My Name: Charlie

In English my name means "strong" and "free". It is a pick up basketball game on a Friday afternoon at the park. It's the feeling of ease after you get home from a long and hard day of school. Charlie is a friendly name.  Charlie is like the color orange, warm and welcoming. 

          My mom always liked Charlie Bucket from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Charlie was a smart, mature, and kind person. He was a role model to me. Plus he has a chocolate factory! What more could you ask for?  

        I started pre-k when I was three years old. I was the youngest in the class. All the "big kids " called me Chawlie in a kind of New York accent. I was their sort if mascot. No one really calls me that anymore but I wouldn't mind it. When I was young my dad always called me Sir Charles. I loved it because I felt like a king. But, today if anyone called me a name that has Charles in it I'd get pretty mad. Because I'm not Charles! My name is Charlie and that name truly represents my personality. In the future I would want all my friends and family to call me Charlie. But at work I would want to be called Charles because it's a much more adult name. 

The Year of the Hangman by Gary Blackwood. Summer Reading Blogpost Charlie Muller 707

“The Year of the Hangman”  is a novel by Gary Blackwood. It’s about what might have happened if the Americans had lost the revolutionary war. The main character Creighton Brown is a mischievous boy from England. He is shipped off to America to his uncle who is in the military. His mother, thinks that he will learn discipline and respect while he is there. In America he switches sides to the americans and learns to follow what he believes is right. Creighton sees that his uncle lied to him about the death of his father and that his father really was helping the Americans. Creighton finds his father and discovers whose side he really is on.

He learns to follow his beliefs because his father believed that he was helping a good cause. Creighton wanted to honor his father because his father was a role model to him, Creighton wanted to be like his father.

Also, In America Creighton met Ben Franklin and learned that Americans aren’t cruel, ruthless people like he learned in England, they’re very kind. Creighton actually cared about Sophie and Ben Franklin. Creighton was very attached to some of these Americans and that’s why he was so eager to help them. When Ben Franklin died Creighton was very sad. Doing what you believe is right.