Reading Response 10/25/12

I am still currently reading Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer, In this book death and food is a main issue.

 In this world we see death not a ever-day thing where as in the world of Life As We Knew It
 death is an everyday thing, dozens of people are dying per town and hundreds of thousands
 of people are dying every second in the world of life as we knew it. People dying is not as
 shocking as we know it is. We feel dying is scary, sad, mad, and in a way makes you feel
 weak , like why didn't i try to stop this, why did this happen to me etc.... In the book the
 characters  feel the same things as we do but they are used to it. like someone died, oh ok,
 they cry and its over with  ,currently in the book 3-4 character already died, [many more
 died but they weren't as important.]  

 Why are people dying ? Because of starvation, because they can not find food to eat, they
 ran out, and the people on the edge of dying pray to god to live. Where do they go to pray? 
they go to pray at a church where the Reverend asks for food for himself while the other
 people around him cannot eat 1 meal a day, where as he eats 3 meals a day. Is that what you
 call a Reverend ? Well to to me a Reverend puts people ahead him him and instead this
 Reverend puts him first then others in need. This is not what you call a Reverend  So many
 people believed in him. So why did he do that?  Did he just advantage of the people that
 believed in so much like Megan ? Megan believed in the Reverend so much, that she gave up
 eating and that same Reverend is eating, when instead he should have been helping out the
 people in need. What do YOU think? 

What If?

        What if there isn't electricity? What if school stops? What if there isn't anymore clean water? What if  more earthquakes and tsunami occurs? What if volcanoes erupt everyday? What if the moon comes closer and closer everyday? What if the world ENDS right now? Well in the book Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer, is about a normal american family trying yo survive through a time of  struggle and a time where people put them first instead of others. It is about a time where food is equal to golds and diamonds. And i think at the end of the book the most important thing will be each other and living instead of  food because they would realize that living together is more better then living by yourself because when you are together you are stronger. In the beginning of the book people ran over each other for food, but never thought of the people who are in really in need for it, even thought everyone needs it, some people need it more then others.

          In this book it there is a character Megan, who i think thought of other then her self because in the beginning of the book she gave away her lunch to people who couldn't eat a three meals a day like her. In the book Megan is a friend of Miranda { she is the narrator of the book }. Megan would always share her lunch with people in need, which is a good thing but other people only things about themselves and how they are going to provide themselves. i believe that people helps other people when people help people out in their time of struggles. So i think that at the end of the book Megan going to be in a good position. Megan believes that in god strongly. She believes that god is going to keep her alive. She is just way to dependent on god. God isn't going to save you when your in the risk of dying the people around you is and i think she needs to realize that because she is going to end up dying that way.

         What i believe is that you need people, you can't be alone,by  yourselves  at a time like this. you need to be with people. you need to help people, then then they are going to be the ones who is going to help you in the future. I think instead of Miranda thinking of herself and how she is going to survive she should think of people who are in worse condition then she is in and help them.   

Am i Dead?

   I am currently reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. In this book the main character Susie was murdered by someone in her block. in this story there is a idea about death. What is death? IS it when your physical body is dead or when you re physically dead and emotionally dead? To me dead is when you are emotionally and physically dead because when people are   physically dead, people still thinks about them, and by that you are still alive between the people who love you and care about you. But when people don't think about the people that are dead. you are dead. Other questions that i thought of while reading this book are: what happens to you after you die? where do you go? These question made me think about where do we go after we die in the real world? Are you just gone, by turning into dead organisms or is their an actually heaven or hell?  In this story Susie goes to a place that is between the earth and the clouds, but we know that is not scientifically true, so where do we go?

    Another idea i found in this book is that with love is strong . Love is what kept Susie alive. In this book Susie's father loved Susie a lot, so much he would do anything that possible for Susie to have peace. Like when her father  looking for evidence of Susie murderer, he basically turned crazy, he stayed up day and night waiting for an answer to Susie's murder. Also when he broke all the ships he made with his father and Susie, he basically threw away his passion. His love for Susie was so strong that he still had a connection with Susie even her being dead. Another thing that made me think that is the love that Ray had for Susie. Even though in the beginning of book he falsely got blamed for Susie's death, he didn't speak up not even once. what i think is that he didn't even care, all he knew was that he loved her, and thats that. Susie was always thought of, and so she never died. 

      In this book the main character Susie was never dead because she was thought of, she was alive between her mother, father, and her sister. I think in the real world loved people never die, because they're loved one also keep them alive but people who were bad in there life they are the ones who die and are forgotten.  

           

       

Am I Blue?

In the story Am I Blue? by Bruce Coville, the main character Vincent is always getting teased and bullied because people thinks he is gay. In this story there is another character, Butch the bully, Butch mainly bullies Vincent. I think Butch bullies Vince because Butch has some fear or something making him feel scared and small in a way, because bullies bully people because there is something making them feel insecure, so they bully people to feel big and superior.
      In this story there is another character Melvin, is the the fairy-godfather of Vince. In this story Melvin is the mentor and i think the author Bruce Coville included Melvin, so he can use the character Melvin to get to tell his thoughts about the issue being GAY, like a speaker.
     in this story the author is giving us a message which i think is Don't be Scared to Stand out. One example that leads me to this message is the idea of being gay. i think Bruce used this example because of most of us don't see or interact with gay people on a daily basis. To show that how many people in the world are gay, he used Melvin the fairy god-father to turn all the gay people in the world blue, and in the story it quotes " People were turning blue from coast to coast." to me this quote tells me that the author trying to say that people in the world are different, like being gay as an example, but that doesn't mean that we should exclude them or push them away, so what they are different, we were with them this whole time without knowing that there are different in a way from the rest of us, so why not now? It doesn't change them as who they are, so why should we treat them different? This is what i found in the excerpt " if gay people hadn't been forced to hide for so long, if we can just openly identify ourselves" And "Everybody knows gay people they just think they don't.
     Everybody in this world is different, it what makes us, us. it what makes us interesting, stand out from the rest and that is totally fine. Even if it is being red-headed or gay, it different and it is good. If being different makes you happy, go ahead and stand out. This is what i believe.