the girl who fell from the sky

          I finished the girl who fell from the sky a few weeks ago. I thought that it was a really good book. At times it did get boring though. It was about a girl who is half black and half white. She went through life not fitting in because she had no true group to fit into. It was around a time when people were really racist. And she only had one white friend.

She was a straight A student who was acting like a slut in order to get guys to like her and it did work but others didn't like it. She was ridiculed a lot because she was half black and half white with blue eyes but dark skin. in some ways I can relate to her because I am also half white and half black and people don't believe when I say that I am half black because I look white. The same thing is with my mom who is from Jamaica. Whenever she tells anybody where she from they never believe her because she has white skin.

          Sometimes I wonder what her life would have been like if she wasn't half white how girls would treat her because to some being mixed is a bad thing you’re either black or you are white.

        I felt bad for the girl sometimes because she had a hard childhood no matter how good her grades were. This was a coming of age novel because it really showed how this girl went through a really hard life and how she grew up learning the true meaning of life.

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

        

          This book is about a girl who mom has died and her dad is back in Denmark so she lives with her grandma and her aunt Loretta. As she is growing up she is experiencing new things about life and school. She dated and has been bullied a bit too, just like any other teenager. Ash she meets new people she is learning about life in new ways.

         I have noticed a lot of racism in this book. The girl is a mix of black and white so she is dark and has blue eyes. People aren’t sure if she is black or white. There are a lot of racist remarks about white people and Negros (clean version). How they are mean or hang out with only those people and just hate each other in general. There is a lot of enmity between characters. It reminds me of a show called everybody hates Chris. It was about a black boy living in Bed Stuy and went to school across the borough. He was the only black kid in the school so all of the white kids made mean jokes about him all the time. They relate because they both show how kids can be racist no matter how old or young.  

           I also noticed that the main character changed a lot. She gets straight A’s in school but wears tight clothing so that guys would notice her. Even though she is a smart person she didn’t have to dress like a slut in order to get a guy to like her.

          As I continue the book I hope to read for more issues about life and growing up.

Willow #2

        I just finished reading Willow and I thought the ending was really good. Willow found out that her brother cries at night from her parent’s death. She also found out that her brother doesn’t trust her anymore that he hates her for what happened in a way. Willow and Guy has fallen in love with each other and willow regrets every moment she cuts herself. Guy has helped her more that she is almost completely clean.

        

          I thought that this book was really good because I taught me the life of some people who lives are so bad that they hurt themselves just to feel better. I think that if that had happened to me I would feel the same way but I wouldn’t cut myself, if I am upset and want to feel better I have people around me who will comfort me. If I were in her shoes I would realize that it wasn’t my fault my parents decided to each get drunk with a 16 year old girl who only has her permit and has to drive on a stormy night. It just spells disaster. To me this book tells me that I should be happy with my life because there are others who go through pain and torture all the time every day.

Willow

        I am reading a book called willow. It is about a girl named Willow who is an orphan because both of her parents died in a car crash as she was driving. That night they were drunk. After they died she was so depressed her grades started dropping and most importantly she started cutting herself. She cut her arms her legs and even her stomach once. She says that when she feels hatred for herself and anger she dug a blade wherever there was a clean spot.

       

       She met this guy named Guy, he hated what she was doing to herself but he can’t just leave her alone with this. He started to help her through everything but it didn’t work for a while. Willow also has a brother that doesn’t know she cuts herself. As I keep reading I hope to figure out more about her and Guy and her brother too.

Much ado about nothin

I thought that the play much ado about nothing was really great. I love how they modernized it to appeal to teenagers more, because they wanted us to understand the story better. I did understand the story better, I understood about the pain and love that people went through.

The story to me was about trust and love. When the man didn’t believe his lover when she said that she didn’t cheat on him when she didn’t, he didn’t believe her. I thought that was really wrong for him to do that because he loved her so much and she loved him back, she was set up for this to happen. In the end when he found out that everything was a lie his fiancé was already “dead”. He felt so guilty and so upset he agreed to marry another woman whom in the end ended up to be her.

To me this play was phenomenal, I really understood the story better than I would but it came out really good anyway.

romeo and juliet

As we are reading Romeo and Juliet I notice that Romeo seems to be really confused about how he feels. He says that he is in love with Rosaline but she doesn’t love him back. He says that she is the most beautiful girl in the world but she hath Dianes wit. She never wants to get married nor have children. To him this is torture, he wants her as a lover but she doesn’t.

I think that Romeo is over reacting, I already know about the story I know that when he meets Juliet he instantly falls in love with her. Romeo is being over dramatic; he thinks that his life is over as Rosaline does not love him. I think he should just get over her because he knows that it’s not going to happen. Romeo is just being a over dramatic person not realizing that he still has his whole life ahead of him and that he is going to meet someone new.

Water for Elephants

I have just finished the book Water for elephants. It was about a man in his 90s who is remembering back to the time when he carried water for elephants at the circus. When he was 19 his parents died in an accident. He was so upset he ran away and found a traveling circus the Benzini brothers’ most spectacular show on earth. It was in the 1930s when this all took place. He met a girl that he fell in love with instantly. But she was married to another man. He was a very violent man. as time went by they got closer and closer. And when her husband beat her one day she left him and went to the man that was in love with her. In the end they ended up together until she died 50 years later.

       I thought that this book was really addicting I couldn’t take my eyes off of the screen (was read on kindle) it was a very heartfelt and loving book. As this man is dying of old age he is remembering the days when his life ended and began again. I felt like I was in the story the entire time as I kept reading it. This book was so good I recommend it to everyone.