Stick Essay #6

Sam
10/21/09
English
Mr.Salsich

Ever since I can remember I was always told to never judge somebody by their physical features. This was one of the most important lessons I was ever told. Nobody is perfect, everbody has their flaws. I personally don't care what other people think about me. if they want to judge me on how I look, I say go for it.

TS-Never judge a book by its cover until you know the true character. SD-Chapter seven in the book To Kill A Mocking Bird relates to a stick because a stick has a layer of bark that hides its true insides.CM- Mr.Radley's house is like the stick's bark because it hides his true personality.CM-You never know something's true inside until you peel away its bark.
SD-In the Disney movie Shrek, a scene played out by Shrek talks about onions having layers, "No! Layers! Onions have layers. Ogers have layers. Onions have layers... you get it. We both have layers". CM-Shrek implied everyone has feelings no matter what their layers present. CM-Mr.Radley and the stick both have in common an outer shell that hides beauty inside. SD-It's what's inside that counts, it's what's inside that matters, it's what's inside that's true.(anaphora) CM-This is just another example about how our society and the town of Maycomb look upon other people.CM-It is sad that some people judge others on their physical features instead of their inner features. CS-Like Mother Teresa once said, "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

TS-In my life, however, a stick has many functional purposes.
SD-Ever since I can remember, I have always been an outdoor person.CM-In the summer time my friend Joe and I would spend countless hours constructing forts made from sticks. CM-I can’t imagine how boring summer would be without these wonderful sticks to build with.SD-Another reason sticks are important to my life is because I have a yellow labrador.CM- Everyday of his life he has been fetching and sticks in the ocean, river, ponds, lakes, and woods. I honestly don’t know what I would do if there were no sticks for him to chew or fetch.CM-Without sticks the house would be torn to pieces from a hyper crazy lab that has nothing to retrieve or orally fixate himself on.SD-My last reason sticks are so essential to my life is, I always am whittling spears, ducks, and another thing that’s seems compelling.CM-To me whittling is very relaxing and passes time nicely.CM-Passing time relates to Jem, Dill,
and Scout because they are always trying to find a way to pass time during the long summer days. If they found something to do, like whittling, they may never have lurked into the Radley's backyard. CS-Sticks are for building, sticks are for fetching, sticks are for carving, sticks are for chewing, sticks are for fun (anaphora).

I can't believe how useful and important sticks are in my life until I pondered about it. The sybolism of a stick is important to my moral values as funny as that may sound. We never know someones true character just by looking at them. I will always look beyond ones profile before I pass a judgement.