You may write on any topic relating to the beginning of the novel, but make sure that your comments demonstrate careful thought and reflection. If you are at a loss for a topic, you may want to choose one of these:
- What mood does the author create in the beginning of the novel? How does he/she accomplish this mood?
- How well does the author grab your interest in the beginning of the novel? Explain your answer.
- Which character most interests you? Why?
- What is the conflict in the novel? Make some predictions about what might happen next.
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The book I am reading is called World of Warcraft Arthas Rise of the Lich King. the book starts during the cold and harsh winter like it says on page 1. Arthas is a young Paladin, warrior that uses light spells and weapons for battle althopugh very religious, prince that will one day become king, but for now all he can do is wait and learn with his father and his Paladin trainer. The very first thing that happens on the book is that Arthas presences the birth of a young horse which he will later later rename invincible and will become his mount, but a few moments later one of his guards comes in and tells him he has to go because the orcs, green strong rough creatures that kill everything on their way, attacked and destroyed Stormwind, the human's capital city. Days later though "Turalyon, the young Paladin liutenant, had brought back in chains, the once-mighty Ogrim Doom Hammer, the orcs leader page 22. So far I like this book because it has a lot of action in it and it is very interesting because it about conflics between mythic races, at leats that's what I thought so far.
ReplyDeleteThe book "I Am David", by Anne Holm is based on a twelve year old boy who spent his entire life at a camp in Eastern Europe. The first pages points out a new character, which David he had known his entire life. For example, on page 1 the man says: "You must get away tonight,(...)", triyng to convince David to leave the camp. Staying one day more could bring his to another place. David's mind, wasn't focused in leaving the camp and just "saw once again the gray, bare room he knew so well."(pg 1)David, then, changed his mind and followed the men instructions.
ReplyDeleteAnne Holm grabs my attention at the beggining of the novel by demonstrating how David's life had been the same and how would he survive in the outside world, without nowing how it actually is. He has to reach Salonika, secretly cross Italy and finally find Denmark, where he will be safe... How will he make it?
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ReplyDeleteI think that the author did a really good job for grabbing tha readers interest in the first 40 pages of the book. The book's name is Emil and Karl. The book starts off in Karl's apartment. (Main character) A bunch of men come in the apartment to take away Karl's mum. They try to defend themeselves, but too late, Karl's mum is already tooken out of the room. Karl has no where to go. He goes to his friends house, Emil, which is a Jew. (Story takes place when people hate Jews. World War 2) Emil was rejected out of everywhere, everybody hates him, except Karl, which is not a Jew.
ReplyDeleteSo, the author grabes the readers attention because he puts a lot of action and imagination to the novel. He gives love to a person who really needs it because he has nobody. Emil's mum was also kidnapped and his father was killed. It's in world war 2. As I wrote, everybody hates Jews. So the story is about how the two boys are going to get out of this fury safe. I think that the author grabs the readers interest pretty well.
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ReplyDeleteMy independent novel is called,A Gift of Magic. It is a really good book!In the prologue, it talks about the grandmother who's dying in her bed, telling her daugther(daugther:Lucy's mother)"I will leave you this house, my dear.You do not need it now, but there will come a time when you will.And I want to leave something to each of my grandchildren. To the boy, I leave the girft of music(pg.1)." But after that she said that she would give one of her grandchildren,( the younger daughter)the gift of dancing. And, she gave her third grandchild ( the elder daughter)the most extraordinary gift of all, a gift of magic. Then later in the story,after the grandmother dies, maybe years later,the grandmother's daughter who's name is Elizabeth has three children one is Brendon,the eldest, then Nancy, the second eldest,and then Kirby the youngest. They have to always move around because of their dad. It mentions that the dad is a photographer who goes all over the world to take photos of different things. But, then Elizabeth gets tired of moving around so much for so long, that she decides to divorce the dad, because if he has to go to a extremly dangerous place they cannot go with him. So, Elizabeth, and her three children go back to the grandmother's house to stay. Then, they have to go to school there, and it is their first time going to school because they were home-schooled most of their life because they had to keep moving around. I like this book mainly because of Nancy, because she has this wierd gift of magic, but when they described what she could do, I was surprised! Like, on pg.15, it says she "reaches out" to find her dad. But, she actually could see him, what he was doing, where he was. Nancy could see him from where they were all the way to where the dad was in Paris. Then, it says that she can control people, make them do what she wants them to do, and read peoples minds. It says it at the back of the book. I really liked Nancy,except she is too serious!
ReplyDeleteI am reading SCORPIA by Anthony Horowitz and it's really interesting the book since the author grabs the attention by already beggining the action with the exposition. In the first chapter of the book, SCORPIA, the largest criminal organization of the world(in the book) is discussing their new operation called the "Invisible Sword". A client would pay them 150 million dollars if they ended the relationship of America and England. The author really grabs your atention and keeps you reading by telling SCORPIA's plans partially, It say's that they will kill thousands of children but it doesn't say how. Meanwhile, ALex, the main character of the book, traveled to Italy and was talking with his friend Tom when a lady with two children was robbed by two robbers in a motorcycle. Since Alex was a secret agent, a spy, he got a bucket full of seeds and threw it on the robbers causing many piggeons to attack them. This way the police got the robbers. I really want to keep reading since it says Alex only came to Venice to search for SCORPIA and the truth of his father's death. I wonder what will happen next.
ReplyDeleteThe author of Brisingr ,Christopher Paolini, creates a determined mood in the beginning of the book where Eragon and his brother are planning to break into helgrind and kill the Ra'zac and save the prisoners. He achieves this mood when Eragon and his brother Talk. You recognize this mood in the way they talk. Here is an example from page seven: "Roran had only suceeded, as he later explained, because the strength of his passion drove him to extremes that others feared and avoided and thus allowed him to confound his enemies." All this creates the mood.
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ReplyDeleteIn the Book “The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice, my favorite character is Lestat. Since the beginning of the series, he has been my favorite character. You can be quite benevolent over his personality; we do not yet know if he tends to be evil, good, kind or mean. All we know about him is he is sarcastic, cynical, unpredictable and secretive. Most important of all, he is a vampire. He was born in the early seventeen hundreds, living then in a castle with his blind father, his atavistic brothers and his loving mother. Lestat was always the excluded one, the rebelled child. He did want to become a monk, an actor, a drunk man; never thinking he’d end up being transformed into a vampire. Not knowing his personality makes him even more interesting. The book starts with him awaking in the late 19 hundreds. He buried himself near the beginning of 1852, doing such action because he felt like life was too monotonous and that he had to point at continuing to exist on the surface. He used to live in a time where witches were persecuted and the Catholic church ruled it all, but now things have changed. Certain day, he suddenly feels like he should open his eyes. He then listens to a band who calls themselves Satan's Night Out. They sing about how there are Angels and Devils and how some evil everyone must have. Lestat then soon enough realizes times have changed and that he must rise now. He soon then discovers Louis, the man he brought into immortality, has written a book about his life as a vampire, right from the beginning. He then, just for fun and revenge, decides to write his own version of the book and to join the band across his old crypt. He has this quite intriguing personality: he seems to be a sadistic and suicide type of person on the first book, though now he shows himself to be quite humanistic, but some traits of his sadism remain. He is extremely cynical, even as his mother slowly dies. He nearly is going crazy when, one night after being drunk all day, he realizes life is senseless and that after we die we still no nothing. His friend Nicholas then tries to help him out, but he is too crazy to listen to anybody or even realize what is actually happening. Secretive in a way he’s unpredictable and totally describes the expression “expect the unexpected”. He never seems to act or to make the choices like we normally would, and that makes him fascinating and mysterious. Right from the start of the book, we know there is something he hides, but we do not know what it is; if it’s good or bad. He has the traits I personally admire on a person: honesty, courage, intelligence, and most important: none conforming and unique qualities. He is an individual you will never meet twice on your life and that you would never get bored to be with. He is very sophisticated and refined but in a way that still resembles the manners of a lion, ready to grab his prey. You never know what he will do; you just know something will happen. His beguilingly ways tend to both amuse and attract people towards him, and that makes him quite dangerous. Lestat constantly tends to have a barrage of emotions, then resulting absent-minded actions he starts to regret later, but he always finds a way out of the situation and is always benefiting. Lestat, for what it seems, is a cynical, mysterious, humanistic, sadistic and unpredictable “force of nature” nobody can predict. This are traits I think are essential on a character, specially if he has all the chances to turn out into something dull and common, but he changes the situation and makes it all new and better. He is a reason for why people should feel consternations and get all shivery at night, and this are things that must be present in every good and decent character; therefore I have elected him as my idle and favorite character.
ReplyDeleteI think that the author of the book “The Titan’s Curse”, Rick Riordan, knows how to write intricate and substantial stories without leaving them monotonous. He brought Greek mythology to our times, where the Olympus is on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building, in New York City, and where Apollo’s chariot is a Maserati and can burn rooftops, lawns and trees if it is very close to Earth. Moreover, it continues to create romances and affaires between the Olympian gods’s family. So, the intrigues and fights between cousins, brothers and other members of the family continues, notwithstanding with much more destructive power. Furthermore, monsters continue to exist, such as dangerous Manticores with colossal paws and venomous claws. Their favorite dish is our main characters, the demigods, who are sons of mortals with gods. These “half-blood” kids’ relation is also convoluted: in page 87, Thalia, the daughter of Zeus, and Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon and also our main character, have a controversy about a Catch the Flag game, and, besides having injured him with a lightening, she doesn’t talk with him anymore. Additionally, the author uses a simple speech to write the book, since the story is a relate of Percy, a teenager. This makes the book much easier to understand and brings us plenty of American spoken English. Exemplifying, the word cop is used to refer to a policeman, instead of this word. I’m looking forward to read more and to discover whether Thalia and Percy will be friends again.
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Also in Scorpia and I think the whole series mentions lots of weapons, guns, explosives, espionage equipment such as non- balistic missiles, termite bombs and nanoshells. Most of these are used in the book or disguised of something else. balistic is one of my vocabulary words since i've heard it from a game. It was an ICBM, Inter-continental balistic misile. Now i'm wondering what will happen to Alex since he was caught by M16.
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ReplyDeleteThe beginning of the book 'Pendragon-The Merchant of Death', by D.J. MacHale, is very peculiar. Bobby, the main character, is taken to another dimension by his uncle, without even being told what was happening and what he should do. The other dimension was a territory called Denduron. Having no knack at surviving in such a strange place, Bobby was soon in trouble. Also, as Bobby was taken there, his family, house and everything that proved he existed disappeared without a trace. There were no records left of his existence, and only the people who knew him where sure that he had existed. Bobby is able to send journals of what was happening to him from Denduron to his best friend through rings that sent things to other dimensions. Using these journals, his best friend Mark and his almost girlfriend Courtney try to discover what is happening and how they can help Bobby. These are only some of the boatload of reasons why the beginning of this book is strange.
ReplyDeleteI have some theories of why all things relating to Bobby disappeared. First of all, since Denduron’s time was somewhere in between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Period, maybe it undid a gasket in Bobby’s future. While he is in the past, risking his life, there is a chance that he will die, so he might not exist in the future Earth. This could be one reason why everything relating to him disappeared. Second, he might change Denduron’s history, leading to a change in his own family back on Earth. What exactly is Denduron is not specified yet, so it might be that Denduron was the Earth long before remembered times. This change in Denduron might cause Bobby’s family to live somewhere else or to simply not exist. For example, in page 40, his friends just find out that Bobby’s house is gone: “Two Linden Place was gone. (…) There were no signs that a house had ever been there. (…)”. Third, he might die in his adventure, in the past, and that would cause him to cease to exist in the future. If this happened, then all his stuff would not be where he left it, including his family and house. What confuses me, though, is that the people who knew him remembered him, and that his family disappeared too. I do not know what to think of those points. These are my theories of why everything relating to Bobby disappeared when he went to Denduron.
In the book, Missing Since Monday, the author Ann M. Martin does a really good job catching the raeders attention. First of all the title of this book, which is Missing Since Monday, really makes you wonder what this novel is about. Who is missing? Did someone get kidnapped or just ran away? Those were some questions I asked myself when I first saw the title of this book. So, I decided i was going to raed this book. When I started to read the book I really liked it. It didn't have a boring exposition at all, the book was actually very interesting in the beggining. You got introduced to all the characters and their daily life. After a while, the main character's sister gets kidnapped. The book then starts to get even more interesting. Overall, I think that Ann M. Martin did a really good job to grap the reader's attention in this book.
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ReplyDeleteI've read The Titan's Curse and Apollo's car isn't a Maserati Spyder, It is anything he likes so maybe 1000 years ago he had a chariot and 1000 years from now he might have a spaceship. I also agree with you that the author has a lot of humor and the story is almost never monotonous.
In the book 'Walk Two Moon', the author Sharon Creech presents and interesting beginning. She puts a lot of mystery to it. For example she begins the book by stating a fact about the character’s person, and only actually starts talking about her when leading towards pgs 10-11. I believe that authors who do that definitely get more people reading their books since they are building suspense, and all humans naturally always want to know what comes up next and what is going on. The book Walk Two Moons begins generalized, not saying so much, just telling main ideas. It is not until you get to pages 20 where you get to know more about different characters. I think the book is a great book, it tells an interesting story in which many characters who suffer loss have to deal with their life. The main character is called Salamanca, though most people would rather call her Sal. She is a very smart and interesting character. She is a girl who is scared of many things, but as she has lived most of her life in Bybanks, Kentucky is not scared of things such as snakes, spiders and wasps, even though she is scared of things such as death, cancer, car accidents, brain tumors and other things relating death. She kind of reminds me of Francesca; she loves fields and animals, and pretty much everything relating them. I am really enjoying this book and I definitely recommend it to everyone in our grade.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz,the author grabs my attention in the beginning of the story. The main character of the series is Alex Rider, a 14 year-old boy that sadly knows that his uncle died in a car accident. He lived with his uncle, called Ian Rider, because his parents died in a plane crash so he was an orfan. But anthony Horowitz grabs my attention because with all these facts He made me curious and I wanted to know what was gooing to happen with him. Alex Doesn´t lives with agriculture and farming. He is a city guy. He likes to look and discover thgings like an detective. I think he thinks that someone killed his uncle and his gonna try to dicover who was thw murderer.
ReplyDeleteIn the book The Princess Diaries, written by Meg Cabot, the main character Mia Thermopolis is quite unlucky, since she is not really pretty, has only one friend, Lilly Moscovitz, and she also has parents which are kind of divorced, since they were never married, but had her as a child anyways. Mia knew her father was a Politian of Genovia, but she had no idea he was actually the prince of Genovia and that her grandmother was actually the princess of Genovia, until her grandfather died, then she turned into the dowager princess. At first she was fine with it, since she thought it didn’t include her, but when her father cleared things out and told her she was also a princess, she started crying, but when he told her she would have to move to Genovia, Mia just ran away to Central Park and stayed there. She got really surprised and sad about this since she thought she wasn’t good enough to be a princess, like when she said that on page 44 last paragraph, she says she doesn’t have the face of a princess, and on page 48 which she said she doesn’t do those girly things, like using makeup. Mia is also really stressed about it since she is failing Algebra, her mother is dating her Algebra teacher and now she wakes up one morning being Mia Thermopolis, but on the end of the day she found out she is Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, princess of Genovia. I guess I do understand why she got sad, but even though she has lots of things to worry about, why doesn’t she like the fact that she is a princess? Well that is my opinion about the book The Princess Diaries.
ReplyDeleteMy book, names Soul Eater, is about a boy named Torak, and his friend that is actually a wolf and Renn, a girl from a clan called the Ravens. In this book, his wolf is captured, and Torak and Renn go after the captors to find him and get him back. But they have to cross the Ice River and live. Torak, 16 years old, and Renn, go through many difficulties to reach the Ice River. They dont want to lieave the Forest they live in, and they dont know how to survive in the ice. With the help of the Ice Clans (Ptmargarian, White Fox, Narwal and Walrus) they escape a near-death expeience after the Ice Cliffs almost smashed them. They still continue their quest, though moral drops low as they begin to worry they"ll never find Wolf. And to make it worse, they fugure out that the Soul-Eaters, an ancient enemy that killed his father. So feelings get in the way, Torak wanting to kill them for killing his father AND capturing wolf. He knew it must be a trap to lure him in, but he couldn´t just leave wolf there, so he wont stop at nothing. I am on chapter 13, page 103, so that is where I stopped reading.
ReplyDeleteI think that the author does very well in grabbing a reader's interest in the beginning of the novel (the first 50 pages.) The author first describes a scene where an elf is being chased by a thing called a shade. The part of the book ends with the elf teleporting the blue stone the shade was after to an unknown location. I think that this gives a kind of mystery to the story, like why was the shade trying to get the stone. I think the Shade has some sort of Dementia or need for a power to be forced to do this. This keeps you reading to the next part of the book, where the stone suddenly appears during Eragon's hunt. At this point you are wondering what the stone is and why it is so important. At this point there are groundless options that the book can go into. This keeps you reading to find out that on page 36, after Eragon fails to sell the stone,the stone is revealed to be an egg. A dragon hatches from the egg and devours a huge ammount of food and goes to sleep. I think that this is an exiting twist in the story, though the reader could have predicted it. Making predictions also keeps the reader wanting to read, though, to find out if their prediction comes true. I think that the author uses some great strategies in order to grab a reader and keep them reading.
ReplyDeleteFor my independent reading novel, I have chosen the book "SOS Titanic" written by Eve Bunting. Its genre is historical-fiction. In the first couple of pages and chapter it is very hurly-burly and you need to figure out what is going on. Although, later it explains the characters and the conflict that is happening. A young boy, named Barry is on his way to live with his mother and father in New York, after living with his grandmother and grandfather in Ireland for so many years. In order to transport to New York they need to take a ship, called Pride of Erin. "She was a good-sized boat that could carry upward of a hundred passengers (pg.6).” This quote is a description of the boat in which Barry and many other passengers will take to go to New York. This is a great advantage in technology and people are very excited about this event. Even though this is happy is can sense that problems are rising up. A family called the Flynn’s are on board with Barry and they are enemies. I hope nothing happens to Barry, but I know something will. For example a quote on page 20 makes me very curious. Jonnie Flynn asks Barry, “Can ya swim?” Just by reading the back cover, I can tell that Barry will have a very difficult journey, which may end up in death. So far, I am on page 45 and I am enjoying everything. The author’s form of writing is very detailed and entertaining. I really want to know if anything happens to Barry. For my independent reading novel, I have chosen the book "SOS Titanic" written by Eve Bunting. Its genre is historical-fiction. In the first couple of pages and chapter it is very confusing and you need to figure out what is going on. Although, later it explains the characters and the conflict that is happening. A young boy, named Barry is on his way to live with his mother and father in New York, after living with his grandmother and grandfather in Ireland for so many years. In order to transport to New York they need to take a ship, called Pride of Erin. "She was a good-sized boat that could carry upward of a hundred passengers (pg.6).” This quote is a description of the boat in which Barry and many other passengers will take to go to New York. This is a great advantage in technology and people are very excited about this event. Even though this is happy is can sense that problems are rising up. A family called the Flynn’s are on board with Barry and they are enemies. I hope nothing happens to Barry, but I know something will. For example a quote on page 20 makes me very curious. Jonnie Flynn asks Barry, “Can ya swim?” Just by reading the back cover, I can tell that Barry will have a very difficult journey, which may end up in death. So far, I am on page 45 and I am enjoying everything. The author’s form of writing is very detailed and entertaining. I really want to know if any of the passenger or even Barry get perished or damaged.
ReplyDeleteNow, I am page 82, finished reading and I have figured out that two of the Flynn boys tried to throw Barry over board and that they punched him and hurt him a lot. He was looking at a non-subdued party and then he dropped one of his grandfather’s gloves. Jonnie and Frank, the two Flynn brothers caught him and all of a sudden started beating him up. With luck, the Captain came and made them stop. So far this is a overview of what has happened, for there are many things to say if I had to explain in details.
The author has an interesting way to set a mood and grab our attention in the beggining of the book '' Goal 2 Living the Dream''. This book is about Santiago Munez and his life as a progressing soccer player. He starts talking about all the wonders of professional football. He talks about how the loyal fans idolize good players as ''heroes'' , and how each team excpects its players to play. He starts the book with the main character playing in NewCastle , and shows how he is popular there , and what type of tratment NewCastle players get. Soon after the main character is invited to Real Madrid, and everything changes. He explains how the excpectations for the players are incredibly high in Real , how their fans excpect every game to be simply spectacular , and how they prepare/windup for every game like an English team would prepare for a final.He starts the book letting us with a mood of admiration for soccer , and grabs our interest by showing the wonders of it. He shows how a bad player can come back to the top by just one goal '' Gavin had scored in El clasico. He was a hero again'' ( pg 154). As the book progresses , he also shows the darker side to it.... The paparazi that are everywhere , and that can destroy your reputation if you commit a single indiscretion, the Exceptional play the have to exibit EVERY game , how the players sometimes have to be selfish so that they may progress( Ex: The regular striker isnt playing well , a sub striker may use this opportunity to incite the coach to put him to play as a regular , thus passing the other striker behind.), and last , but not least , how the pundits can put a huge load of pressure on the m , just by the words he directs to the audience.
ReplyDeleteThe book "Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye", by Lois Lowry, is a very realistic book dealing with adoption and finding a person's biological parents. Is it worth it? Now that I finished one third of this excellent book, I will write my opinion about the thigs that happen in the story and what I think the characters feel like. Seventeen-year-old Natalie Armstrong has all a girl could want: beauty and intelligence, a loving family and a great boyfriend. But something is missing; the answer to the most important question: "Who is my mother?" This is the main conflict in the book. Now that Natalie has been accepted at an university and knows she will be a great doctor, she has three 'free' months. She decides that she cannot move on with her life, until she discovers who her biologicaal parents are. Natalie knows Dr. and Mrs. Armstrong are her adopted parents and that they have loved her during her entire life, but at this point of her life, this just is not enough. She struggles to believe that the person supposed to be her mother, gave her away when she was a newborn and has ambivalent feelings about the 'face-to-face' moment. Natalie knows that if she asks her parents for the adoption papers and all of that information, they would get really hurt. Unfortunately, one day she talked to them and that's what her mother said, "Natalie. Those things don't matter. Really, they don't. (page 14)" After Natalie graduates and finally has three months to look for her biological mother, she receives all the papers and documents relating to her adoption, as a gift from her parents. She thanks them, gets a rented car and starts her journey to the little town where she was born. on the way, she stops by her grandmother Tallie and they talk and talk for the whole weekend. After she leaves and returns home to work more at her father's office, she is feeling more calm. until now, the book is very well-written and I wonder what will happen next!
ReplyDeleteIn these three weeks I will be reading "Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters", a mysterious, fiction, Greek mythological book. The author, Rick Riordan creates the beginning of the novel by starting off with someone telling the reader a nightmare. The mood is very mysterious, and he accomplishes it by not telling us who is talking or who (or what) is chasing after Grover, a satyr. The author grabbed my interest by making it very wondrous by not giving the whole information at the beginning, only saying "My nightmare started like this."(pg.1) The character that most interests me is the main character, Percy Jackson, a twelve-year old boy that wasn't supposed to be born, which is troubled by monsters, family members, the magic border of his summer-camp disappearing and with his dreams of his best friend being in trouble. After the very beginning, the reader can meet Tyson, Percy’s only friend at his school. Tyson is misshapen* and tattered*, being big but also being very babyish. Percy also wards* Tyson from bullies and he is also protected by Tyson at times they are in conflicts throughout the novel. The conflict of the novel is to save Thalia's tree "A sliver of ice ran through my chest. Now I understood why the camp was in danger. The magical borders were failing because Thalia's tree was dying. Someone had poisoned it."(pg. 47) Another conflict is to rescue Grover that was searching for the god Pan and ended up trapped in The Sea of Monsters. I wonder if Percy will make it?
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In the book, Sister of the Bride, the author, Beverly Clears, seizes your concentration by already bringing up a conflict which will result in a shock for some and for others disgruntle. This conflicts takes place in a family who has a Mom, Mrs. MacLanes; Dad, Mr.MacLanes; Sisters, Barabara MacLanes and Rosemary Maclanes, and son, Gordy MacLanes. The author provides your attention by being descriptive and making sure you understand exactly what’s going on in Barbara’s head. Like on page 13, Barbara just got home from school and went to go get the phone. Her sister, 18-year old Rosemary, that is in college, across the day from her family, tells Barbara that she is getting married. Barbara’s brain is going crazy and this is what she says,:
ReplyDelete“Barbara was stunned into silence. Married? Her sister married? She knew Rosemary had become more sophisticated since she had gone away to college, but she had no idea…. married. Why, she was only eighteen. She still had bands on her teeth.”
Barbara repeats the same sock in different forms through-out her mind. The author repeats this same action so the reader can understand that Barbara is extremely shocked. This is a way for you to understand a character’s feelings. In my opinion I think a well written book will make you want to really understand what they are talking about, and this grabs you attention. Barbara and Rosemary both wonder what Rosemarie’s dad is going to say about this. Will he agree or disagree? For Rosemary to tell her parent’s, she is coming on Friday and make’s sure that Barbara does not say a word about the wedding but tell her mom that she is coming. Barbara remembers to tell her mom while they are eating, and they get into a dispute of Rosemarie’s wedding, so Barbara tries to change the subject. This also show that the author grabs your attention by making you want to read more. Rosemary cries a lot staying with blotches in her face. She speak to Barbara airly about all that happened. Barbara really want her to get married, after reading and dreaming about many colors, gladioli flower colors. After Rosemary discusses a lot with her father and her husband comes to talk with her father too, they come to a conclusion that they will get married and Rosemary will finish her college with good grades and Greg will work. This is all that happens in 1/3 of the book, which is 80 pages, and the author grabs your attention by popping up the problem straight away which makes you want to read more.
Im reading "A Summer to Die" by Lois Lowrie. This is narrated by 13 year old Margaret Chalmers. Meg, her sister Molly, and their parents, have to move to a calmer and more serene place in order for Meg´s father be able to concentrate and finish the book he is working on on time. Margaret is very upset about having to move from town, where she has her own bedroom and all the things she loves and cares about the most, like photography club, and art club. These are the only things she has only for her, and she hates that she is going to loose them. When Meg and her family moves to the country, she finds another series of unpleaseant things. She has to share a bedroom with her sister, Molly. Molly is 15, she is very pretty and has no problem making friends. Margaret´s self-esteem seems to get even worse when she gets to the country. She doesn´t like her appearance, has a hard time making new friends, and overall, adapting to the new environment. When Meg starts exploring the places around her new house, she finds Will Banks. Will had lived in the house that Margaret is currently living in. Will really brought Meg´s self-esteem up by a lot, just by calling her beautiful. That made her feel really special and good about herlself, which, in my opinion, makes Will Banks a very good man. About a month passed since Margaret last saw Will, and now her and her father are planning on building a dark room for Meg to develop the pictures she took of Will Banks, when she was there visiting him.
ReplyDeleteThe book Eragon, by Christopher Paolini, is a book that is part of the fantasy genre. One example is that on page 53, it announces the first sign of dragon in the book. Since dragon doesn’t exist in real world, it is fantasy. Another fact is on page 67 when Eragon, the dragon rider, and Saphira, the dragon, communicate themselves by each one reading their thoughts in their minds, that avails them, which is also impossible in the present life. The last reference of fantasy that Paolini makes, is magic. Durza, a gruffly guy who wants the dragon egg to destroy all dragons including all dragon riders, uses his magic power to get the egg.
ReplyDeleteOne night, Margaret gets up with a feeling that something is wrong. When she turns on the lights, she sees Molly, all covered in blood, and calls her parents fast. After taking Molly to the hospital, Meg's parents tell her to calm down, because it was just another one of her serious nose bleeds she constantly had. Meg was able to built the darkroom with her dad and Will, and she spent almost all her day there now. Will has made an offer to Meg; is she teached him how to use the darkroom, then she can use his expensive and fancy german camera he never used. Meg now spends practically all her day inside the darkroom with Will experiencing new things with the pictures. Ben and Maria are a couple that moved in the other house in the country, next to the Chalmer family and next to Will. Maria is expecting a baby soon. Meg really bonds with Ben and Maria, just as much as she has bonded with Will. Then, after a while, Molly gets red spots all over her legs, and she doesn't want to tell her parents, since she doensn't want to go back to the hospital, but Meg feels like she has to, so she does, and Molly goes back once again to the hospital.
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I am really enjoying the book until now, because it really grabs my attention to see what is going to happen next.
My book is named Emil and Karl. My favorite character is by far Emil. In the beggining of the novel, he's not very brave at all. When something that he doesn't like happens, he starts crying. So I was like "This character isn't great, everything he does, he cries about it". While I read through the novel, this character gets braver and braver. He stops crying because he told himself that crying isn't going to lead him on any good stuff, it's not going to help him. I like him because his mood changed really quickly in the book. At the end, it was like he was completely transformed. So I really liked him.
ReplyDeleteWhat I didn't really like in this novel, is that it is too much for smaller children. THe book is extremely easy to read. There isn't any challenging vocabulary. The boys were playing too much kid games. They were still playing in their baths. They were still scared of the dark. These things are not the best things I like to read. Next time, I'll pick a more challenging novel.
The author of the novel Emil and Karl creates a sad mood at the beggining of the novel. At the beggining, there's no peace, it's just fighting. Everybody hates the Jews. it's the beggining of World War 2. The beggining of the massacre. And because Emil is a Jew, everybody is against him. He can be killed at any moment by his friends just like strangers. Also, Karl's mum gets taken away by some men. Though she was resisting, she didn't make it. She probably got killed. The men that took away Karl's mother told him that they were coming from him. So, until that moment had happened, he had to be vigilant. And all of that happened just because his mother is a socialist. Karl had no where to go but to his friend's house Emil. But it didn't change a lot. The rabbi came to Emil's house and took away Emil's mum because she was in a depression. He told them that he was going to bring her back in a couple of hours, but later there was still nobody. THey had to find out a way of this city to be in security. So as you can see, the author creates a pretty sad mood at the beggining of the novel.
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