10th Grade Summer Reading #4

I read this book instead of the rest because this book seemed like it would be interesting. The cover really caught my along with the title when I was looking through the options. Most of the other novels seemed to be romance novels by their name and I am a man, I can't be reading romance novels. Also I was to lazy to go into depth and look up the other books so I just picked this one. I enjoyed it actually. I made some connections to the characters, like with Nailer, we both would pick the morally correct answer and go with the right choice when faced with a problem. I would recommend this book to those who like reading future dystopian society books like Hunger
Games and Divergent where the rules of the world are different than they are now.

10th Grade Summer Reading #3

A section in the book that is for hooking the reader into the story is at the beginning of the story when  he fell into a pocket of oil inside the ship when the duct he was crawling in have in from underneath him. He found a doorway out and opened it before he was sucked into the black sludge and died. "He smashed into water. Sea salt swallowed him. The surge and swell of an oily sea. The roll of breakers. Nailer surged upward, kicking for the surface. Broke out into sunlight and waves, gasping. He sucked air, flooding his lungs with shining clean oxygen, starved for all the life he'd been sure he'd lost." This  passage was that after he opened the door he was sucked into it with the oil he was neck deep in. He was submerged in the oil for a long time and he was close to drowning but when he met fresh air when the oil stream carried him out he was submerged the ocean but he kicked upwards and was able to breathe again. He was close to death. This hooks you on the story because the imagery provided a good sense of what was happening and you could picture it perfectly. It also has a good plot line because the problems he goes through, everything seems lost but he overcomes it in a miraculously.

10th Grade Summer Reading #2

Nailer'a desires is to get rich and get out of the slums he is living in, tearing apart ships. There is also a side to him that's wants him to do the right thing and save Lucky Girl from her crash. His desires are torn half and half. Both could lead to a prosperous future but if he saves the girl, he could be taking a risk and get fired from the only job he could have and have no hopes of living. On the other hand he has a safe and secure way if getting rich. Lucky Girl's desires are to get home after her family was killed in the storm that drove them ashore. She is set on one thing unlike Nailer but her fate relies on Nailer. Pima is set on getting rich from tearing apart the ship she found with Nailer. She is more of the antagonist against Lucky Girl. Though Pima doesn't know Lucky Girl is a survivor on the ship. Themes that are appearing is that you should help another person if they are in need instead of selfish desires. Another is don't let other peer pressure you into doing what you don't want. Though later Pima does discover Lucky Girl and goes along with saving her. She goes from be antagonist to protagonist. The book is structured through Nailers perspective in 3rd person. It follows Nailer and what is happening to him. The story goes from what is happening at the wreck to Nailers job at tearing apart the ship.

10th Grade Summer Reading #1

The book I am reading for my summer reading project is a book called Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi. This book is about a boy named Nailer who is a small boy who lives in a future dystopian society where oil is scarce and so are metals such as copper and steel. He works as a poor boy who has to tear apart and scavenge these things from ships that are rusted over and are beached ashore. There are two types of crews that year apart the ship; Nailer works in a light crew which are usually small people and children who aren't big and bulky. The light crew goes through the ducts of
The ship and around the outside scavenging some lightweight stuff like copper wire. The other crew type is heavy crew, which rips apart the heavy stuff like the metal plates on the outside of the ship. The main conflict is that after a giant storm hit the beach they were working on, a clipper, which in the novel is a very fast boat made from the scraps from the beached ships they were tearing apart, is run ashore. Inside the ship is a lone survivor which is a wealthy girl who won't tell Nailer her name. Nailer decides to name her Lucky Girl because she was the only survivor of her ship. Nailer must choose to tear apart her clipper ship and become rich but betray the girl of ever getting home or save the girl who may lead him to a better lifestyle later. This book reminds me of other future dystopian societies like the hunger games which the government is bad and cares only themselves. The main characters of the book are Nailer who is a small but nifty boy who is torn whether he should betray or save the wealthy girl. The next is Lucky Girl who is the survivor of the clipper that crashed; she is nice but isn't outgoing and doesn't like to say what's on her mind. The last is Pima who is Nailers light crew boss. She tries convincing Nailer to tear apart the ship

Blog Post #6

Now in Lord of the Rings, Frodo stands there in a shadowy gloomy place where he can see the outside world around him, but he hears whispers like someone is trying to communicate to him. He escapes the scene and takes the ring off but as he tries to escape to his room inside the inn, the stranger that was staring at him in the darkness. The stranger takes him upstairs but introduces himself as Aragorn and that Fodo is in danger. They go to hide out in Aragorn's room and Sam, Pippin and Merry break into the room to try and save Frodo but Aragorn explains to them that he is there to help. While Frodo and the rest of his friends are sleeping, the ring-wraiths go into the room where they were supposed to sleep and attack the beds they were hiding at. Aragorn observes this from his window, watching them attack the empty beds where they were supposed to sleep.

This book is turning out really well. Its nice to read what the movie was trying to show. The bad parrt is that I know what is going to happen next.

Post #5

Now in the The Lord of the Rings, Frodo is travelling in the woods towards Bree where he has to meet Gandalf, but on the road he senses a dark presence coming from down the road. He tells Sam, Pippin and Merry to hide benath a ditch in the ground. Frodo then hides there as well and they hear a horserider pull up alongside where they are hiding. The rider starts sniffing to where the ring is that Frodo has. Then Pippin throws a bag across the woods to distract the rider and escape. The rider falls for it chasing to where the noise was in the woods. They flee out into the woods. A while later Frodo wanders onto the road again to Bree and he sees the same rider that was stalking them before. This time the rider sees him as well. 6 more riders appear and Frodo and the rest of them, run away to try and get to a boat alonside Brandywine River, they succeed, being able to find a way to get away but the riders start heading towards a bridge 3 miles away.

Frodo has arrived in Bree to meet Gandalf in the Inn of the Prancing Pony but when Frodo asks the bartender if he has seen Gandalf, the bartender says he hasn't. They buy some drinks and sit to enjoy themselves in the tavern but they start to become suspicious of a man staring at them in the shadows. When Pippin goes to get himself a pint of beer to drink, Frodo overhears him saying stuff about the secret journey they are going on. Frodo runs up to Pippin to make him stop but he slips and the ring in his hand falls onto his finger and Frodo disappears.

Blogging Assessment #1

Blogging Assessments #1

So after staying at Tom's house for quite a while, they decide to head on and leave the safety of his home and they start to head into the Barrow-Downs. It is like a giant graveyard where a battle was held but most of all of them dies so they buried them in mass graves. Most people avoid the Barrow-Downs for they think that it is haunted. While Frodo and the three other hobbits with him start to make their way through the Barrow-Downs, after a while all four of them fall down a hole into one of the mass graves I mentioned earlier. And while in the hole one of the ghosts of a former warrior that fought in the Barrow-Downs comes to life and tries to kill Frodo but Tom came into the hole right when Frodo was losing consciousness and stops the ghost. Tom then escorts them through the rest of the Barrow-Downs without any harm.

The summary I mentioned above was not in the movie. Which it could've been in the movie but got cut as a deleted scene, because there were a lot of those, but it was not in the original movie so it was seeing something new that I would not expect. One quote in the book is, "Suddenly, resolve hardened in him, and he seized a short sword that lay beside him, and kneeling he stooped low over the bodies of his companions. With what strength he had he hewed at the crawling arm near the wrist, and the hand broke off; but at the same moment the sword splintered up to the hilt. There was a shriek and the light vanished. In the dark there was a snarl." The tone of this quote was gloominess, and fear. The situation of having no light and then there being a snarl in the darkness makes it gloomy, with fear put into it. (Blog Post #4)

 

1.    I generally use common words with a couple of advanced words thrown in, like I said gloominess but I also say simple words like mentioned. I use these words or phrases so that it is still easily able to read my blog without going over what happened and having to re-read it. You don’t have to stare at my blog trying to decipher what it is trying to say. But still these words can affect the reader and how they think, but maybe not as much because I don’t use the big advanced words which would have more meaning on the reader.

2.    The diction I am using in my blog posts is mostly low/informal diction. It’s not fancy, big words where sometimes you have to look up the meaning. I use words that are low, that most people can understand. Textual evidence in the story is, “The summary I mentioned above was not in the movie.” Anyone that looks at the sentence can tell what its saying. The sentence length I use is long. My post above may seem very long with a lot of sentences but it’s not; it has long sentences. Textual Evidence is that the post above is only 11 sentences but it seems very long.

Krista Ramsey Post

Krista Ramsey Article

The article I read about from Krista Ramsey is The Very Poor Case for Arming Teachers. The article was about, like the title says, the outweighing negatives about arming a teacher in case of a school shooting. In the article it suggests questions like how would a Police Officer know a assailant from an educator, or making a teacher, a person in regards with education become an arms bearer.

My favorite line that she says in the article is, "It's unrealistic and, in fact, insulting to think people who entered the profession of education should be turned into teacher-law enforcement hybrids." That's the quote that spoke to me the most; how do we make a teacher, who is meant for educating, become a person that has to hold a gun and be trained to use it in the correct situation. I like how she said hybrid as a choice of diction like the person is some sort of mutant that wasn't supposed to be. She also says that it is oblivious to think that people who entered one profession, has to do a profession totally different.

The writing style, is that she tries to use emotions to try and persuade or affect the reader. Like here, she tries to persuade the reader that arming teachers has a very poor case. In the other articles, like the dog one sitting out in the cold, she uses sadness to affect the reader.

Three Questions:
1.What got you interested in writing columns?

2. What drives you to write for these people that do good deeds, or live through tough times?

3.How do you decide on which ideas you should do for your stories.

Post #4

So after staying at Tom's house for quite a while, they decide to head on and leave the safety of his home and they start to head into the Barrow-Downs. It is like a giant graveyard where a battle was held but most of all of them dies so they buried them in mass graves. Most people avoid the Barrow-Downs for they think that it is haunted. While Frodo and the three other hobbits with him start to make their way through the Barrow-Downs, after a while all four of them fall down a hole into one of the mass graves I mentioned earlier. And while in the hole one of the ghosts of a former warrior that fought in the Barrow-Downs comes to life and tries to kill Frodo but Tom came into the hole right when Frodo was losing consciousness and stops the ghost. Tom then escorts them through the rest of the Barrow-Downs without any harm.

The summary I mentioned above was not in the movie. Which it could've been in the movie but got cut as a deleted scene, because there was a lot of those, but it was not in the original movie so it was seeing something new that I would not expect. One quote in the book is, "Suddenly, resolve hardened in him, and he seized a short sword that lay beside him, and kneeling he stooped low over the bodies of his companions. With what strength he had he hewed at the crawling arm near the wrist, and the hand broke off; but at the same moment the sword splintered up to the hilt. There was a shriek and the light vanished. In the dark there was a snarl." The tone of this quote was gloominess, and fear. The situation of having no light and then there being a snarl in the darkness makes it gloomy, with fear put into it.

Blog post 3

So now in The Lord of the Rings, Frodo is trying to escape the shire with the ring and make it to The Prancing Pony, an inn located in Bree which is a town owned by men rather than Hobbits, on the way there they have to go through a forest called the Great Woods and when there they decide to rest and sleep by a big oak tree. The tree comes alive and sucks Pippin into its roots and so they have to pull him out but they fail until a man named Tom Bombardil comes along and commands the tree to let Pippin go, the tree obeys Tom and they go to Tom's house in the Great Woods for a safe place to rest.

I am liking this book right now even if it is really long and some chapters are 40 pages which is annoying but it is still a good book, I am recommending it to whoever would like a challenge with reading. I predict that Frodo and his group will have to get to the Prancing Pony after resting at Tom's house for a couple days and get ready to leave again. But they will have to be challenged while getting there like one of the wraiths catching up to their trail.

So far what is happening in the Lord of the Rings is that Frodo found out Bilbo disappeared from the party using a magic ring. Then Gandalf tells Frodo that the ring belongs to Sauron and that when 9 rings were made for men, 7 for dwarves and 3 for elves, Sauron made this one to destroy all other's. But during the Battle of Mount Doom long ago, Sauron was killed by Isildur and the ring was lost until it was found by Gollum. Gollum kept the ring for 500 years, the ring giving Gollum unnatural long life. But the ring fell away from Gollum and it was found by Bilbo who escaped with it. Now Sauron, a phantom of his former self has sent the 9  men who possessed the original rings, now wraiths, to retrieve it.

I predict that Frodo will be forced to flee from the Shire to escape the Ring-Wraiths chasing after him and that he will need to go far away with the ring to make sure it doesn't get into Sauron's grasp again. I'm liking this book so far, the author goes into real depth about every detail as if you were there in the story looking or feeling what he was describing. Some parts get confusing but ultimately you can still understand it. It's a good book in my opinion, there's some parts that aren't in the movie which is like reading something I wouldn't expect.

New Book

   For my 2nd independent reading book for English 1B, I will be reading Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring. I've seen all the movies and read the Hobbit so I decided to read this and see if it was good. I only read a little bit of it so far and they're at the part where they are getting ready for a party for Bilbo, if you've seen the movie you would know what I'm talking about. I haven't really read enough to judge the book but I'm hoping it's as good as the movies.


The story follows a Hobbit (a humanoid that is about half the size of a human) named Frodo who is awaiting the arrival of his friend Gandalf, who is a old wizard. Then during the party, Bilbo shuffles around with a ring in his pocket then he says goodbye to the party and he disappeared. Everyone at the party was confused where he went except Frodo and Gandalf.

Fahrenheit 451 Characterization

    My character description is about Captain Beatty. The way Captain Beatty views his job is that it is important to society and is required to stop books from neglecting a certain group of people, and to get rid of the past. Captain Beatty reacts to the woman burning in the house by saying that is was necessary that it happened to burn all the books in the house. He believed in the law and let the woman burn since she had the match in her hand.

   The way I see Captain Beatty is that he looks like a brute of a man. he has big, bulking muscles, he has a orange snake tattoo on his bicep to represent his fireman position. He has burn scars varying around his body since he is a fireman. He has a sharp chin line and he also has a trimmed beard and moustache. He seems like the person who would likely have blonde or black hair. The most important said by him is, "At least once in his career, every fireman gets an itch. What do the books say, he wonders. Oh, to scratch that itch, eh" Pg.59. This meant that every fireman wonders about the books just like Montag is doing now. His curiosity gets the best of them and they want to see what is in them. The most important said about Captain Beatty is, "And men like Beatty are afraid of her. I can't understand it. Why should they be so afraid of someone like her?" Pg. 64. This means that Captain Beatty and the rest of the people who believe in the government are afraid of people like Clarisse who wonder about the world and WHY things happens.