10/25/11

The book Give A Boy A Gun is about these 2 boys who held up there school dance and tried to kill the people that made their lives miserable.  The way the story was told was by people Gary and Brendan knew.   And they were sharing their thoughts and experiences on what was going and on what they thought about the boys.  Through out the book it led closer and closer to the day this all happened but it was like they were sharing their thoughts about what is going to happen.  Also the way some of the people were sharing their thoughts they were talking outside of the book directly at the reader while it still connected to the story.

This whole book really stresses that respect is due to everyone and no one deserves to be smaller then anyone else.  Now my interpretation on this book is that emotions can make you do certain things and react with your surroundings. that your emotions can control your thoughts and feelings.  An example is since Brendan was all ways being picked on it made filled with rage and made him try to kill those who tortured him.  Also that people don't accept others that are different in appearance and/or personality and/or physical characteristics.

I also interpreted that everyone is different and everyone takes things differently.  An example is that some one can be laughing at some thing some one said and another person can cry because of it.  Another thing was that guns make a big influence to "solve" a problem if they are around.  Lastly one big thing is that suicide isn't just some one dying it is a whole big issue.  when some one commits suicide everyone is blown away at what happened, there are so many mixed emotions expressed, and now everyone that knew the person has to live with it and realizes what that person did for them in their life and how much they cared about the person.

10/17/11

The Starter

In the book The Sirens Of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut there is a very rich man who is abducted by aliens. The mans name is Malachi Constant. Then he has his memory wiped, his new name is Unk and he serves in the army and starts to remember his past and goes on a quest to get his family.  Then he ends up on earth and his hated greatly and now is on the moon Titan.  Titan is a moon surrounding Saturn.

I am noticing how as more of Malachi's memory is being explained and revealed the more he hates himself and life.  Then when he finds out he killed his best friend he just loses it and gives up on life.  It is like his best friend was more important then his family because of I think all the memories they shared.  The irony of it though was that his family doesn't care about him at all they just think he is a loser and a failure.  The best of it all this is all because of Malachi's "friend" who can see the future and past who set him up to go through this horrible life.

Now Malachi's "friend" Winston is dying I think that his life might go back to normal or just get better.  Now since this robot showed up that might be Malachi's key to having a better life or his key to fix everything.  I think this because the robot is caring a message for aliens in another galaxy and that message might involve Malachi.  The reason is because Winston is involved in this too so then since of  his set up this letter will just be another part in his setup.  So my conclusion is that this message might say something bad about Malachi so then instead of just people on earth hating him a whole other species is.