The Devil's Arithmetic Finale

Summary:
We start off with a young girl named Hannah. Hannah Stern who lives with her parents and brother. One evening they attend a special dinner in which Hannah does not want to go. When she gets there she has to hear stories from the Holocaust which bore her. As she excuses herself from the dinner table and opens a door, she is taken back in time to 1942 in Poland. She insist that her name is Hannah and she lives in the United States. As she's back in time, she tries to tell the Jews what to do because she knows the story. As she works her ways through the days in the camp, she meets a lot of people she can relate to. They also do some Jews would do like steal, hide, etc. As time passes, Hannah and her friends are separated into two groups. Since Hannah knows the outcome, she tries to change it and as she does, she is taken back to present day. How did everything happen? Read it.


Genre:
The genre of The Devil's Arithmetic is historical-fiction. How can I tell? Well, it takes place back when the Holocaust began and ended. One way you know it was a historical book. Fiction on the other hand you can tell because how can Hannah be transported back into time to Poland in 1942? Weird. Maybe the names the author used were real but we don't know for a fact. And some of the things Hannah does with her friends in the camp, Jews in real life could've done them like steal and hide.

Devil's Arithmetic

Summary:

In my book a girl named Hannah lives with her jewish family. One day she had a special dinner with her whole family.  She drank some of the wine and she got drunk.  She walked to her room and as she was wandering around the room, she knockout and went in a different world. into a different world back into 1933-1945. Was it a dream? She faded into Germany back when the Holocaust was starting.  She just got captured by the Germans and is on her way to what she thinks its a concentration camp. Her and her family were on the verge of getting married but everything changed because they were captured by the Germans. 

Plot:

Their is the main character in the book, The Devil's Arithmetic , goes by the name Hannah Dreads. Taking place during the Holocaust,  she goes back in time to find out the truth about the Jews. I can't really say much about the climax because in the book we haven't read to that point in the book. But what I can say is she's going back in time to try and figure out the meaning of why Germany is doing this to the Jews. That's when you start to see the rising action.

The Holocaust

I seriously think that many people could've changed and stand up for the Jews.  Problem is was that maybe they were frightened of what may of had happened to them if they did. Hitler and the Nazis had control of over mostly the entire continent of Europe. They pretty much had control over everything and everyone.  They probably thought on what they would have to go through if they tried to help the Jews. Many others probably didn't know what would happen to the Jews. Though some people did stand up for them. Oskar Schindler was one of them. He used his big factories as a safe zone for some of the Jews. Even though he was a Nazi, he really didn't like the way the Germans treated the Jews. That's when he started those safe zone factories. To be honest, I probably would be a bystander. I wouldn't want to put mine of my family's life in danger. Maybe if I could've started a big organization, then maybe I would try to stand up for the Jews.

Getting Out Of "Period 8"

Summary on the Book:

Paul Baum, since his freshman year, has always told the truth. He learned that no matter what, he had to tell the truth. But after breaking up with his girlfriend Hannah and attending a class with his teacher Mr. Logsdon in which students can express their feelings, he discovers that sometimes the truth can cause problems, and not just minor ones. But after people start telling the truth, Paul, Hannah, and others are being pursued by the police. For what? They don't know. Or do they? The only thing they know is that they can't go to jail. Little do they know that what lies ahead, what they are going to find out,  they might already know. But what could it be though?


Note and Notice:

One signpost in which I want to talk about is a Memory Moment. If you DON'T know what a Memory Moment is when you are reading and the author interrupts the action to tell you a memory. After Paul find out what telling the truth can do, he recalls when him and Hannah broke up. This might be important to him because he might still like Hannah. It might also be important because in what he discovered, he can probably get something out of it. But I don't think that the theme will come up this early in the book.

Workers' Rights: My Thoughts

• While I was reading "Fight For Fair Treatment of Workers: Don't Buy Nike",  I found that the argument was that workers weren't getting paid enough and were mistreated. They were paid only $1.25 a DAY. That's only 2 meals a day of chicken, beans, and rice. I think that that's unfair because you really can't provide for your family with that kind of paying job. Plus if you're children or even you have medical problems, that's even MORE money. Like seriously, I really learned that Nike can give contracts to LeBron James and Tiger Woods worth millions of dollars, but can't provide for workers. That's really upsetting to me.
    
  After reading "The Sweatshop",  I had notice that the argument is that the narrator is struggling to keep herself focus on her job. The narrator considers themselves as a machine working in a factory. They also describe themselves as not having feeling and thoughts. They were both different from one another because in the poem it's someone expressing themselves about workers and in the article it's basic facts about a companies work environment. After reading the articles and then the poem I could connect to both of them.
  
  

  
  

Going To "Period 8."

 Summary:

Okay, I'm going to be honest. This book is... AMAZING. So far. At first it was (again going to be honest) a bit disturbing, but I handled to control myself and got past it. Back to the "mini" summary. Period 8 is a class in which you're free to do pretty much anything. The only thing is, you have to be telling the truth. Paul, or Paulie, Baum is always telling the truth, no matter if it's his girlfriend , friends, or anyone. He tells his girlfriend, Hannah, that he had cheated on her with another girl. He then turns to his teacher, Mr. Logsdon, which has an open class in which students can express their feelings and their emotions. From the first day he joins the class, he spends his Period 8 with Mr. Logs. That's when he finds something out.  Paulie learns that sometimes the truth sometimes can lead to bad things. He then recalls when he broke up with Hannah.

Genre:

Many people might ask, "Why don't you talk about a genre of the book you're reading?" Well now you can tell what I am going to talk about in this mini subject. Genre. The Genre of this book is Realistic Fiction. This book has a great great feel to it and makes you think that it's real life. But It's not. That's a good thing about the book. Think about it? A school with similar rules. A student going through the struggle that Paulie is going trough. A class in which you can express you're feelings. That can happen in real life. Chris Crutcher, hand downs, makes you feel some type of way. That's why I would want to read more of his books.

Twisted Summary

Tyler Miller who is in high school, used to be the kind of kid that would lay back and fade away from people. Ever since he got caught doing graffiti on the school, and having to do outdoor work to pay it off, people see him different now. One of the people that sees him different is the Queen Bee, or his crush, Bethany Milbury. Everything seems to go well until she invites him to a party in which he has to drive her and her "date" back home. After that people start thinking of Tyler as a bad person for blaming that he posted in the internet "naked" pictures of Bethany. Was it him? Was it a host? Find out for yourself and see what lies ahead for Tyler.

You might already know what the conflict is, but shh don't tell anyone. If you DON'T, you're in luck because I'm going to tell you and give you examples, so don't complain (if you are). You might already know what one conflict is, Man vs. Society. Let me give you an example. He's going through suicidal thoughts. That mean he's going through bullying and/or something at home that's making him think of all these thoughts. Now do you have an idea? Okay good.

Call Of Duty

Wow, just WOW. This article left me speechless. The way that they give details that make you feel just if you were there in the scene. In the beginning it started out slow, like mostly every book, but once Jose, Zenit, and the team started the searched for the explosives, that's when it caught my eye. Zenit finding explosive after explosive. Until Jose took a step and everything turned black. Hearing about his early life and what he had to go through as a little kid really got me thinking of people that who didn't go through their life like that and still don't do anything with their life. One connection came to my head when they said that Jose had wanted to be back with Zenit. My uncle had to move back to Mexico and he had left his dog in Florida and he had told us he had miss him. This is one article I loved.

OMG, Twisted.

Summary:

Tyler Miller is a senior in high school and trying to get through the difficulties in his life. He's really not an outgoing person, always fading in the back ground. He is just trying to get through his final year but there is many things in his mind. Suicidal is one of them but with many things on his mind he decides to tag a wall. Finally gets caught and is going to start to work to get out of trouble. That must suck! I'm still curious what awaits him in the future.


Character Analysis: 

I think that Tyler is a depressed and very stressful kid. I believe he is like this because of the things he does and thinks about. In the beginning of the book it talks about how he got arrested and how everyone would back away from him. "It was like I was wearing a strapped bomb on my waist."What I think that means is people don't see him fitting in anywhere after his arrest.

Still With Twisted.

Again With A Minor Summary: 


SO. After my last summary, I've been getting into this book. Tyler, in my opinion, has been changing. Ever since he got caught tagging and having to do work has change the kid. Tyler is starting to lie this community service because of Bethany, his "crush". But her brother Chip tries to make Tyler's life miserable. Tyler gets all excited when Bethany invites him to a party. Everything goes well in the party until Chip tells Tyler to drive him, Bethany, and Chip's friend Parker. Bethany and Parker are making out! On snap. The next day pictures of Bethany appear on the Internet of her posed and naked. Everyone is blaming Tyler but little do they know it's him. 




Point  of View:

The Point of View for Twisted is 1st Person Point of View. How can I tell? I'll tell you just keep on reading this. In the book, Tyler quoted, "I am filled with rage." He had said that after he saw Bethany and Parker making out when he was driving them home. It also uses me, I, we, mine, etc. Happy that I told you the point of view? Good.

The Treasure of Lemon Brown

Greg Ridley, a failing student in what the subject is known as math. His dad pushes him to try to do better so he won't fail the grade. After school he then decides to take a walk and go into a abandoned building. As he walking he see people but just continues to walk. He enters a room and he hears what appear to be a male yet Greg doesn't have sight in him. Then he appears and the man is wearing rags but proudly says his name, "Lemon Brown." They continue to talk when suddenly they hear other voices talking about Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown recognizes them as thugs that always go after him and both Greg and Mr. Brown hide. As the thugs try to look for the treasure of Lemon Brown, they search everywhere for him and Lemon Brown tries to scare them off until finally they left. Lemon Brown then tells Greg to go on home but to wait until the thugs leave. When Greg gets home, he rings the door bell and smiles knowing the lecture his dad is going to give him.

My reactions towards this book wasn't anything big but just WOW. A well known artist to be homeless? That left me surprised. I mean I kinda can already imagine that because many people were famous and lost all their money and are left with nothing or even just a little bit of it. Greg? Oh yeah him. In the beginning of the book he really didn't care about what anyone said about him. After meeting Lemon Brown, it all changed.I truly believe that Lemon Brown flipped a switch in Greg's mind.

Summary on "Blindness"

Blindness

After one man becomes blind in rush hour, the chain reaction begins when he goes to his ophthalmology. When a doctors wife and her husband are forced to move from the clinic, she joins him even though she is not blind like the others.  Days after the situation starts to get more and more worse, demanding intercourse for food and other horrible things that are similar. They somehow escape the city and find out that everyone is blind. Internees , the doctor, and the wife must stick together to survive as they put the doctors wife in charge since she is not blind and is wise. Will they survive? Will they not?