Perspective for When You Reach Me.

I just started reading When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, but as soon as I started reading the first chapter I noticed that the book is told through Miranda's perspective. At the beginning everything Is told through what Miranda and thinks and all of her dialogue, I think the sutho did this because she wanted us to feel like we were Miranda and see if we have the same perspective as Miranda.
Rebecca stead makes Miranda sound like a very mature sixth grader and makes her seem like a grown up. Usually we are used to seeing a sixth grader like a little kid and innocent, bu in this book she's not. I think the the author did this to show us the point of view of a very mature sixth grader of someone who has gone through things and gained knowledge of those things. I think that if she did the perspective through a sixth gader who hasn't experienced anything in life it would make the story more kid like and like innocent.
In the book there is a lot of perspectives missing. The mom has dialogue but the dialogue isn't as meaningful as Miranda's you don't learn anything from her dialogue. You never get the opinion the mother has on participating on $20,000 pyramid. All you get is how Miranda feels about it. You also don't get the moms boyfriend perspective and how he feels about the relationship with miranda and Miranda's mother. So Miranda is here the one that you have to focus on if you want to understand the book. I think that of the author put the perspective of the mom and the book still aloes about Miranda you would learn about how she feels about her daughter.I think it would make the book a little boring, because it would be like every other book that is told through someone else's perspective and not the person that you are reading about. This makes it much easier to figure out hoe the person feels and if you feel te same way.
I really appreciate this because it doesn't make it that hard for me to understand the book and then I can look at the small details that you don't look deep into. It makes you compare the book to the world, to yourself and to the bigger social action message that it is trying to teach you. It makes me think about myself and if, I have the same perspective as the protagonist.

Twilight blog post #4: protagonist

     I’m currently reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyers; the protagonist in the book is Bella Swan who just moved to Forks a small town in the state of Washington. In the book Bella is very self conscience and very afraid that whatever she does is going to be wrong.

     I say she is very self conscience because every little thing she does she worries about. She worries about how Edward will react to her and if that she does something in front of him she always asks herself whether she did it correct and weather Edward thought she was a idiot. I think that she shouldn’t care about what Edward thinks she should care about herself and that’s it. I would never be like Bella she makes me want to be the character in the book who goes up to her and shakes her shoulders and screams at her for thinking that whatever she does she does it wrong. If I were like Bella I would like somebody to tell me because it’s even more embarrassing when you let it go on for so long that people can notice it.

     Also there is this part in the beginning of the book where she is like will I stand out, am I wearing the correct clothes, will people judge me. Get over it! Of course people are going to talk you are going to be the new girl! It doesn’t always mean they are going to talk about you in a bad way, not all people are like that. Some people actually have a brain and a heart and they don’t care whether you are perfect.

     I think that Meyers was trying to show us what a person acts like when they think too much about themselves. This little part taught me that I shouldn’t always care about what other people think and just care what I think about myself. I hope to see if Bella will ever change as the book goes on and if Edward ever actually cares for what Bella does.

Appreciation for Gossip Girl #5

     I just finished reading the book Gossip Girl book #5. The book was about spring break and in this particular book I mostly read about people realizing very late in the book that the best thing they had they let go. Many characters in the book also noticed that they were in love with the wrong person or that they didn’t know enough about a person and they assumed that they were in love with that person.

     Blair thought that she was in love with Erik Serena’s older brother but what she didn’t know is that she was still in love with Nate. And that all she felt toward Erik was attraction. Nate also noticed that he was still in love Blair when he saw Georgie’s true colors. He saw a lot things that made him uncomfortable. He saw that she was wild and she was a free sprit and she wasn’t ready to settle down and actually be in a relationship. I really liked this because it showed that people sometimes make mistakes and let go of the person they love and find somebody new that makes them remember what they loved about the person they let go.

     In the book there was also jenny who thought she knew Leo but she didn’t. She thought that he was rich and that he lived in a palace. But when she realized that he was a boring person and that she didn’t want to spend time with someone who walked dogs and had old parents she found him unattractive. I didn’t really like this because it doesn’t matter who the person is or how they are we have to learn to accept them. If we love them we have to learn to like their defections.  

   In all I liked the book, but in some parts the author did the exact opposite of what I been taught, I been taught to love everybody and put asides their flaws and that we shouldn’t do things that will get me in trouble and especially not naked. What I did like was the part that the author makes the characters realize that they are in love with the person they let go and they don’t know how to get them back. I definitely learned a lot of positive and negative things from this book.

A Wrinkle in Time: Entry from notebook " What do you think the land of Camazotz represents? what is L'Engle trying to tell the reader on a figurative level?

     In the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, Camazotz represents anti-diversity and uniqueness. L’Engle was trying to teach us all a lesson that being different is okay. She as a child herself was very different from all the other kids. But that is what made her the great writer that she was. She showed me that being different is what made you be the way you are, it made me realize that you have to be yourself and you don’t always have to appeal to other people. It made me realize that when I grow up I will be someone great because I am myself and I’m not trying to imitate someone and I’m not trying to be someone I am not.

     I would like to connect the book A Wrinkle in Time to The Giver. The Giver also like the book A Wrinkle in Time showed us what it was like to live in a place where your life was planned out for you already and how you could never make a wrong choice. But when I was comparing the two books I thought to myself isn’t part of life learning to make mistakes and learning something from the bad choices we make. Nobody in this world is perfect we all make mistakes and sometime these mistakes turn us into a better person. Camazotz makes the reader believe that if you make a mistake you are in trouble because ‘It” the ruler makes you feel fear and if you’re not like everyone else you’re not perfect you don’t belong and “it” destroys you.

     Camazotz was a huge part of the book because it showed Meg that she didn’t need to fit in to accomplish her goals she needed to be herself. The she was unique in her own special way. She didn’t need to be a smart as Charles Wallace or as wise as Mrs. Who she needed to be Meg. On Camazotz she also found out that her dad wasn’t going to make her problems better it was her all along. She just needed that trip to Camazotz to show her that. Camzoztz showed me that it’s okay to be myself because that is what makes me unique.