READING LOG 2

While I was reading my book today, I pictured the main protagonist, Alice walking around in the streets, homeless begging for food and money, since she decided to run away from home. I could imagine her being so lonely, and unhappy, melancholic.

I can connect Alice’s mum with my mum, they’re both caring and love their children. They both get so worried if something happens to us, and if we ever need someone to talk to, we know that our mothers are the right people to have conversations with, about anything.

I didn’t have any problem connecting or understanding the story. Everything the author is trying to say is written in a clear, easy and understandable way. The words she uses are pretty simple and based on the paragraph you can easily understand it and there was no need to look it up in the dictionary.

My character is at a stage where she’s starting to realize who she really is, who her real friends are, starts experiencing new things, and I have to admit that I’m also going through a similar stage compare to Alice.

The plot is very realistic because it’s based on a true story.

The part that I’ve read today doesn’t really fit together with other books that I’ve read previously, because at the moment my character is taking drugs, and she’s constantly getting high. I don’t really read these kinds of books very often.

I think that in the next chapters Alice is going to get raped.

If I could jump into the story right now, I would try and help Alice out. I’d probably take her home to her family, and every time one of her “friends” offer her to go to a party ill make sure she never goes. Because that when she starts using drugs all over again.

While I was reading today, I was able to visualize Alice walking on the streets by herself. The author, also name as the anonymous was describing this scene with such detail and was making this seem so dramatic, it just hit me!!

This book does not remind me of my life at all. I think that its way to dramatic and scandalous. I find the whole idea about taking drugs extremely wrong this is why I can’t imagine myself ever being in this situation.

I wouldn’t want any character to be my friend; they’re all weird, apart from the mum, so I’d probably pick her. She’s the nicest one out of everybody, and the most caring.

Go ask Alice!

"Go ask Alice" by anonymous

This is the fictitious diary of a young teenage girl, who somehow finds herself lost in the world of drugs during the 1960's. She is introduced to LSD during a party where it was slipped into her drink. She loved how the drug made her feel, and was delighted to learn that there were more drugs out there. Every party she went to, she remembers in bits and pieces, but often only remembers the beautiful colors that the drugs brought to her, and sometimes the rapes that occurred when she was in a complete drug haze. Within a few months, she was totally hooked. When she is sober, there are entries in this diary almost daily. When she is on her drugs, there are large gaps missing, and what is there is usually dateless. However, she does not win the fight.

While I was reading today, I could picture Alice being very lonely in school, and very miserable. She’s not satisfied with her life. She’s depressed.

I can connect Alice’s mum, with my mum because both of them are very protective, and want the best for their daughter, but I think Alice’s mum is a little bit over exaggerating. I don’t think their relationship is as good as the relationship my mum and I have. We’re closer, we tell each other everything no matter what, and my mum is basically like my best friend. Alice doesn’t think that though, she thinks that her mum is annoying and strict and they never seem to get along.

I didn’t have any problem connecting or understanding the story. Everything the author is trying to say is written in a clear, easy and understandable way. The words she uses are pretty simple and based on the paragraph you can easily understand it and there was no need to look it up in the dictionary.

If I could jump into my book right now I would try to stop Alice from what she’s doing, because it’s a shame for a fifteen year old girl to blow her life just like that…

At the moment Alice wants to take a break from drugs, but I don’t think that’s going to last for long, its too late now. She’s addicted to them!

The plot is very realistic because it’s based on a true story.

Something that I’ve done which is similar to what my character has done is for sure not drugs. It’s moving, after my parents split me and my mum had to go live some place else. I’ve also lived with my grandmother when I was very little according to my mum, I can’t remember.

The part that I’ve read today doesn’t really fit together with other books that I’ve read previously, because at the moment my character is taking drugs, and she’s high. I don’t really read these kinds of books very often.

This book does not remind me of my life at all. I think its way to dramatic and dangerous, scandalous. The whole idea about taking drugs, for me, is extremely wrong; this is why I can’t imagine myself ever being in this position.

If I had to pick a character that I would want to have as a friend is, Alice’s Jewish friend. She’s polite, smart, open minded, sweet, cares about people; she’s like a definition of a true friend in a way.

While reading the part that I was able to visualize the best, was when one of Alice “friend” injected something in her arm. At that same moment I automatically thought it was heroin…Alice is going to die.

How Happy is The Little Stone!

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The Pearl

Family is the most important thing in life.
-I agree,family is the most important thing in life,because at the end of the day, they're all you have.Money can't buy you love or happiness and no one's going to know you as well as your family, they were there the day you were born and they'll be there the day you die and when everyone else in the world disappoints you can always count on your family, they'll always love you. They are there in the good and bad times of your life offering support and love. They forgive you the stupid little things that others in your life will leave you over. They will love you even when your really bad. It takes a lot to make a family become unforgiving of each other.

Winning the lottery can be a bad thing.
-Once again i agree, many people think winning the lottery is the answer to their dreams, but it brings problems of it's own. Like relatives coming out of the woodwork asking for loans they will never repay. Or losing your mind, quitting your job and finding out that money is not invested or saved that it goes very quickly.People should save the majority of it and live on the interest, because money doesn't always bring happiness, it's not always the answer to the key!

Our lives are ruled by fate, no matter what decisions we take, our lives are already planned out for us.
-I strongly disagree. Someone’s fate is determined by the person's decisions. I personally think that people have a purpose in life, but it has nothing to do with fate. It has to do with what we think it's right, and what we do next, in the future and so on. Our decisions slowly build up our lives, and hopefully they're the right decisions.

10 minute reading-part 2

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Democracy!

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Reading my book for 10 minutes!

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My Reading Contract!

Haiti Relief

Whenever a tragedy happens in the world, we automatically highlight the negatives of the incident, but we rarely stop to think of the positives. Although it seems like a sad thought that there are positives surrounding the incident, we seem to underestimate how well communities work together and provide aid to people in need.

It is amazing how much and how fast aid can be provided to people in need. After an earthquake caused approximately 230 thousand casualties in Haiti, the United States of America sent hundreds of ships, helicopters, and marine units into the country to provide aid and support Haitians by providing food, clean water and sanitary conditions for people who require medical assistance.

Many organizations, most notable the Red Cross, have been collecting money and donations from countries around the world to assist the Haitians who have been affected by the tragedy. Certain individuals have also brought it upon themselves to help Haitians in need by either providing money or personally traveling to Haiti to provide first aid.

I think that schools around the world should continue to collect donations and promote students to actively participate in trying to help the situation in Haiti. Raising awareness amongst communities and getting them to actively participate is the first step to becoming a more global citizen and uniting the people against such tragedies.
Due to the lack of supplies and food caused by the earthquake, security in the country, mainly the capital city of Port au Prince, has become an issue with people raiding and stealing from stores in order to survive. But like in every community, there are people who abuse the freedom of a security-less capital and steal for their personal gains, so the United Nations have sent troops into the country to patrol the streets and maintain security levels.

Over all this tragedy had caused pain and suffering for the Haitian people but has shown us that when we unite and work together, society can do enough.

Taste of Salt Anticipation Guide

Politics and political problems are a subject for adults to deal with.
Agree- Children don’t really belong with politics, they can’t take such big responsibilities, they wouldn’t understand these concepts and they’re basically less experienced, compared to a guy who’s being doing this over 5 years, let’s say.

All scenarios can have a happy ending if those involved work towards it.
Agree- When you set a goal to yourself, you’re of course going to try to achieve it. If you’ve moved on from something that happened, or studied a lot more, and took your time revising and worked towards getting what you want, then what you want to happen, will happen.

Disagree- Some people are just not like others. For example family problems, alcohol, drugs and all that, can make you have a miserable life if you don’t try to stop it, stop you’re life, and start all over again. Some people can’t do that though, as much as the want, they can’t get away with it.

Literacy(Being able to read and write) is a form of freedom.
Agree- If you are illiterate then you are no better or worse as a person because of that fact. However, those who can read and write have a great advantage over those who cannot. They have access to the power of the written word. They can influence others by utilising this skill, and understand what is going on around them more fully.

Civilizations without a written language cannot effectively document history.
Agree- Agree- Civilization without a written language cannot effectively document history because all the information we get, is written down. If this didn’t happen we wouldn’t know anything about our ancestors, and all the myths we hear about. Also after many generations our grand, grand, grand children will get the chance to know about out history and how we lived in this century.
　
　

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The Outsiders Characterization Project‏

Johnny:
"He is the youngest, next to Ponyboy, smaller than the rest, with a slight build. He has big black eyes, and a dark tanned face. He's hair is black, greasy and combed to the side, but because it was so long it fell in shaggy bang across his forehead." Johnny is a 16 year old boy and he’s like the centre
of affection. He’s the one that get's picked at the most, and has family problems.

He’s a very unstable person, always very shy and nervous.

“You can picture Johnny as a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers.” pg.11
“He was nervous, though, Johnny was always nervous around strangers.”

Sodapop:
He’s the handsomer than anyone else, more like a movie-star character. He always looks stunning and gorgeous, the type of boy all girls drawl over him. He has dark-gold hair and dark brown eyes.

Soda is very understanding and trustful, he doesn’t like to drink alcohol and that’s what makes him look cool I must say. He’s always very lively and reckless.

“He can get drunk in a drag race or dancing without even getting near alcohol. In our neighbourhood its rare to find a kid who doesn’t drink once a while. But Soda never touches a drop- he doesn’t need to. He gets drunk on just plain living” pg.8

Dallas:
"Dallas had high cheek bones, small sharp animal teeth, his eyes were blue, blazing ice and his hair fell over his forehead and kicked out in the back in tufts and curled behind his ears."

He is the real character of the gang, the strongest and toughest out of all of them, mean and colder. He had quite a reputation, had a file at the police station for doing tons of crimes, like cheating, stealing, jumping small kids, riding in rodeos, lying all that kind of stuff. But they had to respect him.

“I didn’t like him, but he was smart and you had to respect him”. pg.11
“He was tougher than the rest of us- tougher, colder, meaner” . pg.10


Darrel:
"He’s has dark-brown hair, he’s six-feet-two and muscular. He has pale blue-green ice eyes, his tough, cool, and smart. He looks a lot like his father."

Darrel is a smart guy, even though he doesn’t understand anything or anyone. He’s tough from the outside but very sensitive from the inside. He went through a lot of drama after he's parents died, taking charge of he's two little brothers while he was himself a young kid. He love's he's brother's!

“Darry is hard and firm and rarely grins at all. But then, Darry’s gone though a lot in his twenty years, grownup too fast”.

Ponyboy:
"He has greenish-gray eyes, and long, light brown greasy hair."

Ponyboy is a smart kid, cares about others and his an individual. He does things other would never do.

“If I brought home B’s, he wanted A’s and I got A’s, he wanted to make sure they stayed A’s. If I was playing football, I should be in studying. And if I was reading, I should be out playing football”. pg.13 So basically the quote is saying that everybody care's for him, and want him to succeed in he's life.

Greaser or Socs?

You have to be a socs, that’s where you belong! If you haven’t noticed,
socials are not just random people, they’re special, and different from everyone else. We are rich, which that means we can go to school and get educated, we normally drive around with expensive cars and wear expensive cloths, we’re much more civilized, and basically we have got a better life style, and we’re simply the best! You would be much happier if you come with us.

One of the most important reasons why you should come with us, we’re civilized. Who would want to hang out with friends which are violent and always get into fights, like greasers? They have no respect for anyone or anything. They go around stealing and killing people, and they think that this, makes them look cool. Sometimes though socials get into fights, but that’s because greasers have probably asked for it. You will feel more safe being around socials.

Another good reason about the socs, is that we come from really good and rich families. This way we can go to school and get educated, and once we grow up, to succeed. Also being rich is basically a much easier life for you. You don’t have to work to gain money, because of you’re economically wealthy. Unlike greasers, they’re poor and stinky, most of them don’t even go to school, so that means they don’t get educated and more likely to have a harder life, full of failures.

Do you like taking care of your self, and always look pretty? Am sure you do, and that’s was every other socs likes to do sometimes! Looking like a piece of trash, is not where you belong, that’s the Greasers, smelly and ugly.. I would not want to have a friend that smells, and am sure you don’t either. We’re rich kids!

I hope what I have mentioned about the socs will make you understand who
we really are as people, and how much fun you will be having if you come with us! Remember, greasers is not where you belong, you deserve a lot better than those smelly rats!