If I had to pick a symbol to
describe the main character in my book Katniss, it would be a shield. I think a
shield would fit Katniss perfectly because she comes together with many people
in the games and helps them throughout the book. She does many things
throughout the book to show she fights for others, such as when she tries to
save Gale from the whipping. At this moment it is showing that she doesn’t think
how she could get hurt or killed she thinks how could she save Gale. I think a lot of people would only think about
themselves if they were put in many of the situations she encounters, which is
why I would give her the symbol of a shield.
Reading Goal
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Blog 2. December 11, 2013 (Catching Fire)
I
believe one of the aspects of Catching fire so far is how I can relate to the
characters. I can mostly relate to Katniss because she is a teenager and around
my age. I think relating to the characters is very good while reading, because
you can put yourself in their situation and think of what you would do. Such as
if I was in the hunger Games I would probably die pretty fast because I don’t know
how I would kill people.
The
book Catching Fire is very slow at the beginning while they are on their
victory tour. This is because there is no action, I am looking forward to
reading the rest of the book, because the first book was great and action
packed, and I loved it. I hope I love Catching Fire too
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Blog 1 .November 26, 2013 (Catching Fire)
Think
of competing in the battle of the death, and then having to battle
again against the best of the best. Scary right. This is Catching Fire the
second book of the Hunger Games series. This past weekend I watched the movie, and
I loved it. After the movie I instantly wanted to start reading the book. I
loved the first book and I am looking forward to reading the second.
The author of the Hunger Games Series is Suzanne
Collins. Suzanne Collins is an American
television writer and novelist, author of the bestselling series The Underland
Chronicles and the wildly successful Hunger Games Trilogy. Born in Hartford, Connecticut on
August 10, 1962, Collins is the daughter of a U.S. Air Force officer and was a
successful television writer before turning her talents to writing novels.
Currently residing in Sandy Hook, Connecticut with her husband and their two
children, Suzanne Collins is Amazon.com's best-selling author of all time.Suzanne
Collins has published many books such as-
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
LOGAN GOLDBERG PRACTICE BLOG
PRACTICE BLOG
Logan Goldberg
PROMPT #1=
For my summer reading I read Caring is Creepy by David
Zimmerman. The main theme in Caring is Creepy is manipulation. One of
the main examples of manipulation is when Lynn lies to Logan to keep him in the
house because she likes having a friend around. Another example of manipulation
was when Hayes got Lynn’s mom to help him with his drug business causing a lot of
problems, like murder. This is shown in this quote…“Logan,
honey, if you’ve got to go to the bathroom, you should really wait until I am
here…What if my moms boyfriend came in? Then you and me would be in a world of
shit. Let me tell you”(Zimmerman 200-201)…Over
the course of the story manipulation emerges from Lynn starting as keeping Logan
in her closet for safety, to her keeping him there because she likes the
company. Multiple times in the story Lynn tells lies to keep Logan in the
house, because if she had told the truth he would have left the closet. Lynn
had to make him scared to leave so she told him things like his mom wasn’t going
to work, so he wouldn’t leave the closet while she was at school. This shows manipulation
because she could have told the truth but she manipulated Logan to keep him in
the closet.
ARTICLE=
This article is basically a summary of the book and what you could expect from reading the book.
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