okay so I finished it, I know I haven't posted on it yet, but I read fast. Anyway, this book follows the life of Eric Poole, an 8 to 15 year old struggling with his belief in god and magic. Okay, so he stars out, in the 60's in church, listening to all of these amazing tales of goe, and believing all of them, I am no atheist but I wonder why they (the church would feel it's okay to force a kid to believe something, he thought he could do magic by dressing up like a character in the old t.v. show bewitched, now of course he grew out of this but, the church really forced him to think it was their way or the highway.
I also think that the way his parents behave is interesting, more specifically, is mom and his moms mom, or his grandmother. I think his mom who acts like a total neat/control freak does so because her mother was so the opposite, and I feel while that is not necessarily the best way to be, it is complexity normal, and I feel alot of people tend to gravitate toward who their parents aren't.
Another theme in this book is loss of innocence. He thinks that he is magic and that everything will last forever, but it won't, things don't happen like that, and that is his major discovery throughout the plot of the story, that you can't be a child forever, however much you'd like to be.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
letters from mum
So, here I am, I want to post about a shocking revelation in the book, that demonstrates the complicated relationship shared by father and son. First
a spoiler ALERT
*****THE MOTHER IS NOT DEAD********** there but they found some letters from his mother before the incident ************the mother wrote letters to the son to try to communicate*********** the father hid these letters, I just think that this proves that the father might be, in a way, jealous, he was trying to protect his son, but I feel, jelous of his wife for the life she has.
to fairness, it must be hard, to take care of someone with aspergers syndrome, but still, I feel his response was not okay by any means. He wanted to protect but also protect himself from what she did, and felt his son would feel the same way but was afraid he wouldn't, this is my opinion.
a spoiler ALERT
*****THE MOTHER IS NOT DEAD********** there but they found some letters from his mother before the incident ************the mother wrote letters to the son to try to communicate*********** the father hid these letters, I just think that this proves that the father might be, in a way, jealous, he was trying to protect his son, but I feel, jelous of his wife for the life she has.
to fairness, it must be hard, to take care of someone with aspergers syndrome, but still, I feel his response was not okay by any means. He wanted to protect but also protect himself from what she did, and felt his son would feel the same way but was afraid he wouldn't, this is my opinion.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
dog in the nighttime
All right, it has been over a month so I figure I might inform those who read this blog that I am writing a picture book about a social action topic. In this case, discrimination against those with autism, steming from ignorance of it, and those diagnosed with it. I know this isn't strictly about my book, but I just started reading the mysterious case of the dog in the nighttime about a teenager with aspergers who is abandoned by his mother and discriminated agsainst by many.
I feel this is an issue of great prevelance as the number of the population with autism has vastly increaced scince the early 1900's. This book ilustrates in almost a shocking manner but definetly truthful, though the story is fiction.
you notice that the father himself, the protective character is not perfect and the stress of dealing with the main character is difficult although he has a high functioning form of autism.
THe father yells, and at one point almost gives up, however he, unlike almost the rest of the population, believes in his son, and understans him.
I feel this is an issue of great prevelance as the number of the population with autism has vastly increaced scince the early 1900's. This book ilustrates in almost a shocking manner but definetly truthful, though the story is fiction.
you notice that the father himself, the protective character is not perfect and the stress of dealing with the main character is difficult although he has a high functioning form of autism.
THe father yells, and at one point almost gives up, however he, unlike almost the rest of the population, believes in his son, and understans him.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Upside down dog
The book which I have just began reading today, known as "the mysterious case of the upside down dog in the nighttime, is a fantastic book about a child with Asperger's syndrome, and accusations that he killed a dog, and his work to try to find out about his deceased mother.
I feel myself starting to push away at the point where his mother never picked him up after school and we found out that she died...
It was so hard for me to think about how he would deal with her death.
SPOILERS *Also, we are begining to find out that his mother is alive, his father wanted to hide the fact that his mother had left so he said that she was dead. she had constantly wrote letters to him telling her she loved him - letters that never got there due to his father. At this point, I felt so disgusted the mother could leave, and the father would do something like that*
just the whole situation was so horrible that I had to pull away, this might have been because of the fact that if I was in that position, I'm not sure what I would have done...
I feel myself starting to push away at the point where his mother never picked him up after school and we found out that she died...
It was so hard for me to think about how he would deal with her death.
SPOILERS *Also, we are begining to find out that his mother is alive, his father wanted to hide the fact that his mother had left so he said that she was dead. she had constantly wrote letters to him telling her she loved him - letters that never got there due to his father. At this point, I felt so disgusted the mother could leave, and the father would do something like that*
just the whole situation was so horrible that I had to pull away, this might have been because of the fact that if I was in that position, I'm not sure what I would have done...
Monday, October 25, 2010
Just ice
Just ice
just ice in harry potter, though in a school enviroment, one we generally think as comforting,or really hell depending,
but also, there is no justice in the way people, with out correct evidence. Since he can speak parseltounge, he is the heir of slytherin, since dumbledore couldn't stop the attacks, it comes to the governers attention and he is fired, most of all rubeus hagrid is fired when he didn't open the chamber of secrets, riddle did, and Hagrid was framed.
HAGrid, though he has a liking for dangerous monsters, is kind, and would never have commited the crimes, it's not your abilities that define you, it's your choices.
just ice in harry potter, though in a school enviroment, one we generally think as comforting,or really hell depending,
but also, there is no justice in the way people, with out correct evidence. Since he can speak parseltounge, he is the heir of slytherin, since dumbledore couldn't stop the attacks, it comes to the governers attention and he is fired, most of all rubeus hagrid is fired when he didn't open the chamber of secrets, riddle did, and Hagrid was framed.
HAGrid, though he has a liking for dangerous monsters, is kind, and would never have commited the crimes, it's not your abilities that define you, it's your choices.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
harry potter 2 hard issues
There is a theme of assumption in this book because of harry being able to talk to snakes. Because of this ability everyone assumes that he is dangerous. In fact he is not the dangerous one at all bet the one who stops the danger from killing those in Hogwarts.
Also there is a theme of "stranger danger" because of the relationship between tom riddle and Ginny Weasly. When ginny becomes to attached to her diary it possess her and almost kills her, though this isn't quite the same as in real life it still represents the same idea of don't keep something close unless you know it's safe.
There is lastly a theme of loss of freedoms, in the beginning it's quite easy to see, with uncle Vernon barring harry inside of his room. but slowly all of harry's freedoms begin to get stripped away. he loses his friends, his quidditch games and his best friend. he begins to lose things and he begins to suffer more and more until he does something about it.
Also there is a theme of "stranger danger" because of the relationship between tom riddle and Ginny Weasly. When ginny becomes to attached to her diary it possess her and almost kills her, though this isn't quite the same as in real life it still represents the same idea of don't keep something close unless you know it's safe.
There is lastly a theme of loss of freedoms, in the beginning it's quite easy to see, with uncle Vernon barring harry inside of his room. but slowly all of harry's freedoms begin to get stripped away. he loses his friends, his quidditch games and his best friend. he begins to lose things and he begins to suffer more and more until he does something about it.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Archtype entry on the Giver
I think that, in The Giver, the shadow is the idea of perfection. The shadow is defined as the thing/character, that is the heroes main enemy.
Release for one, is a potentially perfect idea of a new, happy, life in elsewhere, while in actuallity, to the few that know it, it is an unnecessary death. Someone is released when they either, commit 3 major breaches against the rules, like a death penalty, for the old, when they whish to, or reach to old, they can apply for release or will be released, and the realease also goes for imperfect newborns, or twins.
no emotions or choices keeps everyone safe and content without war famine or anything humanity can bring on itself, but also stops love, individuality, and pain, for you can't be happy without sadness, it stops experience and growth.
To keep everything perfect isn't possible, for there must be complete control, which of course leads to corruption. With release one way and forced un - individuality the next it is not perfection which leads to a distopic hidden hell hole where a utopia is supposed to lie, it is the tempting desire to make perfect and to seize total control to do it, in essence, one of humanities main values, to make perfect, is one of our most frightening, in our desire to better everything we see, we strip it of everything it was, without our control, loosing its individuality.
Jonas is used to, and in the begining, somewhat unwilling to release the idea of perfection, however he does, when he realizes what human nature has done to all that was, and he never thought to notice it, or realize it was wrong.
Release for one, is a potentially perfect idea of a new, happy, life in elsewhere, while in actuallity, to the few that know it, it is an unnecessary death. Someone is released when they either, commit 3 major breaches against the rules, like a death penalty, for the old, when they whish to, or reach to old, they can apply for release or will be released, and the realease also goes for imperfect newborns, or twins.
no emotions or choices keeps everyone safe and content without war famine or anything humanity can bring on itself, but also stops love, individuality, and pain, for you can't be happy without sadness, it stops experience and growth.
To keep everything perfect isn't possible, for there must be complete control, which of course leads to corruption. With release one way and forced un - individuality the next it is not perfection which leads to a distopic hidden hell hole where a utopia is supposed to lie, it is the tempting desire to make perfect and to seize total control to do it, in essence, one of humanities main values, to make perfect, is one of our most frightening, in our desire to better everything we see, we strip it of everything it was, without our control, loosing its individuality.
Jonas is used to, and in the begining, somewhat unwilling to release the idea of perfection, however he does, when he realizes what human nature has done to all that was, and he never thought to notice it, or realize it was wrong.
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