The Snowman

at the top of the ramp, so when it comes down the hill and up the ramp. I can pick it up and lift it the few feet to the top. “ Ben said. (He was around six feet and four inches tall.) Zack, Taylor, and Austin decided that they would also help Ben lift the head when he got a hold of it. We recreated this plan, exactly how Ben described. “Wow!” exclaimed Anya. “Tell you what, that’s impressive!” said Austin. “It’s not finished yet! We have to add the face and arms!” Anya pointed out. “I can go collect sticks!” I said excitedly. I ran off towards the trees, making sure to keep the group in sight, and found two broken branches that happened to work out perfectly for arms. I scooped them up out of the snow and ran back to the incredible snowman we had just built. “I got the arms,” I called. That sounded so much better in my head, I thought. Within a few minutes, the arms and face were pieced together, making it an official…

how far you can go. One of my favorite things to do with the snow is have snowball fights. At family parties, all my cousins bring their snow stuff and we get all geared up for the battle. With layer upon layer of clothes, we are able to stay warm. The clothes also act as padding and help to soften the hit of the snowballs so they don’t hurt as much. One year we even built snow forts as a wall to protect us from the “enemy’s” snowballs; we also used them as a refuge from the wind. We also have…

The poem “Boy at the Window” written by Richard Wilbur is “two poems in one.” How, you might ask? Point of view. One point of view is the young boys and the others is the snowman’s. The fist stanza in the poem is the young boy’s point of view. “Seeing the snowman standing all alone..” “The small boy weeps to hear the wind prepare…” these are bot examples of the boy’s point of view. He is sad that he has to stand inside away from the snowman. He’s sad that the snowman can’t come in and play in…

“Reducto” the glacier blew up into a lot of tiny snowballs. I pushed a couple into my hat and whispered a spell into the hat. It was not a spell of Hogwarts or my own; It was one of Loks spells to keep freezing thing froze. With the hat of frozen snowballs in my pocket; I made a snowman with the others in the middle of the lake. I walked back to the rocky peak of the castle. Looking out at my snowman it looked lonely out there so I pointed my wand “geminio” I made him 3 friends. I smiled at my…

5. When building a snowman: start by crushing snow together to form a ball, then roll in the snow till it's big enough to support the body and the head of your snowman. to make the body, start the same way you started the base, but make it slightly smaller. The head will be the smallest of the three. once you have finished the head, stack the body on top of the base and the head on top the body. Once you have stacked all three, you want to take rocks or coal and make a mouth, eyes, and a…

time Santa and his elf decided to make Snowman. Not just any snowman, but a creamy, yummy Snowman made out of ice cream. Santa scooped the ice cream out into three round scopes. The first scoop was the largest of the three and was the bottom layer. The next scoop, was a medium size and formed the middle of the snowman. The last scoop of creamy white ice cream was the smallest scope and it was for the Snowman’s head. Once the Snowman’s body was shaped, Santa gave him cinnamon sticks for…

There were various things going on in the crazy county of Maycomb. Tom Robinson’s case, racism, and even who planted the beautiful flowers were just some of the things the people had going on in their life. Harper Lee uses many symbols to illustrate these topics and much more throughout the book. In the novel ,To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the snowman to represent that a black person is never accepted unless he is a white “snowman” and it represents the trial and Tom’s life. She also…

Harry Hole In The Snowman, by Jo Nesbo, Harry Hole, a detective that takes his job unbelievably seriously not only for himself , but for others benefit, brings him into dangerous tasks he needs to solve. His job has become the basis of his life and he is very confident with the skills he has acquired. It is the thing that provides him with a purpose. Everyday on the job was to his full potential. If he let down others he was failing himself even more than anything else. Harry’s life is lonely…

Part III: Thematic Analysis (4 points each = 16%) A thematic analysis is when you take a larger concept or term and use it to notice patterns appearing throughout a text. For this section, select four of the following themes and apply each one to one of the texts (you must use each text at least once). Make sure you reference two specific examples in each response. Each response should be about 3-5 sentences. 1. Revenge: Revenge is a very prominent theme throughout the novel The Snowman. For…

Personal Statement Imagine pancakes changing your life. On Christmas morning my family makes what are called snowman pancakes. Snowman pancakes are three pancakes stacked as snowmen, with bacon for arms and m&ms for buttons, topped with powdered sugar and whipped cream. To go along with the pancakes, orange juice and scrambled eggs are also made on this special morning. Every Christmas morning I wake up, open the things in my stocking, then the whole family works together to prepare…