english assignment

AN: Yet another English assignment. This is just an essay I had to do for The Crucible ...
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AN: These "journal entries" are assignments that our English teacher had us do, and I felt like sharing! So here you go. Hope you enjoy.
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Everyone on this planet is different and unique. We have been told this since we were old enough to understand what unique means. But sometimes, being too unique isn't a healthy thing. Sometimes one needs to fit into society and in order to do so, one nust conform to the expectations of that society.

Running through the rain, back to the only shelter I know, I can still hear their laughter. That’s all that they ever do, laugh. They always tell me that I’m a freak, that I’m worthless, and that I’m not good enough to be around them. It’s all because my parents died when I was little and no one would take me in. So I have to live in the abandoned warehouse at the edge of town that everyone says is haunted. And it’s because of this rumor that I’ve been labeled a freak. Everyone says that I’m a devil-worshiper and that I use the ghosts of the warehouse to cause all of the disasters in town. None of the schools will let me in, so I don’t have an education, which just adds to the viciousness of the rumors.

The sweet smell
Of the air
Out here, all alone
In these woods
Surrounded by
A myriad of colors
And uncountable lives
Every step brings
Something new
To my senses
The sound of a bird
Calling to its mate
A bug climbing
Up the trunk of a tree
The sound of
A nearby stream
Where the fish
Are swimming freely
Going wherever
The current takes them
The bear lying in wait