Pandora's Box

                                                                                                          By:  Christina Jean-Charles

                                                                    

                                                Pandora’s Box
      There was once a woman named Pandora. Zeus (the father) wanted to make revenge on a man named Epimetheus, and Prometheus. Zeus sent Pandora with a locked box, and gave Epimetheus a key that unlocked it when the two became husband and wife. As Zeus gave them the box and key, he said to never unlock the box, but knowing that they would become curious and unlocked the box; it was part of the Zeus’ revenge. After a while, Pandora became curious and opened the box with the key that she stole from Epimetheus.

    When Pandora opened the box all sorts of diseases, ugliness, hatred, and evil came out of it. After opening it she closed it immediately. She showed her husband what she did and opened the box again to show him that it was empty, but all of sudden a bug came out of it. The bug said I am hope, and from now on your world starting this day will have hatred, deadly diseases, ugliness, evil and hope.

 Personal Reaction: Pandora should have listened to Zeus, and should not have disobeyed his instruction. If Pandora did not open the box (base on this mythology story) the world would have those horrible events that came from the box.

 I believe the author’s intent was for the reader to learn a good lesson on obeying instructions when given. This story use Chronological pattern.

                                      

Credit to: http://greece.mrdonn.org/greekgods/pandora.html

The Boy Who Flew to High

                                                                                                                   By: Christina Jean-Charles 



                                                           The Boy Who Flew too High



         Once upon a time, there was a man named Daedalus, who had a son named, Icarus. Daedalus was a carpenter who built a complex prison for a king. The king wanted to use the prison for a giant monster, which was called Minotaur. After the prison was completed, Daedalus and his son were trapped in the island where the prison was built. The only way for them to escape is to fly away from the island to another place for them to land.

         Therefore, Icarus father made wings out of bird’s feathers, and wax. The father told Icarus three rules: first “stay close to me”, second “do not fly too high.”, and lastly “do not fly too low”. But when Icarus started flying he started to like it. When he got use to flying, Icarus left his father side and fly so high that the wax on the wings melted. Because of this, he started to fly too low which made Icarus plummeted into the ocean. Since Icarus did not know how to swim, he died in the ocean in front of his own father.



My Personal Reaction: I was not surprised at the conclusion of this story, because Icarus should have known that he was on a mission to get away from the island; not to play around, and get too excited. But because he over excited himself, he end up being dead.

I believe the author's intent was for the reader to learn a good lesson from this story.