Tuesday, May 18, 2010

chapter 5

That night Holden went to dinner and hung out with his friends ackley and mal.  They ate hamburgers and played pinball and after they came home holden wrote stradlers composition for him. He wrote it about his brothers baseball glove when he was supposed to write it about a room.

Monday, May 17, 2010

chapter 4

Holden is talking to his friend stradler and he figures out that his date for the night is one of his old friends. Holden freaks out with excitment and starts asking a bunch of questions and starts talking all about their history.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

chapter 2

Ok so holden is at his history teachers house and they're talking about holden's schooling and grades and stuff.  then his teacher pulls out an old essay and starts reading and asks holden about him flunking him history class.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

chapter 1

I've read this book when I was in 7th grade I think and I didn't really understand it.  But so far the main character's name is Holden Caulfield.  He's sixteen and getting kicked out of this private school Pencey prep. Appearently he hates it there.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

chapter 1-owl post

So I decided to stop reading Invisible Man. It was just too sad! And I couldn't even follow what the narrator was talking about half the time.  So as of now I'm looking for a new book.  Today I read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.  I've already read this book about 4 times so I need to find a new book fast!

Monday, May 10, 2010

chapter 1

This chapter was a bit confusing and hard to follow but the nameless narrator talks about fighting in a ring...and then getting beat up and money was involved but I don't know if I can read this book anymore because it getting hard to follow 

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

chapter 7-the lord's prayer

David talks about his parents splitting up and how much he really hated his mother and father and just his whole life.  Kids at school would make fun of him, his family hated him and he had no hope.  Honestly I don't know how he managed to survive.

Monday, May 3, 2010

chapter 6-while father is away

David talks about the time his mother started being really nice to him out of no where.  She also came up with new torture devices like a freezing water bath.  The reason she was being nice out of no where was because child services were coming to the house to look around.  He fell for his mothers trick and after that things went back to normal.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

chapter 5-the accident

David is explaining how he got used to being his mother's slave and the normal punishments he would receive.  This chapter is about one day when his mom wanted him to clean the dishes she'd threaten to kill him if he didn't apperently she got tired of her not doing anything and decided to stab him.  after she cleaned his wound and still made him do the dishes.  This woman is sick. 

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

chapter 4-the fight for food

David describes the incidents of getting caught stealing food or begging for food from neighbors.  His mother would make him throw up and eat it.  His father began to just sit back and watch.  All of these events are just so horrible you can't even imagine it.  I feel so bad for this kid!

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

chapter 4-the fight for food

David is talking about how his mother refused to feed him for days and how he would steal food from other kids' lunchboxes before school.  He always got caught though and his principal called his mother which meant more beatings.  This book is absolutey crazy! it's so interesting but disturbing at the same time!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

chapter 6-humpty dumpty

Alice continues talking to humpty dumpty about poems and words and everything like that and she keeps talking to him for some reason i don't know why though because he's really rude!!!!

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

chapter 6-humpty dumpty

Alice is swimming on the banks with a sheep in a boat and then they go back to his shop and alice asks to buy an egg then the egg turns into humpty dumpty and it turns out he's very easily offended, and really rude and he's very argumentative!  

Monday, April 19, 2010

chapter 5-wool and water

Alice leaves the twins and finds the white queen and she's talking to her about living backwards in other words remembering things before they happen.  Alice doesn't quite understand but it seems she doesn't understand anything in wonderland!!! she's kind of stupid if you think about it.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

chapter 4-tweedledum and tweedledee

Alice walks out of the wood with all the insects in it and comes across the wood where tweedledee and tweedledum live.  They start talking to her and then they start dancing together.  After they tell alice the famous story of the carpenter and the walrus.

Monday, April 5, 2010

chapter 3-the looking-glass insects

Alice leaves the queen after playing chess with her and then finds herself talking to all these insects one in particular: the Gnat.  He is telling her about all the different kinds of insects and what they live on. For example the bread-and-butterfly which lives on weak tea with cream in it.  I thought this part was really cute :)

Thursday, April 1, 2010

chapter 1-looking-glass house

Alice is still talking to her kitten and she wishes there was a looking-glass house and you could just run through a looking-glass and get there.  And she did! so Alice is in the house and she reads the poem the white king wrote about the jabberwock which was kind of confusing but whatever.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

through the looking-glass chapter 1-looking-glass house

Alice is sitting on her armchair half asleep and half talking to herself when her kitten unravels the ball of yarn she just made.  Now she's talking to the cat....it's really weird.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

chapter 12-alices evidence

Alice is in court watching the trial on who stole the tarts when all of the sudden she is called to the witness stand.  She tells the queen that it's not important that somebody stole the tarts and she starts arguing with the king and queen and the jury.  This part is very true to the movie...or the movie is true to the book.

Monday, March 29, 2010

chapter 10-the lobster quadrille

so Alice is talking with the mock turtle and the gryphon and they're talking about the lobster quadrille which is some sort of dance.  They show alice the dance and then talk more about nonsense stuff.  then all of the sudden the queen comes for the trial of who stole the tarts?