Summary
From what I read people believe that Nasar already knew that they were going to go after him and felt as if he could handle the twins. And others did not think that the twins were actually serious. Everyone in that town was a bystander for letting that happen because they all knew it was wrong and all barely tried to help stop and end this. In this other half of the book, it talks about Nasar past lovers like Maria Alejandra and Flora. To me this is sort of ironic because it makes it seems like he had a lot of lovers and as to why is was so bad that he took the twins' sister virginity. However, throughout the whole town and their opinions it seemed as if they had positive views on him and believed he was a good guy. And as for the twins who killed Nasar, people did not take them seriously because they believed that the were drunk. The people pf the town seem to have been affected greatly by Nasar's death even though they did not try top stop it.
Quote: "He even took care to brush off the dirt that was stuck to his guts" (Marquez120)
In this quote on the last page of the book, to me it shows just much pride Nasar had because instead of panicking about his death he was calm and said his last words. Its as if his death was so much drama and problems for others than it was to him .
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Chronicle Of A Death Foretold (1- 50)
Summary
Something tragic has happened to a man named , Santuago Nasar was killed by twin brothers Pedro and Pablo Vicario because they had found out their sister, Pura was not a virgin when she was about to get married. And Nasar was the man to take her virginity. The major issue with this was the fact that everyone in the town knew minus a few people about his death yet, no one told him about it. A town of people could all know that someone is killed yet, allow it to still happen. They are now on trail and still the twins find nothing wrong with what they did. In fact because no one in the town said anything about this and they all new it seems are if none of them had a problem with this happening.
Quote: "Only Pura Vicario knew what she did during the next two hours, and she went to her grave with her secret" (Marquez 46).
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This was a huge part of the story and is what Nasar is killed in the first place. The only reason she told her family who the man was that she lost her virginity to was because they were physically hurting her. Of course she wanted this pain to all stop so, without thinking she told them who it was. And if she had refused Nasar could have been still alive. This is the main person who has started all these problems and has brought Nasar to death .
Something tragic has happened to a man named , Santuago Nasar was killed by twin brothers Pedro and Pablo Vicario because they had found out their sister, Pura was not a virgin when she was about to get married. And Nasar was the man to take her virginity. The major issue with this was the fact that everyone in the town knew minus a few people about his death yet, no one told him about it. A town of people could all know that someone is killed yet, allow it to still happen. They are now on trail and still the twins find nothing wrong with what they did. In fact because no one in the town said anything about this and they all new it seems are if none of them had a problem with this happening.
Quote: "Only Pura Vicario knew what she did during the next two hours, and she went to her grave with her secret" (Marquez 46).
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This was a huge part of the story and is what Nasar is killed in the first place. The only reason she told her family who the man was that she lost her virginity to was because they were physically hurting her. Of course she wanted this pain to all stop so, without thinking she told them who it was. And if she had refused Nasar could have been still alive. This is the main person who has started all these problems and has brought Nasar to death .
Monday, April 25, 2011
The Rise And Fall Of The American Teenager (202 - 303)
Summary:
Thomas talks about how teens had access to adult jobs and responsibilities. Explains how movies had a lot to do with the new dating scene that started to take place in the early 1930s but, they believe the cause to this was music and movies. They said that caused it because most movies and music were about relationships and music and movies at that time and to me from experience is a huge part a teens life. This is very similar to how things are now because I personally feel like teens all watch movies and listening to music and mostly all of them being about relationships. This does have a huge impact on what teenagers do with their life then and now. What I found interesting that ob of the chapters had talked about was how cruel some teenagers were. They brought up a Scottsboro court case where African American male teenagers were being accused for something they did not do by other young teenagers. Thomas used this as an example of "Dead End Kids" . The chapters also talk about how kids are slowly going to school more and more. They also talk about the use of drug in teenagers such a marijuana in the 1970s which lead many teenagers into a bad path.
Quote: "Young people are here and, as always, ready to make history. Let's help them. We were young once too" (Hine 304)
Reaction: This to me was the perfect way to end the book in my opinion. To me it is a great ending because throughout the whole book Thomas is talking about the different history of teenagers through years and years seen though adults eyes. And in the end by saying this its saying that the teenagers are the ones who make history and rather then stop them adults should help them considering the fact that they were once teens. This ending of the book really caught my eye and I thought it was a well way to end the teenage history.
Thomas talks about how teens had access to adult jobs and responsibilities. Explains how movies had a lot to do with the new dating scene that started to take place in the early 1930s but, they believe the cause to this was music and movies. They said that caused it because most movies and music were about relationships and music and movies at that time and to me from experience is a huge part a teens life. This is very similar to how things are now because I personally feel like teens all watch movies and listening to music and mostly all of them being about relationships. This does have a huge impact on what teenagers do with their life then and now. What I found interesting that ob of the chapters had talked about was how cruel some teenagers were. They brought up a Scottsboro court case where African American male teenagers were being accused for something they did not do by other young teenagers. Thomas used this as an example of "Dead End Kids" . The chapters also talk about how kids are slowly going to school more and more. They also talk about the use of drug in teenagers such a marijuana in the 1970s which lead many teenagers into a bad path.
Quote: "Young people are here and, as always, ready to make history. Let's help them. We were young once too" (Hine 304)
Reaction: This to me was the perfect way to end the book in my opinion. To me it is a great ending because throughout the whole book Thomas is talking about the different history of teenagers through years and years seen though adults eyes. And in the end by saying this its saying that the teenagers are the ones who make history and rather then stop them adults should help them considering the fact that they were once teens. This ending of the book really caught my eye and I thought it was a well way to end the teenage history.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The Rise And Fall Of The American Teenager (150 - 202)
Summary
As I said in previously, back then high school was not seen as important and that most teenagers went to work. Mostly if the teenagers did go to school it would be the woman because they needed school to become teachers in the future. And the boys would usually stay with their fathers to go work for the rest of the family. High school and college were not exactly order the way it is today. Later on when the teenagers did have to go to school the classes that the girls had to take were different from what the boys had to take. Later on in the next chapter that is called " Dancing Daughters" talks more so how more so moderate teens are too sexual active and how they get some of these influences from the movies that come out that talk about sex and relationships with others. This all comes back to these children growing up way to fast and it exactly the reason as to why they are they way they are.
Quote: "Yet, thinking about the young almost as a separate species segregates adolescents and sets them up as a target for social engineering " ( Hine 176)
Reaction: When Hine says this I could understand that teenagers are different from younger kids and adults but the fact that there is some type of separation between the age difference to me I find crazy. Yet, I understand one is more likely to be around their on age groups. However, the truth is that sadly teeangers are also judged just because they are a teenager. They are automatically are suppose to be up to something mad, its as if parents and other adults were not teenagers once. Or as if they already expect them to make their younger "stupid" mistakes because of their age.
As I said in previously, back then high school was not seen as important and that most teenagers went to work. Mostly if the teenagers did go to school it would be the woman because they needed school to become teachers in the future. And the boys would usually stay with their fathers to go work for the rest of the family. High school and college were not exactly order the way it is today. Later on when the teenagers did have to go to school the classes that the girls had to take were different from what the boys had to take. Later on in the next chapter that is called " Dancing Daughters" talks more so how more so moderate teens are too sexual active and how they get some of these influences from the movies that come out that talk about sex and relationships with others. This all comes back to these children growing up way to fast and it exactly the reason as to why they are they way they are.
Quote: "Yet, thinking about the young almost as a separate species segregates adolescents and sets them up as a target for social engineering " ( Hine 176)
Reaction: When Hine says this I could understand that teenagers are different from younger kids and adults but the fact that there is some type of separation between the age difference to me I find crazy. Yet, I understand one is more likely to be around their on age groups. However, the truth is that sadly teeangers are also judged just because they are a teenager. They are automatically are suppose to be up to something mad, its as if parents and other adults were not teenagers once. Or as if they already expect them to make their younger "stupid" mistakes because of their age.
The Rise And Fall Of The American Teenager (109 - 150)
Summmary
In what I've read the other talks about how the parents are depending on the children. Mostly, it talks about how the parents are depending on their kids financially whether it be with having to work extra to keep their families from suffering and barely making it or it being the main provider in the family because the parents are too wake to do so. This in the end are making teens grow up way too fast as to having to work to support the rest of their family at such a young age. And the book also talks about how some teens had to work because some jobs for example would not give a man a chance at working unless they had a son too take lady take their place or even sometimes they would higher a younger teen before they would a older adult. Back then schooling was not seen as important for teenagers, it was more of a second choice to working opposed to being the first how it is now.
Quote: "Nevertheless, some qualities of these young people of the frontier-their love of mobility, their belif that they were entitled to have a good time, their sudden shifts from dependence to maturity and back-became part of that creature we know as a teenager" (Hine 137)
Reaction: As soon as I read this , I soon thought that this was the exactly true about teens. They were not at all fully adults nor was they kids but, to me they are a mixture of both. They are right in between going back and forth between the two. They are complicated for this very reason, because some things they do and thnk are similar to adults however, its sometimes like a child too. They go back and fourth between the two.
In what I've read the other talks about how the parents are depending on the children. Mostly, it talks about how the parents are depending on their kids financially whether it be with having to work extra to keep their families from suffering and barely making it or it being the main provider in the family because the parents are too wake to do so. This in the end are making teens grow up way too fast as to having to work to support the rest of their family at such a young age. And the book also talks about how some teens had to work because some jobs for example would not give a man a chance at working unless they had a son too take lady take their place or even sometimes they would higher a younger teen before they would a older adult. Back then schooling was not seen as important for teenagers, it was more of a second choice to working opposed to being the first how it is now.
Quote: "Nevertheless, some qualities of these young people of the frontier-their love of mobility, their belif that they were entitled to have a good time, their sudden shifts from dependence to maturity and back-became part of that creature we know as a teenager" (Hine 137)
Reaction: As soon as I read this , I soon thought that this was the exactly true about teens. They were not at all fully adults nor was they kids but, to me they are a mixture of both. They are right in between going back and forth between the two. They are complicated for this very reason, because some things they do and thnk are similar to adults however, its sometimes like a child too. They go back and fourth between the two.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The Rise And Fall Of The American Teenager (54 - 108)
Summary
In the next following chapters, I read about how teenagers had some family values and I also read about their independence. Before, in different places back then people used to honor family values more often. They used to do whatever they could to help suppose their families. Teenagers also did for their country and themselves. At young ages as of 12 boys were fighting in the war . Some teenagers had to leave their homes and go out in becoming an apprentice which meant that they were entering a stranger's home to do work for them and be able to learn not only in education but, kind of like a new life. They did this to sort of honor their parents. As an apprentice they had to do whatever the master wanted them to. When I read about these young people getting independence, they talked about the Lowell mills factories and then and there a made a connection to what I had previously learned in history class earlier this year. The factories were the first time women got the chance to work and many of these women where teenage girls. Them being able to work in factories helped their families out where they finally got the chance to do something else out of their homes.
Quote: " the beginning of their teens was the first moment that they fully understood the meaning of their situation",( Hines 98).
Reaction:
Though Thomas Hines was referring to the slaves when he said this when I first thought about this it clicked in my head how true this was. It reminded me of the idea of " coming of age moments" and how young children when they grow up slowly face the reality of the what the world is like.The reason as to why I believe being a teenager is such a difficult part of life is supply because it's when a child finally gets to see what is really going on and is having a hard time to taking it in. Though Thomas says that the idea of being a "teen" was made up by society, I still think that this part of life is a difficult step into a human - being becoming an adult .
In the next following chapters, I read about how teenagers had some family values and I also read about their independence. Before, in different places back then people used to honor family values more often. They used to do whatever they could to help suppose their families. Teenagers also did for their country and themselves. At young ages as of 12 boys were fighting in the war . Some teenagers had to leave their homes and go out in becoming an apprentice which meant that they were entering a stranger's home to do work for them and be able to learn not only in education but, kind of like a new life. They did this to sort of honor their parents. As an apprentice they had to do whatever the master wanted them to. When I read about these young people getting independence, they talked about the Lowell mills factories and then and there a made a connection to what I had previously learned in history class earlier this year. The factories were the first time women got the chance to work and many of these women where teenage girls. Them being able to work in factories helped their families out where they finally got the chance to do something else out of their homes.
Quote: " the beginning of their teens was the first moment that they fully understood the meaning of their situation",( Hines 98).
Reaction:
Though Thomas Hines was referring to the slaves when he said this when I first thought about this it clicked in my head how true this was. It reminded me of the idea of " coming of age moments" and how young children when they grow up slowly face the reality of the what the world is like.The reason as to why I believe being a teenager is such a difficult part of life is supply because it's when a child finally gets to see what is really going on and is having a hard time to taking it in. Though Thomas says that the idea of being a "teen" was made up by society, I still think that this part of life is a difficult step into a human - being becoming an adult .
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The Rise And Fall Of The American Teenager (1-54)
Summary
So far from what I read in The Rise And Fall Of The American Teenager by Thomas Hine , the author is trying to explain and find out himself as to why teenagers are the way they are and go through what they go through. In the chapters I read, Thomas describes adolescence first as something that everyone has to go through and can not be changed as a part of growing up. However, later he describes it using some of the very different ways certain societies practice a time where teenager or a child reaches social or physical maturity that allows them to be ready for the world they would have to face as an adult. However, Thomas also says that the idea of a "teenager" was made up by society. At the beginning Thomas also describes teenagers as being such a mystery as to what they think and do because of their crazy behaviors. As when he talks about teenagers getting pregnant and killing their new born and also how he talks about kids being in gangs and killing others. From what I've read so far Thomas is giving different reasons in explanations as to what a teenager is , why they act the way they do and what causes it. What I found interesting was how Thomas uses other coming of age books though fiction, to help describe teenagers, one of the books being Catcher In The Rye which was my second Roar book.Quote: "The teenager is a symbol of American's aspirations, the repository of hopes, the one who will realize the American dream. And inevitably, the teenager is a disappointment, whose combination of adult capacities and juvenile irresponsibility sows personal heartbreak and social chaos." ( Hines 8)
Reaction: When I was reading this quote in the introduction of this book, i stopped and realize how true I believed this was. Society as a whole has to views on teenagers one as a positive and the other as a negative. Our society has such high hopes for teenagers in becoming the future however, at the same time they view them negatively as sometimes expecting them to do nothing but, wrong doing.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The Lovely Bones (Flim)
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In the beginning of the movie The Love Bones i seemed to be very much the same. However, later in the end I noticed that they left a lot out and a few differences and changes that are unlike the movie in many ways. While watching the movie I noticed how the light , camera , etc. played an important part in the movie. There was a high angle shot over the ditch which in the end was where Susie's body would be. An important part in the beginning when Susie saved her brother's life the music was first slow when Buckley was first hurt but, when Susie started driving the car it became faster and more so positive. In the part of a movie that when Susie and her grandmother was talking and she had told Susie she'd have a long life their was something like a dissolve but, it was into white shinny light. And when Susie was walking home there was this long shot to show us the watchers that what the surroundings looked like right before she seen Mr.Harvey. Overall the movie was good but, not better than the book. It left out a lot , one major thing would be the mother having an affair with the detective. And also how long the mother was gone , she came back early and left earlier than when she did in the book. It also ended differently and didn't really go into much after her death like the book was explaining what happened 8years after. And another was when Mr.Harvey had killed another girl and they found Susie's charm at the crime. The movie missed out on some major events but, it still kept the concept of what was going on. I still like the book more .
In the beginning of the movie The Love Bones i seemed to be very much the same. However, later in the end I noticed that they left a lot out and a few differences and changes that are unlike the movie in many ways. While watching the movie I noticed how the light , camera , etc. played an important part in the movie. There was a high angle shot over the ditch which in the end was where Susie's body would be. An important part in the beginning when Susie saved her brother's life the music was first slow when Buckley was first hurt but, when Susie started driving the car it became faster and more so positive. In the part of a movie that when Susie and her grandmother was talking and she had told Susie she'd have a long life their was something like a dissolve but, it was into white shinny light. And when Susie was walking home there was this long shot to show us the watchers that what the surroundings looked like right before she seen Mr.Harvey. Overall the movie was good but, not better than the book. It left out a lot , one major thing would be the mother having an affair with the detective. And also how long the mother was gone , she came back early and left earlier than when she did in the book. It also ended differently and didn't really go into much after her death like the book was explaining what happened 8years after. And another was when Mr.Harvey had killed another girl and they found Susie's charm at the crime. The movie missed out on some major events but, it still kept the concept of what was going on. I still like the book more .
The Lovely Bones (2009) Movie Review By A. O. SCOTT
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After reading what Scott had to say about the movie it makes a lot of sense as to why people would want to watch he movie and read the book. As he says , "We all like children, and — at least in our capacity as moviegoers, book-club members and consumers of true-life melodrama — we seem to like them best when they’re abused, endangered or dead"(Scott). He's saying that because all these bad things has happened to Susie it's what catches the readers like me attention towards the movie / book. Surprisingly, based on what the person would expect from hearing about the lovely bones it isn't very much depressing as it would seems. Scott said, " the novel is not depressing or assaultive but rather, somewhat perversely, warm, hopeful and even occasionally funny" (Scott). I liked that from what the review has to say about the movie it seems the same as the book. Especially keeping the whole entire concept. I know it does because Scott says "The title of “The Lovely Bones” refers to the relationships among these people that knit together in Susie’s absence" (Scott). This is the whole purpose in the book about how Susie dying even though was a horrible thing to happen but, the fact that it happen for a purpose and brought the people she loved together after taking them apart. Susie's death brought a stronger type of relationship between them , the author calls this bond " the lovely bones ".
After reading what Scott had to say about the movie it makes a lot of sense as to why people would want to watch he movie and read the book. As he says , "We all like children, and — at least in our capacity as moviegoers, book-club members and consumers of true-life melodrama — we seem to like them best when they’re abused, endangered or dead"(Scott). He's saying that because all these bad things has happened to Susie it's what catches the readers like me attention towards the movie / book. Surprisingly, based on what the person would expect from hearing about the lovely bones it isn't very much depressing as it would seems. Scott said, " the novel is not depressing or assaultive but rather, somewhat perversely, warm, hopeful and even occasionally funny" (Scott). I liked that from what the review has to say about the movie it seems the same as the book. Especially keeping the whole entire concept. I know it does because Scott says "The title of “The Lovely Bones” refers to the relationships among these people that knit together in Susie’s absence" (Scott). This is the whole purpose in the book about how Susie dying even though was a horrible thing to happen but, the fact that it happen for a purpose and brought the people she loved together after taking them apart. Susie's death brought a stronger type of relationship between them , the author calls this bond " the lovely bones ".
Sunday, February 20, 2011
The Lovely Bones ( 112 - 328 )
Summary
A lot has happened in the pages I've read. For one they found out that Mr. Harvey was guilty of what happened to Susie because he left one day and never came back. And later on they had found a charm that belonged to Susie was at another murder that Harvey committed. After Susie's mom left everything started to move on and grow up fast. Susie wasn't forgotten. Lindsey and Samuel got engaged and Buckley came older. When Buckley was telling his dad to choose between him or Susie he got s heart attack.. This brought everyone together over worrying about Jack , the father Susie's mom finally came back after 8years of being away from her family. Around this time Harvey came back in town. When he had passed Ruth, something had happened and Susie soul was inside Ruth's body. Susie didn't want to waste her time chasing after him so instead she spent her time with Ray that she always wish she could. But, her time on earth was very short. When everyone was together at her old home now, she realized her death had brought them closer and that's when she left to the other heaven. In the end of the book her sister has a baby daughter and names it after her.
Quote : "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life" (Sebold 320).
Reaction: As soon as I read this paragraph in this story I knew it has great importance. Not only does it say the title of the book in it but, its the turning point of Susie finally excepting her death. She doesn't see it as something so terrible that happened and how bad it was. She know sees it as something that happened that actually led to the connections of her family and friends. She'll always be remember because he life was important. But, her purpose was to bring them closer. Yes, it was bad that she had to die so young and wasn't able to live her life but, she now has to accept this and see the positive to her death. This she could let go of wanting to be back on Earth and let it go because it was for the better. Susie needed to realize this so that she could move on to the bigger heaven.
A lot has happened in the pages I've read. For one they found out that Mr. Harvey was guilty of what happened to Susie because he left one day and never came back. And later on they had found a charm that belonged to Susie was at another murder that Harvey committed. After Susie's mom left everything started to move on and grow up fast. Susie wasn't forgotten. Lindsey and Samuel got engaged and Buckley came older. When Buckley was telling his dad to choose between him or Susie he got s heart attack.. This brought everyone together over worrying about Jack , the father Susie's mom finally came back after 8years of being away from her family. Around this time Harvey came back in town. When he had passed Ruth, something had happened and Susie soul was inside Ruth's body. Susie didn't want to waste her time chasing after him so instead she spent her time with Ray that she always wish she could. But, her time on earth was very short. When everyone was together at her old home now, she realized her death had brought them closer and that's when she left to the other heaven. In the end of the book her sister has a baby daughter and names it after her.
Quote : "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life" (Sebold 320).
Reaction: As soon as I read this paragraph in this story I knew it has great importance. Not only does it say the title of the book in it but, its the turning point of Susie finally excepting her death. She doesn't see it as something so terrible that happened and how bad it was. She know sees it as something that happened that actually led to the connections of her family and friends. She'll always be remember because he life was important. But, her purpose was to bring them closer. Yes, it was bad that she had to die so young and wasn't able to live her life but, she now has to accept this and see the positive to her death. This she could let go of wanting to be back on Earth and let it go because it was for the better. Susie needed to realize this so that she could move on to the bigger heaven.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
The Lovely Bones ( 57 - 112 )
Summary
Susie's parents are having a hard time trying to get through there head that Susie is gone. It's greatly affecting her dad, mother and sister. Her father is being very suspicious of the next door neighbor of knowing something about about Susie's death which is right . But, him and others thought that Susie's crush, Ray had something to do with it which wasn't true. They just are really shocked that this could happen to their child. But, they finally have to come to reality and face the facts when they have Susie's funeral. As Susie's father felt they no longer had to pretend as if it didn't happen that day as if they weren't hurt. And it seems as if Ruth may be able to have some sort of connection with Susie and in helping her but , thats just my prediction .
Quote : " In the mirror she saw something different and so did I: an adult who could take care of herself. ( Sebold 103)"
Reaction : When I first read this sentence in that paragraph I said to myself , this right here is Lindsey's coming of age point. From other books / stories we read in class and from a quote we learned where it said that in a childhood there is no death. So, here is when she changes and what caused Lindsey to change was her realizing her sister is actually dead. And not only that when shes here looking in the mirror she sees her sister in her. Now shes feels more grown and able to go on with life even after something so tragic like this to happen to her sister. That she could still live on even after her sisters death. She could now take care of herself.
Susie's parents are having a hard time trying to get through there head that Susie is gone. It's greatly affecting her dad, mother and sister. Her father is being very suspicious of the next door neighbor of knowing something about about Susie's death which is right . But, him and others thought that Susie's crush, Ray had something to do with it which wasn't true. They just are really shocked that this could happen to their child. But, they finally have to come to reality and face the facts when they have Susie's funeral. As Susie's father felt they no longer had to pretend as if it didn't happen that day as if they weren't hurt. And it seems as if Ruth may be able to have some sort of connection with Susie and in helping her but , thats just my prediction .
Quote : " In the mirror she saw something different and so did I: an adult who could take care of herself. ( Sebold 103)"
Reaction : When I first read this sentence in that paragraph I said to myself , this right here is Lindsey's coming of age point. From other books / stories we read in class and from a quote we learned where it said that in a childhood there is no death. So, here is when she changes and what caused Lindsey to change was her realizing her sister is actually dead. And not only that when shes here looking in the mirror she sees her sister in her. Now shes feels more grown and able to go on with life even after something so tragic like this to happen to her sister. That she could still live on even after her sisters death. She could now take care of herself.
Monday, January 24, 2011
The Lovely Bones ( 1 - 57 )
Summary
In the begining of this novel , Susie the 14 year old narrator starts off about how she was killed and went missing. After explaining about her life before then she tells me , the reader about how her murder raped her but, doesn't go too far as to what happened after as to when she was exactly killed. She explains what her parents were doing at that time of her death. Susie also kind of explains her life in heaven but, even though its such a wonderful place where you can get almost anything you really wanted all she wants is to go back on earth and continue her life. But, she needs to face the fact that their is no going back now. While on earth her parents and family are going crazy waiting for there to be some kind of sign that Susie is found. After her dad helps her next door neighbor he gets this strange reaction from him as if he knew something about what happened to Susie. And he was absolutely right
Quote : " My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." ( Sebold 5 )
Reaction: This quote at the beginning of the book I personally thought was the best way to start. It made me want to pick up and start reading this book in the first place. Usually a I wouldn't like it for a story to just give me all the main details and conflicts at the beginning but, this lets me know that there is much more to come.
In the begining of this novel , Susie the 14 year old narrator starts off about how she was killed and went missing. After explaining about her life before then she tells me , the reader about how her murder raped her but, doesn't go too far as to what happened after as to when she was exactly killed. She explains what her parents were doing at that time of her death. Susie also kind of explains her life in heaven but, even though its such a wonderful place where you can get almost anything you really wanted all she wants is to go back on earth and continue her life. But, she needs to face the fact that their is no going back now. While on earth her parents and family are going crazy waiting for there to be some kind of sign that Susie is found. After her dad helps her next door neighbor he gets this strange reaction from him as if he knew something about what happened to Susie. And he was absolutely right
Quote : " My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." ( Sebold 5 )
Reaction: This quote at the beginning of the book I personally thought was the best way to start. It made me want to pick up and start reading this book in the first place. Usually a I wouldn't like it for a story to just give me all the main details and conflicts at the beginning but, this lets me know that there is much more to come.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
The Catcher in the Rye ( 151 - 214 )
Summary
In these last chapters I think Holden learned a lot about himself and his life. I could tell that out of everyone in his life he cares a lot about his sister. He has a huge connection with her and speaks about her in such a positive way. Like, hes always telling me, the reader how much we have to meet her. In the story, after he finally gets to see his sister he leaves this house so that his parents won't see him. He goes then to his old teachers house with was nice enough to let him stay over for the night and the teacher gives him so long speech basically telling him to get it together with his life and go to school and try harder. When he left his teachers house he some how decided that he was going to now leave and finally make his master plan to go far away from everyone and everything else in action. But, when Phoebe was trying to come a long with him and he said no he changed his mind about going. She wanted him to stay and he did at that moment choose to not leave. I think that was a turning point for him so how cause, he was so into starting a new life away from everything to just change his mind and actually stay. After reading this story I could see how it really is a Bildungsroman. For one Holden left a place of comfortability which wasn't just leaving Percey Prep but, it was him being on his own for once. And in the end he finally had his coming of age point when he was like he was going to go back him and in the last chapter he said that he had planned are trying harder in school. He finally came to his senses. Holden's coming of age point was different from one would usually expect giving the fact that his brother Allie did pass away and that usually is a coming of age point. But, it might of been the exact reason why it took him so long to get to that point.
Quote : " Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody ," ( Salinger 214).
Reaction : I like this quote a lot for many reasons for one I think it was a great way to end the book. When he says this its like he's giving us, the readers advice on life. It's like hes talking directly to me and I understand where he is coming from by saying this. This quote also helps me understand why Holden is the way he is. And why he's not close to anyone. Which makes me question, because he was so close to his brother that passed away is that the reason why he's more distant to everyone ? This ending to the story makes me think and wonder whats going to happen to Holden in the future. It kind of makes me hope and want them to make a second book continuing where they left off.
In these last chapters I think Holden learned a lot about himself and his life. I could tell that out of everyone in his life he cares a lot about his sister. He has a huge connection with her and speaks about her in such a positive way. Like, hes always telling me, the reader how much we have to meet her. In the story, after he finally gets to see his sister he leaves this house so that his parents won't see him. He goes then to his old teachers house with was nice enough to let him stay over for the night and the teacher gives him so long speech basically telling him to get it together with his life and go to school and try harder. When he left his teachers house he some how decided that he was going to now leave and finally make his master plan to go far away from everyone and everything else in action. But, when Phoebe was trying to come a long with him and he said no he changed his mind about going. She wanted him to stay and he did at that moment choose to not leave. I think that was a turning point for him so how cause, he was so into starting a new life away from everything to just change his mind and actually stay. After reading this story I could see how it really is a Bildungsroman. For one Holden left a place of comfortability which wasn't just leaving Percey Prep but, it was him being on his own for once. And in the end he finally had his coming of age point when he was like he was going to go back him and in the last chapter he said that he had planned are trying harder in school. He finally came to his senses. Holden's coming of age point was different from one would usually expect giving the fact that his brother Allie did pass away and that usually is a coming of age point. But, it might of been the exact reason why it took him so long to get to that point.
Quote : " Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody ," ( Salinger 214).
Reaction : I like this quote a lot for many reasons for one I think it was a great way to end the book. When he says this its like he's giving us, the readers advice on life. It's like hes talking directly to me and I understand where he is coming from by saying this. This quote also helps me understand why Holden is the way he is. And why he's not close to anyone. Which makes me question, because he was so close to his brother that passed away is that the reason why he's more distant to everyone ? This ending to the story makes me think and wonder whats going to happen to Holden in the future. It kind of makes me hope and want them to make a second book continuing where they left off.
Monday, December 13, 2010
The Catcher in the Rye ( 115 - 150 )
Summary
Holden was waiting for the time to finally come so that he could met this girl named Sally. When he met her according to him she looked amazing and even though he didn't really like her it kind of made him want to be with her. But , after they went to see the movie and she met that guy she used to know he became mad at her. After she has this idea that they should go skating and they did . When they went to go get food after Holden came up with some crazy idea about runaway and taking her with him right then and there however, Sally was not for doing so he became really mad at her. He said some harsh things to her and even though he said sorry she still left.Then he sees this guy , Caulfield and he asks him about his sex life.
Quote : " If a body catch a body coming through the rye " ( Salinger 115).
Reaction : After I read this sentence on page 115 it hit my mind that this was an important part of my book. It was basically the title of the book and that shows that this is some major symbol to the whole story. I really don't get the reason as to why the guy a the park was saying this I just know that this made the main character , Holden happier than what he was because he says that after hearing what the guy said he was less depressed than he was before .
Holden was waiting for the time to finally come so that he could met this girl named Sally. When he met her according to him she looked amazing and even though he didn't really like her it kind of made him want to be with her. But , after they went to see the movie and she met that guy she used to know he became mad at her. After she has this idea that they should go skating and they did . When they went to go get food after Holden came up with some crazy idea about runaway and taking her with him right then and there however, Sally was not for doing so he became really mad at her. He said some harsh things to her and even though he said sorry she still left.Then he sees this guy , Caulfield and he asks him about his sex life.
Quote : " If a body catch a body coming through the rye " ( Salinger 115).
Reaction : After I read this sentence on page 115 it hit my mind that this was an important part of my book. It was basically the title of the book and that shows that this is some major symbol to the whole story. I really don't get the reason as to why the guy a the park was saying this I just know that this made the main character , Holden happier than what he was because he says that after hearing what the guy said he was less depressed than he was before .
Monday, December 6, 2010
The Catcher in the Rye ( 81 - 114 )
Summary
In the chapters 12 through 16 Holden is still alone on his own. Holden was on his way back to his apartment a man named Maurice was trying to I guess sell him a prostitute , Sunny for some money. At first Holden said no but, he finally agreed to it. But, when she came to the room he did not do anything with her and gave her the five dollars Maurice first said it would be. But, later that night they both came to his room asking for another five according to Maurice and Sunny he owed them. Maurice ended up hitting him so hard that he was out on the floor for a while and Sunny went to go get the five dollars. Even though Holden was rich he was not going to let them play him for his money like that. He knew he was right and they weren't.He had a flashback about his old roommate, Dick Slagle. He was talking about how he disliked people who had cheap suit cases. To think about it he dislikes when people have less money than him because it makes him feel weird. As if it would always affect people and that was the exact reason he lived with Stradlater. Holden is suppose to meet this girl named Sally at 2 o'clock so he went to go get breakfast. And he had a great time talking to these two nuns.
In the chapters 12 through 16 Holden is still alone on his own. Holden was on his way back to his apartment a man named Maurice was trying to I guess sell him a prostitute , Sunny for some money. At first Holden said no but, he finally agreed to it. But, when she came to the room he did not do anything with her and gave her the five dollars Maurice first said it would be. But, later that night they both came to his room asking for another five according to Maurice and Sunny he owed them. Maurice ended up hitting him so hard that he was out on the floor for a while and Sunny went to go get the five dollars. Even though Holden was rich he was not going to let them play him for his money like that. He knew he was right and they weren't.He had a flashback about his old roommate, Dick Slagle. He was talking about how he disliked people who had cheap suit cases. To think about it he dislikes when people have less money than him because it makes him feel weird. As if it would always affect people and that was the exact reason he lived with Stradlater. Holden is suppose to meet this girl named Sally at 2 o'clock so he went to go get breakfast. And he had a great time talking to these two nuns.
Quote : " What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it too, " ( Salinger 104) . This one quote in all that I read really got to me. Holden has freedom as a teenager and all the money he wants. But, he is not at all happy with his life. Something must be seriously bothering him. He does not ever really seem to get happy over anything . This makes me think about has he ever been in a happy mood since i started reading this book. And I wonder and ask if he will over be in a good mood by the end of this book.
Monday, November 29, 2010
The Catcher in the Rye ( 41 - 80 )
Summary
Holden became extremely anger at Stradlater after he came back from the date with Jane. It is obvious that Holden has a lot of strong feelings for this girl and when Stradlater kind of hinted that he gave her " the time " they got into a fight. Holden would not stop calling Stradlater a moron which he knew would drive him crazy so, when Stradkater much stronger than him ended uo beating him up badly. Even after being knocked out Holden still would not stop. He went to go sleep in Ackley's room for the night. Instead of waiting like he was planning he left to New York that day. He would have to stay at a hotel for a while and thats when he meet these three girls and party all night. He starts to flashback and think about the times he had with Jane before and this just shoes how special he thinks she is. He talks about his siblings about how smart and specially they are to him. One of his brothers , Allie passed away and he would talk about much of an amazing kid he was and how I the ready would love to met him . In the end of the last chapter I read he talks more about Jane and I think that he is in love with her because of the way he thinks over her like, no other girl could compare.
Quote : " I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all " ( Salinger 79)
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This very quote from the text struck out to me the most. Holden could have stopped right after saying " I was kissing her all over ", but he didnt he went on and on about the different places where he kissed her. The way he described it made it seem like he cherished every single moment of him kissing her. The way he talks about Jane I can really tell that he cares and has a lot of feelings for her. And I also picked this quote because i like the repetition of her over and over as he states every part of her body that he kisses .
Holden became extremely anger at Stradlater after he came back from the date with Jane. It is obvious that Holden has a lot of strong feelings for this girl and when Stradlater kind of hinted that he gave her " the time " they got into a fight. Holden would not stop calling Stradlater a moron which he knew would drive him crazy so, when Stradkater much stronger than him ended uo beating him up badly. Even after being knocked out Holden still would not stop. He went to go sleep in Ackley's room for the night. Instead of waiting like he was planning he left to New York that day. He would have to stay at a hotel for a while and thats when he meet these three girls and party all night. He starts to flashback and think about the times he had with Jane before and this just shoes how special he thinks she is. He talks about his siblings about how smart and specially they are to him. One of his brothers , Allie passed away and he would talk about much of an amazing kid he was and how I the ready would love to met him . In the end of the last chapter I read he talks more about Jane and I think that he is in love with her because of the way he thinks over her like, no other girl could compare.
Quote : " I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all " ( Salinger 79)
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This very quote from the text struck out to me the most. Holden could have stopped right after saying " I was kissing her all over ", but he didnt he went on and on about the different places where he kissed her. The way he described it made it seem like he cherished every single moment of him kissing her. The way he talks about Jane I can really tell that he cares and has a lot of feelings for her. And I also picked this quote because i like the repetition of her over and over as he states every part of her body that he kisses .
Monday, November 22, 2010
The Catcher in the Rye ( 1 - 40 )
Summary
Holden Caulfield is a 16 year old boy that attends Percy Prep but, he is soon to be kicked out because of his bad grades. In the beginning of the story he talks about his high school and how it functions. He starts the book off by saying that him trying to explain his whole life story kind of really bores him. From what i read so far in the story he talks about these two characters Ackley and Stradlater. They are both two people he sends a lot of time with at Percy Prep. Acklkey is a 18 year old snob that is very disgusting and hates everyone especially Stradlater. On the other side their is Stradlater who is this big shot that is so much into himself and his looks. Stradlater gets a date with this girl named , Jane which just so happened to be Holden's old neighbor and from the looks of it he has this major crush on her.
Quote : "I'M THE MOST terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. " ( Salinger 16)
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When I first read this quote it made me think back to all the Holden had told me. I made this thought immediately after reading this, what if what he was telling me so far was a lie. It kind of makes the reader second guess what the author is saying throughout the whole story. I like this a lot because it actually made me pause and think to myself. This quote really interested me and made me want to get to read the story more.
Holden Caulfield is a 16 year old boy that attends Percy Prep but, he is soon to be kicked out because of his bad grades. In the beginning of the story he talks about his high school and how it functions. He starts the book off by saying that him trying to explain his whole life story kind of really bores him. From what i read so far in the story he talks about these two characters Ackley and Stradlater. They are both two people he sends a lot of time with at Percy Prep. Acklkey is a 18 year old snob that is very disgusting and hates everyone especially Stradlater. On the other side their is Stradlater who is this big shot that is so much into himself and his looks. Stradlater gets a date with this girl named , Jane which just so happened to be Holden's old neighbor and from the looks of it he has this major crush on her.
Quote : "I'M THE MOST terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. " ( Salinger 16)
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When I first read this quote it made me think back to all the Holden had told me. I made this thought immediately after reading this, what if what he was telling me so far was a lie. It kind of makes the reader second guess what the author is saying throughout the whole story. I like this a lot because it actually made me pause and think to myself. This quote really interested me and made me want to get to read the story more.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Her Last Death ( 201 - 273 )
Summary
When Susy finally decides to settle down with Christopher and decides to have kids is when I think she really matured. She now longer cared about what her my mom taught her was important like sex and money. She actually fell in love with him and over some period of time they had a child. I think having Daniel really changed her and made her stronger. In the end of the book she started to stop talking to her mother cause she became annoyed with her. She soon found out that some of what her mom told her were lies. Even after being all that she had been through with her bad mother I think it made her stronger and see things in a different way. In the end she stopped talking to her mom for good. She felt as if her mother had lied to her about everything. As it left off from the beginning she decided not to go see her mom after all. But, she visited her father and sister. They only thing that mattered to her now was her own family.
Quote
" She was wrong that the lies broadens the world. I'm told. I doubt myself. i tell the story of my own experience and wonder at the crazy details." (Sonnenberg 168)
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I feel like this quote is a very important part of the story because she telling us that she doesnt know if what she saying is true or not. Her mom lied to her about everything her whole life so she believes her whole life is a lie. And that maybe she was lying about thing too because, of how much of a liar her mother was. This quote is important because it shows why Susy was truly mad at her mother. To me it basically explains why she wrote the book about her relationship with her mother and how it affect her life. To her , her mother was a liar and thats the reason why she feels like she shouldn't speak to her anymore.
When Susy finally decides to settle down with Christopher and decides to have kids is when I think she really matured. She now longer cared about what her my mom taught her was important like sex and money. She actually fell in love with him and over some period of time they had a child. I think having Daniel really changed her and made her stronger. In the end of the book she started to stop talking to her mother cause she became annoyed with her. She soon found out that some of what her mom told her were lies. Even after being all that she had been through with her bad mother I think it made her stronger and see things in a different way. In the end she stopped talking to her mom for good. She felt as if her mother had lied to her about everything. As it left off from the beginning she decided not to go see her mom after all. But, she visited her father and sister. They only thing that mattered to her now was her own family.
Quote
" She was wrong that the lies broadens the world. I'm told. I doubt myself. i tell the story of my own experience and wonder at the crazy details." (Sonnenberg 168)
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I feel like this quote is a very important part of the story because she telling us that she doesnt know if what she saying is true or not. Her mom lied to her about everything her whole life so she believes her whole life is a lie. And that maybe she was lying about thing too because, of how much of a liar her mother was. This quote is important because it shows why Susy was truly mad at her mother. To me it basically explains why she wrote the book about her relationship with her mother and how it affect her life. To her , her mother was a liar and thats the reason why she feels like she shouldn't speak to her anymore.
Her Last Death ( 121 - 200 )
Summary
The relationship with Susy and her mom has changed greatly through out the book. Susy has what i thought was a coming of age point when she loses her virginity to her English teacher. I thought this was her coming of age point simply because after what was going on with her and her teacher she cut her mom out of her life. She started to lie about they guys she was with Her mother and her up to that point kept no secrets away from each other until that point on. After losing her virginity it was as if Susy had changed greatly. Even though she hated what who her mom was she was be coming like her more and more. Just like her mom after she stopped having the affair with her teacher she started sleeping around with men as if it was nothing. She thought life was all about sex just like her mother had taught her.
Quote:
"Sex is the way of the world." (Sonnenberg 197).
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This shows just how much Susy's life is all about sex. Her mom taught her since when she was younger that it was the only thing that was fun in life other than drugs. She hated her mother for what she was but, I don"t that she ever realized that she was becoming just like her. This quote shows just how important this is to her in her life. Its as if her and her mother was addicted to it . They thought about it none stop. To them it was all that mattered.
The relationship with Susy and her mom has changed greatly through out the book. Susy has what i thought was a coming of age point when she loses her virginity to her English teacher. I thought this was her coming of age point simply because after what was going on with her and her teacher she cut her mom out of her life. She started to lie about they guys she was with Her mother and her up to that point kept no secrets away from each other until that point on. After losing her virginity it was as if Susy had changed greatly. Even though she hated what who her mom was she was be coming like her more and more. Just like her mom after she stopped having the affair with her teacher she started sleeping around with men as if it was nothing. She thought life was all about sex just like her mother had taught her.
Quote:
"Sex is the way of the world." (Sonnenberg 197).
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This shows just how much Susy's life is all about sex. Her mom taught her since when she was younger that it was the only thing that was fun in life other than drugs. She hated her mother for what she was but, I don"t that she ever realized that she was becoming just like her. This quote shows just how important this is to her in her life. Its as if her and her mother was addicted to it . They thought about it none stop. To them it was all that mattered.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Her Last Death ( 81 - 120 )
Summary
From what I read so far in the story was Susy has changed in a huge way. She has become more like her mother in a way but, not as bad. Shes hanging out with boys and even had a boyfriend. Her mom is becoming even worse. On Susy's 16 birthday her mom try to set her up with this boy that she liked so that she could lose her virginity on her birthday. However, in the end her mom ends up sleeping with the guy and the next day acted like she wasn't in the wrong. It was Susy's birthday and she would do such a thing. Susy has been going through a lot with her mother beating her and acting crazy. It seems like the relationship between them is only getting worst.
Quote " She pulled the cap off the needle keeping her eyes away from the gleaming thread of metal. Down the needle jammed through the rubber seal of the medicine bottle, and up it came again full of its own clear, cold blood. She looked down on her mother's thigh, blue and green and purple from countless injections." ( Sonnenberg 103 )
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I like this quote a lot . It explains in great detail about what her mother is doing to herself with her new drug addiction. I can picture what her mom is doing in my head. I can see how much she wants it in my head. I just shows how much this is affecting Susy. It shows how crazy her mom is for this drug and how she would put anything on the line for it.
From what I read so far in the story was Susy has changed in a huge way. She has become more like her mother in a way but, not as bad. Shes hanging out with boys and even had a boyfriend. Her mom is becoming even worse. On Susy's 16 birthday her mom try to set her up with this boy that she liked so that she could lose her virginity on her birthday. However, in the end her mom ends up sleeping with the guy and the next day acted like she wasn't in the wrong. It was Susy's birthday and she would do such a thing. Susy has been going through a lot with her mother beating her and acting crazy. It seems like the relationship between them is only getting worst.
Quote " She pulled the cap off the needle keeping her eyes away from the gleaming thread of metal. Down the needle jammed through the rubber seal of the medicine bottle, and up it came again full of its own clear, cold blood. She looked down on her mother's thigh, blue and green and purple from countless injections." ( Sonnenberg 103 )
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I like this quote a lot . It explains in great detail about what her mother is doing to herself with her new drug addiction. I can picture what her mom is doing in my head. I can see how much she wants it in my head. I just shows how much this is affecting Susy. It shows how crazy her mom is for this drug and how she would put anything on the line for it.
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