Friday, May 18, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
Uglies #2
Konichiwa.
So I finished the book a few days ago but I didn't blog about the ending. Here it is!
Anyways I know that this book is the first in a trilogy (there's another book after the end of the trilogy but it's not really part of the mainstream series) and this book ends up being very cliff-hangey! Basically Tally learns that the pretty operation gives people brain damage so that they'll cooperate, but they don't have anyone to test the cure on. Tally volunteers to become pretty and then get the cure, so the book ends with her asking for the operation. Pretty serious stuff. I was just like "...that's the end?" I guess I'll have to read the next book!
So I finished the book a few days ago but I didn't blog about the ending. Here it is!
Anyways I know that this book is the first in a trilogy (there's another book after the end of the trilogy but it's not really part of the mainstream series) and this book ends up being very cliff-hangey! Basically Tally learns that the pretty operation gives people brain damage so that they'll cooperate, but they don't have anyone to test the cure on. Tally volunteers to become pretty and then get the cure, so the book ends with her asking for the operation. Pretty serious stuff. I was just like "...that's the end?" I guess I'll have to read the next book!
Monday, April 30, 2012
Uglies #1
Hello children.
Let's cut to the chase.
For this book project/report, I chose the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. I chose this book because a lot of people have recommended it and I've always sort of wanted to read it but I'm always to lazy and my sister kept saying that it was too scary to read. She owns the book and the whole time this book has been sitting right in front of my face but I've never really thought about reading it until now. Also, I am a fan of Scott Westerfeld's work (if you have a good memory you might remember that the book I did for our other book talk at the beginning of this year was Leviathan, another Scott Westerfeld novel) so I just decided to have at it.
Needless to say, my sister is a wussie.
Honestly, I've seen a scarier plot in picture books.
I'm not saying that the book is bad. In fact, Uglies is really good. The premise is very creative and it is very well written--I can't stop turning the pages (which is actually a bad thing because I stayed up to midnight last night reading it) and it's just really good. The only thing I sort of don't like is Tally (the main character)'s personality, but it's getting better. But is this book scary? Noooooooooo. I should have seen this coming. Fact: my sister is afraid of butterflies.
Well that's all I have to blog about today. See ya el-eight-are (l8r)!
Let's cut to the chase.
For this book project/report, I chose the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. I chose this book because a lot of people have recommended it and I've always sort of wanted to read it but I'm always to lazy and my sister kept saying that it was too scary to read. She owns the book and the whole time this book has been sitting right in front of my face but I've never really thought about reading it until now. Also, I am a fan of Scott Westerfeld's work (if you have a good memory you might remember that the book I did for our other book talk at the beginning of this year was Leviathan, another Scott Westerfeld novel) so I just decided to have at it.
Needless to say, my sister is a wussie.
Honestly, I've seen a scarier plot in picture books.
I'm not saying that the book is bad. In fact, Uglies is really good. The premise is very creative and it is very well written--I can't stop turning the pages (which is actually a bad thing because I stayed up to midnight last night reading it) and it's just really good. The only thing I sort of don't like is Tally (the main character)'s personality, but it's getting better. But is this book scary? Noooooooooo. I should have seen this coming. Fact: my sister is afraid of butterflies.
Well that's all I have to blog about today. See ya el-eight-are (l8r)!
Saturday, March 31, 2012
TEOGROMITMM Stuff
Hey fellas.
I didn't do my post last week because I didn't get the book because I was sick, so here are both my TEOGROMITMM posts:
I can relate to this book because, like Tillie, I have my hobbies that I really love to escape my real life sometimes. Of course, the difference of this similarity is that Tillie gets involved with her hobby when she wants to escape her mother's verbal abuse while I get involoved with my hobby usually because I'm bored. And, unlike Tillie, my hobby is not science. That's all I could really find that I could relate to, so...yeah. Next post!
I actually think that Tillie's family and the Capulets actually have a lot in common. For one, Lord and Lady Capulet are a lot like Beatrice because they both think that they are doing the best for their daughters, Lord and Lady Capulet forcing Juliet to marry Paris and Beatrice keeping Tillie away from school, but they never listen and accept their daughters' true desires: Juliet's desire to marry Romeo and Tillie's desire to go to school and learn about science.
I sort of found a link between the characters of Ruth from TEOGROMITMM and Nanny from Romeo and Juliet, even though Nanny is technically not part of the Capulet family. Personality-wise they're not very similar: Ruth is very desperate to fit in, but she finds it hard to because of her epilepsy, and Nanny is an overall sort of mother-figure to Juliet. Their similarity is that both of them help Tillie and Juliet respectively with their desires, although Ruth only minisculey.
The big difference between these two families is the real technicality of their lives: the Capulets are very wealthy, Tillie's family is very poor. I also found that while Tillie openly discusses her desire for science and school, Juliet keeps her desire to marry Romeo a secret from everyone except for Nanny.
I didn't do my post last week because I didn't get the book because I was sick, so here are both my TEOGROMITMM posts:
I can relate to this book because, like Tillie, I have my hobbies that I really love to escape my real life sometimes. Of course, the difference of this similarity is that Tillie gets involved with her hobby when she wants to escape her mother's verbal abuse while I get involoved with my hobby usually because I'm bored. And, unlike Tillie, my hobby is not science. That's all I could really find that I could relate to, so...yeah. Next post!
I actually think that Tillie's family and the Capulets actually have a lot in common. For one, Lord and Lady Capulet are a lot like Beatrice because they both think that they are doing the best for their daughters, Lord and Lady Capulet forcing Juliet to marry Paris and Beatrice keeping Tillie away from school, but they never listen and accept their daughters' true desires: Juliet's desire to marry Romeo and Tillie's desire to go to school and learn about science.
I sort of found a link between the characters of Ruth from TEOGROMITMM and Nanny from Romeo and Juliet, even though Nanny is technically not part of the Capulet family. Personality-wise they're not very similar: Ruth is very desperate to fit in, but she finds it hard to because of her epilepsy, and Nanny is an overall sort of mother-figure to Juliet. Their similarity is that both of them help Tillie and Juliet respectively with their desires, although Ruth only minisculey.
The big difference between these two families is the real technicality of their lives: the Capulets are very wealthy, Tillie's family is very poor. I also found that while Tillie openly discusses her desire for science and school, Juliet keeps her desire to marry Romeo a secret from everyone except for Nanny.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Romeo and Juliet Essay
For this projeect, I journaled about the character Romeo and I am writing this essay about how he changed through the play. Romeo Montague started out very lovestruck--young, feeble, and deeply in love with a girl named Rosaline. He was somewhat of an annoyance to his family and friends as he was always moping about love and how it was hurting him. He tries to let go of this love he has developed for Rosaline, but he simply can't. She has sworn never to marry but he still seeks her out, attending a Capulet party that she will be attending. There he meets Juliet.
Juliet changes Romeo. Instantly, Romeo forgets about Rosaline and falls deeply in love with Juliet, who in turn falls deeply in love with him. This mutual love makes Romeo not quite as angry at love, and he seems to embrace it more since Juliet loves him back. This makes him a bit more level-headed, as he is not driven insane with his love for Rosaline as he makes it possible to see Juliet every day. This also estranges him a little from his family and friends, as he starts to wonder how they can hate Juliet so much. When Mercutio dies because Romeo didn't want to fight Tybalt, as he was Juliet's cousin, he lashes out at Tybalt, kills him, and is banned from Verona.
Romeo is deeply shaken by Mercutio's death and probably thinks that he is a traitor to his family, but he doesn't care because he just wants to see Juliet. Now Romeo's alliance has shifted from purely to Montague to a little bit of Montague and Capulet. In Verona, Romeo is probably in sort of a similar state as he was at the beginning, except probably a little bit more depressed because Mercutio is dead. When he hears of Juliet's death he simply can't believe it, and when it is proven true he simply cannot take the saddness anymore and kills himself, not knowing that she was about to wake up in just a second.
Juliet changes Romeo. Instantly, Romeo forgets about Rosaline and falls deeply in love with Juliet, who in turn falls deeply in love with him. This mutual love makes Romeo not quite as angry at love, and he seems to embrace it more since Juliet loves him back. This makes him a bit more level-headed, as he is not driven insane with his love for Rosaline as he makes it possible to see Juliet every day. This also estranges him a little from his family and friends, as he starts to wonder how they can hate Juliet so much. When Mercutio dies because Romeo didn't want to fight Tybalt, as he was Juliet's cousin, he lashes out at Tybalt, kills him, and is banned from Verona.
Romeo is deeply shaken by Mercutio's death and probably thinks that he is a traitor to his family, but he doesn't care because he just wants to see Juliet. Now Romeo's alliance has shifted from purely to Montague to a little bit of Montague and Capulet. In Verona, Romeo is probably in sort of a similar state as he was at the beginning, except probably a little bit more depressed because Mercutio is dead. When he hears of Juliet's death he simply can't believe it, and when it is proven true he simply cannot take the saddness anymore and kills himself, not knowing that she was about to wake up in just a second.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Romeo and Juliet stuff #1
HOLA!!!! ARRIBA!!!
Alright, I'm going to get off to a fast start here with my Romeo and Juliet blog, so here we go! The first thing that I would like to point out on this book is something that I realized while reading it: For one, it says that Juliet's thirteen and this guy Paris (I bet he looks like Pius Thicknesse) wants to marry her. EW! And another thing, Juliet's mom says that she was her age when she got married, which means that Mrs. Capp (I'll get to their names in a second) was thirteen when she got married. DOUBLE EW!! That also means that if Juliet got married at thirteen, Mrs. Capp would be a grandmother at twenty six. TRIPLE EW!!! I don't need a lecture on "That's just what they did back then" but it still grosses me out a little. Going back to the names, I got tired writing Capulet and Montague and hippopotomonstrosusquippidaliophobia over and over again (...okay maybe not that last one so much) so I shortened all their names. Here's my list so far:
Lord Capulet-Mr. Capp (I chose the last name Capp because when I was little I had this computer game called the Sims 2 where there was this neighborhood called Veronaville where there were two families: the Capps and the Montys. So I shortened the last names according :) )
Lady Capulet-Mrs. Capp
Juliet-Juliet (I kept the main characters the same)
Tybalt-Tyler
Sampson-Sam
Gregory-Greg
Abraham-Abe
Benvolio-Benny
Nurse-Nurse
Prince-His Royal High Highliness Prince Jennifer of Verona the Great Nation of Smallness (...:) )
Lord Montague-Mr. Monty
Lady Montague-Mrs. Monty
Romeo-Romeo
Paris-Pius
Mercutio-Mac
And that's all the named characters that have been introduced so far.
Well that's all for today compadres. See ya!
Ribonucleic Acid ;)
Alright, I'm going to get off to a fast start here with my Romeo and Juliet blog, so here we go! The first thing that I would like to point out on this book is something that I realized while reading it: For one, it says that Juliet's thirteen and this guy Paris (I bet he looks like Pius Thicknesse) wants to marry her. EW! And another thing, Juliet's mom says that she was her age when she got married, which means that Mrs. Capp (I'll get to their names in a second) was thirteen when she got married. DOUBLE EW!! That also means that if Juliet got married at thirteen, Mrs. Capp would be a grandmother at twenty six. TRIPLE EW!!! I don't need a lecture on "That's just what they did back then" but it still grosses me out a little. Going back to the names, I got tired writing Capulet and Montague and hippopotomonstrosusquippidaliophobia over and over again (...okay maybe not that last one so much) so I shortened all their names. Here's my list so far:
Lord Capulet-Mr. Capp (I chose the last name Capp because when I was little I had this computer game called the Sims 2 where there was this neighborhood called Veronaville where there were two families: the Capps and the Montys. So I shortened the last names according :) )
Lady Capulet-Mrs. Capp
Juliet-Juliet (I kept the main characters the same)
Tybalt-Tyler
Sampson-Sam
Gregory-Greg
Abraham-Abe
Benvolio-Benny
Nurse-Nurse
Prince-His Royal High Highliness Prince Jennifer of Verona the Great Nation of Smallness (...:) )
Lord Montague-Mr. Monty
Lady Montague-Mrs. Monty
Romeo-Romeo
Paris-Pius
Mercutio-Mac
And that's all the named characters that have been introduced so far.
Well that's all for today compadres. See ya!
Ribonucleic Acid ;)
Thursday, February 9, 2012
ANTSIJ Stuff #2
Hiya y'all.
Here we go:
Here we go:
- Irony:
- One examply of irony in this play is that Henry Williams spent all this time being a slave and escaping, but then dies when he is free.
- Another example of irony is how Waldo is supposedly doing all of this stuff to stop the war and to get peace, but then goes into a war with Henry.
- Also, Waldo gets mad at Henry for being removed from Concord but saying how things should be, but this entire time Waldo has been in England saying how things should be.
- Characters:
- The most important, of course, is Henry. I would choose Johnny Depp to play Henry just because Henry believes that living simpler is actually smarter, and Johnny Depp plays a lot of characters that may seem mad on the outside but are actually quite smart, like Henry. Also I just like Johnny Depp :)
- Waldo is also a very important character, and I think that Richard Griffiths should play him because for one, he is old, and also he plays a lot of characters that look like they're doing good on the outside, but really are not doing very much on the inside, like Waldo.
- I would say that another important character is John, and I think that Colin Firth should play him because John is a very peaceful and calm character and, well, Colin Firth just seems right for the job. Of course, all of my actors would have to adopt American accents ;)
- I think that Henry's protests are succesful in the end because the war ended. It may not be because of his protests, but his goal was acheived nevertheless.
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