WIT: Frozen Dreams

Frozen Dreams

This is the title of the article I read on WIT(writers in touch). This website is basicly full of different writer's stories they posted. People can go and read some of them and you can also write your own. The have various contests that you can enter as long as you're a registered member. One of these stories caught my attention while I was glancing down the list of articles. I liked how the author made the dream come to reality. It had a very creative twist to it and the setting was out-of-this-world. Some of the descriptions he added set up a clear vision of where the characters were located. The location seemed to be in a cave with a monster that wants to kill this unidentified boy. This boy in her dreams seems like the hero that rescues her from this creature they encounter. The one part of of this story that I thought was completely crazy was when the girl realized that the dream so real. No names were mentioned because of the third-person narrative which made it kind of annoying hearing she and he over and over again. Toward the end of the story I was confused about the part where she was taking money from a mysterious man that was in the parking lot. Later I just guessed that she had some type of sickness and she didn't want to deal with the pain. I came to the conclusion that the pain was coming from home because of her parents fighting. She was under so much stress that she had to go out and that is where this dream she was having caught up to her. She was trapped and there was no way out and the boy was nowhere to be found. This particular story was interesting to me because it was horror and this attracts my attention anyways.

Modern Diaries:The Lives on Blogs

After reading the article about blogs, i've looked at it in a whole different angle. At first, I didnt know what blogs were until I got to this particular school. I soon found out that its just an online journal. Journals can be so many things to so many different people. A journal to me is some sort of private document that contains personal feelings a person has. I dont think that this should be tampered or even looked through by a person other than the writer. According to me, I think this is an invasion of privacy. This new process of were Journals(blogs) are now vulnerable and exposed to the public. The creators of Blogs say that blogging is a unigue way of recognizing the personality of an individual. That idea strikes me a someone trying to be nosey and finding out peoples business. I understand the fact that Blogs helps some childrens to express themselves or maybe even be a cry for help. Expressing yourself is totally different from making threats to certain people within the environment and distant. Sometimes bloggers pour themselves out to the world letting the "outside" know what kind of person they are. Most bloggers are sometimes identified as being friendless so they have no other choice but to write about it. Since the incident that happened with the young man murdering a girl, I have thought twice about blogging. Not particularly in a bad way but, simply because of the order things happen when blogging is involved. Now after this happened, the detectives are recommending teacher and parents to supervise children writing on blogs. They say that this will prevent the opprotunity for something inappropriate to occur. The teenage boy wrote some clues as to why he felt full of loneliness and despair. I think that some people are driven to a point were they feel like they have to take action. Normally people that talk about it dont neccessarily do it but in this case he accomplished it. Either way it goes blogs have nothing to do with this kind a problem. Whatever that person is feeling or going through is just basicly they're issue that needs to be cured with some kind of help.