Blog Post #3: Reading Response on Summer Book

                     Blog Post #3: Reading Response on Summer Book

    During the summer, I read the book "The Girl Who Could Fly" by Victoria Forester. In this book, A girl named Piper McCloud is born with the ability to fly and is sent to a facility/school/institution with other kids who have powers like her. I found this book interesting because as she is in the school she shows many emotions and I see what type of person she is. The Theme was Character Development.

    One emotion the kids showed were being brave. At the beginning  of the book, everyone was blind to the fact that the main goal of the                   school is to basically normalize everyone so they can forget their powers and become a regular kid. But with the help of Piper's Plan, all the kids worked together to escape the facility. Even Jasper, the kid who doesn't talk and doesn't remember much, remembers his power (the ability to heal) because Piper made him remember due to her brave and courageous personality. To me that's pretty touching (although it's cliche) and at the beginning Piper was never at one point was a role model she was shy like.

    Another thing I noticed was everyone started to rely on each other. The end of the book really showed that trait. All the kids started working together to escape the facility. Teamwork goes well with the plot especially since the theme is Character Development. In the beginning when piper first attended the school, everyone disregarded her and everyone else was already not that close when it came to friendship. I love how everyone's personality slowly changed throughout the story because the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good and that's interesting.

    In Conclusion, The the Theme to this story is Character Development and you can literally see that change in the characters. Being Brave and Teamwork plays a big role because every character faces their own problem (Piper Is home sick, Jasper  lacks courage, etc.) and it's fun to see them overcome them especially at then end.

Blog Post #2

     
      Blog Post #2

The 2 blog posts I read where Xiao Qing's book response on North of Beautiful and Adele's Hunger.


On X.Q's response, she breaks down each scene and writes a thought down. Real issues like that make me break somebody's spine and eat their liver!!! She asked questions like "everyone is staying because of the way she looks, but what if she isn't perfect? Will everything be the way it is?" And she just says "I have no answer to this, but I think everyone will abandon her because her friends accept her as she is perfect". This makes me wanna read the book cause Xiao Qing made it sound interesting and deep. The response had a lot of thoughts in it, and that's good cause it works the comprehension in your brain...... overall I liked it.
On Adele's response, she compared the issue of racism in her book to the real world. It was a very good example since in the book, Zil disliked freaks because they were different...... -_- like really? And she included the father figure factor, in which Sam was the person depended on because he is the leader of FAYZ. I will definitely read this book.  

Reading Responce

                                                           The Future of Us

           Josh and Emma used to be best friends until last November when Josh and Emma arrived at a cemetery with their friends and when it was time to go, Josh said " I really like you Emma" and tried to kiss her but got rejected because she didn't like him like that. Ever since that moment, they haven't been as close as they as were when they were younger.
          One day, Josh  comes over Emma's house to give her a CD-ROM for AOL on her new computer. Since they haven't talked to each other often and they live right across from each other it's awkward for both of them. As Josh leaves her house, Emma discovers a website that pops up called Facebook. On Facebook, Josh and her can see their future selves 15 years from the future.
          As they see each others future, they suddenly try their best to change their future if they don't like it. Emma sees that her future self is emotionally ill and her husband might be cheating on her so she tries to change it by doing different things to altar it. She keeps her focus by trying to get even closer to Cody, her long time crush. Meanwhile, Josh finds out he marries the hottest girl in school, Sydney Mills, who he sometimes about, and tries to embrace, it but it somehow changes him and aggravates Emma. It's driving them apart but in a way its driving them together them together.
        Later on Emma kisses Josh to try and change the future but it makes Josh mad because she rejected him ejected him earlier. It also triggers the first love connection. As the story goes on, both of them realize that the ones that they thought they loved, makes them realize that the ones that they thought they loved, makes them realize that they are the opposite of what they thought they were. Then Emma & Josh fall in love although they kinda had the feeling for each other for a while.