Poem Dedicated to my Rabbit Vanilla

This day, Today, was a flower blossoming in the garden

The sight of her resembled vanilla ice cream

Like her name Vanilla,
She was soft and smooth

Her presence brightened the mood of the room
Like an illuminated lamp

Her scent smelled like grass and roses

Resembling the scent of an evergreen forest

She felt like Summer because she was bright like the sun

And felt warm to the touch

Although you were just a little bunny,
you were fierce like a lion

And precious like a little human baby

She was more than just any pet

She was a little sister who understood me

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Letter to my Future Self

Dear Future 30 Year Old Mauran,

I hope you are doing well and am expecting that you are happy doing what your love. I wonder how the world is 30 years from now. There must be an abundance of technological innovations and improvements in the world. Flying cars are a thing now? I hope you have pursued your path into medicine and that you are a cardiologist. You probably mastered the art of playing the saxophone and are still rocking it on the saxophone at many performances. I like to think that you still have the Michael Jackson spirit and are still a Michael Jackson impersonator. You may not be as good as your younger self, but maybe you can still do the moonwalk. Do you own any luxurious cars yet? Your dream car? I hope you own a Lamborghini or are close to buying one. Where do you live? Are you still living in Canada or did you move to the United States? I always wanted to live in Miami or somewhere is California or at least a beach house there.

How is your relationship with your brother, mom, and dad? I wonder how many luxurious cars and properties your brother owns. Do you still hang out a lot with your brother? I hope you two go out for lunches and dinners occasionally. You guys still better be grabbing food at Osmow’s from time to time and playing Playstation together. I hope that you and your brother are taking care of mom and dad. Mom and dad did so much for you guys growing up, so it’s time for you guys to pay them back by taking care of them. You better be doing photography with dad and cooking with mom. You know that dad’s dream car is Porsche and mom’s dream car is a BMW, so you better buy them their dream cars before getting yours.

I hope you have a lovely family with a few kids and that you have a beautiful and supportive wife. Most importantly, you better be a good father to your kids by not spoiling them too much and by teaching them the values of life. I hope that your kids are talented just like you. Maybe they are athletic, musically talented, or they are stellar dancers like you. Make sure to keep striving for success and not let adversity bring your down. Remember your favourite quote, Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

Take care.

Best Regards,

17 year old Mauran

There Will Be Blood Connections

     The film There will be Blood relates to the storyline of a video game calledRed Dead Redemption. This is because both the film and video game have the reoccurring theme of poor father-son relationships. In the film, Daniel Plainview abandons his adopted son named HW and is never close enough to him to have a good relationship. Daniel leaves his son on a train and never discovers him until very late into the future when HW is an adult. Even after Daniel discovers HW, he sees how successful he is, but he decides to disown him and breaks the truth to HW that he is adopted. In the video game Red Dead Redemptions, John Marston is an outlaw who is forced to capture his former gang members in order to protect his family from the Federal Bureau. As a result, he is very distant from his family especially with his son Jack Marston. John barely spends time with his son because he is too focused on hunting criminals and never makes time to help Jack grow into a better person. John Marston unfortunately dies and his son is left to continue his father’s legacy even though he never had a good relationship with him. In addition, Both the film and video game are similar because both take place in a wild-west setting from the early to mid 1900’s. Overall, the film There Will be Bloodand the video game Red Dead Redemptionare very similar as poor father-son relationships are shown and they both have a very identical settings in the wild-west.

    The film, There will be Bloodalso relates to another film called Road to Perdition. In the film Road to Perdition, Mike Sullivan is an enforcer for a Midwestern mobster who loses his wife after she was murdered by another mobster. Mike and his son set out on a journey of revenge and self-discovery in order to take over the city. This film is similar to There Will be Bloodbecause both films are centered around disturbed fathers who are trying to become the best in their fields while being attached to their sons. In There Will be Blood, Daniel Plainview starts off from nothing and works his way to become the one of the best entrepreneurs in the oil drilling business and he accomplishes his feats by getting his hand dirty. Similarly with Road to Perdition, Mike Sullivan also gets his hands dirty in order to gain control of the city through being a mobster. Both films showcase how one man’s mission can ultimately destroy their most important relationships and it results in them being hungry for power.