I'd like for you to think about what you've learned from the text that you read. Explain your emotions, thoughts, and sentiments. Is there anything you'd change about the book? Do you feel a sense of closure and finality? Are you satisfied with the transformation of the character(s)? Again, these are just questions to get your wheels turning--you do not have to answer them one-by-one.
Please write two paragraphs (minimum) detailing your own reaction. Then, respond to at least two other people's posts.
I feel good about how this book ended. It made me feel sad at first, because Melinda was such a scared, frightened and young girl who was confused about the scenario she was in. Its great to see someone stand up for themselves and scream no, literally.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy how Melinda was a scared girl at first. She just started high school and was nervous like most typical new freshman, but she did have a bad day too, so that was a bad start for her. Melinda had this entire influence in her mind and it wrecked her as she went on with her freshman year. I'm sure she would have a better year as a sophmore. At the end of the book, the setting took place at the end of the year in school. Melinda was still scared from her rape story but when Andy argues with her she finally stood up for herself. She screamed no so loud that the entire school could hear her. That's true courage that Melinda pulled off.
Yeah, I really liked her transformation from the beginning to the end. It was really great that she finally told someone (who didn't want to believe it but honestly did) and stood up for herself.
DeleteAt the end, I don't feel like Melinda was scared to admit she was raped. She was mostly scared of being raped again. Her character development made me happy of how she went from scared little girl to a strong teenage girl.
DeleteI like how this book ended. I just wish the author would have told more about what happened after she told people. I really like how she changed over the whole book.
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ReplyDeleteIn the book "Speak," I love the character development of Melinda. She's no longer a scared little girl hiding from everything and everyone. She told Rachel, Mr.Freeman, Ivy, and the Lacross team even knows. Melinda's character development is amazing.
ReplyDeleteHeather true intentions came out during the end of the book. She was never a friend of Melinda's. She only wanted someone to hang out with for a little while until she had a group of her own. She left Melinda for the Martha's then came crawling back to Melinda for help and when Melinda said no Heather got up a and left.
I don't feel like I'd change anything except maybe have an epilogue of her later in life happy and completely moved on from her past.
I beg to differ, I felt like Heather was a true friend. I think she was just bipolar and the way she acted explained her biploarness. This is just my opinion so I honestly don't know but I'm sure she was a true friend. Its just that she wanted to be popular or something of that sort.
DeleteThe part where Mel finally said no to Heather was one of the best parts (even though she shouldn't have lied, she should have just told her "no, I'm not letting you take advantage of me anymore") because she finally learned how to say the word NO was really awesome because she was being a little too nice to Heather and everyone else.
DeleteYea, it showed how brave she started to become at the end of the book when she told heather no and Andy no. It showed that she was a strong teenager and not a scared lite girl any more. She was no longer running from her problems.
DeleteI do like the way Melinda ended up, but I kind of wanted to know what her parents' reactions were. I feel like the author should have wrote a little more instead of stopping almost directly after getting trapped in the closet with Andy. What happened to Andy? I know the book is more about Mel, but I wanted to know if Andy was punished and if so what was the punishment? I also really liked how Rachel (Rachelle) reacted when Mel told her Andy raped her because she acted as if she didn't believe it, but if she wouldn't have believed it, she wouldn't have said anything to Andy about it at prom.
ReplyDeleteI loved how Mel went from sad, depressed, and lonely to mostly happy and more popular (well atleast that's what I assumed from the last journal entry). I feel like if the book was continued, she would be almost as popular as she was before she called the cops at the party and have most of the same friends she had before the party.
I really want to know what happened to Andy as well. I think Melinda does have a chance to be popular again. People will feel bad for her and then give her sympathy and try and be her friend. Her old friends will most likely take her back, so I think she'll be much happier and have more friends than she ever thought
DeleteI fell like Andy can't really get in to too much trouble because there wasn't any witnesses besides Melinda. Maybe if she told her parents they'd argue about it first, like they always do, and then her parents would probably leave a note saying that she may either need help or it's ok now and you'll be fine just don't collapse yourself mentally.
DeleteI really want to know what happened to Andy as well. I think Melinda does have a chance to be popular again. People will feel bad for her and then give her sympathy and try and be her friend. Her old friends will most likely take her back, so I think she'll be much happier and have more friends than she ever thought
DeleteKevin, think about how many people are raped. There didn't need to be a witness for him to get into trouble. Rape is rape.
DeleteIn my opinion, I liked the idea of the book. It's a entertaining idea to read about. However, I didn't like how the story was written. It would go back and fourth between first person and third person often and at many times it didn't make since to me what was going on. If I could change anything about the book, it would be how the events in the book unfolded and what happened during them. For example, when Guy was running from the police and stopped at Faber's house, I feel as if the book slowed down too much there. There should've been less dialogue and more action.
ReplyDeleteI also didn't like the way the book ended. The author should've included more of what happened to the city after the bombing, like what they're going to do and who they think it left. Although I don't really like how the book's story is told, I liked how Guy developed throughout the book. He started out doing what the government considered "right" by burning books. Finally he started learning the truth and his emotions took control. By the end of the book, Guy was free. He never had to do anything the government said to do ever again. Also the government was destroyed in the bomb so it's not like he could've listened to the government anyways.
I also liked the idea of the book, and thought it was entertaining to read about. Personally I really liked the author's writing style because if it fit the story and helped moved the plot along in places where it might have been bogged down in any other writing style. I like how the author developed Guy's character through the events in the book. If i could change anything about the book, I would have Clarisse reappear at the end. I enjoyed the ending of the book and the uncertainty that the author left by not explaining more what happens.
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DeleteI think if the author made it more clear about what he was writing about. However I did enjoy the book a lot, but just a little bit of small errors made me dislike it a little. I did like the idea and the characters. I don't like how it's written.
I liked the idea of the book as well. I agree that the scene were Montag goes to Faber when he is running needs to be shorter because it makes the part when he was running get really boring in that part. I think the ending should have been different too because it doesn't tell much of what they will do later and ends really boring. The government can't really do anything if they still are there anyway because the bombs probably killed the people that hate books and the firemen can't burn them anymore because they are dead.
DeleteIn the book Night has showed me the social injustice the Jews went through during World War II. In my opinion the book is very say, showing the readers the horror of concentration camps. The Jews were treated very badly by Nazis for no reason what so ever. The Germans would trick the Jews into going to a concentration camp , gas chamber and all other sorts of things. Also, the living conditions for Jews in the camps were horrible. The author of the book Night which is, Elie Wiseil gives his first account view of what it would have been like to live in the concentration camps. Specifically Auschwitz, the camp he lived in before the Russians rescued him. Elie tells about how he got separated from his mother and sisters, he got whipped, his father dying etc.. I did like the way the book ended with Elie being rescued but, to me it should have ended when Elie was stuck with the sick patients when the Germans liberated the camps. Since now after reading the book Elie states that the Germans would leave the sick patients behind and the Russians would find them.It is also sad that he his the only one to survive the Holocaust out of his entire family. I am not happy with Elie's transformation either. To me his personality has totally changed since he first entered the camp. He was brave and strong but, after realizing what kind of danger his was in Elie began to lose his faith in God. The only reason Eile kept living was for his father.
ReplyDeleteHe was not the only one to live out of his family, his two older sisters survived, and they met a few years later. I think Elie's faith will never be restored, how would it anyways? It's a horrible experience Elie went through. His father dying when they were just so close to be freed. Elie didn't care for anything else after his father died, what would he care about?
Deletei dont think this should have happened because why would someone kill a race if they havent done anything to them? the other people around tham acted clueless to what was going on. it could have been stopped sooner and all this suffering that these people had to go through could have not happened.
DeleteIn the book "speak" I really liked the character develpment of the characters. I really liked how at the beginning of the book Melinda was not popular she had no friends and hated coming to school. Then she started becoming more popular. It really surprised me how she came out and told heather what happened. I figured heather wasent gonna believe her then when Andy tried it on heather she believed. I really liked how Melinda changed throughout the book it made me want to keep reading.
ReplyDeleteIt don't like how the author stopped I wish he would have told what happend to Melinda when everyone found out. What happened to Andy and how it impacted her friendships with people.
Rachael***** not heather!
DeleteMelinda became popular near the very end but school did become less of a struggle for her. Rachel believed Melinda all along but was to scared to admit she was daring a rapist. I think most of her friendships will come back and she'll have most of her friends back. I think people will feel bad for her and try and be nicer.
DeleteI thought the book was good but it should have been wrote differently. When Montag is imagining things like when he is floating in the river imagining the barn it makes you think he's actually there and then is really confusing when it turns out he's not it should have been wrote differently so you could easily tell he wasn't there. It was sad when Clarisse died because her and Montag were becoming good friends. I don't think that Montag should have kept thinking about Mildred because she didn't seem to care about him that much.
ReplyDeleteI think it should have ended differently. It didn't tell anything about what would happen later it should have continued to tell a little more so you knew what will happen later instead of ending with the city being destroyed and them walking away. When Montag killed Beatty I think that he became to obsessed with it by thinking that he wanted to die and wondering why he wanted to die.
I also believe it should've ended differently. All I know is that the city got bombed but I want to know more. I feel like it was a rushed ending as well. There could've been more things being talked about before it ended.
DeleteThe part about the barn and the river was really confusing, i thought he was actually there. I agree that he should have quit worrying about Mildred because she really didn't care about him at all.
Delete1984 was interesting. While reading, I had the impression that life and joy was being sucked out of my soul, so I really don't have many opinions on the book itself. Everything was thought out to the extent that there were no gaps or gaping holes in the background of Winston's society. Winston didn't develop much in the book, he was already developed at the beginning of the book, but we don't learn everything about his character until later.
ReplyDeleteJulia was an interesting character to throw in, I enjoyed her rebellion, even though she was a bit self-centered and didn't see the bigger picture. I wonder if there is actually a brotherhood that is rebelling against BB, I would have liked there to actually be one.
The end of the book was very final. It didn't leave me wondering what happened next, wanting to know what happened next, or needing to know what happened next. Honestly finishing the book was like running into a solid brick wall as hard as possible and then sitting on the ground by the wall wondering why the wall didn't move.
'Night' is a book filled with emotions and feelings about genocide. The book shows how the Jews had only a few crumbs of bread and soup to live with. It's sad and horrific how skins and bones could be people, once people with families, and with a life, free to do what they wanted to do. Elie's father died in the end of the book, yet he could not cry over him, because he had no tears. It's sad how the pipel stayed hanging on the rope for half an hour lingering between life and death. I thought about the boom at night, how did Elie live? It was like I couldn't put the book down, I had to flip to the next page. The book had a good closure, I would not change anything about the book at all, it was great to think about What would happen next.
ReplyDeleteThe book wasn't only just sadness, it made me angry too. The SS solders treated the Jews horribly. How could you kill something without caring? It makes me mad how manipulative people can be. A few simple words could make you kill a whole race, a whole religion. The SS solders had a family, they had a life, and they took away the life of six million other people. How could you live with such guilt? Everything about the SS solders having a good life and not even caring about the Jews makes me frustrated.
my final thought about this book is that if they would have kept believing in their faith they could have done better. elie really stopped believing in his faith. he thought since they werent getting answers to their prayers then there must not be a god.
ReplyDeletewhen his father died he didnt even think about him he only thought of more food but in the chapter before he asked god to make him not be like that. eventhough he wanted them to keep going his father couldnt go on. all the stuff that used to get to him had become numb at this point.