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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!

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)!

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.

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.

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 ;)

ANTSIJ Stuff #2

Hiya y'all.
Here we go:

1. Irony:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
2. Characters:
1. 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 :)
2. 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.
3. 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 ;)
3. 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.

Well that's it for today, Hasta los Tacos! Maybe I'll do my next post in Spanish...

ANTSIJ and Bananafish stuff

Hey guys. It's Molly (duh)
Bananafish:

1. Muriel really reminds me of Sally from CITR because all she talks about with her mother is clothing and Seymour's behavior instead of how everything's going, the scenery, and all that type of stuff. It is also sort of evident that she doesn't really love Seymour all that much, as she lost the German book he gave her and doesn't really stick up for him that much, and it reminds me of how Sally doesn't really like Holden.
2. Sybill reminds me of Phoebe from CITR because she is innocent and curious and very trusting of strangers. Seymour sort of sees her as like this little clean and good spot in his life at the moment (as in Florida) like Holden sees Phoebe.
3. Seymour sort of reminds me of Holden from CITR because he has really worked himself into a pit. He doesn't really like Muriel because he killed himself and he really doesn't enjoy all that materialistic stuff like Holden.

ANTSIJ stuff:

1. I think that the quote, "Our own school, John, no buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All we need is the sky!" really refers to transcendentalist thought because part of transcendentalism is not really believing in the whole organized government and religion, and how each person should be self-reliant. "Breaking out of the classroom prison" is like saying to not go along with the rest of the population and be your own person, living off the simple land and not relying on others to teach you things that they think that everyone needs to know.

So yeah that's it for today. Penguins in space ^_^

Catcher in the Rye Stuff #2

Hiya.

1. If I was in Holden's exact position, I would actually go the same place that he went--rummaging around NYC. But that is only if I had his fear of disappointing his family. I would personally go back home because I would probably be tired of boarding school (unless it was Hogwarts).
2. Jane (just watched Forrest Gump so I keep wanting to call her Jenny) is sort of an enigma to Holden. He knows her so well, but there are things about her story that he has no idea about. They have sort of a complicated relationship, as Jane really likes Holden but isn't ready to tell him everything about her.
3. People are always ruining things for you. It's true. But people also make things happy for you. It goes both ways. For example, you will only have fun playing a board game if there's someone there to play it with you. But if you have a really moody person playing with you, it's not fun. But if you have a fun person playing with you, you'll have a great time. It depends on the person. An example of when someone ruined something for me was today when my snow day was interrupted by the West Ottawa superintendant not cancelling school. Another one was when I came to school on the day of our show (it's in two one in a half hours now) and having the person playing Linus not knowing any single lines, songs, blocking, or choreography. And the other Linus (the part was double cast) who actually knew their part couldn't get to school because of the snow (ahem superintendant) so now we're about to go fail.

So yeah, as you can probably tell I'm in a cheery mood right now.
FRACASO
(not you my show)

The Catcher in the Rye Blog Stuff #1

Hey guys.
Woo, it's been a while since I've been to the ol' blogging station. Had to dust off the dashboard a little when I got here haha.
So anyways, here's all my blogging stuff:

1. To be unique is to be your own person. You don't try to copy anybody else and make yourself known to others. I personally think that it is a good thing to be unique as you naturally are, but still try to improve yourself. Some people strive too hard to be unique--they want to get the attention of others. Usually, this makes people either really strange or more mean, because they don't know how to get more attention by doing good things.
2. To be an individual in the adult world meants that you need to let go of that strive for attention desperate enough that you settle for negative attention. There are some adults who never give that up--take a few celebrities, for example. Some of them go so far to get re-married and re-divorced just to see their face in the newspapers. You should not let that indivuality go, but when you grow up you need to start getting the attention and start giving it.
3. I do not have a favorite person--it'd be waaaay to hard to pick just one. But I do have an idea of a good person, and I think that both that ideal of a person and Allie can be quite similar--kind, creative, intelligent, but I guess I would have to pick a favorite person and decide if they are similar to Allie's innocence. I think they would be, whomever I would pick. But then again, I can't pick....

Happy Penguins!