*SPOILER ALERT*
Sarah's Key was a book switching between two time periods that could some how be connected. One was from many years earlier when a little girl and her family was taken away and in hopes to save her brother she locked him in a cupboard. Her father was hiding to so she would leave him the key until he revealed himself. The story continues many years later when a woman living in paris about to move into the house where the little girl, Sarah, lived. The woman is a reporter writing about the round up it follows Julia's story in trying to find out exactly what happened to Sarah.
Sarah's story made me sad during her story and when Julia found out everything that happened. I liked the two story lines and how they connected with each other. I thought that even though the story was supposed to be about the connection between Sarah and Julia but the addition of Julia's other life felt slightly unnecessary. It was interesting until it was not about Sarah anymore it was about Julia's life. I enjoyed the emotions and how intriguing the story was when they followed Sarah. All of a sudden she was cut off from the story and was just potrayed by Julia's investigation and the emotions were just shown through Julia. THe story was not as strong when it was telling me how to feel instead of letting me feel for myself. It was very interesting to read about something i had never read before but once it became just learning about a journalists journey into finding out about it it got less interesting.
In this story it discusses why this event was hidden. I had never heard of this and in the story neither had anyone else. They didn't care about it and because of us not learning about this or even knowing it existed it seems like we don't either. This story showed very realistic reactions to this event I do wish people cared more and it was a good idea to write this story if it had been written a little better.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
A-team
The song A-team is about the life of someone who's had it tough. They haven't been dumped or heartbroken, but has had a real hard life. The song writer metaphorically shows how hard life really can be. Songs usually disguise actual hard things rather than really showing them like the writer does in this song.
"Struggling to pay rent" isn't hiding that she's struggling through life and it is exposing to the public how life isn't perfect for everyone. Music is a great way to express real problems because many people hear it. If we use music all the time to show how our worlds are ending because we are over taken by heart broken songs.
"And they scream the worst things in life come free to us cos we're just under the upper hand" he's saying the harsh reality of life rather than singing about the wonderfulness of his own life. He tries to explain in metaphorical words mostly. This line outright says that things are bad for her instead of just implying it.
"Stuck in her daydream." This lines shows even if something horrible is happening everybody needs their one thing that they dream about. This song relates to everybody going through real horrible things not just people who were broken up with.
"Struggling to pay rent" isn't hiding that she's struggling through life and it is exposing to the public how life isn't perfect for everyone. Music is a great way to express real problems because many people hear it. If we use music all the time to show how our worlds are ending because we are over taken by heart broken songs.
"And they scream the worst things in life come free to us cos we're just under the upper hand" he's saying the harsh reality of life rather than singing about the wonderfulness of his own life. He tries to explain in metaphorical words mostly. This line outright says that things are bad for her instead of just implying it.
"Stuck in her daydream." This lines shows even if something horrible is happening everybody needs their one thing that they dream about. This song relates to everybody going through real horrible things not just people who were broken up with.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The Lovely Bones
The lovely bones was a book before and after life. The story was a beautifully written story about the past and present of the main character Susie's life and all the people still alive. It goes from character to character showing how her life was carried out after she was dead. The beautifully written but eerie story carries out the life of a dead girl in her heaven and her live connections.
The lovely bones was not just about the death, but it was about life after death. I admired the author of the lovely bones for not making this a murder mystery but instead writing a beautiful masterpiece of how all the people in your life are connected to you. Susie didn't ever let her fall away from her live world and could not give up because she felt connected to the life she was unfairly pulled from. I think the fact that it portrayed not just her life and her heaven but she showed everybody else's life and pretended it was her own.
Sometimes in life people don't want to let go of something and it shows both sides in this story. In life people are afraid to give up on their old life, in this story it was real. She was afraid to give away her old life and just watched what she never wanted to give it up. I think that she needed to eventually give up her life in the multiple opportunities she had. I think it became sad when she had an actual opportunity to give up and instead decided to pretend she was her sister.
The lovely bones was not just about the death, but it was about life after death. I admired the author of the lovely bones for not making this a murder mystery but instead writing a beautiful masterpiece of how all the people in your life are connected to you. Susie didn't ever let her fall away from her live world and could not give up because she felt connected to the life she was unfairly pulled from. I think the fact that it portrayed not just her life and her heaven but she showed everybody else's life and pretended it was her own.
Sometimes in life people don't want to let go of something and it shows both sides in this story. In life people are afraid to give up on their old life, in this story it was real. She was afraid to give away her old life and just watched what she never wanted to give it up. I think that she needed to eventually give up her life in the multiple opportunities she had. I think it became sad when she had an actual opportunity to give up and instead decided to pretend she was her sister.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Adoption: to change the process or not?
This article was about different peoples opinions on international and national adoption. THe article stated that russia is outlawing that Americans can adopt from there, and it used to be very easy to adopt from Russia and now it seems to be harder for people to adopt. The issue is even if the American system is harder there are still kids that need to be adopted so do they need to be adopted from foreign places or from here.
Many people made very good points. I think that it doesn't really make sense that if there are tons of kids in America that need to be adopted so it makes sense that we should adopt with in our country, but there are many risks with adopting with in America. Children can be taken away from there new parents which almost never happens internationally, which is why parents feel safer to adopt internationally. If America had some better adoption laws than it may be better for all of Adoption.
I don't understand why they would not let kids to be adopted from russia if they also need to be adopted. Even if it's easier for kids to be adopted in Russia and kids need to be adopted here its not fair to force a family to adopt a child that could possibly be taken away from them. I think that all children deserve to have a good life so the laws should be easier in America and maybe slightly harder in Russia and have the possibility to adopt children from Russia.
Many people made very good points. I think that it doesn't really make sense that if there are tons of kids in America that need to be adopted so it makes sense that we should adopt with in our country, but there are many risks with adopting with in America. Children can be taken away from there new parents which almost never happens internationally, which is why parents feel safer to adopt internationally. If America had some better adoption laws than it may be better for all of Adoption.
I don't understand why they would not let kids to be adopted from russia if they also need to be adopted. Even if it's easier for kids to be adopted in Russia and kids need to be adopted here its not fair to force a family to adopt a child that could possibly be taken away from them. I think that all children deserve to have a good life so the laws should be easier in America and maybe slightly harder in Russia and have the possibility to adopt children from Russia.
Monday, December 17, 2012
It's not the bees it's her life
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.
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.
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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