Inviting Sammy Keys to a wedding... well thats just a disaster waiting to happen, and making her a bridesmaid, come on get real. So when Sammy is having some problems with Mr.Vince it's just ready to get out of control. And when things seem too good to be true, she automatically suspects that something fishy is going on and usually her instinct is right.
Heather Acosta, theres one in every school. she's the girl that pushes you around, thats popular and pretty, the one that sucks up to all the teachers so that when she strikes no one suspects that its her. Shes the bully, the girl who always has to get what she wants, and when she wants something she'll always find a way to get it.
When you think about bullies you think that they're just mean and crude to everyone. And that was also my automatic response when i first met the character Heather. But since reading the series since the third grade i always had a bad vibe from her, and i thought that there was no way that she could ever be kind, and there was no way i would have any sympathy if something happened to her.
As i read through some of the book i noticed that most bullies have problems with their families, or making friends, or they just have trouble at school and they let their anger out on others. And even though they may seem big and harmful, they have feelings too, just like every other normal human being. The harder i thought about it the more i started to realize why Heather was so angry. Her parents split up as a young girl, leaving her to watch them find new boyfriends and forget about each other. she watched them drift apart, and now when things have finally cooled down, her father is now moving away to be with the woman in love. Now is that something that seems easy to get over and understand. After seeing her parents together foir so long and them watching them chase after other people and not each other, that suffering can build up. And although we dont see her suffering, we see the way she lets it out on other people, because she doesnt know where to store all of her emotions.
Heather's emotions arent discussed through the book because the story doesnt revolve around her. But sammy's best friend Marissa ios going through the same problems with her parents. and you can see how much that tore her apart, and that must be the same way heather felt, except unlike marissa who had Sammy, hooly and dot, heather didnt have any friends that she could let it all out to. and that is a huge impact on the way heather turned out to be.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
For Hayat's blog "The Lovely Bones"
I think that this could become an allstar blog, you just need to do a couple of things to improve it:
- First you have to write more details of the book and retell the story a little so that a reader that isnt familiar with the book, can get an idea of the plot and what the problems and plot is.
- I also think that you could make it much longer because all you have is the basic information and if someone who didnt know the book (like me) read it they wouldnt understand anything. I find that blogposts are supposed to give an idea to an interested reader about a book, and it has to convince them that the book is worth reading. So if your post was longer there would be more information to convince the reader to read the book.
- You also need to go outside the book and how it relates to the real world. You do that a bit but its just the basics. You need to really just put it all out there.
- Another thing you have to do is explain the effect that the book had on you, and the emotions you felt while reading it. You also cant only write about the book, you also have to write about your opinion on the story and how the book may have changed you.
- Lastly i think that it is odd that you said that you have been thinking about the book for a long time but you didnt really explain what you were thinking about. And also write about the positive and negative about the book.
- First you have to write more details of the book and retell the story a little so that a reader that isnt familiar with the book, can get an idea of the plot and what the problems and plot is.
- I also think that you could make it much longer because all you have is the basic information and if someone who didnt know the book (like me) read it they wouldnt understand anything. I find that blogposts are supposed to give an idea to an interested reader about a book, and it has to convince them that the book is worth reading. So if your post was longer there would be more information to convince the reader to read the book.
- You also need to go outside the book and how it relates to the real world. You do that a bit but its just the basics. You need to really just put it all out there.
- Another thing you have to do is explain the effect that the book had on you, and the emotions you felt while reading it. You also cant only write about the book, you also have to write about your opinion on the story and how the book may have changed you.
- Lastly i think that it is odd that you said that you have been thinking about the book for a long time but you didnt really explain what you were thinking about. And also write about the positive and negative about the book.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
"What I saw and how I lied" 2nd blog
*SPOILER ALERT!!!!!*
Before you read this I just want to warn you that there is a spoiler alert so dont read on if you plan on reading the book!
I didnt think that it would be possible for me to feel any emotions towards Peter (Evies Love), after all the trouble and drama he caused, and especially after what he did to Evie, i thought that he was awful and i wanted Evie to see him the way i did and the way her parents did as well.
What i highly doubted was that when he turned up missing i would have any sympathy. But when i realized that although i disliked him because i knew more about him than the main character Evie had, she was in love with him. And i wished that he could be found soon so that she didnt have to suffer anymore. The truth is that when you dont like someone you still would feel bad if something happened to them and especially if you think about the way their loved one might feel.
So when he turned up DEAD suspicion circled the family when they were the last ones with him. Everyone seemed to be more carried away with whether Joe and Evies mom had committed the crime, and seemed not to care less about how much Evie had been shattered emotionally. She felt that she knew him soo well, when all she knew were lies, and the man that she had loved she didnt know anything about. And as if things seemed like they couldnt get anyworse Evie was devastated when she found out that her mother had actually been having an affair with Peter, when she thought that she was the only one that had a special bond with him. It seemed like the trip was one huge mistake, everything had once seemed so picture perfect and then in a blink of a storm everything was so different.
And this sort of thing seems to happen all the time in the real world. When people feel like they have it all good and then in a secondnothing's good and your world id turned upside down. And not only that but they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and if they had come and gone at different times and waitedtill later to go like the mother had told them (mothers always know best)then maybe, just maybe they wouldnt be stuck in this situation. Nobody's hearts would be broken, no tears would be shed, no jury would be called. It would be just like the life Evie was always used to, and when she asked for a change in her life, she probably never expected a change like this one.
Before you read this I just want to warn you that there is a spoiler alert so dont read on if you plan on reading the book!
I didnt think that it would be possible for me to feel any emotions towards Peter (Evies Love), after all the trouble and drama he caused, and especially after what he did to Evie, i thought that he was awful and i wanted Evie to see him the way i did and the way her parents did as well.
What i highly doubted was that when he turned up missing i would have any sympathy. But when i realized that although i disliked him because i knew more about him than the main character Evie had, she was in love with him. And i wished that he could be found soon so that she didnt have to suffer anymore. The truth is that when you dont like someone you still would feel bad if something happened to them and especially if you think about the way their loved one might feel.
So when he turned up DEAD suspicion circled the family when they were the last ones with him. Everyone seemed to be more carried away with whether Joe and Evies mom had committed the crime, and seemed not to care less about how much Evie had been shattered emotionally. She felt that she knew him soo well, when all she knew were lies, and the man that she had loved she didnt know anything about. And as if things seemed like they couldnt get anyworse Evie was devastated when she found out that her mother had actually been having an affair with Peter, when she thought that she was the only one that had a special bond with him. It seemed like the trip was one huge mistake, everything had once seemed so picture perfect and then in a blink of a storm everything was so different.
And this sort of thing seems to happen all the time in the real world. When people feel like they have it all good and then in a secondnothing's good and your world id turned upside down. And not only that but they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and if they had come and gone at different times and waitedtill later to go like the mother had told them (mothers always know best)then maybe, just maybe they wouldnt be stuck in this situation. Nobody's hearts would be broken, no tears would be shed, no jury would be called. It would be just like the life Evie was always used to, and when she asked for a change in her life, she probably never expected a change like this one.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
"What I saw and how I lied" 1st blog
What I saw and how I lied
Evie always wanted to be someone else, either her best friend Margie, her enemy Ruthie Kalman, or the famous Joan Crawford. So when opportunity knocks Evie is quick to open the door.so when her step father (Joe) planned a trip to Florida to get away from work and to enjoy the rest of the summer, Evie was excited, for it had been so long since their last vacation before Joe went into the war. During their stay Evie managed to reinvent herself into someone she knew in her heart she wasn’t but was instead someone she wanted to be. She wanted to be the one who girls envied, and a girl that could fill out a sweater. So when she meets a young man who seems to like her for the person she isn’t, and as time goes by the old Evie is lost and just can’t be found. The question is will Evie take her love too far and lose her identity, or will she find herself and overcome the illegal love she has?The plot may seem simple at first, a girl who falls in love with an older man and forgets about herself as well as the others around her but it has a lot more meaning than that. It’s a bit like Romeo and Juliet and the fact that Juliet’s parents don’t accept the fact that she is in love and wants to be with the love of her life Peter. And like Juliet she ignores her parents and goes behind their backs in secrecy thinking that she knows what is right for her when she’s just a young girl who doesn’t know what she really wants and what she needs.
Even though Evie’s decision seems stupid despite all the warnings her parents gave her to not go with Peter, she shows a lot of character development through the main symbol of the story, red lipstick. During the beginning you hear Evie’s complaints on how she wants to wear lipstick, and how her parents believe that she is too young and undeveloped to wear it. But toward the end she actually does wear it which shows a sign of maturity from the beginning of the book to the end of the book. So it really signifies Evie’s character growth.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Blog Review for Wiola
Usually when i find a genre that i really like i tend to stick to the books that fit into that genre. so it was no wonder when i was recommended a book in the genre that i didnt really recognize, i was afraid to step out of my box. so i decided that i wouldnt want to read it, because it would probably be boring, plus the cover looked awful. so there i was rejecting a book based on it being unfamiliar and having a bad cover. weeks later there i was reading the same book, which became the best book i had ever read. the plot seemed like you already knew what would happen, but there was constantly a twist in the end making you wonder what the outcome would be in the next book.
i like how wiola tells backround on how she ended up reading the book and what she expected and the and what really did happen in the story. i dont really think that she really went into the book and told the reader about what was going on and how the plot was affecting the characters or even whatr was going on. maybe she could've wrote more about the story and gave us a summary instead of writing about how she got to reading it and gone inside the book instead of talking about it. but besides that i really like how she realized that when you read books, you need to find a way to relate yourself to the character and read it with emotions and passion.
check out wiola's blog at http://shinelikemeex3.blogspot.com/
i like how wiola tells backround on how she ended up reading the book and what she expected and the and what really did happen in the story. i dont really think that she really went into the book and told the reader about what was going on and how the plot was affecting the characters or even whatr was going on. maybe she could've wrote more about the story and gave us a summary instead of writing about how she got to reading it and gone inside the book instead of talking about it. but besides that i really like how she realized that when you read books, you need to find a way to relate yourself to the character and read it with emotions and passion.
check out wiola's blog at http://shinelikemeex3.blogspot.com/
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