Random talk about the blizzard of 1888

 I’m not sure why I picked this natural disaster. Your probably thinking why out of

all the big blizzards, earthquakes, tornados, why did I picked a silly old blizzard in

the states? It was the one that stood out to me. I heard about Katrina, The

earthquake in Japan and many more but The Blizzard of 1888 just kept ringing in

my ear, the one that was interesting, something I wanted to know way more

about.

 The blizzard didn’t only hit New York. It hit New Jersey, Connecticut,

Massachusetts and also Canada. Snow fall reached up to 30- 50 inches! Wind

reached up to 40 mph. Poor families would try to find any warm place to stay such

as steam grates and coal cellars, Or if they had a little bit of money they could

have paid 3 cents for a warm spot in a store for the night. Around 400 people lost

their lives in this blizzard (In New York 200 people were killed).

  I created a 6 year old white short poor boy who lives in Manhattan in 1888, Who

has recently discovered he has a wealthy family in Brooklyn. Getting their for the

boy is not so easy. Although Charlie is a made up character he faces real problems

that happened in the Blizzard of 1888.

  The story that I created was as interesting as researching about the Great

Blizzard. No matter how Big or small well known or unknown their still a disaster

that scared many people for life, And can be very interesting to others.

    This boy’s life by Tobias Wolff. The main idea is a boy in the 1950s who

 wants to break free from his constantly changing life and family, His

mother is divorced. I think the story is worth telling because of the

 adventures, the ideas, and the conflict maker his mean green step father

“Dwight”. Toby’s mother sends toby to live with Dwight and his family in

Chinook this is were his life starts to get interesting. Toby and his mother

realizes that Dwight is a horrible man Toby wants to leave this man, keep

him away from his family. “My idea was to steal enough to run away I was ready

to do anything to clear of Dwight.” I think that’s the biggest idea in this

book. The idea becomes a decision the decision becomes an action.

  I think that’s a  brave decision for him to plan. But I don’t blame him

Dwight makes him work hard and theirs nothing his mother can do about it.

I think I would also steal from Dwight some of it is Toby’s money anyways, I

would  try to help my mother get away from this man and make her start a

new life.

I believe this book is about change. The changing of families, friends, and

Home. Toby never had one father his parents were divorced and his mother

Was constantly looking for another husband. He never had One Home his

mother was constantly wanting to move away from one place to another. This

is why I think  the book is worth telling.
   

Reading response

The book Island of the blue dolphins by Scott o’ Dell is a historical fiction book about a Native American girl who has been left on an island alone waiting for someone to come and save her. What details in the book are real and researched by the author? What details did the author make up and imagine? How can you tell? This book is based on a true story so their has to be many parts that are the true story that the author researched and some parts he had to make up, like the dialogue.
      For an example one part in the book when the main character screams dog constantly. I know that the author had to make that up because the main character was alone how would anyone witness what the main character said ? So the main character probably put that in to support a part in the book.
      On page 41 the main character cries “Where is my brother?” I know the author made this up for the book because this book was taken place in the 1850s. How would Scott o’ dell know how the main character spoke exactly. Also even if he had know how Native Americans spoke in the 1850s spoke he would really know how the main character spoke. Cause she can speak differently then the other Natives.
      Lastly I know that the author made the dialogue because where would he get the information from? If he got it from a person who had a relative that was on the island how would they remember what they would say. Unless people who were there had what their acquaintances
     Wrote down what others had said. Which I doubt happened because they wouldn’t know that what they were saying right that moment was going to be history or in a book.
      Therefore the author made up the dialogue because 1. It wouldn’t be accurate. 2. It would be hard to get information about what the characters say. And 3. How the character talked

The Last Blog Post About Hunger Games

     So my class and I watched the Hunger Games Tuesday and I thought it was AMAZING. The story line, the actors, the drama, the action Everything. The one thing I didn't like was the fact that everyone was talking through the whole movie. The thing that made me feel for the movie was putting my self in the situations that the characters had to face. And this movie was a very dramatic, heartbroken, sad, action and adventure movie. One of the man things that made my heart stop was when one for the competers died. Her name was rue she was the youngest character in the movie. But i know that the author of the book created this character to add more feeling in this story. So far in the movie it worked.
    I am reading the book right now. I'm not very far in but I will be soon. I'm not quite drawn into the book yet but I am positive that I will. The people that I have spoken to loved everything that had to do with the word Hunger Games, meaning the album, the pictures, the actors, the book, the movies etc. Just looking at the front page gets me so excited. But I have been busy with school work and outside school things that I haven't really been able to read for a long period of time.
    In conclusion the movie was very good and the book is getting their. I hope next week I am less busy so that I can read the book for over an hour. I also hope that since I watched the movie won't ruin imaging the book since they're completely different.

Hunger Games Read or Not?

Like Said in my previous article (The one below) the hunger games is everywhere on itunes, in the movies, on shirts, on books, on Facebook, and in peoples' conversations. I never read the book I heard about it but I have one problem. I'm seeing the movie on Tuesday and I don't know if i should read the book now or later?
    If I read it now it would be good an interesting because I'm not reading any book at the moment. But what about time? I'm not like some children that can read 12345 pages in like 2mins (Hyperbole alert!) I read very slow and I don't think I will have time to finish it. I am seeing the movie in 2 days! But I think it would be good to start it and understand at least the beginning of the book before the movie.
    If I read the book after the movie I would have all the time in the world (Hyperbole alert!) to read the book. But one problem.. I  cannot read books after watching the movie it messes with my mind and confuses me constantly. Not only because it ruins the exciting parts because I would know what happens. But the way I image what happens, when I read books I like to imagine everything that happens but if I had seen the movie and then read the book I would try to image it different as i read the book and My mind would keep thinking about the movie. And most people know that movies and books are different in many ways.
    In conclusion I will read the book after the movie because I will have more time. And hopefully during my journey of reading the whole series I will try to over come my "Reading after movie dyslexia"

Hunger Games

    Hunger Games as you should no is one of the most popular book and movies and the movie didn't even come out yet! I feel like the hunger games is going to be a popular book and a very popular movie such as (Harry Potter, Twilight etc.) I just can tell by everyone who is talking about it I am just very positive that it's not going to be a popular book but have a bad  movie or the other way around.
    You can say I read tiny parts of the hunger games but not the whole series. Me and series don't go together well. The only series I have finished with out skipping pages, stop reading or just changed to the next book is the Percy Jackson series witch was a Great first movie and an amazing series. I'm not sure what is wrong with me but I think the fact that its so much books to read scares me and makes me not want to read it.
    I have read only 1 page of the hunger games. Lots of people think I'm a freak for doing that. Everyone always asks me "WHY DIDN'T ATLEAST READ THE FIRST ONE IT'S SOOO GOOOD" and I'm just like yeahhh I know but really I don't mean "YEAH I KNOW" I really mean because I'm to lazy I rather watch the movie oh yeah and I have a fear of books. and then I joke around and say I have bibliophobia (The fear of books.
    All the time I wait for the movie to come out and I watch it if i love the movie then I read the books. But that's not a very smart idea because it really and truly confuses me it like messes with my mind and makes me lost in the book. For an example say theirs a part in the book that the movie cuts off and when I read the book I will try to imagine how it was in the movie and can't find it then it makes me feel like i am not paying attention that well and forces me to reread the book or just give up.
   

Romeo & Juliet (Why did they meet in the first place?)

    I actually love the story of Romeo and Juliet. The tragedy is so intense its kind of unbearable to take it. But as we read this story many many times and read scene and scene and watched the two different movies I had realized something. Roselyn is the man reason all the tragedy had happened. Romeo was "IN LOVE" with her she wasn't she wanted to become a nun. Nuns cannot marry or love anyone. Which means Romeo just got rejected like that.
    Romeo's friend forced him to go to the party so that he can find a girl and won't be depressed forever about Roselyn. The party is how Romeo and Juliet met. And they had 1 night of sweet love but then after that their sweet love turns into a tragic fight. I guess you can also say that it was Romeo's friends fault because he convinced romeo to go to the party. But only because Roselyn "broke his heart". I will just say both of them. But it's not only a bad thing that they cause the death of mercutio, benvolio, romeo and Juliet. They were the ones that actually cause the BIG HELP. Which is the fights which made the story so good.