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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Breaking Dawn, By Stephenie Meyers, SPOILER ALERT!!!!

             I was reading the book, “Breaking Dawn”, by Stephanie Meyer. This book was the last of the twilight saga series. This book was about how Bella   gets married to Edward so she can become a vampire, just like him. After the wedding, they went to Esme's private island for their honeymoon. However, during their honeymoon, but knowing that vampires can reproduce when having coitus with a human being, they had a half human and half vampire baby girl named Renesmee.  After giving birth to the rapid growing child, Bella became a vampire. However, Irina (another vampire that wants revenge on Bella) told the Volturi that they had a vampire baby, which is against the vampire rules. But, they actually didn’t, they had a half-human half-vampire, which is technically not against the rules. While reading, I noticed that a lot of things that I didn’t expect actually happened, but also things that I did expect to happen.            There was a lot of things that I didn’t expect to happen. One example is that there “werewolves” aren’t actually werewolves, they are actually shape-shifters. Another example is when Alice left because the Volturi were coming. At first, I thought that was really mean of her and Jasper to leave but in the end, it made sense because it was for a good cause. In fact, I definitely did not expect Irina to tell the Volturi because I didn’t think she would go that far, but obviously I was mistaken.  Moreover, when Irina lied to the Volturi, I thought they were going to punish her by just beating her up as a warning but instead, they actually killed her, which really surprised me because I was expecting Bella or one of the other witnesses or vampires to die, not her. Furthermore, I was the most surprised when Bella and Edward and their allies didn’t fight the Volturi. I was surprised because I thought that the Volturi was going to kill Renesmee because they thought she was only a vampire, but they actually gave Carlisle a chance to explain what was going on. Overall, I thought that a lot of surprising events occurred while reading this book.            Although a lot of unexpected things happened, things that I did expect also happened. For example, I had a feeling that someone would die because I knew the Volturi were very violent. Adding on, I also knew that Bella would improve her control over her shield because I knew that she would get angry while with the Volturi, which makes her shield stronger. Lastly, I also expected the Cullen family, werewolves, and some of other vampires were going to try to fight the Volturi because I knew they would piss them off with their comments about killing the baby. Overall, a few things that I expected actually did happen.            All in all, this book was a very interesting and entertaining book. I expected and didn’t expect some events to occur. Overall, this was a good ending to this awesome series.  

            

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Blog Review, "Bossypants, by Tina Fey" By Annalise Edwards

             While reading blogs, I came across Annalise Edwards’ blog post, "Bossypants" by Tina Fey. She talks about the book and what it is about. The book is about the famous comedian named Tina Fey. She talks about how it was in high school and how she became famous. However, she talks about how she had to deal with the cyberbullying and sexism. Adding on, Annalise thought that it was not fair that when a non-famous person gets bullied like that, everyone freaks out and helps them out, meanwhile, when it’s a famous person, everyone just leaves it for them to figure out themselves. I agree with Annalise, which is one of the reasons why I chose her blog post. I think that it is unfair to celebrities and that they should be treated as a normal person would’ve been treated.
            Although I did not read this book, I can agree with most of the things Annalise mentioned in her blog post. For example, when she talked about how many celebrities get bullied but no one does anything to help them. I agree with her because I too think it’s unfair because many people think that it’s okay that a celebrity gets bullied because every celebrity has “haters”. Adding on, I agree with her when she says, “Just because a person's face is on a couple screens a couple of times a year doesn't mean that they don't have actual feelings that actually get hurt sometimes. No one ever seems to think about that, or even cares to wonder if they're getting affected by it in any way”. Overall, most of her claims or questions is similar to what I would have wrote.
            The way Annalise summarized the book made me want to read it too. When she talked about how the book tells the story of how Tina Fey became famous, or how high school was for her, that really made me want to know more specific details, thus, I wanted to read the book even more than before. Adding on, the way she described what Tina Fey mostly talked about in her book also wanted to make me read it because it seemed like a funny book. For example,  when she said, “As for the sexism Fey describes in the book, because her whole attitude towards negative actions comes across in a smartass fashion, she somewhat disses the men who had wronged her, putting in full-on detail why their way of thinking had been wrong, and she metaphorically laughs in their faces since it was because she fought her way against them that she reached her goal: even moderate success on television”, that made it seem like the book, most likely, talked about her love life and had a few funny jokes too. Also when she said, “By including these things in her book, she proves (or at least proved to me) why sexist is no way to be when it comes to the success of a show-all you need is at least a couple outstanding actors or actresses, and you'll end up with a smile on your face”, that made me think more of how Tina Fey dealt with the sexism and cyberbullying, which made me want to read it even more. Overall, after reading this blog post, I no longer think that this book is boring, in fact, I think it sounds interesting, so I will read it.

            All in all, I really liked reading Annalise Edwards’ blog post because it was easy to connect to. In addition, her attitude throughout the blog post really helped me understand what she was thinking. Overall, I think Annalise did a very good job on this blog post.

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer, SPOILER ALERT

  I am currently reading the book "Breaking Dawn" by Stephanie Meyer. In this book, Bella   gets married to Edward so she can become a vampire, just like him. After the wedding, they went to Esme's private island for their honeymoon. However, during their honeymoon, but knowing that vampires can reproduce when having coitus with a human being, they had a half human and half vampire baby girl named Renesmee.  After giving birth to the rapid growing child, Bella became a vampire. She had changed in so many different ways, like she is stronger, faster, thirstier, etc. I think that she is no longer herself, that she is like a new Bella. 
  Bella had changed a lot since becoming immortal. She has mostly changed physically, she become stronger, faster, colder, her voice has become bell-toned, huge temper, hungrier for blood, and her eyes are no longer brown, they are red. Adding on, she no longer shows emotions, like blushing, crying, or just the things that show her emotions, like her heart racing, get face becoming paler, stomach growling when she is hungry, yawning when she is tired, etc. However, after she changed, it affected but only her, but everyone else, like Jacob, he no longer loves her, he loves Renesmee. Also Charlie now knows what's going on with all of them being "unnatural". Edward had also changed, he no longer hesitates to kiss her. He also doesn't have to go easy on her, like when they make love, hug, run, basically everything that he couldn't do when she was human is what he does now. In addition, he gets along with Jacob, and Jacob gets along with everyone else. Overall, I think she changed, which also changed her surroundings.
  In conclusion, Bella had changed physically and mentally overall. This, everyone else   changes too in different ways than before she was human.