BP #8 Ordinary world

For my ordinary world, I have chosen to look at the home of Katniss from the Hunger Games. Her ordinary world is District 12, the last of all districts in Panem. Here she lives in the Seam, The poorest part of District 12, with her sister and her half- alive mother, her best friend Gale and many other people including the mysterious bakers son, Peeta. Katniss feels alot of pressure in District 12 and rarely smiles. Some pressures placed on Katniss are that she has to feed her family, keep herself alive and lay low. It isn't until the reaping that Katniss is finally pushed to leave District 12 and join the games. of course, Katniss's ordinary world doesnt just include the Seam, it also includes  the forest beyond the fence where she spends many days hunting with Gale. As awful as life is in the Seam and no matter how hard you try food is scarce to come by its still home and theres always a place for hope.

"It was slow-going at first, but I was determined to feed us. I stole eggs from nests, caught fish in nets, sometimes managed to shoot a squirrel or rabbit for stew, and gathered the various plants that sprung up beneath my feet. Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and you’re dead. I checked and double-checked the plants I harvested with my father’s pictures. I kept us alive". -Katniss Everdeen page 19
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Passion bp#7

Okay so to continue Luce and Daniel's story, Luce has just gone into an announcer to find out more about her past with Daniel and to find out if its true love that he has for her or if they're just bound together by a curse. When Luce exits the announcer, she is in Moscow during a war where she is confused for her past life girl named Lushka. I'm wondering why Luce is doing this as Daniel is risking life and limb to keep her alive and undo the curse  that binds them. I guess that she makes sense because if the roles between Luce and I were reversed, I would want to be with Daniel to help figure out the curse rather then be locked away in a school where I don't fit in with the nephelim kids. Luce trying to figure out her lives and trying to save herself before anything else bad could happen reminds me of the movie Eragon where the main character is not only on a journey to help rebel against King Galbatorix but trying to find who he is and his inner courage. The journey on finding the true main character is what I like to call an inner quest as he searches for the man he is inside. I am excited to see how this book will unfold and if Luce will have found herself like Eragon and weather her love with Daniel is true or if they both need to escape the curse placed on them for centuries.

Who is the hero? bp#6

I"m still reading The Warlock by Michael Scott. My prediction for the role of hero, I'd say might be Sophie. The very first book has a prophecy saying "One to save the world, and the other to destroy it." page 26 of The Alchemist by Michael Scott. Of the Newman twins, Sophie is my first choice because she is on the side with the Flamels, whereas her brother is with Dr. John Dee, and his temporary accomplice, Virgina Dare. Dee and Dare constantly leave things in a state of shock and destruction, the Flamels do too, but Dee's sole purpose is to return the elders to the earth, especially the evil ones. I don't trust Dee which makes me think that Sophie will end up the reigning hero. Sophie also has traits of the archetypal hero. She suffers through the hardship of being "awakened" and travelling all over the world in like a week, and she suffers seperation from her twin brother Josh. Sophie and Josh are really all that eacht other had growing up because their parents were normally off on an archelogical dig somewhere on the earth. Sophie is also reluctant to believe in magic, and she is innocent, because she was trying only to help her brother and the store he worked in from being hijacked by Dee and his golemns, when she finds herself sucked into a world of mystery. Yet there is always the possibility that the burden of destroying the world could be Sophie, but I highly doubt that as Tsagasal or " The One Who Watches" told Sophie that it very well could be Sophie on Alcatraz with Dee about to let loose all creatures of Nightmare on San Fransisco.

this reminds me of bp # 3

Okay so if you haven't figured it out already, I read pretty quick. So I currently have finished the book called Tigers Curse and loved it. I bring this book up because I wish to connect it to the recent book I'm reading called Wither by Lauren Destefano. In this book there is a virus that kills all women by the age of 20 and men by the age of 24. The main character, Rhine,  is picked up by gatherers to become one of the many brides of Houesmaster  Linden. This connects to my other book because the main character Kelsey is whisked away by night to help save her tiger friend who can really turn into a Indian prince named Deihren and they embark on a dangerous quest through the jungles of Mumbai. They connect because both Kelsey and Rhine are trying to achieve their freedom even though one is from the jungle with a man she doesn't know or trust too well and another from the mansion shes been imprisoned in to become a wife to a guy she doesn't love for the rest of her 4 years.

Character Archetypes!

I am currently reading The Warlock by Micheal Scott. The character I am going to focus on is Josh Newman, one of the twins of legend. He has a golden aura which is supposed to be the most rare and powerful. In the first book The Alchemist, the prophecy written by Abraham the Mage is made as follows; "the two that are one, the one that is all. One to save the world, the other to destroy it." page 26. I think that josh will end up destroying the world. To me, Josh has the archetype of the shape shifter. He is at first with Nicolas Flamel and his twin when he goes with the infamous Dr. John Dee. He says " I believe in a future where everyone is safe, and that will be brought on by the elders Dee is summoning" page 230, The Warlock and in the first book The Alchemist Josh says "I am with you, Flamel." For now I am unsure where Josh's loyalties lay, as he has left Sophie and Flamel to join Dee, but he is very flighty so he very well could return before aiding in the fall of Danu Talis.

Main Character blog post #4

What I have learned about the protaganist in my book is there is a 17 year old girl named Luce who has just found the love of her life or rather lives because she will live on forever. She has an "I don't care"attitude toward school and any other person who isn't Daniel or her close friends, Miles and Shelby. Luce is brave and very determined. to prove it,I found the following quote; "t wants me to," she said aloud. "I can do this. I can save her. I can save my life." She leaned back slightly and then thrust her body into the Announcer." page 271. I chose this quote because it shows how Luce wants nothing more than to save herself, She also wishes to be allowed to love Daniel the way she wants to without the curse, and figure out her lives and how she can undo the curse done to her and her beloved Daniel which to me is very brave because to go into an Announcer after being haunted by them all her life, running scared from them, Luce enters one. I predict that Luce will figure out the riddle that is her and Daniel's love life and finally join him with the angels and they won't have to go through the pain of losing each other over and over again.

Summary and Review bp#2

The main character in this book is Anise. For her, life is difficult because she is battaling anoerexia in rehab, her brother is having issues with drugs and partying, and her parents...she can't stand them. The main idea of this book is that there is always a way to make yourself better, which Anise does acheive at the end after she meets her boyfriend body and has a role model teache. But before all that happened..... I feel as if Anise thinks that her life is worth nothing and she doesn't believe in the ability to recover from it. I can connect to Anise on a personal level because she has a lot of pressures in her teenage life and she can't figure a way out, yet the difference is that I have support from my family and my friends, whereas Anise is a cast-out and deals with her problems by cutting herself.

A Good Book Has No Ending ~ Response

" A good book has no ending ~ R.D Cummings" I believe this quote to be true because when you truly read a magnificent book you can be captivated by the characters and you feel what they feel, and feel as if their problems are your own. When finished, you don't simply forget the characters, you remember the connections you made or the predictions that you made in your mind. For me, a good book will make me see the words come alive in my mind as if I was watching a movie, therefore, the movie will continue in my head and will truly never, ever, die off as I have figuratively fallen in love with the book. some other things that could influnce me remembering it are the way the author can describe things like scenery and just transport you to be where the character is.

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