I'm reading the secret life of bees about a girl who ran away from home in the 1960s with her maid who was in jail. She was taken in by a family with the names of months and they knew her mother. Her mother was killed when she was four, accidentally by her. Her father never forgave her and she couldn't take it any longer.
The metaphor of the whole book was about bees in hidden way. They talk about how the bees have their own secret life. She thinks about that in the story subtelly about how interesting the bees lives are. I think she thinks this is interesting because she has a secret life. Her whole story is a secret, first a secret from her father then a secret from the people who took her in. She was almost envious of the bees because they could hide their lives forever and she couldn't.
I'm not finished with the book but i have a feeling it's about to take a dramatic turn. The secret bees have just started with this underlying metaphor. She is going to realize how bad she has been and she is going to change everything. I believe she is going to use the bees to guide her into life.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
A goodbye that can't happen
*Spoiler alert*
I am almost done with a book called What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen. This book was about a girl named Mclean whose parents got divorced a couple years ago, and moves around a lot. In each new place she tries a new strategy. In the new place she has moved she just wants to be herself. Although she is still struggling with custody issues and her father wanting to move again, she still feels like this new place is home.
Mclean's relationship with her mother is strained. After the divorce Mclean chose her dad's side blaming her mother for it. Mclean's mother still tried to maintain a relationship with her, but she just wanted her mother to leave her alone. After trying to settle in to her new life and her mother calling again and again and suing for custody she realizes if she wanted to stay at her new home she has to make a move. I admire her for putting aside her real emotes and do something to stay at what she has come to think if, for the first time in years, as home.
Mclean hasn't bothered making friends in any other town, but here she hit it off tight away with some friends, and they helped he rake it her home. To me it seemed like were the reason it was her home was because she had friend. The moral of the story was kind of to be yourself, but it didn't really seem like that to me. To me it seemed like the moral of the story is look around you don't make your only decisions for yourself, but every event and person in your life makes it for you.
I am almost done with a book called What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen. This book was about a girl named Mclean whose parents got divorced a couple years ago, and moves around a lot. In each new place she tries a new strategy. In the new place she has moved she just wants to be herself. Although she is still struggling with custody issues and her father wanting to move again, she still feels like this new place is home.
Mclean's relationship with her mother is strained. After the divorce Mclean chose her dad's side blaming her mother for it. Mclean's mother still tried to maintain a relationship with her, but she just wanted her mother to leave her alone. After trying to settle in to her new life and her mother calling again and again and suing for custody she realizes if she wanted to stay at her new home she has to make a move. I admire her for putting aside her real emotes and do something to stay at what she has come to think if, for the first time in years, as home.
Mclean hasn't bothered making friends in any other town, but here she hit it off tight away with some friends, and they helped he rake it her home. To me it seemed like were the reason it was her home was because she had friend. The moral of the story was kind of to be yourself, but it didn't really seem like that to me. To me it seemed like the moral of the story is look around you don't make your only decisions for yourself, but every event and person in your life makes it for you.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Fantasy or Non-Fiction
*SPOILER ALERT*
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss was a fantasy book about a guy who cut down a lot of trees and out of one of them an animal kind-of thing pops out of the trunk—The Lorax. The Lorax tries to warn the man about how bad it would be to cut down the trees. The man continues to cut down every last tree. The world gets darker and the air gets polluted the animals are forced to live somewhere else. In the end of the book the guy that cut down all the trees gave a child the last tree seed for him to plant it.
This book is fiction except its message is very real. The message may not necessarily be for the main audience, the kids, but the adults reading it will see it. Instead of having regular people and regular trees Dr. Seuss knew that kids might not care about what would happen if in the city a regular tree was cut down because that's what happens all the time. They care when the fluffy colorful trees are cut down in the beautiful meadow that is home to many very cute animals. Instead of having an adult plant the last tree that could save the planet and make it happy again they used a kid. They did this to show kids that they could make a difference.
Kids book are not books that you necessarily relate with because usually they're fantasy characters. but the kids respect the fantasy characters they want to be like them they want to be like the superstars in the stories. To them everything that goes on in these fictional worlds are just more real worlds with better characters. Kids respect fiction and although they don't think of these characters as fake organisms they think of them as heroes, heroes they can learn from.
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss was a fantasy book about a guy who cut down a lot of trees and out of one of them an animal kind-of thing pops out of the trunk—The Lorax. The Lorax tries to warn the man about how bad it would be to cut down the trees. The man continues to cut down every last tree. The world gets darker and the air gets polluted the animals are forced to live somewhere else. In the end of the book the guy that cut down all the trees gave a child the last tree seed for him to plant it.
This book is fiction except its message is very real. The message may not necessarily be for the main audience, the kids, but the adults reading it will see it. Instead of having regular people and regular trees Dr. Seuss knew that kids might not care about what would happen if in the city a regular tree was cut down because that's what happens all the time. They care when the fluffy colorful trees are cut down in the beautiful meadow that is home to many very cute animals. Instead of having an adult plant the last tree that could save the planet and make it happy again they used a kid. They did this to show kids that they could make a difference.
Kids book are not books that you necessarily relate with because usually they're fantasy characters. but the kids respect the fantasy characters they want to be like them they want to be like the superstars in the stories. To them everything that goes on in these fictional worlds are just more real worlds with better characters. Kids respect fiction and although they don't think of these characters as fake organisms they think of them as heroes, heroes they can learn from.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Dead Beautiful
I just started the book Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon. So far it is about a girl named Renee whose parents mysteriously die. The death is mysterious because she found many things that are unusual in the death and there was no shown reason for why they had died. She is put in custody of her grandpa who before then she had never seen. Her grandfather takes her and he makes her move east and move to a boarding school. Once she gets there she realizes how weird the school is she starts making connections with the death of her parents.
Renee is an interesting character. She is trying to be okay with her parents death but she is afraid of the mystery of the death. She keeps trying to figure out why all of this happened. I think she may be curious or she may be afraid. She obviously has trouble with dealing with the fact that her parents died like many people would. She isn't getting that upset about everything as I expected she would she got angrier about getting pulled from her home. To have to try to fit in and survive in addition to wanting to know what happened to her parents is stressful and I admire her for having all that courage.
Although this story isn't really about a deeper emotional meaning and its probably some kind of mystery novel, but I think she is covering up her feelings about her parents dying with the mystery. I think she's getting a little bit over obsessed with the mystery. I understand that she is curious but normally somebody whose parents die is bad enough but she was rerouted and forced to a boarding school. She rerouted her life because she was forced by somebody she barely knew this is something that should be emotionally hurting her but she's not upset.
Renee is an interesting character. She is trying to be okay with her parents death but she is afraid of the mystery of the death. She keeps trying to figure out why all of this happened. I think she may be curious or she may be afraid. She obviously has trouble with dealing with the fact that her parents died like many people would. She isn't getting that upset about everything as I expected she would she got angrier about getting pulled from her home. To have to try to fit in and survive in addition to wanting to know what happened to her parents is stressful and I admire her for having all that courage.
Although this story isn't really about a deeper emotional meaning and its probably some kind of mystery novel, but I think she is covering up her feelings about her parents dying with the mystery. I think she's getting a little bit over obsessed with the mystery. I understand that she is curious but normally somebody whose parents die is bad enough but she was rerouted and forced to a boarding school. She rerouted her life because she was forced by somebody she barely knew this is something that should be emotionally hurting her but she's not upset.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Cycling
I just finished the book It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. In this book Craig a depressed teenager. Craig often refers to the cycling which is when he realizes all the things he has to do and how stressed he is. And in everything that is going on he realizes he just doesn't want to do anything. Craig can relate most of his depression to the stress and the cycling.
I understand what Craig is talking about with the cycling but not in the depressed way. Sometimes when I'm stressed out I think of all the things I have to do and I get even more stressed out and try to push everything away and just not do it. Sometimes just in my mind I think of something and than that leads to another and then my brain will take a pause and I'll just thing "How did my thoughts get there?" I never really know whats going on in my brain. This is defiantly different than what Craig is going through because I'm not getting so stressed out and confused that I just stare into space.
Whenever Craig talked about the cycling I felt bad for him. Going through that all the time must be tough. Going through that once a month is tough. But never getting anything done just adds to the stress. Every time he goes through the cycling and doesn't do anything it just adds more stress. Even when I go through my version of the cycling I never don't do something I just do it later. If I never did anything then I would maybe be in Craig's position which sounds kind of scary it would be hard to think of that. I don't want the cycling to happen all the time so this book motivated me to try a little harder and not do the cycling anymore.
I understand what Craig is talking about with the cycling but not in the depressed way. Sometimes when I'm stressed out I think of all the things I have to do and I get even more stressed out and try to push everything away and just not do it. Sometimes just in my mind I think of something and than that leads to another and then my brain will take a pause and I'll just thing "How did my thoughts get there?" I never really know whats going on in my brain. This is defiantly different than what Craig is going through because I'm not getting so stressed out and confused that I just stare into space.
Whenever Craig talked about the cycling I felt bad for him. Going through that all the time must be tough. Going through that once a month is tough. But never getting anything done just adds to the stress. Every time he goes through the cycling and doesn't do anything it just adds more stress. Even when I go through my version of the cycling I never don't do something I just do it later. If I never did anything then I would maybe be in Craig's position which sounds kind of scary it would be hard to think of that. I don't want the cycling to happen all the time so this book motivated me to try a little harder and not do the cycling anymore.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Beginning and Middle: How Big is the Change
At the beginning of Its Kind of A funny Story by Ned Vizzini you learn about the background of Craig and why he's depressed. The beginning goes back and forth between current and before he was depressed. It was a little confusing but it made sense. I thought this was a great way to start the story because you know what is happening and you also know everything that has happened in his life that is relevant to the story. I thought that even though this part of the story dragged on I thought it was necessary.
In the middle of the story the story gets faster. Its not more interesting though. In the middle of the story Craig goes through some changes. I'm still reading the middle of the story so I don't know exactly how it goes but it written very well. It has good writing so I don't lose interest or get confused while reading it.
They are similar because they are both very well written. sometimes I hate books that are referencing something that is a very important part if the book but never saying what it is. Ned Vizzini never left anything out unlike other authors and I really enjoyed that about both parts of the story. These parts of the story were different because one was just saying what used to happen and one you get to see his thoughts in the present and not just in the past.
In the middle of the story the story gets faster. Its not more interesting though. In the middle of the story Craig goes through some changes. I'm still reading the middle of the story so I don't know exactly how it goes but it written very well. It has good writing so I don't lose interest or get confused while reading it.
They are similar because they are both very well written. sometimes I hate books that are referencing something that is a very important part if the book but never saying what it is. Ned Vizzini never left anything out unlike other authors and I really enjoyed that about both parts of the story. These parts of the story were different because one was just saying what used to happen and one you get to see his thoughts in the present and not just in the past.
Monday, October 15, 2012
What would you do if you had powers?
*SPOILER ALERT*
I just read Vanished: Part one When lightning Strikes by Meg Cabot is a book about a girl who gets struck by lightning and gets psychic powers where she can now see where missing children are. She is tracked down by the cops and they begin thinking she has kidnapped these kids. It forces her to expose her powers. This of course causes the military to want her. She agrees because of her brother who has mental issues and was having a lot of trouble with the news cameras. After she finds out one of the children "she found" didn't want to be found she gets scared. She escapes the military base finds the kid and saves everybody and pretends her psychic powers went away.
How far would you go to make up for something you never thought would happen? Have you ever tried to do something you thought was right and accidentally ended up affected somebody's life in a horrible way. Jess did in When Lightning strikes by Meg Cabot and now all she wanted to do was to help. If i were in Jess' shoes i would not go as far as she would but i would try. I think Jess went a little to far trying to make up for it but on the other hand i would never really ruin somebodies life like that but if I was close to ruining somebody's life it would be hard to do what Jess did. She turned her life around to help him.
Jess changes a lot through out the story. For example at the beginning she was very selfish and wouldn't do anything for anyone. She was struck by lightning and boom everything changes. She is nicer and all she wants to do is help people because she can. If people are in trouble all she wants to do change so that she can help people. This differs from before in a very good obvious change.
I just read Vanished: Part one When lightning Strikes by Meg Cabot is a book about a girl who gets struck by lightning and gets psychic powers where she can now see where missing children are. She is tracked down by the cops and they begin thinking she has kidnapped these kids. It forces her to expose her powers. This of course causes the military to want her. She agrees because of her brother who has mental issues and was having a lot of trouble with the news cameras. After she finds out one of the children "she found" didn't want to be found she gets scared. She escapes the military base finds the kid and saves everybody and pretends her psychic powers went away.
How far would you go to make up for something you never thought would happen? Have you ever tried to do something you thought was right and accidentally ended up affected somebody's life in a horrible way. Jess did in When Lightning strikes by Meg Cabot and now all she wanted to do was to help. If i were in Jess' shoes i would not go as far as she would but i would try. I think Jess went a little to far trying to make up for it but on the other hand i would never really ruin somebodies life like that but if I was close to ruining somebody's life it would be hard to do what Jess did. She turned her life around to help him.
Jess changes a lot through out the story. For example at the beginning she was very selfish and wouldn't do anything for anyone. She was struck by lightning and boom everything changes. She is nicer and all she wants to do is help people because she can. If people are in trouble all she wants to do change so that she can help people. This differs from before in a very good obvious change.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Can you hold on?
Keep Holding on is a book about a girl in high school who has one friend, a single mother and some boy issues. I thought the most interesting part of the book is the rising action. After the introduction when you realize that not only is she having social issues that every single high school kid has, her mother is the main problem. Her mother blames her whole life on the girl. The girl even calls her mom mother because she feels uncomfortable with her. Her mother had a baby at eighteen and says the reason her whole life was screwed up because of her. In the rising action she struggles with her mom and she struggles with her boyfriend and her crush.
I think the most interesting part of the rising action was the part with her mother. This was also the part with her friend not knowing about it and her not wanting to because she is worried about how she would react. Her mom never has food for her she's getting too skinny. It isn't that her mom never gets her food its that she never gets her good food, for example, she gets her mcdonalds. She doesn't get her food for lunch she makes mustard and mayonnaise sandwiches. She doesn't want anyone to know her food issues with her mother. Another thing is that her mom doesn't get her any clothes. She is stuck with the same clothes the worn out baggy clothes also she doesn't do the laundry. She is stuck doing her own laundry. Her mother has a certain schedule for when she can shower and its never when she wants to. Her issues with her mother to me is what made this book different from other books with a girl with social issues.
On the other hand the thing that made it just like a book with a girl with social issues was her boy issues and popularity issues. She had one friend a secret boyfriend who wouldn't let her tell anybody about them and never went out in public with her and a crush on a boy who she was certain didn't like her at all. As the book goes on and she gets stood up by her boyfriend forgives him and continues being with him in secret you realize how desperate she is for some friends any kind of boyfriend even if it's not the boy she wants to be with. She gets stood up by him and then she figures out he has a girlfriend when his girlfriend catches them together. It is interesting to me that she didn't scream at him either it wasn't that he was cheating on her he was cheating with her and she acted like she knew all along. This of course lead to more bullying at school. But worse than other bullying they shot her with paintballs and her mother barely did anything about it. I loved this book and it was different and similar to other books i've read but in a perfect way. It had the perfect balance between the good and the bad and even if it had a perfect ending you know it wasn't actually perfect.
I think the most interesting part of the rising action was the part with her mother. This was also the part with her friend not knowing about it and her not wanting to because she is worried about how she would react. Her mom never has food for her she's getting too skinny. It isn't that her mom never gets her food its that she never gets her good food, for example, she gets her mcdonalds. She doesn't get her food for lunch she makes mustard and mayonnaise sandwiches. She doesn't want anyone to know her food issues with her mother. Another thing is that her mom doesn't get her any clothes. She is stuck with the same clothes the worn out baggy clothes also she doesn't do the laundry. She is stuck doing her own laundry. Her mother has a certain schedule for when she can shower and its never when she wants to. Her issues with her mother to me is what made this book different from other books with a girl with social issues.
On the other hand the thing that made it just like a book with a girl with social issues was her boy issues and popularity issues. She had one friend a secret boyfriend who wouldn't let her tell anybody about them and never went out in public with her and a crush on a boy who she was certain didn't like her at all. As the book goes on and she gets stood up by her boyfriend forgives him and continues being with him in secret you realize how desperate she is for some friends any kind of boyfriend even if it's not the boy she wants to be with. She gets stood up by him and then she figures out he has a girlfriend when his girlfriend catches them together. It is interesting to me that she didn't scream at him either it wasn't that he was cheating on her he was cheating with her and she acted like she knew all along. This of course lead to more bullying at school. But worse than other bullying they shot her with paintballs and her mother barely did anything about it. I loved this book and it was different and similar to other books i've read but in a perfect way. It had the perfect balance between the good and the bad and even if it had a perfect ending you know it wasn't actually perfect.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Am I blue?
Am I blue by Bruce Coville is about figuring out who you are in a society that says it is not okay. This story is about a boy named Vincent who is trying to figure out if he is gay. He goes through stages of caring and not caring about whether or not he is gat and the steps to how that happens are illustrated in the story. The story starts out with him being beat up by a boy named Butch because he is a “fruit” or “faggot”. As he is still on the ground somebody comes up to him. He says his name is Melvin and he is his fairy godfather but Vincent is afraid he is making fun of him. Vincent thinks of the most negative things in the first stage. He can't let anybody in and let them help him because he is afraid they will just hurt him or make fun of him. One of the lines in the exposition that gave this away for me was “’Go away and let me suffer in peace,’ I growled, splashing muddy water at him.” Melvin tried to make it clear that he was there to help, but, Vincent was not convinced. One part of the story gave away that he was mostly nervous because he didn’t want to be beat up for being gay was “The first question I thought if was ‘How much trouble is it going to give me to be seen with this guy?’ With Butch and his crowd already calling me ‘faggot’ and ‘fruit,’ walking around with a guy who moved the way Melvin did wasn’t going to do anything to improve the situation.” This is what most of his thoughts are in the first stage. He doesn't care if he could be free to be who he is, he is just afraid. In life one is afraid all the time. We are afraid of being hurt and letting people in. I think Vincent is more afraid of getting physically hurt than emotionaly hurt. One could connect to vincent in a very real way in the same way,am I gay, or in his cas am I blue? Is it bad what will I do? This is a problem illistrated in the story and in the world and it is made very clear through out the stages of being okay with it how to solve the issue.
He isn’t really ready to be gay he doesn’t want to be because if he is will it mean he will keep getting beat up? Does it mean he will get beat up in the real world too not just in high school. After Melvin explains why he is there and how he is the first fairy godfather and how Vincent is the first case Vincent gets nervous as shown in this quote, “’Does that have any signifigance?’ I asked nervously. ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Me being the first case. Does that mean I’m gay?’ I didn’t mention that I had been trying to figure out the same thing myself for about a year now.” He doesn’t want to be gay because he doesn’t want to be beat up other than that he doesn’t seem to have an issue with being gay. He doesn't think there are many gay people. Melvin explains gaydar to Vincent and he begins to get interested. Melvin talks about how if all gay people were blue for a day then people could stop pretending they don't know any gay people. Melvin offers to let him see the world blue. I think its interesting that he accepted because before he had been so negative about it. He hadn’t really wanted to know that there were gay people in the world. He is begging to have a character change because before he would've said 'No I'm not gay so therefore i have no interest in seeing who is gay!'
Once he sees it he is so surprised that there are so many gay people. I think this is the turning point of the story when he notices that so many people you never thought were gay and other people weren’t, or as he said “it was like seeing the world through new eyes.” He learns about himself in the climax too. He learns kind of what he already knew but wasn’t sure, he learned that he didn’t know if he was gay or not. He was mixed he was not sure if he was gay yet. He wasn't being very negative anymore he wasn't being very positive he was in between. He was in the stage where your not against something but not for something you are neutral.
In the falling action he sees on the news a congressman who is a homophobe is blue. He is angry and than he decides that he will do something for the world not just for him self it wasn’t about him anymore it was about the country. This is the real turning point in the story. This is when he realizes he is not the only person in the world that matters and all the blue people in hiding becasue they are scared deserve to be free. He decides to wish for blue day. Melvin grants his wish. This is what shows that his emotions has changed completely he stopped caring about the fact that he could get beat up for having a tint of blue but he doesn’t care anymore. He was done caring about being gay caring about anything the world in his eyes was about to change.
“If I caused you any trouble with Blueday, I’m sorry. But not much. Because things are never going to be the same now that it happened. Never.” And in the end he says “When I meet the girl of my dreams. Or Prince Charming. Whichever.” This is one of the most important lines of the story because it shows that he really did turn around and stopped caring so much because that was not what was important anymore. He doesn't care that there is a possibility of getting beat up and he doesn't care that the world is different for good. He is ready for the world to change to take on the world from a different angle a positive angle. And he believes everybody should take on the world from a positive angle.
He isn’t really ready to be gay he doesn’t want to be because if he is will it mean he will keep getting beat up? Does it mean he will get beat up in the real world too not just in high school. After Melvin explains why he is there and how he is the first fairy godfather and how Vincent is the first case Vincent gets nervous as shown in this quote, “’Does that have any signifigance?’ I asked nervously. ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Me being the first case. Does that mean I’m gay?’ I didn’t mention that I had been trying to figure out the same thing myself for about a year now.” He doesn’t want to be gay because he doesn’t want to be beat up other than that he doesn’t seem to have an issue with being gay. He doesn't think there are many gay people. Melvin explains gaydar to Vincent and he begins to get interested. Melvin talks about how if all gay people were blue for a day then people could stop pretending they don't know any gay people. Melvin offers to let him see the world blue. I think its interesting that he accepted because before he had been so negative about it. He hadn’t really wanted to know that there were gay people in the world. He is begging to have a character change because before he would've said 'No I'm not gay so therefore i have no interest in seeing who is gay!'
Once he sees it he is so surprised that there are so many gay people. I think this is the turning point of the story when he notices that so many people you never thought were gay and other people weren’t, or as he said “it was like seeing the world through new eyes.” He learns about himself in the climax too. He learns kind of what he already knew but wasn’t sure, he learned that he didn’t know if he was gay or not. He was mixed he was not sure if he was gay yet. He wasn't being very negative anymore he wasn't being very positive he was in between. He was in the stage where your not against something but not for something you are neutral.
In the falling action he sees on the news a congressman who is a homophobe is blue. He is angry and than he decides that he will do something for the world not just for him self it wasn’t about him anymore it was about the country. This is the real turning point in the story. This is when he realizes he is not the only person in the world that matters and all the blue people in hiding becasue they are scared deserve to be free. He decides to wish for blue day. Melvin grants his wish. This is what shows that his emotions has changed completely he stopped caring about the fact that he could get beat up for having a tint of blue but he doesn’t care anymore. He was done caring about being gay caring about anything the world in his eyes was about to change.
“If I caused you any trouble with Blueday, I’m sorry. But not much. Because things are never going to be the same now that it happened. Never.” And in the end he says “When I meet the girl of my dreams. Or Prince Charming. Whichever.” This is one of the most important lines of the story because it shows that he really did turn around and stopped caring so much because that was not what was important anymore. He doesn't care that there is a possibility of getting beat up and he doesn't care that the world is different for good. He is ready for the world to change to take on the world from a different angle a positive angle. And he believes everybody should take on the world from a positive angle.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh edited
"The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" by Ray Bradbury is about a boy named Joby who was the drummer boy of Shiloh. He is scared of the war. The general comes to him and talks to him and says that he was the heart of the army because his drum helped people push forward as they walked into battle. The general talks about how the soldiers are ready for a fun kind of war and he can't tell them that they might die. By saying that the army doesn't nesicarily know how to go into wat, Joby is made to realize that he needs to help the army and so, in the end, seems more prepared than ever.
A theme of this story is courage. Joby has to be courageous and stand up so that he can "be the heart of the army". At the beginning of the story, Joby was crying in his bed because he was terrified of the battle in which they were about to fight. Joby learns the lesson that true courage is about doing the things one fears even though one is afraid. In life you have to be courageous, not afraid to be shot down. For example, if a person witnesses someone being bullied, she should speak up to help the victim and not just give into the fear of being bullied herself. Joby had to be brave and courageous in the story. He had to lead the army. The soldiers needed him to lead them into battle so that they didn’t give up hope and the war itself.
This theme could relate to a lot of people because in life you have to be courageous. You have to take a risk because if you don't you could end up stuck at something you hate and want ti get out but can't because your too scared to take the risk. The lion in the wizard of oz lacked courage but all he wanted was to not be scared any more because life can't be led in fear it has to be led by being courageous and taking bold steps and doing things you've never done before.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
"The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" was about a boy named Joby who was the drummer boy of shiloh. He is scared of the war. The general comes to him and talks to him saying that he was the heart of the army. The general talks about how the soldiers are ready for a fun kind of war and he can't tell them that they might die. In the end Joby seems more prepared than ever.
A theme of this story is kind of courage. Joby has to be courageous. Joby has to be courageous and stand up for himself and "be the heart of the army". In life you have to be courageous not afraid to stand up fro what you believe in. Not afraid to be shot down. For example if you see somebody doing something you think is wrong you have to be courageous and be brave. Joby had to be brave and courages in the story. He had to lead the army.
This theme could relate to a lot of people because in life you have to be courageous. You have to take a risk because if you don't you could end up stuck at something you hate and want ti get out but can't because your too scared to take the risk. The lion in the wizard of oz lacked courage but all he wanted was to not be scared any more because life can't be led in fear it has to be led by being courageous and taking bold steps and doing things you've never done before.
A theme of this story is kind of courage. Joby has to be courageous. Joby has to be courageous and stand up for himself and "be the heart of the army". In life you have to be courageous not afraid to stand up fro what you believe in. Not afraid to be shot down. For example if you see somebody doing something you think is wrong you have to be courageous and be brave. Joby had to be brave and courages in the story. He had to lead the army.
This theme could relate to a lot of people because in life you have to be courageous. You have to take a risk because if you don't you could end up stuck at something you hate and want ti get out but can't because your too scared to take the risk. The lion in the wizard of oz lacked courage but all he wanted was to not be scared any more because life can't be led in fear it has to be led by being courageous and taking bold steps and doing things you've never done before.
Monday, September 17, 2012
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The conflict didn't resolve in this story once it resolved many times. This was because there were many conflict throughout this story and not one huge problem. If you searched hard the conflict of the story would probably be the fact that at first he didn't have any friends and the climax was when he was at the the football game and he met Sam and Patrick. The issue wasn't resolved that much because the issue was kind of resolved in the climax.
The theme of the story is that sometimes friendship is hard. Even when he had friends he feels alone a lot. He doesn't know how to do everything. This book is kind of showing that not everybody is perfect sometimes you screw up. For example he lost his friends many times through the book. This book shows that you don't always need to be perfect and sometimes people will be there for you anyway. It revealed that friendship can be the most important thing in life but you don't have to be perfect at it.
This story connects to the world because it is more realistic than not. Sometimes in realistic fiction its not as realistic as other things in fiction could be. He was not perfect like people in the world are. People dont always have friends or are perfect. People dont have perfect friendships and that was shown in the book.
The theme of the story is that sometimes friendship is hard. Even when he had friends he feels alone a lot. He doesn't know how to do everything. This book is kind of showing that not everybody is perfect sometimes you screw up. For example he lost his friends many times through the book. This book shows that you don't always need to be perfect and sometimes people will be there for you anyway. It revealed that friendship can be the most important thing in life but you don't have to be perfect at it.
This story connects to the world because it is more realistic than not. Sometimes in realistic fiction its not as realistic as other things in fiction could be. He was not perfect like people in the world are. People dont always have friends or are perfect. People dont have perfect friendships and that was shown in the book.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Hold Still
Hold Still is a book about a girl whose best friend committed suicide. This book is all about her dealing with living without her and the different people acting the different ways towards her than they did before her friend died. She learns to make new decisions about life and friends. She thought she couldn't live without Ingrid, her best friend, but learned that there were other things in life than INgrid and she could make her life better if she tried.
The people in the story that used to treat her awfully. Treat her differently. They treat her like she is a different person without her best friend by her side. Even her favorite teacher her photo teacher who she used to be so close to treats her like she doesn't exist. She figures out pretty quickly that people don't want to be her friend they feel bad for her. She changes as a person because she isn't depending on somebody else. She was leading her own life making her own decisions with her own life. She makes different friendships and starts leading a completely different life. She became a different person she was a different character at the beginning than she was at the end because she saw life from a different perspective. She made relationships because she had different kinds of support. I think this character changed a lot because of the support and the person she no longer had. People can change for all sorts of reasons. Two reasons is somebody or something thats important to you isn't there for you isn't there anymore or somebody or something new comes into your life. I think she changed for both of those reasons. She used to live in Ingrids shadow but now without her there she thought she wouldn't be the same because she wasn't going to have her best friend. I think she was different because she was not living as somebody trying to be like her best friend somebody trying to act like her best friend because she didn't have anybody else to be friends with. When she got new friends she became her own person and changed more than she ever would've with Ingrid still there.
The people in the story that used to treat her awfully. Treat her differently. They treat her like she is a different person without her best friend by her side. Even her favorite teacher her photo teacher who she used to be so close to treats her like she doesn't exist. She figures out pretty quickly that people don't want to be her friend they feel bad for her. She changes as a person because she isn't depending on somebody else. She was leading her own life making her own decisions with her own life. She makes different friendships and starts leading a completely different life. She became a different person she was a different character at the beginning than she was at the end because she saw life from a different perspective. She made relationships because she had different kinds of support. I think this character changed a lot because of the support and the person she no longer had. People can change for all sorts of reasons. Two reasons is somebody or something thats important to you isn't there for you isn't there anymore or somebody or something new comes into your life. I think she changed for both of those reasons. She used to live in Ingrids shadow but now without her there she thought she wouldn't be the same because she wasn't going to have her best friend. I think she was different because she was not living as somebody trying to be like her best friend somebody trying to act like her best friend because she didn't have anybody else to be friends with. When she got new friends she became her own person and changed more than she ever would've with Ingrid still there.
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