Looks Can Be Deceiving

Authors Note: This is a creative piece about winter.


I feel wet snow on my cold, dry skin,

Like the dreadful soul I hold within.The Ice crystals fall with a slight delay,Through tall, leafless trees which bend and sway.while strange noises crunch in the new fallen snow,And the sun is shining with a glistening glow.                                                                      

Window panes covered in sparkling frost,                                                                             

look down at the animal tracks I have just crossed.Maybe I am dead and if that is so,sooner or later I’ll blend with the snow.but everything is not what it seems,Like how it turns out, this is only a dream.

Seeing Things Differently

Author's Note: This is a piece about the death of Alison DiLaurentis in the book Pretty Little Liars "By Sara Shepard" in the point of view of Alison.
the original story was written in the third person so let's see how it sounded coming from Alison

Recap: On the night Alison DiLaurentis disappeared, her friends and her were having an Eighth grade sleepover party. Alison scared her friends by sneaking up on them in the doorway.They all laughed and joked about it at the time. Sometime after the girls had fallen asleep, they began to wake up one by one and realized Spencer and Ali were both missing. Spencer had left the barn and returned to tell the other girls that she looked for Ali everywhere and thought she heard a scream.

Alison’s death was tragic to her friends, she left an annual sleepover and wasn’t seen again until 1 year later. She was found "six feet under" the building grounds of a new gazebo and someone had "A" lot of explaining to do. Her friends know of her disappearance, and are curious as to who killed her . little did they know there was a whole different side of the story to be heard. And the only way for it to be told was from Alison DiLaurentis herself.

Alison: So I was walking to my friend’s house and I started to get that feeling like someone was watching me; I turned around to see a man in a black hoodie dart off into the woods. I thought nothing of it at the time, of course. It was probably somebody from school trying to mess with me, so I continued to my friends house. It was 5 minutes past midnight and we were all having a great time. That’s when the texts started, my phone blinked on and off and came to a message that said:

From: UNKNOWN

I know your secret and if you want it to stay a secret you have to meet me in the woods behind your house in 20 minutes.       

-A                                              

     

I would rather die than let someone find out that I blinded an innocent girl with firecrackers, so I did what anyone with a brain would do,  I left my friends as soon  they fell asleep and  met “A” in the woods behind my house, to take care of business. I walked down the pebble road, only to see a dark silhouette of a tall man, who I believed to be the same one I had seen earlier, if only I had thought of that sooner. Before I could speak, someone grabbed me tightly, my wrists cracked loudly as they were forced behind my back. I kicked and screamed for help as loud as I could, until an arm reached around my neck. There were at least three people restraining me. I looked up to see a big shovel hurtling towards my head, instantly everything went black. I awoke to feel dirt on my face and in my lungs. I had been buried alive.

  
The Story is more Interesting from Alison’s point of view, there is more detail as well. Coming from Alison, it almost seemed as if she thought she could beat  “A” and make it back alive, but in the book, it makes it seem like she is a helpless little puppy in the wild. Which makes me think that Alison had no idea that when she left that she was going to die. Hearing this from Alison changes how we react to the story. In the story, I thought that Alison deserved what she got, but now it almost seems there was more to the story than the narrator was telling. With a  different point of view, there is a  whole different story.

Better Than Revenge

Authors note:  Pretty Little Liars By Sara Shepard is the perfect novel to explain that Nothing “Tastes Better Than Revenge.”

“Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just turn out to  be your enemies  when you least expect it, and when they do I will get my revenge.”  This is what Alison said  on the video that was taken the night she died ,  If you mess with her, you are going to have to pay the price. Of  revenge. 

They say that sweet revenge has a bitter taste, but in Pretty Little Liars that bitter taste is like licking the bowl of left over chocolate cake batter. It’s not good for you, but you enjoy it more than anything.  Readers will see that revenge is not what we really think is should  be.

 Alison is the it girl of the school, the one who frowned upon everyone else who wasn’t just like her. She would do anything to keep a secret since the day she died Alison hated her life and the people in it  she had it hard but to fix it she turns to one thing revenge. If you listen to the lyrics of secret, By the pierces you will hear a ot of revenge 

Got A Secret, Can You Keep It, Swear This One You’ll Save. Better Lock It In Your Pocket, Taking This One To The Grave. If I Show You Then I Know You Won’t Tell What I Said. Cause Two can Keep a Secret if One of Them is DEAD! 

( song,secrets by the pierces)  

“You think the truth is this big shiny disco ball of purity then go ahead and try it. See what it gets you. Telling the truth to the wrong person at the wrong time is how I ended up where I did. Take it from me you're always better off with a really good lie to cover up what you did.” Ali said to her friends in the first book after getting revenge on Toby Cavanaugh, what did he do you ask ? He was caught lurking around and peering through her Bedroom window when she was changing clothes. You know how she got revenge? She set off fireworks in his house., causing his step sister to go blind. But Alison isn’t the only well known character who seeks revenge.

If you have seen the movie The Princess Bride, you will surely agree that when the Spanish fencer says his legendary quote, “Hello my name Is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die,”  it’s the perfect example of revenge . Also Mocking Jay, the finale book of the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, involves plenty of revenge. Katniss Everdeen plans her reprisal at the capitol, they’ve been very naughty lately. The capitol burned down District 12 and captured some of the victors of the games and are holding them at the capitol. So Katniss drops the bomb on them―literally. It sounds a lot like revenge to me, the characters are hoping for payback. But  what you don’t know about hope, is that  it breeds internal misery. 

These characters are alike because they don’t understand the pain that revenge can cause.

None of these characters understand that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Which basically means  that if we were all to take revenge on the people who have done wrong to us, the whole world would end up blinded by revenge and will end up not having what we call forgiveness  or sympathy towards others. Destroying love, happiness and causing us to have a sorrowful  life.

so a message to everyone out in the world who seeks revenge. Everything is not what it seems. Don’t act upon it  unless you want to be unsighted by the darkness.