Thursday, December 18, 2008
Your new post assignment on Thursday, December 18
So, I have been re-reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. What have you been reading? It has started me thinking about situations we find ourselves in where we really can't see how they are going to work themselves out and how frightening that can be for most of us. In the 5th book of the Harry Potter series, Harry struggles with his lack of knowledge...he feels if he was "kept in the loop," he would be better able to handle what is going on around him. This could be true of many situations...sometimes, I feel that if I had more information further in advance, I would be able to better deal with and handle things when they become stressful. But then, I wonder if this is really true. Dumbledore protects Harry by keeping certain information from him, and maybe this was the best decision? It is difficult to know, but perhaps if we knew all the facts in advance, we would not really make better decisions.
In a post on your blog, discuss something from your independent reading book that applies or connects to your life and explain how the experience of the character in your book connects to your own experience.
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I think that in a real life situation fro my book, "City of Ashes" that I just finished and am about ot read, "City of Glass".. I mean it's sort of like how in the struggles of not knowing things that people try to fit into their oqn convenience, that maybe knowing things would have contradicted people's feelings or actions at certain times. How when Clary finds out that Jace is her brother, she starts to think of her situation as disgusting and then at the last moment of the book when she's about to flood her feelings to him, ends up regretting everything she said before.. He ends up saying, "Oh, lets just be brother and sister, just like how you wanted.." and hten she's bawling, not having had a chance to tell him her feelings in the first place, it was really sad. Either way, even if we do know such things, sometimes it will affect or not affect our feelings or ideals, which later on in some way will make us decide for ourselves, yet people must keep trying to deal with this knowledge, no matter how hard and disastrous to the mind and emotional mindset. If you do lie, if you do protect them, it hurts yourself and the other person, like feeling guilt or.. later on you'll know you did something wrong, but to protect that person.. How in the book, her mother protects her from the shadowhunter world and erases Clary's influencfe of the shadowhunter world, but later on her mother disspears and she disperses into the shadowhunter world with the help of Jace.. Either way, without knowledge, later on people will find out and someway find something that can hurt them yet also help them.. To accept the world, to accept themselves, and to understand why that person didn't tell them, what they felt when trying to protect them.. To no longer be a victim of hurt as they did beforehand.
My book really doesn't connect to me beacause it's about a four year old who gets kidnapped. But it's a really good book. :D
happy holiday
hihihihih ms.crabtree the twilight saga is better than i thought hope u finish the harry potter books!i dont like starwars srry hahahahah
hi good morning. I hope you have a good vacation. And eats lots of food.=)
The book I MOST RECENTLY read was called "One of the hideous books where the mother dies". It's written in almost a series of poems and it cuts right down to the main point and doesn't beat around the bush. My character is a strong and bold person who isn't afraid to hold anything back. She connects to me because she's portrayed in such a realistic way that the book could really pass as a diary. She dealt with grief because her mother died and her family and close friend and boyfriend lives on the other side of the country and her movie-star dad is too stuck up and self-centered to deal with her. She struggled through life finding acceptance and trying to find a place where she belongs, and I think that it really relates to every other teenager out there.
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