Thursday, January 13, 2011

poetryyyyyyy

this poem wouldnt let me copy it and it was way too long to write sorry guys

one on my fav poems <---- click on that.

The first stanza reminds me a lot of the Maya Angelou's poem "Life doesn't frighten me at all" and a poem called "Please dont take my air jordans away"  These poems remind me of the poem above because all these poems have a special structure. "Please dont take my air jordans away" has a rhyming structure and so does the Maya Angelou poem. so THIS poem reminds me a lot of those poems.

After reading this poem, more than once, i noticed that this poem sounds like its rhyming but actually its not. The poem just uses words that sound similar and it makes it seem like its rhyming. I guess that it is a rhyming poetic trick because I did not notice that at first. Poetry and Poems in general is a mystery the poem wont just tell you what they are trying to do or what they are talking about you have to solve the mystery to truly understand the poem.

 Right away without even reading the title, I totally knew what this was about. The first stanza gave it away, and that's the good thing about poems because in books usually the beginning doesnt tell you the plot or the conflict its usually in the middle of the book and in poems, they are short and usually in the beginning of the poem. If i would to write a part 2 to this poem i would try to do my best to try to use the same structure that this anonymous poet wrote like.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

The girl that has a story.

Title: Story of a girl
Author: Sara Zarr

       This book is about a girl named Deanna with a very regretful past. When Deanna was just 13 years old her father caught her in a boy named Tommy Webber's car. Deanna didn't even love the boy, and she was uncertain if she even 'liked' him, This totally jeopardized Deanna and her fathers relationship. Deanna lost the most important thing in her fathers and hers relationship, and that was trust. I think trust in one of the most important themes in this book, because we can all relate to this. We all want that trust from our parents, but not all of us get it.
      Another theme I that I think is important in this book is body image. Deanna's reputation also got demolished. She is now known as the "school slut". Obviously that is not a title that anyone would want to be known as. Everywhere she goes theirs whispers going around, and stares. Body Image is important to everyone, it's becoming more and more affective towards teenagers, and if your "image" is corrupted then you feel like everything has corrupted.  

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Im dancing in my nuddy pants.

boys.

diary-style book about boy traumas and girl problems. typicalgirlbook.

This is the exact kind of books that I hate.
so obvious, predictable. The thing that I most hated about it is that It had such an interesting title so it lurrrrrrrrrrs me in. But once you start reading it you realize you hate it. The books that have the worst titles are probably the best.

The title barely even matched the book. Like she never danced in her nuddy pants like maybe they mentioned it once or twice but it was a shame to read.  waste of my winter break

Rate -  amazing, good, bad.........: bad.

Can dolls have feelings too?

During the break, there were a lot of books I could've chosen but this book caught my eye in the library.
"The Doll People" The cover was prettyawesome, but the Title itself just sort of  makes you want to read it.
Okay, got home, opened the book up, started reading. Chapters went by and it wasn't yet worthy enough to write a blog post about yet, kept reading and AHA! got it! got the chapter I want to write about. Chapter 10.

Mama doll and Papa doll got very upset about auntie sarah and how the doll family didn't go looking for her 45 years ago. This was getting the whole family fighting, but it was Uncle Doll that was losing his temper. He was mad that they didn't even, lift a finger trying to find Auntie Sarah. All they did was talk about her. Finally Uncle Doll couldn't take it any more, he blurted that he was moving out. Every one begged him to stay but he refused.

Uncle Doll Moves Out. Every body wanted him to stay and they had no idea why he was leaving. I mean how do you not know why he was leaving.. Like he didn't leave just because. He wouldn't do that, then he would have no place to stay, so there has to be somebody in the family that did something.

What this chaper made me think about was just how they were so clueless when it was so obvious, and i was wondering if this has anything to do with dolls whether its that dolls ate usually perfect and this family isnt or if it ahs nothing to do with real life dolls.
RATE- amazing, good, bad. ...good!