Independent Reading

The book i read was Giving up the "V". In the pages I read she was in the doctor's office waiting for him to go in. She was talking about how it was her 16th birthday and had to spend it in their getting her vagina checked. Her mom had a rule that once her daughters turned 16 they would have to use birth control. She thought it was nonsense because she was still a virgin.

Marys View of a Perfect World

You have just entered Desire, a world full of wonders. This isn't just any regular world it represents the way life should really be,its basically living life as an utopia. My world has seven basic rules to follow. In life these seven rules should be follow to contribute to this planet and make it an even better one. Everything is never perfect but sometimes imagining it was makes me believe there can be changes.

My first rule would be respect the people who surround you. Having respect for others is one of the most important things because if you don't respect others how do you expect to respect yourself. One of the reasons why is because you have to give to receive and in this case it is to be respected. An example of this is when you meet a person and you introduce yourself you wouldn't want them to ignore you, that is a way of showing disrespect. Another example that happens very often is guys calling girls inappropriate names. In my opinion i find this the worst disrespect because if they are calling a girl an inappropriate its like their disrespecting their own mother.

Do Now 4/26

I would follow Snowball because he is not evil. He represents Trotsky and i believe in what Trotsky wrote in his books. His beliefs were right and what Stalin was doing was wrong , he murdered people to gain power and that is just plain wrong.

The Book Thief

The narrator of this book is death. In the beginning he describes how death feels.
This book happens during the holocaust because it talks about a Jewish person. Dathe describes that he likes darkness and chocolate. I think that chocolate in this book might mean blood. One of the reasons why i think that is because blood can be similar to blood in a way.

Do Now 3/29/10

I like to read certain things that are interesting to me. If they make me read something i don't like i wont be into the book as much as I would if I was reading a book i really liked. I am interested in comedy and romantic novels sometimes i like reading horror.

Reflection Journal 85-97

Reading these few pages it makes me realize that sometimes friends could be more trustworthy than family. The betrayal between a father and son or mother and daughter is one of the worst betrayals in my opinion. I rather help out my father and just go ahead and leave him behind because the guilt will eat me alive. I think Elie is a good person for not telling him this " but then i remembered something else: his son had seen him loosing ground, sliding back to the rear of the column." This shows the greediness in his son while his father was jostling and looking for him like crazy.

Reflection Journal 77-84

Throughout this reading Elie is in the infirmary due to his foot swelling. He had to get it operated. The patient that was next to him was described as just skin and bones which meant he was very weak. He began to talk about how they would kill one from the infirmary if a new patient came in due to the small amount of room" don't rejoice to soon, son.Here too there is selection. In fact, more often than outside. Germany has no need of sick Jews ". This made Elie begin to think if the man was just lying or trying to tell Elie to leave so he could save himself. Rumors began that the Red army was getting closer and that the camp would be evacuated except for the infirmary. He thought they would be left to die so he left to talk to his father. He ended up evacuating with the other Jews. His selfishness probably led to his fathers death because he says that after the war he had learned that the jews in the infirmary were freed. His dad would of survived if Elie made him stay .