Finally

It has been a rough semester, but it’s time for my FINAL BLOG! When I started this course I would have called myself more of a movie person. I despised all fiction books and a lot of non-fiction books. All I liked reading was science textbooks. I feel I was very independent. I used to read a particular text book all the time even when it was not assigned.

Fight Club

The most recent book that I have started is called fight club. My reason for reading this book is the fact that almost everybody I know has either seen the movie or read this book. Also, last Monday I was browsing the internet and somehow I came across a top 5 movie list and fight club was number one. If anyone is willing to go out on a limb and say that this story is number one material, I’m sold. I started this book on Monday and so far I have read about 80 pages. In those 80 pages we the main character of the story.

In J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, a blunt and vulgar diction is conveyed. This is illustrated throughout the excerpt on the handout.

 

style mapping

The three works that I am choosing to compare are, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, she uses Elevated and sophisticated style of diction. For example, when she writes “Accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings” it shows her high diction. On the other hand, in the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, a more blunt and vulgar form of diction is used. For example, when Steinbeck writes “With us it ain't like that” you can see the slang in his writing. Finally, in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, we see a more scholarly and traditional form of diction. You can see this when he writes “Where he rode no soul save he”

Quarterly

This quarter has been rough for me. With band, AP physics, and other classes, I have fallen behind in my school work. The books I have read this quarter have consisted of Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, Of Mice and Men, and The Magicians Nephew. I usually start reading at around 11:30 and go till about 12:00.  This next quarter I am looking forward to reading and blogging more. If I had to choose a goal, it would be to read at least one series, and receive an A in this class for the third quarter.

New book

The last two weeks i have been reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. This has been a great book, but I have had little time to read and enjoy it. So, I decided to switch to a different book till I get schedule back under control. The new book that I started was The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis. When I was younger I wasn’t a big “reader” so I haven’t read those famous book series like Harry potter, or the Chronicles of Narnia. So I’ve decided that I should read them know. On Wednesday I started the first book in the series called The Magician’s Nephew.

Observe:

Space:

Setting: empty, war-torn,

Characters: young, swift, serious, hypnotic

Movement: famous, powerful, explosive

This picture of the U.S. flag being raised on Iwo Jima in February, 23, 1945, shows the soldiers powerful and famous movement, swift and serious actions create the famous moment.

Currently

I have had a slow week this week. Only read about 50 pages. My sentence of the week has to be "By full dark the blackened ribracks leaned steaming at the fires and there was a jousting over the coals with shaven sticks whereon were skewered gobs of meat and a clank of canteens and endless railery." This has to be my favorite sentence because it is a microcosm of what the book is like. Also it has a vocab word from unit 1.

update

This week i have read 200 pages.

Labor Day

This last weekend was Labor Day. Most people went to lakes and cookouts, but my family decided it would be fun to just stay at home and to nothing. It was not fun at all. The one good thing that came from this was down time to read. I read about 200 pages and finished No Country For Old Men. The book was very exiting and once I started reading I just did not want to put the book down. Basically Moss is still on the run from Chigurh and the others who want the money. Chigurh finally catches up with Moss at a motel by the boarder to Mexico.  After all the shooting has stopped Moss got away shot like 3 times and the invincible Chigurh was even wounded. Moss stumbles off to the other side of the boarder and has a Mexican take him to the hospital. We meet a character named Wells who is hired to get the money back. He finds Moss in the hospital and tells him he can protect him. But he cannot and Chigurh kills him. In the end I was disappointed because the book did not have a climax. I felt that it was building to a final confrontation, but it didn’t. It went form rising action straight to falling action.