Raven and the Sources of Light summary Analysis

  This Native American myth is about a great chief keeping the sun,moon, and starts etc. in bags and keeping it to himself so no one else can use the sun or moon for the purpose. There is a character who wants to change this and it is raven and he transforms himself to be the great chiefs grandson. He becomes his grandson and starts opening the bags creating the sun,starts,and moon to be out for the people. The Native American themes are family is important,this is a short story and there is an animal talking which is anthropomorship. This is a Deus Faber myth because there is one person making the sun and moon go into the heavens.

The Sky Tree summary analysis

The Sky Tree is about the people that live in sky land and depend on a sky  tree that provides them food. The chief of the sky people becomes sick and he has a dream that a fruit on top of the tree can cure him. The chief tells his wife Ataentsic to go get him the the fruit, so she gets an ax and chops the tree and the tree splits in half and falls into a giant hole. Ataentsic tells her husband what happens and tells him she is following where the tree went and leaves her husband. The Turtle sees what happens and the turtle gets all the other animals to jump into the whole and make an island out of soil. Ataentsic starts to live on the new earth.

The Emergence Summary Analysis

     The Emergence is a good Native American creation myth. It shows Native American culture values and there respect for the earth and animals. The Emergence is about the start of the worlds and how animals and people worked together to survive. The number four is used throughout this myth because to the Native Americans the number four is sacred to them. For example in the myth when it introduces birds, they are introduced as the four great birds. The Native Americans had great respect for the earth because the earth provides food and the Native American people know if they don't respect the earth, there will be consequences. The importance of family is also portrayed in this myth.

Revised Good Story: Downtown Street Racing

Two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane lies Nissan 360 z. Niko Ventura and Tony Lopez enter into the car and drive to the street race held in Downtown Los Angeles. There is a 25,000 cash prize to the winner of the race and invitation to street race against the top street racers in Madrid, Spain. Tony races mainly for the money, when Niko races for the thrill and fun of street race in their home city. On the way to the race, they stop at Tony's sleezy safe house to get his Mustang GT and speed to the race. 

      When they arrive at the race there is about 15 other cars lined up to race. Tony and Niko line their cars up as well and the king of street racing in L.A. Ryan Speed waves a flag to indicate the drivers to start their engines. Ryan throws the flag in the air and that starts the race! At the moment the drivers take off, several cops pull out of nowhere and start chasing all the racers. Niko and Tony see the cops behind them, though they are so focused on winning, it doesn't even faze them.

     The cops start shooting electric treble hooks at the racers and if a hook attaches to your car, the car malfunctions and the car will stop. Racers start dropping like flies and only 5 cars are remaining. Niko and Tony are up in the front racing against three other drivers that were also fast enough to avoid getting hit by the cops. The drivers are half mile away from end marker and see that there is a bridge made to open in half for boats to past through and the bridge is up making a ramp for the drivers. Tony doesn't risk jumping over the bridge along with 2 other drivers, while Niko embraces the jump with only one other driver also attempting the jump. Niko clears the jump while the other driver crashed n burned. Niko wins the race and receives his money, street credit, and a trip to Spain to race!

Writing Prompt 2 Catcher in the Rye

   In the novel "Catcher in the Rye" the main character Holden Caulfield childhood impacts the novel
as a whole in a negative way. It starts when Holden is kicked out of school and he starts living freely
in New York city without informing his parents. Holden attacked his old schoolmate Stradlater
because he take out a girl he likes Jane Gallagher. Holden's childhood mainly effects his sister
Phoebe. Holden tells her that he got kicked out of school and she is very upset at him. Holden also
tells her that he is running away and she wants to come even though Holden refuses to let her come with him. Holden never ends up running away and he stays with his sister. Eventually Holden goes to
a mental hospital. Holden's childhood effected people around him in a negative and got him kicked
out of a school then later into a mental hospital.