Book: Tricks
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Pages Read(122-144)
Alright, so today's post is based on the subject strangers. Taken from the book Whitney and her friend Paige go to the mall and spot this very handsome cute guy who they claim to be about 10 years older then them. Naturally people would have gotten creeped out by this weird dude starring at them, most people would have said something. Instead the character goes and talks with the guy named Bryn(which clearly is a girls name). Now, I'm not gonna judge anyone but to me this sounds like he's a major creep and she's majorly desperate. OK never mind I'm judging, this girl is about to get herself in deep crap. it may seem like dating a totally cute 10 years older man is the hot thing to do right now but later it'll be the worst mistake of your life. My prediction to this is that she calls him and asks to hang out and then something happens but she doesn't stop it and it'll become a bad habit. Another connection that's made is the girl Ginger. She's the one with the alcoholic mother and has 4 other siblings that she has to take care of. Anyways in these couple pages it was mentioned that shes had to move around a lot and hasn't made a lot of friends,except one named Alex. Later Ginger voices the fact that shes thought about Alex in others ways,kissing and cuddling ways. Could this mean that Gingers a lesbian? Or something might happen between the two? Well I think so. These books always surprise me and keep me guessing but I think this is foreshadowing something might happen later on. Another tradagy that's happened was that as soon as Ginger got home she saw police cars and an ambulance and as she got closer she saw that her little brother had gotten hit by a car-but the car fled. Good thing he was breathing, that's way too much sadness to happen right in the beginning of the book. Oh jeez it's become way to intense.
Writing Reflection
This week in class we have been working on the new project called "Newspaper Blackout" all Ive really gotten from it is we take an "interesting" article( ha ha implying the paper is interesting) and basically you read through it a few billion times to make a poem out of interesting language. Now I wasn't here for the first day so of course when I was just told to do it I found it really difficult trying to find concepts to censor about. Ive tried taking a look at some other ones and how people incorporate designs into it completely lost me ..they must be super talented. Ive personally only done 2 right now I think the second is better just because the words make a little bit more sense. I'm really struggling on finding another piece for my last one... looks like Ill have tonnes of homework tonight. Compared to the others we've done I truthfully find this one the most challenging, to think taking out bulk would be easy,no going through a piece and taking stuff out to make something interesting is hard.. especially if you accidentally blackout a word you crucially needed then your whole thing is messed up. Not going to lie I did that. I think that this has made me better at seeing messages in something..sort of deciphering messages but I know that this hasn't been my strongest field so far. I over heard the teacher talking with our digital yoda--Recalling what she said-- "I think that this assignment will be good for them, all the pent up stress about exams and grad I think being able to just attack a newspaper with a black marker will be theraputic in a way". I totally agreed with this is is kinda of exciting, and I think that if i were a little bit more stressed out i would have excelled at this assignment way more then now.
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