Final Blog Post

This picture describes my relationship to books because I love books so much that I am chasing them but they are running away because lately I cannot find an interesting book.

I love reading it is cliche but they really do take you away from your world. You can relate to them and you can live through them. When I try to make time to read I never get around to it. I only make time to read is when I really like the book. Reading books really can help your vocabulary grow! Unbreakable is not the main kind of books I read but I loved Night, that we read in 8th grade so I thought maybe I would like this too, and I was SOO right! The last time I got lost in a book was a free romance book I got on my kindle, I couldn't even tell you the name of it but I stayed up until  4 am reading it and finishing it. Choosing my own books is the most important thing to me if I don't want to read the book I will not even if I have to that's why I was happy I actually wanted to read Fahrenheit 251 because then I really read it and didn't just wing it.

   

This is how I feel about blogging

The best part of blogging was thinking back on the books I had read. I really didn't think this process what helpful at all, all it did was ensure the fact that i was reading which I do anyway. So I don't really get why we had to do this. I think more prompts would be helpful i really enjoyed writing the Dover beach post.


This describes my freshman year because I feel like I never got enough sleep and there was so much testing all I wanted to do was sleep.

I learned a lot of math and history, I grew in my ability to write persuasively, I didn't learn anything but the periodic table in science, and Spanish sucked. Band was normal and also learned I cannot paint and want to be a landscaping architect. I have ONE best friend that if I loose her I will be heartbroken, and another good friend and I believe I will be friends with them for life but you never know. I think my first year of marching band really helped me get prepared for the school year and it was also awesome to go and compete. My challenge I faced was not getting enough sleep and I continued to fall asleep in Spanish the class I was struggling with the most. I really want to get a 4 point next year and  I want to do better in my language class because I really want to go to Virginia U. 

George Orwell

Trying to find a single thing an author loves to incorporate in each of their books is hard to pinpoint. For John Green we may agree realistic endings or strange but moving characters. But George Orwell really likes the word comrade. No idea why.

I recently read Animal Farm by this author. Though I really loved the point he was making about humanity and how it repeats itself, it was hard to get past the hilarity of it all. A farmer running away terrified of his own animals that had decided to make a republic where all animals were equal. And the pigs learning to read and speak and my favorite to picture, write. Just one pig holding a pencil betwixt his wee hooves. Within the first three pages you saw comrade was a commonly used title, but one day during PARRC I forgot the book and began to read 1984, in which he uses comrade once again. I love when authors have a special word they really like. For instance you may have noticed my strange incorporation of the word betwixt. I really enjoy to use that word and others like that from "old" English, like thus or hitherto. I guess you could say it is part of a authors craft.

While reading Animal Farm you really can see the parallels to our society even though it was published around WWII, the issues they had with humanity are ever so present and it is vital we understand the consequences it can cause. At the very end the, my favorite line went something like this, we looked around at all the faces and couldn't tell the difference between. Even though he was talking about pigs and humans they were acting the same and dressing the same and fighting in the same petty manner.

We can try to change who we are but unless you remember the past, like the animals couldn't you can be taken control of, like the pigs did.