The Beast Pages 137-170

The story The Beast by Walter Dean Myers ends with a happy ending. They story ends only telling the future of Gabi and Spoon. The Beast lives on in the past of its victims and is a temptation for the weak. The strong can live with the burden in them and act as if it doesn’t affect them at all. Gabi in this case seems to be healing and with the help of Spoon. She is willing to go on in her life. She has gotten a job and is has started going to get help to get over her drug problem. If she was weak then she would have fallen back to The Beast during the time Spoon was away. Monica is a good example of what The Beast can do to the weak. She had no support and was weak on the inside so she still has not given up drugs and cannot face reality. Only those who are strong can use the challenges faced in life to bring a better future.

The Beast Chapter 12-13: The Labyrinth

The Labyrinth is used as a symbol of confusion. When Spoon leaves there are a lot of things that happen and people get confused during the time he was gone. Gabi was so perfect in the eyes of spoon when he left and then when he came back he realized that Gabi was a new person. When he came back she was confused and she didn’t know what to do with her future. She gave up on her dreams for her future. She cared after that for the little things, she was more concerned on what to do for the next hour and day and not her future. After Gabi took drugs she couldn’t turn back, it was better for her to take drugs instead of facing herself or anybody. Spoon is trying to save her but now the only way to save her is to stop her from taking drugs.

Many people get lost inside if the Labyrinth and they mostly don’t get out when they get in. People like Clara get lost, she was perfect before he left and then she got pregnant. Scott, before Spoon left, was very good friends with Spoon and Scott ended up dropping out of school. The only way out of the Labyrinth is to get help. Monica talks about how she had nobody there for her when she was sucked into the world of drugs. Now she wants to help those who are affected and stop people from falling to “The Beast”. Drugs seem to be very good for people who want to get away from everything in their life and sometimes living a lie is better then living your life. If you run fast enough you can still excape.

Black Clouds Poem By Patrick Yang

Black Clouds

Small, Cold, And Dark

Covering the Night

 

Looking For Some Hope

Looking For Some Light

 

Covered, Surrounded and No Way Out

Backed Up In A Corner 

Looking For Some Life

 

Turn Left and Turn Right 

There’s No Light in Sight

 

Unpredictable Sadness Looming over Head

The Light at the End Is Covered In A Cloud Of Black

 

Stepping Forward, Stepping Back

Like A Candle with No Match

Life Is Plain and Mundane

 

A Cloud in A Sky The Color Has Left

Things Have Changed and There Is No Back

 

From blue to black

These clouds fade away

Make Up RRQ #5 for 2/24/09

17.  Which character would you like (or not like) to be your friend? Why?

I would not like it if I were friends with Capricorn. Capricorn one of the villains in the book Inkheart and he was read out of the book “Inkheart” by Mo. After that he believed that Mo was a magician and could make anything he read come true. Capricorn started off by getting all of his followers back and created a castle for himself. He then started to scare the people living near his village so they don’t come by and see what he was doing. In a way he had total control in what happens there and anything he wants he can get then. He abducts people such as Mortimer, Maggie, Elinor and Dustfinger so they do what he wants. If I met him he would try to sue me of just make me afraid of him.