There's A boy in the Girls' Bathroom

Bradley is troubled and he sees a social worker in school. Then he makes a friend, but his friend accidentally goes in the girls' bathroom, when his friends sees the couinseler. After that, Bradley does that too, by mistake. Bradley has a bad reputation, but his social worker helps him travel to the good side.

Frankenstein...P2

So I'm starting to understand what's going on in the story. I compared it from my script. Victor is actually telling us his experiences and thoughts in the book, rather than dialogue. So, In the book, Victor's mother has died, and his fiancee, Elizabeth is on the verge of dying.

Obsessed with life and death, Victor goes grave digging. Then he goes home, falls asleep, and has a nightmare. It was about him kissing Elizabeth, and then seeing her features change. At last, he's left with the corpse of his dead mother in his arms.I can imagine what he's saying, and it looks so dark, and ominous.

The next night, there's a lightning storm. Victor, his adopted brother and best friend, Henry Clerval, and his few manservants set up the corpse in a laboratory. Then they create a monster. Victor immediately hates his creation, because it's hideous.

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I'm reading Frankenstein cause I kind of have to. The  book is boring, because I have no idea on whats going on. All I'm reading is about Victor Frankenstein telling us about his obsession on life and death. I'm understanding more about Frankenstein from my script. I would NOT  read Frankenstein on my own, but my drama teacher told us to read it, so I'm seeing this as an assignment. I can't read it in class because phones aren't aloud. So I can only use iBooks on the train, or at home.

So, on to my review. I have not finished reading this, but what I account has happened is that Victor is crazy. He's a mad scientist! His father and mother adopts his future wife, Elizabeth Lavenza. Then they adopt Henry Clerval, to be his best friend, and have Clerval tutored. After that, they adopt Justine Moritz, to be a nanny, and Ernest. The Frankensteins have another son around the age of eight, named William. 

In the story, Victor is upsetting his college master, M. Krempe, meanwhile his mother, Caroline, and Elizabeth, are dying of Scarlet Fever. I still have to read more. It's kind of like slow reading on an iPhone, so yeah, it might take me another week or two finish this book.

Always Running... Finished!!!!

Always Running is the autobiography of a man named Luis Rodriguez. In the book, Luis tells us his story of life inside a gang. He talks about his experience with guns, violence, drugs, alcohol, murders, deaths, and suicide attempts. Luis grows up as a Mexican in the racism era. I think he was motivated to do all these after seeing his older brother get beat up.

Luis was only six, as he got picked up by white teenager and was forced to watch his nine year-old brother get stepped on, thrown, punched, and kicked. I think that in some way, he wanted to get revenge for this. So he became a gang member.

He ended his criminal teenage life by realizing what pain he caused to man. The man struggling to survive, just because of Luis.

Luis's son, Ramiro, inherited life as a gangster, and is now serving time in prison. Luis wrote his book and dedicated it to his son.

The advice he gives at the end is to stop running. And to get out there become a good person.

Catching Fire... Putting Them in an Arena... Let Them Extinguish Each Other

This is the blog post I have never gotten around doing. I read Catching Fire LAST YEAR... and now I'm writing about it THIS year... the new year... I almost forgot... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!! I'm writing about Catching Fire in 2013... the year the movie is coming out!!!!!!! (November 22nd 2013) But, of course, the wait will take 11 months. The movie is still being made. This post is going to be a review, and what I think Catching Fire means.

In the story, Katniss and Peeta are both the victors of the 74th annual Hunger Games. For the next Hunger Games, or specially known as the Third Quarter Quell, the special feature will be... a Hunger Games full of victors. They will be reaped from the existing victors in each district, one male, and one female. And since Katniss is the only female victor, she's going back into the arena. Haymitch is reaped as the male tribute, but Peeta volunteers.

Katniss and Peeta start the game, and they form an alliance with other tributes. They figure out that the arena is in the shape of a clock, with each hour bringing new horror and torture. For example, muttations, acid rain, and screaming jabberjays.

One day, Katniss's alliance goes all around the arena, hooking up electrical wires, to blow up the borders of the arena. Well... the girls go. The boys stay back and work on survival and other things. When Katniss and the girls get back, the arena is exploding. Peeta is screaming for Katniss from far away, but Katniss gets annoyed. A District 13 hovercraft arrivess and takes her and a few other tributes away. Peeta is left behind, a captured by the Capitol.

In Catching Fire, nothing catches fire. So what could the title mean? It means Katniss truly knows what she wants at the end. She catches fire, the fire of the Capitol, and knows that she has to get her revenge and break free from their reign of terror and torture. Katniss, the girl on fire, has really caught fire.

Jerry Spinelli's Fourth Grade Rats

First grade babies, second grade cats, third grade angels, fourth grade rats! That’s how things happen in George( a.k.a Suds )’s school. Last year, in third grade, Suds was an angel. He loved being one too. But this year, he’s a rat. Suds wants to be an angel forever.

            Being a rat means being a troublemaker, according to Suds’ friend, Joey. Now, even as an angel, Joey was rotten. So it’s no kidding that Joey would be the first and worst rat. Suds doesn’t want to be bad. Suds sees Joey, changing himself drastically. Joey is dumping his neat room, eating a diet of meat, causing himself pain, and is giving himself tattoos.

            We’re all thinking, What? A nine year-old is giving himself tattoos? Well… it’s not permanent, but he’s committing himself into NOT bathing. Gross. Suds on the other hand always stays in the suds.

            One day, Joey lets a bee crawl on his arm. A school bully shakes his arm, and the bee stings Joey. So, during the entire day, Judy Billings, Suds’ crush, follows Joey around, touching him, and getting all mushy. Joey knows Suds likes her, so he tries to convince Judy to hang out with him. Judy thinks Joey means himself, not Suds, and gets more mushy.

            Joey then tells Suds to be dangerous, so girls will follow him around. So, the next few days, Suds becomes a horrible person. Then, he realizes that Judy is a jerk. And Joey changes. He lost his tattoos. Suds learns then, that it’s better to be yourself, and not to be the person everyone says you’re supposed to be.

Steven Became More Mature... My Holiday Blog Post

The book, Girls, Drums, and Dangerous Pie tells a story about a thirteen year-old boy named Steven Alper, and his five year-old brother named Jeffrey, who has leukemia. Leukemia is a type of blood cancer, which happens in a person’s bone marrow. In the story, Jeffrey’s cancer is detected after an incident which included him falling off a chair. But before cancer, Steven despised his brother. Now, after cancer, Steven becomes more mature.

            At first, when the news about his brother gets to him, Steven gives up on everything. He was bitter, he was depressed, and he kept everything bottled up inside of him. But after seeing himself fail, his big-time crush, Renee Albert, has to tutor him for his exam. While Steven waits, his parents tell him to keep anyone or anything with disease away from Jeffrey, or else it will affect his cancer. When Renee shows up during a bad weather, with a flu, Steven kicks her out. This a big self sacrifice, which makes him more mature.

            Another act Steven does is he shaves his head off clean. He does this because Jeffrey became bald from the extremeness of radiation, caused by chemotherapy. Everyone realizes that Jeffrey is bald, but he thinks that no one else can see it but him. So one night, Steven finds Jeffrey crying in bed. Jeffrey was crying because some kid in his class told him he was bald. So after Steven settles Jeffrey, he goes to the bathroom, and takes a razor, then shaves his own head. On the spot. Clean. I think that this sacrifice took him a lot of love and courage. Therefore, he became more mature.

            But I think the most selfless sacrifice was when Steven passed up on his opportunity to shine in the spotlight. You see, at the start of the book, Steven’s music teacher, Mr. Watras, tells him that he can play a big role in the school concert. Steven is so excited, when his moment comes. But at the middle of his performance, Jeffrey gets sick and throws up. So Steven is left to decide on whether he should stay at concert, or go with his parents to take Jeffrey to the hospital. Steven was confused. But a friend of his, Samantha, another leukemia patient, tells Steven to go. Steven is still confused, but then he makes up his mind. He takes Jeffrey to the hospital. Steven has officially become mature.

            The next day, Steven is at Jeffrey’s hospital. He had stayed with his brother all night. The doctors notified Steven and his parents that Jeffrey just had an ear infection. Now, Steven was heading over to Samantha’s room, but he found it vacant. He gets scared, and asks a doctor about what happened to Samantha. Unfortunately, she died, with her mother by her side. Steven gets scared once more and asks if her sister was by her side as well. The answer was no. Steven realizes how much he loves his brother, and how sad it would be if anything horrid happened to him, if Steven wasn’t by his side. Steven becomes more mature than the self absorbed Steven we saw at the beginning of the story.