#8 The Necklace

The necklace is a short story about a woman and how she wants be rich and beautiful more than anything in the world. She finally gets that chance when her husband is invited to a work party. She barrows her friends necklace thats full of diamonds. She loses the necklace and instead of telling her friend about what happen she and her husband give all there money and more to buy her a new necklace to replace the one she lost. After spending everything they had they give her friend back the necklace. To pay off all that they owe on the new necklace. The woman and her husband end up spending the next years working there asses off. One day, years later she runs into her old friend and confesses what had happen. Her friend full of shock said that the necklace she let her barrow was fake and not worth much. The woman was so in shock and blamed her for everthing that she had to go through these last years. 

#11 Concrete Rose

Tupacs poem to me means that he come from a place where things do not grow and you stay under the radar and people walk all over you cause of where are you from. It also means that he rose above the expatiations of what people thought of him. He proved those people wrong. He got out of the rough life (concrete) and became something amazing (the rose). He broke through the barrier of the ghetto through a crack in the concrete of life and became something.

I can relate to this poem because I’m from the south valley. For those who don’t know it’s not the best or safest place here in Albuquerque. People in other parts look down on the south valley because of the reputation we have for having a lot of gangs and being ghetto and being the scary place they try to avoid. They look down on us and don’t expect anything from us kids. Are fate is sealed for us, you either go to jail or die. That is not true though most kids that I know from here are so smart and have more potential than anyone. Are life style is just different not because we chose this life but because god gave it to us. We deal with this lifestyle as if it’s nothing to us because it’s all we know. It does not mean we are not capable of becoming something great. In a way we are better and stronger because of the hard life we are given and that makes us stronger. We don’t sit around crying about how life sucks. We just take a deep breath and keep moving because we know everything gets better over time.

We can all become The Rose breaking through the concrete. That’s what Tupac was trying to say. He is telling us if we want to rise above the concrete of our hard lives then we can do it if we really want it.

#13Holloween Haiku

Its the night when ghost and goblins come out to play for one night only.

When the dead awake and travel the streets of the world they left behind.

Door to door they go tricking and treating to celebrate this one night.