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


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

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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