The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
The effects that war has on people can make them do stupid thing for no reason. In the book two of the soldiers (Lee Strunk & Dave Jensen) get into a fight because one of them stole the other ones jackknife. They got into a fistfight because of it. These kinds of things happen to you because of being out in the hot sun all day trying to stop something that doesn't concern you (the war) but does because your country decides to make it your problem. Things like little fights over stuff can really cause a problem when you are in war along with items that you bring with you that aren't necessary. These things can distract you in the most crucial times. Whenin war all it takes is one little mistake and your gone like Ted Lavender. Everyone was doing the own thing not thinking that there in the middle of a was and he was shot and killed. The effects of the war mess with peoples train of thought and make them lose track of the inportant stuff.
Do you think that the effect of the war has any part in soldiers dieing in the war?
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Narration of Night
Night by Elie Wiesel
This book is the story of Elie Wiesel. His life growing up in these camps and living with what he had went through. When I was reading this book I was able to make out in detail as to what he was referring to. Although Elie Wiesel wasn’t the only person to survive the holocaust, he was one of few to write a book about it and have that book be well known to lots of people across the world. In my opinion I think it was really brave of him to look back at that point in his life and write about it. I don’t think I would be able to do that because if it was me I wouldn’t want to remember that time in my life. If you had something terrible happen to would you want to go back in your mind and remember what had happen?
This book is the story of Elie Wiesel. His life growing up in these camps and living with what he had went through. When I was reading this book I was able to make out in detail as to what he was referring to. Although Elie Wiesel wasn’t the only person to survive the holocaust, he was one of few to write a book about it and have that book be well known to lots of people across the world. In my opinion I think it was really brave of him to look back at that point in his life and write about it. I don’t think I would be able to do that because if it was me I wouldn’t want to remember that time in my life. If you had something terrible happen to would you want to go back in your mind and remember what had happen?
The End of Anne Frank.
The Diary of A Young Girl
By Anne Frank
done with book.
I enjoyed reading The Diary of Anne Frank very much.I enjoy reading Biographys, and Anne Frank was a different type of Biography. When writing the book she didnt know that in years to come it would be pulished and read by the world. Its like a piece if history. After fighting for her life for so long, it came to an end when she was sent to a camp and died. Gettting to read this book let me see the world from the point of veiw of a girl only a few years younger than me going throuh soemthing so terrible and being able to live for so long.
By Anne Frank
done with book.
I enjoyed reading The Diary of Anne Frank very much.I enjoy reading Biographys, and Anne Frank was a different type of Biography. When writing the book she didnt know that in years to come it would be pulished and read by the world. Its like a piece if history. After fighting for her life for so long, it came to an end when she was sent to a camp and died. Gettting to read this book let me see the world from the point of veiw of a girl only a few years younger than me going throuh soemthing so terrible and being able to live for so long.
final blog
I am most looking foorward to reading to find out if the cops can find mote and to see ifhe is guilty. It looks like he is but i hopejust like the boys in the story are hopind hedidnt murder there teachers and they beleive he didnt so they are willing to help find him and prove him innocent
The seeting took place out in the country and it enhanced the story byleeting the boyshave space tobuilda foot and mote to be wondering around. The boys new a slow kid and they would brake things onpurpose just for he could fix it andfeel good about whathes doing. If theylived in the city they most likely would of never met mote and there couldnt be a story.
The main characters motivation
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
Pg. 27-55
The main characters was not for the war. He was Drafted to go only a month after he had graduated college. When he got his draft papers he kept them secret. He really wasn't motivated to be going into the war, he felt that he shouldn't have to go if he didn't want to because he knew that there were other people that weren't drafted that wanted to go into battle cause they had family that fought before them. He spent that summer working trying not to think about the war. He was not even close to wanting to leave and go fight a war that had no meaning. That summer he was thinking of fleeing to Canada so that he didn't have to go. Then he got to thinking of his family and friends and how the small community that he lived in would ridicule him if he ever returned.
Do you think that he should have the choice whether to be drafted or not?
Pg. 27-55
The main characters was not for the war. He was Drafted to go only a month after he had graduated college. When he got his draft papers he kept them secret. He really wasn't motivated to be going into the war, he felt that he shouldn't have to go if he didn't want to because he knew that there were other people that weren't drafted that wanted to go into battle cause they had family that fought before them. He spent that summer working trying not to think about the war. He was not even close to wanting to leave and go fight a war that had no meaning. That summer he was thinking of fleeing to Canada so that he didn't have to go. Then he got to thinking of his family and friends and how the small community that he lived in would ridicule him if he ever returned.
Do you think that he should have the choice whether to be drafted or not?
Mote
Do the characters seem realand beleivable?
Yes they do there are three main charcters and one of them is a homless man who wondes looking for freinds. The other two are teenage boys in high school which do not like one of there teachers. They remind me of myself onlybecause iam a teenage boy who does not like all of his teachers.
Yes they do there are three main charcters and one of them is a homless man who wondes looking for freinds. The other two are teenage boys in high school which do not like one of there teachers. They remind me of myself onlybecause iam a teenage boy who does not like all of his teachers.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Perry's Climax
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Pg. 122 - 190
When I read this portion of the novel. I found that Perry was in the the middle of Nam covering a cemetery. He gets to the point of him talking about his love or should I say loveless life and how he told no one about it. He get into a battle and his CO is shot. He was afraid for his CO and his self. But he made it out, while thinking if he had actually killed a VC. During the second mission he had to stake out, he was so mind blown that he forgot his task of the Claymores. Later on Perry was at his last limb. His life was about to end to a gun at his chest. Clicks when off but no bullets came out. Perry got into a brawl and killed his first VC.
Could Perry have died if it wasn't for the fact that the VC clip was empty, or was if fate to see that Perry survives the war?
Pg. 122 - 190
When I read this portion of the novel. I found that Perry was in the the middle of Nam covering a cemetery. He gets to the point of him talking about his love or should I say loveless life and how he told no one about it. He get into a battle and his CO is shot. He was afraid for his CO and his self. But he made it out, while thinking if he had actually killed a VC. During the second mission he had to stake out, he was so mind blown that he forgot his task of the Claymores. Later on Perry was at his last limb. His life was about to end to a gun at his chest. Clicks when off but no bullets came out. Perry got into a brawl and killed his first VC.
Could Perry have died if it wasn't for the fact that the VC clip was empty, or was if fate to see that Perry survives the war?
Night Characters
Night By Elie Wiesel
Page(32-47/120)
It’s been a slow read for me but I haven’t given up. Since the last time he and his father were taking to the camps, they stripped everyone of there names and given them basically numbers.
People had to refer everyone as a number. These numbers ever branded into the skin of these people. The people with Elie and his father did nothing but work. At times his father tried to reinsure he that his mother and sister were else where still alive and ok but deep down they knew the truth and it was that they were dead. These characters in this story isn’t fictional, it’s the real thing. The things you read in this book was events that has taken place in history. You have a chance of finding out what there life was like and what they went through. I would have to give them a lot of credit for being so strong. To everyone that was living through the holocaust. They went through hell and still came out strong. I don’t think I would be so strong and live on knowing that most of my family is dead. Do you think you could ever be as strong as Elie?
Page(32-47/120)
It’s been a slow read for me but I haven’t given up. Since the last time he and his father were taking to the camps, they stripped everyone of there names and given them basically numbers.
People had to refer everyone as a number. These numbers ever branded into the skin of these people. The people with Elie and his father did nothing but work. At times his father tried to reinsure he that his mother and sister were else where still alive and ok but deep down they knew the truth and it was that they were dead. These characters in this story isn’t fictional, it’s the real thing. The things you read in this book was events that has taken place in history. You have a chance of finding out what there life was like and what they went through. I would have to give them a lot of credit for being so strong. To everyone that was living through the holocaust. They went through hell and still came out strong. I don’t think I would be so strong and live on knowing that most of my family is dead. Do you think you could ever be as strong as Elie?
Monday, February 18, 2008
Fallen Angels Setting
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
pg. 65-129
The setting of Fallen Angles takes place in Vietnam. The cities and towns mentioned are actual places located all around Vietnam. The vast terrain and the way Perry described it, was exact to what the environment was to the actual encounters the soldiers that fought the war was like. The bugs picking at your skin. The weather changing faster then the blink of the eye. The way Perry had to survive all of the trials of Vietnam. The question is if he will be able to survive it?
pg. 65-129
The setting of Fallen Angles takes place in Vietnam. The cities and towns mentioned are actual places located all around Vietnam. The vast terrain and the way Perry described it, was exact to what the environment was to the actual encounters the soldiers that fought the war was like. The bugs picking at your skin. The weather changing faster then the blink of the eye. The way Perry had to survive all of the trials of Vietnam. The question is if he will be able to survive it?
Friday, February 8, 2008
Holocaust. The Diary of a Young Girl By Anne Frank pg 200/268
This book is a very emotional because you know that everything she is writing about is what really happened to her in her day to day life. You get a good look into the life a Jew during the Holocaust, one of the worst times in history, and this one girl could survive for so long. I think this is a really good book because you learn things about the concentration camps and what it was like having to hide and do everything secret so you dont get killed. I think Anne Frank has helped alot of people see how terrible life really was, and help people learn what was really happening to the Jews during World War Two. When reading the book you cant help but paint the picture in you head of what her life is like. With much detail it helps you to get a clear veiw. A young girls birthday present (the diary) turned out to be a top selling book.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
First impressions The Things They Carried
By Tim O'Brien
Pages(1-27)
My first impressions of this novel are that it is very good. It is not like the other books that I read. The difference being that it is a whole new genre and I just found it an interesting topic to read. When you think about war the first thing that pops into my mind is that they are fighting for everyons freedom, but they are also fighting for there own. most people dont realive that it is harder for the soldiers because of the things that they have to carry with them on every mission. Some of the thing that they take are the essentials for each mission alone with some personal items. ut when doing so they have to make sure that these item dont put too much wieght on there back since most of the time they will be walking and it could be the difference between life or death for them. They have to be able to move quickly when they are in danger and you cant do that when you have too much wieght to carry. Also thething that are personal to them could harm them because they distract them from there main objectives and if there not ready it could be fatile.
Pages(1-27)
My first impressions of this novel are that it is very good. It is not like the other books that I read. The difference being that it is a whole new genre and I just found it an interesting topic to read. When you think about war the first thing that pops into my mind is that they are fighting for everyons freedom, but they are also fighting for there own. most people dont realive that it is harder for the soldiers because of the things that they have to carry with them on every mission. Some of the thing that they take are the essentials for each mission alone with some personal items. ut when doing so they have to make sure that these item dont put too much wieght on there back since most of the time they will be walking and it could be the difference between life or death for them. They have to be able to move quickly when they are in danger and you cant do that when you have too much wieght to carry. Also thething that are personal to them could harm them because they distract them from there main objectives and if there not ready it could be fatile.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Growing older in Night
Night By Elie Wiesel
Page(12-32/120)
This book is about Elie Wiesel and what he had to go through in a certain time in his life.
This is a hard time for any Jews that are living in the time of the Holocaust. This Elie Wiesel in particular. So far along with his family, he and numerous other people and there families are forced to move away from there homes to try to live a peaceful live. Although it doesn’t happen. His family gets taken but he gets separated from his mother and sister and leaves with his father. He said that then would be the last time he would see his mother and sister again. As he goes off with his dad an inmate tells the boy he is 18 but he is actually 15 and that his father is 40 instead of 50. He tells them this so they wouldn’t get separated.
Could you imagine yourself to be in Elie position? Would you feel complete being separated from one of your parents and/or siblings?
Page(12-32/120)
This book is about Elie Wiesel and what he had to go through in a certain time in his life.
This is a hard time for any Jews that are living in the time of the Holocaust. This Elie Wiesel in particular. So far along with his family, he and numerous other people and there families are forced to move away from there homes to try to live a peaceful live. Although it doesn’t happen. His family gets taken but he gets separated from his mother and sister and leaves with his father. He said that then would be the last time he would see his mother and sister again. As he goes off with his dad an inmate tells the boy he is 18 but he is actually 15 and that his father is 40 instead of 50. He tells them this so they wouldn’t get separated.
Could you imagine yourself to be in Elie position? Would you feel complete being separated from one of your parents and/or siblings?
Non-Fiction of Fallen Angles
Fallen Angles by Walter Dean Myers
Pages (67-104)
From what I read so far in the book, Fallen Angles has portraited a uncanny likeness of real battle situations. For instance Charlie Company was pinned down and Simpson said that their are suppose to be marines coming in to help out Charlie Company. Another thing I have noticed in research is that I have done, The places that are mentioned in the book are actual places where some battles have taken place. It is amazing that the story ties in the location without messing with the actual events in the real war. Fallen angles has mastered the whole battle combat. Mines tearing through soldiers, the battles in the jungles, and the way the helicopters fly around. Its just amazing the work put into this fiction book that makes it seem like non-fiction.
Pages (67-104)
From what I read so far in the book, Fallen Angles has portraited a uncanny likeness of real battle situations. For instance Charlie Company was pinned down and Simpson said that their are suppose to be marines coming in to help out Charlie Company. Another thing I have noticed in research is that I have done, The places that are mentioned in the book are actual places where some battles have taken place. It is amazing that the story ties in the location without messing with the actual events in the real war. Fallen angles has mastered the whole battle combat. Mines tearing through soldiers, the battles in the jungles, and the way the helicopters fly around. Its just amazing the work put into this fiction book that makes it seem like non-fiction.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Surving As a Jew. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank pg.125/268
As a young girl, Anne Frank is very Brave. Just because she was born Jewish she has to live this horrible life during the holocaust. Having to leave all her friend to go to a special school, only being able to go to cetain stores and certain palces with her friends, life is hard on her. Than having to go into hiding her whole life changes. She is no longer aloweed to see anyone but her family and the other peoplt hat are in hiding with her. She can't live life like a normal teen girl at all. With every move she makes she has to be carful that no one hears, her whole life is now about not getting found in the attic that she is hiding in. If caught her and her family will be sent to the camps where Jews are tortured and killed. The only friend that Anne has anymore is her Diary.Do you think you could be this brave if you were in her situation?
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