Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Pretty Little Liars: Unbelievable

    Last time I focused on Aria but this time I am focused on Emily.  Emily is a fun person that you want to be around but there is one thing that she has kept a secret for a long, long time.  Emily is in love with girls.  At first when her parents found out about this they did not like it and sent her away to her aunt's house far away from her school and her friends.  I think that sending her away was a bad thing to do but telling her they didn't love her because she was being herself is just plain rude and mostly wrong.
    If i were her mom at first I would have been mad a her not for being who she is but for not telling the truth and keeping it a big secret.  I would also get mad if she was sneaking out behind my back.  As I thought about it I realized that her mom should not be mad at her because she is the same person as before.  I think that, that little thing wouldn't make a huge difference because just because the person changes who they like doesn't mean that they change their personality.  
    I  think that what her mom did was wrong because Emily is her daughter and aren't you suppose to love your family no matter what.
Think about what would have you done if you were in Emily's moms shoes? would you have reacted the same or differently? Would you accept it more then she did?  Think about it and give some feed back.
    I think that her mom should just accept the fact that she is who she is and nothing can change that. 

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Art!!!

    The painting I chose is The Peaceable Kingdom.  I chose this one because I think that it shows that no matter who or what we are we can work together.  In the painting on one side there is a bunch of different animals and some humans on the other side there are all humans.
    What I think this is trying to say is that even though we might look different doesn't mean that we have to disagree with each other or get into fights with each other.  I think that is what this painting represents because all those animals and humans wouldn't really work because they don't really get along but its as if they put those differences aside and are working together.  I also kinda think that they may be showing the other side that there is no point in fighting.  I think that because if you look closely some people look a little scared.
    This can relate to life because some people don't realize that just because we look different we can't be friends well that is not true.  If we really believe that we can then it might happen. 
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/610/The_Peaceable_Kingdom#

                      

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Blog Mentor

    I chose Gabi as my blog mentor because i think that she really puts effort in her posts.  I love how most of the time in her posts shes writing it as if she was actually there saying it to you.  What i also like about her posts is that it really makes a reader think.  I also like how Gabi has a lot of things to say about her book its as if she never runs out of things to say about them.  I also like how Gabi relates the books to other books or to our lives in some cases it gives us a deeper understanding of the topic.

Cheers to Gabi!!!! 

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Pretty Little Liars: Perfect

    Imagine you are at a bar and you meet this really cute, nice, smart guy and then the next day you come to your English class he is right there writing his name on the board.  At first you think he is just another student but then he says "Hello everyone, I am your new teacher".  That is what happened to Aria Montgomery one of the main characters in the book by Sara Shepard.  What would you do if this has happened to you, would you break up with him or give it a chance?
    There are many things wrong with dating your teacher (my opinion). First of all how do you think her parents would react to something like this?  If the principal of the school would find out he would fire the teacher and expel the student.  The teacher might even end up being jailed.  I know its kinda harsh just for dating someone you really like but its the law.  If you would just break up with him all problems would be gone but if you didn't trouble was coming your way.
    Aria ends up choosing the hard road but who could blame her when they are really in love.  At first i thought that was stupid of her but then when i realized how happy shew was i realized that their romance was the one of my favorite parts in the book.  What I got from this is that if you really love someone you'll go the extra distance.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

    In the book Pretty Little Liars: Flawless #2 (and #1)there has been a person who knows every pretty little secret.  This person can also be known as the antagonist.  Throughout the book 'A' has been leaving messages to the girls.  What kind of messages? you might think.  Well messages that you don't want to get.  Those messages that you get scared by.  'A' has been sending the girls threatening things about secrets only the dead girl knew.  Was this 'A' a friend of Ali's?  Well i don't know maybe it was or maybe its just a stoker that has been following them fro the past years.
    The antagonist must be everywhere at once.  'A' knows everything from the moment it happens.  Once this 'A' person has sent a message to Hanna (One of the main characters) about her dad.  How can 'A' know this has happened if it literally happened a couple of seconds ago.  Strange huh.  Lately in the book 'A' has been sending messages like:
" I'm watching you, you'd better do what is say or else
-A"
    This 'A' person sure is on creepy stoker.  I really wonder what the or else is all about.  Any who what I got out of the book is that this person is one you don't want to hang out with or even be in the same room as them because they are one creepy person.  Another thing that i found out about this character is that it can be anyone!
Some people are starting to act like it so are they 'A' or does 'A' have helpers?

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Pretty Little Liars

  All Stories pretty much have a conflict in them.  Without conflicts books would be boring.  In the book Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard there is more than just one conflict there are many.  There is a girl that vanished she has not been seen in 3 years and everyone thinks she is dead but maybe she isn't and is just playing a mean trick on her friends and family.  This one problem of a girl dieing has turned into more problems with people getting black mailed and innocent people dieing.  How did this all happen?  No one knows except for the one that is dead.  
    Imagine being at a funeral of your closest friends that knew all your secrets and than  you get a text from the dead girls phone.  How do you react to something as freaky as that and the message says: "Don't worry your secrets are safe with me in the grave as long as you listen to what ever I say"
-A
Every time you get a text you have to do something and if you don't every one will know your secret and some can even get hurt from a little text like that.  
  If I was that person getting messages i would be freaked out knowing that if that person has done something to my friends they can easily do something to me.
  Have you ever gotten a message from a blocked number saying that they are watching you but it just ends up being a friend.  Well imagine it wasn't your friend and it was actually a really person that was trying to hurt you.  I would be terrified.  So now imagine how the girls in the book feel.
 

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

The Help

  This book is wonderfully enjoyable.  Have you ever needed to write some specific topic for class and you had a totally different idea, so you decided to do what the teacher wanted and what you wanted.  Well that is sort of what happens in The Help.  There is a white women in the book and her name is Skeeter.  She has to write something in  the news paper and the topic is how to clean things.  The bad part is that she has no idea how to clean anything because ever since she was born there was help (Also known as a maid).  So she ends up going to one of the maids to ask her questions about how to clean.  As she's been doing this for weeks now she comes up with a better idea.  That idea was to write a book about the help and how there life is like.
  Many times she was told that it would be a stupid idea writing about the help.  Something that was mentioned a lot was "Who would read a book that has to do with the help".  Although Skeeter was let down a lot of times she still went on in writing the book.  I'm guessing that the whole point of that part of the book was that you shouldn't give up no matter what people say.
  With that I am going to say that I agree because if you really love doing something in life and people say you shouldn't do it.  Well sadly some people listen and stop doing what they love and then they might regret it.  Not so long ago my friend was one of those people that gave up her dream of becoming a singer because she was told she was not good enough.  She loved to sing, she would pretty much sing every were we went.  Also one of my other friend loves to draw she was auditioning for a school with a art program but she was once again that she was not good enough.  Guess what she didn't give up she kept trying and trying until she was the best she can be.
  So remember there is no reason to give up because its not worth it!