Soul of Sol: From the Begining Pt. 1

Hi my name is Sol, I am 16 years old and have been taking care of my mom and sister ever since my dad passed away 12 years ago, or would like to think that I am taking care of them. Ever since my dad passed away I have been able to see ghosts and spirits. It’s odd how it happened, how I was able to see the ghosts and spirits. I remember that it was during the funeral that I first saw them. I didn’t want my mother or sister to see me cry so I ran outside, but as I was running I tripped right before the door and then it happened. I looked up and before me I saw a shady women holding s wooden stick in her left hand looking straight at the coffin. I didn’t know who she was or what she wanted, matter of fact I didn’t see her there before. That was my first encounter with a being from the Spirit World. I still don’t know whether she was a spirit or a ghost.
Well what is the difference between a ghost and a spirit? A ghost is a spirit of the dead who cannot and will not accept the fact that they are dead. They interact often with the living because they believe they are still alive. Spirits on the other hand, know that they are dead and come to the world of the living for sight-seeing purposes. Ha! Just kidding, I really have no idea why they are here. I asked one of the spirits once and he said “… to see how far the World of the Living is progressing since our days, and to make sure it hasn’t caused any trouble.” I never really understood what that last part meant, “… make sure it hasn’t caused any trouble,” but I never thought too much about it. By now you are probably wondering why I am telling you this. Well the reason is that I need someone to tell my story just in case I become unable to return, and hopefully you are able to pass this along and it will reach my family.
Oh yeah! I forgot to mention that I am currently trapped in the Spirit World. I was unsure of what happened, but I am starting to be able to piece together what had happened. But for now I remember a shaman casting a spell that broke the barrier and seal between the World of the Living and the Spirit World. This caused a vacuum effect that sucked me into this world. For the past couple of days I have seen some weird and unexplainable stuff and trying to stay alive until I met an aged person by the name Kairo. At first he thought that I was a ghost, but the fact that I wasn’t a spirit bothered him. I told him what happened, and he said that he was in the same situation that I was in a long time ago. One thing bothered me about his response; he “was” in the same situation “a long time ago.” He did not say any more and did not answer my questions about the World of the Living nor the Spirit World, but did agree to help me out here. So here you will follow along with me through my travels that are being documented by an ilji spirit (journal spirit). Oh and did I mention that before I got sucked into the Spirit World, I was able to interact with ghosts and spirits and at times be able to tell when one is in trouble?

My Anti-Hero...

Hero: Sol
Villain: Ledgic
Master/Teacher: Kairo
Setting: Spirit World
Plot: Sol gets caught in a shaman's spell and gets dragged into the Spirit World where the spirits of the dead pass from the World of the Living to the World of the Dead. The shaman was possessed by Ledgic, a half demon who has seven spirits. Here he has to learn how to cope to the conditions and how to survive. He meets a man who was in the same situation he was in, but he cannot leave anymore because of something that happened.
Why is he the Anit-Hero?: Sol is an anti-hero because physically, he is below average. Even though he is an independent character he doubts himself a lot. He is indecisive and cannot make a decision and stick with it. He is also pessimistic, not only that but instead of thinking two steps ahead of the other person, he thinks of about 30 steps and his pessimistic side kicks in around the tenth step and he ends up not confronting anyone. But one thing is that when he does get involved he doesn't like to quit.

My Biggest Fear? Well...

     When we talked about our biggest fear earlier in the semester when we was reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, I really wasn't sure what mine was. I have lots of fears, but not a really big one. Through a lot of critical thinking, I think I have come to a conclusion about this fear of mine. My biggest fear is failing my parents and my family. Ever since I was in grade schools I have been earning some pretty good grades, A's and B's to be exact. My parents have been proud of my grades like all parents should be. But then the praising went a little to far. Soon my uncles and aunts would be saying stuff like you are the smart one so failure is no option or you cannot fail because you have to be successful for your parents and brothers. As I grew up more and more of my relatives would say the same thing. Then when I got into Challenger, their expectations blew out of proportion. My uncle started to compare his sons grade with mine and say that I am going to be a successful person and that all their hopes might as well go to me. Now this might just be a word of discouragement to encourage him, but I think that he does have a sense of that instilled in him. The pressure of a lot of people counting on me and especially my oldest brother. My oldest brother is probably one of the best brother ever, every one of my brothers listens to him and when we are getting in a fight and he steps in then fighting stops right then and there. And I am afraid, afraid to death of failing all of them. The pressure of them on my shoulders have already shown through my years at challenger. My grades started to take a dip because of the added pressure of all these people. I know that it should only encourage me more, but its to stressful and once a bad thought comes into my mind, it sticks, and it is hard to get rid of. So my biggest fear is failing everyone who is expecting a lot out of me.

Re-Animation of Dead Tissue?

Frankenstein proposed the idea of bringing the dead back to life. The book also impacted the later generations with this very idea such as the zombies portrayed in zombie movies. But is it possible to bring the dead back to life? I remember a couple of years ago I watched an episode from National Geographic (I believe) about the studies of preserving life and bringing something that is dead back to life. My memories are a little vague so don't go around telling people about how this is possible or about how inhumane this is. But I remember them saying something about how frogs can be brought back to life when they are in a dead state, but they have to be frozen and preserved. They brought back two frogs from the dead and they said that if its possible for amphibians then there has to be a way to do the same for humans. Again, this is from a foggy memory of mine. Towards the end of the show, there was this place that said they were conducting studies and said that it will become possible in the future, and that they already have volunteers for the process. The process of doing so would be that they have to bring the person to a near dead state and then preserve them in this freezing thingymabob. A young couple volunteered and they said they want to do this so that they can see and live how the past differs from the future. Again, this is from a very vague memory. But I think that it is impossible to do so because once the brain is deprived of oxygen for more than maybe 5-10 minutes then there are permanent brain damage, but then again, the brain isn't frozen so I'm not sure if it is possible or not.

Morale of this blogg, frogs can survive an ice age.

The Shortcut....

The Lord of The Rings trilogy was a great book about the journey to destroy a powerful weapon, the ring. Starting from Frodo's possession of the ring to the destruction of the ring, as well as the story and imagination that unfolded from the journey made the trilogy stand out from all other medieval and magical tales and stories. One point that was brought to my attention by a channel on youtube called HSHE (How it Should Have Ended) made a lot of sense to me. It made the whole journey through middle earth by the fellowship of the ring look ridiculous...

I was actually going to be use this clip for our presentation on the Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King, but we forget to get the projector and it wasn't long enough to get it also so we threw, or I threw, the idea out.

... morale of the blogg, sometimes shortcuts are better.
[Andrew did post up a blogg similar to this]

Frankenstein's affect on the media today...

Alright the other day I was on netflix browsing through movies, and I came across a movie called Aaah! Zombies!! and even though the movie was a zombie movie, it was shot from the zombie's point-of-view. I never really thought about it, but for some reason I started to think about Frankenstein, shockingly, and was like "Wow!" Frankenstein was also told from the monster's point-of-view. Also, when we got done reading the book way at the beginning of the semester, my group was assigned to do the impact of Frankenstein and we could have added another movie to the presentation. So who knew a low budget film with horrible actors and a seemingly semi-great idea of shooting a movie from the zombie's point-of-view would be related to a literature class???


So, the morale of this blog, Frankenstein did it first...
[Hahahaha! JustKidding!]

Verses on the Death of Xengkeng Yang

1993 Autumn Sun
A baby is born, it’s a son
Fast forward to my two first steps
The steps to greatness I have kept
The middle child out of five
Success I have not yet contrived
My family is way awesome
My friends are way to cool for some

Full of fatness and happiness
Blindness, calmness and crappiness
I am not all that I can be
Yet I am awesome you can see
Art and Music is my virtue
Sadness and sorrow I adieu
Sports and games are my favorite
Win or lose I hate to forfeit

The pain and loss I have cheated
Brings grief upon which I greeted
I only aim and wish to win
I wish you can forgive this sin
But I will eventually lose
When I do, I have paid my dues
When I have, I can rest easily
Life is great and rolls by briefly