2.17 Independent Reading Check In - Character Focus

[Will]

In Red Queen , Mare and Gisa are sisters in a fantasy set world. They come from a poor family, and Mare doesn't have a job to keep her from going to war, so she pick pockets for money. Gisa (younger sister) sews cloth for the upper class "Silvers", and is the future of her family when it comes to making money. I like the way she stays so calm and collected with her self, and how she is so mature knowing that her whole family relies on her at such a young age.

[Robertmancuso]

the character that stood out in the book i read was Nash who is Mona Starr's best friend that moved to Hawaii and he stood out to be because even thought they didn't live near each other anymore he kept in contact and gave her advice on finding new friends or how to approach new people.

[Foster]

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Since this book is largely non-fiction and it doesn't go into a large amount of detail on any one character, I decided to write about the author's voice present in this section. Bill Bryson has such a unique and comforting tone of voice while reading that all the information, even if it's about rock formation, still is comprehensible and understandable. You really can feel his voice and it's almost like he's right there with you, explaining these stories and theories.

[Kathleen]

No Country for Old Men
My character I chose is the main character, Llewellyn Moss. He is a young man who lives in Texas. He seems fairly reasonable, and he has a wife, yet he makes extremely questionable decisions in the book. This character intrigues me because I can never really figure out what hes thinking or what hes about to do, and he always talks in very abrupt sentences. The worst thing hes done so far is when he found a truck surrounded by a bunch of dead people, he looked inside to find a bunch of money and drugs. He decides to take the money, and now has to run from a bunch of very deadly people.

[Max]

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
a. I started reading 1619 today, and the author seems like a fundamental character in the book so far. It is all about her lack of experience with being educated about the black history of America. She writes about her father having an American Flag hoisted in front of their house which she has trouble understanding because from what she can see is that he has been disrespected in the country his entire life, but he feels that since black people were the ones to build the country, they should also have the ability to be proud of the country.

[Jocelyn]

I read "Citizen" by Claudia Rankine and it talked a lot about Serena Williams, and how she is praised when successful, but she is heavily criticized and shamed for making any mistake. The book talks about how she is put under a microscope by a white audience, and people examine her, and watch closely, waiting for her to make a mistake. Her resilience is what really stood out. Despite the whole world coming down on her, she is still able to remain calm and keep pushing, always reaching success, despite the adversity that is given to her by people who allow their bias to create injustices.

[Kylie]

I am starting a new book, so I focused on one of the main characters that they just introduced, Koffi. She is young and works a night zoo with her mom. As of now they just saved enough money to pay off their dept and leave. Koffi is nervous and doesnt really want to leave the home shews known her whole life. Beasts of Prey

[Will]

Aidan wrote: "The Maze Runner
The person I am focusing on is named Minho he is one of the runners in the glades. The glades is the place the live in. What the runners do is run through the maze tr..."

I remember reading this book and seeing the movie, and remember how much I didn't like this character.

[Eleanor]

Alex wrote: "Nakano Nino is the 2nd oldest sister of the 5 quintuplets. Nakano Nino is the character that really stood out to me because of her kindness to her sisters and especially her bond with one of her yo..."

Kindness is defiantly a characteristic that sticks out.

[Zparks]

In the book illegal The character that stood out to me the most in this book was the main character Ebo.The way he travel from the desert all the way to italy and he's only 12 stood out to me something else that stood put to me was that his brother and his friends died so he could have a better life and he stayed strong during and after here deaths

[Nina]

In the book Every Last Word, the main character Samanthastood out to me a lot, showing a lot of character growth in the section that I had read. Originally she had been very reserved and had only ever had one set of really shitty friends, but later became friends with a group of people apart of a secret poetry group. In the section I read I was really able to see just how much confidence she was able to gain from being comfortable with this group, along with how her relationship with AJ has started to change.