Closer Than You Thought

The protagonist, in Dark Secrets Don’t Tell by Elizabeth Chandler, is named Lauren. In the beginning she is ten years old when her mother dies drowning in the lake you could say that she was as scared as a prairie dog. At that same time she feels a chill running down her spine. She has dark hair she is like any other teen age girl in the world. The only thing that changes her from the other girls is that she has to deal with her mother death at only age ten. That isn’t the only think she has to deal with in her life. The main character can change the story in a slit second first it is related to one book then bam it changes to another. But her story is very similar to another one.

Coupled with Holly is a tricky person because you look at her and she smiles like an angel but that changes what truly is underneath that smile. She is kind of insecure so when she finds out people are watching her and the flirt of the town Nick starts to like Lauren more and more but is glued to Holly she freaks out. Nora—Aunt Jule’s other daughter—is silent and spooky that doesn’t help the problem anymore. Nora stares at Lauren with frightening intensity. She feels like she is ten again. How can she trust anyone when everyone looks like they want her dead!

Furthermore there are many stories a lot like Laurens, let’s say Harry Potter. Everyone knows his story how he has a dark lord trying to kill him and he already killed his mother and farther. There is one big difference in their stories, Harry knows who is trying to kill him and he tries to fight back and kill the Dark Lord. On the other hand Lauren has no idea who killed her mother and she is just trying to run away from the danger and not face it.

In addition what causes Lauren to act this way is all because of Holly except she doesn’t know that it was Holly that killed her mother. In Harry Potter it has the same cause and effect, where Harry finds out who killed his parents then when he gets older he goes on kind of a blood lust and wants to get revenge. There are many differences in the two main characters and how they act but there are even more similar actions and thoughts.

Likewise the two stories are very similar and basically the same story just different setting and main characters. One more thing to add Harry had an entire castle on his side when Lauren just had one guy that suspected something was wrong. There are many stories that can be so similar and yet there are stories that can be so different. Sometimes you may find a story that is almost exactly like onther.

Bye Bye Nature

The "Big Yellow Taxi" written by Joni Mitchell talks about how "they" destroyed her paradise and put up a parking lot. In "Field Below" written by Regina Spektor talks about the same thing and how you should hold onto the things you love and they both love nature and got it taken away from them. Don’t take things for granted is the lesson she wants to teach us. The mood is sad and depressing in the poem and she is heart broken. They both have to do with nature talking about how they out lost there nature. In the song Big Yellow Taxi and the tone sounds happier then the poem. The tones are completely  different with the songs and poems. The lesson the author tries to teach us to hold on to things and to be happy with what you have. The tone in the song and the poem are very similar because they are both kind of sad and depressing. The songs really help with how the author s wrote the poems kind of because they similar. The Big Yellow Taxi is not the same tone though so she made that confusing. When listening to field below I feel more sad because I get to hear it and how it sounds in a song so it much more sad in a song.

Your Dear Toys

Author’s Note: This poem is a letter from Holly to Lauren after she killed her mother. The toys represent Laurens mother.

The destruction of toys

It was me

That was my fault,

They were your favorite

In the world

They were pretty cool

Forgive me I know you loved your toys

you wouldn't go anywhere with out
I am so sorry
But it was so easy and fun

This is a poem about how Holly killed Laurens mom in the book Dark Secrets: Don’t Tell. It is kind like a metaphor because Holly says in the poem that she destroyed her toys but really she destroyed her mom. It is a parody to This is just to say. There is no rhyme scheme in this poem or the original.

Mother to Son (Response)

The poem Mother to Son is about how a mother tells her son that her life isn’t perfect and his won’t be either, so never give up. She says her life ain’t no crystal stairs. The metaphor she uses to tell her son is “my life ain’t no crystal stairs.” The purpose of this metaphor is to show the kid that a crystal staircase is awesome and that’s not what his mother’s life was it was the total opposite. The main tone in which she is speaking to the boy is soft but firm. She speaks in this tone because she knows she is talking to her son and need to be soft but firm so she can get the point across to him. It is also in a caring tone of voice. Also the main theme is perseverance and get what you want and don’t stop. Nobody’s going to hit as hard as life.

The Protagonist

The protagonist, in Dark Secrets Don’t Tell by Elizabeth Chandler, is named Lauren. In the beginning she is ten years old when her mother dies drowning in the lake you could say that she was as scared as a prairie dog. At that same time she feels a chill running down her spine. She has dark hair she is like any other teen age girl in the world. The only thing that changes her from the other girls is that she has to deal with her mother death at only age ten. That isn’t the only think she has to deal with in her life.

Holly is a tricky person because you look at her and she smiles like an angel but that changes what’s truly underneath that smile. She is kind of insecure so when she finds out people are watching her and the flirt of the town Nick starts to like Lauren more and more but is glued to Holly she freaks out. Nora—Aunt Jule’s other daughter—is silent and spooky that doesn’t help the problem anymore. Nora stares at Lauren with frightening intensity. She feels like she is ten again. How can she trust anyone when everyone looks like they want her dead!