Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Man of Great Power”
Once upon a time in the great and magical land of Porpoise Land there lived a voodoo-wizard by the name of KoBŕa KornBread who was famous for being able to possess great power. Everyone knew about his power. He was so powerful that people all over the world made legends and myths about his power and what he did with it.


One day, the king of Porpoise named Lord Sir King-Pig heard one of KoBŕa’s famous legends and demanded him to come to his palace called the Super-listic, Awesomelicious Pig Pen. The king’s subjects went to KoBŕa’s small magical cave and asked him to come to the palace. He went to the palace and the king speaks to him. “Mr. KoBŕa I’ve heard of your stories and how you possess great power.” says King-Pig
“Yes Sir, that is true.”
“And you believe you are the most powerful man alive?”
“Well that’s an understatement. Yes I possess great, tremendous, and wonderful power, but no I don’t think I’m the most powerful.”
“Very well keep going with your fancy powering, but be warned for you may not fully be up to the challenges that the world may bring you.”


About a week later the king called KoBŕa back to the palace. “Hello Sir KoBŕa I have a little challenge for ya, if you’re up for it.”
“Yes sir I can take it.”
“Well then I want you to combine the sun and the moon together, suck out the power and give the power to me. I need it so I can control the sun and the moon and I will become the King of the World. Ya think you’re up for it?”
“I can do it Sir.”
“Okay then, when I go on may royal fishing trip I want you to go to my wife, Madam Witchcraft, and plant a curse on her. Secretly she’s a witch and no one can get plant anything on her. Whoever does turns into stone. However if you do plant the curse on may wife she will give you the power to combine the sun and the moon because even the most powerful man can not do that without the power of my witch wife.”
So the next day KoBŕa went to the king’s wife and told her, “I heard only your power can possess enough for me to combine the sun and the moon.”
“Yes, What do you want?”
“Well, your husband sent me, he told me to plant a curse on you, but you see ma’am I can’t do that for I wouldn’t dare want to hurt a woman of such beauty as yourself. However if you want, I would like to share some of your power so your family can become ruler of this world.” he spoke this with big and powerful eyes and spoke in a soft and lovely tone.
“Very well, but only because you speak in such a powerful language.”
So Madam Witchcraft combined her powers with KoBŕa’s power and did as the king asked.
When the king came back from his trip he talked to his wife. “So did KoBŕa talk to you?”
“Yes he did.”
“And he did not do what I asked he could not do the job, he failed and is probably in your statue collection.”
“No actually he did do your deed, he spoke to me in such powerful language that I didn’t know how to say no. Like I was trapped.”


The king then realized how powerful the man really is and all those myths and legends were true. He realized he never should have underestimated him. And with that KoBŕa kept doing what he does and was then crowned the Price of the World. So he was a voodoo/wizard/Price of the World.

The End.

Monday, October 21, 2013

Theme of "The Pearl"
By: Kobe Greenan

The theme of the story is that  in light of all human nature, evil mostly overpowers good. This is stated because in the story the pearl gets to everyone and this dark cloud of evil goes over most of them. Kino's friends have turned on him and Kino himself has turned on others.The narrator states "The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town;" the towns people are all turning against Kino and the evilness is getting to people." The narrator also states "He heard the rush, got his knife out and lunged at one dark figure and felt his knife go home" Kino thinks someone is coming after his pearl and strikes him, eventually killing him. Another example of evil is when Juana tries to get rid of the peal and Kino catches her and beats her. The narrator states"She heard him coming and she broke into a run." Also he states "He struck her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders, and he kicked her in the side." Kino is angered at the fact of Juana stealing his pearl.