KEY IDEAS IN ELONA KASHARNY'S BLOG

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       While reading Elona Kasharny'S blog i saw that she wrote about allot of key points while reading the book Fixing Delilah By Sarah Ockler.  In the beginning of the post, Elona give a great summary of the book so far. She explains that Delilah the main character has gone through several deaths in her family in the last year, it effects everything she does, from school work to her personal life. As a fact Elonas summerary was longer than mine, but still have the same sense of the book to let begin to be informed while she starts to infer about the certain observations she saw in the book.

       Their was one observation that really cought my eye. Elona described that Delilah makes herself harder by letting it affect her daily life. Even though the people who died were very close to her. It shouldn't completely let her life go at a stand still. Even though Elona does prove her point, I disagree ( sorry Elona Your Post is really good though!) I think the reson that, even though it is Delilah fault that she is doing poorly in school. In a way its not her fault. After all shes been through, with all of the deaths that accured in her family, she can't concentrat, on school. This time in her life, i think that to her Family and her friends school work is the least of her problems. I think that in the posistion she is in with her family, she does need to calm down and relaxe with her family, as Elona also said. But she also needs to find where priorities are in her sitiuation, It might take her a long time until she is  capable of improving her life.

    In the end I want to say that Elona did a awsome job in her post. Once you read hers that mine, i might make you think about what your thoughts are on the piece, and to write as many comments as you can.

JUST GO TO: elonaisacookie.blogspot.com

The blog post is FIXING DELILIAH BY SARAH OCKLER  

GLASS

Yesterday I began reading the book Glass by Ellen Hopkins, it is the sequel to the book Crank, but unfortunatly i was not able to read the book. But so far i get the jest of the beginng of the dramatic story of the youn girl Kristina (bree) that not only can not find her self, but is drowning in her addiction. After a visit with her father she got hooked to it, and never lost hold of it. she lost everything to the Moster but never stoped using it. I feel that the reason that kristen keeps calling the crystal Moster is because not only is it terring her family apart but also herself, she cant survive without. so the monster inside her controls her every move. No mater how hard she always trys to stay away, it grabs her from behind and she falls back into her old bad habits. This made me think about how even though we forget our bad ways that happened in the past it comes back to bite in the butt hard. We then remember that we are no better than that bad act that we commited, that what we did was wrong and it could never happen again. But when we all would forgive our selfs and forget, Kristena did not forgive and did not forget, she not only blamed her self for the start of it Her inner self Bree started to fuel again once more aand she was hungry for the wrong doings she once commited. Because i am only so far into the book I dont know the reasoning for Kristinas sudden urge of the monster and what happens to her life as she knows it. But as I always I will keep you posted.

American Born Chisnese By Gene Luen Yang

Today i have recently started reading the book American Born Chinese, i have read the book before but i though that i would read it again since it was so good. Because we have recently stop'ed learning about social Issues, i read the book this time with an eye for detail. I saw that not only was the author portraying the treatment of the different minorities, but also the stereotyping of the main character. In the book people automatically think he is from china, when there are many places in Asia that he could be from. To me this shows that the people around him ( in class and neighborhood) don't care about his personal life and who he is. All they Know is that he is Asian and that's as far as they want to know. Also in the book the American classmates don't care to hear about his culture, they just want him to be "normal" to be American. Like different foods or the way he speaks. Because no one excepted him for who he was he had to change, In order to assimilate into the school. Because of the reaction his peers made when he first came to school, he didn't want to be affiliated to anything that had to do with his culture. I think that to become someone you are losing yourself , your culture and our family. Why should he become the same person that teased him when he came to that school. I think that if I were in that position i would stick to what i know, stick to who I am, and not forget where I came from, because then I would never know where I am going hopefully the main in character learns that who he is good and no one could tell him other wise.