The Mahdi by rap duo The Underachievers may be there most popular song so far.Made up by Issa Dash and Ak. This duo has rocketed to the top of the semi under ground rap scene with there album  Indigoism and there mix-tape Lords of Flatbush.  Many people associate the underachievers with pot smoking and ,well underachieving. But there goals and beliefs shows the exact opposite, and proves the people with misconceived judgments wrong.  
         For example a lyric in the song Mahdi, "We be that Elevated Mafia".  In many of there songs they state that they are are elevated . That they are on almost a higher plane of thinking. This may be do to the narcotics they use but its whatever. "But I'm guided by the light, no shine. Soldier of the Father but I ain't no Christian,"This sentences show that they believe in a higher power and god  but not really through conventional ways , in other songs they actually bash Organised religion.
           Underachievers, make believers out of heathens. This shows that there goal is to show the haters that they aren't just some thugs from the hood . But people who are trying to change the world hence the fact that they refer to themselves as indigo children. (The heathens are the haters by the way) there name is a sarcastic remark to the remarks the heathens say bout them

One major theme that plays through out Cormac McCarthy's novel "the road" is death.
The man and the boy  struggle to survive, death is the obvious theme because there is a constant threat of murder and running out of food . The landscape is covered in ash and soot . Most living things were killed . Civilization has been completely destroyed by the big mysterious event . For example, cows are extinct, and the boy has never before seen birds or fish. "On the hillsides old crops dead and flattened. The barren ridgeline trees raw and black in the rain".

Eventually  the reader become aware that the man is dying. "In the night he woke in the cold dark coughing and he coughed till his chest was raw.... He knelt there wheezing softly, his hands on his knees. I am going to die, he said. Tell me how I am to do that" . His death is approaching , his worsening cough and the increasing amounts of blood he spits out, are evidence of that .

The color of the scenery and landscape thoroughly represents death. the overall tone is black and grey . the ash ,the water, the rain , the burnt trees. Bleak landscape  in general gives and ambience of death and depression. The interesting about this book is that death is expected and even accepted by the characters. When the man shot a bandit that was trying to get the boy. he didn't  give a seconded thought about shooting him. He just accepted the bandits death and didn't think twice about it. 

In the story Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch,is a story about a boy named Jaffy brown. Who along with his best friend Tim go on a hunt for a mythical dragon in the Dutch east indies for there boss. Along the way Jaffy grows from a boy to a man in a literally sense and emotionally as well. His actions along with his friends and shipmates help him grow through out the story.           In the beginning of the story, Jaffy was just a little kid . Dreaming of sailing on the deep blue sea. Believing when he gets older he would go on many adventures. He was so naïve ,that he patted a tiger on the nose . Without even thinking about the consequences. It took him many years to become street smart and to truly become aware of his surrounding . He learned the meaning of responsibility  and   how to be responsible  from working in Jamrachs menagerie. And he learned how to love from Tim's sister  and how to be a true friend from Tim.          While on the sea adventuring to the east indies he learned how hard life can be. which made him mature ten fold and  a man. His life experiences made him stronger. This book followed Jaffy through out his whole life  through his ups and downs and I discovered how those ups and downs made  him into a man

            During the summer I read the novel "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R

Martin.  In a world were seasons last years at time, the Stark family (the wardens

of the north) battles to keep their family together as politics and darker things try

to rip them apart. The author of this book did a great job to give every character,

great and small  such great  depth. No one character is wholly evil, or good . This

book actually reflects  the real world  maybe not a good light but a true light .

Each character has a motive , whether it be out of honor or revenge. Characters

also have rich histories, explained mostly through dialogue  between characters.

Even details like dialogue and inner thought  are so well done that it seems that

these characters are living breathing  people .          This book had such a big

impression on me that it had me truly think about people and their  actions. Like I

said before, no one is all evil or all good. There's this saying , "Hitler loved dogs ".

If you think deeply it's trying to say even though he committed atrocities he had a

softer side like everybody else . Know I won't judge people by first impression .      

            What I learned from this book is to not judge a book  by its cover whether it

looks  good or bad . I would recommend this book to anyone that loves fantasy

books or novels that have great and memorial characters.