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.