I thought the movie was very deep, it hits you at the end, that all of the bad moments in that story happened to someone for real. I also think the way they shot some of the scenes added a sense of emotion and made us empathise with Louis Zamperini (main character). The movie was very well directed, you could see that they put in the perfect width for every shot to make it look amazing. I found it an amazing story, it also kept me excited while watching, I didn’t want to stop because it was together very well and because you realise that this happened for real it keeps you interested of what happens next. They have done a great job on the most pressured/biggest scenes or moments. They made it that everything around that scene was focused on the moment, to make it even more interactive or memorable. an example of this is the scene where Louis Zamperini was dangerously exhausted and had to lift up a wooden plank. They made it so everyone stopped what they were doing and focussed on it, which made it a way better scene.

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Yesterday – The Beatles
I find that this song really fits with the moment, I can visualise it in my head, Thomas walking thinking of his family, his brother, and everyone he ever loved. He’s thinking how everything went down, and all of the moments, including sergeant Hanley’s death. It’s a very tragic moment and I find that this song makes it a lot deeper and sad than it already is. People will empathise with the characters in this scene. It adds a lot of feeling.

Page 19 Up theme song – Motion pictures I find that this song fits with the moment where Tommie is going to the old tree and sits there, tying his boots. That part is a good part for Tommie, he learned something new and made a new friend, Molly. Thats why I found this upbeat piano fit with this moment, it adds feeling to the moment. It is a Disney song which is why it can’t be used, but I think it would fit with the moment.

Page 21 – 22 Imagine – John Lennon I find that this song makes the moment of Tommie’s and Charly’s death a bit more sad, and it gives it meaning. When they’re at his funeral. Funerals are always sad, I find that this song from John Lennon just makes it deeper. It can also show the thoughts of certain characters, which will probably be Tommie. The song itself is just very good which attracts people and make them empathise with the Peaceful family.

Hello Molly,

I hope you’re doing okay with the pregnancy, it may be hard at times but remember what comes after. I hope mother is still caring for you a lot. As soon as I’m back I’ll be there for you at any time, and so is Charlie of course. It’s good that wolfwoman is wearing something different, it was time she did. It’s quite tough here, Charlie, Pete, Nipper, Little Les, and I are all frankly very tired but together we’re making it through this time. Theres a lot of things happening which I will never forget, but I will tell you all about it when Charlie and I come back home to you, I’ll talk to you soon.

Thomas Peaceful

Big Joe, or Big Joe Peaceful, is the big brother of the narrator, Thomas. Thomas is quite jealous of Big Joe because he never had to go to school. This is because Big Joe as a baby had meningitis, which later led up to brain damage. Which is also why his responses are very child-like, which adds character to Big Joe. I like his character because it’s a bit different, Big Joe is special. I sometimes also enjoy reading about him because of his child-like responses, which also makes me feel bad for him, that he was one of the unfortunate kids to have that. Even though Big Joe is a bit different from Thomas, or Tommo, Charlie and Molly, they all still love Big Joe regardless of his brain damage. Big Joe is almost always smiling and happy, and he’s very devoted to his family, friends and all of his pets, he’s a very nice guy. He always sings the song “Oranges and Lemons” because it makes him happy and it comforts him. This song is very symbolic in the book because later through the story, we see that in the war, it comforts Thomas and Charlie because it reminds them of their older brother Big Joe. Big Joe is also very religious without a doubt, not like Tommo who questions religion at some points in the book. Big Joe believes that heaven is in the church tower in the village they live in, which is why when his dog died, that’s the spot he went to because he thought he could find his dog there.

Inside my house, there lives a vicious beast,

Who is a tiny monster in disguise.

In her vast cage, where she proudly feasts,

On who she chooses who shortly lives or dies.

Tiny teeth sharp as a hunting knife,

She used her teeth to hunt her small prey.

In the glass, deserty cage, she spends her life

But she does come out every day.

When I come home, I set her free,

Around my room, she jumps, runs, maybe sleep.

She enjoys her prison, we can agree

I look at her, she must think I’m a creep.

Even though she acts tough from the outside,

I can call her the sweetest thing with pride.

The sonnet ‘To an Athlete Dying Young’ was written by A. E. Housman. It is about athletes who have died young and the tragedy that comes with it. Athletes who had a lot of potential which then is all gone after they have past. The poem says “chaired him shoulder high” which firstly means he is still young, but later represents the athlete in the coffin and they’re holding the coffin on their shoulder.

The sonnet has 28 lines, it has 7 quatrains. The rhyming scheme is (a,a,b,b,c,c,d,d,etc.) which is an Italian sonnet, even though it does not start as an Italian sonnet.

Tom Misch is a British singer and songwriter from London. He was born on the 25th of June, 1995 (24 years old). He started playing music at a very young age, which he never stopped playing.Tom Misch is a multi-instrumentalist who fuses low slung hip hop beats, glittering disco, and noodling jazz instrumentation which gave him 3.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify now.

I know that I need you now
The key that I won’t forget
But you’re lost in Paris (you’re lost in Paris)
Lost in ParisI hope that you’re warm and safe
The memory that I can’t replace
But you’re lost in Paris (you’re lost in Paris)

It was over in day
All the things I used to say
You’ve kept the same
All the place we would go
All the songs we got know
You held it allI know that I need you now
The key that I won’t forget
But you’re lost in Paris (you’re lost in Paris)

I hope that you’re warm and safe
The memory that I can’t replace
But you’re lost in Paris (you’re lost in Paris)

Well, young young, all in love in a lost place
Gettin’ down, get me runnin’ round in a rat’s race
Save grace
But I fell in love with her small waist
Uh, let me start, left, right ya, ah
Bang, shot me, kept my heart and it hurt ‘cause
She’s so fly like a dove that’s a dove face
Doesn’t know what she’ll get now
But there’s in her birthplace
Tom, don’t tell her but it’s Paris for her birthday

This is a part of Tom Misch’s song ‘Lost in Paris’. This song strongly points out the style of music Misch plays. This sang he song D’Anthony Carlos who is commonly known as GoldLink. He’s a rapper who is becoming more known over time.

Whilst it’s easy to assume that ‘Lost in Paris’ from Tom Misch is singing about wanting to reconcile with a lover long lost in Paris. He is, however, literally singing about a memory stick he had lost in Paris which was very important for him, as he revealed in an interview with Radio 1: “The song is actually about a memory stick I’d lost in Paris that had a lot of new music on it. I got it back, I’d left it in my hotel room, and wrote a song about it. The confusion of a lover and a memory stick full of music does, however, seem to be by design of this song. On the opening track of the album ‘Geography’ which also includes ‘Lost in Paris’ is called ‘Before Paris”, where Misch delivers an impassioned monologue on his unconditional love for music, and so it makes sense that losing one’s livelihood is like losing a lover. “Starting to try to be a musician or artist because you wanna make money, because you wanna do a job, that’s – that’s the wrong way. You have to love it and breathe it and – It’s your morning coffee, it’s your food.”

My grandpa, Alex Mulder. He is someone that inspires, motivates and helps others. He does it without even knowing it. He thinks and sees things differently than others, in a positive way. He was a troublemaker when he was younger. One time when he was about 15 years old, he was at school and found that the class he was in very boring, to the point where he was done with it and had to get out because he still had 3 hours of that class. He waited until the teacher walked out of the classroom and then he packed his stuff and went to the window of the room. He was on the second story of the building but it wasn’t very high. So he threw out his bag and went after it. The other kids in the class thought it was insane but also kind of funny. The teacher immediately realised it and asked where he had gone. My grandpa didn’t know who snitched on him but somebody did, so he had to go to the principle the next day.

He has many more stories of when he was younger, but let’s move on to his educational life. He dropped out of school when he was 13 and went to a special bakery school, he still likes making food at this age but not as much as he used to. He left the bakery school at age 16 and after that he didn’t go to school for 3 years. Then he went on to study economics and business. At age 25 he started his own company named Unique or USG. This company got jobs for people that fit with their education and their hobbies. This company was a big success in a short period of time, because about 20 years later, quote noticed him. Quote is a magazine and an online record book of the richest people in holland. His dream in life wasn’t to become rich, but to make his company a success, and I could quite say it did. After a lot of hard work for Unique he quit. He found that the company grew so big that there were so many rules that came with it, and he simply found it “boring”. I was very suprised the first time he told me this, because no one would actually just stop after a great success because they find it boring.

What he did next could surprise others, but because I know him, I wasn’t very surprised. He started a new company. This company was all about investment. He invested in other companies, people, buildings, musicals and other things. But the thing that got others surprised and not me was that it also became a success. He invested in some of the most successful musicals, in museums, theatres and companies that got the company very far. The reason he keeps getting success is because he think out of the box with everything he does. He is also just deadly motivated in his work and the things he loved, but he is very passionate about his things and everything he does is unusual but in a positive way. Like when it was his birthday, my parents where telling me to wish him a happy birthday. But because it was me, I forgot to tell him for about 2 weeks. But when I did, normal grandparents would be either a little upset or say that it’s okay. But my grandpa says it could be seen as even better. This would confuse normal people but I wasn’t surprised again. His reasoning is because if everyone says it on the same day, none of them stick out because so many people say it at the same time. But when I said it, it sticks out because I’m the only one at the moment saying it. He found it quite funny and creative that I did it a bit later. Now I know to do this every year.

I have many stories of him why he inspires others. He also motivates me to become a success, and I don’t mean a success like popular and a lot of money. I mean that I know who I am, and that I’m happy. I know my grandpa is because he is one of the most energetic and happy person I’ve met.

He is someone that just does and hope for the best, and until now it has worked out great for him. Once he got a call from this guy saying he was a bank director. My grandpa allowed for a meeting with him. When the day finally came, his secretary came running in saying he did not look like a bank director. Normally you would see a bank director in a suit, and with like a suitcase. But this guy came in wearing ripped jeans, short sleeved shirt and tattoos over his arms. My grandpa was directly sold. The bank director was rejected by other companies like 10 times but my grandpa wanted to invest in him. Because he was himself. That is something he found admiring about him. So my grandpa invested like a couple million to him. Now that man became a multi-millionaire and my grandpa made more than a 100 million profit and he is still getting more. The same happened with the musical Soldaat van Oranje. No one wanted to invest and help in the making of this musical, but my grandpa saw something in this musical others didn’t see. So he gave 100 million and he is still making profit from that too. These kind of actions in his company made him more successful, and his company more successful.

The author of the story is Tom Briggs. He is a dad of 3 children, and he writes short stories. He is a UK multi-award-winning dad blog writer. He’s been writing Diary of the Dad since 2010 and it’s gone from a small hobby to his full-time job. 

The story I’m talking about is called “Kids are weird”. It was published on October 20th, 2019. I would say this story is a personal essay because he did the same thing I have done before. He gave a thesis statement, he gave some examples and evidence, and lastly, a conclusion. Also, his work is always very organised and nicely in order. It could also be considered a blog but I think a personal essay describes this story and the way he wrote it more. It’s also a personal essay because he doesn’t describe his feelings as much as someone would in a blog. He describes what is happening and why his children are weird. Like when his youngest child wanted Weetabix. Weetabix is something you eat in breakfast with milk, or else it would be very dry and not very good to eat. But the kid didn’t want any milk and Tom was pretty weirded out by it. Because he could see that she (the kid) didn’t like it dry that much, but that she wanted to prove a point or something. He didn’t really describe how he felt while this story because he didn’t say he was weirded out, but by the way he reacted to the child eating it without milk showed that he was weirded out by it.

He made his own online platform called https://www.diaryofthedad.co.uk/. He gives information about himself and he writes a lot of blogs about his family, what he’s thinking and his experiences. His work has gotten pretty popular and even won a couple of awards.