Lovely Bones started out in a different way that I'd expected it to, and I was confused for a bit. But as the chapters went on, I started to see how everything was connected. The story didnt start off when she was alive, but when she was already murdered and in heaven. Only when she was reminiscing that I learned of how she died. Susie Salmon was raped, murdered and later after she died, he cut her body to pieces and hid them, so the police wouldn't find her remains easily. Her murderer wasn't a random guy on the street, he actually met her once!
That I really found freaky, it proves it can happen at any time. Her family was so reluctant to believe her death, and as I read, I wondered if that's what really happen when we all die. Would we all watch from above the other members of our family, always wanting to tell them what happened, but never being able to? That would be painful, and if it's really like that, then I would try not to regret anything!
Monday, April 28, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
GO ASK ALICE// :]
A lot of people have been reading Go Ask Alice, so I've decided to give it a try.
In the start, the girl seems normal when she doesn't feel like she cant fit in with her new school. But when she goes to a party and drinks a punch spiked with LSD, she finds herself hooked on drugs, and later she tries more and more powerful and addictive ( as well as dangerous) drugs. She leaves her home, and so far she and her friend are struggling to live. Thats the farthest I got up to so far, but her life has really taken a downward spiral and she's really changed from a normal-ish happy girl to someone moody depressed and always looking for drugs to get high on.
I really don't want to finish the book, just because I don't want to know the end ( but people have already spoiled the end for me ) but i don't want too know how she becomes dead.
I'll keep reading though....
In the start, the girl seems normal when she doesn't feel like she cant fit in with her new school. But when she goes to a party and drinks a punch spiked with LSD, she finds herself hooked on drugs, and later she tries more and more powerful and addictive ( as well as dangerous) drugs. She leaves her home, and so far she and her friend are struggling to live. Thats the farthest I got up to so far, but her life has really taken a downward spiral and she's really changed from a normal-ish happy girl to someone moody depressed and always looking for drugs to get high on.
I really don't want to finish the book, just because I don't want to know the end ( but people have already spoiled the end for me ) but i don't want too know how she becomes dead.
I'll keep reading though....
Sunday, April 6, 2008
CHARACTER PROFILE//CASTLE IN THE AIR
Character Profile:
Castle in the Air
Abdullah ( main character)
Gender: Male
Race: It doesn't say. It just mentions that he lives south of Ingary.
Religion: Really does not say, but he believes in what he sees and thinks.
Abdullah is the son of a late carpet merchant. He has a big family, and they are always pressuring him to get married, because he is of age. While he talks, he always talks with flattery, like compliments with words. That is how everyone talks in the place where he's from, so when Abdullah travels, he always is well liked by his polite manner and flattery. He doesn't get pushed around, but he's always nice and willing to help others and listen, until it gets out of hand or just annoys him. He always daydreams, and pretends that he's a prince or the lost son of a wealthy king, and his imagination gets him into frequent trouble.
Abdullah has a lot of courage to stand up for himself, cunning and wit. Unfortunately, he does get outwitted a lot in the book before he does much for himself.
Castle in the Air
Abdullah ( main character)
Gender: Male
Race: It doesn't say. It just mentions that he lives south of Ingary.
Religion: Really does not say, but he believes in what he sees and thinks.
Abdullah is the son of a late carpet merchant. He has a big family, and they are always pressuring him to get married, because he is of age. While he talks, he always talks with flattery, like compliments with words. That is how everyone talks in the place where he's from, so when Abdullah travels, he always is well liked by his polite manner and flattery. He doesn't get pushed around, but he's always nice and willing to help others and listen, until it gets out of hand or just annoys him. He always daydreams, and pretends that he's a prince or the lost son of a wealthy king, and his imagination gets him into frequent trouble.
Abdullah has a lot of courage to stand up for himself, cunning and wit. Unfortunately, he does get outwitted a lot in the book before he does much for himself.
Castle in the Air
Zoe: Cliche means to be overused, like a plot is guessable and obvious. (Like all those fanfictions about hs, really, its cliche...get it?)
*I still have to go to the library and borrow a new book. In the meantime, I'll still blog about Castle In the Air. It took me less than a week to finish it, so maybe it deserves some more posts about it! :D
In the end, Castle in the Air ended pretty much the same way Howl's Moving Castle did. Happy faces, good attitudes and a satisfying ending--for the characters.
Some readers(like me) might find it too repetitive. After reading Howl, I think that one type of ending is enough. Maybe even more than enough.
I don't want to put up a spoiler, but I will anyways.
--SPOILER--
Abdullah falls in love with a princess of a nearby land, named Flower-in-the-Night.
They plan to marry until she is taken away by an evil djinn.
Flower-in-the-Night's father is after Abdullah, and he doesn't believe what Abdullah says about an evil djinn. He throws him in prison, but not before telling Abdullah that his daughter was fated to marry the first man she ever saw, besides her father.
Abdullah escapes from the prison by the magic carpet sold to him by a wandering traveler in search of money.
He goes on a quest to save who he loves.
On the way he finds a genie bottle, and each day the genie is able to grant one wish. However, each wishes come with a con, so sometimes it ended up to be more trouble.
He meets a solider, who loves cats, so when they come across a mother cat and her kitten, he decides to make Abdullah take care of the cats too.
Finally, they make their way to Kingsbury, where they try to warn the King and his royal wizards. When Lettie comes (she married Sulliman) she recognizes Sophie as the mother cat. The kitten is Sophie's son, Morgan.
In the end, Howl was actually the genie in the bottle ( he was put under a spell by the djinn)
and Calcifer was the magic carpet, he was also under a spell.
The djinn turned out to have an evil brother, who forced him to do his will. That was why he was capturing people.
He was forced to do many bad things beacuse his brother held his heart ( or a piece of him) and hid it somewhere.
Abdullah helped him find it, but although the djinn was originally GOOD, he had slowly become evil and he liked it.
He could no longer be one of the good djinns.
In the end basically everyone goes back to their lives, except that Abdullah and flower-in-the-night get married.
--END SPOILER--(ohh a purple line :D)
phew, was that long!
:D
*I still have to go to the library and borrow a new book. In the meantime, I'll still blog about Castle In the Air. It took me less than a week to finish it, so maybe it deserves some more posts about it! :D
In the end, Castle in the Air ended pretty much the same way Howl's Moving Castle did. Happy faces, good attitudes and a satisfying ending--for the characters.
Some readers(like me) might find it too repetitive. After reading Howl, I think that one type of ending is enough. Maybe even more than enough.
I don't want to put up a spoiler, but I will anyways.
--SPOILER--
Abdullah falls in love with a princess of a nearby land, named Flower-in-the-Night.
They plan to marry until she is taken away by an evil djinn.
Flower-in-the-Night's father is after Abdullah, and he doesn't believe what Abdullah says about an evil djinn. He throws him in prison, but not before telling Abdullah that his daughter was fated to marry the first man she ever saw, besides her father.
Abdullah escapes from the prison by the magic carpet sold to him by a wandering traveler in search of money.
He goes on a quest to save who he loves.
On the way he finds a genie bottle, and each day the genie is able to grant one wish. However, each wishes come with a con, so sometimes it ended up to be more trouble.
He meets a solider, who loves cats, so when they come across a mother cat and her kitten, he decides to make Abdullah take care of the cats too.
Finally, they make their way to Kingsbury, where they try to warn the King and his royal wizards. When Lettie comes (she married Sulliman) she recognizes Sophie as the mother cat. The kitten is Sophie's son, Morgan.
In the end, Howl was actually the genie in the bottle ( he was put under a spell by the djinn)
and Calcifer was the magic carpet, he was also under a spell.
The djinn turned out to have an evil brother, who forced him to do his will. That was why he was capturing people.
He was forced to do many bad things beacuse his brother held his heart ( or a piece of him) and hid it somewhere.
Abdullah helped him find it, but although the djinn was originally GOOD, he had slowly become evil and he liked it.
He could no longer be one of the good djinns.
In the end basically everyone goes back to their lives, except that Abdullah and flower-in-the-night get married.
--END SPOILER--(ohh a purple line :D)
phew, was that long!
:D
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Castle In the Air
Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones is the sequel to Howl's Moving Castle. It hasn't been made into a movie(yet) but it might be.
Even though it's the sequel, it doesnt exactly follow the life of Sophie and Howl.
Instead it starts off introducing Abudullah, who lives south of Ingary, Howl's home. He encounters a magic carpet, and that leads him to finding a princess whom he falls in love with.
When he sees her again, she was taken away by an evil djinn, and he is left with nearly nothing to start off his search for her.
Howl and Sophie are introduced so far into the book that I don't feel like this should be called a sequel, just another book by the same author with shared characters.
It was short, and cliche.
I recommend it if people really do like books that are quite obvious, but if not then I wouldn't want to read it.
Even though it's the sequel, it doesnt exactly follow the life of Sophie and Howl.
Instead it starts off introducing Abudullah, who lives south of Ingary, Howl's home. He encounters a magic carpet, and that leads him to finding a princess whom he falls in love with.
When he sees her again, she was taken away by an evil djinn, and he is left with nearly nothing to start off his search for her.
Howl and Sophie are introduced so far into the book that I don't feel like this should be called a sequel, just another book by the same author with shared characters.
It was short, and cliche.
I recommend it if people really do like books that are quite obvious, but if not then I wouldn't want to read it.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Symbolism
Lord Of The Rings--Fellowship Of The Ring
Symbolism:
One symbol is the ring itself, the ring that "rules them all"-- the one Frodo has to destroy. The ring represents dark times, struggle, pain, and the side of life that isn't always good and happy. Everyone who has ever had the ring has come to ruin or near ruin. For example, Gollem or Smeagol found the ring years ago. After becoming obessed with it, he hid into the mountains, and after Frodo and company find Gollem, he hasn't healed completely, and most likely never will. The ring's power drives those who weilds it crazy for power, so crazy they would do anything. Thousands of years ago ( in the book) there was war waged between everyone in Middle-earth, dwarfs, elves, humans, wizards, etc. The war was all for the ring, because one man had become evil with it, and was trying to conquer everyone with his power.
Symbolism:
One symbol is the ring itself, the ring that "rules them all"-- the one Frodo has to destroy. The ring represents dark times, struggle, pain, and the side of life that isn't always good and happy. Everyone who has ever had the ring has come to ruin or near ruin. For example, Gollem or Smeagol found the ring years ago. After becoming obessed with it, he hid into the mountains, and after Frodo and company find Gollem, he hasn't healed completely, and most likely never will. The ring's power drives those who weilds it crazy for power, so crazy they would do anything. Thousands of years ago ( in the book) there was war waged between everyone in Middle-earth, dwarfs, elves, humans, wizards, etc. The war was all for the ring, because one man had become evil with it, and was trying to conquer everyone with his power.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Lord of the Rings : Fellowship of the Ring
Yeah, so I watched all three movies in the movie theater years ago, when they first came out. I liked it, so I'm reading the book now.
I'm at page 353, near the end of the book. So far, almost everything that I've read has been acted out by the movie. The movie actually follows the book nicely, and it doesn't cut off parts that make viewers confused.
In the book, Frodo and company have already found their way out of dark mines that have dangerous creatures and orcs inside. Now they are with elves, especially those elves who were given rings of power years ago.
Now that I read the book, I really like the way the movie portrayed the characters. I think it came out to fit perfectly, unlike some movies (I heard Twilight is going to have Cedric from Harry Potter, I think that's wrong!).
Although, when Gandalf died or "died", I'd expected a lot more from the book. After the movie, I automatically assumed that the director cut off some parts of the book, but i guess not.
The book has some boring parts that makes me want to fall asleep, but there are other chapters that sucked me in, and I just sat there, ignoring my homework and reading.
I'll finish this book by next week, and start on the sequel to Howl's Moving Castle, which is Castle In the Air.
I'm at page 353, near the end of the book. So far, almost everything that I've read has been acted out by the movie. The movie actually follows the book nicely, and it doesn't cut off parts that make viewers confused.
In the book, Frodo and company have already found their way out of dark mines that have dangerous creatures and orcs inside. Now they are with elves, especially those elves who were given rings of power years ago.
Now that I read the book, I really like the way the movie portrayed the characters. I think it came out to fit perfectly, unlike some movies (I heard Twilight is going to have Cedric from Harry Potter, I think that's wrong!).
Although, when Gandalf died or "died", I'd expected a lot more from the book. After the movie, I automatically assumed that the director cut off some parts of the book, but i guess not.
The book has some boring parts that makes me want to fall asleep, but there are other chapters that sucked me in, and I just sat there, ignoring my homework and reading.
I'll finish this book by next week, and start on the sequel to Howl's Moving Castle, which is Castle In the Air.
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