I made my favorite writing piece last year with one of my best friends Jessica in exploratory. Exploratory is basically art class, and I can't remember why but we ended up making a book. We named it Journal of The Stick People. It is about a family of stick people that must defeat the evil troll to win back the golden skirt. We made it a children's book, and wrote it with out left hands (were both right handed). The pictures in the book looked cool because we made the back ground construction paper and cut pictures out from magazines. Then we drew the stick people in. We never got it published but I think we should have.
This was my favorite writing piece because it was fun to make and there weren't any rules. I don't really like writing in school because there are so many rules about it. I don't mind guidelines, but I like to have some freedom when it comes to writing.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Slaughter House Five
The book I chose to read for my outside reading is Slaughter House Five. When I first started reading it, it was really confusing and I had to re read it a couple of times. I figured that I should just keep reading then it would start to make sense, and it kind of did. I mostly just got confused about the time travel, because the setting and time changed a lot so the characters were all over the place. On one page they would be dead and then they would be alive again or there would all of the sudden be diffrent characters. I thought the book would be more about the war and aliens and have more fighting and be more exciting. But it's not that bad of a book, just boring at times.
The litterary element I chose to write about is the characters in the book and how Billy changed towards them when he figured out that he could travel through time. In the book it didn't really show how Billy actually felt about his family and friends. It was like he had this wierd detachment and he didn't really care about his family on Earth. It did seem like he cared about Montana (his wife in space though), which seemed a bit wierd to me. At times it was like he didn't even care about his wife and kids and then at other times he really did. It was hard to keep up with.
I think this book relates to the movie Inception, because in Inception the main character has a wierd relationship with his family, (real and fake) because of his constant trips to a diffrent reality. Also the main characters in both stories have troubles with there pasts. There traveling back and forth to diffrent worlds/realities also messes up how they view the whole world.
I was planning on making a movie for my creative project, but know that I've actually read the book it might be a bit hard. If I made a movie, some of the parts would have to be cut out, but not so much that it ruins the whole movie. Plus I would somehow have to make an alien costume and a giant dome. Even though making a movie seems like it would be really hard, I think I might do it anyways. I really don't wanna right a peom or a song. There are other things I could do, I just don't think they would be as fun.
The litterary element I chose to write about is the characters in the book and how Billy changed towards them when he figured out that he could travel through time. In the book it didn't really show how Billy actually felt about his family and friends. It was like he had this wierd detachment and he didn't really care about his family on Earth. It did seem like he cared about Montana (his wife in space though), which seemed a bit wierd to me. At times it was like he didn't even care about his wife and kids and then at other times he really did. It was hard to keep up with.
I think this book relates to the movie Inception, because in Inception the main character has a wierd relationship with his family, (real and fake) because of his constant trips to a diffrent reality. Also the main characters in both stories have troubles with there pasts. There traveling back and forth to diffrent worlds/realities also messes up how they view the whole world.
I was planning on making a movie for my creative project, but know that I've actually read the book it might be a bit hard. If I made a movie, some of the parts would have to be cut out, but not so much that it ruins the whole movie. Plus I would somehow have to make an alien costume and a giant dome. Even though making a movie seems like it would be really hard, I think I might do it anyways. I really don't wanna right a peom or a song. There are other things I could do, I just don't think they would be as fun.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Extending the Theme
Whenever I read books, I like to compare them to my average everyday life. In some books this is hard, because theres fairy tales or none of the characters relate to me. When I read To Kill a Mocking Bird, I could compare some of the themes in the book to the problems we have in our society today. The theme that stood out the most to me was the prejudice against class. In every day life we see it all the time, even if it isn't as big of a problem. From the "rich" people driving expensive cars to the people sitting on street corners begging for money, we're never going to be able to stop people from judging people from there class in society.
Another thing that stood out to me was the whole thing about growing up. It made the point that growing up isn't just about falling in love, which didn't happen in the book. Scout got more responsibility as she got older and learned a lot more valuable and deep lessons then I did when I was her age. I know this sounds lame and a bit weird but it made me think about how the lessons Scout learned could reflect on me.
Another thing that stood out to me was the whole thing about growing up. It made the point that growing up isn't just about falling in love, which didn't happen in the book. Scout got more responsibility as she got older and learned a lot more valuable and deep lessons then I did when I was her age. I know this sounds lame and a bit weird but it made me think about how the lessons Scout learned could reflect on me.
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