Friday, October 22, 2010

Justice, and Injustice (Pretty Little Liars "Wanted")

     in my book justice is a big thing, because it really controls whether an  innocent man will go to jail or will be let go given another chance.  but that just cant happen in rosewood, because the adults are so sexist against who killed ali, so they are constantly accusing the wrong male figures, and in fact a male didnt even commit the crime.  giving the accused an injustice sentence and the girl who commited the murder an evil mastermind that hasnt even be questioned.  it is because of these injustices that the book is the way it is, with an innocent man with his death bed ready, and the true murderer slinking behind the closed doors, ready to strike again.
     the thing is that there are many injustices in the world, and there is little to nothing we can do about it.  fighting for it seems to make the issue seem bigger but really it makes no difference.  and just leaves the community fighting for something they have no say about.  it is a social issue that needs a solution, and needs to be taken care of.  because the longer that this goes, the more innocent will be sent ofr trials and be accused of things they have not done.
     the world is filled with injustice, which is portrayed by the media.  the media constantly shows a certain race that dominates commiting crimes.  causing the world to be stereotypical to others.  and just like in my book, someone has to stop this injustice and turn things back to the way the justice system should really work.  only putting the true guilty people into jail or into suffering and the innocents fairness.  that all sounds so easy, but is it really?

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Pretty Little Liars "Heartless"

What really hard things are happening in your books text?

     My book is full of many hard things that the character's are facing.  All different but all are somehow connected.  The main problem that all the characters face is betrayel; by either their friends or family.
     Spencer thought that her life could not get any better, and it didn't.  all it did was get worse.  after years of being criminally harassed by an annonymous person (so called A) she has been torn.  but everytime her life starts to turn in the right direction, the worst is right around the corner.  and there is always some sort of twist and turn, that the can turn the happiest moments into the saddest ones.
     after years of being harrsed you start to second guess yourself and what others say, you start to go with what A is telling you, when you know it's not true.  and when A knows something you dont he/she will do everthing he/she can to get you going crazy.  especially when it comes down to your family and friends.
     After listening to A, spencer decided to figure out if A was telling the truth by doing some snooping of her own.  and believe me once you start you cant stop.  when she saw what she was looking for, and she was shocked to see something that would haunt her forever.
     Now she is stuck knowing that her father has been living a lie.  and that she and ali were closer than they thought.  she is stuck knowing that her father was cheating on her mom and the family trust system.  and she is put in a position where she can either do the right thing or the wrong one.  but as a 17 year old teenager, do you really know right from wrong.  and do you know how deep you've got yourself until you cant get out?

Sunday, October 3, 2010

The making of Stuart Little

     Before E.B White moved to his farm in Maine he had lived in New York, and loved it there.  Once he moved to Maine, he began to have a love of animals.  He decided to write a book that took place in New York and was about an animal, but which one, there were so many to choose from.  One day while sleeping on a railroad car, he dreamt about a little boy that acted more like a mouse than he did like a boy.  And that was where he got his inspiration to write Stuart Little from.
     E.B White tended to keep the same themes in almost all of his childrens books, and liked to add adult humor and things that were depper than they seemed.  He wanted children to see that life was not always happy and bright, and that things that live will always die, no matter what.  Those were things that younger children didn't understand, but older children and adults would understand.  White had a way of writing sad depressing things but since he wrote it about animals it was easier for him to mellow it all out (balance it out).  
     The themes that White loved to include were those about bravery, tolerance, rural living, and especially loyalty.  Those were all themes that can be found in almost all of his children books, and maybe even some in his adult poems and essays.  Those themes may be the things that he found most important in life, and he probably wanted to portray that to others.

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