Author: WyattPitts

I have read many books for in the twelve years that I have been alive, but none have affected my lifestyle’s as much as the Bible. The Bible has taught me many things like why Jesus has died on the cross for my sins, how people became to speak different languages, why there is sin, what things are right and wrong, what commandment’s we need to follow, to love your neighbor as yourself, and and that Jesus is coming back to earth for us. From all these examples and more I came to believe Jesus Christ as my Savior and that He died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead three days later.

The Ten Commandment’s are I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have any gods before Me, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day, Honor thy father and mother, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor, and You shall not covet. All of those can be obeyed by loving your neighbor as yourself and put God before everything you do.

In Genesis:11 someone said “Let us build a tower to the heavens so that we may be with God” and everyone agreed. When God saw this He was angry so He confused everyone’s language so that everyone went to different parts of the earth. That is why everyone speaks different languages like English, French, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, Russian, and Aramaic. I don’t know what all the languages in the world are, but I know that there are thousands.

In the book of Revelation it tells how Jesus will come bake to earth in the clouds, The Believers who are dead will go with Him first, then the alive Believers will rise into the clouds. One point of view is after that there will be a seven year party in heaven while on earth the devil will be in control then when those seven years are over Jesus will have His final battle with the devil and win. Though no matter what the turnout will be that Jesus wins.

Hellen Keller’s “prison” was blindness and deafness. She got them from a disease. If you are blind you can hear things so you know some things around you. If you are deaf you can see and most likely not kill yourself. If you are both of these you are just sunk, but Hellen Keller wasn’t. When somebody can’t hear or see you can’t really learn so you can’t speak either cause you don’t know how to. Just being blind or deaf you could be able to learn how to speak but both gone it is almost impossible. You can learn though to speak through your hands and your mouth. somehow it is possible to place fingers on someone’s face in specific places and understand what they are saying. If you are deaf and blind someone can place their hand on yours and do sigh language. You still have to learn that they have a meaning though. First incident that led Hellen Keller out of her “prison” was learning to communicate.

With Anne’s help Helen learned to communicate by using hand signals. It started when her teacher spelled a simple word in Hellen’s hand. She continued from there teaching Hellen more and more word’s so that she could communicate with her teacher, her family, and other blind and deaf people. Hand signals helped Hellen out of her “prison” but it didn’t stop from there.

Next Hellen was taught to read. Hellen’s teacher thought that reading would be a big help in Hellen’s life so that she could do school and learn. I don’t really know how blind people read though so I can’t tell you otherwise I would. Learning to read was a really big step in Hellen’s life because it helped her in school, learning, and enjoying things.

Hellen Keller was an extraordinary woman and is a famous one too. She met other famous people and helped people with her autobiography. And even though she was deaf and blind, she was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. I think that she was an amazing person. I am so glad that I had the chance to write about her.  

Which is most important in writing dialogue from memory: accuracy, succinctness, or liveliness? According to Wikipedia a dialogue is a “conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie”. “the book consisted of a series of dialogues”. To bring that down a dialogue is a conversation between two or more people in real life or a movie or a book. I love reading books with good dialogue in them. There are three ways that you can use dialogue in a story. There is accuracy, succinctness, and liveliness. Accuracy is staying on one topic through the whole conversation. Succinctness is a word that I have never heard about before. According to Wikipedia succinctness is “marked by compact precise expression without wasted words“. And last but not least liveliness. Liveliness is when there is action packed into a story with a lot of words and interesting thoughts. What do each of these have to do with a story? Let’s go farther and find out.

First let’s look at accuracy. In a fictional story there will probably not be accuracy because the author could of probably made it off the top of his or her head. In “The War Of The Worlds” H.G. Wells used a lot of inaccurate things because martins would probably never come and invade earth if they existed. If they did though he would be very accurate about it. In biographies or autobiographies accuracy is crucial to the telling of the story of one’s life. You do not want to have fake details about someone’s life even if it were an accident.

Next is the term succinctness. I don’t think it is good to be succinct because I like the extra details in a book or movie. Sometimes things are better if they aren’t succinct. there are some good things from being succinct though. G.A. Henty’s books are not succinct so that is probably why I like them so much. I enjoy reading stories where the dialogue is clear and not confusing, but I do not like when the dialogue is brief. I like reading long conversations, it keeps me involved in the story and I like getting to know the characters. 

Now for liveliness. I like liveliness because I like action. Action is good in a story. I also like long conversations with lots of detail. Out of all of these three liveliness is my favorite because action is amazing and in long talks is even better.

As Kourdakov was writing his book he used many contrast to tell us how different things worked in his book. One of these was communist meetings and Sunday afternoons. As a communist Kourdakov hated Christians or as they called them Believers. I don’t think that any one knows that reason accept if you lived back there when it was happening. They raided the Christians meeting and gave them hard beatings they would never forget. Kourdakov did not get much days off accept for some Sundays. On a Sunday morning Kourdakov’s boss told him to get his men and go to a specific area in the woods because there was going to be a Christion Baptismal meeting there. Kourdakov and his men treated it like a normal day off in the woods drinking and playing their guitars and other stuff they did like that until the raid.

Another contrast that was discovered in the book was Kourdakov’s private life and his public life. His private life was working in the KJB or the secret police. Kourdakov was told by his boss to keep the things that they do (beating and taking specific Believers) a secret because if the public found out what they did they might revolt against them. besides his private life was his public life. Kourdakov liked drinking vodka with his cadets because they were like family to him (His parents died, his brother had left him, and he was raised in many different orphanages). Almost everything he did was with his cadets and no one expected him of any wrongdoing. We would never had known this if he had never contrasted his private life and his public life. These contrasts made his book very interesting.

In the beginning of Sergei Kourdakov’s autobiography “The Persecutor” Kourdakov wrote down that he jumped off Russian boat into the ocean off the coast of Canada into a humongous storm. You may be asking some questions like what led to this failed assignment and why did he jump off pf a Russian boat? This paper is about the choices he made that led to this failed assignment. He chose whether to join the Army or Navy, joining a crime syndicate or staying clean, and telling the truth about suicide or telling a lie. I will tell you about all of these one at a time in this essay.

First whether to join the army or to join the navy. Kourdakov’s father and grandfather were both in the army but soon enough at an enemy camp they were worked to death. Soon enough when Sergei got old enough he wanted to go and work in the army. First he asked some people if he should and they all said that it is a hard life in the army and to stay away from it. Everyone said “You come out of the army and you start as a factory worker. What kind of future is that?” After a while he asked some people who were once working in the navy for information about their life in the navy so he joined the navy instead.

As a teenager Kourdakov joined a crime syndicate. According to the dictionary a crime syndicate is “a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities.” It is also another name or word for a mob or mobsters. A crime syndicate makes money by drug trafficking, arms smuggling, extortion (threatening people to get what you want), theft, and financial crime. Because of joining this syndicate he did very well as a KJB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) agent (which later in his life he got honored for).

As when Kourdakov was in the army a good friend committed suicide by jumping out of a three story building and dying. Kourdakov’s boss told him to lie about it and say to everyone that he was drunk and didn’t know what he was doing. He did what his boss told him to do and lied to everyone about his friend dying. Kourdakov tried to help his friend, but he didn’t accept and committed suicide. In case if you ate wondering suicide is the act as if one killing himself. Suicide is terrible so if you ever see someone trying to committe suicide try to help them.

I have not finished this book yet but I hope to soon and find out how many other turning points he had in his life besides just these. Probably jumping off a Russian boat into the ocean in a blazing storm was the biggest turning point in his life. So far this book has been very interesting so please read it.