Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye 201-300
In the last 100 pages of The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Indigo decides to go to California with her friend. She wants to leave without telling anyone so she only Bex who forgets as soon as she tells her because her head is in the TV. She leave's, and while out in California she realizes she misses home and has made the wrong decision. She can't believe how stupid she was to leave her boyfriend and her loving family. As soon as she gets there she leaves. She comes home and everyone forgives her and the books over.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Flowers For Algernon 101-200
Charlie's relationship with Alice doesn't work out. He has emotional barriers when he's around her that he just can't break down. Charlie continues to recall memories of his abusive mother, his perfect sister, and his quiet father. Professors Nemur and Strauss are preparing to take Charlie and Algernon to a science conference to "display" them to the science world. Charlie doesn't feel like they're treating him as a person. He gets really upset. He thinks that Nemur and Strauss are just frauds. He realizes that they've made a huge mistake in the project; they haven't discovered whether the smartness will reverse. He freaks out and runs out of the science conference with Algernon and they go to New York. Charlie rents an apartment and meets his new neighbor, Fay. Fay is a very free-spirited, almost hippy-like, artist. She ends up sleeping with Charlie more than once as he's trying to break down his emotional barriers. He realizes that even though he's really smart intellectually, he's still at the same emotional level as he was before his surgery, and this really bothers him.
Someone Like You. P 1-100
Halley is off at summer camp when she gets a phone call. It is her best friend Scarlett telling her that her semi-secret boyfriend Michael had been killed. She then comes home to be with Scarlett although her mother is not very happy about it. Scarlett is really having trouble coping because no one even knew that her and Michael were even together. Halley is there for Scarlett but sometimes not sure how to respond to her. They go to the funeral and it is very hard for Scarlett to see Michael's exgirlfriend being sad because she was actually with Michael. After the funeral it begins to rain and as they are driving home, they see Macon, Michael's best friend, walking. They ask if he wants a ride but he says no. He seems to be very sad and upset too. When they return to school Halley runs into Macon again in the office while she is changing her schedule. They talk for awhile and Halley realizes that she is crushing on him. He later asks her to go to this party. She talks with Scarlett and they decide to go, but when they are there they cant find him. They go back home where they are talking and decide he is stupid and not worth it. Then later that night, Macon comes over and tells Halley there was a misunderstanding and he was there. They end up kissing. Then the next day Halley is doing her chores to please her mother and Macon comes over and helps her mow the lawn.
Deadline 201-301
Rudy tells Ben about how he was a child molester. Ben finally decides that he needs to start telling people about his disease. He first tells Coach and Rudy. Dallas tells Ben that she never wants to see him again. Cody takes it pretty well, but he's just kind of hurt that he didn't know about all of this sooner. Ben went to visit Rudy the next day, but he found him dead. After all this happened Ben finally told his parents about everything that has happened. His mom takes it pretty hard. Ben still has conversations with Hey-soos. Ben also ends up telling everybody in his class. The next day he comes to school, he hears that Sooner Cowans had died in a car accident.
Monday, February 20, 2012
All the Pretty Horses. P 200-300
John and Rawlins are staying at the house still and doing things with the horses to make them tame. The boss takes John aside and into the house to talk to him about all her knows horses. The boss was rather impressed by John's knowledge and asked more questions about breeding with the new horses that he was going to be getting. John was taken back to the house to talk with the boss's mom who was the Grandmother of Alejandra. John has a crush on her and they have talked a few times. He even went to a dance so he would be able to hang out with her and be around her. She comes and goes from the ranch. John always likes to see her. Her grandmother did inform John that no girl needed to get a bad reputation from a boy though and she didnt want him to do that for Alejandra. He told her he understood and was thinking to keep his distance. John keeps seeing her and after her father finds out, Mexican guards come and take the two boys to the town where Belvins stole his horse back. Jail is very rough for the boys and they are finally let out. Since they were bailed out John has to promise never to see Alejandra again. Since they boys found out Belvins died, Rawlins thought it was too much and went back to Texas. John however stayed to try to get the horses and Alejandra. They decide to meet one day in town before she goes to the ranch and here she tells him that it was her who told her father about them being together. She also says she cannot be with him. John is now pissed at the world and determined to get his horse back. He goes back to the town where they were prisoned and holds the man at gunpoint forcing him to bring him to his and Belvins horses. Even though he gets shot, he takes the captin and rides back north. He is approached by locals who take the captin but leave him alone. He finally makes it back and tries to find Belvins true horse owner but ends up getting him. Being at home makes him realize how things have changed so much and he ends up just riding his horse west into the sunset.
The Book Thief 300-400
There is snow and Liesel decides since Max can't go outside or see the snow she'll bring the snow to him. So she brings him buckets of snow and she and Max make a snowman in their basement. Soon after they made the snowman Max got very sick and had to stay in Liesel's room. When he was sick she brought him a lot of little gifts to let him know she was thinking of him. He was always asleep though. They were worried about what to do with Max if passed away but Liesel knew that he wouldn't. Some Nazis stopped into their house to check their basement and they hid Max and he wasn't found. Liesel went to steal another book from the mayor's library but this time when she stole a book there was a letter on it from the mayor's wife. The Nazis took Hans and whipped him and Liesel and Rudy went over to see if he was ok afterwards and he just kept saying how stupid he was. A group of men came to Rudy's house and they came for him. He didn't know what they wanted with him but he knew it wasn't good. He didn't end up going anywhere with them though. He stayed in his house.
Deadline 101-200
The football team ended up winning the homecoming game. Ben and Dallas have a great time at the dance and then Ben ends up staying at her house. Dallas basically tells Ben her life story. She tells him how she was raped by her uncle when she was only thirteen years old. Ben also realized how much she loved playing with Joe Henry, which was supposedly her little brother. She clarified it all and told him out Joe Henry was her son and how she had him when she was thirteen. Ben was debating whether or not he wanted to tell Dallas about his medical condition, but he decided not to because he didn't want to ruin their relationship. With the football team proceeding in the playoffs, they lost the next game that could have taken them to the state championship. Overall, Ben and Dallas' relationship is going pretty well.
Friday, February 17, 2012
The Book Thief 200-300
Hans Hubermann told Liesel that she couldn't tell anyone about the Jew staying in their basement. Max slept for three days because he was so exhausted and tired. Max tells Liesel stories about how he used to box and fight and Liesel really enjoyed hearing about Max. Max also drew many pictures and things in the basement where he was staying. Leisel and Max also both had nightmares and so they felt like that kind of connected them and they would talk about it. Rudy and Liesel were outside one day walking around and they ran in to Viktor Chemmel. He was not a very nice at all. He choked Rudy and he was being choked so hard his nose started bleeding. When Rudy got away Viktor told him that he would find him again. Rudy and Liesel went to the mayor's house and they snuck in through the library window so Liesel could steal The Whistler out of her library.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Stiff pgs. 100-200
In the next 100 pages of Stiff, the author talks of how a body can show signs of a crash. They often use the bodies to know what happened in a plane crash or car crash. In the next chapter she talks a lot about the effects of bullets and bombs on a cadaver, and it involves a lot about the army. It also talks about the crucifixation, and the effects on the body. The next disturbing chapter is about knowing if a person is dead or not. Involving live burials, and such things as that.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Deadline 1-100
Ben is a senior in high school and a legal adult. He finds out that this will be his last year, but he doesn't want to tell is family, yet the doctor does. His mom is kind of weird, and his dad is always away. Ben is very close with his little brother Cody because that's basically all he has for family. He wants to live his life to the fullest before it ends. He asks his dream girl on a date and she says yes. She then ends up asking him to homecoming. He decided that he wanted to try out for the football team. Thinking that he wouldn't even make the team, he makes it and is very good. Ben is going to start the homecoming football game because their other starter is out with a broken collarbone.
All The Pretty Horses. P 100-200
The boys are traveling and begin to see less and less civilization. Then they finally make it to Mexico and are seeing the difference in the landscape. John talks with Belvins more and finds out that he left because his stepdad was going to beat him. Rawlings still acts like he hates Belvins, but you can tell that he cares. One night there was a thunderstorm and Belvins said that it is in his family to get struck by lightning and die so he tries to find shelter. He removes all his clothes and leaves his horse while he tries to take cover. After the storm has passed, he has nothing left. All his clothes were washed away and even his horse is gone. Rawligns and John find the horse that someone had caught and kept. They decide to go and steal it back. They do, but are not too successful becuase people came after them trying to get it back. Belvins tells the boys that their horses will never outrun them and that it was his fault. He tells them to hide and he will lead the others away and meet with them later. The other boys do as he says and then keep moving to avoid any trouble. They finally come to a ranch. The boys are hired to work for on the ranch, and after a while working there, they ask if they can try to tame the wild horses that were brought off the mountains. The owner agrees and then the boys work and successfully break all the horses. People from all around come to watch becuase they are doing so good. Although the boys are successful, they wonder and hope that Belvins is okay. (AND I DO TOO!) haa.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Stiff pgs. 1-100
Stiff is quite the interesting book. In the first chapter the author talks about the human head. She goes through the many processes that anatomy students go through. She also discusses how people who work with cadavers cannot learn to personalize with them. They have to think of them as simply that: cadavers. In the second chapter she discusses the “crimes of anatomy.” She tells how anatomy began, and how it used to be frowned upon. The only cadavers aloud to practice on were people killed out of punishment for their wrongdoing. In the next chapter she talks about how cadavers are used as crash dummies. This book is really gruesome, but quite interesting at the same time.
If I Stay 200 - 234
Mia remembers some old memories she had with her family and friends. She still doesn't know what to think about her decision. Adam comes to visit her. He sits there and cries and doesn't know what to do. He holds Mia's hand while he cries. Then, Mia finds it within herself to squeeze his hand, and that means that she found a way to get back into her own body.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye 101-200
In the next one hundred pages Indigo realizes that the man gave her 2.5 million dollars. So she decides she has to take it back. Their family comes to realize that he went to Hawaii and he lives right by her father. The man doesn't take the money back and says that he gave it to her because he didn't need it and that he really wanted her to keep it. So she flies back home and ends up buying a bunch of stuff. Trevor is being really rude and is just using her money left and right. She gets really mad at him and tells him to take her home after he starts talking about Nunderwear.
Monday, February 6, 2012
All the Pretty Horses. P 1-100
John Grady Cole just had his grandpa pass away. He was close with him, and really didnt have anyone else. His mom had moved to California to do acting stuff, and his father had just recently returned. His dad tried to get his mom to come back to San Angelo before, but she didnt want to. So he left and little John didnt really have anyone. He stayed at the hotel with his grandpa and learned what he knew from him. When his father returned, John didnt really know what to think about talking and being around him. He told his dad that he wanted to take the hotel that his grandpa had run, but his father siad he had no control over it. It was his mothers decision, and she wanted to sell it and live in California where she would be able to act. After talking with his friend Rawlings, John decided that there was nothing there for him. He and Rawlings decided that they were going to get there horses and ride them to Mexico. They got their things and that is what they did. They had been going for a couple days and they realized that someone was following them. They hid out and waited and realized it was a young boy. They asked what he wanted and when they had talked to him for a little realized they didnt want much to do with him and kept going. The next day, they knew that he was still following so they waited. He showed up again and after talking to him for a bit, they decided that they would let him go with them. So the three of them are riding their horses across Texas trying to make it to Mexico. Rawlings has a feeling about the boy that's now traveling with them, but John doesnt seem to mind him too much.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Flowers for Algernon 1-100
Charlie Gordon is a middle-aged guy who works at a bakery and attends a school for mentally challenged adults. He has an especially low IQ, so he is going to undergo a special procedure that is supposed to make him smarter. He goes into the lab to meet Professor Nemur and Doctor Strauss, the two doctors that are going to be performing the procedure. After he has the surgery, he thinks it didn’t work. Charlie doesn’t feel like he’s any smarter than before. He races through mazes against a mouse called Algernon, and Algernon beats him almost every time. He feels like if a mouse can beat him, he’s stupid. However, the doctors tell him that Algernon underwent the same procedure, and it made him smarter. This makes Charlie a little more optimistic. Charlie keeps getting gradually smarter without realizing it. He still thinks he’s stupid, but the reader can notice that his spelling and grammar are getting better. He develops a crush on his teacher from his old school, Mrs. Kinnian. They went out on a few dates, but Charlie still hasn’t developed very much emotionally, and it’s hard for him to connect with a woman on that level. Before the procedure, Charlie found it hard to recall his past, but now he’s finally starting to remember things. From the memories, you can tell that his mother and sister were abusive to him when he was a child, and his father was the only person who really cared for him.
The Book Thief 100-200
For Hitler's birthday Hans and Rosa's children came back. Hans and his son don't get along very well because his son is a very strong Nazi while Hans is more just doing it for his families and his own safety. They ended up getting in to an argument about it and his son left. For Hitler's birthday they had a book burning and this was one of Liesel's favorite things because this gave her the opportunity to be a book thief yet again. She stole a book at the book burning and thought that someone saw her, but they never came after her so she didn't worry about it. Papa found out she was stealing the books but he wasn't mad. One day she was delivering laundry to the mayor's wife when she showed her a whole library full of books. Liesel had never seen anything like it and she was so thankful to the mayor's wife. Liesel and Rudy stole some apples with another group of kids one time and they knew they weren't supposed to but the food tasted so good they couldn't help it. One day a man named Walter Kugler asked Hans if he still played the accordion which Hans knew meant that someone needed his help. Hans said yes and agreed to keep Max Vandenburg, a Jew and one of his friend's sons, with him in his house. Liesel didn't know what was going on but Papa told her that she needed to keep this man secret and she couldn't tell anyone or horrible things would happen. Max was very thankful for Hans and Rosa for keeping him because he knew how dangerous it was for all of them.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye 1-100
It starts with Indigo in working in a local diner during breakfast because she has to go to school every day the same people come in. Indigo can tell what and why people order what they do and she studies the person daily. Funny, Nick, Joe, and Leroy come in the same time everyday. Indigo also has a boyfriend and even though her family may not be the richest family that goes to her school she is still perfectly content where she is at. She also wants to be a waitress the rest of her life. She is afraid to tell people because she thinks that they will judge her for not wanting to do something with her life. Until one day a good looking man on a Vespa comes in. This man only orders a coffee. That has never happened to Indigo, so she finds it extremely weird. She can' quite figure out whats wrong with the man. He comes back in everyday and orders the same thing. He never talks, until one day when Indigo calls him out on smoking. He breaks down and tells her that he is tired of being stuck in a rut, so Indigo tells him he should quit and go find something that he could have fun with everyday. He leaves, she goes to school. Indigo then hears that he came back and delivered an envelope. Whats in it? 2 Million dollars. He gave her 2 million dollars in one little manila envelope. What is she going to do with it? Give it back?
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