This week, each student should write at least one well-written paragraph in response to his/her independent novel by Friday, February 12th.You may write on any topic relating to the middle 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:
- Is there a message or main theme emerging in the book? How is it shown?
- How has the author maintained or increased your interest? Consider how the author creates rising action.
- Reflect on a particular character in the novel. How is this character changing or growing?
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ReplyDeleteThe book "I Am David", starts to get interesting and catches the readers attention, every time you keep on reading. David starts his life living on a camp, were he doesn´t know nothing about the outside world (said in other post). Then the author, Anne Holm, starts to describe his life at the forest and how he reaches to his place. He sleeps at sunlight (during the day) and searches for food, in next towns at night, so that "they" would get him, even thought at night he may trip or fall into holes. At little cities where he searches for food, everyone was talking about a boy who never smiled back and always got their breads. By then, David, started to get scared and never again stayed a long period time at a same place.
ReplyDeleteAfter a while, David got the idea of helping people who had problems on the roads. For example on page 71 David tries to help a man find his glasses: "A man got out of the car and began rummaging in the truck. David rose his head- he was quite an ordinary man, not one of "them". The man made a sudden movement, and David heard him mutter, "Blast, my glasses!"(...)"I´ll help you find your glasses... (David said)"
Also on page 85, David helped a man and a women, that needed gas. David didn´t have any money, so he alsked the man so he could bring back the gas. "He´s nothing but a young beggar, Dick! You can be quite sure if we give him money, we shall never se him again! He can get help from a garage up there(pg 85)." David got really mad, that the women and man didn´t believe he wouldn´t rob, so he themn brought back the gas (which made the people be ashame of themselves).
David decided to reach Denmark, but he needed a ride. David became much couragous and got to Denmark. Reaching Denmark, he observed his smile and eyes, which people had concern about, and saw that nothing was wrong with them... Will observing them, he saw a pretty little house with happy students during a play, when suddently he saw something inside there was burning and a girls was inside the place. David got courge and went inside... David´s characteristics changed, and he became much couragous, at the middle of the book. HE HAD SAVED THE GIRLS LIFE...
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ReplyDeleteMrs. Kuhn, I had a problem with my post and couldn't fit it all in into one, so it´s seperates into two parts, alrigth?
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By this point on the book “The Vampire Lestat” by Anne Rice, we can already see how this versatile writer has multiple ways of creating suspense towards the rising action. Lestat, our main character, starts to create more and more secrecy every page, and that makes you want to continue to keep on reading. Some of our questions now are being answered, but from each the answer we get new questions seem to appear. That is a very efficient way to keep your reader reading since you will always want to know what will happen next. Another way Rice does that is by creating intriguing characters and concatenations through out the whole book. Something you believe you have finally figured out turns out to be the total opposite, and that makes you predict more and based on what you think might happen next. Many actions on the beginning of the book seemed meaningless, but as you walk through the story you will slowly start to see even the smallest details are important. The writer, for what it seems, has the habit to give you the information as if it was something insignificant, but later you realize it’s that detail that you need and you just can’t remember. Rice also has a very peculiar and unique style of writing, something you don’t see a lot, and that also keeps you entertained. She is very meticulous about not giving you all the details and always making you wonder within situations you couldn’t even imagine in your wildest dreams. Even though this is not a new story, it’s still very “today on days”. The situations could have happened that happen with Lestat could happen to you as well as to Marie Antoinette. All of this people have lived in very different times, but the same situation could be applied to them all. That also is a method of grabbing your attention since the situations the character is put into can happen to you and you can always learn something new from them. Humans constantly have the habit to compare themselves to others, and if you can identify yourself with a character of a book, it turns out to be twice as more interesting. Also, Anne Rice chose to, since the beginning of this book, to slowly, piece by piece, introduce us into the climax. We have smaller conflicts and smaller situations who are partially solved, put that unsolved part always helps build up suspense and aggravate more enthusiasm to the story.
ReplyDeleteThis is a book that clearly makes you question your principles of what is wrong and rights, what is good and bad. Aren’t them all something we put into our heads as a concise principle and follow through out our whole lifes? But why do we do that? Why are we conformist people that tend to do things a certain way just because we were raised this way? In this book, the author has brought a character with an maverick type of personality who questions himself and the human mind though all his book. He questions his sadism, and figures out some of it should be present in everyone. He realizes love is just another feeling created to occupy us, humans who are ruled by our hormones, and that it is indeed unnecessary and could just be avoided. He tests his physical, mental and emotional feelings to comprehend more about himself, and that is a part of what makes him such an extraordinary and fascinating character. He spends most of his life trying to figure out about our existence and why are we the way we are. He is never satisfied with the simple answers he gets, so he always decides to search everything more in depth and keeps on trying and failing till he gets and discovers what he wants. He is a very persistent person. He knows what religion and church say about how we should be and that if we are good we will then go to Heaven; but is there really a Heaven? We spend our whole lifes without getting one decent answer, and after we die, we expect to finally accomplish our goal and get the answer, but what if there is no answer? For what do we live for? For an immortal, life will need to have sense a sometime. Lestat was there nearly at the beginning of the world, and he will be there also when it ends. Will he then get an answer to all his questions? Will us readers finally comprehend this all? This is a very clever situation set by Rice that makes the readers what to keep on reading. The author got indeed so deep into this fascinating story that after finishing his book she nearly went crazy. She wanted and searched for the answers that Lestat did, and comparing the book to a real life situation only makes it all better. This is a book anyone can read, from children to seniors, but only a few can decode until the bottom what she means and what it really takes to write a book like this. Anne Rice has a very peculiar and unique style of writing: very captivating and thoughtful. The reader has to carefully think and analyze through all the details to get some clue of the final answer, and her secretive and maverick main character helps as well for her to build some suspense that will possibly lead towards the rising action. This were some of the ways Rice used to keep her readers enthralled and to make them want to keep on reading this series of books.
ReplyDeleteIn my book, "A Gift of Magic" I am on page 91, and the book is really fun to read. So, I think the author has increased the interest because, on page 62, and pg.78, the principal says suggests that Nancy might have ESP (extrasensory perception) so, and then it makes you wonder what will happen to Nancy, will she be helpful to some people with her special "gift". But then after, Nancy does not like, nor except her having extraordinary powers. Because, early in the book, Nancy has to do a geography pop quiz, and when she starts to do it, she can read the teacher's mind and know the questions that she's going to ask. Then the teacher thought that Nancy looked at the answer/question sheet, because she finished all the questions beforehand, before the teacher had ever said them out loud. So, that is what's interesting, Nancy didn't even know she had this weird gift. Finally, the book is getting really interesting and it makes me wonder what will come up next, when I start reading further.
ReplyDeleteThe book that i ma reading which is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an extraordinary book. It takes place during WWII. Bruno´s dad is a natzi captain and they have to move to this place where there is a concentration camp. At first Bruno thinks that the place is really boring. Then he looks out the window and looks at some place that he doesn´t know what it is, it has a lot of huts and soldiers screaming at people, but he decides to leave it alone and go do something fun. then three months later he decides to make a swing to see if he could entertain himself.He decides that he needs rope which is all bundled up by a corner inside his garage, and he also needs a tire that he decides to ask one of the soldiers, that keep on coming inside his house to talk to his dad, for a tire.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite character from the book “Pendragon – The Merchant of Death” by D.J. MacHale is Bobby, the main character. He is my favorite character because, even though he has selfish thoughts, he repels them and act according to what is best for other people and not only him. For example, in page 359, he writes: “I learned that it’s sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don’t act like one.” Also, he recognizes his problems and accepts or tries to correct them. During all of his adventure, he had Loor as a companion, and she was a very good fighter, sometimes even berserk. Bobby was not, and he admitted it to his uncle, to other people, and to himself. By the end of the adventure, they had commuted knowledges. What I mean is that Bobby discovered that sometimes the impulsive reaction is the best one, while Loor learned that sometimes you need to think before acting. Finally, he decides to disobey rules when it will help other people, even though it might get him in trouble. For instance, his uncle, Uncle Press, forbids him to take earthly things to Denduron, such as watches, radios or flashlights. Trying to save his uncle, that had been captured by the Bedoowan, so that he could help the Milago revolt against the Bedoowan, who were oppressing them, he does intrude those things in Denduron. This causes a lot of trouble but at least helps him save his uncle. These are only some of the many reasons why Bobby is my favorite character in this book.
ReplyDeleteBobby changed greatly during this book. First of all, before he was taken to Denduron, he was a normal boy whose biggest worry was not to be late to an important basketball game. Now, he worries about the future of Denduron, of himself, and even of the universe. Being forced to take care of himself and of a whole population in such a strange place really changed the way he viewed things. Also, he is starting to learn some things about himself and about his companions, and about humanity as a whole. For example, the villain, Saint Dane, is a man who tries to stir up confusion in every existing dimension. Bobby wonders why someone would want to destroy the universe, and about why people are selfish enough to let people die so they can live. Bobby almost left his uncle to die and went back to Earth alone, but Loor said “You think you cannot help these people because you are not a warrior (…) but the Milago do not need a warrior. They need someone they can trust. You are not that person.” (page 155). When she said this, Bobby really started thinking about how selfish he was and about how his uncle’s life was more important than his going home to see his friends. So, now he is less selfish and reflects more about the right thing to do, not about the right thing to do for him. Finally, also because of Loor’s statement, he understands that he can help the Milago even without being a warrior, and he does, using his intelligence and courage. Towards the end of the book, he endangers his own life to save his uncle’s, something that he would not have done at the beginning of this book. These are some ways that Bobby has changed until now.
I really am liking the book “Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters”. The author Rick Riordan is excellent at explaining Greek Mythology while making a story about it. He makes the reader go into the book and live as Percy Jackson, a boy whose life had changed once again when he destroyed his school’s gym by fighting with some monsters on his last day of school, with his half-brother, Tyson, which lately is discovered to be a Cyclops. Riordan doesn’t make the book into a boring, old textbook, and brings everything to life, enhancing the reader’s knowledge and still making a fun, full of action book. I think that Riordan is sending the message that being in the good side, being loyal and have courage are excellent characteristics one should have to be a good being. He sends this message by making the main character, Percy Jackson, have all of those traits throughout the book, while in battle, or not. The author increased my interest significantly by adding juicy, creative details such as saying that The Sea of Monsters is the Bermuda Triangle and by adding some Greek myths that I didn’t know, such as Polyphemus, a Cyclops that eats satyrs and sheep that live in the island. Riordan also adds humor by making Grover, Percy’s best friend which is actually a satyr, be trapped in The Sea of Monsters with the horrible monster and still being alive because Polyphemus, being half-blind, couldn’t see well, so Grover disguised himself in a wedding dress and was supposedly made Polyphemus’s bride. But the rising action is when there’s the problem that after the marriage, Grover would have to take the disguise off, and the monster would see who he truly was. Also, there’s the problem that Thalia’s tree is dying, and now they have to get the Golden Fleece, magical wool (which is also in the Bermuda Triangle), to recuperate its powers and recover the border of Camp Half-Blood. I think a character that really grew was Tyson, Percy’s half-brother, because he usually was a crybaby, even though he was huge and actually a Cyclops, when they were in school together. The Mist hid his real appearance from Percy, the Mist being something that makes humans see something else instead of mythological figures. Tyson grew by turning into a good metal crafter and being more courageous by taking the courageous action of going down to the exploding engine when they were fighting Charybdis, the large whirlpool, from the boat were him, Percy and Annabeth were taking to go rescue Grover. The boat exploded just in time that Annabeth and Percy got out of the boat and exploded in Charybdis. I still am rather curious to know if he survived, because he isn’t harmed by fire. These were my reflections about Rick Riordan’s 2nd novel sequence, The Sea of Monsters.
ReplyDeleteThe book Eragon's main character is a person named Eragon. During the part of the story I have read Eragon has grown a lot and is becoming more of a man than a boy. in on epart of the book, the author describes what he had become: "Something about his reflection made him stop and look closer. His face had changed since he had run out of Carvahall just a short while ago. Any baby fat was gone now, stripped away by traveling, sparring and training. His cheekbones were more prominent, and the line of his jaw was sharper." This shows he is growing, physically, but he is also growing mentally and emotionally as well. He has recovered from his loss that he faced when his uncle died, but hasn't forgotten it. I think that this shows courage and bravery, because I don't think I would have the will to persue the killers who killed my family. It would all seem too much for me to handle, but Eragon is handling it somewhat well. This is a great book and the author gives great detail in how some characters "evolve" throughout the story.
ReplyDeleteSharon Creech has been approaching a really interesting mood in Walk Two Moons. Now we are listening to two stories, how Salamanca meat her friends in her knew neighborhood, Phoebe, Mary Lou and her brothers, and the story of her road trio with her grandparents. It is really interesting as weird things start to happen in the story, with the both sides. They have been approaching a theme since the beginning of the story but only begin to explain how it fits to the story as we get further to 3/3 of the book. The theme is: Don’t judge a man until you’ve walk two moon on his moccasins. This theme means that you should never judge a man before you have been in the same position as he is, you have been playing on his side, his field. Don’t judge a man before you have experienced the same thing as he has. I am enjoying this book a lot. It tells a really interesting story that really gets you to keep reading.
ReplyDeleteSo far, in the book Soul Eater, Torak has left the White Fox camp and has gone to Wolf, which is in this cave called the Eye of the Viper. The Soul Eater are gathering up in there to open a hole from the Otherworld, otherwise known as hell. They will open it using the Fire Opal, and protect themselves from the demons with the blood of the nine hunters. They are: the owl, fox, wolverine, eagle, ice bear, otter, lynx, wolf and man. Apparently, the wolf they are going to kill and use the blood from is Wolf, Toraks friend. Now he has to stop the Soul Eaters from opening the door, and get Wolf and himself and Renn out of there as fast as they can. Torak is motivated by revenge and reason, because if the open the door to the Otherworld, the whole Forest is doomed.
ReplyDeleteThe book I’m reading, which is called Missing Since Monday, written by Ann M. Martin, is making me stop reading the book. The reason it makes me stop reading the book is that it’s not interesting anymore. The book is about a girl named Maggie, whose little sister gets kidnapped early in the book, and know nothing is happening. Maggie and her family are just being interviewed by the police and they are planning to put up posters all over the town about Maggie’s sister, Courtenay, disappearance. If I would have been the author of this book I would have had a little longer exposition introducing you a little bit more to all the characters and the setting. So far I only know about some characters like Maggie’s family, her closest friends, her boyfriend and some of their neighbors. You get to know that the setting is taking place in Princeton, New Jersey. If I would have to guess about who the kidnapper is, I would say Birdie. Birdie is the school bus driver who drove Courtenay to school the day she disappeared. I think so because she entered the bus in the morning and when they came to school, no teachers had seen her getting off the bus. That means she probably got taken by the bus driver, unless someone kidnapped her right after that she had left the bus, but I don’t think so, I think that Birdie kidnapped her. However, this book is not very interesting anymore since nothing is happening, but hopefully more things are going to happen. I still want to find out who the kidnapper is though. Let’s find out.
ReplyDeleteI think that Alex Rider, main character of the novel Stormbreaker,is very brave,curious and intelligent. Brave because he had the courage to go to a car crasher, he got into a car to hide from two men, and suddenly the car he was in was going to be crashed and with the little triangle of light that the car had, he got out of it, then when he got out there was a man that was gonna shoot him, he knew karate so he kick the man and neutralized him and ran away. Curious because a man that worked with his uncle called him to discuss about papers. There he saw his uncle´soffice and it was locked, so when the man went to see another client, Alex went outside of the window and jumped to his uncle´s office and saw papers about Stormbreaker, intelligent because in his uncle´s funeral he saw a van with a name on the side and in school his teacher showed him an adress and it had the same name that was on the van, so he went their to see if he could find something that would help in his investigation.
ReplyDeleteIn my book, The Titan's Curse, a prophecy was made before the main characters went to a quest against some monsters, and I have some predictions about it. It says: "Five shall go west to the goddess in chains, /One shall be lost in the land without rain, /the bane of Olympus shows the trail, /Campers and Hunters combined prevail, /The Titan's curse must one withstand, /and one shall perish by a parent's hand." (page 89) The first sentence is indubitably the most understandable one, since we can see that five people should go to the West in the direction of a goddess that is tied to chains, incarcerated. Notwithstanding, who is going on this quest? Camp Half-Blood decided that two Campers – Thalia and Grover – and three Hunters (Artemis’s maidens) – Zoë, Bianca and Phoebe – should go to it. However, Phoebe had a little accident with Centaur blood and only four of them went. Percy, the main character, went together, but hidden from the others, since he was not allowed to go. After some time, in Washington, D.C., he helped the demigods group, advertising them about their enemies and who the General, the boss of all monsters in this battle, would use to stop them while going West: skeleton warriors, very difficult, maybe impossible to kill. Percy ended by having Zoë Nightshade’s, the chief of the group and of the Hunters, confidence, and joined it. After some days traveling and fighting, they finally arrived on a desert just with sparse scrub bushes or little plants here and there, and Bianca di Angelo, a recent discovered Half-Blood, died. She is the “one” in the second sentence of the prophecy. Now, let’s analyze the next sentences to predict what will happen in the next pages of the story. The third sentence of the prophecy says “the bane of Olympus shows the trail”. This “bane” that the oracle talks about could be a monster, since Grover, a satyr and Percy’s best friend, is guiding the group across the United States by the smell of monsters and throwing acorns and analyzing their position as a way to predict the future. The fourth sentence says “Campers and Hunters combined prevail”. That sentence is obvious like the first, meaning that, to win this quest, Campers and Hunters should go together throughout the country to save the goddess in chains, that, according to the dreams of Percy, is Artemis. The fifth sentence says “ The Titan’s Curse must one withstand”. Who would be this one? If we analyze the last sentence, we could get clues about who is the one who will withstand the curse. The sixth and last sentence says: “And one shall perish by a parent’s hand.” If we analyze who has an important parent that could kill the own son, there are two options: Percy’s father, Poseidon, and Thalia’s father, Zeus. In spite of that, who of the two characters would perish by a parent’s hand, and who would withstand the Titan’s curse? Analyzing the text plot, we would see that the most “nervous” god, capable to loathe a son or a daughter would be Zeus, and, supposing that the main character shouldn’t die after three books fighting against everything someone can imagine, I think who would perish by a parent’s hand would be Thalia and who would withstand the Titan’s Curse would be Percy. However, there are more people together in this quest, such as Grover and Zoë. Remembering that Zoë is a Hesperide, and her father, Nereus, is important in a way, she could perish by a parent’s hand as well and Thalia would survive to polemic even more a prophecy made a long time ago, which said that one powerful Half-Blood would make a decision that could make the Olympus last forever or destroy it completely. Who of the two would it be? It depends on the final moments of this book. I’m eager to finish it and figure out who will die and who will live.
ReplyDeleteSources: New Oxford American Dictionary (Vocabulary) and Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus (Word Choice).
In the book '' Goal 2 Living the Dream'' the author has been doing a superb job in showing all the sides of soccer. In the beggining of the book he catches my attention mostly by saying about the wonders of soccer , but as the sotry progresses he is showing the darker side not only of soccer , but of fame. The paparazzi which swirl all around are already bad enought , since you can't do anything ''wrong'' or they may photograph it and put it in all newspapers in a matter of hours. We also see how a minuscle dexterity-control / calculation may make your team lose the game , and how some faults , which are clean and well timed , may be used by the oponent player as a chance to throw themselves down and get a free kick. We also see how players may keep on sizing each other before a game so that they can expliit any weakness they find in a game.
ReplyDeleteThe book I am reading is called Sister of the Bride, how i mentioned on my other post. I have continued reading and I have discovered that the weeding of Barabra's sister, Rosemary, is on. They are going to have it in a month which is June. osemary has a lot of word to do and her family is very excited and everyone keeps on talking about it. Barbara want's to be able to reach her sister in terms of both of them being married and cooking, cleaning, makeup, highheels..ect. Barabara is 16 years old and she wants to get married at the same age as her sister, so she has two years to like someone. She actually thinks of it and she has to fall in love. Some days pass and she has not fallen in love. Suddenely, she looks to her side, distracted by a noise and there is a guy names Bill, which Barbara really likes but barley knows. he offerd her a ride and he drops her of at her house. Well, this happens for a long time. Meanwhile, Rosemary is planning to get her wedding done and she is studying for mid-terms. Discussions start to rise a bit. This part of the book really make's you want to read more because first of all you want to see if Bill and Barbara will become girlfirend and boyfriend and some day et married, second, you really want to know how Rosemaries marrige is going to be. Like ROsemary says that they want to spend their money on tuitions for example instead of house stuff. Also, Rosemaries parents and Greg's parents are having constant conversation and discussion. They have duels against one an other. On page 95, Greg's dad insults Barbara's family, but Barbara's dad does not do anything. My last comment is that Rosemary is not sure about many things. She says things to vaguely.
ReplyDeleteWell, I really wan to continue to read the book and see what happens.
Continuing reading my book "SOS Titanic", some interesting problems have appeared. Thankfully, after the Flynn boys tried to throw Barry over board and beat him up, making him get stitches everywhere, he hasn't had any site of them, since then. After being hurt, Barry tried to think of many possible ways to protect himself, or at least have a object to carry with him in cases of emergency. Soon, he finds a army knife and buys it, carrying it with him everywhere. Also, he buys a whistle that is used when somebody is in trouble, so that others will hear it and some to help. All prepared, Barry starts to have a calmer life, still remembering about one pair of him grandfathers gloves, that was dropped to the second floor while he was watching a party. He tries to look for it then figures out that Pegeen Flynn has it. One day he receives a card from Pegeen saying something like:
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He is scared to go, thinking that along with her, the other braggart Flynn brothers would be with her. Still, having courage, he decided to join three people walking along the deck and decided to join them, so that when the is about to see Pegeen , if the Flynn boys are there, he would have a group with him. He arrives to the deck and meets with Pegeen. There she quickly gives him the other glove, that was dropped the other night during the party. Barry, happy with his other glove, continues his life.
Howard, continues to worry more and more, because there was is not enough life suites on board. Also, a big problem that everybody is worrying about, which in fact, I am too, is that as the boat proceeds forward, people start noticing these huge chunks of ice, floating in the water and having really sharp points. This connects to the cover of the book, where it has a boat sinking, also ice floating everywhere and it looks just like what Howard had predicted and read a book about. I know that the boat will sink and there will be some people that die, but I don't know when the boat crashes. That is one of the main conflicts happening now.
OH NO! There had been a "sign" that the ship will crash soon! during the journey, Barry and the whole ship hears a loud crash,, all worried about what could have happened. Although, they soon get informed that it was just a tiny iceberg that they crashed into. Well, I just finished reading to page 164 and I really want to know what will happen and if the crash and big problem will arrive, for tension and really big tension is building up!
On the book Princess Diaries, after Mia finds out she is princess of Genovia, her grandmother starts to give her princess lessons and she teaches her some things princesses need to know. For Mia its hard not to tell Lilly, her best friend, that she is a princess, but even though Lilly doesn’t know about that, Mia prefers being around her then around her parents, since they just want to talk about the princess facts and conditions. Now, her grandmother decided to give her a make over, since her hair is horrible and she has no nails or pretty skin. Her friend, Lilly, didn’t seem to really like how she looked, this is what this quote on page 133 shows: “ Well, I don’t know who Lilly Moscovitz thinks she is, but I sure know who she isn’t : my friend. I don’t think anyone who was my friend would be as mean to me as Lilly was tonight. I couldn’t believe it. And all because of my hair!”. Mia says this because Lilly told her she was turning into Lana Weinberger, the most popular girl at their school, which they hate, just because her hair was blond and pretty for the first time of her life. I don’t understand Lilly, if I was her, I would be happy for my friend, and I would tell them she looked ugly or like a show off. I would tell her she looked really nice and that I loved her hair, since Mia did look good. I guess she was just jealous since she looks like a pug. Well, this is my opinion about what happened up to now on The Princess Diaries.
ReplyDeleteMy book, "Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye", by Lois Lowry, has only been getting better at every page! In the beginning of the book, Natalie Armstrong was just a smart, attractive, seventeen year-old girl. Of course, she was always very focused and definitely a hard worker, but now, her charcter has grown even more. In the beginning of the novel, she worked very hard as her dad's assistant, but still did not really feel so certain about life. There was always that part of her missing, and as soon as she discovered what it was, she went looking for it. She felt the emptiness of not knowing her biological mother. As she drives from Branford into northern and more rural Maine, Natalie starts to feel different. Her feelings really change in this part of the book. in my opinion, it is because she has mixed feelings about meeting her mom. In one hand, she really wants to know her, know her name, know why she gave her little daughter away. But in the other hand, she is really afraid of not liking what she finds. I will leave the end of the book for my next post... to make more suspense! Lois Lowry is very good at not making you loose interest throughout the book, like in mine. I mean, even when there's no really actions going on, she makes you think about life. For example, when Natalie is driving to Simmons' Mills, her home town, she looks at the road and at the landscape. She compares it to Branford and sees that it is much more poor. She also wonders what it could have been like, to grow up in Simmons' Mills. Anyways, the book is very good and Natalie is almost finding her biological mother with the help of some people from the rural town. One of them is Mrs. Talbot, a very helpful and friendly lady that shows Natalie yearbooks and newsaper that help Natalie learn who her mother WAS and IS.
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.
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mrs.kuhn,
by mistake, i posted this at the week of feb. 1.
you can check there to see the date that is on that post is feb. 4, just to confirm that i did it on time. On that page, the post that i put by mistake is the one before the last one, just before ricardo's.