KSI English Student Work

 By Daniel Santiago - September 2024   Image: Goodreads  Before I start, If you like Greek Mythology with some humoristic twist, Stickman Odyssey: Book Two: The Wrath of Zozimos by Christopher Ford is a book that will take your attention and might be liked. While i was reading it i found that it has a lot of humour that is in every page you turn, is like a mix of mythology and slapstick cartoon comedy, that talks about the adventures of Zozimos, the incredible unfortunate hero.  Know before i got more into it, I expect that the hero journey was a book for all type of people, adventure and fights, but i didn't expect that Ford uses humour on this book, not just to be funny also to joke about dramatic or important moments of the original odyssey, and the absurdity of the gods to Zozimos. This book is read as a constant series of humour of inside jokes about the chaos of ancient Greek stories.  What makes this parody so effective, is the constant exaggeration and i...

 By Mariana Uribe, 10/04/2024 When I heard about this book, I decided to read it since I had read the tempest, a play from the same author, before, even though I had expectations, such as a love story, a happy ending, shakespearean accent which I don’t understand and loads of comedy that I saw in the tempest that I thought would be there. After all, both books were written by the same author (William Shakespeare) and the tempest had a happy ending with a reconciliation between the protagonists, even if the book had comedy or tragedy, when I was about to read it, I asked myself: Can it be a happy and romantic love story like stereotypical romantic books have?  Before I had read the book, in drama, when practising a comedy play, a classmate and I were supposed to be the main couple and the teacher said: You guys should be like Romeo and Juliet, just without killing yourselves. At that moment I thought, is it a tragedy then? Does it have a sad ending like loads of k-dramas? Will ...

 Luciana Romay -  27/09/2024 When I was reading the Nancy Drew book I was waiting to find more horror in the short stories inside it. I ask myself, “that's the scary thing?” But at the end the only thing I found was an attempt at something scary.  The moment I chose to read the book I was excited because it is a classic book that so many people have read. When I started reading I found interest that inside, there are four short stories that are completely different between them in factors like; location and setting, but the only thing that they have in common is the ghosts.  The first short story is about Nancy, the protagonist going to Japan with Bess, George and her dad, a lawyer that is solving a fight between manga artists Matsumoto and Kenji about the rights of “Ghost Warriors” a manga. But something weird happens by the appearance of ghosts that look the same as the characters of the warriors, that makes Nancy get involved by investigating the mystery and solvi...

 Mariana Bustillo It was a warm dark night, the chimney was on, adding warmth to the hot weather surrounding the house. This house was meaningful because it’s the house where I spent my childhood Christmases, with my grandparents, mom, dad, aunts and cousins. My six-year-old cousin, was playing “Turkish March” by Morzart in piano, he was a prodigy for it, he was the best pianist of his class who often performed on the streets, earning applauses, compliments and money. This house surrounds me in a wave of nostalgia everytime I’m here, as if there was someone throwing a bucket of cold water into my whole body everytime I look at this house, but instead of cold water, nostalgia.  The room was filled with the scent of pine and lavender, with the subtle smell of hot chocolate in all the room coming from the kitchen. I felt my world so calm in that moment, my heart was at peace, and my mind in blank. It was one of those moments where you know they’re never coming back, moments that ...

 Sebastian Reyes, Y11 Before i started reading the book i saw in various videos how politicians during the first world war called this conflict “the war to end all wars”.However, 21 years after the end of world war 1, world war 2 began and by reading this book i learned that world war 2 was almost 5 times as deadly as the first world war Just before I started reading the books, its title, the story of the second world war and its front page showing a German bombardment of what appears to be London caught my attention. I had some vague expectations of what the book would show me. like for example: how world war 2 started, every major event of the war, how and why Germany lost the war, important battles like Stalingrad and Kursk and a book which would emphasize the importance of the USA and UK in the war. something that i really don't like since countries like the USSR sacrificed and lost much more to defeat the germans. But, I still understanded since the book was written by a B...

 Miguel Angel Romero  All of us are born with one single life, we need to take advantage of it and take care of what we do, but not all of us are born with this curse, there is one animal on this planet that is blessed with 7 lifes, the cat. Cats are well-known for their cunning instinct and their multiple lifes that they have had since they were born, also they enjoy the fish a lot and during their living they learn from the mistakes they make during their whole life and most of the times one mistake means one breath that death would take away from him.  Nick is a black cat that lives in the coastline about 20 km from the sea, all the mondays he used to go besides a fish store and take a truck to the ocean for getting food for the whole week, but one day as he used to make, he wake up and run to the store for getting his transport but when he arrive there, the truck wasn’t there, so he wait and wait until he fell asleep in the middle of the road, causing a car to run ove...