I Am Number Four; the Lost Files of Six

  In the book I Am Number Four; the Lost Files of Six by Pittacus Lore aliens have arrived to earth from Lorien to hide from war with another species of aliens named the Mogadorians. The Lorins have to hide and develope their legacys ( powers) that will help them stop the Mogadorians and take back their planet. Unfortunately there are only ten of them three are dead and seven of them are left. The main character in this book 6 ( the aliens from Lorien have names that go by number) struggles to survive in earth with her cepân (their trainers who help them train for battle and kin of their parents but with no legacys). In the book 6 personality changes.
    One of the major personality changes was the difference between when she was 12 and when she became 18 . When she was 12 she feared the Mogadorins and doubted herself about not being able to stop them. But when she became 18 she doesn't fear them anymore and is willing to kill as much of them that come in her way.
    Another personality change was when they were captured in the Mogadorians cave were they were tortured to death to tell them everything they knew. When she was in her cafe she wanted to die. She knew that she couldn't be a warrior without her legacys and she thrived to see the cepân Katrina. Who then later gets killed when 6 lies and says her number was 8. This changed her personality because after Katrina was killed she became a warrior seeking revenge on the Mogadorians.
   All in all I think that this book is amazing. It is compacted with adventure, science fiction, action, and romance.

Jason Lei                                                                                                                             10/7/13

813                                                                                                                                        ELA

Dear Ms.Berner,

        Imagine a world without books because freethought was illegal. Imagine that books k and in that world are being taken away and burned. This is what happens in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, one of the most challenged books in our country. This is how I feel when books are being banned because these books are being taking away from our reach. Books all around us are being banned for ignorant attributes like offensive language and drug abuse. I believe that books should not be taken from our libraries because books help us cope with our feelings and they help us run away from our scary worlds to a one that makes us feel important.

        Many authors like Sherman Alexie, author of “ The Absolute Diary of a Part-Time Indian” concur with my claim. In the article “Why the Best Kids are Written in Blood” by Sherman Alexie, he talks about how teens from different schools survived many hardships, like poverty and gang warfare in order to graduate. In the article he also writes about why he contradicts to Megan Cox Gurdon’s article, “Darkness Too Visible”, on banned books and how young adults books are dark and horrendous. “ And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in often-terrible world. They read because they believe, despite the callow protestation of certain adults, that books-especially the dark dangerous ones-will save them.” Alexie discusses that we read these “Gruesome” books because they help us learn to deal with what is going on in our lives and how to help ourselves get back on our feet.  “ I write to give them weapons -in a form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters” Alexie adds. All in all Sherman Alexie talks about how we can no longer be protected and teens need books to help them run away from their scary lives and if they were not able to run away because books like “The Absolute Diary of a Part-Time Indian” are being taken of the shelves in our libraries then teens won’t learn how to cope and solve their problems.

        Books all over the world are being banned from schools like Fahrenheit 451, Harry Potter, Where’s Waldo, and Crank. One of the schools is Conroe High School in Montgomery, Texas. Diana Verm, a student in Conroe High School was offended by the book “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury. She said that after reading the first few pages she immediately closed the book because in the book they burned the Bible, but Diana didn’t understand the concept of the book. The purpose of the book was to allow free thought and say that books are good not evil. The book disagrees with burning the Bible because the Bible is a book. I believe that if Diana read the book a more indepth instead of skimming through the pages for little details that support her claim that the book does truly disagree with burning the Bible and other books.

Harry Potter is another issue in our libraries. Catholic schools are taking down the book out because of witchcraft and sorcery. Many other schools believe that the book is inappropriate and have taken the book out of libraries because of disrespect to adults. Another issue in our library is the book “Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky. Glen Ellyn School in District 41 is taking the book away from the school library because of sexual content and inappropriate language. In the article “ Glen Ellyn D41 Removes Perks of Being a Wallflower From School Shelves” by Quan Truong the school had a debate on removing the book from the libraries. Anne Blyth, a parent of a student in the schools says “They’re young adults and we can’t keep them in a bubble. If they want to keep their kids in a bubble, that’s fine, but they shouldn’t be telling me what to do.” Many other parent and teachers also agree with Blyth but as a result the school board voted in favor to remove the book from school libraries.

Writer of “Darkness too Visible” Megan Cox Gurdon disagrees with not banning books. In her article she talks about how young adult books these days are dark and filled with profanity. She talks about how young adult books started to get gruesome and how books back then were also written in blood .But, what she doesn’t understand is that these books are meant to be dark so we can relate to them and if we can relate to them we can learn hot to help ourselves in these times of trouble. Taking away these books is like taking away our freedom because we need these books to understand the way of life.

        In conclusion, we shouldn’t be banning books because we need  learn how to help ourselves and if books are being taken away from us then we won’t be able to learn. People who disagree like, Megan Cox Gurdon don’t fully understand why these books are important to us and need to stop trying to protect us from the world because they don’t think we can handle the it.  

The inventions of Hugo Cabret - Jason lei

From what I thought the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick was amazing. The book wasn't only compact with words in paragraphs like in ordinary books but in this book it is also compact with very detailed pictures. In the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret the main Hugo is an orphan who lives in the ceiling of a busy Paris railway terminal where he works as a clock keeper. The only way for Hugo to survive is to steal from local shops. Hugo's life was wonderful before living with his father who worked at museum. One day his father was working late at the museum and the guard didn't know he was still in the museum so he locked the doors. Unfortunately the museum caught on fire and Hugo's father was stuck in there. He later moved in with uncle, a drunk who worked as the cock keeper in the terminal with no money and didn't care for Hugo. One day his Uncle drowned in the Seine. Hugo's goal was to fix the automaton his father brought home from the museum one day.

It is amazing how  young boy can live on his own without any parental guidance. Hugo was a very mysterious boy who always stole from the toy shop owned by a man named Georges Méliès, a famous movie producer who later became broke when World War One happened. Hugo often stole the toys to use the parts to fix the automation. When Georges caught him he took the book Hugo has drawn in with specific details of the missing parts the automaton needs. When Georges flipped through the book the immediately became scared and frightened because he was the creator of the automaton. He took the book way from Hugo and wanted to burn it. Georges was an important character in the book because he was a lot like Hugo, both stubborn and curious. Hugo was paranoid about how Georges knew about the automatons and was curious why Georges feared them so much so he decided to find out. He needed someones help and he then befriended Georges god daughter Isabelle Méliès. She too had no parents due to a car accident and was willing to accompany Hugo in his journey.

What I liked about this book so much was that it was filled with pictures that described what was going on.I highly recommend this book because it is unique from other books and it is filled with comedy and adventure.

Prodigy by Marie Lu - Jason Lei

After finishing the first book Legend by Marie Lu I decided to read the sequel to it. In the book Prodigy, Day and June have joined the Patriots to find Day's brother Eden. But to get the help of the Patriots the would have to complete a mission, to assassin the new Elector Primo, Aidan. June was sent to bring herself into the Republic and again the trust of the Elector. While June was in the inside she changed a lot in what she believed in.

Before June was sent in the inside she was in love with Day. She only joined the Patriots because she wanted to help him find his brother and she didn't want to leave him behind. But when she was sent  in the inside she soon fell for Aidan the new Elector Primo. They had a lot in common, they both went to Drake University, both came from rich families, and they both think alike. 

She also wasn't sure if killing Aidan was right. Before when she wasn't sent into the Republic to gain trust of Aidan she didn't want anything to do with him and she didn't care if he died because she has grown to hate the Republic for what they have done to her family. But when she was sent into the inside she missed the life of being rich and eating fancy foods and wearing fancy clothing.

June changed over time because she didn't know what to do, save Aidan or trust the Patriots. 

Faithful Elephants by Yukio Tsuchiya Jason Lei

Faithful Elephants by Yukio Tsuchiya, takes place in the Ueno Zoo in Japan while Japan was in war. The book is about how the Ueno Zoo had to kill all the animals in the zoo because they were ordered to do so by the Japanese Government because if a bomb were to ever hit the zoo the animals might be a possible threat to the people of Tokyo. In the book we learn that we have to make sacrifices in life.

One of the sacrifices they made in the book was that they had to kill the animals in the zoo. This was a big sacrifice because the employees and trainers worked with the animals everyday and they grew a bond with the animals in the Ueno Zoo. They grew such a strong bond with the animals that they even thought about send the animals to another zoo in Japan but they weren't sure if bombs were going to drop there either. This shows that they really didn't want the animals dead.

Another sacrifice they made in the book was that they had to kill John the elephant. John was one of the employee's and trainer's favorite and so were the other elephants Tonky and Wanly who also had to die. John was the first of the three elephants to die. He was also a very smart elephant and they had to try a couple of times trying to kill him. The first attempt of killing John was was mixing poisonous potatoes in the his potatoes but John threw the poisonous ones out. The second attempt  was trying to inject poison into him but his tough skin snapped the needle in half. The last and final attempt was starving  john to death. This worked and became the solution method of killing the elephants. Even though the trainers had to kill John they felt terrible. They treated the elephants like their own like their child and they had to watch it die.

The last major scafrice they mad was killing the last. To elephants Tonky and Wanly. They were starved to death just like John because it was the only method they tried that worked. Killing the last two elephants was really hard on the trainers because they were the last animals in the zoo. The trainers and employees also had to watch them slowly die everyday. The trainer and employees felt terrible that when Tonky and Wanly did their Banzai trick it broke the trainers heart that he ran to get them food and water. This shows that he loved them. Another wayit shows that the trainer loved the elephants was how before the elephants were dying he held them tight and watch as their eyes went as white as ever.

In conclusion, Faithful Elephants doesn't only teach us that we have to make sacrifices in life but it teaches us that some sacrifice aren't supposed to be made and should be made because they are wrong and stupid. 

Divergent by Veronica Roth - Jason Lei

In the book Divergent, the human society has been split up into 5 fraction. Each fraction represented one thing they believed in that the human race lacked. For an example, the Erudite believed that the human lacked intelligent so the people of Erudite were intelligent. When you turned 16 you were to make an important decision on which of the four groups you would like to transfer to.The main character Beatrice, was born Abnegation,the people of Abnegation believed that people were too selfish. Beatrice thought that she didn't fit in Abnegation because she didn't really believe in acting selflessly, so she transferred to Dauntless. The Dauntless fraction believed in bravery, and Beatrice did show bravery for choosing Dauntless. In the Divergent Beatrice sacrificed a lot to become Dauntless.
One of the sacrifices she made was leaving her family. She left them so she can live her life happy in the fraction she chooses, but the downside was she would have to leave them and that she might never see them again. The second sacrifice was change her looks so her parents won't recognize her. She thought that it would be better for her and her parents if she didn't become to attached to them when she was away. So, she tattooed three bird on her leg to represent the people she left.
The book Divergent is really good because of many things,like shows self confidence. I haven't finished the book yet but so far it is really good. It has a lot of action from her training she has to do. I recommend this book because it is mind blowing.

Walking Dead pt 2

In the second half of the book, in the Walking Dead me and my book club found more answers to our question about how the weather affects the protagonist. We also made many questions about various things while we were finishing the book.

We found that another way the weather affected the protagonist was during the snow storm and they had to leave because they were running out of supplies and when they were on the road they found Tyreese and his family on the road. They also had to stay in creepy estate filled with walkers for one night because of the weather. The weather also affected then because the next day while they stayed at the estate they went searching in the other houses and a couple of the members of the group died

Walking Dead Vol 1

In the book the Walking Dead Volume 1, humans have turned into flesh eating creatures of the dead. The main character Rick faces many hardships while trying to survive. One of the questions my book club wanted o be answered was how does the weather affect Rick and his band. While reading the book I have found many answers to this question.

One of the ways I found that the weather affected Rick and his group was when Rick and Glenn, another person in his group went to the city to get guns from the gun shop. But to blend in with the flesh eaters they had to rub the smell of the walkers on them because the only way the walkers detect if your sea or a live is by your smell. When they finally got there guns and were about to leave it started to rain and the rain washed off their smell so it triggered the walkers to go after them for food. Another way that the weather affected the group was when the snow storm hit. They were running out of food and supplies that they had to flee to find more. Thy also had I leave because it was starting to get really cold there.

The walking dead is a very inspirational graphic novel because it shows us what we humans can accomplish when we work together.

Legend part 2

Ok, so far we know that June is changing , by betraying the Patriots. But what we now know is that Day has also followed June's lead an betrayed the Patriots as well. Day changes throughout the book too with the help of June.

One way Day changed is when Tess refused to leave the Patriots with June and him. This changed him internally because it shows that he doesn't need to protect Tess anymore because she not the little girl he found in the slums. She grown a lot now and she doesn't see him as her brother anymore she sees him as more than friends.

Tess having a huge crush on him also changed him internally because it shows him that he has to follow his heart and choose who's right for him, Tess or June. He has to choose between the girl he has known for a long time and was a sister to him or the girl who worked for the Republic. 

Another thing that changed that is related to Tess' big Crush on Day, is if June is the right person for him or does she deserve better. From seeing all the videos of June and Aidan he is not sure if June has something with Aidan because he is the Elector and he is rich. After all he did say he lived her but she didn't say it back.

Prodigy by Marie Lu

After finishing the first book Legend by Marie Lu I decided to read the sequel to it. In the book Prodigy, Day and June have joined the Patriots to find Day's brother Eden. But to get the help of the Patriots the would have to complete a mission, to assassin the new Elector Primo, Aidan. June was sent to bring herself into the Republic and again the trust of the Elector. While June was in the inside she changed a lot in what she believed in.

Before June was sent in the inside she was in love with Day. She only joined the Patriots because she wanted to help him find his brother and she didn't want to leave him behind. But when she was sent  in the inside she soon fell for Aidan the new Elector Primo. They had a lot in common, they both went to Drake University, both came from rich families, and they both think alike. 

She also wasn't sure if killing Aidan was right. Before when she wasn't sent into the Republic to gain trust of Aidan she didn't want anything to do with him and she didn't care if he died because she has grown to hate the Republic for what they have done to her family. But when she was sent into the inside she missed the life of being rich and eating fancy foods and wearing fancy clothing.

June changed over time because she didn't know what to do, save Aidan or trust the Patriots. 

Hurricane Song

 In the book Hurricane Song by Paul Volpone, a teenage boy named Miles and his father are stuck in the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina. While they were stuck in the Superdome they went through a series of hardships. The affect of these hardships helped changed the feeling and personalities of the characters in the book.

     Before Hurricane Katrina hit Pops, Miles' father and Miles relationship wasn't so great. Miles didn't have anything anything common with Pops at first and Pops wasn't ever home. He was always downstairs of their apartment, at a club called Pharaohs, playing his Jazz on his trumpet. He was always at Pharaohs that Miles thought that Pops loved his music more than him but after the hurricane their relationship changed.

    During the hurricane Pops told Miles not to interfere in any drama and to mind his own business, but in the end they did interfere in a lot of Drama. This was one of the hardships that helped them change. If Pops didn't interfere in the drama like identifying the dead body of Cyrus, a mentally unstable person who used to wash dishes at Pharaohs who jumped off the Superdome because he thought it was a slave ship. This softened a spot in Pops' heart because when they finally identified Cyrus he and Miles have Cyrus a proper funeral by playing their music. This also changed Miles  feeling about music. At first he hated music because he thought his father loved music more than him but later on he found that his father didn't actually love music  more than him and he grew to enjoy music like his father. 

     I think the book Hurricane Song his a great way to show that it is never to late to change. Everyone could change if they wanted to. Pops and Miles relationship changed when he told Miles he loved him more than music. Pops wanted their relationship to change and that why their relationship got better. 

Legend part 3

So after all that stuff happened last week we find out that Day has changed June a lot and their relationship has grown every time June talked to him in his cell. June never liked Day before they even met. She always hated him because he humiliated the Republic and he was the number one on the criminal list in the Republic. But after the death of her brother she soon hate him even more because Metias, her brother was the only family she had left. But when she was undercover in the slums she fell for him without knowing he was even Day. When they finally caught him and his mother was shot in front of him by the Captain she felt bad because she knew this was wrong.

Although she still didn't know that Day didn't kill her brother she had to repeatedly had to remind herself that Day is guilty and she shouldn't fell bad about his mothers death. But when she started talking to Day frequently she and him clicked. When she was mad at Thomas, the captain killing the people protesting without even think about the standard procedure. She talked it out with Day and when she started to cry on Day's shoulder he wiped the tears of her face.

June changed because of Day and Day changed because of her.

Legand by Marie Lu part 2

    From where I last left off I have learned a bunch of new information about the case of Metias' death. There was a bunch of action, drama ,and romance. First off, when I last left off June has been undercover for several days in the slums trying to find Day. After four days hiding in the slums, June gets her self involved in a Skiz fight. A Skiz fight is a illegal street fight in which the crown winner in the fight chooses a person to fight in the crowd and the winner doesn't stop fighting until she a bloody fall. Tess, Day's female acquaintance was chosen by Kaede, the Skiz winner was chosen to fight but Tess can't fight so she was knocked to the ground. June thought this was wrong and said something to Kaede. June was winning because she was skilled at fighting but when Kaede plunged a knife into her side, June tried to escape. In the end Day saved her by creating a smoke bomb and escaping to an abandoned library.
    After a couple of days June has followed Day and Tess, Day kissed her when he was drunk. They both wanted it but after the kiss June noticed something something around Day's neck and realized the pendant she found in the hospital the day Metias died, was his, Day's pendant. When she found out she followed Day to his parents house to see what day was doing. When she found had a sick brother with a mutated Plague she alerted Thomas, a Republic captain.
   So much happened after that but I don't want to spoil anymore. This book is really good if you are interested in action.

Legend by Marie Lu

In the book Legend by Marie Lu, Los Angeles has been separated from the rest of North America and is called the Republic. The Republic's most wanted criminal, Day a male teen who has had his identity erased from the Republic's records has framed of killing a commander named Metias. Metias sister, June takes his place as a detective in training and her job is to take Day to justice. So far in the book I have read about a few ways June has tried to lure Day into her trap, with Plague medicine. The Plague is a serious illness that has spread in a couple of sectors and has killed thousands of people because most people could not afford the medicine.
This whole problem happened when Day found out that his younger brother, Eden has been diagnosed with the Plagued and is in serious need of the medicine. Day planned a robbery at the hospital on the day the hospital was heavily guarded. When he found out there was no more Plague medicine he jumped out of the window from the lab. With a broken ankle  Day tried flee until Metias caught him. Day managed to flee but jabbing Metias in the arm with his knife.
I can't wait to finish the book and find out what's going to happen in the next book, Legend.

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

In the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost the protagonist represents a man stuck between two decisions. It seems like he has come to a cross road in life and  is confused on which road to take and doesn't know what is to come next when he chooses one road.The author wants to tell us that life is hard and sometimes we have are stuck between two decisions.
In the first stanza " Two roads diverged in yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both" shows that the speaker has came across the two decisions and doesn't know what road to take because he can only take one road. In the third stanza " Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted I should ever come back" shows that the speaker has already chose a road because he doubts if he should ever come back and he doesn't know what is going to happen in the future if he keeps on traveling in this path. In the last stanza " Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by" shows that the speaker chose the right path and he doesn't want to go back to the two diverged roads.
My claim connects to me because growing up you sometimes get stuck in between two decisions and it may be hard to choose one. My claim also connects to teenagers and humanity because everyone has to make a tough decisions in life like who may be the right person for you and who is actually your friend.

Insurgent by Veronica Roth part 2

    
     A lot has happened from where I left off on the first response. I learned that the Erudite want to know what is behind the gates outside of Chicago. Beatrice sacrificed herself to Jeannie, an Erudite scientist who created all of the simulations because she didn't want anyone dying anymore. The Dauntless have allied with the fractionless and have planned an attack on the Erudite headquarters. From what I have read so far is that Beatrice is learning how to trust people now but she is still kind of paranoid about trusting the fractionlesss.
    When she told Christina that she was going to go to the Erudite headquarters she had to trust her not to tell Tobias because Christina just forgave Beatrice for killing her boyfriend Will during the simulation attack in the Abnegation. It also showed that she starting to trust people when she said I love you to Tobias because he is the only family she has left because her brother became a traitor. Trusting Marcus, Tobias' father in a mission to find out what is outside of the gates and to send the simulation data to all of the fractions so the Erudite wouldn't be able to find it even if they don't succeed on killing Jeannie.
   Insurgent is a great book but I think that it isn't as good as the first book Divergent because it isn't as detailed and it doesn't have as much action as the first one. The second book is more about how Beatrice matures and her love life with Tobias.

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

    The book Insurgent is the sequel to the book Divergent. In the end of the first book Divergent the Erudite had injected a stimulation in to the Dauntless to kill the Abnegation, who are holding secret information that the Erudite wanted to know. Because Beatrice is Divergent, she was able to manipulate the stimulation and try to stop the stimulation at the Dauntless headquarters. Once she stopped the stimulation Beatrice, Tobias, Caleb, and Tobias' father travel to the Amity in search for help. The book Insurgent is about the aftermath of the war and the adventures Beatrice trying to take over the Erudite.
    Through out the the books Beatrice has matured a lot. In the first book she was this shy, little, and now she is involved in a war. Before she was scared of weapons and she didn't know who she was, but now she not afraid of firing a gun into people's heads and seeking revenge on the Erudite who killed her parents and her old fraction. This shows that she matured internally because now she knows who she really is and why she chose Dauntless.
    So far in the book that I have read is  that Beatrice feels guilty for killing one of her best friends and her friends boyfriend and her relation with Tobias. I predict that the fraction less are going to play a big part in the war because they want to make a society with no fractions and they have the biggest group of divergent people.
  

I Am Number Four; the Lost Files of Six

  In the book I Am Number Four; the Lost Files of Six by Pittacus Lore aliens have arrived to earth from Lorien to hide from war with another species of aliens named the Mogadorians. The Lorins have to hide and develope their legacys ( powers) that will help them stop the Mogadorians and take back their planet. Unfortunately there are only ten of them three are dead and seven of them are left. The main character in this book 6 ( the aliens from Lorien have names that go by number) struggles to survive in earth with her cepân (their trainers who help them train for battle and kin of their parents but with no legacys). In the book 6 personality changes.
    One of the major personality changes was the difference between when she was 12 and when she became 18 . When she was 12 she feared the Mogadorins and doubted herself about not being able to stop them. But when she became 18 she doesn't fear them anymore and is willing to kill as much of them that come in her way.
    Another personality change was when they were captured in the Mogadorians cave were they were tortured to death to tell them everything they knew. When she was in her cafe she wanted to die. She knew that she couldn't be a warrior without her legacys and she thrived to see the cepân Katrina. Who then later gets killed when 6 lies and says her number was 8. This changed her personality because after Katrina was killed she became a warrior seeking revenge on the Mogadorians.
   All in all I think that this book is amazing. It is compacted with adventure, science fiction, action, and romance.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret By Brian Selznick

From what I thought the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick was amazing. The book wasn't only compact with words in paragraphs like in ordinary books but in this book it is also compact with very detailed pictures. In the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret the main Hugo is an orphan who lives in the ceiling of a busy Paris railway terminal where he works as a clock keeper. The only way for Hugo to survive is to steal from local shops. Hugo's life was wonderful before living with his father who worked at museum. One day his father was working late at the museum and the guard didn't know he was still in the museum so he locked the doors. Unfortunately the museum caught on fire and Hugo's father was stuck in there. He later moved in with uncle, a drunk who worked as the cock keeper in the terminal with no money and didn't care for Hugo. One day his Uncle drowned in the Seine. Hugo's goal was to fix the automaton his father brought home from the museum one day.

It is amazing how  young boy can live on his own without any parental guidance. Hugo was a very mysterious boy who always stole from the toy shop owned by a man named Georges Méliès, a famous movie producer who later became broke when World War One happened. Hugo often stole the toys to use the parts to fix the automation. When Georges caught him he took the book Hugo has drawn in with specific details of the missing parts the automaton needs. When Georges flipped through the book the immediately became scared and frightened because he was the creator of the automaton. He took the book way from Hugo and wanted to burn it. Georges was an important character in the book because he was a lot like Hugo, both stubborn and curious. Hugo was paranoid about how Georges knew about the automatons and was curious why Georges feared them so much so he decided to find out. He needed someones help and he then befriended Georges god daughter Isabelle Méliès. She too had no parents due to a car accident and was willing to accompany Hugo in his journey.

What I liked about this book so much was that it was filled with pictures that described what was going on.I highly recommend this book because it is unique from other books and it is filled with comedy and adventure.

it's kind of a funny story response two

As Craig lives out his week in the hospital he meets many new people.  He feels accepted in a group of grown men who have mental disorders.  I guess Craig feels more normal among this group of society's misfits than his "friends." Still, Craig feels the need to hide his situation from people at school except for Nia.  I think Craig is as embarrassed of his new friends as he is of himself because he fits in with this weird group of people.  I think Craig is also afraid to admit to himself that has problems and his is slapstick,maybe not as sick as Bob or Humble, but still sick.  He is also afraid because he'worried about growing up and being crazy.

Craig's roommate, Muqtada also has an influence on Craig.  Muqtada never leaves the room and doesn't speak to anyone.  In a way Craig sees a part of him in Muqtada. Muqtada is also afraid.  Muqtada hides notnot only hides from people but he also attempts to hide from life.  Staying in the hospital and being surrounded with all of these adults who aren't really adults scares Craig because he feels one day that can be him.

In the crazy mix of people in the , Craig meets Noelle.  She's also a but crazy.  Craig has an obvious crush on Noelle but he hesitates to act on it because he also has feelings for Nia. Noelle is different from : is because she is much mire self aware and kind of insecure.  Noelle also treats Craig different from how Nia treats Craig.  She doesn't act vulnerable like : is dies.  She is very guarded.

reponse to looking for alaska

In the book Looking for Alaska, the author John Green presents us with an interesting coming of age story.  Miles, the main character, also known as "Pudge", goes to boarding school.  This isn't a drastic change for him because he doesn't really have friends. The greatest change for him is that he is making friends, friends that make him feel special.  The first friend Pudge makes is him room mate who everyone calls "Colonel".  His friendship is the Colonel opens him to a world of trouble making fun and the world of Alaska. 
Pudge has a crush on Alaska through out the book.  It's not just a crush though, he is in love with her.  She is complex and guarded.  Together the Colonel, Alaska, and their friend Takumi, teach Pudge how to be less awkward and come out of his shell.  They plan pranks and spend thanksgiving together. When Alaska dies, Pudge is left with many questions and the already much complicated Alaska Young becomes more complex.  They try to figure out whether it was a suicide or an accident. 
Although there were parts of this book that were very difficult for me to relate to it was still a very good book.  The story is both comedic and tragic.  I think depending on who you are the story means something different to you.  In the end Pudge lets go of Alaska and the questions and mysteries that came with her death.  What I got out of the book is that friendship, real friendship, is life changing.  And with death of love and death of friendship we are left with answers we are responsible to answer ourselves and not stress on the grief of the death itself.

                    
                                                         The Last Olympian
   
     The book The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan is the last sequel in the Percy Jackson & The Olympian series. In the Series Percy Jackson a demigod, son  of Poseidon goes on a series adventures in the world of Greek Mythology. In this book Percy lead his camp, Camp Half- Blood a camp full of demigod into battle with the Titan Kronos and his army. Kronos is the ruler of the Titans, and posses the body of Hermes' son Luke, a demigod. Kronos and his army want revenge on the gods and want to destroy Mount Olympus while the gods are busy fight Typhon, one of the strongest Titans. Percy and his camp travel to the Empire State Building where Mount Olympus is and guard it from Kronos' army.
   Percy and his camp were out numbered by Kronos' army. In the war in Manhattan most of the demigods were defeated. They thought they had know hope and they have failed until Hades, the god of the Underworld was convinced by his son, Nico. Hades was mad at his two brothers Zeus and Poseidon for making his stay in the world of the dead, but he was convinced that if he didn't help in the war the Gods would know longer exist so he and his wife Persephone guard Olympus with the demigods. At the end Poseidon helped and stopped Typhon and the war was over. Percy was granted one wish or he can become a god. Percy declined being a god and wished that the gods must claim their children when they are 13. Percy went back and lived with his mother and he lived his normal life again.
   This book was really good because it was full of action and drama. It was really detailed so it felt like you were actually in the war. One of my favorite part was in the battle of Manhattan where there was a lot of action. The Percy Jackson & the Olympian series is full of adventure, action, drama, comedy, and romance. You should check it out!