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.
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