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I learned a lot about myself as a reader and a blogger, I learned that reading a book that you actually like is very important because if you don't then you won't have anything to write about that made your really think about your book in general. It's important to stay with that certain book, because you can't keep on switching or else you won't have enough knowledge of the book to write about something. I learned that I mostly wrote about themes that were relatable to me, therfore I was more prone to read books very similar to our lives.

I benifitted a lot from this experience.One way I benefitted from this experience was that I learned how to keep track of what I am reading, and really get out what I was learning. Not to just skim through a book and say I'm done with it.It taught me how to absorb the book deeply. I feel that I was able to take books in with more understanding and a bigger purpose of reading the book in the first place. I learned a lot about what are traits that make a book what it is. I learned about the different elements of a book, that make each type of genre what it is. I just learned a lot about books in general, that I never knew before.

Writing online is way different than writing on a notebook in my opinion. I would have to say his because writing in a notebook, you don't have to be organized with your ideas, but when you write on the computer, your ideas have to be organized and clearly expressed in the way that you want to be. Also when you write online, punctuation is more important to understanding things, but when you write in your notebook the words just flow freely, without punctuation. Also people get distracted on the internet a lot easier than off the internet because they have sites like youtube and facebook.

Writing is liberating in the sense that it really shows what you're thinking in a more expressed form, then just keeping them in your mind. It is enjoying to write about parts of the book that were found to be very interesting. It makes you have the freedom to express your thoughts clearly and fully.

Overall blogging was really fun and interesting the whole year. A little bit too tedious to do every week, but I got a lot from it which matters the most. It's been a good experience doing this in Ms.Rear's class, and it's something to take away from 8th grade.

I am currently reading the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. I'm reading it again as a re-read, as the school year is winding down. It's about a kid named Jonah, who lives in society where everyone follows strict rules,and there is no color. He learns as he gets older that he has a secret ability to see color. A person in the community who is known as the Giver gives Jonah the power of memory. Memory of a time when the world was like ours.

This book made me think very ethically, what's right and what's wrong. I'm going to focus on a specific part in the society they live in. It's called being released, it's when they kill babies that aren't developing smoothly and old people. I was thinking, is it right to kill old people if it's necessary to help feed other people who are still doing well? I was really thinking is it just for someone to die for the benefits of others? It' never good to take one person's life for others. I don't think it's right for kids to die especially kids if they're not developing as fast, some take longer than others. It's never right for anyone to die for someone else's purpose.

In this society it's also right for people to marry the people that they are put together to be compatible with. In the islamic religon it is considered right for people to marry others of their parents choice. I was wondering should people should get the choice. I think that they should what if they regret meeting that person. They will live a life of being depressed.Which is very unhealthy in general. It is definitely not right at all for people to be forced to liive with a parents decision. Sometimes it is a good choice, so it is beneficial to the parent also and the person forced to marry.

Overall this book has many things that are controversial. It isnt right for people to be forced to do something in general, even when needed in important situations. Life's shouldn't be put over other lives,and people shouldn't be forced to live with others.

mandala

I have been reading a book called Nelson Mandela, which is obviously a book about Nelson Mandela's life. I have learned that Nelson is the son of the chief of a tribe. Nelson has to marry at a certain age,but he decides to run away to Johannesburg. He then studies, and learns a lot about law, and makes a law office,for mainly the     dark skinned people who lived in the slums of Johannesburg. This book is very helpful for thinking philosophical.

I really want to focus on segregation between blacks, and whites. Mandela has been known to be a famous civil rights speaker. He was apart of the national african congress. Nelson was all about giving people equal rights. I would have to call him the Martin Luther King jr.of South Africa. Maybe not as vocal and physical, but he was very influential. He was a non-violent protestor which he learned from Mahatma Gandhi. I want to say is it right to use violence to get across, what you want? I think it is,it clearly isn't right for Africans to be oppressed like that for no reason. So if the government isn't already right then you can't do simple protesting,you have to get your message across by doing something that isn't right. So violence is necessary to fight unjust things.

Also when Mandela, went to jail, I felt that it was very unjust for it to happen. Everyone can agree because he was not the only one in the first place to be charged for using violence for protesting, they kind of singled him out by himself when he clearly wasn't the only one doing it. It is a good way to get a lot of attention on the subject because it was broadcasted on the news, when he was released from prison. You need to get attention sometimes, if it means doing things that might cost you. It's just needed.

In conclusion i agree with what Nelson Mandela did in order to get attention and stop the segregation. It was a good idea, that needed to happen to get attention. Nelson Mandela is one part that stopped segregation, it's good that he was there to stop it, even when it was bad things to get there.

Just Another Hero

I'm reading the book Just Another Hero by Sharon M. Draper. It's a book about mainly a girl named Arielle who used to be the most popular girl, and had the most popular guy to be her boyfriend,but people soon realized what type of person she was and stopped hanging out with her. She would make fun of them and call them names, and people just stopped letting her take advantage of them. She then become a normal girl in high school, and all her popularity disappeared. The story contains another main character in it named Kofi and his story is basically his parents don't work, and they have problems making ends meet. Yet he's a smart kid too. I've just started the book, but I have learned so much about each character.

I'm  mainly going to be  discussing what makes a mom or a dad. Many people argue that it's the person who gave birth to you, and others argue it the one who takes care of you. Well Kofi is the one who has to mianly take care of his parents. Kofi has a job in order to pay the utility bills. His dad was supposed to pay the bills, but he lost the money at a casino, and his mother is not with reality. In the first part of meeting her she comes back from a club in the morning. There parents are basically out of control teenagers, and Kofi is the dad that takes control of them telling them to calculate their money,and trying to make every dollar count. I would say Kofi doesn't have real parents if they rely on him when the roles are supposed be the opposite.

Another person that this question can relate to is Arielle, and her parents. Her mom has been divorced three times, and the new person that she's married to only seems like she'd interested in that person for the fact that he has a lot of  money that he gives her and Arielle. I was thinking is a parent one that only supports financially or is one that's there physically when needed. I was thinking it's physical and financial. It's all types of support when being considered a parent. It's never being selfish, and keeping things yourself. Arielle needs a parent who can help her not a shopping buddy. It seems like they are friends or room mates, not parents at all.

In conclusion, parents should be the one to support you physically and financially in every single way. Parents should never let their kids support them it's not right and fair for the kid to be put in situations like that. In conclusions parents shouldn't be similar to having a room mate or a friend.

Paper Towns by John Green

I am currently reading the book Paper Towns by John Green, it is a book about a boy named Quentin who is the regular normal teenager, dealing with normal problems at that age, and just getting on with life and it’s obstacles, but once a girl named Margo Roth Spielgelman sees him one night in front of his window it changes his life. It’s because of the fact that Quentin is in love with Margo so he feels obligated to anything she does, and that night Quetin does things you would have never thought he would do, and these things are only benefitting Margo. What I’m going to be talking about is how this book is so similar to the book Looking for Alaska, possibly because it’s the same author that wrote it meaning the same style of writing.

            One reason why these books are very similar is the fact that these books both contain characters that fawn over one girl in the book in this case it’s Margo for Quentin and Alaska for Miles in “Looking for Alaska”. They fawn over them for similar reasons too, both girls in each book are very spontaneous for example Margo takes Quentin mysteriously and leads him to do a lot of things such as vandalizing and trespassing the territory of her enemies, and then the next day she disappears all of a sudden. Alaska is just spontaneous in very strange ways she just disappears near the end. She also does bad things or is rebellious to authority and I found this very similar to Margo because she is clearly going against authority if she does thing like this. They are also very random too, like one day they’ll be friendly like Margo going to Quentin’s house in the night. Also when Alaska kisses Miles fro no reason even though she has a boyfriend and then the next day she’ll disappear.

            Another reason why these books are very similar is that both main characters are put in very similar plots. They both like a girl a lot and they both go out of their way sometimes, or  do things that they never would have done just so they can please the girl. The girls in the book control their lives to much, because they take advantage of the fact that they can control Quentin and Miles. At some point in the story both girls disappear one goes to some unknown place with clues leading to them, and when leaves and then dies in car crash. The plots all have similar story lines in the end.

In conclusion these books are very similar because the main characters are in love with one specific girl and they have similar plots that fold out in the book. These two characters experience journeys and many problems led by the girls that they like. They basically control the book overall and the main character follow what’s laid out for them.

i am currently reading the book Paper Towns by John Green and I really like it. It's a book about a boy named Quinn who'sin love with hie next door neighbor, who is an adventurous and a very amusing person to be around at the same time. In the book this girl who's name is Margo goes missing for a while and it's basically a more modern love story with a lot of mystery blended in also. I will be talking about text to life similarities between characters and between the book's words in general. I can really relate to Quinn in many ways actually, and I think that Quinn is quite relatable to other people also.

 Quinn is relatable for the fact that he can't move on. What I mean by he can't move on is the fact that he's always stuck with Margo he can't stop thinking about Margo. Quinn has always been attracted to Margo ever since he was a little kid, and he is right now also. I think this is quite relatable in a different setting though. It's like when your grandparents pass away or someone in your family. It's that feeling that you can't let go of them. It's just such a strong bond n general and the fact of it breaking is hard. It's hard to  grasp this idea that you will never see them again or the fact that they are detached from you and the world.Quinn has that same exact feeling he's to attached to Margo and he can't let her go. It's just to difficult for him to do this, Margo is bascially his power source in a way.

Quinn also stresses the idea of desperation, you know how far is he willing to go just so he can see Margo again and bring her back home. Quinn is risking the fact of getting into trouble just for finding Margo. This shows how far will people go when they are deperate for someone they will do anything for them even if it includes getting out of their way for someone. It's relatable for the fact that if u want something you will do anything to get it. You ave to want it so bad, that it's all you think about and it happens to everyone with toys and more important stuff in general, like the same situation as Quinn.

In conclusion, Quinn is relatable because he can't move on and how far he goes with desperation. It reminds me of when I was when younger and I used to be so focused on only one mindset throughout. I hope Quinn can find Margo and finally be pleased with his life again.

I'm currently reading the book Godless, I have read the book previous to this  time of reading it, but this time as     I read the book I am reading it more attentively and more comprehendable as a reader. I wanted to talk about the main character Jason. Basically the book is about Jason and some other friends that decide to create their own religon. I want to talk about his life and many things that affected him positively and negatively.

Jason was affected positively by finding his own religon, it was about a god called the ten-legged one. I think by finding his own religon it mad him feel better. I don't mean like necessarily feel happy,but I think Jason was able to express himself in ways that he was not able to do when he is in public.He showed emotion in a different way, I guess it was just a getaway  for him, a getaway from all the punishment from the bully that tortures him and his friend, and a get away from his parents definitely his parents. I say this because his parents are always controlling his life and making him go to religious school and just control his life in general. I think creating his own religon let him be the boss of himself which he doesn't get the option to do that often in general. He was the leader of the religon, and I think it really showed his true colors and feel more confident. This is possibly the only good thing that happens so far.

Bad things that happen a lot to him. One bad thing is having a bully, the bully's name is Henry I mean what obviously a bully is bad for anyone to have for the fact that they abuse you physically and mentally. The terrible thing about this is that Henry is way smaller than Jason and Jason knows himself that even he can beat Henry up. This definitely degrades his confidence as a person and it just brings embarrasment to Jason. Another bad thing that is going on in the book is his parents, they are so controlling which is bad for the fact that he will never have the courage to stand up for himself because he is being controlled for what he does. It's the way his parents raised him that makes him vulnerable to bullies, I'm not saying that it's right but it definitely is wrong.

In conclusion, positive things that happened to Jason was controlling his life and forgetting the bullies the control over him. It was him set free. Sometimes people need to just have their imagination go so they won't be uptight all the time or go crazy.