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.
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