Reading Response

 This week I have pretty much finished The Lost Heros  by Rick Riordan.  It has been really interesting and I have really liked the new stories and characters,  but I really love how Rick Riordan has also incorporated old characters into the story as well. One of the main parts of this story has been about how Percy has gone missing and how they are trying to find Hera and find him, I think the book would have been even better if Percy and all of the old characters were in it again.
 IM very excited for the next book in this series because Percy will be back in it. I am interested to see how these characters will all adapt and be put into the same story line. I predict that they may not completely get along because they have both become like the leaders of their friends. This week I read for 175 minutes and read 80 pages.

Reading Response

       This week I have almost completely finished my book, The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan. So far the three main characters; Jason, Leo, and Piper are trying to find and release Hera who has supposedly stolen Jasons memory. Jason is named after and important man in Roman history named Jason as well. Leo has the ability to summon fire and he is also immune to it, piper is about to charm talk people and Jason can summon lighting so its interesting to see how they use these abilities in situations.  I think I will be able to finish by the end of this week.
      Along with our regular free reading we have also begun our poetry in english. We had to read " The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop. In the beginning of the poem she begins to describe the looks of the fish she has caught. When she takes a closer look she sees that the fish has five more fish lines stuck in his mouth. In the end I guess she felt sorry for the old fish who based on the lines, had been caught many times before, because in the end she lets the fish go.

Poetry & Movies

       This week we began our poetry course in english, I was looking forward to this because I do really like poetry. To me poetry is kind of like a puzzle because you have to try to figure out what exactly is going on in the poem. Although usually it takes me quite a while to figure out what some poems mean its really cool because a lot of the time poems have more than one meaning they sometimes can be talking about more than one story as well. My favorite kind of poems are the ones that can be so short but still have such a more interesting and detailed meaning.
       Yesterday I finally got to see the Hunger Games which was the movie adapted from the book by Susan Collins. Most of the time the directors will make the movie so different form the book that its almost not even following the story line. In this movie Susan Collins did the screen play and was a big part of the movie, which really did the movie good. There were certain parts of the movie were the actors said lines right form the book and I really liked it because the movie was almost as good as the book.

Reading Response

      Currently I am ready The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan. I just really started to get into the book and so far I really like it. I also loved the Percy Jackson series which was the earlier series before this. I have always found greek mythology interesting so I think thats why I like these books so much. The Lost Hero focuses mainly only Roman mythology that means new stories, new characters, and new problems.
      Right now in the story Leo, Piper, and Jason are trying to figure out what happened to Hera. Jasons memory was taken from Hera and finding her would mean finding out who he really is. Im just starting to really get into the story but so far its really good.

KONY 2012

   Recently, many people have been seen the video KONY 2012. A lot of people that have seen that video, including me, were really inspired by it and wanted to help. The way the video was made it was like watching 30 minutes of these poor kids suffering and having to be afraid every time they were going to sleep. The man who made the video went on a mission trip there and learned all about who Kony was and what he did, he even talked to many of the people who escaped from Kony. As the video explains, Kony is a Uganda dictator who takes children from there homes and put them into armies to fight and sells them as sex slaves. After watching the video I couldn't see how this was just starting to become important if Kony had been doing this for years now, but more recently I learned the other side of this story.
   A few days after the KONY 2012 video went up, another video went up which had been made by someone who actually lived in Uganda. What was said in this video, I thought, was very suprising. Kony has actually not been in Uganda for over six years now, and many people in Uganda are greatly offended by the Kony 2012 video because it makes Uganda look like such an awful place. Now of course there are two sides to every story but I think that its really interesting how this who issue over took America and we don't even know all the facts.

Reading Response

      Right now I'm reading The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, it was recommended to me by my friend Jerry and Ive been wanting to read it for awhile. I have always been kind of interested in greek mythology so I knew I would probably find this book interesting. This book is a follow up series to the The Lighting Thief series also by Rick Riordan. The difference is in the previous series it was about greek mythology this more recent series is about the Romans. 

      The book follows three main characters Jason, Leo, and Piper. The book also has most of the old characters form the previous series in the book but it mainly focuses on these new characters. I have really like it so far because this book is like a fresh start to the same kind of story expect its an entire new history from the Roman point of view. 

Reading Response

      Right now I'm reading The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, it was recommended to me by my friend Jerry and Ive been wanting to read it for awhile. I have always been kind of interested in greek mythology so I knew I would probably find this book interesting. This book is a follow up series to the The Lighting Thief series also by Rick Riordan. The difference is in the previous series it was about greek mythology this more recent series is about the Romans.
      The book follows three main characters Jason, Leo, and Piper. The book also has most of the old characters form the previous series in the book but it mainly focuses on these new characters. I have really like it so far because this book is like a fresh start to the same kind of story expect its an entire new history from the Roman point of view.

The Hunger Games

      One of my absolute favorite books is The Hunger Games trilogy by Susan Collins. Its really the only book I've ever been able to read that really grabbed my attention to the point where I couldn't put the book  down. I was so excited when I heard that the book was going to be made into a movie. I really want to see how they are going to put such an amazing book into a movie. For those who have already read it you know there is a lot of violence in the book, there are some very complex characters.
   Almost always the book is better than the movie so I am not expecting this movie to beat the book, which would be hard but I am excited to see how they are going to do this. There are many scenes in the book that I can imagine would be very hard to film because of the violence or point of views of the scene. I know many people are looking forward to this movie along with me so I'm really excited to see it!

Character Comparisons

Throughout the book Nervous Conditions many of the characters have changed. Whether changing personalities,views, or traditions of things almost all characters have grown in some way after deling with some sort of situation. I think the two best examples of this are Nyasha and Tambu. At the beginning of the book Tambu had always just really accepted the way things were, she was never always agreeing with what was being done but she never usually interjected. She had wanted an education more than anything and had never  really be so fond of Nyasha. Nyasha at the beginning of the book was the exact opposite. She was very out spoken, outgoing, and very rebellious. 

   When we look at our characters at the end of the book they have both changed for better and for worse. Nyasha has gone from being rebellious and from being so outgoing to being weak, unhealthy and obsessed with studying. She is so obsessed with studying and she is so unhealthy form her diet that she has a break down and has to be placed in a clinic. Tambu on the other hand has changed for the better. She is much more of her own person after having so much education and having so many new and different experiences. 

Character Comparisons

Throughout the book Nervous Conditions many of the characters have changed. Whether changing personalities,views, or traditions of things almost all characters have grown in some way after deling with some sort of situation. I think the two best examples of this are Nyasha and Tambu. At the beginning of the book Tambu had always just really accepted the way things were, she was never always agreeing with what was being done but she never usually interjected. She had wanted an education more than anything and had never  really be so fond of Nyasha. Nyasha at the beginning of the book was the exact opposite. She was very out spoken, outgoing, and very rebellious. 

   When we look at our characters at the end of the book they have both changed for better and for worse. Nyasha has gone from being rebellious and from being so outgoing to being weak, unhealthy and obsessed with studying. She is so obsessed with studying and she is so unhealthy form her diet that she has a break down and has to be placed in a clinic. Tambu on the other hand has changed for the better. She is much more of her own person after having so much education and having so many new and different experiences. 

Reading Response

This week we have finished Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Throughout the book we have followed Tambu on her emotional, physical, and spiritual journey thoughout her life. She has gone from a girl who was basically being denied an education to being able to get the best possible education there is. She has also grown as a person, part of that comes from being with Nyasha so much that she has developed into a completely different person.

  While living with Babamukuru, Tambu has experienced different situations grown form all of them. One of the main events that took place at the end of the book was when Nyasha stared to have a break down because of all the pressure and unhealthy conditions she had put herself under. I think that this really made Tambu realize how much had changed back at home while she was at Sacred Heart.