CHOICE BOOK REPORT 4- Part 1

For my book report I read My Soul to Save by Rachel Vincent. The main character is named Kaylee Cavanaugh she could be described in many different ways. She is caring, considerate, hardworking, and sympathetic.

Kaylee is caring because during the beginning of the book when Kaylee goes to a concert with her boyfriend, Nash the pop star singing drops dead in front of everyone. The person who was next to sing is next on the list of people to die. Tod, Nash’s brother who is actually dead and became a reaper learns this too. The only issue he has with it is that the pop star- Addison Page used to be his girlfriend before he died so he feels like he must help her to see if he can change her death date in any way, Kaylee almost immediately agrees to help because she also feels like just because she knows she has to help. (Eden the already dead pop star and Addison Page both sold their souls to people in the Netherworld who will torture it for millions of years before it might be put to peace.)

Considerate would be another way to describe Kaylee because she tries everything she can not to be trouble to anyone. Her father has super strict rules and she tries to follow them at all times until she got herself involved in the saving of the soul.

Kaylee is very hard-working. An example of when Kaylee is hard working is when she goes to the Netherworld she gets poisoned in the leg from a plant that stabbed her. She tries to attract the littlest amount of attention to it, so that the saving of the other girls soul might happen before she possibly dropped dead in the Netherworld. She tries everything she can before the pain eventually takes over and she is barely able to move or talk.

Sympathetic is what could describe Kaylee, but only when it’s towards the helpless unknowing people. She doesn’t care about what happens to the people who are making all the mess that she got herself into. An example is when she comes back from her near-death experience from the Netherworld and is in the regular world she learns that the guy who was making all the mess that she was involved in was dead she said that it was a good thing. She hoped that no one would ever replace him.

Choice Book Report 3

The book I read for my third choice book report is The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. The book is split into ten separate parts. Each part has a different ending and each part has a different person’s perspective.

The main character is Kyu. His personality is truly showed in basically the first part of the book. All of his reincarnations have these same traits, even when he comes back as a tiger for a small part of the story. Kyu is rebellious, courageous, perseverant, and a great leader. Kyu was very rebellious because in the first part in particular as a newly captured slave he talks back to his captors and receives a truly horrifying punishment. Not long after his first outburst at the captors he is sold to a family and is made to be a server in their restaurant. He was well fed and well kept for but he thought it was a good idea to burn down the house and restaurant while everyone was sleeping so that that he could escape. He kills everyone but one person in this scene leaving only the other slave with him for his escape to freedom.

Kyu is also courageous because he has the power to speak his mind no matter what he thinks is going to happen to him, he doesn’t care. One example is in his 3^rd life he comes back to Earth as a tiger in the woods. He finds a lost guy in the forest and helps him find his tribe again. Instead of running off after he helps the guy he stays and watches over the tribe knowing the dangers of staying and ends up getting killed by the tribe because they lived in fear knowing that a tiger was watching their every move.

Kyu is very perseverant because every obstacle thrown in front of him including being on a ship for months as a newly captured slave, being a slave waiter for the family that “owned” him, and going in front of the Lord of Death: the person who decides where the person is worthy enough to move to heaven, to hell, or try again on earth to see if they would decide there fate the however many of times it took to prove themselves worthy.

A very worthy leader Kyu proves to be. In every part of the book he is always the one to stand up to what is thrown in front of him. In part one he is the leader in making sure he has the power over everyone even if he is a slave, in part two he proves to be a helpful leader as a tiger helping the guy he finds in the forest to get back to his tribe and on this journey he faces a few hunters and predators, and in part five he is a alchemist that is very advanced and is able to figure out what he thinks is the speed of time. During his studies as an alchemist he helps to defend everyone from an attack from the Chinese not far away.  

Part 2- Flashback/Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing was used in a large amount in the first part of the book. It was at the end of every chapter. It was normally a paragraph summarizing everything that was in the next chapter. The mass amount of foreshadowing used in the book made the book extremely boring and horrible to read. The paragraphs used to foreshadow impacted this book a lot because it made it suspense less and completely predictable. It made everything that was being read seem like it was already said with small amounts of detail added around it. The impact it made on this book made me very disappointed in reading it. Stories have different impacts when foreshadowing is used because it can reveal too much, just enough to keep you guessing, or not enough to be sure whether or not it is a foreshadow. Foreshadowing is typically used to hint the reader into thinking something could happen or to say something to keep the reader hooked into reading more. In The Years of Rice and Salt it did the opposite and instead of hooking the reader into reading more made me want to put it down.

Flashbacks were used in the story but only once or twice did I notice it. A character that gets close to Kyu, and could be considered another main character, has a couple of these after he gets captured and thrown upon the slave ship. These flashbacks were about the time when he was a “free” fugitive. The flashback he continuously touched on was when he and his fighting team were told to kill another tribe and failed to do so because the plague had already wiped them all out. The leader who sent them on this mission sentenced him and his team to all be put to death because they had failed to fulfill his orders. The only way he survived through that was because one strike of lightning came down and killed the guy ordered to kill the team. He treasures this moment and when he feels anxious he looks back at his past and remembers this.

Flashbacks can impact a story a lot because they are normally used to help the reader understand what happened in a characters life and to help to understand why they act the way they do. If they weren’t used sometimes you would have to guess on what shapes the character that you’re reading about and that would be impossible because no two minds think alike so the author would have a totally different perspective on who the character is. I think it helps to make both the author and the reader think more alike.

  

Losing Christina Book Report

I read Losing Christina. It is about a girl named Christina who lives on a small island in the Atlantic Ocean about an hour away from Maine (the Mainland). Once children enter seventh grade they move to the Mainland for the rest of their school years. Christina has very mixed feelings about this; she could be described as a very judging person because when she first met the principal Mr. Shevvington and language arts teacher Mrs. Shevvington the people she would be boarding with for the entire school year. When she first met them she described them as lifeless, boring, and the second she met them she decided that she would not like them. Christina could be described as a very determined person because she always was telling the four kids from the Mainland, that were boarding with her, stories about what she thought Mr. and Mrs. Shevvington were doing. She thought they were evil and tried every way possible to make the other children believe her. Another way you could describe Christina would be very caring, yet not caring at the same time.   She is very caring of her island and of the kids that were from the island because she always stood up for them even if she knew she probably wouldn’t win. She was also uncaring because the second she met Mr. and Mrs. Shevvington she made sure she wasn’t going to be nice to them or agree to basically anything they said. If the Shevvington’s felt one way she felt the opposite, they were never on the same side and were always fighting. I could also describe Christina as rude or impolite because every meal that she ate there was always something wrong with it and was always asking if she could make a sandwich instead. Another reason she could be described as impolite would be because on the first day of school she got sent to the office for punching a boy in the face because he was teasing her. The last way I would describe Christina would be as very brave because when she suspected the Shevvington’s of something she would always try to fight back no matter what the cost was. When the Shevvington’s started to focus on destroying her she fought back with everything she had and most of the time she didn’t win, she thought if she could just win once then everyone would believe her, but the only thing that could have the evidence was Mr. Shevvington’s briefcase and he guarded it with his life.

 I think that the theme of this book is to fight for what you believe in and continue to do it until you win, no matter what happens along the way. I think that Christina already knew what she was about to face. Going to the Mainland was hard enough for island kids because they were not treated as fairly as the kids that lived on the Mainland. When she met Mrs. Shevvington I think she knew that she was going to have to stand up and out on top of her if she hadn’t she probably would have been just as useless as everyone else that bowed down to the Shevvington’s giving them even more power then they already had. In the third part of the book the Shevvington’s start to make her life revolve around fire, they stuff her clothes with matches and put cigarettes in her purse while she is sleeping. One night after she had come home from her only friend’s house she found that all her clothes had been set to fire except the ones she had been wearing. This made her already poor family have to buy her a whole new wardrobe leaving them with even less than before. I think Christina learns very early in the school year that she would have to fight back or she would be trampled down to the ground. The first week of school Christina learned that there was something odd going on and it seemed as if she was the only one who noticed it. Everyone around her thought that the Shevvington’s were so nice to take in the island kids who couldn’t respect a thing they were doing for them. The people around thought that if the children would just listen to the ones superior to them that the year would be easier and more exciting for them, eventually they learned that only the island kids seen through the Shevvington’s and that if Christina hadn’t fought back they would continue to destroy the lives of other children. They had already destroyed the lives of seven other kids, the kids who would live in a mental institution for the rest of there lives because the Shevvington’s had played with there minds and the minds of the parents who thought the Shevvington’s did everything they could to make sure that the children were not hurt. The Shevvington’s always had suggested the places that the parents could send there children that may have helped them.

Choice book report

Confessions of a Shopaholic Book Report part 1

            Rebecca Bloomwood is the main character of the story I read. She has many terrible characteristics that would describe her. She is self absorbed, deceitful, irresponsible, inconsiderate, effortless, arrogant, and has a bad OCD. She has one okay characteristic about her and that is well-dressed. Rebecca is self-absorbed because she takes money from a very rich person to buy a scarf that she doesn’t need, and lies about why she needed the money in the first place to get it. Rebecca is a very deceitful person because she throws away her bank statements and pretends they never arrived. She has a real bad case of irresponsibility. She has to spend money on clothes and things that are in fashion. She has lots of overdrafts and doesn’t have the money to pay them off and always makes excuses so that she doesn’t have to pay the bills that are overdue. Rebecca decides instead of cutting back in her spending she would just have to make more and the results she was looking for didn’t help her in any way.  She is terribly inconsiderate all she cares about is what’s in and she has feelings for only herself until the people she loves are gone. Effortless doesn’t even begin to describe her and how she does her job because she is a journalist for Successful Saving she believes that she can just slack off until the workers boss is pushing them for the next article to come out. Around her lunch break time she is ready to shop and go home so she makes any excuse up that could possibly get her out of work for the rest of the day or on a vacation. Rebecca is very arrogant she has to have anything that looks good and is expensive she only goes into specific clothes store because she refuses to buy from any store that might even look like a thrift or department store. The last really horrible thing about Rebecca is she has a case of OCD she has to buy clothes for no reason all she has the little voice in her head that says I have to have that and that and that. Get it now it can’t wait and it doesn’t matter if it is relevant to her life or not. The only good thing I can pick out of Rebecca’s characteristics is she is very well-dressed because she always has to have what is in or she waits to wear it until it is.  Many characteristics describe my main character and these are just some of them if you read the book you can find out more about this interesting character.

Book Report part 2 Confessions of a Shopaholic.  

The point of view in the book is in first person. I think that this point of view was chosen because if it had not been chosen the book would not have made much sense. The story line would have had to be explained in a completely different way. I do not think that the story would have been as interesting as it was if it was described in a different view because if it had been described in a different way the way she does everything she does would not have much sense to anyone reading the book. A specific section that was biased because of the point of was in the book she is describing her job as a boring job that no one would ever want to have and made no money. If the point of view had been different I think that the descriptions of the job could have been different especially if it was a person who actually took the job and enjoyed the work and money that was given for the job whereas with just her point of view the job seams dreadful and boring and like everyone who has or ever will have this job will hate or despise it because of the requirements needed. Since the character in the book is in debt and troubled from their spending problems it makes it look like anyone individual who ever has this job will be in debt and be bored out their mind having this job. If the main character in the book had not had been in debt and having problems with their money the entire book could have been different and the main character could have been more involved with other things in her life than being completely obsessed with shopping and spending endless hours sulking around unhappily trying to turn their life around and not be in debt or having to watch all of his or her spending on a tight monthly budget.  If the story had not been told in this specific point of view I think that the story would have been completely pointless and a waste of time to have read because it would have made it less interesting and I think it would have made it into a non-fiction book or like non-fiction book. This point of view was needed for this book and if you read the book you will find that what I’ve said is true.  

Memoir 2

We had been petless for about a year. My mom gave our cat away because of his viciousness. The night we strolled into the petstore had been great. We had just come home from supper and my parents were actually in a good mood. We walked into the store and walked back towards the puppies. By the time we were getting ready to leave my brother and I were begging and pleading to get a puppy. Instead of bringing home a puppy we brought home ourselves. My mom sat us down at the table and said that having a pet was a big responsibility the only thing going through my mind was at last a new pet and not a cat this this time. After about an hour of decisions we all went back to the petstore and started to try pick a dog to take. They were all cute. Eventually we picked out a black and white one. He was great up until the second month of getting him he went from cute to the most annoying dog in the world.
 

Memoir

South Dakota summer trip

                I got up at 2:00 am in the morning to get on the bus that left at 3:00am. Almost everyone was complaining about the earliness of the trip. Our pastor that came with us to the camp made the rule that no one was allowed to talk until sunrise. The bus ride was a long 12 and a half hours long. After we had left the Minnesota borderline it turned into basically all open fields and hay bales. 

                When we finally got to the camp we had gotten there two hours late. The other group that was going to be sharing the camp with us had been waiting for over two and a half hours. The camp was too dangerous to get to by bus so we had to walk one mile to get to the camp. This began the never ending hikes we took. Nothing was motorized and if we got lucky we got to ride horses to the site that the other three groups walked to.  There was absolutely no electricity.

                The majority of the trip was hiking up and down mountains and riding horses. In the day it would be so hot you would have to wear shorts and a t-shirt. At night you wouldhave to wear sweatshirts and long pants or you would freeze.  It rained into the cabin at least two times and it made everything wet. The rain prevented you from sleeping from the noise it made.

Introduction

Hi my name is Allison. I like Harry Potter, The House of Night, and many other book series. I DESPISE TWILIGHT! I am working on trying to write a story. I have one brother :(. I am in Cross Country and Track for school. My favorite thing to do is sleep. Bye!