Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Reading Reflection #1 for Group 2 (due Thurs., Oct. 12)

Please post your reading reflection if you are a member of Group 2: Alex C, Christina E, Anna L, Amber M, Morgan M, Marcus P, Josh T, Jenn W. Your comment should explain what you've read in the past three weeks, and what affected you the most out of what you read. What ideas, interesting information, or feelings did your reading give you? Write for at least 5 minutes. Please post your comment by Thursday, October 12, 2006.

3 comments:

Marcus P said...

In the last three weeks I have read portions of Fahrenheit 451 and The Pearl. Fahrenheit 451 was about a fireman who burned books and lived in a world where reading books was against the law.I thought Montag (the fireman) was kind of an interesting character. he reminded me of Tom and Jerry because he was kind of hard to read, much like tom and Jerry, you can't always tell what they are thinking, one second they are going at each others throats and the next they are making up. Also, yesterday I on my computer that Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle died shen he was piloting his plane and he crashed.in other news that I read there is a new rule in the NBA which makes it illegal to argue a call. I personally think this is stupid because there, as long as there are humans refereeing games, be bad calls and the players, in the emotion of the game, will naturally argue the calls.

Christina E. said...

I have been reading this series call the Demonanta, and it is very interesting. In the first book, Lord Loss, this boy named Grubbs has a magnificent adventure (even if his family died). This affected me because it made my imagination run wild (as it usually does). It also helped me believe more in demons than I did before...even though it is a fiction book. This book gave me some very intriguing information about the universe where the demons live. The second book is about a boy who sees lighted shapes and can make portals to this other universe. This kid is amazing because he is putting his life at risk to save his brother Art. Art was kidnapped by a demon and taken into the Demonata by this very fowl demon. Art meets two other younger "disciples" (or people who fight demons) and one of which is a person from the first book, Dervish, who is Grubbs uncle... This made me think that this book took place before the first. I thought this was a little odd but I thought it was a wonderful change from the fact that most other books strictly go in chronological order.

Alex C. said...

(from a while ago)
Ender's Game

After reading this book many, many times I start thinking about the whole idea of control that this book is implying. When a mind is subjected to enough stress or work by another person it will eventually break and obey the various commands of the other individual. The proof of this is both in the way dogs react to human commands, and the way most of the children react to the teachers. But what of the ones who don't obey, I find myself asking, what is in them that allows the thought of saying no? Why would a mind choose the conditions of stress and pain instead of just saying ok? What is the factor that makes the mind decide that living in submission is not right? I don't know the answers to these questions, and I don't know if anybody does. But what I do know is that the ability to defy is in the human nature, the evidence is basically teenage rebellion, but it is the individual that chooses to follow that instinct.