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               As my Freshman Honors English blogging experience comes to conclude, sadly, I would like to share with you all my favorite author, Sharon M. Draper. She's the best realistic fiction writer that I've read so far, and I really enjoy her books. All of them are  relatable and about teens.  One cool fact is that she is also from Cincinnati.

          Harry Potter, the book I previously read was good as well but a couple weeks ago I returned it back to my friend so I don't have any good quotes for you guys, sorry. But for anyone who enjoys fantasy or loves imagination would love the sympathetic, adventurous Harry Potter Series.  I hope you check these out.

Ok, back to Miss. Draper, she has written these three expectacular books just to summarize a few:
November Blues, Link to description is down below
http://sharondraper.com/bookdetail.asp?id=16
 Favorite Quote:


Battle of Jericho
http://sharondraper.com/bookdetail.asp?id=14


Favorite quote:


Just Another Hero:
http://sharondraper.com/bookdetail.asp?id=25

Favorite quote:

Empathy for The Forgotten

Empathy.

         Empathy and heartbreak is what comes to my mind when I think about  "12 Years A Slave”by Soloman Northup. This autobiography on slavery really makes you grateful for the life you have and the fact that you are born free. It makes you reflect, not only on your own petty complaints, but also on how much undeniable, unfathomable cruelty man can bestow, if he chooses to. Here is a quote that most impacted me, "He looked upon a colored man, not as a human being-but as a 'chattel personal'-no better, -than his mule or dog." (Northup, 120.) Can you imagine being human and being treated less than an animal every day? It's horrific. Nobody should be made to feel inferior, especially on something so meaningless, like pigment. It's like calling a cloud better than the tree because its higher, so you decide to chop down all the trees so the clouds are seen more...what? That didn't make any sense...but in a way, it does; All nature is equally beautiful; and All people are equally valuable.


         When I was in 8th grade, we read the book "Night," by Eli Weasel for Mrs. Pate's English class. Yes. The book was very, sad. But when you hear statistics or describe how many people were suffering and dying...it did not make an impact on me as much.Until I saw the video clip of Eli Weisel's interview with Oprah revisiting the Holocaust site. And my heart broke. Sometimes when something sounds so cruel, its unimaginable...until, you see the visual. I'm sure many of you have seen the movie “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” or other holocaust movies/ video clips about the horrific mass murder of the Jews. The way I felt when I saw those the movie version of "12 Years A Slave" reminded me of the way I felt then.

Here are some powerful trailers. Sorry guys I know these are really sad so feel free to skip through. But it is necessary to feel other peoples pain and place yourself in their shoes to grow as people. Again, I'm so sorry these are sad but it is based on real life.

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Empathy.
       This is how I felt watching the movie "12 Years A Slave" with my mom and older sister. I wanted to cover my eyes with my fingers, and my stomach did flips, my eyes stung from tears as they whipped the innocent girl. It was when reality hit. I felt like I was in the movie. That I was one of the field hands working every day all day for nothing. And it simply broke my heart. This is why empathy is the first thing that comes to my mind when I think about this book and amazing movie. If All humans had compassion, and most of all love for one another, there would be no war, and there would be no pain, and there would be no human suffering, or there would be no discrimination; and one hundred years of slavery or the genocide of 6 million people, would go unheard of. https://www.goodreads.com/

12 Years A slave

Hey guys, I was at the book store a while back and I scooped up this popular book. This autobiography was so good they made it into a movie. The discriptions in the book are very detailed and difficult to imagine, unless you watch the movie. The movie is very impactful, and sad.
It is about a free colored man, Soloman Northup, that lives in the North, has family, and a musical career. One day, thinking he could make a little extra money, he took up an offer from two conmen that offered him a job to play his violin o a tour when their real intentions were something else, they were slave snatchers. Dangerous whites who come from the south and try to snatch any runaway slaves. But in most cases, free african americans who never experienced the horrors of slavery.

        Soloman woke up chained. Arm, wrist,feet, everything. And with at terrible headache. He was dissoriented when a brute white man whipped, and paddled him furousiously. HE HIT HIM SO HARD THAT THE PADDLE BROKE.  And he stung him with the venemous whipp until his arm tired.  He ripped his free papers in bits. Soloman was beat ruthlessly until he stopped denying he was free. His name was "plate" and now he was on his way to a plantation.
        During his 12 years as a slave,  Solaman never lost hope or surrendered thinking one day he would be free again.
      After Soloman regained his liberty, he became a abolitionists and wrote his autobiography with such grotesque, awful, and accurate discriptions that no one could deny the autrosities that had been put on him. Soloman also became very close with a slave named patty who was treated with the harshest disrespect out of all the slaves, from her lustful master. He beat her inhumanly that one of Solaman descibes it as you could still here the screams after a slave got a whipping until dawn. One particular actor also made this movie very unique and well acted her name is Lupita. She is now very influential and got nominated to be on the cover of People's most beautiful people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02Ie8wKKRg

Thematic Prompt

             At the current time I  am not reading any books except for the ones a metioned in my previous post, Harry Potter  & Joyce Meyer,The Confident Women. I will get a review up with textual evidence for you guys soon. Umm....idk what to blog about. Blah, blah, blah. Sometimes Honors English can be a lil boring, but  reading is fun. I mean I like it well enough for a class, but its Thursday right now! Except its Friday basically because we don't have school tomorrow! Yayyyyy!
          I AM NOT, blogging over the weekend. So whatever I write in the next three minutes goes.
I am going to do sortof like a "author review". My favorite author is Sharon M. Draper. I love ALL her books. And she's from cicinatti. She writes realistic Fiction. Books I've read from her are: Copper Sun, Battle of Jericho, and etc. Bye!

Joyce Meyer & J.K. Rowling

Hey people, Happy Palm Sunday. I hope y'all are having a spectacular day. I would like to blog to you guys about ( well I would rather be outside but...) this new book I've been reading since spring break. Its called The Confident Woman, by Joyce Meyer. I am only a couple chapters in but so far it has been great. Obviously this is directed to women...short daily devotionals to empower. But hey if guys want to read it to go for it, I don't know why you'd want to though..but hey. Imma leave a link down below so you guys can read other people's full reviews on it if you want to.
Joyce Meyer: Book Review
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       Also, my friend let me borrow her Harry Potter book in spanish!! Sounds pretty interesting. Everybody loves Harry potter. I'm excited to read it in Spanish, here is the book title she gave me in español.  When I get to the 2nd book I'll let you guys know and do a review. Have fun with the rest of your  Sunday. Thanks for checking out this blog. Bye!

2nd Book: 

Maya Angelo

              Hey guys we only had to do 5 blogs right? Ok hopefully 'cuz its Sunday and I really don't want to be writing right now so hopefully this is my last blog til later this week.
             
              OK, so last trimester I was in Best Sellers ( a class where you read whatever you want and still get credit for it) and I stumbled across this book when I had some extra time. While I was reading it I was really into it and I was reading almost every single day. When I forgot my book at home I was so sad. That's how much I loved it.
 For those of you who may not know Maya Angelo is a very well known poet and actress. She's been in a lot of movies, and her stories are really well written. I don't read a lot of non-fiction 'cuz the only real non-fiction I've really read has been in science textbooks and history text books. I didn't even realize her book "Why the Caged Bird Sings," was about her until I finally caught on OOooooo...the main characters name is Maya...wow.  Some parts REALLY caught me off gaurd. I can not believe some of the horrible things she had to go through.

AnywaysI loved it because the book it self is a very interesting story and the sensory details, imagery and metaphors in this book are so good it makes you anticipate more. Great read. I won't disclose a summary so you can read it, but here's a link below with the details of this amazing autobiography.

Amazon- I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings, Maya Angelo

Farenhait 451

              Ok so I am on prt.3 pge. 123 and so far the book has been pretty decent. I probably shouldn't have waited till the day after the quiz to read the 100 pages of book I didn't know we should have already read (geeze). Needless to say, I failed that test.
              But anyways thats not important. Whats important is that I'm blogging Now (Which I'm also kindof behind on..but that all can be excused because at least I'm writing something.) and I'm all caught up on the book, ready for the next pop quiz. I'm going to evaluate all the characters and what they have done so far in the book. Briefly. But if you have not read thus far you might wanna skip this (or read this so you know whats going on w/o reading).

 Montag: So Montag finds out that the hound has been stalking him, he reads a peice of poetry to Mildred's friends, one of them freaks out. Montag hides the books, Mildred calls to report him, Montag saves a couple books, his house gets burned down. Montag kills Beaty.
Mildred: After tattling on Montag she packs up and straight leaves. In the cab she is mumbling about her T.V familyy and whatever. She has issues...she didn't even remember Montag. They are complete strangers.
Faber: He is timid and anxious. Montag comes to him for help and he helps him by reading bible verses to him and talks to him through a "seashell". Gives him advice.
Beatty: He dies. And he knew all about the books and Clarrisse for a really long time. Represented big evil government dicatatorship.
 & Thats it.  Thanks for looking at my blog post.