Reading Response(social issue)

   I read the article called "Growing Drug Problem Adds To Afghans Misery"  and the article is about how lots are people are affected by drugs. The article stated that "Once a river flowed under this low Kabul bridge, but now the thin stream is clotted with garbage, the banks are piled with refuse and crowds of heroin and opium addicts huddle in the shadows". I think the author put this line inside the article because it shows how much drugs have changed people. And some people just cant stop using them, even though they know that it's killing them. They are addicted to using drugs.What i learned from reading this article is that infections can happen when people are using certian types of drugs. When they use needles and they arent careful to where it has been before, they might get H.I.V and that's another problem with using drugs. Now I'm wondering why the afghans are the most affected by drugs.
   I read another article related to drug addiction and the tittle is "When Children scribbles to hide a Prison drug". This article is about how some people will try to do anything to get their hands on some drug. I read that there was a envolope with a strip of suboxone stuck onto it's back. Also since drug usage is illegal some people wont let that stop them. They buy drugs from people that sells it on the streets, and thats how they get it. What I learned from reading this article is that people dont stick to the rules, and they are just hurtting to themselves because i read that some children use drugs, and that's really sad.

2 voice poem

Crayola
Person 1: My life is so Boring,
Person 2: My life is so miserable.
Person 1: Everyday after school I have to take piano lessons.
Person 2: Everyday after school I have to go help my dad in his store.
Person 1: The Piano lessons are so boring.
Person 2: It's hard working with your stomach growling.
Person 1: After piano lessons i eat dinner, I never get what i want to eat.
Person 2: After helping my dad, i eat dinner, there isn't always much to go around.
Person 1: My life is So boring, I never get to do what i want.
Person 2: My life is so miserable, I'm always hungry, and everyday it's work, work work.

The process I took in writing this poem was that, I tought about how everyone has different lives, and one thing to this person is another to a different person. So I wrote a poem about 2 different people describing why they don't like the way it is. I chose to do this because it shows the reader the differences, and how people are different from one another, but at the same time they're a little bit alike.
The issue/problem is poverty. Many people don;t have privileges as others because their family has no money. I feel that poverty is a important problem because many people are affected by it.

Maus

 I'm in the middle of reading the book "Maus" by Art spiegelman. This book is a graphic novel about the Holocaust, and how a person survives the war. What i found interesting about the book is that it that the author has a different way of telling the story, he just doesnt tell about how his dad ( main character of the book) survives the war, while he's writing the story about his dad in the war, he's also writing the story of how his dad's life is going after the war and how the war affected his dad. He chose a different writing style and it gave more information about the war and what was goinging on even after it.
I think the author chose a good way of telling his story becuase it gives the reader a understanding of what the war did to people. Even after the war was over, the aftermath affected alot of people.
For me the way that the author wrote his story it made me feel like it was real, it felt like the event acually happened (it did), it just gave me that extra feeling of the what the Holocaust must've felt like.
It also made me realize that these terrible things do happen and no matter what happens life must keep on going.

Identify and analyze a social issue in book.

In my book "Maus" there are lots of issues. The problem is that many people are betraying others just because they think they will get something good out of it, but the thing is that the people betraying others are wrong because the Nazis are on nobody's side. The people that are affected are the main characters of the book. They are just

trying to get through the war with their families. But some people are making it extremely hard for them.

The main character is vladek and in one part of the story he hides inside his attic. Then one day someone found them and said that he was just looking for food, so then vladek gave him some scraps and left him, sometime later the Nazis came and took them all.

The cause for this betrayal is because everyone is afraid; they are scared to stick to their neighbors. They are scared that if they do what's right then the Nazis might get mad at them.

The result of this is people are telling out other people's secrets and giving out their hiding places, I think they just want to get on the good side of the Nazis. I don’t think the Nazis have a good side. 

If they all stuck together like what Vladek's family did they might've have through this terrible war. They gave up too easily.

Groosham Grange!

I currently finished the book Groosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz. I read this book because I really like the books that I read by him, but this book is kind of different from what I read before.                             From all the books I read by him, this book is kind of different from what i read before. His books are mostly about action, like the series Alex Rider. I really enjoyed reading them. This book Groosham Grange is a totally different genre.                 

The book was pretty good and i liked it but it almost has the same "story line" as Stormbreaker because the main characters are trying to destroy the "villain’s" evil scheme.

For example in the book Groosham Grange David, (main character) is trying to close down the private school he is sent to. He finds out that the school teaches which craft.                    

For stormbreaker Alex (the main character) is sent on a mission By a British secret service. What these two books have in common is that they are about the main character trying to overcome the truth that these things are really happening and they are trying their best to “make” things normal again.

                       

reading..

1.i read some people's blogs like rhamel's
and i saw that they mostly wrote about what the story is about and  some of them i like the way
they connected to the books.
2..I read dania's and i can tell that she likes the book because of the strong connections she wrote in her blog.
some connections i can make is that they are mostly wrote about connections to their lives.
3.i like how he used alot of statistics inside his post. yohance.

4.pooja. (name sake)
i think she did a really good job becuase she's focusing on one main idea, about how 2 people get married.
5. pooja ( the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe)
i think she did a raelly good job on this becasue i felt, like she elaborated alot on her idea.
6. pooka (Inconvinent truth)
i think this blog post was really good becuase she gave alot of examples to how the climate changes affects the planet.

The Dead And the Gone

    Right now I’m reading the book called "The Dead and the Gone" in this book I find it really interesting because the events lead to how people trust each other. For example the main character Alex finds himself at home taking care for his two sisters without any help, this happened because the moon just got hit by a meteor and its critically too close to the earth. Now New York City is in a state of chaos, people looting food and supplies desperate to survive this disaster, Alex is all alone. Alex is having a hard time doing this all by himself, also at the same time he's worried about his parents.
     He’s worried because they have no information to where they are right now, his mother is stuck in a hospital and his dad is stuck in Puerto Rico. I think right now Alex needs his two sisters more than anything because if it weren’t for them keeping him "running" he would be in a breakdown. He needs his two sitter’s support more than anything because he doesn't know what will happen if things don’t get better soon. His sisters help him realize that right now the most important thing is to stay focused and stay on track.
    I think Alex is under a lot of stress because it feels like nothing are going to go back to normal, everything is so different and it to happen all of a sudden it's very terrifying for him. Alex constantly puts his sisters first because once he was worried about them, this shows how much he cares about them. An example of this is when Alex find and steal from dead people that died from the meteor and take their belongings to a tailor shop where he trades for food, and things that are in need of survival. He takes the food and gives more of them to his sisters than himself which proves that he is more worried about his sisters rather than himself.
    He is also under a lot of stress because when the school is closed down, their family basically gets no food at all and doesn't even get the free meals that the school provides, making his family more harsh. They also don't even get food in the winter which is extremely cold and stressful, living in the winter without food is like living in the desert. Finally they get sent to a place with electricity, heat, and fresh water which is lucky for them.