As a tenth grader, I never would have thought a book would have brought me more anger and hate then Once and Future King. From the very first page I hated Once and Future King, but I had found a book that I hated more than this one. All of this started with a list. A summer reading list for AP Language that I thought would ruin my summer. As I looked through this horrible list nothing caught my attention. There was a few book I knew on the list, like The Help, Life of Pi, and other novels that have movies based off of them, but I didn’t want to read a long book. I wanted something short and none of the “good” books were short enough for my liking. As time went on and the end of my tenth grade year approached quickly I started to panic. I wanted to be ready for the summer and the assignments that it brought with it, so with that I decided to go to others for opinion. However, like I thought, everyone was doing the same books and I didn’t want to read them. With no hope in my heart, summer started. About a week into summer I decided to go to Second and Charles to find myself a summer reading book. I browsed through the isles for the books I was looking for, but I couldn’t find them, that’s when I saw them. In the first aisle with all the anime books was the school reading assignment books …show more content…
I decided not to sleep during the night but instead read my summer reading books. So, all snuggled up in the back seat I sat and read Slaughterhouse Five for the very first time. After 12 hours of picking up the book and reading it, then putting it down to sit and ponder, I had finally finished it. Even though I had finished it I had no idea what I had just read. I was angry. I wanted to like it and I tried to understand but a man time traveling through space, who has alien friends blew my mind. I hated the book more than anything. This is mostly because I wanted to like it but
Meyer, Michael, ed. The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999.
I started with Potter. Not since 1841, when New Yorkers swarmed the docks to ask incoming Brits whether Little Nell died in the latest installment of The Old Curiosity Shop (spoiler alert! She totally did), have readers been so simultaneously poised on the brink of a collective climax. My gut, along with the new book’s scary epigraphs, kept telling me that—like Little Nell—Harry had to go. For a children’s series, Potter has been unusually death-obsessed—Harry’s heroism, remember, sprang from the gruesome murder of his parents—and in recent books, the body count has risen quickly: In the previous book, even Harry’s untouchable mentor Dumbledore died. Also, in a larger narrative sense, Rowling owed us. Harry had been too outrageously lucky for too long: He lived for six books in a big bland protective bubble of innocence and nobility and love.
A normal novel has smooth transition. Vonnegut wrote this book without any smooth transition. This novel is very complicated. The topics that are mention are hard to understand. The book was a bit difficult to follow. Slaughter House-Five's character's needs more depth. More description is necessary. There was too much jumping around in time in Billy’s life. I thought that this book was going to be better than it actually was.
In a world dominated by technology, reading novels has become dull. Instead of immersing into books, we choose to listen to Justin Bieber’s new songs and to scroll through Instagram posts. We have come to completely neglect the simple pleasures of flipping through pages and getting to finally finish a story. Sherman Alexie and Stephan King’s essays attempt to revive this interest in books that has long been lost. They remind us of the important role that reading plays in our daily lives. “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me,” for instance, demonstrates how being literate saved the narrator from the oppressive nature of society. The author explains that even though he was capable of reading complex books at an astonishingly young
High school students in many American schools first read this book in an English class, which has been a staple for many schools. A required reading assignment exposes many more people to the book. Even though the book is considered to be a children’s book by many, it is still enjoyed by people of all ages.
Adolescent literature will always be challenged, as long as there are children in this world. This may be a hot topic to touch debate about whether which books are appropriate to be used in the academic environment. Though, the purpose of these debatable senses is to provide the best and proper education for young adults to maturity. Developing the best literature for young adults requires team work and trials that will improve the value of a text decided among parents, students, and teachers. Again, the selection of these adolescent literatures is to promote maturation that would prepare your kids and my kids for the reality and future situations in their lives.
A book that provides entertainment as well as life lessons is hard to come by in this day in age. The kind of books that should be on the summer reading list must have a large population appeal and deep character development that makes you feel like you are in the story. Veronica Roth’s book Divergent, which provides you with all the factors that make up good literature, should stay on the summer reading list. This book offers all these and more throughout its twists and turns. Divergent should stay on the summer reading list because of the life lessons taught in the story, the large population appeal and deep character development.
Ever since I was a child, I've never liked reading. Every time I was told to read, I would just sleep or do something else instead. In "A Love Affair with Books" by Bernadete Piassa tells a story about her passion for reading books. Piassa demonstrates how reading books has influenced her life. Reading her story has given me a different perspective on books. It has showed me that not only are they words written on paper, they are also feelings and expressions.
My grandmother introduced me to reading before I’d even entered school. She babysat me while my parents were at work, and spent hours reading to me from picture books as my wide eyes drank in the colorful illustrations. As a result, I entered my first year of school with an early passion for reading. Throughout elementary and middle school, I was captivated by tales of fire-breathing dragons, mystical wizards, and spirited foreign gods. A book accompanied me nearly everywhere I went, smuggled into my backpack or tucked safely under my arm. I was often the child who sat alone at lunch, not because she didn’t have friends, but because she was more interested in a wizards’ duel than the petty dramas of middle school girls. I was the child who passed every history test because she was the only kid who didn’t mind reading the textbook in her spare time, and the child who the school librarian knew by name. Reading provided a
Ever since I was a young child, I have loved to read. Whether it was Chet Gecko, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, A Series of Unfortunate Events or Animorphs, or Diary of a Wimpy Kid, they all provided me with hours of entertainment and an escape from everyday life. Throughout elementary and middle school, I read constantly and frequently visited the library to find new volumes to digest. Each novel was it’s own world, a new adventure with new friends along the way and an opportunity to travel the world, through time and dimensions, with only the time that you spent reading, in exchange. One year in
Slaughterhouse-Five is a stirring science-fiction book, which contains many interesting themes such as, space and time travel, philosophy on death, war, and aliens. In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, The main character, Billy Pilgrim, is not in the first chapter. The author of this book, Kurt Vonnegut is the main character in this chapter (Harris). This book is written in a rather random order because Billy Pilgrim lived his life that way. In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, the author’s imagination helps him get through reality by giving him the illusion that he is traveling through time and cannot die (Westbrook). Billy was a prisoner-of-war, but he continues with his normal life; he also believes that he was kid napped by aliens called Talfamadores (Peebles). These so called trips occur all through his life. He continues his life after serving in World War II by the occupation of optometry. He becomes rather wealthy but eventually dies. Giannone explains that there are three themes in Slaughterhouse-Five, which include, victory wins over death, the idea of no death, and the reader’s thoughts on the events of the book (Giannone).
I will be explaining to you my point of view on a few books I have read that I ended up enjoying or didn’t enjoying. You will learn why I didn’t find Tuesday’s With Morrie my favorite book. You will also learn why I found myself enjoying Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie.
Dear Future 8th grader, I know how you feel you are excited to start the year off with a boom and that's a good thing later on the year your going to get less and less excited about 8th grade but just remember what started the spark at the beginning of the year and what causes that boom to happen.As you progress along this year you should just become more excited and never get bored of class or your work because think of all the fun and cool things your going to achieve just by doing your work.
...relates to literacy devices studied in the course throughout the novel, and gives us a deeper understanding of all devices covered in the curriculum. Furthermore, the author explores the relationships of texts in an effort to give students a better understanding of novels studied. There are also many situations in this novel that grade 12 students will acknowledge in their future lives and gives you a reality check on life outside of the ‘Oakville Bubble”. In conclusion, The duality of human nature explores many characters and their actions throughout the novel. It brings key components which students will grasp a better understanding of an important topic. A Thousand Splendid Suns gives students and insight into a better understanding of the english 4U course. This novel gives students a powerful understanding of what is outside of the Halton District School Board.