The Book Thief: Entry 4

I chose The Book Thief  for multiple reasons, one being that I heard it was going to be a movie, so I figured it was going to be good if they made a movie out of it. Another reason was that when I read what it was going to be about and heard it was going to be about the holocaust, and I found the holocaust very interesting so I figured I would be interested in this book. I wasn't really personally connected to the book since it was based during the holocaust, and I can't relate to that. I can relate my sister to it since the girl Liesel was a foster child and my family is fostering my sister right now and has been for the past two years. I would recommend this book to pretty much anyone, but particularly people who are interested in history and can keep up with different stories about people without getting confused since it jumps from person to person. Also, if you're okay with little to no action but more of a very realistic story then you'd like it, but if you're into extremely fiction books you wouldn't like this book since it's very realistic and I think is dead on from the perspective of someone living during the holocaust,m especially a little kid.

The Book Thief: Entry 3

"They listened to Nazi footsteps in the basement. There was the sound of measuring tape. Liesel could not ward off the thought of Max sitting beneath the steps, huddled around his sketchbook, hugging it to his chest. Papa stood. Another idea." This part in the book was when they had their Jewish friend Max in their basement still, and some Nazi generals had to search everyone's houses to see if their basement would make a good shelter. The Hubermann's are freaked out because they have a Jew in their basement and a Nazi wants to search the one place he's hiding. I think this was a very intense moment in the book because you're freaking out while reading hoping to god they don't get caught. This part really freaked me out while reading and I just wanted to keep reading faster to find out what happens to the Jew and to see if the Nazi general was going to find him. This part probably showed conflict the most throughout the entire book.

The Book Thief: Entry 2

The characters in my book certainly have a complexity to them, especially Liesel the main character. Everyone at school thinks of her as this dumb little girl who can't read, mostly because she never went to school until she was 11, so no one ever taught her how to read. She finds this one book at her little brother's funeral, and brings it with her when she goes to her new foster parents home, but she can't read it. So when she starts school she gets bullied for not being able to read and decides to have her new papa teach her. They have classes every night and she slowly begins to be able to read, leading her to steal books since her family can't afford them. Her father Hans pretty much wants his new daughter to be happy, and to not get caught with the Jewish man living with them. The mom just wants her daughter to do all her chores and her job for her and for her to just behave all the time. Rudy, Liesel's best friend just wants to kiss Liesel every day but she never lets him. The Jewish man Max just doesn't want to get caught living with this kind family, and becomes best friends with Liesel. He also just wants the Holocaust to end so he doesn't have to hide out anymore and can live a life again not in fear of being himself. A theme that is beginning to appear I think is one: to never give up, and to always have hope. I believe this since almost all the characters in the book have this enthusiasm. Rudy attempting to get a kiss from Liesel, hoping that one day it will happen, Max hoping that he doesn't get caught and still tries every day to live life not giving up on it, and Liesel tries so hard to learn how to read and to not be thought of as dumb, and has so much hope for Max that when he gets sick she knows he will wake up, and brings him presents every day for him hoping he will wake up.

The Book Thief: entry 1

The major characters in my book are this little girl named Liesel, who's the main character, her foster dad Hans Hubermann, her foster mom Rosa Hubermann, her best friend Rudy, and this Jewish man named Max Vandenburg, who the Hubermann family hides in their basement. The setting of this book takes place during the Holocaust and World War II, which is why the family hides the Jewish man in their basement. The major conflict of this book is pretty much Liesel stealing books from fires and the mayor's home, and she also steals food a lot cause her new family is very poor, but an even bigger conflict is the fact that they're hiding a Jew in their basement during the holocaust!! One prediction I have for this book is that the Jewish man Max might die in their house since he's very sick and hasn't woken up from a sleep in a really long time, so that would be very bad if some NAZI found a dead Jewish body in their home, but I feel like it might happen. I wonder how he got sick, and if he will ever recover? Also I wonder if he is going to get caught and get himself in trouble as well as the Hubermann family. This book can be connected to the movie based off of it obviously, but also it is kinda like a movie I watched in history about the holocaust becasue a lot of the clips from that movie about Hitler are mentioned in the book.

Minor character

A minor character in  The Fault in Our Stars would be Hazel's dad. He's not in the story much, she usually only mentions him when he's crying which happens a lot. He's usually crying since his daughter has cancer, and is scared she's going to die or something. I think if he was more of a major role, like it would describe him more and him being with Hazel or have his view on why he was crying and what he's afraid of, I think it would be better. I would love to see his view on things and hear about him and Hazel more. It would make you feel bad for her dad more if you knew why he was crying instead of getting annoyed with it.

TFIOS flaws

So I'm going to give my opinion on what I thought was the worst thing about The Fault In Our Stars. It was an all around amazing book, and I think has impacted me the most out of all the books I've ever read. The only thing I don't like is the ending, but then again I do. I don't want to give it away but I'll just say it was very very VERY upsetting. It ended in such a sad way, but I also don't think the author could've done it any better. I think the only reason I didn't like it was because it was so real and didn't have a happily ever after  like most books. It hit you in the gut of how life really is and that sad things do happen and you have to be able to live with them. I think I like books or movies because they always end happy or the way you want, and it helps you escape from life, but TFIOS ended in such a real way that it upset me. I didn't like the ending, but then  again I loved it.

The Fault in Our Stars

So I read the book The Fault In our Stars since everyone was talking about it, and recommended it to me. I now regret listening to everyone. Not because it was bad, because it's the total opposite. It was probably the most amazing book I ever read, but also the saddest. I'm not going to give anything away because I hate people like that, but I would give you a warning beforehand. The book should definitely have a warning label on the outside warning you that it emotionally ruins you. The book also really makes you cherish your life and how you don't have health problems. It's about a girl who has cancer incase you didn't know named Hazel, who meets a boy named Augustus who also had cancer and had to get his leg amputated. They meet at a support group for cancer, and he instantly likes her and asks her to hangout the day they met. They do and their relationship escalates from there. They both have the same love for a book called An Imperial Infliction and both want to meet the author since the book doesn't have an ending so they have many questions for the author of the book. But the problem is, he lives in Amsterdam, and it's hard for Hazel to travel since she has lung cancer, and they think it's too dangerous. I won't give anything else away, but I highly recommend this book, with caution that it is upsetting.

A conversation with a character in Delirium

If I could have a conversation with a character in my book, it would be with Alex, the main girls boyfriend. I would want to have a conversation with him because he came from a different society than everyone else in the book, and if I lived in their society, I would always be curious about other cities and what life is like. I think that's why Lena likes Alex because she finds it so interesting about his home town. I would ask him what it's like in other places, like how it is to be free and to not have to get a surgery to never love. After talking to him I wouldn't want the surgery because he would tell me how amazing love is, and I would always want to experience that. Then I would want to leave my society and go to his since it sounds so much better than theirs.

Final Blogging Assesment in English 1B

In the book Delirium, the main girl Lena falls in love with a boy named Alex, even though love is forbidden and is thought of as a disease. She goes to visit the place where Alex is from called the wilds, where people don't have to get rid of love and are free, unlike the society where Lena is from which basically chooses your life for you. Once she visits the wilds she falls in love with the big open woods and all the little houses and places that people live in in the forest. A prediction that I have is I think the Lena will run away to the wilds with Alex. She doesn't like the way she's living in her society now, and really liked the wilds, so I believe she is going to want to live there and start a life with Alex, never going back to her old society again. An example from the book that made me think this is "I wish we could stay here,"(Lauren Oliver). This is a quote from Lena when she's laying in bed with Alex in the wilds and is talking about how she wants to stay there with him and never leave.  If I were Lena I would want to run away as well. Imagine never feeling love or having someone love you back. I think it would be an awful society to live in, since I have a lot of love for my friends and family, and once you turn 18 you would never feel that same love again. The one thing I wondered was why did the society keep the wilds from everyone else and make them think it was such a bad thing, and what happened that was so bad they decided to get rid of love? I understand that love is very powerful, and can  make you do crazy things, or the opposite of love is hate, and without love anymore there wouldn't really be any hate. You have to love someone at some point in order to get to the point where you hate them because of something they did when they loved you. So I feel like the society thought that if they got rid of love, they would also get rid of hate and people from doing crazy or bad things.

Why I chose Delirium

The reason I chose the book Delirium by Lauren Oliver was because I had just finished the Divergent series which I loved, so I found a book that was similar to Divergent. It is in many ways similar since it's based in the future, and has a character who goes against the government rules since she doesn't like the way they are. I also chose this book since I thought it was interesting that they thought of love as a bad thing, and even a disease which I've never thought of it like that. It made me wonder if our society would ever go as far as to take away a feeling because of the harm it causes.. Love can make you do bad,crazy things, but I don't think we should try and get rid of that feeling since it can change people in the best ways as well. Do you think our society will go as far as to try and get rid of our emotions like love in the future?

Delirium Setting

In the book Delirium by Lauren Oliver, the setting takes place in the future. In their society, they look at love as a disease instead of a good thing, so when everyone turns 18 they have to get a surgery to get rid of love so that they never feel love or can never love again. You can tell it's the future since our society doesn't have surgery's to get rid of love and we don't look at love as a bad thing. "It has been sixty four years since the President and the consortium have identified love as a disease, and forty three since the scientists perfected a cure." This quote is an example of how Delirium is based in the future since we don't look at love as a disease and haven't made a cure for it either. A quote explaining what the town looks like is "Which, like all the government offices, are lumped together along the wharves: a string of bright white buildings, glistening like teeth over the slurping mouth of the ocean." This quote describes the government buildings and makes them sound futuristic too.