Entry 2

The feeling of this book is flowing to sadness because
Amir saw his friend (Hassan) getting raped by his fellow
friends like Assef, Kamal, and Wali. He couldn't do
anything because he was scared, and now they don't talk
to each other and don't even play with each other.
After sadness it turned to this mood about love, it was
when Amir saw his love Soraya. Soraya is the daughter
of this General, and is very well known in his country.
When the mood turned from sadness to 'love' it made me
keep on reading because it made me curious about what
was going to happen to the young love.

As I keep on reading the theme of the book changes.

- Help others

- Don't take all the pain by yourself

- Don't be selfish

- Share



As I flip the pages I find knew connections between
me and Amir jan. Amir wants all of his attention
from his father but he sometimes doesn’t get it.
That's the same for me because I have an older
brother and my dad just sometimes only cares
about him. That's what I think, but when I ask
my mom she tells me that he likes both of us
equally. The part of the book when Amir gets
attracted to this pretty girl "Soraya,” made a
connection with me because I sometimes get
attracted to pretty girls.

The Kite Runner - Entry1

I am reading the book "The Kite Runner" and it's written by Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseni was born in Kabulm Afghanistan, in 1965.

His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother tuaght Farsi and History at the large hight school in Kabul. The Afgahn Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to paris, when they were going to return Afghanistand had already witnessed a bloody communist coup and thje invasion of the Soviet army. So in September of 1980 the Hosseinis moved to the states San Jose, California. After he was practicing internists between 1996 and 2004 from the hospital in Los Angeles, while in medical practice he began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner in March of 2001 and was published in 2003.

I read until chapter 8 page 86.

I think the author likes to reveal to the readers what is going to happen before it actually happens. I think I have some common things with Amir. Amir lives in this beautiful house with his father, Hassan, and Ali. When I used to live in Nigeria I also lived with my Mom, Dad, Brother, 3 maids, 2 drivers, and 5 security guards. I was friends with everyone because I was young and I always used to play outside. The part where I feel the connection is when I played with one of the maids’ son, and I still remember his name "Jack".

FREE WRITING

“Animal Farm”, this book gives me a lot of impression. So I look over myself again about what the friendship and trust are between me and my friends. As a teenager friendship is a very important part of my life. As I live throughout my life I must be able to make some friends to trust and some not to, because we don’t always have the same purpose. This book must have changed a lot of people because the book explains very well about the universal human experience. From now on I must try to be a person who is sincere and honest, because that will add up not only my own humanity but also my future credit.

　

Boys, trust your friends.

MOOD

In my perspective, the mood of “Animal Farm” is sort of disguised. Sometimes the mood is very happy because they take over the farm from Mr. Jones. But if you take your time to read it more closely, the mood is sort of dark when Napoleon kicks out Snowball by using his nine trained dogs. The mood of the story really doesn’t sadden me, because there really isn’t anything to be sad about. The problem that saddens me is when Snowball gets betrayed by his fellow friend Napoleon, and when Boxer killed a human with his iron shoes. I felt sad when the human got killed by Boxer because the guy who died was just helping Mr. Jones trying to get his farm back.

MEMORABLE PASSAGE

Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholwes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing form side to side he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.


This is my favorite passage from the novel. This passage was very meaningful to me because I knew the feeling of wanting to go to bed very badly. Like you just want to go home, take off your shoes, and lie down on your bed and go to sleep. Also, this passage was very interesting because the author even included that he made mistakes. As you know well, people make a lot of mistakes especially when they are tired and exhausted.

CLIMAX

In the book "Animal Farm", the farm started with two pigs, Snowball and Napoleon as both leaders. The climax of this book was when Napoleon drove his friend Snowball out of the farm by using his nine trained dogs. Napoleon drove Snowball out of the farm because he was interfering with his plans. Since Napoleon drove the brain of the farm Snowball out of the farm he was the one who became the new leader as the new brain of the farm who now made the decisions. That was the reason why I chose this part as the climax because this was the time the animals in the farm lost their destiny to freedom and when they started making the wrong decisions.

The event when Napoleon drove Snowball out of the farm made me feel very sad for Snowball. The only thing Snowball wanted to do for them was to give them the freedom away from the humans. However his drea was scattered because his fellow comrades betrayed him.

★ What a pitty it is! ★

CHARACTERS

“Animal Farm” it is my second novel. There are two main characters, Snowball and Napoleon.

Snowball he is a very intelligent, persuasive, and passionate pig. Snowball gives the comrades a very good impression about what he’s trying to say through his speech. However, Snowball is too nice and weak to become a strong leader like Napoleon. Napoleon is a very greedy, strong, and harsh leader. Snowball is my favorite character through the novel because he is a very wise and caring leader for his comrades in the farm, and he is the brain of the farm. He is the one that first gives the impression of taking over the farm from Mr. Jones to the animals.

Napoleon’s characteristics are hateful to me. First of all, Napoleon betrays his friend Snowball to become the new leader of the animal farm which makes him greedy. So, I don’t like Napoleon because, power is more important for him than friendship and in my case friendship is the most important thing in my life after family. Second, takes advantages over his comrades even though they have the same rights. I don’t like someone giving orders to others even though they have the same identity and the rights.

In this novel they reveal about the universal human society. You can see the animal farm as a very good business company. Snowball and Napoleon can be seen as friends and high ranks in the company. Snowball represents “kindness”. Even though Napoleon takes over his place he doesn’t really say anything and lets him become the new leader. Napoleon represents “greed”, because he does anything to succeed his plan even he has to betray a very good old friend. These two characters represent a really good characteristic of human society nowadays.

★ Whom do you think you represnet, Snowball or Napoleon? ★

THEME

The mismangement of power is the main theme of "Animal Farm." The background of the book “Animal Farm” was that the animals took over their farm and they were living there without any humans. There were two leaders, Snowball and Napoleon, at first but Snowball was kicked out by the other leader Napoleon. Napoleon first acted as if he wanted to help these animals from the humans. But after he became the leader of that farm he made the animals do all the work for him. It was not like he adopted to the rules but the rules changes to fit his comfort. But still Napoleon didn't notice that he became like one of the humans, giving orders for their own goods, and not thinking for the animals in the farm.

Mismanagement of power, is very closely related to our society and to the teenagers living in the year 2008. Mismanagement of power in the farm is like bullying kids in the school. The farm can be seen as the school, humans as in teachers, and animals as in normal students, and Napoleon as in a bully. People don’t really think that bullying is a real problem nowadays. Bullying may lead to death for that person who is always bullied by the school bully. Before you make a dicision by using your powers on someone, you must be, wise and think what may happen after.

Greek God Zeus

Zeus is one of the 12 gods in Mt. Olympus. Cronus was the new king instead of his old father Uranus. He was supposed to save his siblings trapped underground but he didn’t so his mother Gaia put a curse on him. She said “As you took your father’s power one of your children will take you over and take your power.” So Cronus got scared and swallowed all five of the babies and Rhea was really ashamed so the 6th baby she asked her mother to take care of him and the 6th baby was Zeus. Rhea gave a rock rapped with a quilt to Cronus to swallow and he did. Zeus lived with the nymph’s in the mountain until he fell in love with Metis. They both got married and Metis helped Zeus rescue his siblings. Metis made this drink out of a magical grass which makes you vomit I guess; because right after Cronus drank this drink he vomited Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia. Zeus gave his brothers and sisters weapons and overthrew their father Cronus. After Cronus ran away Zeus becomes the king of the sky and land. Poseidon becomes the king of the ocean, and Hades becomes the king of the dead.

　　　　　

Zeus and Hercules are both great strong characters. They both have great strength. Hercules has the strongest power and Zeus can throw thunderbolts at someone or something. Hercules was popular to girls because he killed a lot of Greek monsters. Zeus was very popular because he was the king of the sky and land and had great power. The difference in their characteristics is that Hercules only loved one girl, but Zeus liked more than one girl. Zeus is short-tempered, wise, and serious. But on the other hand Hercules is responsible, humorous, and pleasant.

What qualities would you like to have as a god?

I would first name myself Alexeus and be the God of relationships. I would first have a little angel that shoots arrows at people. Whoever got shot by the arrows would feel anger, love, hate, and any other feelings that humans can feel. I would like to ride on a magic carpet like Aladdin because I envied a lot because he got to ride on a magic carpet. I would be a really buff God with my hair short and rainbow colored because all Gods are buff and strong looking. I would carry around a microphone so I can sing for people whenever they are sad, and need a friend. I would be a loving and caring God for people those who worships me and sacrifices animals for me in my temple. I wish I could keep my eyes, be about 185cm tall, and be handsome.

Greek monster - Minotaur

Minos means bull. King Minos the King of Crete didn’t keep his promise to the god Poseidon. Poseidon got really annoyed my King Minos so he sent a bull to King Minos’ wife Pasiphae. Pasiphae and the bull fell in love and a baby was born. He had a head of bull and a body of a human. King Minos ordered the finest architect Daedalus to build a labyrinth for him so he can trap Minotaur in it. The biggest problem is that Minotaur only eats humans so King Minos can’t give the monster his own people. King Minos bashes into a nearby country and takes hostages from them so he can feed Minotaur. One time the son of King Minos visited Athena and died by accident because he wanted to join the bull fight going on in Athena. The King of Athena tried to stop his participation of the competition because it was too dangerous but he neglected the Kings offer and participated. Lead to death for him because he got hit by the horn of a bull right in the chest. After King Minos heard that his son died he tried to invade Athena but King Minos gave them an offer. It was too give them seven men and seven women every year so he can feed Minotaur. After Theseus went to his father and heard about this he volunteered to go and kill Minotaur. He succeeded with the help of the oldest daughter of King Minos Ariadne.

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I'm COOL like a FOOL in a swimmingPOOL.

MEMORABLE PASSAGE

“PiggyㅡPiggyㅡ”
“It’s come!” gasped Piggy, “It’s real!”
He clung to Ralph and reached to get his breath
“Piggy, come outside. I want you, Piggy.”
Ralph’s mouth was against Piggy’s ear.
“Don’t say anything.”
“PiggyㅡWhere are you, Piggy?”

This is my favorite passage from the novel. This is meaningful to me because I actually said something similar like this to a new kid when I went camping with half of my entire grade as a school field trip. This passage reminds me of my middle school field trips. By reading this passage you can see that Ralph cares for Piggy because he is telling Piggy not to say a word. When they thought it was the beast that came to eat Piggy.

THEME

The theme for the novel The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding is that kids needs their parents care as long as they are teenagers. Without adults in our world we would turn into savages instead of being civilized. This novel is a perfect example because the kids in the island were out of control, killing, and fighting each other. They were fighting about who’s going to become the leader of the survivors on the island. This is the reason why we have rules in our modern day society, because we don’t go running around killing, and fighting with each other to choose who is going to be the chief.

Also it is extremely important to a teenager living in 2008 because the book is about teenagers like us and it is written about their behaviors when they are on the island. The theme is like if you are a civilized person or an uncivilized person. It’s about teenagers struggling with rules throughout their teenage life. So I think this theme is related to me because even I sometimes wish that there were no rules like the SAVE policy. Sometimes this kid really annoys me but it’s like he/she is like guarded with this SAVE policy, so thank God that he made rules. By good education and surroundings, we will be raised and civilized. Without training and education we will be lead into a savagery.

Now, what does this theme have to do with a teenager living in 2008? I say probably not because we won’t go killing each other around on an island, would we?

MOOD

The overall atmosphere of the book, The Lord of the Flies, was dark, serious, and violent. The kids/survivors are like totally out of their minds. I can understand killing pigs for food but killing a person like Piggy totally freaked me out. By reading the novel you can actually feel the thoughts of how evil one of the main characters Jack is. But I saw how strong the kids were to survive through the island on themselves without adults.

No, the mood doesn’t sadden me. At some chapters of the novel it made me wonder what might happen next because it was so creepy and disgusting and so on. I freaked out when they left a pig’s head for the beast. But the part when they killed my favorite character Piggy it saddens me because Piggy was such a bright, intelligent, and nice kid. The book really made me wonder how old these kids are because they went hunting a pig meaning they might be in high school. If they are high school kids, killing another human being is not a smart choice to make.

CLIMAX

The climax of this book, The Lord of the Flies, is the scene when one of the main characters of this book, Piggy dies. Piggy is killed by Jack who was one of the hunters, who used to follow Ralph. The kids on the island were not even older than the age of 15. This event made me think that the world is an untrustworthy place, I could of never thought about teenagers killing each other on an island just because they don't like them. I feel sorry for Jack who killed Piggy because he must have lost his human senses.

CHARACTERS

Ralph
Ralph is the main character of this novel. He is the protagonist; he represents leadership and order. He is the chief of the civilized tribe who believed in that they would get rescued if they kept a big fire going. He has a father who works for the Navy. He has some conflicts with others because he only gives order to them. In my personal opinion he’s not a favorable character in books because he is so well-rounded he knows what he’s doing and thinks what will happen after taking action. Ralph is also incredibly active and he volunteers to go on dangerous adventures in the island. Ralph tries to reveal about the universal human experience is to be a leader that cares for his people and not giving up on a certain promise.

Piggy (Johnny)

Piggy is the character that was with Ralph from the beginning of the story until he died. He never left Ralph and chose Jack as his leader/chief. Piggy was the smart one that always uses his knowledge before he speaks up to the tribe. He was teased a lot but didn’t care about it a lot. Piggy is the kind of characters that we need in the universe to make it a better place. Piggy has an auntie, his parents died when he was young. In the novel Piggy is a very unfavorable character because he acts like he’s the only smart one and that uses his brain. But it’s true. My favorite character is Piggy because he thinks before he speaks, I don't like people who just say anything they want to and not thinking about what might happen after they say it. Piggy tries not to make enemies even though people tease him by his nickname. He just doesn’t say anything mean that would hurt their feelings. What Piggy tries to reveal about the universal human experience is not to give up on someone just because other people are following the other person. Keep on believing in the person who you think would be a great leader even though he/she has nothing with him/her at the moment.

Jack　

Jack is the leader of the choir. He is an antagonist; he represents savagery and a dictator. He was picked as a leader from the choir because he could sing the highest pitch from the choir. At the first half of the book Jack was really cooperative with Ralph and they were like best friends. But as you flip the pages Jack turns into a savage who only wants power and respects from others. Jack is a favorable character in the novel because he goes hunting with his hunters (choir) and keeps the food on the table for the people who follow him. Personally I don't like Jack because he only thinks for himself. He only acts as if he is a good leader because he wants to buy the tribes respect. Jack tires to reveal about the universal human experience is that there are some leaders that shows the citizens of that country that he/she would be a perfect president for them if they vote for him/her.

Simon　

Simon is a favorable character in the book he is the one who thinks about the benefit of not only him but the tribe. Simon is an okay character in the novel because he's at least not doing things for his own benefit. What Simon tries to reveal some universal human experience is that it’s important to be a person who will benefit not only him but even the others.
　

Roger　

Roger is in the choir. In the savagery tribe he's extremely not only brutal but also a bloodlust. He even hits his own people in his tribe because they didn't listen to him. It’s like showing no respect to his own people. So I think, he is not a favorable character in the novel

Littluns
Littluns are like citizens of the society

Bigguns
Bigguns are upper class citizens

INTRODUCTION/FREE WRITING

Have you ever heard about the book, The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding? This is my first novel for my English class. I strongly recommend this book to teenagers who need to know why the civilization is important for them to live as a good member of a human being in our society. The book is about kids getting trapped on an island, and how they struggle to survive on the island until they get rescued. The book is too obvious you can predict what would happen next. In the book, the people who wants to get rescued is not more than half of the survivor on the island. It might be because they are only teenagers who want to enjoy their freedom away from the adults. They disagreed, didn’t respect each other’s opinions and just insist their own words. By getting a deeper and deeper conflict, it leads to murder and savagery. Through the conflicts between the civilized and uncivilized people, human beings find the right way of living to survive in the world and then find the true meaning of cooperation. William Golding, I think, represented some characters as important ideas or themes. Each of the main characters Ralph, Piggy, Simon, Jack, and Roger represents ideas or themes in this novel. On the streets you can see good vs. evil. Personally I think the author really points a moral by a good explanation about good vs. evil through his novel.

My First Book/Novel : The Lord of the Flies

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