Just Listen

            In the book Just Listen by Sarah Dessen, is about this girl name Annabel she is a model but she doesn’t want to be a model her mom wants her to be a model. Annabel is us to being ignored, since she has two older sisters, Whitney her second older sister has eating disorders and mostly gets all the attention from her parents. Her only friend Sophie left her, and now Annabel has no friends, but then she met the Owen who she never thought she would be friends with. Owen makes her happy, and now she is someone she isn’t invisible. The main idea in the book is that you shouldn’t be afraid to tell the truth and when you do you feel better, like Annabel is afraid to tell the truth to her mom, that she doesn’t want to be a model, and she has to do something that she doesn’t want to do she doesn’t tell the truth she is suffering.

            Annabel told Owen about her what happened between Sophie and her, and when she did she felt so much better, she was honest with him. When Annabel’s mother asked her about school, Annabel didn’t want to say that she has no friends (then Owen and her weren’t friends) and Sophie calls her a whore, and she just hates school. Instead she told her mother something that happened last year ago, her mother doesn’t even know anything about her school life. “The real truth, I realized as the day wore on, was that even though I didn’t hardly knew Owen, I’d actually been more honest with him than anyone else in a long time.” This quote is means that Annabel hadn’t been honest with anyone is a long time, and when she started to be honest with Owen she started to feel better, because she was holding in a lot that she didn’t want to tell her parents because she didn’t want to add more trouble. Also this quote is explaining is that you don’t have to be honest with a person that you know very well, you can be honest with anyone. When you feel comfortable with person the truth just comes out, you don’t have to worry.

            When Annabel told Owen about her modeling and that she doesn’t like it and wants to quit, but she can’t tell her mom she said that is felt good letting this out. “When I first walked away from Owen, I felt relieved.” She felt relieved because she said the truth, she was honest and she was starting to express herself and let her feelings out to Owen and she started to feel relieve. She really never had anyone she say the truth to, but when she got Owen has a friend she trusted him and said the truth.

            When Annabel told Owen that she would listen to his show, she did but she wasn’t telling him the truth about what she really thought about it. She was saying “place holders” like interesting; she wasn’t saying that what she actually felt about it.

“Right you’re nice.” Owen said

“What’s wrong with nice.” Annabel said

“Nothing, except it usually involves not telling the truth.” Owen said

Annabel wasn’t saying that she really didn’t like his show; she was being “nice” and being when she was trying to be nice and try not to hurt Owen’s feelings, but while she was trying to not hurt Owen’s feeling she was lying. Like when she was trying not to add trouble to their parents, but she was also lying, she doesn’t want to hurt anyone so she lies, she should say the truth in a nice way. When she mom asked her about school, she could’ve said that that she doesn’t like school since Sophie doesn’t talk with me, but it is okay you don’t have to worry about me. There she would’ve been telling the truth, and her mom wouldn’t worry too much.

            Annabel holds too much in, and when she started to let things out, she started to feel better, because telling the truth is the best thing to do. I think that soon Annabel will tell her mom that she doesn’t want to model anymore, also that she is going to start to fall in love with Owen because she feels really comfortably with him and starts to tell him a lot that she hadn’t tell. The main idea connects with the real world, because there is someone out there that you can feel comfortable, cause there is a lot of people that lie, and this theme is really important because when people lie its bad also you can be hurting someone.  I learned that telling the truth will make me feel better and is the best thing you can do.   

Deadly Little Lies

I have just finished reading the book Deadly Little Lies by Laurie Faria Italarz. It is about a girl named Camelia who fell in love with a boy who can sense the future of that person by touching them, which is called pyscohometry. And as soon as Ben falls for camelia, he is gone, with rumors that he moved. After Ben returns to Camelia little town, Camelia starts to hear echoes of threats,and note saying Shes Dead. Right around when this is happening she meets adam, who soon becomes her boyfriend. But soon she finds out that adam was fake.

While reading this book, a couple things that i thought were confusing were the letters by a girl whose mother perferes her older sister over her. I found this confusing because i couldnt find any connection between camelia and her. Another thing that i found confusing about this book The deadly little lies, which i only found 1 lies. Also the ending of the book was really confusing to me, because you never know what happens to adam, and i just felt like the author just ended up fast.

11 Birthdays

I am currently reading 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass. This book is about 2 kids, a girl and a boy who are born on the same day and the same place. They both celebrated their birthdays together every since their first birthday, up-til their 10th birthday. On their 11 birthday they both celebrated separably Amanda had her party and Leo had his. The next morning they wake up noticing that it is their birthday again. They both first thought it was a joke by their parents but not at all. So Whats Going On!!!!

While reading this book, i noticed that the author introduced a character in the beginning of the book which she did not bring back into the story every since the day where she made the parents of Amanda and Leo promise that they would celebrate their birthdays together forever. Basing it on that i think that the lady has something to do with it. but i don't really understand how. It is a big mystery to find out.   

    

Girl In Translation

      I have just finished reading " The Girl In Translation" by Jean Kwok. This book is about two Chinese  immigrants, a mother and her 11 year old daughter Kimberly. When Kimberly and her mother first came here, they both got a job in Kimberly's aunt factory, who was responsible for bringing them here to America, Kimberly aunt also gave them a low-rent apartment to say in, the apartment had broken windows, the walls were broken, and rats and cockroaches ran all over.When Kimberly first started school, she thought that her teacher hated her and became the Chinese girl in the  class. While having a real tough time in school she was able to make one friend in class who ended up being her friend up till college. Nothing was going right for Kimberley, until she discovered her talent in school. Kimberley ended up going to Harrison High School with a full scholarship and to Yale with a full scholarship. While in her last year in Harrison Kimberley found out that she was pregnant, who the father was someone she loved a lot but that much that she would give up her scholarship to Yale. She ended up going to Yale and graduating as an Surgeon and being the mother of her own son.
      If i would ever fall into Kimberly's situation I would do everything the same way as she did. What she did was in my perceptive was a good thing to do. Other people would say she did the wrong thing because she gave up on love but i think that her putting that aside gave her the chance to become so big. If she got married she would have never gotten the chance to get the future she got by not getting married. I really thought this choice that Kimberley made her show the world that she, who came to america not knowing a word in English ended up in such a good position  She showing that if you believe this will happen.    
    

Babies Understanding Languages before Learning to Speak.

This is a response to an Article about babies understanding the language they are hearing in their mothers
  womb at the age of 8monthes and 2 weeks. Christine Moon a physiologist at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington where she and her team is studying how babies inside the womb are learning languages. They are doing a project where they are taking babies from Sweden and babies from the united states ages 7-75 hours old and putting them near headphones where Vowels from the American language and Swedish language is being played. After this experiment they found out that American babies responded more to the Swedish vowels and Swedish babies responded more when American vowels were played. This shows that babies stopped paying attention when their native language was being played since they are already familiar with it.  
While reading this article, it reminded me of my baby brother when he was a couple months old, who is now 1 year old. when he was a couple years old he would make sounds that were similar to the vowels in my native language. When he grew a bit older, he started to put simple vowels together to form simple word like Ma And Baba which means mom and dad, then he learned the meanings of those words.
While reading this article it was very interesting how i can make those connection with my brother, and really interesting about how babies can understand languages before being really exposed to them.              

Shiver

I have just started to read Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. It is a love story about a girl named Grace and a boy named Sam. The strange thing about this love story is that the boy Sam is or was a wolf, who can change into a human once a year at summertime. this love story started as Sam as a wolf, watching Grace, who is watching the wolfs in the forest which is behind her house. Ever since then grace always felt a connection between her and the yellowed eye wolf. Grace never knew this but when grace was eight years old she was attacked by wolfs, when Sam as a human saved her, which made him turn into a wolf.

When i first read the blurb of this book i immediately thought of beauty and the beast which only similar tie is that it is a love story with a wolf. One question that i thought of was that when the authors of both these stories wrote this did they have any of the same thoughts or idea. Did the author of shiver base her story on the beauty and the beast?

I think there is a connection between the beauty and the beast and shiver because they have a same idea that love can happen everywhere, where you least expected it to be.

Girls vs Boys

Most girls and boys think that boys are better at sports like soccer, basketball or baseball. Also i thought that boys are better at sports than girls, but never found out why. Why is it that boys are always considered to be good in sports?  Well many things could be the answer.Well reading the book " Girls On The Edge " gave me my answers.
 One answer to this question is that if girls find that the coach or the physical ed teacher favors people good in sports and ignores the ones not that strong in sports, the girl will quit the sport easily as counting 1,2,3 or just stop participating in class.
Another answer that really interested me was that theses sports basketball or soccer were sports originally for boys. So the way you would play these games is fit for a boys to play not girls. Girls body is much more sensitive to a boys body.
My opinion on this is that i think in order to have more girls participating in sports they have to make it fair for both boys and girls. Make the rules in a way that it both fit for boys  and girls.