Cold Air

Night swirled around the dark form

Its shadow hidden, concealed

The murky air cut deep into the shape

As cold steel slides crossed flesh

The creature remained motionless

As if entirely unaffected it crept through emptiness

Victory

I am fighting a fight already won

and wearing of this struggle

I am dreaming in my own pain

sinking in struggles unending

I am breathing hatred blowing anger

drying out to blow away like sand

I am fading yet my fire is still hot

quickly burning myself away

I am losing this battle already won

I am cut away from the joy

Calling out for something else

I am claiming the victory already won

Power

Power, Sweeter than golden honey

filling the soul with emptiness

causing joy and glory by day

crushing peaceful dreaming by night

eroding the strongest of minds

to not but thoughts of further gain

Beautiful to behold, like the rose plant

though unpleasant and flimsy of support

 

When out of the cold one does come

the door behind him he does shut

fools alone do welcome ice into their homes

Sound of Pain

What is the sound of Joy

The sound that not all men know

What is the sound of sorrow

The sound that is so common

And the wonderous sound of singing

that which we have all heard before

And do you know the sound of pain

The one sound so dominant in all

 

It comes in many shapes and many forms

Yet with such diversity the same

Its black taint on every lost soul

The horrid fumes eliminating every life

Its sound is that of sorrows

Its victims howl in agony uncharted

wounded and crushed they whimper

Who knows the sound of pain

 

There are those who cry out in joy

for they rest in peace

Do You

Do you see that face

So emotionless and false

Do you see those eyes

So empty and glazed over

Do you see that heart

So weak yet holds back so much

Do  you know What is hidden

Do you understand the energy required

Do you know what it does

Do you understand the destruction involved

Do you know what it is

Do you understand its purpose

 

Neither do I know what it si

Nor do I understand its purpose

Though my heart may be weak

This is so much held back

No Heart to Give

Dimonds shining with the brilliance of the stars

Those are your eyes

The breeze that blows through my hair

Is like your soft touch

And as the lili floats on the water

So to does your beauty float on my mind

As the sun lights my path during the day

So do my dreams of you at night

And if I had a penny for every time I think of you

I could buy you the world

But I must Inform you that

I can not giv you my heart

Because you already took it

Where Then Will You Go

When the clouds open up, the sun lose its brilliance

Where then will you go

When the hole in the clouds shine in all glory

And when the storms rage and the ocean roars

Where then will you look

When the land gasps for breath and skies fall

The trees bend down in aw  and mountains faint

To whom will you run

And when the legions pass through in spender

lead by the lamb that was slain who now judges

Will you be judged too

When that day of judgement comes in majesty full

When sin and sorrow abolished and death ended

Where then will you go

Wealth as a Destroyer of Traditional Values

When we enter into a new life, such as one that may include money, our old life seems to die away with the coming of or new lives. This holds true to even to Wang Lung who was born a humble and poor farmer. He was a part of the land as it was a part of him. His father had been a farmer before him and his father’s father. Wang Lung works hard to support himself and his father. Even after taking a wife, he still works the farms himself and he still saves his money and brings incense to his gods. Wang Lung’s values are of the highest and purest in the village.
Wang Lungs annexation of the great house’s land was his first step toward prosperity and wealth. The great house of Wang had lost its Values not long after becoming a wealthy family. This lead to a trend of money spending that would eventually deplete the money in the house. Inevitably the Great house began to sell land to accommodate for their great fanatical loss. This is when Wang Lung bought some of the land and began to earn a surplus in money and food. He still lived and ate like before which enabled him to save money without having to worry about drought or famine. Wang Lung attributed his good fortune to his earth god who sat and watched over his land. Wang Lung held true to his values when he was on his way to becoming wealthy.
Then the famine hit and Wang Lung was forced to use up the last of his silver. After the money was gone he and his family were forced to leave in search of food. The stopped at a southern city and began a new life in the refugee camps that resembled slums. Wang Lung was forced to work as a cab puller to make a living for his wife and kids and father. His wife and kids also went to work, though their work was less physically demanding: begging. Even during this harsh poverty when one of his sons steals from a market place he took his son and beat him. Wang Lung would have no theft in his house.
When Wang Lung returns and rebuilds he buys all of the Great House’s land with the jewels that he salvaged from the ruins of a great manner in the city. When Lung then hires men to work his land and becomes rich. He builds a new house on the hill of his old house and works on his land. But when a flood came and drowned his crops and lands he had nothing to do. He began to curse his god of earth. When his source of wealth and occupation was drowned for a long period of time he soon became bored. He began to go out to the tea houses in the town and commit adultery, and for the first time he was unfaithful to his wife.
Wang Lung’s Traditional Values were maintained as long as he gained wealth, but when he began to get bored or experience loss, he loses his resolve and his values. He knows how to save and how to farm, but he does not know how to live his own life virtuously. Before Wang Lung began to prosper he held fast to his virtue, but when he began to taste wealth he felt that he had more power than the gods and that he need not worry about his own family if it got in the way of his land.

Clear Water

The first trickle of water shone in the morning light

Crystal clear droplets emerging from the soil

A small pool of liquid forming on the dry ground

Pure of yet and clean still of the world to come

Grown to a puddle it over spends its stay on this land

Slow to move but soon followed by its like, leader

The young droplets carving out a path of their own, persistent

Drop by crystal drop growing moss and cutting rock, strong

Regrouping at the bottom of the fall till all have gathered, patient

Ripples in the pond call out the time to move on, motivated

The first flow formed and began to run downward, graceful

Small flow grew into a brook so calm, gentle

The brook grew and became the stream so bubbly, joyful

Smooth rocks create the white waters, wise

Now came to pass that the rapids met the cliff

The water fell in diamond drops spilling over in splendor

Beautiful

Majestic

Crashing to the floor as thunder hails the heavens

Gushing forth into the world as blood through my body

Taking on the Ocean in glory as men into battle

God’s glory is shown

In Nature

In You

Character Analysis

Benjamin Unruh

English 10

Character Analysis

4/19/10

Fagan and Cadi star in The Sin Eater as they search out the last sin eater in order to eat away Cadies horrific sins. Fagan supports and accompanies Cadi throughout the book. As Fagan helps Cadi find the sin eater he also develops a “liking” for her. Fagan and Cadi are the first to talk to the Man of God about what he was trying to say. After being strongly pulled by the man’s words that were from God and a little encouragement from a New Born Cadi, Fagan accepts Christ as his savior and is forever changed. Fagan plays as a major character second only to Cadi.

Fagan’s life is messed up. He hangs with friends that have questionable standards and morals, or he is out doing the exact opposite of what his father tells him to do. Fagan is a strong willed young man who will get what he wants to know whether his father approves or not. As the son of Brogan Kai, the leader and the unrelenting “bully” of the valley community, much is expected of him and he has so far disappointed his family every step of the way. This is shown on pages 114 and 115 when Fagan walks into the clearing with a black eye from his father. Fagan frequently is abused by his father just because he is the youngest and a disgrace to the family when compared to his two bloodthirsty older brothers. When Fagan was told not to come to the house of Miz Elda, Fagan can be found almost no where else but there, just because he still stands against his father unlike his brothers because they have been beaten into submission.

Fagan’s background is strictly Welsh as his name signifies. He takes off from his mom in the senses that he is short for his family and has his mothers light hair and blue eyes. He is an outcast in his family because he is curious to the point of disobedience to his father. Fagan’s rare moments of enjoyments are when he is with Cadi or spearing fish in the river that runs through his father’s land. Fagan is motivation lies in his friendship with Cadi and his need to remove the sins of his father that are now placed on his shoulders. Fagan has been known to do what he is not supposed to do when he is given no reason why not to do it, this is why he is willing to help Cadi who is beginning to try his tactics of hidden disobedience.

Fagan changes his life around when he accepts Christ into his life and the change is dramatic and instantaneous. The moment Fagan rises out of the water after being baptized by the Man of God, the Cadi describes him as “aglow” and “his eyes were on fire” she wondered how he wouldn’t be noticed by the others. In truth there is nothing anybody can do to hide the change in their life. The change is almost unbelievable had I not seen it for myself before. Fagan accepted Christ as a way to not inherit the sins of his father.

Fagan’s weakness is not clearly defined, but his fault is much more easily seen. Fagan struggles with hate and disobedience with his father who is cruel and bloodthirsty like his father before him. Fagan also fears the sins of his forefathers being passed down to him. So Fagan struggles with hate and fear. Regardless of what he struggles with Fagan is very persistent and determined. These traits may make him look un-thoughtful, but in truth he is about the most thoughtful and logical person in the book. One of the things that hold his mind is whether to fallow his father, who is an evil man, or to be his own person.

The last Sin Eater is a classic Man verses society. In this book the populations of this valley are struggling with their traditions that are now becoming strained by various members of the community.  When Cadi begins to question the mechanics of their life enemies are made and old memories are summoned up that should not have ever been remembered. The evil of this people are being brought to life and their only hope of salvation lies in a man of God who is being threatened by Brogan Kai. And only Fagan seems to have the ability to change all this, but will he be able to do it?