10D Week 6 Discussion

[David, Teacher]

Provide three lines from the book that you think are particularly important. (Orlando and David did this with Fahrenheit 451 when we chose quotes to place around the room.)

They could be lines that revealed the book's theme, or a character's true feelings, or a character's motivation for a major action, or lines that you feel represented or announced a major turning point in the book.

Write each line, followed by an explanation of why you think the line is important or meaningful.

[Luis]

Book:The Lost City of Faar

1.) "The pilot and his crew were dead... but somebody else... should have seen the crash... That is if anybody else on Magorran were alive to see it. This may have become a ship of the dead."
- This is important because it highlights the main turning point of the plot in the book.

2.) "This fellow wants to harm us... Should we truly fear him?"
- This is essential because the answer to this question can determine whether certain characters take action in the plot or not.

3.) "It won't end until he thinks he's won. That's when he'll fail."
- This quote is extremely story essential because it foreshadows events around 7 to 8 books after this actual quote.

[Superocp]

1.)"But with children like him, suicide is much more common than it is among children whose intelligence falls within the normal range. When you think about it, it makes sense. They're bored in school, they have little in common with their peers, and when they start getting into trouble-which they often do, simply as a way of entertaining themselves they begin to feel like failures."
-Sorry for giving the long quote, but I feel like this quote the reader a real understanding of the protagonist.

2.)"He thought about his mother for a long time. Finally he decided that she might miss him at first, but the more he considered it, the more certain he was that if he weren't there, her life would be a lot easier."
-I thought this gave a perfect example, on how this can connect to real life situations to kids who might this way today. This quote, stating one of reasons why they might consider suicide.

3.)"Whatever happened at this new place-a place she'd never heard of until today-couldn't be worse that n the alternatives."
-As obvious this quote gives the reader, it states that a character is taking a turning point in their life.

[Kai]

1. "Sweet summer evenings, sapphire skies, feasting your belly, feasting your eyes. Simple joys have a simple voice that says time is living's prize. And wouldn't you rather be a left-handed flea, a crab on a slab at the bottom of the sea, a newt on the root of a banyan tree, a fig on twig in Galilee, than a man who never learns how to be free?"
- This quote I feel represents Pippin in every way possible, that he has everything he could ever want, but he doesn't have simple things


2. "Think about the sun, Pippin. Think about her golden glance. How she lights the world up! Well...now it's your chance."
- Through out the entire play Pippin is offered so many chances, but he either turns them down, or doesn't complete them


3. "Gotta find my corner of the sky"
- Once again, Pippin is searching for something throughout the play and that is, his corner of the sky. This quote is a great way to sum a lot up

[Nicholas]

Book: The House of Hades
1. Annabeth didn't argue but the hard edge in Percy's voice made her unsettled"
I feel this was important because this showed that Percy, somoone who is usually laid back, is starting to show a dangerous side of aggression that we have never seen before.

2. " I will kill Gaea he muttered I'm going to tar her apart with my bear hands"
Once again a dangerous side of Percy we have never seen

3. " She had time to think: Arachne. But she was frozen in terror"
This showed that even Annabeth was frightened about here current predicament

[Joseph]

Book: The Stranger

1) "My whole being tensed and I squeezed my hand around the revolver"
Well he just shot someone .... so that's important.

2) "I heard "guilty of murder" ... "premeditated" ... "extenuating circumstances""
He is convicted of the crime so that's also important

3)"I had only one wish that there to be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate"
Haters are his motivaters.

[Kyrese]

BookMarked

1.)"Thanks for appreciating my blackness"
It shows her personality, shes not open.

2.)"Vamps hair grows abnormally fast.."
There telling details about vampires

3.)"Your being learning how to use foil"
They are explain types of weapons.

[Mohammed]

Line one - From; The Black Swan. Another way to see it is that things that move are often Black-prone. I think this line is important because it describes how things are always random when they happen.

Line Two.From; The black Swan.There must be some disciplines with true experts. This tends to show that with every major action there is a expert who planned it.

Line 3- from; The Black Swan. A bridge here to what is to come. This shows that with every action some one or something does, it builds a bridge to random situations to happen.

[Angelica]

Looking For Alaska-
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
-its important because it basically sums up the book
“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
-this shows how the main character; pudge feels about alaska
“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
-its important because it foreshadows the end of the book

[Max]

The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger.

"People never notice anything." This quote shows how Holden things about the people and things around him.

"I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can." This quote shows how he thinks about girls and his love interest.

"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to." I think this quote shows how stupid he thinks the people around him are.

[Wyatt]

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
"My father always struck me as the sort of man who, under the right circumstances, might have invented the microwave oven or the transistor radio." This is important to understanding the main character that is David's father.
"He'd used the word screwball, but I knew what he really meant. He meant I should have named my guitar Doug or Brian, or better yet, taken up the flute. He meant that if we're defined by out desires, I was in for a lifetime of trouble."
This is showing that David is gay, which is a pretty important theme in the book.
"In terms of mutual respect and admiration, their six children had been nothing more than a failed experiment. Melina was the real thing. The house was given over to the dog, rooms redecorated to suit her fancy." This shows the importance of their dog to his family.