Blog of 11/17/14

Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher

Prompt: 
1) What are two emotions the main character has felt? What made the main

character feel that way?

Pages Read: 80- 170

  The book "Thirteen Reason Why" by Jay Asher is about a girl named Hannah Baker who just committed suicide. Before she died she recorded the 13 reasons why on tapes. She sent the tapes to the 13 people that are one of the reasons. Clay Jensen (main character) is one of the reasons why. He doesn't know how he got on those tapes, he never really talked to her much. He is listening to the tapes to see when his name pops up and why he is there. During this book Clay has a lot of different emotions. Emotions that only Hannah is making him feel. 
          The first emotion Clay has felt is guilt. Ever since Clay found out he is one of the reasons why Hannah committed suicide, he has felt guilty. Every time in one of the tapes it mentions where it took place, Clay feels the need to go there. In the book it says, "Because my turn is coming. I know that. And I want to be over it. What did I do to you Hannah?" Here in this part of the book, Clay is feeling guilty for whatever he did to Hannah. He is still not sure of what he did and he wants to find out.

          The second feeling Clay has is anger. In every tape Hannah says the name of the person and why they are one of the reasons, Clay starts to have anger against them. Before Hannah died, he went to a party and that's where he first met Hannah. Since then he fell in love with her. He gets a feeling of anger every time he hears something on those tapes that really hurts Hannah. He starts to feel a hatred feeling against the person that did that to Hannah.

I commented on Yareli, Justin, and Lillian's blog for this week.

Blog of 11/10/14

Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher

Prompt: 
1) Analyze how dialogue or specific incidents reveal information about characters. Make sure to include textual evidence.
2) Analyze the impact word choice has on the meaning or tone of a text.

Pages Read: 0 - 80

  In the book "Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher" it both shows and doesn't show specific information about the characters in the book. It is a mix of bothAn example of how "Thirteen Reasons why" tells you the information right in the book is on page 17. It is where Clay (main character) is describing how Hannah (other main character) looked like (in his point of view). In the book it says, "The party where I first saw Hannah Baker. God. I thought she was so pretty." Here it shows how Clay thought of Hannah. He thought she was really pretty.


Here is an example of how "Thirteen Reasons why" tells you the information not clearly stating it. When Clay got the tapes from Hannah saying those thirteen tapes were the thirteen reasons why she committed suicide, and that whoever got those tapes were one of the reasons why. In each tape she mentions the place where that happened, Clay feels the need to go there. This shows how Clay actually liked her and needs to visits the places in why she committed suicide.

In "Thirteen Reasons Why", Jay Asher doesn't use much big words in this book. His writing is not too easy and not too hard to read. His word choice helps change the mood of the story. His word choice helps see how Clay feels in the story about Hannah committing suicide. In the book it says, "I was too shy. I was too afraid. Watching Justin and his friends that day, I got the sense that there was more to her than I knew." Here at the beginning of the sentence his word choice shows how Clay feels about talking to Hannah.

I commented on Anthony, Diana, and Michael's blog for this week.

Reflections on Poe

          Poe's life might have been the reason of why his writing is like this. Poe has suffered a lot in his life since he was small. Poe's parents died when he was at the age of 3. Poe had one sister and one brother. After his parents died, him, his brother and his sister had to get adopted. Once they did, they all got separated. These might be some of the reasons why Poe's writing might be kind of dark and has suspense in it. Most people back then didn't appreciate his kind of writing. Poe's writing creates suspense and a little bit of horror

          Poe's writing creates suspense and a lot of poets don't know how to do that. Poe is a really unique kind of poet. Each poet has their own kind of writing. Every poet has their only style of writing and their writing falls into a category... except Poe's writing. Poe was actually the poet who created the horror and suspense kind of writing, back in his time. A lot of people back then thought he had something to do with the devil because it had horror in it. Poe's writing is now really famous and known for his type of writing.


          There is a lot of similarities and differences between the 19th century and the 21st century. A difference between 19th and the 21st century is that most people were really scared of horror stuff. If you compare that to now there is a big difference. Most people nowadays don't get scared really easily. These days people like to read and watch horror things. They enjoy watching these things, but back then they thought this had to do with the devil. A lot of things have changed.


          Some similarities between the 19th century and 21st century are that people still like to write books/poetry. Back then not many people were known for their poetry. Nowadays a lot of people are known because of their style of writing. Poetry and writing was well known, back in the 19th century. It still is today, because their are a lot of authors out there that are also known because of their books. In the 19th century and in the 21st century writing/poetry is pretty well known.

Blog of 11/3/14

Looking For Alaska By John Green

Prompt: Describe the main characters.

Pages Read: 100- End

In Looking For Alaska by John Green, there are only 3 main characters. The first main character is Miles "Pudge" Halter. He is mostly the main character throughout the book. Pudge (how his friends call him) is a tall, skinny, blonde hair guy. One of Pudge's hobbies is to remember famous people's last words. He is really quiet person, but only when he isn't with his friends. Pudge didn't have friends before he went to Culver Creek (Culver Creek is the name of the boarding school he goes too). Ever since Pudge began going to Culver Creek his friends encouraged him to smoke and drink. That has now also become one of his hobbies too.

The second main character in this book is Chip "The Colonel" Martin. He is Pudge's roommate. The Colonel is short, muscular, thick-brown haired guy. The Colonel likes to remember countries. He hates people that have a lot money, wanna-be people, people that rat, or people that like to show off a lot. He hates these kinds of people because when he was younger his dad left him and his mother. The Colonel and his mother had to live the poor life. His mother and him had to live in a trailer their whole life. The Colonel's wish is to one day buy his mother a house of her own.

The third and last main character in this book is Alaska Young. She is one of Colonel's and Pudge's closet friend. Alaska is not that tall nor that short. She has green eyes, blonde hair, and is pretty smart. Alaska likes to read a lot of books, especially poetry. Alaska likes to drink and smoke, even though that isn't allowed in Culver Creek. The thing Alaska is known all over Culver Creek are her pranks. She is the expert in all kinds of pranks. Alaska is really out-going, funny, and clever. Once Pudge meets her, she changes his world upside down. Until one day everything ends...

I commented on Evie, Emily, and Giovanna's blogs for this week.