his grandfather. Kyle starts to pack his bags to leave with his mother, whom he hates, when Jackie, Mike’s wife, tells him, “Kyle, we love you,” and that is when Kyle knows that, even though they are not blood related, the Flaherty’s love him as if he were their own child, and he loves them as if they were his parents.

            Entering Las Lomas was a scary thing for me because at my middle school we only had 24 people in our eighth grade graduating class. I wasn’t sure if I was ever going to fit in at Las Lomas and was scared that it was going to be hard to make friends. One thing that really helped me make friends was deciding to play a fall sport, water polo, which started the week before school started. The person who helped me decide to play water polo was my mom. I can always count on her to help me decide what to do to further my education or to help me with a friend problem or even help me pick out my Prom dress. I also trust my friends’ opinions but not as much as my mom’s.

            Without Olivia and Joe, Finn would have never been able to learn how to be a true friend, and Kyle would not know what a real family was without the Flahertys. Friends are just important as family, and considering their opinions is something I do all the time. Without my mom, I would not have made some of the greatest friends that I have today. With family and friends, Finn, Kyle, and I have all been able to do great things, such as saving a friend’s life, learning to accept that all people are not the same, and making a major choice that will affect the rest of my life.