JUST LISTEN by Sarah Dessen

In my last post I was discussing how people are judged by their appearance and their family, and as read further into the book i notice that this would be an occurring theme. Not only with the main character, Annabel, but with many miner characters as well. In the book Annabel meets Owen for the first time, he is defined by others as hostel and very dangerous. Because of this no one speaks or looks at Owen. No one Knows him. Except Annabel, she finds that he is a different person than the one described by other observers. While in the past she was doing the same thing to him, judging by his actions. So in the part where she meets his sibling, she prepares herself for a goth girl/boy in all black. So while reading this I was wondering was it good for her to be expecting the worse, even if she has never meet him/her before. Even though she begs people not to do the same to her. She forcefully wants to be a different person from her family. Is she not seeing that other than her world, that other people go through the same thing.While in Annabel's mind Owen is a nice Music love ling guy, she is afraid that he might judge her for what he think she is. Because of these accusations she has lost all of her friends trying to get where she used to be. Connecting back to my last post Annabel describes her house as her family, and herself also. I thought that was a  good way to represent the Perfection everyone sees in her house and her family but on the inside it is hanging by a thread. I think that Annabel might be the only one actually trying to pull everyone back together, while every one else has lost hope. Maybe Owen is the only thing that is stable for her right know thats why she likes him. I hope I get the answers to my questions by the next post                        

Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

      I just started reading this book named Just Listen by Sarah Dessen so far it is about a girl named Annabel who last summer apparently lost everything, her friends, and her sisters. On the outside she lives the picture perfect life, loving family, she is beautiful, but on the inside it is a different story.
     This made me think about how your peers or your family forces you to be someone that your not. Many people assume different things by how you present your self or who your family is. But, is this the right thing to do. If we " Judge the book by its cover" with every person we meet, we will never know the real person. All of the opinions and assumptions people might throw at others, could really ruin their life.Is it easier to be popular, but have every one relying on you to stay perfect, throughout your life, or be left on the outside, being who you are and no one else. Well it also depends on who your family is because the pressure starts at home. For example in the book, Annabel's two older sisters were, her mothers craved imaged of perfect. So all of her life she has tried, and sometimes failed to strive to be just as perfect as they were. Her mother always thought she knew what was best but, what she wanted wasn't what she wanted. But, just because your family or your friends live or is none to have a certain reputation does that mean that's automatically your choose. I hope I find the answer to my question as I further read what Annabel's choice might be.    

TTFN (Ta-Ta- For-Now)

The book TTFN is the sequal to TTYL, and is about 3 teens finding themselves while going through everyday high school. The formate is the things that grabs you right away. When reading IMs( the format the book is in) is like looking into someones personal life, more like interupting it. Because it is only in IMs there are no descriptions of the characters, so there are like no idenitities to the IMs, they have a mind of there own. There are only actions of the characters.
What i have noticed so far in the sequal is  about the connections and friendships that come and go through the highs and lows of high school. The friendships in high school really make or brake you. If you have good friend, that supporte you and give you advice, they would help you make the right decission. If you dont have the right people beside you, it feels more like your alone than having friends. But when we do come to have the right friends,  some still go off and make the wrong decisions. In the book this happens quite often.i found out that, when meeting new people, they find that the lifestly they use is much better than the one they live through with their friends. So they change, thinking it is for the better, but is it. Is leaving with the old and going with the New always the best choice. Or is staying with what made you, you the  good way to go.

AM I BLUE?

Am i Blue is a collection of short stories, about kisd out age trying to find themeselves. When I began to read this book I noticed that the first two stories where mostly about kids trying to find themeseves with there sexuality. The first stories not only related to kids wondering if they are gay or not, but the feelings the main characters felt were universal. The feeling that you don't belong, or even the thought that you are not accepted, by your peers or your parents.Even when books have one main theme that you or others dont feel apart of, there are always inner meaning,that contribute to the same theme.
I think that with each short story in the book it would show differnt ways teens are trying to find there identity, and how others usually respond to it, weather its a family member not accepting who you are, or what you may become. Even a peer bullying you for what you may be. But what may happen, is that with every non- accepting person in the story there is one person that understands what you are going though. It would be that one person that gives that boy or a sense of relief and safty. 

THE LAST SONG BY NICOLAS SPARKS

 In this book the main character Ronnie goes through many hardships through her life. the biggest was her parents divorce, some might say that divorce is simple that it doesn't effect the child ore scare  them in any way. I know from experience that divorce can put you in a state of mind you have never felt before you feel alone you feel like you are no one. It puts an emotional and mental toll on you. when ever i see my father i feel like i don't even know him like he is stranger. i always feel disconnected from him. That's how Ronnie feels, Millions of kids go through this every day, this one divorce that happens in their childhood will effect them in the long run. in the book Ronnie's father was her piano teacher that's how they connected but when he left she couldn't stand the sight of the piano, it was like he father was still there inside the piano she couldn't bare it, she gave up something she loved and never went back. she started to act out she was angry. Like most kids she never believed in love or anything else the relation ship that was between her and her father could never be repaired. the people who really get hurt in the divorce are the children, this is happening to many times, some families stay in touch with very frequent visits but some are never repaired.

CALM, COOL AND COLLECTED

  In the end when Charlote dies it's amazing how collected she is. I learned that Charlotte is not the one to freak out shes the calm one, she relaxes everyone. When ever Wilbur would get out of control, she wouldn't yell she would kindly say "Wilbur stop". This continues with  the other women in the story. Ms. Arable is very cool when fern is in one of her yelling moods. In the beginning when Fern is yelling about her father killing Wilbur, Ms. Arable is just like  Charlotte.
   So when she dies it doesn't surprise me when she is slowly dieing. and maybe that's what we all have to do when we die. Most people are afraid of death ( me included)but we all have to realize that in the circle of life were born, we live, we die. As many say If you cheat death once you cant do it again. In the end we could all learn from the calm, cool, and collected mood of Charlotte.  

ARCHETYPES OF CHARLOTTES WEB

  In Charlott's web THE MENTOR and THE HERO is the same person. Charlotte in the end saves and teachs not only wilbur but us. Like we learned in class EB White is using Charlotte and other characters as a microphone to teach us life leasons. In a way he tells us to look at the world in a different way.
    So know that we now who THE MENTOR and THE HERO is in the book who are the others. Well the villain or the shadow in the book is really all the animals that doubted that as small as Charlotte was that she could stop humans from doing something as natural as killing a pig. But in the end they we all wronged and found a new appreciation for Charlotte and her talents.I also think that in the beginning i thought that the animals were THE VILLAINS and were going to stay like that throughout the book. But i was wrong they in a way traded sides and started to help Charlotte in succeding into saving wilbur. when a character can't choose between either side is called THE SHAPESHIFTER