Of Mice and Men

George and Lennie have a relationship that no one in this time has heard of; they live, they work, and they help each other. George has grown fond of Lennie mainly because Lennie needs him to take care of him, without George Lennie would panic and probably be killed.

This is a beautiful novel showing how hard the Great Depression was on people that lived like George and Lennie, even to find a job was hard enough and to get paid a fair amount for the work they did was unheard of. But they managed to scrape by with the force that has kept America from falling to its knees many times over, hope and dreams.

They both have a dream to have they're own farm one day, to live off the fat of the land, and to lay back and relax knowing that they are in control of their destiny which is a huge factor compared to where they are.

John Steinbeck did a great job in portraying the life of two traveling men in the early depression.

Reflection of my Sophomore Year

This year has been a quick, long, fast, and drug out year. I have learned many things this year that I did not think I would have had that privilege of learning. I am looking ever more ahead to college and even my carreer after that, I know that I will use many of the things that I have learned.
The best quality or gift that I have gained this year is the ability to think through things unlike I have been before, thanks to all my teachers for working with me all year and I hope everybody has a good summer!!!

Without Fail by Lee Child

Lee Child is one of the most acclaimed thriller novel writers out there. He gives amazing detail along with plenty of action to keep a reader hooked throughout the story.

Child uses a constant shift between Jack Reacher, the main character, and whoever is against him in any way or form. This shift keeps the reader informed from both points of view, through Jack's eyes and the villain's eyes.

Without Fail is an astonishingly thrilling novel about assasinating the Vice President elect, the only thing is that the assasins didn't count on Jack Reacher being in he mix.


-- Post From My iPhone

My Favorite Tech Tool

The best and favorite "in class" tool of this age is the blog! Blogger is a way to communicate with and read what people are doing and what they think about the world. Blogs help many people get attention and get noticed in a world that it takes quite a lot of time and effort.

Blogging helps students and teachers collaborate on different assignments and other ideas or documents they need to work on together as a class, or as an individual.

Spring Break

This year's spring break was not my best, even though I traveled to the tip of Florida, met Mickey Mouse, and survived the longest bus ride of my life. I have to admit, I had fun at Adventure Island on the Hulk in the front row.



But besides that, the only fun was at the fantasmic show, which was amazing... Videos were projected on huge streams of water and a magnificent firework show afterwards.



So to finish, this spring break was not the best, this spring break was awesome.

Anthem

Equality 7-2521 is a man with dreams in a place where dreams should not exist. His hope in that he is different helps him and others out of this dreadful place. He dared to love the woman of his choice in a world where love would cause death.

He thrived on love and hope and his knowledge that he was different and that difference was not neccesarily a terrible thing. He learned for the first time since he was born, he actually learned and wanted to learn more and more as his experiments in the deep cavern became more and more ambiguous.

Equalities hope shone like a light through the darkness of the city, and he found a way out and he and the Golden One lived forever and ever.

Echo Burning by Lee Child

Jack Reacher is a 40 year old drifter, and now he is in trouble for concussing a cop in a bar for marking his shirt up. In this thriller Lee Child jumps from one person in a scene to another back to the first person throughout the book. This keeps a reader clung to figuring out what and who is doing what at what time.

This technique of keeping a reader hooked and making them think they know what is going on when later they find out that what they are thinking is wrong, is absolutely awesome. He brings life to an absolute thriller novel that has brought me to read every one of his books.


(2 Books, 456 pgs)