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So far in class we have read all of Act 1 in Romeo and Juliet. So far I have enjoyed it very much. I like the many literary devices that they have used such as metaphors and personification. Also I have liked how many characters are foils like Tybalt and Benvolio. But, some things that I have disliked about the play is that sometimes the words that they use I don't know so it makes it hard to comprehend what they are trying to convey. Also I interpret some of their phrases differently than I was suppose to. I am excited to see where the play goes next and learn to understand it better.

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Currently I am on the last book of the series Divergent it is called Allegiant. A few of the people who escaped the city found out that the whole time there had been living in there they had been watched every second of everyday. They found out it was experiment and that's all they were. They are furious and are questioning everything that they have known all this time. But, most of all their afraid of the unknown of this new world. They now have to adapt to this new lifestyle. I'm excited to see how this will effect them.

Divergent

Over the break I finished my book The Host and started reading the book Divergent. My new book is what you could say a mixture of the book Matched and The Hunger Games. Like Matched the people have the way they live their life mapped out for them and like Hunger Games they live in separate communities and each one has a totally different life style. The book starts with a girl named Beatrice who lives in the community that always put each other first and does not want anything in return. Beatrice does not fit in quite right in this life style and that would all change when she goes in for her test to find out what community she fits into. When she gets her results she finds out that she is something called divergent. This is that she show traits of multiple communities, she is also told it is very dangerous being one of these rare people. She then has to chose if she wants to stay in her community, Abnegation or make probably the most drastic change to a community that protects and fights for the country called Dauntless. Beatrice ends up choosing Dauntless. I'm excited to see how her unique test results play into her way of life in her new home.

Settings

In the book The Host the setting takes place on Earth. In the city where the souls live is much like a normal suburb town, but the overall way that the people act in the town is very strange and different how our suburb town would be like. The people in these towns are all perfect and never tell lies, they trust every person in that town with everything from their car to their life. Even their supermarkets where you don't have to pay for anything. This is the life that the remaining humans fear, they think that life isn't worth living if your trapped inside this perfect robot. The group that the main character Melanie used to be with is now living it a hidden cave like structure in the middle of a desert hiding from the souls. This structure gives them many problems with getting food because there is no light, but they found a way to grow some food with the use of mirrors. The settings in this book do go from one extreme to another but in the end the setting really gives a sense of how different the two species are.

This is a picture of the cave from the movie

The Chosing of Books

I am still pretty early in the book The Host by Stephanie Myer but so far it was been a excellent pick for me. At first I chose the book because I had seen the trailer for the movie a little while ago and thought it looked interesting. Then before we had to pick out a new independent reading books I looked into the book. This book looked like something new and different than what I usually read, which is more towards the realistic fiction route. This book was fantasy with a twist of si-fi. I am really excited to see where this book goes next!

Stephinie Meyer

I have recently started reading The Host by Stephenie Meyer. You might reconize this name from the famous series Twight which has now been made into 5 movies! These books have also sold more than 250 million copies and have been translated into 37 diffent languages. Twilight was also honored as a New York Times "Editor's Choice and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year." In 2008 Meyer released her first non-twilight book  The Host was something much similar on the oppiste romance but now it was alien based so this book was slightly more si-fi. This book was soon made into a motion picture and is getting rave reviews from all the fans!

Summer Reading Reflection

The main character in my summer reading book The Fault in Our Stars is a girl named Hazel who has terminal cancer. Throughout the book this complex character developed in many ways. At the beginning of the book, she was hopeless and isolated.  By the end of the book, Hazel was living life in the moment and had connections with friends and family. This change of character began when Hazel met Gus. His outlook on life was that you can find happiness no matter how bad things get.  At the beginning of the book Hazel was did not interact with many people besides her parents. "My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed."(Green 12) But by the end of the book, Hazel found she had support and love from more people in her life that she never realized.

 

The Fault in Our Stars Article

 

This article describes how the writing of The Fault in Our Stars used humor to lighten up such serious topics such as cancer and death. Also it talked about how the characters make light of their terrible situations to make cancer not seem like a such scary thing. But, at the end of the day cancer is cancer and there will be low points but John Green did a great job of showing that they are not alone and there is always people to catch you when you fall.