Forgetfulness: Return of the Blog Posts I

   I have just finished reading a book called "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a boy soldier"  By Ishmael Beah. This book is about how a kid named Ishmael is recruited as a child soldier to fight rebels who do stuff like go to innocent villages and cut off the balls of the men and then kill everyone and take the food. The army gives everyone coke mixed with gunpowder so he can get a surge of energy. He is trained to kill without remorse.
   I think this book shows what kind of a world we had before and our ignorance to other countries. While we are upset because we have a red ring of death, some guy across the world may be getting his balls chopped off. I think this book shows how we should be grateful for what we have. It also shows that we should use those little UNICEF boxes because they're the ones who saved the child soldiers(even though those are for blood cancer. Just trying to make a connection...) . Overall I think this is a great book.




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Blog post #11

I have just finished reading the book The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan. In this book, Percy, the main character, has lost his memory and is led to the Roman camp instead of the Greek one. He gets his memory back at the end, but there is a bigger story behind it.
  In the previous book, Jason, who is originally from the Roman camp, loses his memory and is led to the Greek camp. He also bonds with the Greek camp, and at the end finds out he is from the Roman camp. I think that this so that the Greek and Roman camps can stop being rivals and work together to prevent the rise of Gaea, because in The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan the last prophecy can be interpreted as the two camps must work together to beat Gaea, the earth mother.
  Also, I think that Jason and Percy have very similar personalities. They both have strong leadership skills. I think that in the next book, they will work together to defeat Gaea.

Review of Deontae's post

I think that Deontae's post of Diary of a wimpy kid was interesting and stood out to me. I haven't read this book yet, but the post gives me a feeling about what the book will be about, which is some stuff in Greg's teen life. This series made books more interesting for me. 
   This post makes me want to read the book, as it gives a example from the book, but not the whole thing. I'm guessing that the cops will come to Greg's house.
  I think that this post stands out from Deontae's other posts because he makes a bigger connection to his own life, how it affected his reading life. I also like how the post is written, how he makes the connection to his life about the book, and then elaborates on the story, but Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a well known book.

Blog post #9

   I have just finished reading the book "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner. After a few chapters, I made a connection between another great book that I read, which is "Furnace: Lockdown" by Alexander Gordon Smith. The setting is very similar yet so different. Both are prison-like settings with kids trying to escape, and the main character gets a friend/s near the beginning that dies at the end.

   As I mentioned, the settings are also very different. In Furnace: Lockdown, the inmates are fed slop, given terrible living conditions, and people abusing power. In The Maze Runner, the kids are smart enough to make a community, but they are also given good living conditions, medicine, a garden, and a place to raise animals for meat.

   In The Maze Runner, Thomas and Chuck have a bro relationship. At first their relationship is shaky, as when Chuck plays a practical joke on Gally, Thomas gets caught in the middle. Their relationship develops so much that at the end of the book, when Gally is being controlled and throws a knife at Thomas, Chuck throws himself in the middle and sacrifices his life. When Chuck stops convulsing, Thomas snaps and starts to beat up Gally so badly, his friends Newt and Minho have to pull him off of Gally. This shows that Thomas and Chuck had a really good relationship.

 

Blog post #8

    I have just finished reading the book "The Red Pyramid" by Rick Riordan. At the end, Carter's dad becomes and stays as the host for Osiris, the god of the underworld. Carter's relationship with his dad does not improve much. All the ending is, is a reunion. 

   Carter's relationship with Sadie improves a lot throughout the book. Carter learns to collaborate with Sadie, and understands that something is wrong when Sadie does not comply with Amos' orders. Sadie realizes that finishing the spell to seal Set would release a myriad of energy and allow Aphophis, basically a evil, prodigious snake, to break free. 

   At the end, Carter and Sadie find out that their dad, Julius, has revived their mom, at the cost of Julius having to be a host of Osiris. Julius is tethered to the underworld, and though this makes the kids sad, they deal with it and get ready for the next book. for the next adventure.

 

Blog post #7

    I am reading the book "The Red Pyramid" by Rick Riordan. This book is about two siblings, Carter and Sadie, who become hosts to Egyptian gods. They are trying to stop Set, because he wants to turn the whole world into a desert, probably because he is the chaos god.
   I think that Carter is facing a lot of problems in this book. One of them is his sister, who is much more outgoing than him. Early in the book they get in trouble because of Sadie. I think Sadie makes it harder for Carter to adapt to the very sudden changes, like discovering that him and Sadie are the most powerful magicians on Earth, and/or hosting Egyptians gods.
   I think another problem in this book is Carter's father, Julius, who is somewhat isolated after Carter's mother disappears because of some ritual. Julius refuses to tell the kids what happen, so Carter and Sadie try to find out, and get themselves into a mess.
   Lastly, I am not finished with this book yet, but I think that Julius' and Carter's relationship will improve, because at the end of the book there will probably be a sad reunion or something and Julius will finally tell Carter and Sadie. Then again, I may be wrong and the ending will be totally different.

Blog post #6

 

    I just finished reading the book "Science Fair" by Dave Barry. This book is about a kid named Toby who wants to win his annual science fair. However, his rivals, a group of rich kids, paid somebody, unknown to them, to get project plans and layouts every year. They then pay Sternabite, who owns a science store, to "help" them(do the project for them). But this year, the projects given to them are to help the government of Krpshtstan to destroy the US, because the president of Krpshtstan had a son who was humiliated on American Idol, because he thought he was doing good when he made it to the last round, but then at the end no one voted for him because they were playing with him, and the president wanted revenj.
   I think there is a lot of social injustice in this book. One situation of social injustice is when all the rich kids make fun of Toby because he wears "Discount Warehouse" shoes. When Jason(a rich kid) makes a remark about this("When I win the five grand, maybe I'll buy you some decent shoes") and when Toby says a comeback, Jason gets him into trouble later.
   Also, another place in this book where social injustice happens is when they play with the mind of the president of Krpshtstan's son. If they did not like him they shouldn't have voted for him in the beginning, just because he sings terribly.