Friday, June 27, 2014

Summer Reading Assignment Blog #2

Since the last Blog post I have read another 60 pages or so of my book and so far I like it. I can probably finish the book on the flight to California where were going in a couple of days. In this blog post I will talk about The complexity of the characters, I named all the characters in Blog 1 if you don't know who any of these people are. The main character is called Steve Harmon he is falsely accused of murder, its pretty simple what he want (or desires) all he wants is to be put free and not go for jail what he has not done. And then we have to judge pretty simple what he wants "JUSTICE". then we have O'Brien the lawyer (defensive attorney) who wants to do everything to make sure Steve does not go to prison. Im am not really noticing a theme yet maybe the theme is revealed more later in the book or at the end. I really like how to book is structured its written as a movie script the whole book is written like a movie script, its one of the main reasons why I chose this book. it makes the book easier to read.
And you pay more attention to little details.well ill will end this blog post now and i think you should really give this book a try I hate reading and i like this book.

Sunday, June 22, 2014

Summer Reading Assignment Blog #1


The book i'm reading is called Monster, as said on the paper it is from the Printz Award Winner list. The book is about a boy named Steve Harmon and is falsely accused murder and he is only 16 years old. The book has a very interesting style of writing everything is written as a movie script. It’s written like the camera zooms in on Timmy's face as he says goodbye to his best friend, the camera follows Timmy's best friend. The major characters in this book are the main character Steve Harmon, Sandra Petrocelli as the Dedicated Prosecutor, Kathy O'Brien as the defense Attorney, James King as the thug, Richard "Bobo" Evans as the rat, Osvaldo Cruz as the tough guy wannabe, Lorelle Henry as the whitness, and Jose Delgado he found the body. As I said before the book is written as a movie script so this is infront of the book like how it would be on a real movie script. The setting of this book right now is a courtroom but my predicton is that the setting will be a prison to. There are many conflicts happening because right now the book is taking place in a courtroom so the main conflict is who is quilty Steve Harmon or James king. My predictions are that Steve Harmon will go to Prison. Some questions I have are how did this start? What happend before Steve was arrested? And what did he do exactly to get caught? I can’t really find any connection to movies, and shows because I never really watched any shows or movies like this book. Im going to read a chunk more to and then do the next Blog.