Revised Searching Essay

Searching for you true love or soulmate if you will, is no easy task. After sifting through all the losers, perverts and egomaniacs, all the trouble woman go through to find that one man . Somehow, when you finally find your true love it all seems worth it.

Everyone denies it, but every girl has in her mind a perfect description of her ideal man.  Obviously the person you end up with usually never is the exact same, (unless your very lucky) because true love is based on personality as well as looks. UNLESS your in it just for looks which is never a recipe for a lasting relationship, but one for disaster. In my perfect world the planet would be full of a certain kind of man. This man is tall, dark and handsome. He has the most amazing blue/green eyes. He is intelligent, has a very good sense of humor, motivated and compassionate. He doesnt have to be rich (not a gold digga here) but has to be fun and have a passion for life.

My ideal man would respect me just the way I was, and wouldn’t want anything about me to be changed.  He would be in good shape, and a good dresser. My ideal man would deffinatley not be a smoker or a big drinker. Loyalty is also a very important quality, I get jealous very easily. Players, and cocky, mega-testosterone boys definatley would not inhabit my ideal planet. 

My soulmate would have to be polite, the kinda guy who opens doors for a girl (who says chivalry is dead?). And he would have to have my parents approval, which is no easy task let me tell you. The list I have made out for my “perfect guy” is quite a long one, and would take quite a guy to fill. Im still young though, and have many years to find him, who knows I might already know him.

 Searching for true love is a life long journey. Some people have known their soul mate since toddlers others in their late years. It’s no easy task filled with many dissapointments and hard lessons learned. I know I have not yet found my “soulmate” it may be a long time before my “perfect guy” comes along. But it can be done as most happy couples know and is deffinatley worth it.

“The Forsaken” Poem response

 In the poem “The Forsaken” by Duncan Campbell Scott the author used many forms of imagery. He used very descriptive writing such as describing the old lady’s hands as “ridged with sinew and corded with veins”. He also did an amazing job of setting the scene as a horrible winter storm with lines such as the lake surface being “streamed with the hissing of millions of iceflakes  hurled by the wind”. And the wind as “roar[ing] like a fire, with the voice of a storm”. The author also painted a very vivid, beautiful picture of the woman’s death on the island by herself in the snowstorm. My favorite lines of this poem were the oned about her breath slowing in the snowstorm “rose a column of breath through a tiny cleft in the snow, fragile, delicatley drawn, wavering with it’s own weakness..”. Overall I liked this poem.

“The Chocolate War” By: Robert Cormier

In the novel “The Chocolate War”  by Robert Cormier the main character is a troubled, brave, determined boy named Jerry Renault.  At Jerry’s high school, Trinity high there was a group of very important boys called The Vigils. These boys made up embarrasing, hard tasks that they would pick other school boys to complete. Unlucky Jerry got picked to complete a task where he was to refuse to sell chocolates for his school’s annual fundraiser for 10 days. But Jerry took this one step farther and kept on refusing to sell the chocolates after his 10 days were up. This made the Teacher who had a lot riding on the chocolate sales to turn to The Vigils for help.

Jerry was an interesting boy he was a lot more braver then the boys at his school even though he was just a junior with few friends. He showed this by going out for the school’s football team even though no one thought he would make. He also showed this by to still refuse to sell the chocolates and by being the only person to not listen to the Vigils after they confronted him and told him to sell the chocolates. No one before him has stood up to the Vigils and I think Jerry had a lot of guts for doing that.

Jerry was still going through the pain of losing his mother while he was going through all this, and he still thinks about his mother and misses her. He is very troubled and the Vigils added to that by making it “uncool” to not sell the chocolates. The entire school turned on Jerry and his best friend couldnt handle all the drama and was nowhere to be seen. But poor Jerry pulled through even though he was being taunted outside of school by mystery phone calls and people yelling at him from outside his window.

Jerry was determined though, he kept on not selling the chocolates even though his entire school turned against him. He was brave enough to get through this problem all by himself. In the end he ended up getting beat up from it by a boxing match put up by the Vigils. It was a very cruel thing to do but Jerry agreed to do it anyways because he was determined to be brave and not back down.

“The Prospectors Trail” By:Cathy Jewison

In the short story “The Prospectors Trail” by Cathy Jewison, Norman meets an old man who was an experienced, content prospector named Roy. Norman came to Yellowknife with his demanding wife to make something of himself and Roy helped him do just that. Roy is a very wise, helpful and resourceful man and he took Norman under his wing and showed him how to survive in Yellowknife.

Roy is a very wise person, he was like a mentor to young, awkward Norman. He knew how to get by in Yellowknife and taught those skills to Norman who used them to his advantage. He knew where the money was at in prospecting, not mining for gold, but mining for useful junk at the dump. He saw how miserable Norman was with his demanding, rude wife and steered him down a path away from her. In the long run Norman is now a happy, content man after he purposely let his wife leave him.

 Roy saw the endless possibilities of the dump and how it was a “goldmine” in its own way. He wasn’t pulled toward the glamour of gold mining and even though dump prospecting isnt the best job in the world, he took it because he was good at it and could make a living. He is a very resourceful and that is a good quality when your searching for stuff in the dump and restoring it so it can be sold.

Roy helped Norman out imensely throughout the story, as he said when people come to Yellowknife “some make it, some don’t”. Even though Norman was no friend of his, Roy made sure Norman made it our here. Roy knew that “Yellowknife [was] the end of the road” for poor Norman so he took care of Norman and showed him all the ropes when Norman’s situation wasn’t his problem to solve.

Roy was the turning point in Norman’s life. Because of his helpful, wise and resourceful ways, Roy helped Norman prepare for his new life in Yellowknife. Now Norman “sleeps soundly” at night because he is content.