Confusing Conflicts

                 A part that is confusing to me in the book Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell is why Eleanor won't confess to the way that her life is at home. Her step-father is an abusive alcoholic. Eleanor explains in the book that she hates the way she lives at home but then she decides not to say anything about it. She also always says how she's gotten the urge to report her father after he would do terrible things to the mother but she never did it. There really was nobody stopping her because even if she didn't have a way to contact the police from her home, she could've easily found someone that did. I think that this is important though because it kind of shows the situations that kids have. They don't know how to help themselves in this situation like Eleanor and I think that it's important for kids to know exactly what to do in these situations.

Diversity Can Bring You Together

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell is about two kids in high school who were completely different but somehow made a connection and later fell in love with each other but with situations in Eleanor's home, it was hard.

About halfway into this book, I learned that it is okay to be different. Eleanor was a completely different person. She liked different things than everyone and found interests in different things and wasn't up to date with style and music but life at home was the reason to that. But even if things were tough, she still found love. Park still found something to connect to her with which was her music and comic books. This really brought them together even though they were two completely different people.

Obstacles of a Holocaust Surviver

          Hostage To War by Tatjana Wassiljewa is a memoir. The story is about Tatjana, a girl who was sent as a captive laborer in 1942 during World War II. The memoir goes over her childhood, where she strived for food, her captivity and how her life was like in the camps, and her freedom at the end and what she did when she was out of the camps.

            I think that the external conflict that Tatjana went through before the war was fighting for her life. Her family had very little food and Tatjana's mother had to put in her all to find food for her kids and husband. An example of having very little food is when Tatjana said, "We had had nothing to eat for many days. Not even the smallest crumb." Tatjana's way of over coming this was walking 100 kilometers which is about 62 miles to the corn regions to support her family during a really bad snow storm. This really shows how she put her family before anything. Tatjana could've easily died from starvation and hypothermia but she did all that she could as a young 13 year old girl to help her family. Hard work pays off though because at the end of her journey, she was able to feed her family.

Looking '4-ward' to 4th quarter.

I think that the most exciting thing that I look forward to is the end of the year trips, dinner dance, and most of all graduating. I feel like the school year flew by and in a month I'll be graduating!

Compare and Contrast

                                         

I'm comparing my book Perect by Natasha Friend to this poem.
They're similar because perfection IS Isabelle's enemy. That's what she was always striving for.
To be perfect like everyone else.
It messed with her until she got to the point of suffering from bulimia.

"Have you heard of something called the halo effect?... It means that people who are good-looking, people who are beautiful like your friend Penelope, are often perceived as being perfect simply because they are beautiful. We're so blinded by the prettiness, we don't see the imperfections. We don't see them as real people, with real flaws. In fact, we see them as smarter, nicer...cooler than the average person." 

That quote from the book Is showing how she slowly became her enemy and how. She always just thought that it's all about being perfect and smart and no flaws but it got to the best of her

I think one main difference from this poem and the book is the way they became to think this way. I think that the person in the poem just thought negatively about herself and wasnt happy but with Isabelle, her father had passed away and she began to eat so much and just couldn't stop so it caused her to feel terrible at the end and would throw it all up.

Answers to Famous Last Words

          Famous Last Words by Katie Alender is about a girl named Willa. Her father passed away and she struggled to move on from it but her mom clearly moved on and got re-married to a Hollywood film director, Johnathan. Willa and her mom move to Hollywood, where a serial killer is on the loose, with Jonathan to have a new start but Willa is too caught up in the past and constantly tries to contact her father's spirit but instead ends up contacting someone who was murdured by the serial killer in that house. The serial killers way of killing people was to reenact old movie death scenes.

          In my last blog, I wrote about what confused me in the book and now that I've finished it, I understand. I had said that "she always tries to contact her dad's spirit but all she gets is things like strange messages on her mirror, reflections that aren't hers, and dead bodies in her swimming pool. How come she can't see her dad?" I found out that it was because she always contacted a person who was a victim of Serial killer in that house and  she was trying to help Willa find who it was. I also asked if her trying to contact her dad connected to the serial killer and it did in a way but it also didn't.

Questions to Famous Last Words by Katie Alender

          Famous Last Words by Katie Alender is about a girl named Willa. Her father passed away and she struggled to move on from it but her mom clearly moved on and got re-married to a Hollywood film director, Johnathan. Willa and her mom move to Hollywood with Jonathan to have a new start but Willa is too caught up in the past and constantly tries to contact his sprite which causes end to see things such as dead bodies in a pool. Another thing is that a serial killer is on the loose in Hollywood and his way of murdering them is to reenact murder scenes from old movies.

          Something that is confusing to me in this book is that she always tries to contact her dad's spirit but all she gets is things like strange messages on her mirror, reflections that aren't hers, and dead bodies in her swimming pool. How come she can't see her dad? But I also wanna know how this connects to the serial killer or if it even does connect to the serial killer.