I have been trying to read a new book called The Time I Joined The Circus. It is about this girl named Xandra and she doesn't live with her father because he has died. She is going to find her mother because she always leave her for the circus. While in this book, Xandra turns into Lexi because she wanted a name for the circus. I did not get much into the book because I don't really find it interesting. Im sorry to say I might abandon it.
A sign post I have found in this book is an A-Ha moment. That moment is when Lexi likes this boy named Jaime. as this continues, the other friend she makes, Lina also likes him. That A-Ha moment is when Lina finds out the Lexi and Jaime have kisses.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Last Blog
The book "Day of Tears" is a book full of twist and turns, told by many different points of views. Emma is a slave to the Butler household. She takes care of Pierces', her master, daughters. Emma fears the day that is soon to come.. the day of the biggest auction. Her master, Pierce, has many debts he has to pay off so, he creates a huge auction. The auction took place on a stormy day in Savannah, Georgia. People from all around come to buy these hard working people. Emma feels the need to teach Pierces daughters to be good people. When Pieces daughters see Emma be sold they are heart broken. Will Emma be able to survive this horrible auction? Will all these other slaves being auctioned be separated from their families?
This book seems to have many conflicts. Small or big, all these conflicts take a huge toll on Emma and those around her. They all pray to go to good people. Or at least people who won't mistreat them as much. All these slaves have a conflict with the society they live in. Everyone around them wants to buy them for their personal benefits, but what are the benefits for these slaves? Emma hears as the families are being sold. She hears how some of the people she worked with are being separated by their family. She's worried about what's going to happen to her. She's worried about the family she might go to.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Blog Six
In my book, The Catcher In The Rye the book is being narrated in first person point of view by the main character, Holden. He lives in New York City and has been to about four different schools. The reason he keeps moving schools is because he always gets kicked out for having flunked out every subject, except English (his favorite topic). With all the schools he has been to, he notices how "phony" as he says everyone is. After being in a fight with his roommate Stradlater because of he goes out with Holden's old friend, Jane, he realizes that he doesn't want to stay at Pencey until Christmas Break because how snotty everyone is. He has quite a lot of cash on him so he makes his way to a hotel, enters the Lavender Room wanting his favorite drink, Scotch and a Coke. He's only 16 or 17, and he makes his way back up to the room making some stupid decisions. The next day he does the same, but he gets really drunk, to make his way back home to talk to his little sister, Phoebe. Out of everything in the world, he has trouble find things he enjoys, he finds out later, something he really loves is his little brother and sister.
A signpost that came up in this book is a memory moment. That moment is when Stradlater asks Holden to write his composition for him. He writes about Allie, his little brother, who died when they were in Maine from leukemia on July 18th, 1946. Anyway, the composition was about Allie's left handed baseball glove. He remembers poems being written every where on the baseball mitt. In the book it says, "My brother Allie had this left handed fielders mitt. He was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat." It didn't matter if Allie was dead or not. Holden still loves him, he loves him no matter if he was dead or alive, he even says "you don't stop loving someone just because they're dead".
A signpost that came up in this book is a memory moment. That moment is when Stradlater asks Holden to write his composition for him. He writes about Allie, his little brother, who died when they were in Maine from leukemia on July 18th, 1946. Anyway, the composition was about Allie's left handed baseball glove. He remembers poems being written every where on the baseball mitt. In the book it says, "My brother Allie had this left handed fielders mitt. He was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat." It didn't matter if Allie was dead or not. Holden still loves him, he loves him no matter if he was dead or alive, he even says "you don't stop loving someone just because they're dead".
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