Book 4 Reflection

Dear Caleb,

I am very surprised you chose to come along with us outside the walls of the city.  I would assume you would do everything Jeanine would ask you to do because you are Erudite and you have done everything she has told you in the past. I need your help. I'm trying to stop Cara from stealing a serum to kill everyone inside the walls of the city. I need you to help me distract them so I can get inside the place where its held to get it before she does. The only problem is that I don't have the password to unlock the doors to get it, I have to break in.  The only problem with breaking in is that they have a death serum gas that leaks out when you break open the door. Since I'm divergent, I think I can go in because my body doesn't react to serums the way that everyone else's does. Tobias doesn't want me to do it because the death serum is really strong and he thinks I'm going to die. I'm pretty sure I can handle the serum though. I'm really scared that I won't make it because it is strong. Although I would love to make Jeanine suffer for what she is doing to the divergent people, I don't want anyone else to die like our father. Now that I know that mother is the one who started this whole city as a project to see what would happen if everyone only had one personality, I realize why. People that live with people of different personalities tend to not get along as well, unless you're dauntless of course, then it doesn't matter who you are with to not get along.

Anyways, I hope you will consider helping me. There are not many people willing to help me because we are going against the headquarters rules so if it doesn't work, we could get sent back to the city, put in jail, or worse.  We are going to do it when Tobias leaves so he can't try to stop me. I really think that we can do it successfully. I know you are thinking, "Why should I help her?" The answer is simple. If you help me, we can take down Jeanine together so she doesn't hurt anyone else, I saw her kill multiple people while I was in that elevator being taken to my death essentially before I escaped. She killed many, many innocent children that still had a very full life to live. Some of them didn't even know what divergent means. I would have easily died if it wasn't for Tobias and his crew that went and attacked Jeanine and her men. That's why you should help me. Thank you for considering and please either write back or tell me in person. I couldn't tell you this in person risking someone finding out our plan.

                                                                                              Your sister,
                                                                                                           Tris

Post #10: Reading Wishlist

  An Abundance of  Katherines by John Green

Its Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

Who We Are by One Direction

The Book Thief  by Markus Zusak

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer

The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks

The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks

Book 2 Trailer

Book Talk

5 reasons why Water for Elephants is a bad book.

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen might be the worst book ever made. The book has some positives, but the negatives greatly out weigh them. 

1. It doesn't keep you hooked throughout the book

The author gives you something to hook you in the very beginning, but after that it just goes downhill after that. Gruen just tells you about his life on a daily basis. The jobs he has, the people he talks to, just your normal everyday life. Her writing does make up for it though because she makes it feel like you are there with Jacob (the main character) and going through his day with him. 

2. Some of the scenes in the book are confusing or weird

Some of the scenes in this book are weird and somewhat disturbing. She describes jacob going to see a stripper in detail and made me slightly uncomfortable while I was reading it. The detail she put in it is very disturbing and wasnt really necessary to the story being told at all. it confused me because I couldn't figure out why it was a part of the story. 

3. It jumps around from different ages 

Jacobs first story is told through him when he is in a nursing home. That confuses me because it's hard to keep up with what's going on in the particular chapter because of the different things happening within his different ages. For example, when he is in the nursing home, he complains about the food and is fighting with this other man about the circus he used to work in. In the chapters where he is younger, he also complains and fights with the other people. 

4. The language 

The language in the book is very distracting from the story because there is so much of it. It is used almost every other sentence and it gets annoying after a while. Some of the characters from the circus are worse than others but it fits their personality that the author has made for them. 

5. The love interest gets introduced way to late

This book is considered a romance novel but the girl doesn't even get introduced until like halfway through the book. Even then she doesn't come off as a love interest because she has a husband and is mean to Jacob because she is a preformer and he is just a worker that doesn't get any special attention. 

This book shouldn't be as widely known and popular as it is. It is really annoying and doesn't even make since half the time. Maybe if the book was written differently it would be a lot better than its all cracked up to be. 

Post #5

For a book to be non-fiction in my mind, it has to be mostly true.  It's okay if some of the non-important information isn't true like, for example, if you couldn't remember what you had for breakfast that day or something like what words you got in a spelling bee. If the book is considered a memoir, then the major events should be true.  Like if you write in your book that you got arrested for killing people in a car accident but in real life you weren't the cause of the people dying but you were involved in it and only had to go to jail for a few hours then that's not okay.  Half-truths are okay only if its not a memoir. In my opinion, genres shouldn't affect the way you write so it can be placed in a genre.  Books should be written whether or not there is a genre for it. Even if you can't tell what the genre is, most of the time it fits into a genre.

This chart has genres and sub-genres that most books fit into. Every book fits into a genre even if its not directly stated or if its not obvious.

 

Post #4

A scene the movie should keep is when Leigh Anne Tuohy shows Michael his room in their house and he tells her hes never had a bed before. Another scene they should keep is when Michael always comes home with extra food to keep for himself even after Mr. Tuohy told him he didn't have to do that because he would always have food as long as he stayed at their house. The last scene they should keep is the scene where Sean Tuohy finds Michael walking to the school and asks him why he's going to the school and Michael tells him because its warm.  

They shouldn't keep the football stats in the movie unless they are related to Michael because they don't make the book any better or worse, it makes it a little confusing because they would be talking about one thing and then jump to another thing within a few sentences and it's hard to keep up with it.    

I like the way the filmmakers made the movie because they really emphasize what Michael's life was like before he met the Tuohys. They show a bit of what his mother was like and why he had to live with Big Tony. The movie makes more sense to me than the book does at the point I'm at right now because it doesn't include the football stats unless they were related to Michael. 

 

Post 3: Book 1 Project

Have you ever read a book and wondered what the setting would look like in real life? Based on the New York Times best seller, Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, an attraction will be made using the children that live in the house.  it will feature Emma, the girl that can make fire with her hands, Millard, the invisible boy that can only be seen when he has clothes on, a girl that can make plants grow by hovering her hand over the ground, and all the other children in the house.  Of course it would feature Miss Peregrine herself to lead you through her house of peculiar children. It will look excactly how Riggs describes the house and it's surroundings in the book. You will enter through the bog as Jake does to get to the house.

 You will start out how Jake did, in the basement looking through pictures in an old trunk. Then you will find Emma and she takes you through the house on a tour and then eventually outside to see how the children spend their day.  After you go through the tour, the children preform a show for you showcasing their talents. It starts with Milliard with nothing but a straw hat on introducing the show.

"Ladieees and Gentlemen!" he crowed. "It gives me the utmost pleasure to present to you a performance like no other in history! A show of such unrivaled daring, of such accomplished magicianship, that you simply won't believe your eyes! Good citizens, I give you Miss Peregrine and her peculiar children!"

It relates to the book because when Jake visits the house for the second time, he meets Emma at the bog and they run to the yard, where there are chairs set up and they put on a show to show him all of their talents.  also, when he first finds the house, he finds an old trunk and wants to open it but can't so he pushes it down the stairs and it breaks through the floor into the basement.  When he goes after it, and starts looking through the pictures, the kids that are in the time loop, find him and take him back to the house in the time loop where the bird, Miss Peregrine recognizes him as Abe's grandson, who used to live in the house.

"Good Afternoon,," the lady said, looking up. " You must be Jacob." Emma gaped at her, " How do you know his-" "My name is Headmistress Peregrine," she said holding up a finger to silence Emma, " or if you prefer, since you are not under my care, Miss Peregrine. Pleased to finally meet you."

This idea can make the audience bigger because they can feel like they are apart of the story and that's what makes a book a lot more interesting and people are more willing to dive into the book rather than just hearing about it. The attraction will include a merchandise store where you can purchase items and hear about what the author is planning to do next.

What the house would look like outside the entrance. 

Inside the entrance, going " back in time" 

Post #2: What is a Book?

A  book is an escape to a different reality.  You can feel characters emotions, see what they see, smell, hear, and touch what they touch all by how the author describes it.  To some people, the way a book feels and smells adds to the experience of reading a book and makes it more interesting. 

For example, the book i am currently reading, Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children, the author paints the picture by using pictures from old circus posters to help visualize the characters in the home that have special talents. although they aren't edited very well, it helps you visualize them and imagine the story in your head better.  The pictures in the book make it more interesting because when he describes what the people are doing, like making trees grow, you can visualize it in your head. 

Post #1: Why I Read

       I read because I feel it makes you smarter because you're open to more vocabulary than you are used to.  If you open yourself up to higher vocabulary, I feel you get smarter and comprehend things you may not have been able to before. I also read because you can really get absorbed in a book per say, and I really enjoy that about books.  When I get really into a book, I can't stop reading.   If I got into a really good book, I would read for hours upon hours until my eyes hurt or i just fall asleep.  And then i would do it again and again until I finished the book.  

       Reading also gives advice for life as well.  Sometimes you may think, "Oh, I won't ever need to use this in my life." But most of the time, the things you think you don't need, are the things you need the most.  Books make me go into deep thought sometimes.  Thoughts about life in general or some other things like real world problems people face daily.  And I think that's important because no one would think about that daily.