At the beginning at the book there was a page telling the reader why the
teenager published this book, but i really didn't think it was
important, until i finished the book. I mean this girl had to leave this
world and suffer when she was doing the right thing, she was following
her heart.I still don't get it why Collin would do that to a innocent
girl! Maybe it was to let his anger out on something ? Or maybe he had a
sister that got AIDS the way Nancy got it, and he got really
furious,and didn't really appreciated it so he wanted to spread AIDS to
everyone to get revenge on his sister.
I really felt bad for
Nancy, she was just trying to find true love, just like any-other girl.
She just doing the right thing, following her heart, and i think she
believed in Collin way too much,and that is way the incident happened.
But when she actually feel in love she found she has AIDS. What luck
this girl has.
after i finished this book i realized how much
important and meaningful this book is. Books are written for a reason
and this was to warn people that people are not always what they appears
to be. to get to know a person you need years not days. that is the
message that stood out to me.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Matched
Society vs government
I am reading the book matched by ally condie. In this book
there is something called a society, or what we call a government The
society will tell who to love , tell you what to eat ,decide where you
should work etc…. the society will basically tell you how to life your
life! Which I think is not fair!If you could pick which government or society you would what I would definitely pick our government because it gives to freedom, it’s your life you can do anything you want, unlike the society who tells you how to life your life, but there is a good to it to.
The good part of the society is that it is keeping everything healthy, like for a person they will tell you what you have to eat and the amount {you don’t make dinner! The society does!} To keep you healthy! They tell you to do this exercise for this amount of time to keep you healthy but matching up boys and girls to have healthy offspring and that you have to die at 80 is totally horrible rules in my eyes but if you look in the society eyes they see a long, non- sickness, healthy and happy life, and what causes this, the society’s rules! Even thought our government doesn’t do all this it does help us by giving us access to gyms, giving us help, professional health trainers etc…
I think it is a totally a ridicules idea to match up boys and girls according to DNA is totally un- healthy for people! What if a girl likes this boy but she gets matched up with another boy that can affect the girl or boy mentally which can lead to depression which can lead to death maybe! But our government allows us to love who we want. It give us that freedom, so we can choose the person we can spend a happy life . I also think it is a ridicules idea that you know you know you are going die at age 80 because who would want to know when they are going to die? Since you know when you are going to die, you can finish what you want in life but also you know you are going to die at age 80 and you are 74 you can just say “ what the use of doing this I just going die anyways”., which can be unhealthy too. Us even thought some of us can know when we might die, but doctors give us hope to life a life and since most of don’t it leaves us with a suspense.
Friday, March 22, 2013
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.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
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.
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.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
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.
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.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
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.
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.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
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.
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