Sunday, May 6, 2012

My Life vs. Man-in-the-moon Marigolds

While I was reading T-E-O-G-R-O-M-I-T-M-M I found that I liked it a lot. While it wasn't happy I thought that it was still very good. Personally in my life there are no strong connections, though there are a few small ones that I could make. One big connection that I made that I just couldn't get out of my head were some of the similarities to "A Child Called 'it'" and "The Lost Boy" (by David Pelzer). Some small connections that I made were small things that I had in common with the characters. Like Tillie, I have always been smart, and I don't usually mind school that much. Another connection that I could make, although it is a less obvious one, was to Beatrice. Right at the end of act I she realizes how much she has done to Tillie, and she seems sorry. I can connect to that because if I get in a fight with most anyone I will feel really guilty until I talk to them again and apologize.

This too, should have posted a while ago, but I found this under drafts instead of published....
When Romeo and Juliet begins Juliet is a good, polite obedient tempered girl. Her words were very eloquent, and, at times, somewhat confusing, but pleasant. One thing that Shakespeare did to indicate this through his writing was to always use relatively short and simple responses when spoken to.
            As the play continues and Juliet talks to Romeo more her words make her seem ever more wistful. In scene two of act two even though she desires to be with Romeo she is still seemingly reserved and cautious in her demeanor. Somehow she manages to fall in love with Romeo and get married after only a few days of knowing each other. Of course, as soon as she is married Romeo runs away, and Juliet becomes less cautious as she awaits news of her beloved.
            As she is awaiting news of Romeo her father, who she didn’t then know about her first marriage, decides that it is time for her to marry. When she is talking with Paris and her father about her wishes she becomes more reserved, and very vague about what she wants. Her father chooses to ignore her hints, and insists that she marry Paris. Once Juliet knows her fathers choice she realizes that she might have to do something drastic to prevent her second marriage her mind immediately jumps to death. Eventually she decides to go talk to Friar Laurence. While she is at Friar Laurence’s she is extremely passionate about being with Romeo or no one, but she also stupid because her version of “no one” means death.
            When Friar Laurence says that he has a possible solution she basically says “I’ll do anything,” not caring about ay dangers. With that in mind she takes a sleeping potion that imitates death, Romeo sees her when she’s asleep, so he kills himself. When Juliet sees Romeo she kills herself. To sum up the major changes that occur in the book Juliet starts as cautious and reserved, and ends being passionate and wistful for Romeo, and only Romeo.
When Romeo and Juliet begins Juliet is a good, polite obedient tempered girl. Her words were very eloquent, and, at times, somewhat confusing, but pleasant. One thing that Shakespeare did to indicate this through his writing was to always use relatively short and simple responses when spoken to.
            As the play continues and Juliet talks to Romeo more her words make her seem ever more wistful. In scene two of act two even though she desires to be with Romeo she is still seemingly reserved and cautious in her demeanor. Somehow she manages to fall in love with Romeo and get married after only a few days of knowing each other. Of course, as soon as she is married Romeo runs away, and Juliet becomes less cautious as she awaits news of her beloved.
            As she is awaiting news of Romeo her father, who she didn’t then know about her first marriage, decides that it is time for her to marry. When she is talking with Paris and her father about her wishes she becomes more reserved, and very vague about what she wants. Her father chooses to ignore her hints, and insists that she marry Paris. Once Juliet knows her fathers choice she realizes that she might have to do something drastic to prevent her second marriage her mind immediately jumps to death. Eventually she decides to go talk to Friar Laurence. While she is at Friar Laurence’s she is extremely passionate about being with Romeo or no one, but she also stupid because her version of “no one” means death.
            When Friar Laurence says that he has a possible solution she basically says “I’ll do anything,” not caring about ay dangers. With that in mind she takes a sleeping potion that imitates death, Romeo sees her when she’s asleep, so he kills himself. When Juliet sees Romeo she kills herself. To sum up the major changes that occur in the book Juliet starts as cautious and reserved, and ends being passionate and wistful for Romeo, and only Romeo.

Ps: Sorry that this didn't download earlier. It should have, but when I was looking through my posts it said that it was only a draft...

Subject 7: More thoughts

       SO.... I'm still finding it kind of confusing, but I'm only halfway through the book. Hopefully by the time it ends all the loose strings will be tied together. Since I last posted five more people (that according to the back of the book are very important) have been introduced. Subject 7 has changed his name to Joe Bronx. Two people have been murdered, and one was seriously injured. All of the injured or killed people were connected to the newly introduced people, and I think that Joe is the one that injured/killed them. There is atleast one more person that I'm pretty sure will be dead by the end of the book.
       One thing was clarified. Originally there were twenty subjects. 10 were immediatly deemed innadequate. They were adopted by normal parents. They are also the aforementioned people on the back of the book. The other ten subjects were kept and expiramented on. 4 & 9 died do to bleed over (Bleed over = hearing other thoughts that aren't yours). Nows were it gets confusing. It seems that the subjects were expiramented on to try and find a way to have one person or animal that could control all other ones, or to create an ultimate alpha. In creating 7 they did that, but 7 escaped and tries to find ways of revenge on his previous captors, starting by finding out what he can about why he was tortured. He plans to use the discarded subjects in some way to help him.
       So far it's a good book, but I'm hoping it becomes more clear sometime very soon.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Subject 7

Please note:I'm sorry if the following paragraphs seem jumpy. I tried to make them flow, but the book hasn't revealed very much yet and some of what I put below is just what I can assume based on the writing. Hopefully it will start making a lot more sense very soon.
The book I'm reading is Subgect 7 by James Moore. I heard of it because it's the book that the teen reading group is reading for our next meeting. I thought it would be fun to to by book report on it becuase it will hopefully allow me to bring more insightful thoughts than usual to the book group, and becuase I can talk to a lot of people to get a lot of different perspectives on it. It sounds like a very interesting book, although it seems somewhat wierd too. 
I've only read a little bit of it so far, and that little bit has been confusing, but very informative. Subject 7 seems to be about a group of people that are experimented on. There were atleast 9 subjects, but two of them (2 and 4) died. The subjects are superhumans. They heal very quickly, are very strong, and seem to have many other advanced abilities that have yet to be revealed.
Another special thing about the subject is that they have a connection with some "other," although that other hasn't been explained yet. As best I can tell, the "others" don't know about their other, only the subjects do. The subjects sometimes share the thought of their "other," but none of the subjects fully understand what it means. They only know that 4 and 9 died soon after they started sharing thought, due to the fact that all the subjects can share thoughts.