To Kill a Mocking Bird - FINISHED

I have finally finished the book, To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee and I find this book very interesting. It is a Autobiography talking about her life right before the Civil Rights Movement and how life was like there.

Lee talks about the night of the pageant using foreshadowing, The pageant is suppose to show the small town's pride, as the lady is spending 30 minutes talking about Maycomb. A mood of suspense embarks on Jem and Scout's walk home. They hear noises and think that it is only Cecil Jacobs and realize that they are in danger. They are getting closer to home but are still terrified because they have no idea what is happening. Lot of the clues point to Ewell attacking Atticus, but not the children. Then they realize that Ewell is to coward to be able to attack.

Boo Radley enters and Scout doesn't realize that they have saved them until they reached home. Boo, mostly know as a ghost, finally comes out and saves them. Scout takes the first steps to Boo making this more of a grown-up moral of a perspective.

The decision of Heck Tate to spare Boo the horror of publicity by claiming that Bob Ewell died by falling on his knife.  This helps show the theme of the story. Not only has Boo became a real person to her, but also saved many people lives such as her children.

The novel ends by Atticus reading to Scout.

In my opinion, I thought this book wouldn't be that good because I don't really like to read books like this, but after reading it, my mind changed and I loved this book. I recommend this book to everyone because it is very good and it will take you in and you can't ever stop reading.

To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

For my third and final book, I am reading How To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. The story is about a girl named Nelle Harper Lee who was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. The story takes place in a sleepy small town. The story would talk about her childhood. It would potray a lot about how were where ever you place them.

I have finished almost half of the book. There are are many different charcters which are in the story, examples include Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, Atticus Finch , Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch, Bob Ewell, Charles Baker “Dill” Harris, Miss Maudie Atkinson, Calpurnia, Aunt Alexandra  and, Mayella Ewell. 

I just read about a fire in which it happened a little before the middle of the book. It was a great turning pount in the book which got my attention. Before the fire, the story was talking about Scouts's childhood and what she was would do. After the fire quickly happened, she remembers even more memories she had in the past. This brings a great deal of problems and brings a loss of "innocent theme". As more and more of these problems occur more concers will take place.

I am excited to know what will come next after this!

The Diary of Young Ann Frank FINISHED

For my second book, I read a book called The Diary of Young Ann Frank. This is about a girl named Ann, who died at the age of 15, as she talks about how she lived during World War 2 and The Holocaust. On my previous blog post I talked about what happened in between the story and now I am going to talk about what finally happened.

Anne Matures pretty quickly thorough out the course of her diary. She shows the pain and hardships it was to be a Jew at that time period of life. She finds it not understandable why the Jews are treated the way that they were back then. Even though she considers her self as a German, her citizenship has been revoked because she is Jew.

During the two years she had and wrote her diary in between, Anne had to deal with deprivation and confinement. She has many complicated struggles of just growing up in circumstances as brutal as the Holocaust. Her Diary ended on August 1, 1944 at the age of 15. It will leave you on a "cliff-hanger". However, the Frank family did betray the Nazis and is arrested. The Franks were arrested on August 4, 1944.

This is a great story and I loved it a lot. I don't say that to many books that are historical. I would recommend this book to everyone because this book has a genre that most people will like.

 

MIDDLE OF DIARY OF YOUNG ANN FRANK

For my second book, I choose to read a book called Diary of Young Ann Frank . It is about a girl named Ann Frank and how she talks about her experience about World War 2 and The Holocaust. We meet many characters throughout the book, examples include; Margot Frank, Otto Frank, Edith Frank, Mr. van Daan, Mrs. van Daan, and Peter van Daan. These characters help bring the autobiography to life.

The Franks move to the Netherlands right before World War 2 to escape the persecution in Germany. The Germans later invaded the Netherlands and the Franks had to hide again. Another family, The Van Daans, and a friend, Mr. Dussel both moved in a small secret annex which is right above Otto Frank's office. The employees from Mr. Frank's  form helped hide the Franks and gave them supplies to survive with information on what is happening in the outside world. They got this information from a radio and some of the information that Anne heard would catch her attention.

Anne would write about how she felt. She would feel mostly isolation and loneliness. She had a great relationship with the other adults in the annex especially her mother. She really loved her father. Anne also had a sister of which she though she were smart and pretty but she didn't feel to have that much of a great relationship with her. Anne meets a boy named, Peter Van Daan, and becomes close with him. Mr. Frank didn't really like him so much.

 She has really matured a lot in this book. She had dreams and inspirations of what she wanted to do when she was older and now she has to live hidden from the world in a very harsh environment. She went to through a lot in just 2 years, as you can clearly tell.

This is a great book and you should read it. I recommend this to people who really like to know about the past and what happened during the Holocaust and World War 2.

The Diary Of Young Ann Frank

For my second book, I will be reading The Diary of Young Ann Frank. From many of my friend I have heard that this is a great book, so I started reading it. I actually found out it was good also, actually one of my favorite non-fiction books, and I am not the biggest fan with non-fiction books.

The The Diary of Young Ann Frank is a book about Ann Frank's life. The diary begins on her 13th birthday and ends on her fifteenth. It is about World World 2 and The Holocaust. She talks about the loneliness and the hardships she had to go through because she lived in a world like this. For the two years she has been writing in the Diary, she has learned a lot and changed her mind of many different things.

This is a great book and I recommend this to people who love non-fiction History and want to learn more about what happened in the past. I love this book and I hope to see you reading it one day.

Messy Room

by Shel Silverstein

Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
His underwear is hanging on the lamp.
His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,
And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp.
His workbook is wedged in the window,
His sweater's been thrown on the floor.
His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV,
And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door.
His books are all jammed in the closet,
His vest has been left in the hall.
A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed,
And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or Willie or--
Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear,
I knew it looked familiar!

SOURCE:  http://100.best-poems.net/messy-room.html

For this blog-post, I did a poem. The poem is called Messy Room by Shel Silverstein. This poem is very great because it is very relatable to many children and teenagers out there. This poem even relates to me. I do have a messy room every once in a while and I get this same feeling. I sometimes even blame it on my siblings just like the author did, "Donald or Robert or Willie or--". Even my brother does the same to me.

This poem is recommend for all types of people because this can actually be relatable to anyone. This adds some humor to adults who read it and have to clean up their children's  mess.

I like this poem a lot because this has a great meaning with it.

Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face

by Jack Prelutsky

Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot.

Imagine if your precious nose
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat,
for you'd be forced to smell your feet.

Your nose would be a source of dread
were it attached atop your head,
it soon would drive you to despair,
forever tickled by your hair.

Within your ear, your nose would be
an absolute catastrophe,
for when you were obliged to sneeze,
your brain would rattle from the breeze.

Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,
remains between your eyes and chin,
not pasted on some other place--
be glad your nose is on your face!

SOURCE: http://100.best-poems.net/be-glad-your-nose-your-face.html

For this post I did a poem. The poem is called Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face by Jack Prelutsky. This poem has a great meaning which goes along it. No, the theme is not to be glad your nose is where it is, the theme is be glad of what you have. 

In the poem it states, "Be glad your nose is on your face, not pasted on some other place". This goes very well with the stated theme. It means be glad of what you have and don't be jealous of what other people have. In the poem it also states, "for if it were where it is not, you might dislike your nose a lot". This also goes great with the theme because it states that if you had something else than what you already have, you will just get sad and want what ever you originally had.

The author has advance with the theme because at the beginning of the poem she just states to be glad you have a nose which is on your face, later in the poem she finds examples which helps support that claim.

This is a great poem because it has a great meaning of which come along with it.

Maximum Ride: Finished

        I finished reading the book Maximum Ride by James Patterson and overall the ending was great and I recommend this to everyone.There was a great deal of drama in this book with Fang and Max, yes I know right who would of guessed, "the gang" trying to save Angel and much more.  She had to go through a great deal of pain and a live a nightmare to save Angel who was experimented by a crew of wack jobs. During the journey, Max discovers from her old friend and her father-figure, Jeb ( he betrayed her and is Max's greatest enemy) that her purpose in life was to save the world.

       In my other posts I have said that I would write about how Max is a dynamic character. In the book Max is saving her "flock" member, she realized many things. She realized that her duty in the world is to save it from any damage done to it and she learned many things about herself like who her father was. She was more of a character, in the beginning, that wanted to go fast and painlessly and saved Angel, she had to change that and realized that she had to live a nightmare to save her and the world.

        This is a great story for many different readers for all different ages. I recommend this to everyone. I liked the vast knowledge of vocabulary the author has put into this. This is a type of book I could never ever put down that I even have to be forced to stop reading from my parents. This is one of my favorite books I have ever read.

       

Maximum Ride

I am reading a book called Maximum Ride by James Patterson. I am at the part where Max and "her gang" saved Angel. This is only the middle of the book and I am very anxious to find out what happens next. I feel a such a great conflict is going to commence. A new character is going to be introduced and the story has another rising action.

Max, the character of which that is talked about the most, is a very dynamic character. She changes throughout the story by a lot, but I bet she will change more throughout the story. I want to first finish the book before giving details of how she is a dynamic character.
This is a great book for people who love a lot of adventure and I recommend this to you.

       I am reading the book, Maximum Ride by James Patterson. The main character in the book is Max, right now her character is the same and hasn't really changed personalities. She is like the "leader" of her "gang". I am in the part of the book where Angel has been captured by the Gasmans. We have really got into depth about learning about Angel because she has been captured and the author has been putting it into Angel's point of view.

       Angel, like all of them, has a special power, she can read minds. She uses this ability to see what is going on and help her out to know what to do when at certain times. I think this is great because this will help her escape more easily. I believe that Angel will escape before her "family" comes and rescues her. I am very excited to know what happens next in the story.

I am reading a book called Maximum Ride by James Patterson. I haven't been very far into the book, but I do know Max is the main character, and she has 8 other "siblings". They are family even thought they are not blood related. In the book, Angle, Max's sister, has been captured by the Gasman and from there they set on a quest to find Angel and get her back.
I haven't gotten far into the book to say what the theme of the book is,  but the central idea, that I think, will be about how they set on a quest to go and find  Angel. I think the main character of the book, Max, will hopefully fall in love with one of the people she lives with or someone that she meets. I predict that in the book Angel will be found by Max and she will help defeat the evil that took Angel away.

Life Is Fine by Langston Hughes

I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.

I came up once and hollered!
I came up twice and cried!
If that water hadn't a-been so cold
I might've sunk and died.

But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!

I took the elevator
Sixteen floors above the ground.
I thought about my baby
And thought I would jump down.

I stood there and I hollered!
I stood there and I cried!
If it hadn't a-been so high
I might've jumped and died.

But it was High up there! It was high!

So since I'm still here livin',
I guess I will live on.
I could've died for love--
But for livin' I was born

Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me die.

Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/langston_hughes/poems/16946

 

For my second blog post, I did a poem. This poem is called Life is Fine by Langston Hughes. This poem is about living life to your fullest. The poem states how you could have died but you didn't die so you are fine.

In the poem it states, " I might've sunk and died", but the author didn't. The author is trying to prove that you need to live life your fullest if you really want to live. You need to take some risks once in a while. "YOLO" - You Only Live Once- is a great slang term to help get a better understanding of the poem.

The author has advanced from over the theme. He starts out saying how he could have died of doing such risky things, but he realizes that he doesn't die. You have to live life to your fullest is what he is trying to get out in his poem.

 

 

 

Summer Reading Book ~ Fault in Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars consists of many themes in just one book. In the book, the main theme being used is love. Hazel Grace Lancaster falls in love with Augustus Waters. They both have a connection with each other, cancer. This helps them become closer to each other. They meet each other at a Social Group for cancer survivors. They later start to like each other and start out as friends at first. Then they become to like each other, then love.

Some of the quotes in the book that will help make this theme is "It sure was a privilege to love him.... gives you an idea how I feel about you?" (Green 278)  and “But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.” (Green 61). The quotes will help prove a point that shows how Augustus Waters love each other.

Hazel Grace Lancaster develop over the course of The Fault in our Stars a lot. She starts out as a boring, ordinary figure which does not have many friends. She then goes to a Support Group for cancer survivor, she does not want to go there and she was forced by her parents. She was lucky to go there because that is where she meets Augustus Waters and everything starts to go upward, until one part happens (no spoilers). Augustus Waters is also a complex character in the book. Both of them change each other.

In the book, they need each other. Hazel Grace Lancaster gone from a girl who was depressed to a girl who was the happiest girl on earth. Augustus Waters loved Hazel and made her feel special and also made himself feel special.