Currently I am reading a social action book called " Girls on the Edge " . It is about three girls with their stories about how their issues such as cyber-bullying, how people see them, and their experience with anorexia.

It is really sad to know that things like this actually happen. Girls starve themselves to be " Skinny ". they don't know by doing this they are putting themselves on risk of death. They want to be someone that is liked and known by people around them  "boys". They don't see that it isn't important to be themselves, they see it as i have to be like her. I think that it is more important to be yourself then pretending to be someone else just to be liked. It is not bad being yourself, like me i am not exact-ally skinny, but i don't really care because i know that there is people in this world that care for me for who i am not my weight. I am fine, living this way. I have friends.

Also people who are getting cyber bullied need to ask for help. they should know that they aren't alone. there are people in this world that can help them get through this. and always remember the people who are bulling you, do it for fun, or maybe because they are jealous, they want to hurt you purposely so it can make them feel better. don't let them take over your life. ask for help and you will get it. 

The Abandoned Book

This blog post is going to be based on a social action question: When did you find yourself resting the text? What does your resistance about you in the text ? I am going to be answering this question on this book that i abandoned The Lovely Bones by Alice Selod. In this book there is family of 5, 3 girls, a mom and a dad. One of the girls were Susie Salmon " salmon like the fish " Susie would say. Susie was murdered because she was beautiful. No one knew who murdered her and why.Except Susie of course; most people believe that after they die there soul goes up there, well instead Susie going there she went to a place that was right in between of earth and heaven. from there she would communicate with her dad.  
     I abandoned this book about halfway when the search for Susie's murderer just began. While i reading this book a fear grew inside of me, what if this happens to my family, what would i do? i started to put myself in to that book. this book showed me that you don't know whats going to happen and when it is going to happen. You should be grateful, you don't know how much you love something until it is taken away from you. Like me i constally have little fights with my sister about why she did this, or why she did that, but when she goes away to somewhere for hours and hours, i go crazy about why she isn't coming home, i show people some reason to cover the fact that i miss her. 
while i was reading this book i began thinking about what if this happened to my sister , i placed her in Susie's place and i got afraid that i won't be able to do anything about it.
this book helped me appreciate that spend your time well you never know when you are going to lose it.   

The Girl In Translation

I have just started to read a novel called GIRL In Translation by Jean Kwok. This book is about a girl who had just moved to the united states with her mother, they previously lived in Hong Kong China. They have nothing much with them, they spend all there money just to come to the united states, so the daughter can get the future that she couldn't have in China. After they come to the united states they have to live in an apartment that is similar to living in the junkyard. The mother has no qualifications for a good job, but the mother soon receives a job at a clothing factory on Canal street China Town, where she has to works twenty -four hours seven days a week to get get paid so little that their lives just goes by thinking Am i going to eat tomorrow or starve . After 1-2 weeks they move in to their disgusting apartment kim starts school knowing very few English. Once she gets to school she gets judged in a bad way by not the students but by the teacher! The teacher scolds her for not knowing what is suppose to be done. And that made her stop going to school for a week. 
  This is one really difficult thing i found in this book, how people are being judged on a daily basis which are making them feel that they don't belong. It happens to everyone, and it happens everywhere. This is something where only we can stop. People are being judged on many things on how they dress, speak, attitude, personality, and more. i was judged too, and it is not a good feeling. It makes you feel like there is nobody in this world who likes me for who i am, but hates me for how i appear to people. Some people can't stand that and does things that affects them majorly in their life. This is one difficult thing i found in my reading book  

Dear Julia

      I just started reading a book called Dear Julia by Amy Bronwen Zemser. It is about a teenager who has an incredible talent to cook. Her name is Elaine Hamilton. Elaine has a dream to become like Julia Child a famous cook. Ever since Elaine knew what she wanted to be, a cook. Her mom always told her to look for a higher target, but Elaine never  budged. Elaine never had many friends because of what she showed herself as to the world, she wears really loose blouses with tight pants and always does her hair in a ponytail. Elaine never really cared about not having friends, because she has her cooking to keep her busy. Elaine does something since she was really little is that she writes letters to Julia Cook, buts doesn't send them, just stores them in her room. The reason she does not send them because she is too shy. She writes about her cooking experiences
 and what she thinks is wrong or right.
     I find it really weird that she writes letter to Julia Child but doesn't send it. then why would she write it in the first place? Wouldn't she want to get feedback to make her cooking even better?
     Over the summer Elaine turned sixteen she met a girl named Isadora Wilhelminetta Fischburger. Isadora never liked her name, so she changed it to Lucida Sans. Lucida always wanted to become famous. She doesn't car why she would become famous, she just wanted to become famous. Which i think makes no sense because people becomes famous for specific reasons, for acting, singing, dancing, awards, etc. She has no reason. One thing i like about Lucida is that she tries her best at everything.  
     In the blurb of the book it is kind of like a problem, a math problem, Elaine Hamilton like to cook, she never wants to attract attention, she is a shy girl then why is there cameras surrounding her? How did this happen. then when i started to read the book within the first chapter  the author introduces a character { Lucida } who loves to be in the center of attention. Then i started to think did Lucida do this? Did Lucida do this to get attention? If she did do this to get attention then she is a very self-centered person. 
  
     

This World

I just read matched by Ally Condie and it was a very good book. around the beginning of the book i was think such a perfect world, it kept your life in good way, no poverty, keeps you in good shape, good education, and mainly it chooses who you are going to marry+love! there is a ceremony where they show you and introduce you to your future life partner. As i was thinking that this world is soo perfect, i started to think that maybe it is too perfect, it goes overboard, to get to know you personally they look at your dreams while you are sleeping, they give many tests. i don't think to know someone personally you have to do all this  and  then i started to notice that this world is letting you live your life instead it is living the life for you. you can't eat what you want . then i started to think that can i live her life, cassia's life?

          At first i thought it would be pretty good, you won't have to worry about a lot of stuff like illness, in this world it is very rare to get sick, you can live up to 80 90 years old. you don't have to think about cancer, or other deadly diseases. the main part is that the government just wants you to be healthy, they just want to keep the people controlled so, nothing ever goes wrong. Nothing is perfect, there has to be a flaw or it is just not real.  Then i thought about what about my life, would i want a government controlling my life and i still don't know.

         Another issue in this book is that the government gives out pills green, blue and yellow. Only the government can tell you who is eating what pills. many people eat blue pills and the green and red pills re only eaten at specific times. The people themselves don't know why are they eating the pills. in the book when they introduced the pills, i thought the pills were used to control the people, so they the people have no opinion so they can't fight against the government. also i thought that people should know what they are eating, it is not right eating stuff without not knowing what it is, to me it is like eating poison without no knowing.  Later on in the book we found out that the red pill is the pill you take when you die!- people has no choice of that either,, the government controlles that.

       In conclusion this world is meant for people who likes to be controlled and not meant for the people who likes living their own life!

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.