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Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Links and Displays- The Last Song
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Theme and Summary- The Last Song
This book is about a girl named Ronnie who is facing many problems with her life currently. When her parents divorce, she is separated from her father, and isn't close to her mother. She is forced to go to her father's house for the summer, along with her brother Jonah. As Jonah is excited to see the beach, his father, and the life around where he lives, Ronnie is desperately trying to find a way to get out of the situation. When Ronnie and Jonah arrive, Ronnie avoids her father as much as possible, while Jonah spends every second possible with his father. Later in the story, Ronnie meets a guy named Will, and falls in love with him. She is struck with a hardship among her family, and goes to him for his help. He helps her and Jonah to try and get through the situation but suddenly she doesn't feel like will ever again. I think the theme for this story is, always cherish what you've got because when its gone, you will have wished you did.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Before I Fall- Theme and Summary 2
This book is about a girl named Sam who isin't sure about what has happend the past few days of her life. Speaking of life, she isin't sure it will last too long. This is because, she has been re-living the same day of a car crash for the past 7 days. Each day she wakes up and has to re-live it and try to stop it. She ends up getting in the crash due to her and her friends carelessness about their lives. They drank, smoked, and began to drive away from a friend's party. They didn't even think about it not being safe for them. So, every of the days she has to make up she tries to figure out what is happening and how to stop it.
Before I Fall- Analysis 2
In the book, Before I Fall, there are many important sentences you might not recognize or understand are very important. They lead to the main story, or theme and usually have something to do with conflict. An example I chose in the book and am going to explain is, "The weird thing is that I hadn't thought about that in forever. It was one of those memories I didn't even know I remembered, if you know what I mean" (Oliver, 4-5). She was describing before this quote, the things she wore, who she was with, and things like that. She says these were things she didn't recognize about the day, and things that she wasn't paying attentin to. This quote means that she didn't pay attention to these things, and was now just taking the time to. Afterall, she didn't know she was going to die that day, so she wouldn't have been the only one to not notice what she was wearing, or who she was with.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Before I Fall- Tone and Mood
The tone of the book is very sneaky and brutally honest. Here is an example in the text, why I say this is the tone of the book. "To be honest, I'd always thought the whole final-moment, mental life-scan thing sounded pretty awful"(Oliver, 3). She is abruptly saying how when she died, this is what she felt, and thought of. An example in the book where the main character Sam's voice persuaded others is in the next example. "'What did I tell you Izzy?' I say poking her in the middle of the forehead"(Oliver, 9). She uses a very mad, and serious tone to try and convince her sister to stop touching her things. The mood is almost scary. This is because when I read this, it makes me feel uncomfortable and sort of scared about what she's going to say next.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Before I Fall- Reading Skills Redo
In the book, Before I Fall, I decided to redo my reading skills for it. I'm confused on the theme a little bit. I think it's supposed to be how she wakes up everyday for a week re-living the same exact day, which the day is the day she crashes her car with friends, and tries to fix it. But, I'm not sure because the book is giving me mixed messages about it. Also I found out that this book is a lot like Pretty Little Liars, because they are both suspenseful. I also think it is a lot like 13 Reasons Why because they are both about how a girl lives her last days alive, but the difference in 13 Reasons Why is the main character is the reason for her own death. I also think that Before I Fall is fantasy, so I cannot relate it to anything in the real world! But, I do think that people are making a lot of books about how people die, but before, something magical changes their lives, just to make it more interesting!
Before I Fall- Analysis
A quote I chose from the book, Before I Fall that was important to the story and had a meaning was this. "They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that’s not how it happened for me"(Oliver, 1). This is the very first quote of the prologue. It is interesting because it has hidden meanings, and already gives out a lot of information. What I mean is, it says, when you die. So, she obviously has died. They also say your life flashes, but she then says it didn't happen to her, so that means she's basically telling us how dying feels like. Just the first sentence I get an almost careless, but yet confident vibe from the main character. I feel like she would become a trouble maker, and found out later on in the book, I was correct.
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