Fan of Peter Pan?

The film reviews I have read were on the 1939 Disney film Peter Pan.  I decided on selecting this film review because it really caught my attention above all the others.  This film review was very well written by Amber Wilkinson in 2007.  The reason I've picked this film review to write about is because of my love for the movie since I was little.  One of the reasons I selected this film review was because of how Amber worded her opening.  She started the film review with "So the big question is, can the story still fly for a new generation?".  The beginning of the review really caught my attention and I loved how she incorporated a piece of Peter Pan in her review.  Another reason I chose this film review was because of how well Amber described the film, but didn't ruin the ending for the people who might not have watched it before.  She was very detailed and descriptive with the story line and made sure to site who the characters were voiced by.  My final reason for choosing this film review out of all my choices is because Amber Wilkinson gives her honest opinion and then backs up her reasons.  She claims what the upsides and the downsides to the film Peter Pan are, and uses her knowledge and information to back it up.
This film is an adventurous slice of family entertainment.  Amber states in her film review that even though it is a family favorite now a days it can be considered racist.  I never looked at it that way before, but now I see what she means.  There is a lot of parts with "Indians" and "The Red Man", when now in this generation it would be considered racist.  I, personally, wouldn't review the film badly just because of that because we have to remember, even though times change, the past can not.  I mainly picked Amber's film review because of how honest and descriptive she was.    
 http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/peter-pan-special-edition-film-review-by-amber-wilkinson

Cyclone

As I look around all I see is tragedy and loss. I stand in my destroyed house with my younger brother wondering what is going to happen next. The cyclone hit Antalaha, northeastern Madagascar hard that Thursday and took my family with it. We were a poor family and I tried to work as hard as I could to provide for my family, but times were tough. Some days we wouldn't eat, just work as hard as we could to make sure we had food for tomorrow. I see destroyed lives everywhere I look, people crying, screaming loved ones names, only to come to the realization that they were lost forever.

Once the cyclone hit, all I could smell was waste, dirt, and torn up wet shacks. It was so hot and dry out, no water in sight. None of us had any energy to go get it like usual, all we wanted to do was lay down and cry. I missed my parents so much already, and I can see the hurt on my brother, Raphael’s face. I knew he would have to start work as I did since it was just us now. I see dust, I taste dust, and I can even hear the wind pushing the dust up against broken homes, my broken home.

Seeing so many young people and helpless animals walking around without a home, without a family made me feel so lonely and miserable. So many lives lost to this natural disaster. All you can see is heartbreak and wreck everywhere you look. Starting this challenge to survive all over again without my parents made me fearful, I was now a guardian to my brother, Raphael would now look up to me more now than he ever did. As I tried to comfort my younger brother, assure him that everything would be alright, all I found myself hearing was the distant cries of the young, wondering if they were cries of hunger of cries of mourn. Looking at my home now made me upset, we had took so much time to build this to our environment. Now it was all ruined and we had nothing left.

Writing Inventory

 I do not write during my spare time. I enjoy writing for school related reasons but have never really used my skills in other parts of my life. In my spare time I enjoy reading, drawing, playing volleyball, and hanging out with friends. My favorite writer is Cassandra Claire, she writes mainly science fiction and fiction. The reason I enjoy her writing and fiction is because I find it interesting and easy to understand.   

 

 Descriptive writing comes the easiest to me. I find it the easiest to understand because I can picture it very well in my mind. A type of writing that challenges me is Poetry. I find it difficult to understand because you can not take poetry literally. When writing I get my ideas from my creativity and past experiences that I have learned from. There are not any current writing pieces I am working on at the moment. There are many pieces of writing that I am very proud of because I have worked extremely hard on them. One piece of writing I am especially proud of was about a family trip I went on last summer, it was important to me because it held all the best memories on one sheet of paper.

 

 Before each assignment I usually write two draft copies, one rough and one final, then my good copy. My English teacher says writing is one of my strongest areas in English class. I am good with words and getting my thoughts down on paper. My weakness in writing is not using strong enough words. My favorite things to write about are debates, I like to argue my topic. My second choice would be persuasive writing. My goal in this writing class is to further my knowledge about writing and write about things that interest me and the reader.