Pet Sematary

  I'm currently reading the book "Pet Sematary" by Stephen King. What I have noticed about this book is that the author does a really good job of describing every little detail in the story. I like the way that the author wrote the book with a lot of detail because I can picture the story in my head easily. King does a good job of writing about the setting of the book.
  Within the first sentence I learned a lot about the main character already. " Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that was exactly what happened...although he called this man a friend..."(3). This sentence described the main character's life and family. This already gave me a picture of how the man lives and what exactly happens before the story is started.
  Another way that King makes his story very good is that he describes every little detail in the setting. " The engine ticked, In the silence, which seemed very big after Chicago and the bustle of state street and the loop, a bird sang sweetly in the late afternoon." In this excerpt he described every little detail like how the engine ticked and how a bird was singing in the late afternoon, this just gives me a bigger picture and i can clearly see what's happening.
  I just started reading this book and I like the book already, I like the book because of all the descriptions that the author King writes in the book. It gives me a good idea of what the setting would look and this just makes the book more interesting to read.

Hell's Heroes

  I've noticed how Grubbs in "Hell's Heroes" is afraid of the truth. Everyone has fears that they're afraid to overcome and i think Grubbs has one, and it's the truth that he's afraid of. In the book Grubbs was hesitating about wheter or not he should go into Lord Loss's relam and kill Bec. Bec is a very dangeroues person and she was or still is a good person. Grubbs had these weird dreams about how Bec was back stabbing everyone on earth. I find this very intersting because of how Grubbs is a "animal" on the outside but inside, he's just like everyone else.
  Grubbs is half Werewolf and half Magician. He isnt the magician that perform tricks, he can cast spells and kill things. Grubbs acts like a wanton in front of everyone (the humans), everyone on earth fears him but they know that when he's nearby they're safe, safe from the demon invading earth. Grubbs isnt what they think he is, he is still half human. Everyday at night he's afraid to sleep, he's afraid because he has visions, visions of the truth. He's lieing to everyone that he's with saying that he doesnt know where Bec is. He's just afraid to find out that this is the end, Bec has gone into allinace with the demons.
   I can connect to how Grubbs feels to how the main character in the book "Dark Calling" feels. The main character in the book "dark calling" knows that the world is going to end, but he still wouldn't let go. He still fights even when he knows that there isn't hope. I think they feel that way because they have been fighting too long to give up. They don't want to give up what they do have without a fight, they want to think that there is hope left even when there isnt, they are brave and strong but they are still human even though they have changed their apperance.
  The main characters are very brave to keep on fighting even when there is no hope. They fear that this is the truth, that this is realality and this is acually happening. They are still fighting because they believe that there is still something worth fighting for, people want to get away from the truth but at the end they still have to face it.

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

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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.