Summer Homework (P4)

I originally picked his book because I heard from friends and family that it was a good book and a good movie. Now that I finished the book, I'm regretting that I never saw the movie. I also picked this book because I thought to myself, 'If anyone were to steal anything, why would it be a book?' And with that question created the curiosity of the book that drove me to reading it. Now after reading the beginning of the novel, what drove me to continue to read further was the uniqueness of it. Usually a book from Germany in the 1940's is about a Jew, or Hitler's power, etc. However, this book is about the struggles of a German girl living a true nightmare. Of course, to every dream there are good parts, which there were, but for this night Liesel was hit with struggle after struggle. Her fight to survive is truly remarkable under the conditions she was in and circumstances that happened to her. Of her whole life and demeanor not many things could be related to me personally. And by that I mean the passion of reading. My own isn't as great as hers, but I do have one myself. Not many things can be related over, such as close friend and family death, being abandoned, thievery, and more (if you want to know more you should probably read the book). If you think you would want to read it, that might mean that you like biographies, to butt in on other people's lives and secrets, and to pave the road for destruction. But hey, that's up to you. Have fun reading.

Summer Homework (P3)

Alright here is an exerpt from my book' "The Book Thief." See if you can find out who each character is. "Earlier, kids had been playing hopscotch there an the street that looked like oil-stained pages. When I arrived, I could still hear the echoes. The feet tapping the road. The children-voices laughing, and the smiles like salt, but decaying fast. Then bombs... Within minutes, the mounds of concrete and earth were stacked and piled the streets were ruptured veins. Blood streamed till it was dried on the road... A mountain range of rubble was written, designed erected around her she was clutching at a book." That's right you guessed it. 'She' is the book thief. surrounded by rubble of bombs, one right after the next. It's a little hard to figure out who the 'I' is, so i'll just tell you. He is death. by reading the book i figure he is death because he shows up to 'take people's souls' and just leave the body. at this scene he only showed up because the the body lying on the ground. SPOILER ALERT! that's the ending. but don't worry, you know this in the very beginning of the book so it's not really a spoiler. Again, for this book, the important part is the middle, not the ending.

Summer Homework (P2)

So of all the characters in the book, the protagonists are quite interesting. They all interlock through the story, yet their individual stories are just as complicated. For example, Leisel as you already know her back-story of her dead brother and moving to another town, she also steals books when the time is right, or when she needs to. This kleptomaniac almost got herself into serious trouble for stealing a book, but that's beside the point. Her entire purpose of existence is to steal, read, learn from any book she can get her hands on. The problem is that she can't afford anything since her parent's jobs are running dry and the only way to get it is to steal it which can come with a serious consequences. Now for the parents, all they want is to live a happy, normal life with their children, and have their life better than the life they had. Things started to look up until Hitler came to power. Now they struggle to get money to pay for their house, their children, their food, and everything else. And now would be a good time to bring up the Jew. Liesel's father life was exchanged by a soldier, so the soldier's son, the Jew, needed somewhere to hide and you guessed it. Hans Hubermann's debt was paid in full by hiding the Jew. Complicated, right? Oh I almost forgot. When Leisel still ran for her mother's job, she went to the mayor's house, and one time she overheard the mayor and his wife talking, and the wife said 'I have a Jew in my basement.' over and over in quiet astonishment. I don't know about you, but this is getting juicy. I can't wait for what happens next. Well back in the meantime, why don't i tell you about more sophisticated matters of the book, such as the book structure and reoccurring themes. For the theme I see extremely bad things happening to bad people, and bad things happening to good people. So the theme would be, 'For every good deed, come less of the burden pain.' The book itself if strangely structured. You see it's like it foretells the ending of the chapter plain and clear, but the ending is not the most important part. it's what leads up to it is important. Well now I'll keep you posted on anything new so you don't miss anything.

Summer Homework (P1)

Well when I found out that I had summer homework I chose to read "The Book Thief." so far I actually like this book a lot. I kind of expected this because I have been told several times that the book and the movie is really good. The protagonist in this story is Liesel Meminger or better known as the book thief. She was taken away from her mother on a train ride and was given to another family - Rosa and Hans Huberman - to look after her. Rosa, Mama, I can already tell is going to be a problem. By that I mean that she is an awful jerk for a parent. The time period this is in is World War Two in Germany. I know what you're thinking and no, she and her new family are not Jews. This story is more of how she is to survive her new life. Now back to the story. In the very beginning you find out that her brother died of frostbite, or some other coldness related death, on the train and her mother was taken away. I am guessing but the reason her mother was taken away was because she was either a secret Jew or she was hiding a Jew and the Gestapo found her. For that time, either one was not good. I am also guessing that she and her brother were very close because she is having a constant nightmare of his death. This book is different than the rest of World War Two books because this is about a non-jew, yet non-Natzi, girl trying to survive in her family. So saying that, it's kind of hard to connect it to another story. But I Tell you what, when I do think of something, I will update this as soon as I can. Anyways, thoughts of mine for the future are: How is she going to react to her new family? How  does she claim the title "The Book Thief?" Where does her real mother play in this story? Let's find out, shall we?

FINAL ASSESSMENT Tri 2

here is what i believe to be the blog with the most voice presented in it for this tri:

" Now to give an update for The Chaos Code. I am about 50 pages into it. I had to stop reading this for a while because in health class because i was reading The Fat Boy Chronicals, which explains the last post, so that I couldn't confuse the two books together. Anyways, this book is very getting interesting. Secret messages and codes, strange places and people, and a misterious unexplainable creature. You already know about the creature, so I will not elaberarte on that any more. So with the messages, the father that has dissapeared of the face on the planet had written a letter to give to his son the main character. this led him to a website that he had to uncrack to get in. In the website, it is another coded letter to tell him to go to his aunts house an get help from her boss. The original letter and the other letter will help him find his father and whatever else he was up to, and possibly to creature. this to that and that to this. i'm getting dizzy.
the chaos code"

Here you can see from the blog that my voice is sarcastic, relaxed, and joking. This is notable when I explain, “I had to stop reading this for a while because in health class because I was reading The Fat Boy Chronicles, which explains the last post, so that I couldn't confuse the two books together. Here you can see my relaxed voice where I try to explain the second blog of mine, of why it is different than the first and third blog. In this quote you can see the sarcastic and joking voice: “This to that and that to this. I'm getting dizzy.” You can sense the joke from the earlier statements saying the secrets leading to one another.

In this blog I demonstrate diction and syntax:

Diction – from my choice of words you can see how it enhanced my voice. In case you can’t see it yourself, here is a quote where it is shown, “You already know about the creature, so I will not elaborate on that anymore.” Here the word ‘elaborate’ is a very interesting word to use. I had put this word instead of explain or whatever because I wanted to help boost the word choice, which was getting a little stale with small common words.

Syntax – from my sentence structures you can see

P10) The Death Cure

i know, sounds scary. the book itself is much scarier than the title. this book is the final book in the Maze Runner series. this book is when Thomas has to find the cure - by the resulting fact of them needing them for a cure will literally kill him. not that he hates them, but that they will need to kill them in order to make a cure. this book is filled with action and good surprises in it all throughout the book. so far through the series he has been poisoned twice, shot twice, electrified, disected, trapped in a building that would have blown up, and been beaten senslessly by a zombie (not to mention running for his life a few times). but with all that has happened to him, he had been trained to be a cold-hard killer. this is different because in the scorch trials it was completely drained of life and deadly hot. but that only places that this had happened to was in the tropics, so he had been to places with snow and cooler surrondings. you also find out that the Flare is not from the actual flare, rather it was a science expirement that got loose when the flare happened, which this had killed many people. but i have to say that the ending was crappy. sorry but James Dashner could have done a lot better.
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P9) The Scorch Trials

Ok, well this time I am going to talk about how a character had changed throughout the story. I will talk about the main character Thomas. in the begining of the book he had just wanted to see his friend and talk with her. but she was taken away. but they had a power that no one else knew about, speaking telepathically. somehow when she went away they couldn't speak telepathically. so all through the book, no matter what any sign said, he was acking to see her so they could talk. but that all changed, including Thomas. she was forced to kill him in order to survive. but thomas looked different when this was found out. his veiw of WICKED changed forever, and he even broke down at the end, telling WICKED to end all this and let him go.