April 14, 2010

I'am reading the book Precious based on the novel PUSH by Sapphire. This strory has strongly affected me, it has made me realalize that my life isn't as bad as I make it out to be. The thing I noticed about the text is that Sapphire wrote the novel in the way that precious talks. I think that gives the reader a better understand of the struggle that she has has reading and writting. This novel has stired up many emotions within in me, it's really sad me to read. That a human being, a mother could treat her own child and grandchildren that way. it also makes me sad because it's children all over the world that get treated the same way or worse. I learned from this novel that everyone has a purpose in life and God has put all of here to help someone realize their selfworth. I learned that forgiveness is important, you can't live life with hate in your heart.

Guiede Response week 8 Liar, Justine Larbalestien

True/false1. michah killed Zach- False2.michah, tayshawn,sarah made out at sarah's home- False3.the "white boy's" name is pete - true4. michah and her parents took pete to the farm-true5. zach is killed by dogs- falseMULTIPLE CHOiCE1. when michah's paretns caught her with zach what did she do?a. runb.go homec. stay with zach2.what were the two theories that michah come up with about her lying?a.depression, crazyb.being lonely, and boredc.resentment, anger3.what park was zach in when climbing the tree?a.glen oak parkb.loves parkc. none of the above4.How did michah's brother die?a.he was shotb. he got ate by a wolfc.she just says it was an accident5.so far how many lies have michah confess to?a.sixb.ninec.four1.Do you think the Greats should kill pete?2. how do you feel abut michah's new friendship with tayshawn and sarah?3.should michah have brouhgt "white boy" in home knowing he was a killer?4.Do you be believe that michah and her family are wolves?5.Do you think michah would ever be able to be a truthful person?

week 5

the reading that I have done so far hasn't really effected me. There's nothing I can relate to. There was one situation in the story where I was on edge, when the detectives came to Micah's home. I thought they had linked her to Zach's death, or that they had some more bad news. there was something that really caught my attention, it was her dangerous word class. I thought that would be a really cool class to take.The more I read, it became strange to me that its not to much said about Zach's family and how they responded to his dissaperance and death. it was stange that the teachers or students or close friends didn't mentioned them.

Liar, Justine Larbalestier, Week 4

This character's name is Micah Wilkins and she is compulsive liar. This character is very deceiving because she convinced everyone on her first day of school that she was born a male. She also told them that she was born a hermaprodite. I feel that Micah can control her compulsive lying because after she lies, her conscience always contradicts her lies. The idea that I have about her from my reading so far is that she is not close to her mother nor her little brother. The only person Micah trusts is her teacher Yayeko Shoji. I feel that she only trusts her teacher and her father. Micah blames her compulsive lying on her "family disease." She is a very misunderstood person.

In my opinion, Micah gets critisizm because she is a compulsive liar and she seems not to care about the feelings of the people she is lying to. When someone makes up a lie about her, she does not correct it because she likes the attention. This goes back to how I stated earlier about how much of a deceiving person Micah is. I also believe that Micah can receive praise. For example, after Zach Rubin was murdered, everyone at school accused her of killing him. Micah still continuously came to school after being called a freak, murderer, and liar. A student by the name of Brandon Duncan harassed her constantly and she still had the courage to come to school. Also, another student named Sara Washington followed Micah home, but Micah had the courage to face Sara and talk about Zach Rubin.