Exercise 3

A Great and Terrible Beauty

Matched

Saving Zoe

Brief Summary
Discussion of themes, and characters
At the end they leave a question or a statement to make people want to read it  

Catching Fire

I finished it, it left me screaming and frustrated, and I can't wait to read the last book. I don't want to say anything specific because so many people are reading it. I will say that it had the same intensity as the first one and I loved the new characters brought in.

Note 1

In Ally Carter’s Heist Society, a teenage girl joins the family business of being a thief, when she realizes what it means to be a thief. Carter’s diction is simply common yet conversational conveying a relaxed playfulness.  Deflating the common belief that thieves want everything Carter writes “thieves aren’t supposed to want too much” which is ironic but completely true. Thieves can only want as much as they can get up and walk away from. Thieves are constantly moving and changing if you don’t want to be caught.   Carter keeps a teasing tone using stereotypical images of thieves such as “No gloves?” and a response of “Not on my day off.”  Even though the laws of thieves are to not want too much Kat, the main character, realizes “no thief is ever supposed to love anything as much as she loved him” him being her father. Carter thought the story has plain diction that puts meaning behind simple words.

Exercise 2

(6) "Once Upon a cruddy time on a cruddy street on the side of a cruddy hill..." and as shown, it is hugely emphasized that her life is "cruddy" through her silly and unbelievable repetition of the word.

(4)The author enhances the stress by throwing the reader straight into the action.

(1)Barry comes across as a bitter woman with the constant negative and degrading word diction saying "Roberta was writing the cruddy book of her cruddy life."

Best: Vivir, Soñar, Leer

Reading goals

I'm reading Catching Fire which is the second hunger games book and I couldn't put it down. I read the first one a year ago when first came out and loved it but it was intense so I was deciding whether to finish the series or not, which inspired one of my goals:

1. Read 3 complete series (Hunger Games being one of them)

2.Try and read 1,500 pages

3. Find at least five different reading spots around my neighborhood

Anthology: Theme Statement

I had a hard time coming up with a theme, because I wanted to do something unique but doable, and a came up with thieves, theft, and stealing . Which is all the same idea just different forms, and its theft in general.

One is a poem called Redemption, which mentions thieves.

Another is a exercpt from a fiction novel called Hiest Society, which is all about thieves and cons.

This topic is narrow but it works because it can be taken in a lot of directions.

Frankenstein

Frankenstein is not my favorite school book that would be To Kill a Mockingbird but it's not the worst either which is The Red Badge of Courage. It is slower read at times but it can make me very angry. Right after Victor makes the creature and runs off and sees Henry and comes back and the creature is gone he is joyous an I am thinking a creature is running the streets and jumping for joy great. Then he has the nerve to say Justine is in less suffer than him and she is about to get executed. Seriously!?!? And top it off when the creature says "I will see you on your wedding night."Victor is like oh no he is going to kill me and I'm screaming no you selfish idiot he is going to kill a Elizabeth. Victor plain out infuriates me!