AP Literature Summer Session

Once upon a time there was a land called America, and it was the land of the free the home of the brave. In America we can do many things - We drive cars, we walk dogs, we even eat animals. However, in Russia things are different. In Russia the cars drive you, the dogs walk you, and the animals eat you. With that said its not hard to believe that a Russian man would prostrate himself to these ultimate freedoms we Americans hold with a firm grip. In our country, the 4th of July means many things. For starters, it signifies the annual ritual where we sacrifice a whole 24 hours (and sometimes longer) of our lives to supreme devotion to the Watermelon King. The Watermelon King is a secret underground crime-lord that has, over the course of 200 years, created an image of the fourth of july. No, no, no, that image isn't patriotism or remembrance of those special patriots that risked their lives to give us freedom (no offense Mel Gibson), the image he is trying to create is none other than four key principles:

1. To first, buy a grill.
2. To second, buy hamburgers an hotdogs for that grill.
3. To third, devote a whole day to sit by and watch the food that cooks on that grill.
4. To fourth, eat what was cooked on the grill and top it off with a slice of watermelon.
5. And to fifth, launch fireworks in a 1 mile perimeter of the grill.
   

Those are the four principles we americans abide by when it comes down to the 4th of July. Now, we as americans have many rights. We can write what we want, say what we want, and even do what we want...BUT...all the stuff we write, say, and do must directly or indirectly be lawful in these united states of america and must not infringe upon the rights of other fellow americans or make them unhappy. And that is the part that Doestoiehaaesorfhaosuiaoshblah might not agree with. For, this russian author is a man of great dreams. He secretly wrote the I have a Dream speech which was passed down generation to generation to his great great great grandson Martin Luther King Jr. Doestoihoiuhajjojeujublah might think that our freedoms are limited an should be more openly expressed, but are not. Then again he might not say that and totally agree with the freedoms we hold. The end of this story is that the world will never know what he thought about american's freedoms unless somebody asked him because now he is another dead guy burried somehwere in this very, very small world.

The end.