Response to Reading, Week 8

[Terry]

Write out a thoughtful, insightful response to what you are reading or what you just completed. Be specific: use character names, book title, author, quotes and citations from the text. Make use of the list of 19 ways to respond to literature handed out on 10/1/14. Bellow, I'm offering my response to #11 as a guide.

[Terry]

For the past two weeks, I've been reading Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. This is a Gothic tale of corruption and evil that starts out as a spooky little coastal-ghost story. Violet - our protagonist - is smitten by a handsome, mysterious stranger who comes to live in the guest house. She is curiously smart and foolish, passionate and detached. Truthfully, I've been entirely annoyed by her as both a character and a narrator. She does things that are inconsistent and jarring; she both loves and hates the stranger, River; she is confident and ashamed.

Violet is forever sighing, "doing nothing", trying to shout or scream, only to manage a whisper. She's annoying and empty, a strange but uninteresting combination.

I wish that the story were narrated by Summer, Violet's curvy, promiscuous, confident neighbor. She is a far more compelling character, one who isn't afraid of ghosts - or boys - and that fearlessness would be more intriguing to hear from. Just before being terrified by a specter, Summer describes, "I was giggling ans swinging my hair, and he had his hand on my arm...I licked my lips, because I thought I knew what was coming." Summer narrating this story would have more punch, more tension. She's the stronger personality that would have made a more meaningful main character.

[Luis]

For the past 2 days I've been reading The Glass Cafe: Or the Stripper and the State; How My Mother Started a War with the System That Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famousthis is a good book,this is my third book I have read and I think that people should give it a try because this book is really entertaining.

[Jaime]

Hi! I finish the book Bone part 2. It's a really good book, so funny. But if you try to find a realistic one that/s not your book. It,s a really fantastic book with a lot of funny situations... I really enjoy the book and i think that i'm going to read the next books from saga of Bone.

[Brody]

For the past week ive been reading Crackback. My character is acting like a girl. He is scared to ask a girl to a dance. All of his friends are saying your a little girl and he still wont do it. He has to plan all of it out. I am on page 40 and its been really good so far.

[Mariah]

I recently just finished A Time For Dancing by Hurwin. The main character, Jules, has cancer. After months and months of chemotherapy she finally decides she would rather get other alternatives to treating the cancer. She is acting very selfish about the whole situation but im pretty sure she has a valid explanation. I have no clue how I would be acting if I got delieverd the news that I had cancer. I enjoyed reading this book.

[Jacob]

#10 For the past few weeks I've been reading Divergent and the person who tells this story is named tris and I really enjoy this book alot I think she is the right person to tell this story because she is the person that every thing happpens too and if it was from someone elses point of view then the story just wouldn't be the same I honstley think the story would be very boring and not interesting at all. One person the I think that the only other person that could tell this story is Four. Four is Tris's boyfriend and I think this because he is always with her and he seems to know what is always happening to her. But, I think Tris is the best story teller.

[Khusbu]

In the book because I am furniture a girl named anke is the one telling the story about how she is invisible to her father and gets no attention. She is the best person to tell the story because it shows her veiws on everything that is going on, and she gets to see her sister and brother get abused but she doesn't.

[Madison]

I recently finished A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard. It is a very dark and kind of disturbing book;but at the same time it was really interesting to see how she survived, and overcame all the obstacles mentioned in this book. I couldn't stop reading it because I just wanted to see the outcome of how she survived this situation. She takes you through her experience of her 18 years of captivity, and describes everything she's feeling. She also includes pages from her diary which are really fascinating to read. It's very good and if you want to read it I recommend it!

[William]

I've been readingClockwork Princess. This is the third book in this series. This series is about an American girl ,Theresa Gray, who goes to London in search of her brother. After her arrival she is taken to a house where she is held captive and learns for the first time that she is not human. Her captors train her in a brutal way to use her ability to transform into other individuals. She is rescued by William Herondale ,a shadowhunter, and takes Theresa to an institute. She stays there to get help from the other shadow hunters to find her brother.


I'm currently on the third book of this series. Magnus Bane, a friend of the secondary protagonist William Herondale, gives advice to the Will. "I can tell you that the end of a life is the sum of the love that was lived in it." I don't understand this advice and I've tried multiple times to understand it. I repeat this in my head over and over and I still don't understand what it means. I chose this quote because I want to know what his sdvice means. I understand that it's advice about life and love.

[Josh]

FOrthe past week and a half i've been reading "Smoke" its about a girl named Pattyn who's life is terrible. Her boyfriend Ethan died in a car accident and so did her baby boy. She killed her abusive father becuase she was tired of him hitting her mom and sister. She is on the run because the police is looking for her and she left to California to try to stay low.

[Emily]

For the past two days, I have been reading A Stolen Life by jaycee dugard.Jaycee is an 11 year old girl who facing things that no kid should have to deal with. It is a book that keeps you reading but also is very scary to read because of the things that the man does to her. I am on page 73 and I can't stop reading!