Fault in Our Stars

In this book club book The Fault in our Stars by, John Green is about a grirl named Hazel who has a very deadly form of cancer in her lungs. This type of cancer causes her to carry around a bottle of hair with her. Because of this she cannot go to school or do any other activities that usual 16 year olds do. Her life is very anticlimactic, filled with T.v shows and cancer groups. Then she meets Augustus Waters,  who had just recoverd fro cancer. He teaches her how to live, think, love and dream like she never thought she would be able to in her life. Between various deadly experinces with he rcancer, Augustus takes her on journeys that she never forgets. They fall head over heels for each other with both of their passionate love of reading and short time they have to live as well. They tae each other on their journeys into each other's lives full of tragedies, joy and deaths. 


In this book the author goes very deep into Hazels life an dinto her daily activities, and what she felt about her disease. When the author takes us on Hazels ride through life, we see very clearly what a cancer patient has to sacrifice when they develop this disease. I think this helps our world connect with loved ones who are getting this disease. It helps us know how to connect with them in ways that people might not know how to. Cancer patients at this young age not only give up their education but also give up their social life. They are isolated by their medications, doctors, cancer groups, and parents. They are limited as to what they can do. I think that this book helps us know what exactly patients with cancer are going through, and what we could do to help them through their painful life. 

Elsewhere

The book that I'm currently reading is a book called Elsewhere, by ..... IN this book a girl named Liz, who's about 14 years old is killed in a biking accident. She wakes up not knowing where she is, and is apparently on a boat which reads the Nile. She discovers that this boat is full of adventures. She soon realizes that the boat is taking her to a place called Elsewhere. This place (which she soon finds out) is a place where people go after they die. They start to age backwards and eventually start a new life as a new born on Earth after their designated time in Elsewhere. When Liz arrives in Elsewhere, she's heartbroken. Even though she has her grandmother who died a few years ago from cancer to look after her, so missed Earth desprately. She spent all her time watching over her parents, friends and relatives, that just made her more homesick each day. She is stuck in a pit of sadness and thinks she will never be able to move on with her life.

I think that what Liz is experincing is unreal. YOu are picked up from your life in Earth at a very young age and placed in a new world with new people and a new way of life is exposed to you. I think though that watching over everyone you once new on Earth is going to do her no good. I think that it's a  waste of time and that she is observing people that she can never know or see again in her life span. All in all I think she should eventually get over it and start a new life or she will get nowhere because she;s not even trying.

The Fault in Our Stars

The book I've currently been reading is called "The Fault in Our Stars" by, John Green is about the life threatening disease, Cancer. Thsi book is a beautifully crafted book about 2 teengers who are going through diseasea that they will probably not survive from. The narreator, a 16 year old year old girl named Hazel, is struggling from lung cancer, where her lungs fill up with fluid because her lung tissue is not strong enough to keep it out. Her life was a stopped in motion since she was 13 years old, when she was diagnosed. Now her days were filled iwth T.V shows, and endless reading. Then she fell in love with Augustus Waters, a surviver of cancer. During his cancer chemo, the doctors were forced to amputate his leg. He has an attachable leg that now replaces that dead leg. As Hazel falls in love with Augustus, he makes her feel like her life is worth something. They go on journeys together, and suffer together. As Augustus, catches cancer again, Hazel is left to wonder if she can love Augustus, even though he's growing sicker and dying, or should she let him go. 

This story is very emotional. I fell that the author is trying to teach us something very important. I think he is trying to teach us that life is very precious. IN this story, Hazel in teh beginning was the one having major health problems. Augustus was there to take care of her, and Hazel got used to that. When Augustus started becoming weaker an weaker from his cancer, Hazel didn't know what to do. I think that Hazel was getting used to the idea that Augustus would always be her care taker boyfriend. I think that when Augustus developed the cancer reappearance, it took her by surprise and worried her. I think that a lot of people in the world throw their lives away, when so many teens are struggling with life threatening disease's and wishing that they could just attend school, or travel. They just wish that they could have a normal life, when so many people just take their lives for granted.

House Rules

This book that I have just started reading is called House Rules by Jodi Picoult. This book is about a boy who was born with Aspergers. He was diagnosed with this disease at age 5. His mom, has raised him along with his younger alone. Her husband left them when he complained that Jacob, the boy with  Aspergers was too hard to control was too much for the husband to handle. In this book Jacob is intensely involved mentally in crime T.V shows and the physics of it as well. When a murder happened in his town, Jacob goes and looks at the crime scene. He has more intellectual reasoning about the murder person who was assigned to the murder. After Jacob gives his opinion on how the man had died, the investigators decided that he was the murderer. They think that because he has Aspergers  syndrome and they feel as though they can put him in a category since he is dianosed with this disease.

I think that it is not okay to categorize people who have certain diseases because of how their brains work and process information. I think that people need to think about how they are categorizing certain people into certain positions in their lives. I feel that the investigators are taking advantage of Jacob, and he physically cannot realize that they are doing that to him. I think that society (maybe without knowing it) puts certain people int positions where they cannot get themselves out of. I think that if we stop putting labels on people, we could look at people for just who they are and not how they are categorized.

Sold

The book that I just started reading is called Sold by, Patricia McCormick is about a young girl named Lakshmi who is sold into prositition. Since I am only partly into teh book I have only gotten to a certain point. Lakshmi has just come from her house on the mountain to a large city to maybe riches. Her family is very very pour and her mother has just remarried. He is a very forceful man. Her mother feels powerless around him. She does what he tells her to do, and is very obedient. The man she has remarried to is a man who gambles too much, and gambles their spendings away, so now his step-duaghter has to go work in the city. She doesn't know thats he is going to work to be a prostitute though. She thinks that she is going to work in the city to be a maid for another mother. She is brought to the city by many different people and finally brought her to a house of many woman and children. She is dress us very majestically. All the while when the servants are dressing her she is thinking, why do I need to dress up to work? Then the maids lock her in a room with a middle-aged man, and is very confused as to what is happening. Then her work begins. 

I think that the way that way that woman feel in other countries in relation to men is heartbreaking. They are ordered and expected to look up men in society. Both at home and at her new job Lakshmi experienced that men were in control of her, and she could do nothing about it. I feel that Lakshmi was a little bit oblivious as to what was happening. I think that she should've stood up for herself more than she did. I think that woman rights in other countries should be established, because as much as we don't want this to be the truth, this is still happening all around the world. I feel that if everybody would stand up for woman who don't have as much power as their husbands or even in their societies, woman would feel like they are living in a more supportive environment. I think this would lead to woman having a better education, rather than working as a house maid their whole lives, putting their husbands before them. I feel that woman's rights is a big deal, and should be recognized more than it is right now. 

Sonnet [POWERLESS]

Covered in my sweet serendipity 

Drenched in the power of the sounds 

Unknown to invisibility

We blend into everything, but scream surrounds 

Try to reach out, but fate pulls us deep down 

Struggles to set free, names us as worthless

The drought we have faced forcefully drowns 

Trying to breath, but above I'm breathless

We fly, though our wings are cut deeply 

The men, deep voices, keep us from running 

Traps us in pits of sadness swiftly 

We try to overcome but it's numbing 

The great sensation of helplessness

Gives us a prodding feeling of being powerless 

Perks of Being a Wallflower

I just started this book called Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky. Tis book is about a boy named Charlie who is just moving up into high school. He is used to blending into the crowd. Charlie is writing about high new high school experiences through letters to an unknown person, and is being brutally honest about everything.  Charlie also explains his brother and sister's lives as well. How his sister is dating a boy that Charlie saw hit her. How his brother is now a star football player and got on a full scholoar ship to collage. Charlie is social awkward and told everybody what he thought about everything that they were, being totally honest. During the first few weeks of high school he meets two friends, Sam and Patrick. These class skipping smokers were the closest thing that Charlie had to friends. They were also used to blending in, in school just as Charlie was. He starts to meet new people that you wouldn't notice if you just took a glance at people. He starts to realize that their are people that are in his school that could help him get through his high school days. 

I think that Charlie is a very interesting character. He is very honest about his opinion on everybody. I think that Charlie has a hard time connecting with people, and people have a hard time connecting with him. He tries so hard to blend in to his surrounding, but nobody in his family is like him, so it is extremely difficult. When he meets these seniors, he starts to realize that it's okay to stand out, because we everybody has their differences or their flaws. I think that this is a very important thing for Charlie to learn. I think that he needs to know how to deal with responding to other people an dhow to react to other people. I think that with him befriending these two other people that they will help him let himself open up to himself and open up to other people as well. I think this will help Charlie become more at peace with himself and the people around him.