Goodbye

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The Three Favorite Things About My Book

In my book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, one of my three favorite things about my book is the style of writing.  It was easy to understand.  Also, I liked how the author gave enough information to give a full understanding of what was happening, but not too much that it bored me.
My second favorite thing about my book is the information given about the characters.  In my book, I really liked how the author gave plenty of information about the characters.  This made the book very interesting. It also helped me think of how I would react to the situations in the book if I were one of the characters.
My final favorite thing about my book is the ending.  (Don't worry, It's not like I hated the book so much that I wanted it to be over.)  Though I don't want to spoil the book, I liked the ending very much.    

New Book

I have finished The Scarlet Pimpernel and I am now starting Animal Farm. I heard that is is a very good book, and it is about communist animals.

Quote Number Two

      “Good literature substitutes for experience which we have not ourselves lived
through.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
      In this quote I think the speaker means that good literature makes you feel like you are experiencing what is in the book. By saying that it substitutes for experiences, good literature has to be very immersing. This applies to books that take you to time periods that you will never live in and places you will never visit.
      This quote applies to the book I am reading, The Scarlet Pimpernel, because I have never been to the place in the book and I will never live in the time period in the book. My book takes place in France, where I have never been to, and in the 1790s, which is a time period I will never live in. Also, my book is "good literature" because it is very immersing and well written.

Theme Songs

For the sound track for Lord of the Flies, the first song is "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay because during the beginning of the book, Ralph "used to rule the world" as the leader of the island, until Jack split off and everyone became savages.
The second song is "The Floor is on Fire" by Pitbull Ft. Machel Montano & Lil Jon. This is related to the book because Jack "misbehaves" by lighting the island on fire to make Ralph give up his hiding spot.
The third song is "One of These Days" by Pink Floyd. It has to do with the book because all the lyrics in the song are "one of these days I'm gonna chop you up in to little pieces", and Roger "chopped" Piggy "up into little pieces" by throwing a rock at him.
Finally, the last song is "Fanfare From Also sprach Zarathustra" by R. Strauss, which relates to the end of the book, which I wound say so I don't give away the plot.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

So far in The Scarlet Pimpernel, many aristocrats are being executed in France.  A man named Bibot is trying to keep them in France but a man under the secret identity of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" is trying to help them escape.  I am king of having a hard reading this book because it has a lot of dialog, probably because it was originally written as a play.  Aside from that, the book is quite good and is very exciting.

New Book

Well, I finished Lord of the Flies and it was very good, but kind of weird.  Basically, the kids divide themselves, abandon all forms of organization and become savages.  I won't give away any more of the plot, but I can tell you it really ends up being nothing like "Flight 29 Down", the show I mentioned earlier.  Now, I'm starting The Scarlet Pimpernel, which is about the French revolution.  

Quote

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” - C. S. Lewis.
      In this quote, Lewis means that literature doen't just tell a story about reality, but it makes reality more real.  When he says that "it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become" he means that literature makes reality more interesting than it would be without it.  Also, by saying that "It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides" he means that literature is very important for ceratain parts of life.
      This quote relates to my book, Lord of the Flies, because my book doesn't only tell describe a story about children becoming savages on and island.  The story adds to the my knowledge of what it would be like to be stranded on an island.  Before reading, I never really thought of how being stranded on an island would turn people into savages.

Chapter 1

After the first chapter, this book is beginning to remind me of a 30 episode television series called "Flight 29 Down" that was shown from 2005 to 2007.  It is about a group of teenagers that are stuck on a Pacific island after a plane crash.  I am almost certain that much of the idea for the show was taken from the book.  If you want to learn more about the show, here's the Wikipedia article:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_29_Down.  Back to the book, after being in a plane crash with no surviving adults, two of the boys on the island, one nicknamed "Piggy" and the other named Ralph, they talk for a while .  Then, Ralph finds a conch shell and blows into it to summon the other boys wandering the island for a meeting.  The boys decide to pick Ralph as a leader.  When the meeting is over, Ralph and two boys named Simon and Jack come with them on an expedition to examine their surroundings and comfirm that there is nobody on the island.  During this expedition, they find a piglet, which they later regret for not killing it for meat.       

Starting the First Book

Today I am starting to read Lord of the Flies by William Golding.  I chose this book because my mother read it in high school and says it is a very good book. 

The book is about British school-aged boys that, after a plane crash, are stuck on a desert island.  It will challenge me because I rarly read realistic fiction and read more mystery and historical fiction books than anything else.  I hope this will be a very good book.             

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Over the course of the next month or so, I will be posting about the books I am reading in Miss K's English class.  Check my blog to see what I'm reading.