1.) While reading the two books every other day. I feel like I am becoming a better reader already. Every time I start to read with a highlighter, I know I am going to comprehend more smaller details then before. By writing new characters, new settings, and new descriptions about a character in the upper margins. It helps me see the book in a whole new perspective by me visualizing a place or a person. Before, I didn’t even take that much notes, and sometimes I didn’t even know what was going on due to the lack of note taking. With all of that being said, I am starting to enjoy reading a lot more! Sometimes in the book “The House On Mango Street”. It’s hard for me to keep up taking notes of the characters, places, and little details because there is an excessive amount of detail to pay attention to. You also have to look at it this way. You need to take excessive amount of notes because it will help you understand better and the book will become more enjoyable.
2.) Every book is different and it has its own touch to make the book its own on of a kind. With “A Long Way Gone”, I feel like its hard for me to figure out if a chapter is past tense or present because the main character might have PTSD. I’m just inferring he has it due to the excessive brutal flashbacks he always talks about. On the flip side, the main character does a fantastic job on putting the reader in his shoes. He explains everything in such detail and tells us what he is feeling. Next, the book “The House On Mango Street” is a very interesting book to digestive due to its fast past and crazy amounts of figurative language. In the first paragraph, I mentioned my weakness is “It’s hard for me to keep up taking notes of the characters, places, and little details because there is an excessive amount of detail to pay attention to.” Elaborating on that. I wish its pace was down a few notches because I want to know a little more about the crazy cat lady or Louies other cousin with the yellow Cadillac. A strength for me is the use of figurative language. I don’t know why but I really think using that type of language just brings more readers in. It makes me understand things that normal words can’t describe!
3.) By reading chapters four through seven, Ive noticed multiple themes that came to my mind, but only one stood out to me and that is war has no limit. Starting off with the work War. War is very powerful to say and even to think of. No one wants war, it destroys peoples lives, the economy, and even the agricultural. All four chapters have at least one or more sentence describing war. “My heart throbbed with pain as I watched my brother lying on the ground, pretending to be one of the dead bodies” (Pg 28). Kicking it off with the no limit part of the theme. War can even change people. No one ever steels, unless you are a horrible person, but anyways. Ishmael B and his group go into a small village with money looking to buy food. Turns out the money there is worthless, so they go to the last resort and stole food from a sleeping family! This all is important to understand because war can change anything in any way.
I would agree that war does dramatically change the environment but there is a few statements that are just wrong.The phrase "they probably needed it more than I" is usually the reason why people steal. Your point should be war makes people take drastic actions in order to survive thus sympathy and trust because each tries to cover their own instead of each other. Then the war point is also an issue for few reasons. Mainly because the profit earned is greater than what is lost during war or whatever type of economical issue happens.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Jeremy! I will look outside the box more.
DeleteMr. David I agree with your theme that war has no limit. Additionally I believe war changes a persons morals as well. This was demonstrated when Ishmael and his friends like you said went into a village and stole food from some villagers. It was almost as if at that moment Ishmael and his group lost a sense of the rules they were originally told.
ReplyDeleteI like your theme a lot in this book that war has no limits. War will change people and it will shut things down in a country or town. It changes the complete spectrum of a countries landscape for years to come.
ReplyDeleteDr David i am very impressed how you got used to highlighted the book.It is amazing how people can get use to something so quick
ReplyDelete