Journal Writing: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Today, I'm gonna write about........ uh....... let me think. Aha! I'll write about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! Today in Drama class, we watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (which was the older version by the way) and it made me so hungry! The wafers, the chocolate bars........ ugh, I'll feel sick after 5 bars I think. But we only watched halfway (to the part when Charlie discovers that he has the golden ticket); and I like the newer version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because it has better graphics. But still, the old one was actually pretty good. Well, I think that's all I can tell you. Uh..... (how do I wrap this up?)..... ummm..... well, see ya down the road.

Psych

Last friday in class, we watched a TV show called Psych. It's about this guy named Shawn Spencer who acts as if he's psychic and he solves mysteries with his part sidekick, Gus. In this episode of Psych, there was a murder where a rich family's son died. Then, Shawn and Gus goes to the crime scene (which was a house to be exact) where he died. Shawn then, finds clues like a broken coffee maker, a gun and blood on the corner of a diner table. The rich family's son wasn't the only one who died in the crime scene but he's also accompanied by a friend of his who got killed too. Then, Shawn and his buddy, Gus found out that there was some kind of ransom and it was in the family's son's sister's bag.  She was about to give the ransom to a guy who works at a store (where they sell things that were donated to the store) until Shawn jumps into action and then takes the ransom bag but he was caught by the sister. She said that there was no money inside but Shawn denied it and he opens the bag but it turned out that there were clothes inside! Now that's a red herring! Then later, Shawn finds out that it was the father of the rich family who did it! How? In his mind, he finally brought all the puzzle pieces together. It starts like this, the father comes in the house and beats his son up to teach him a lesson. He keeps on beating him up until the son's head hits the diner table and his head starts spilling blood. Later the son's friend starts coming in and he saw that his friend's dead and the father killed his son. The father was too scared because the friend might go 911 so he immediately grabs his gun and starts pointing it at the friend. The friend of course starts putting his hands up and the father commanded him to sit down on the chair. After that, the father just shot the friend, and then, the father puts the gun on the friend's hand so the police would think that the friend shot the son. When Shawn finishes the story, he calls the police and they arrest the father. The crime is the murder of the rich family's son and his friend, the detectives were Shawn Spencer and Gus, the victims were the son and his friend, the villain was the father, the suspects were the son's sister and the father and the witness was the dog who saw the whole murder and it was watching from outside the window.

Elements of a Mystery

This picture represents the crime. A crime is the problem in the mystery

and all mysteries need one.

This picture represents the detective. The detective's the person who

solves the crime in a mystery.

This picture represents the villain. The villain is the person who did the crime.









This picture represents the victim. The victim is the person harmed by the villain.

This picture represents the witness. The witness is the one who saw the crime.

This picture represents the suspect. The suspect is the person who might be the villain and they're oftenly related to the victim.

Monk

Yesterday in class, we watched a TV show called Monk. The reason we watched Monk is because we have a Mystery unit and also because we have to see if there are any elements of a mystery in it. In this episode of Monk, there was a baseball match (or was it practice?) and one of the baseball players named Petey hit the baseball which went flying up in the air (it's out of the park!) and over the baseball arena. The coach told Petey to get the baseball but when he was there, there was a cadaver (hands shaking) of an old lady named Mrs Murphy. You may think that's the crime but it actually isn't. And then a couple went to Mrs Murphy's house and they found a voodoo doll of her. A week later, the same thing happpened to Ralph Ferris because he got shocked by lightning and then a voodoo doll was sent to him. And then paramedic Angelines uncle died and there was a voodoo doll. She was weeping about her own uncle and she brought in good luck charms but Monk noticed that a horse shoe decoration was upside down (because the horse shoe acts as a bowl which holds good luck but since it's upside down, it pours the good luck out). Now that's the crime! It's up to Adrian Monk to find out who was the killer of Angeline's uncle. But his assistant, Natalie received a voodoo doll and she was scared! Monk tries to tell her that it's all fake. Still, she was still frightened. Anyways, their first suspect was the shopkeeper of this freak shop (which has voodoo dolls in it) but he said he didn't do it. Later, Natalie was still scared so the shopkeeper comes in and tries to check what's wrong. He said that she's cursed and he'll take it out. So he puts all these disgusting ingredients all together in a bowl and then Natalie started drinking it! The shopkeeper said that it's supposed to be for her neck because the curse was to chop her head off. Monk calls 911 and then the ambulance arrived. Then Angeline (she was a paramedic, remember?) and some other guy carried Natalie into the Ambulance. Then Monk finds out that Angeline was actually the killer and the voodoo dolls were red herrings and then he goes out to chase her with the shopkeeper. And then he catches her. So, yeah, the episode has a surprise ending.