Period 4 - Blog Entry #3

11/24/2009 7:31:13 AM #

Kuulei Pereira
November 23, 2009
Period 4
Blog Entry Number 3
Book: Story of A Girl
Author: Sara Zarr
Page Numbers: 192

Throughout the sequence of the story the main character, Deanna Lambert, had changed drastically. She had once been an immature teenager, but she began taking responsibility for her faults and this changed her as a person. Sure Deanna hadn't been the best girl in the world, but she had worked hard for self improvement. Deanna had started living up to her mistakes and tried to change herself for the better.
Deanna had lived a young life full of drugs, alcohol, and boys. While most girls Deanna's age were out at the mall, she had been abusing drugs. However, throughtout the story and her life, she began changing. She got a job, stopped using drugs so much, and tried to mend her broken relationship with her father. "This was my plan: I'd get a job, right, and work my butt off all summer, then Darren and Stacy and me would pool our money and find a place." (page 15)
Deanna had made commitments and started taking action. She began changing her normal daily routines and incorporated a job and family recovery into her routine. Deanna had made sure to do her work, stop abusing drugs as much, and dealing with her problems the right way. She began patching up her relationship with her father. They began to get along again, and he showed his forgiveness in small simpe ways. Deanna had worked hard to get what she wanted which was self improvement.
The way I see it, people are always striving for self improvement. I see us slaving over ourselves trying to better everything we do. I myself, can relate to Deanna simply because I had spent a lot of time working hard to better the things that I do. Making sure I had a good relationship with people, getting work done, and just being a better person. I believe that the intangible thing that many people desire is self improvement and that is what they work for.
Deanna started off as a girl who had broken every rule in the book. However, as life went on, Deanna found herself working with time trying to better herself. She wanted the best for herself, and also the ones she loved. This was he sign that basically told her that she could do better. Deanna made a lot of changes to the way she lived and a lot of things about her. By the end of the story, Deanna had been able to at least get her life on a steady track.

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11/24/2009 7:20:32 PM #

Victor Chan
11/21/09
Period 4
Title: A Step from heaven
Author: An Na
Page #’S: 156
  In life we all face struggles and mishaps that we eventually try to hover over. Sometimes it takes more time than expected. But we all eventually succeed the problems we face. In the story, young ju is a girl and she is four years old. But she lives in Korea but her parents work a lot to give their kids a better life but her dad has an alcohol problem. But she is not an only child she has a brother but he is younger than he is. But they struggle to afford a live.
  You, little one, are my hope. Pg 19. In this quote uhmma is talking to young ju and they are talking about hair and mi gook said you can grow up to be anything you want. But I think that this quote means that the little one is their only hope of surviving.  But before this happen young ju was talking to uhmma about hair but they are talking about an ahjimma having curly hair but mostly this quote is talking about hair. The person that is talking is young ju. Young ju is talking to uhmma about hair but she is also talking about how uhmma fixes the bow in her hair but she also help her tuck her hair behind her ear. This quote is signification because she is saying that the kids are there only hope of surviving or is there only hope. This supports my idea because they have struggle a lot to get a good life and I bet you that they don’t have a good life but when they said that they are the only hope I bet you that they were happy.
  Do you give up? Pg 60. In this quote some blob is asking them do they give up. In this quote a blob showed up and started attacking them and he reaches out to grab uhmma ankles but she jumps out of the way and runs for the kitchen but she return with a towel coiled and ready for combat so she swipes the blobs butt. The person that is talking is uhmma and the blob. Uhmma is talking to the blob because the blob started attacking it. This is signification because it’s a good question if somebody ask me do you give up I will say no because if I say no then they will think I am a chicken for giving up. This supports my idea because they had a hard life and I bet you that they didn’t give up and I bet you that they wanted to give up but they couldn’t.
  I can connect this to life because my parents have a hard life to support me and my brother because my dad has two jobs to support us but my mom also works a job today but it’s really tiring to have a job because my mom is always tired when she comes home from work. It remind me of something I saw before because I see a lot of homeless people trying to survive in the real world and I know its hard because I see them begging for money and it makes me thinking that I have a good life even if I am not rich but I have to thankful that we have a house and a good life. There is a lesson learned and the lesson is that you should thankful for the stuff you have because there’s a lot of people that don’t have the life you do and I bet you that they would do anything to sleep In a nice warm bed or to have a nice warm meal so the lesson is be thankful for the stuff you have. The author message is valid because the author is trying to tell us that some people have a hard life and they don’t have as easy as we do today but also to tell us that parents also work hard to provide for us.
  So in conclusion the author main point of the story is trying to tell us that some people have a hard life then us but also that we should be thankful for the stuff we have. But also those parents have a hard life because some parents have to work two jobs just to support their family because it’s true some dads have more than one job. But it’s also saying that even if you have a hard life you should still be happy because even if your poor you should be happy to have your family with you because even if your poor you should be happy that your family is still around to protect you from fear.

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11/25/2009 5:29:39 AM #

Surrender, Sonya Hartnett, Page number 30.
So far what i've read was Sonya Hartnett is making the writtings very dark. I think she is making it dark because it shows all the pain and suffering she went through.
Page number 1. quote ' I am dying it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: DYING."
The girl dying in the book is talking. She is talking to the world. She is dying and is depressed that she has to leave this beautiful world. This is important because this is a key plot in the story. This backs up my idea because it shows it in the quote.
The thing that this reminds me of is when i got in trouble. I got in a lot of trouble in 7th grade becasue i had bad grades and i was doing bad. It made me feel so sick that i felt like dying! But then i worked it out. This does show what an effective messsage this is because it shows that there are bigger more worse things that other people are going through. Like leaving this beautiful world.
I think that she is depressed.

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11/25/2009 5:32:15 AM #

Jenna Pak
Period 4
November 23, 2009

Blog Entry #3
Book: Under the Blood-Red Sun
Author: Graham Salisbury
Pages: 244

     Every place in the world has people that others don’t enjoy being with or are disliked by many. Well, Keet Wilson was one of those people because of his ungrateful actions he always made to others each day.
     Keet Wilson was the neighborhood bully who did horrible things to people of his age. He was hateful since he was willing to fight others, had an attitude, and did many wrong actions to others for no good reasons. “It was him, you know… He told the police about your birds.” (pg. 139) Keet stormed away after fighting Jake and Jake told this piece of information to Tomi as he left. Tomi’s family owned pigeons and cared for them every single day. During World War II, Keet told the soldiers that they were messengers to the opposite side when they are really racer birds. The important thing is Keet knew that they were racers but he lied to the soldiers anyway. Tomi and his grandpa were forced to kill every single one of them with their own hands because of Keet. He did a horrible thing to Tomi and his family and for not a very good reason.
     This can be connected to the real world because there is always going to be someone like this in our lives. Not everyone can have great qualities but unfortunately, some have a lot of bad ones. Everyone will have to deal with this kind of person at least once in their lifetime. I think that this is trying to show readers how bullies affect the people around them. People get angry and they want to hurt the bully since they are just so frustrated at them. But the best way to deal with it is to ignore it. Even though it can be super hard, at least no one will get hurt in the end. Violence is never the answer. The book also shows that there are also reasons why humans act the way they act. I try to be nice and treat others the way I want to be treated because my parents treat me that way AND they taught me to be like that. I also read in stories that people who hurt others do that because they are getting hurt by the ones they love so they take it out on the people around them. Even though, some people have big qualities that make people dislike them, I think that deep inside, they can be a great person too.
     There are people that have bad characteristics which make them the kind of person they are so they are not liked by others. Many have certain reasons why they do but no one really knows. So the best way to deal with them is to ignore, not provoke because that ultimately keeps peace in the world.  
  

kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/emotion/bullies.html

http://www.netpoets.com/poems/teenlife/0907001.htm

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11/25/2009 7:31:13 AM #

Genta Hammani
period,4
11/24/09
blog entry3 Surrender 255pages
This book was actually a good book the book was pretty much about a boy named Gabriel . He had many problems a big one was that he was immobile so he is pretty much just stuck yo a bed. he had a family consisting his father his mother hid brother and dog. so my prompt Ia m going to answer is that "how would you have done in this certain situation". the inert is"was never the elder of us". For the interpret section If i was Gabriel I would have made the dumb chooses he made because that was dumb just as the example where when he accidentally killed his older brother. so how he ment of was never the elder of us"even though he was the younger brother is because the older brother Vernon was mentally retarded. And because of that he had to take care of him because the mother and father would at the age of 7. Insight how i can connect this to my life is just because some one has a disability does not mean you got to think of them in a different way and treat them with disrespect. What i mean by that is like when people see other persons with disability they all ways laugh or give them the stink eye which is very rude and i think the persons mom should take better care just like how the mom in the story never but that was only because she was sick.so basically the idea of this I guess was to teach people a lesson because this story was a good example.  

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11/25/2009 8:48:47 AM #

Kelsie Chinen
Period 4
11/24/09
Blog Entry #3
Title: A Step from Heaven
Author: An Na
Page #’s: 154

          I never feel like I hate a person, but there are sometimes qualities in people that I dislike, and in this book, I dislike some of the qualities of the main character’s (Young Ju’s) father.
          Qualities that I like in a person are the typical things that any other person would like. I like it when people are kind, caring, patient, and fair. Young Ju’s father seems to be the total opposite of quite a few of those things. He is not fair or patient, and the way he acts towards his family shows those bad qualities in him. It seems that he has to have his family do as he pleases and if they do anything to upset him, no matter how little it is, it would be a big deal to him and he wouldn’t be afraid throw a punch. “You, Apa shouts and hits the side of my head with his knuckles, will never question me.” (Page 109) Young Ju only asked her father a question, and he becomes so upset that it made him punch her in the face. This definitely does not show him being very kind or patient. It greatly upsets me how unfair that is. Violence is never right or fair.
          No one is ever perfect and will have all of the right qualities in them, and even if there are so many bad qualities in a person, there are some good qualities in them somewhere deep down. Young Ju’s father did have a moment of being caring and showing that he is not heartless. “He tells me, Halmoni was a good woman. She always tried her best to make everyone happy.” (Page 93) This shows that he did see and appreciate the things that his mother did. It showed that he cared about her when he let out tears. He also had a sweet moment with Young Ju talking about her grandma and his mother. “Apa bows his head. He reaches back and holds my hand.” (Page 94) Young Ju’s father does have a caring heart. You just have to dig very deep to hit that gusher.
          I think that this related to life in general because there are all types of people out there. No one has the perfect qualities and not everyone will be fair. I can’t really compare this to my life because I neither of my parents have ever abused me, and I am proud to be able to say that. Reading this book makes me realize how much I should appreciate having such caring, wonderful parents and an awesome family.
          I can never say that I hate a person because hate is such a negatively strong word, but I do strongly dislike some qualities in some people including Young Ju’s father.

http://www.domesticviolence.org/

www.yumasun.com/.../child-54088-says-parent.html

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11/26/2009 9:10:36 PM #

Kevin Uejio
11/25/09
Period 4

Blog entry #2
Title: A Step from Heaven
Author: An Na
Pages: 154

  The book “A Step from Heaven” is about a girl named Young Ju, who has moved with her family from Korea to America (Mi Gook). In America, she faces many challenges and hardships with her family, and when she gets a new little brother, she isn’t the baby anymore.  
  “Her words make me small. Small in my heart because I do not want to be reasonable.  I want Uhmma (Mom) to buy me a balloon even though we have already spent too much money at a place we should not have been. I want  to shout and cry, be the baby, not the Uhn-nee.(Older sister)” (page 48)
  This insert is said by the narrator, Young Ju. This is her thoughts after talking with her mom, as the book is in a first person view. She thinks this because Young Ju is jealous that Joon, her younger brother, got a nice yellow balloon and all she got was the junk purple elephant.  When Joon was born, he became the attention hog, and now Young Ju never got any attention anymore. Everyone said she was older now, and not a baby. This quote is significant because I think most people with younger siblings had this problem.
  I can connect through this because my cousin faced the same problem like Young Ju when a new baby came into the family. Everyone ignored her, and gave all their attention to the cute baby. I think everyone wants attention, because it makes them feel better, but when no one wants to pay attention to you, you feel worse. And so, just like Young Ju, my cousin became jealous and didn’t like having another sibling so she would be mean to her little sister. However, doing this never solves a problem. I really think maybe you just got to get along and try to act more mature, even if it may be hard.

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11/27/2009 8:02:01 PM #

The book that i'm reading is threw the eyes of the emperor i spent about half an hour to try figure of the rising point of the story and finally got to it.i have read from about 70 pages in that time from chapter 4 to chapter because the book kept on getting more interesting the amount of pages in the book is 228 and i am on page 102. i think this book was based on the main character whose name is eddy. he and his family enjoy living in hawaii and hope war doesn't  break out so they have to move back to japan. during that time eddy is afraid his family will have to move back to japan and eddy will have to join the war in hawaii. after the thinks this he thinks he should join the war anyway to make some money for his family and so he wouldn't have to join anyway so he decides to lie n his birth certificate to be 18 and enroll with the army with his friends. so when i read into the middle of the book i came to rising point where war broke out and many japanese became threats to the americans in the war. so when this happened Japanese were being treated badly and like enemies. so eddy and the rest of his group become worried that they think their commander thinks their a threat to the army so they decide to tell the japanese that they have a special mission in the mainland. when eddy and his friends were being told that they became suspicious that something would go wrong with the army and their families.eddy had found a newspaper from two days ago and found a section were it said that any japanese men in the mainlands would be moved to a internment camp in San Francisco. so when he saw that he rushed to call his mom in honolulu to see if his brother and his dad were not arrested, they weren't. one quote that i found in the book is "you a prisinor now. the army ain't going sat it, but when they look at us they don't see soldiers. what they see is japs. what they see is the enemies." this quote ment that they were now a threat to the americans, and eddy said we are all americans. another interesting thing i found in story is when they were out searching by the sea for traveling japanese ships they found a drifting man that had been drowned by another submarine. when they brought him into shore only eddy could speak to him in japanese and he said to kill him which he thought was odd but it was a sacred japanese code called Bushido code it meant that if you captured in battle it was like a sin and to be penalized for it.

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11/27/2009 9:48:08 PM #

Cavina Quach
November 24, 2009
Period 4
Blog Entry #3
Story of a Girl  
Sara Zarr    
192 pages
Prompt #16   To what extent is a character responsible for his or her own success/failure?
  This is a story of a girl and the hardships that she experiences as a teenager. She made a very bad mistake when she was thirteen, and that mistake will never leave her. It was something she did that ended up ruining her social life, school, and her relationship with her family.
  “That was almost three years ago. My dad hasn’t looked me in the eye or talked to me, really talked to me, since. ” (page 2)
  This quote was said when the main character Deanna Lambert, was flashbacking to the night when her father caught her having sex with Tommy Webber in the backseat of his car. This is a significant quote because this was introducing the clashing conflict that is going on between her and her father. This insert supports my idea because it is showing the problems that she has with her father, and therefore her family. It shows that if her father despises her so, that people at school who are hearing rumors will be assuming much more horrible things, thus making her school and social life practically miserable.
  Although this book is really sad, the thing that is sadder is the fact that the things in this book actually happen in real life too. This book shows that things like this can actually happen to almost anyone. It is a good lesson to share with people, and it has a good moral to it. The message that the author is trying to convey is that basically, when you do something bad that you know you are going to regret, you’re going to have to pay the consequences. When you make bad decisions, you are going to be the one that has to pay for it in the end.
  In this book, the main character Deanna Lambert made a bad decision that she has to now face the consequences to. She made that decision on her own, and so she needed to learn to face the problems that she created for herself, and to some extent, had to take responsibility for what she did, and the failure that she caused herself.

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11/28/2009 6:31:55 AM #

Cassidy Hamaoka
November 27, 2009
Period 4

Blog Entry 3
Book: Stargirl
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Pages: 186

  Stargirl was a very appealing character to me. She was different and managed to bring about social changes at her otherwise boring, drab high school. The way that she was able to bring about a quick social change was what made her so interesting to me.
  The high school students at Mica were usually very plain. When Stargirl arrived, she was thought as “Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against. She was unknown territory. Unsafe. We were afraid to get too close.”  (p. 26). Leo was talking about The people didn’t know how to react to her. They didn’t know her well enough at all.
But once people did get to know her, they saw what an inspiration that she could be. “We honored her by imitation. A chorus of ukuleles strummed in the lunchroom. Flowers appeared on classroom desks. One day it rained and a dozen girls went outside to dance. The pet shop at the Mica Mall ran out of rats.” (p. 40). These were considered very bold things that the people were doing. It was out of the ordinary. It only took a little bit of light to shine onto the people so that they could realize what they were missing.
This makes me realize that everyone should have their Stargirl in their life. She was such an inspiring character that made me really see just how important it is to not care about what anyone says about you. It’s important for you to remain yourself and to just live life the way you want to. Stargirl really should be an inspiration to everyone.
Stargirl was a really appealing character to me. She was the painting on a white wall. She stood out. She was different. She was herself.



http://www.netpoets.com/poems/life/1096001.htm

www.authorsden.com/.../viewpoetry.asp

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11/29/2009 12:19:41 AM #

    The book whale rider is mainly about how woman don't get as much respect or chances in life as men. Like how Koro told Paikea (his granddaughter) "I will have nothing to do with you. you have broken the male line of our tribe and because your a girl i have no use for you." (Pg 13)In this quote the chief and grandfather koro is rejecting his granddaughter Paikea just because she is a girl. He rejects her as a girl because girls cannot become a tribe leader so therefore he will have to go out of his bloodline to find the next tribe leader. Story's all over the world happen like this. It was huge in America until the 1950's and it is still going on today. This book can teach you even if you have been toght that a group of people are not as good as you, you can learn to think of them as your equals. And that lesson could help many people in America and the world.

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11/29/2009 6:26:27 AM #

Patrick Ng
11/28/09
Period 4

Blog entry #3
A step from heaven
An Na
Pages read 63( total was 156)

   What I thought of the book so far was pretty weird at first because on page 43 Young Ju says that her baby brother is dead and that she wanted the class to feel sorry for her and I thought that was messed up because that would be wrong in the most  reasonable way. Then later in the story I soon found out that the lie was over and it doesn't come back yet.
  I think that the family is too religious because they always say that god is always gonna be watching them and I think they believe too much and that changes my opinion on this book which is freaked out. If I were to compare this story to my life it would be very opposite in ways like religion, time era, and family. The only thing that would be alike is that  we both have sibling rivalry and also the luck of our younger ones such as on page 55 where young Ju was telling her brother to stop playing around and should help her wash the car and the dad tells her stop telling the younger brother to work because he is working on something which is blowing bubbles and also to have the privilege to actually pee on a bush without being scolded. This also gives me a clue that someday that the brother will be delinquent and this will affect others like the family. I also realized the younger son more than the daughter because the son gets more privileges like less chores and also that even though he is young the daughter still had to work more even thought back then when she was her brothers age she had to work so this shows the brother has  more privileges. I feel that this is the same way I had because my brother gets more things earlier than me like a cell phone.
  I understand what the daughter had to go through and it is hard for her to accept the change so she does have reasons why would she dislike her brother at times.

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11/29/2009 6:53:44 AM #

Asti Au-Franz
November 10, 2009
Period 2
Blog Entry #2
Stargirl By Jerry Spinelli
183 pages (read)
(Sorry this blog is really junk.  I’m pretty sick right now and my mind can’t concentrate at all.  I’ve been sick this whole week and I haven’t been able to write anything well.)

Prompt: Explain what you would have done in a certain situation.

  Love seems like something you never want to let go, yet it seems to come and go.  Some people chase after it while others don’t; some hold on and some let go.
  Leo had an amazing girlfriend, and it was no doubt.  She changed him; left a big impact…, and yet he was still blind.  He was too focused on what everyone else thought that he became blind to how much Stargirl meant to him; how special she was.  Only after she left did he realize how much he had, just like they say, you never know what you’ve got till it’s gone.  The situation I would’ve changed was the dance scene.  After seeing Stargirl walk on to the dance floor looking as pretty as can be, alone without a date, as Leo I would’ve walked up to Stargirl and apologized.  I would have asked her to be my date then, and danced with her all through the night instead of watching her having the time of her life without the person she loved from afar.  He could have been there, and maybe if he had been there Stargirl would have never left.
  “So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was alone, a parade of one.” (page 169-170) This quote is from Leo as he describes the scene from afar.  He was there for hours just watching her.  Other guys even decided to dance with her but all Leo did was watch.   Love should be unconditional and he knew they both loved each other yet he decided to avoid “embarrassment.”  If all he was going to do was ignore her, than they should have broken up.  Stargirl shouldn’t be dressed up so beautifully and her boyfriend doesn’t even care.  “…the flowered bicycle rolled off into the night, and that was the last any of us ever saw of her.”  (page 175)  Upon seeing the one I love ride off into the night, I would have chased her and said something, apologized, anything.  Stargirl leaving, and Leo just standing from a distance bothered me a lot.  It left both sides clueless as to what their relationship was if they had any.  Now it was a mystery and if Stargirl never came back Leo would have to live with regret and questions that may never be answered.
  When love is dying you need to build it back up, out aside the silly stuff, get over it, and move on.  Losing love for small things hurt because you’ll never know how it could have been if you just worked it out.  Love also should be unconditional; you should love someone no matter what they do or how they act.  You love them the way you loved them in the first place.  “If you’re willing to change yourself for someone that someone will never and should never be worth it.”  This can relate to me because I know what it’s like to be loved unconditionally by someone.  Fights will always happen but in the end we always work it out and create a stronger relationship.  Everyone needs someone who will always be there for someone.  Stargirl was one of those people, and I try my best to do the same.  

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11/29/2009 9:48:46 AM #

Kay Hashimoto
11/28/09
Period 4

Title: Stargirl
Author: Jerry Spinelli
pages: 186

Prompt: Figure out the ways a character changed and what caused the changes.

       In Stargirl, it is based on a girl  that has a different personality than other normal teenagers.  I can figure out the ways how Stargirl(Susan) changed and what caused her to change.
       In the book there was a quote that points out the prompt. "She's not real".(pg 7)
       In this quote it started as Stargirl's second day of school at Mica Area High School. Everybody knew the news about the new girl. Hilliari Kimble, the most popular girl in school, was talking about her. She thought that Stargirl was a scam to brighten up the school more because the principal thought that the school was too dead last year. She was talking to the people around her. The quote meant that Stargirl was different for the school to change up. The quote is significant because it supports the prompt when she'll change. One day Leo talked to Stargirl to wish for her to be normal.  She changes the next day because she's in love with Leo and want him to be happy.
       I can somehow connect this to my life because like Stargirl, she tried to fit in.  Everybody tries to fit in, including me. I don't want to be myself, so I just say the things that other people would probably say. Unlike Stargirl she just acts like herself, and when she changes she tries to fit in like everybody else. The book is a good experience to be yourself sometimes.

       After pointing out how Stargirl changes its a good way to be yourself.

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12/3/2009 4:55:20 AM #

Title: Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Pages: 271




       In this book it talks a bout a girl that has lost her memory.  She was a journalist for her school's paper.  She had a good life until she had that accident in school.
       What had happened was that, she was with her best friend (Will) and they were working on the newspaper.  After they had left they school to go to the parking lot, they suddenly realized that they had left the camera in the school.  So they flipped a coin and the loser has to go back, and get it.  She had lost the coin toss, and when she went to go get the camera, she fell down the stairs.  Then after she woke up in a ambulance, and then some people came to visit her and try to jog back her memory.  
       I think this story is very interesting to read.  It makes you want to keep reading, and find out what else is in her life.  So far in the book they said that her parents are divorced, she has a bf, and she has a new place to live.  I would like to know what else is in her life.  Also I would like to know if she gets her memory back.
       If I had a friend or a family member loose their memory, I would like to help them remember.  Imagine if you wake up, and you see someone that you don't recognize but they recognize you then it'll be hard to talk to them because you don't know them.  Also I think that it'll be hard doing that everyday, and your trying to figure out other stuff too.  It's like when I hadn't seen one of my cousins for a long time, I forgot who they were.  So when she was talking to me about all the things we used to do together I couldn't be able to laugh with her.  I felt really bad for not knowing all of those good times, and she remembered all of it.  So I could just imagine not knowing anyone because I don't remember them.
       This impacts on how everyone can go through this.  Also everyone is the same in some ways.  We are alike in many ways, but we just don't know it.  It's because we don't take the time to see, and show each other.  Also we can learn that other people have it worse sometimes.  We have to be thankful for the things we got.  
       In conclusions the story has taught me that you should always cherish the things you have.  Also be happy for all the good friends and family that has your back when you need it.  Also they will always be there for you no matter what.  The story has made me look back on all the things I went through as well.  I went through some hard times with parents, and if I had a hard time my friend was there to cheer me up and help me.  My family helped me as well too.  Also I had to adjust to new places and new things.  It's part of your life that you have to go through.
            
      

Crystal Lu | Reply

12/13/2009 4:23:10 AM #

Title: Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Page: 264
  In the book that i was reading there was a girl that to me had tehe perfectest life a girl can ever have, until sshe made a stupd unlcuky choice. Which in the end turned out for the worse. She gets to leave after school with her friend Will. She and Will both forget to get the camera. But they decide to flip a coin, and she unfortunately chooses the wrong one. And she had to pay the price. She goess into the school and she trips  down the stairs, but she wakes in a ambulance.
  To me this book is so good i just want to keep on reading it and reading it till i get bored of it. So far she has a boyfriend, parents that are divorced and thay dont like each other, in the end i really really really want to finish the book which i probably will do though.
  If somone in my family really got a lost memory and i really didnt like that person then i think i would take advantage of that person. But only for a short time period. Then i would do my best to help them out by either showing them what they did have, and what they did do. Then i would try this over and over again till they understand, the concept and i hope to god that they dont have permanent memory lost. So if i had it i think that my family would try to help me get my memory back and learn my old life and they would try to get my old life back and they wouldnt want me to become a new person.
  In conclusion if you know someone that does have memory lose you shouldnt take advantage of them. You should try the best you can to do to get their membory so thats what i would do. If you where in their shoes you woulddnt want others to take advantage of you. So you would try your best to get their memory if you want the same old person you loved.

kevin lee | Reply

12/13/2009 10:03:21 AM #

Warren Roberts, pd 4, 12/13/09, 3, under the blood red sun, Graham Salisbury, 244


Examine values of a character you like.

Tomi is mostly smart and caring. He seems to think with either his mind, or heart. “ It means if you tell anyone about this sword and someone takes it away from me because of what you said, I'm going to make you pay for it...and not in money.” In that part of the book Keet has a gun to him. It shows how he thought fast and decided to not throw the Katana at him, or lunge at him. Instead he thought and decided to threaten him. Tomi thinks well and carfully

Warren Roberts | Reply

12/13/2009 7:50:18 PM #

Title: Star Girl
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Pages:?

   The book that I read is Stargirl. It is a story of a girl who is nicknamed Stargirl because she is wacko. she dresses funny, acts outlandish, and has even the popular people being her friends. That all changes when she cheers for the wrong team at a school game, and everyone begins to hate her. The story is told by an old man, who is looking back and remembering the story. Stargirl left the school, and after a while almost everyone forgot about her, except for the man who is telling the story. At first, he thought she was weird, just like everyone else thought, but then he saw past that and fell in love with her. he was so angry when she left. Years later they see each other again, after he is married and he regrets his decisions.
   The moral of the story is to judge people from the inside, not by how they dress, or any other of those things. I can relate to Stargirl, because many people think they know me and judge me too quick and they tell some people, and soon, a lot of people have the wrong opinion about me.

Blaine Judd | Reply