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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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
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.
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.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
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.
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.
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