Book 4: reflection

Literary Analysis:
The character that I find somewhat odd but nice is Caitlin who is also the main character and the narrator in the book mockingbird , she has Asperger's syndrome which is a condition were children can become socially awkward or not understand social norms but they can excel in a subject in an advanced level. With Caitlin she is a master artist and people in the book comment about it, she also likes drawing birds but an interesting thing about her drawing is that she does not like to draw things in color only in black and white as she says If you mix red and yellow than you get orange and if u mix it again you get a different orange

Caitlin is considered a modern hero in that she tries to come to terms with what happened to her brother and what happens to people around her, also because of her condition she cannot understand empathy and thus tries to actually find it rather than understand it characters around her are not actual heroes but try to accept what happened. one character is Caitlin's father who is most effected by it and is so broken that he would cry in front of Caitlin or try to get out of the room when she's around. though she does not understand it she can easily see thru his lies. an interesting thing about her is that while she does not understand empathy she can read peoples faces easily knowing when her father was lying and when her counselor is annoyed she can tell and figure out what not to do in the situation

She is also a modern hero in that she tries to understand others and tries to learn with her actions do to others. She also tries to figure out the situation to anyone else of what happened and does not necessarily get what people are trying to do but she still wants to realize what's happened one trait is that she does not like looking at people in the eye and its that this trait is realized when Caitlin is in Devon's room and tries to draw him and was able to draw everything except his eyes. She talks about him as she draws him (116)  I draw Devon's eyes in the top left corner. in the top right corner I draw his mouth with his lips curled up to show he's happy , I draw his crooked nose in the bottom left corner. his chest is in the bottom right corner. its still not finished. and I guess it never will be.

I think that the character is a likeable person in that she is like a more upfront version of Scout from to kill a mockingbird  which she actually says in the book. She fits into Jennifer wieners argument but in the opposite sense because since she has Asperger's and thus does not think the same as everyone else and her interpretations on things are either different or more point blank and I think that it gives a new perspective on people that have Asperger's or a similar condition.

A characters that can compare to Caitlin is Scout from to kill a mockingbird because she is almost similar to her in every other way. they are both young girls that are tomboys and never really act like a girl they cannot tell right from wrong in some situations, and they usually learn something or if they don't get something they learn it from their brother from scout Jem, and from Caitlin Devon that cant really tell from right and wrong and that they usually learn something from their brother in Caitlin's case Devon.

Book 2 Trailer

Post 10: wishlist

1. Gone: Michael grant
2. Shatter me: Tahereh Mafi
3. life as we know it: susan beth
4. The forbidden game: L.J. smith
5.Another little piece: Kate Quinn

Book talk presentation

5 Reasons why Rhine from Sever is a pessimist

 

Rhine lives in a world where the immortals have a curse of living in a perfect body but at the price of living in for only 20 years and as such she believes that it would end horribly for her

She doesn't really believe in what people tell in especially if its in a positive outlook

Even when people try to she only dismisses it and tries to think for what could've happened

1- She believes in nonexistence

When characters die in her life she believes that they wouldn't exist anymore and that they have disappeared from the earth. she tries to think of an after life but the struggles she faces thru the story make her think differently on everything and she becomes more filled into despair. This thought is always in the story because the time limit that everyone has because of the disease as they call it ends life immediately as such Rhine always think whenever the outcome of something is always bad she gives in.

2- She hates blindness

When Cecily, a friend of Rhine acts all happy and carefree somewhat angers Rhine to where she wants to yell at her and make her see the reality but she does not knowing of what her life was like. example would be when her sister wifely loves linden so she would do anything to please him like how she would betray Rhine  shouldn't necessarily mean to out of hate and she somewhat her and when her husband linden she feels guilty posing linden to the world and doing everything to his life

3- She is scared of superstitions

When she escapes the mansion and travels thru the country she meets a fortune teller and she describes the future Rhine would be in and though she does not necessarily fear what would happen she is scared of it actually happen and is completely paranoid of it happening through the book. what turns out to be true is that somebody does die in the exact way that it was said and she tries to come to come to terms that it happened.

4- She does not like medical facilities

Though she does think of herself as a bit odd due to her eyes she despises the medical facilities in that her parents where killed because they were trying to find a cure and that it would bring meaningless hope to anyone and thus hates being around them and she becomes more saddened because her brother now bombs them and she realizes is that it was only for selfish gain. also in the 1st and 2nd novel she is tormented to experiments set up by Vaughn to study her eyes and she t helpless the whole time and when she has finally escaped she becomes somewhat scared of being alone in a hospital room or building all together

5-Vaughn

Her father in law Vaughn did unjust things to her and those around her and who she cares for and throughout all 3 books she expresses her distaste for him yet could never stand up to him and only sly her way thru the conversations. the perfect example is when she sees thru Vaughn's trickery and when Cecily's child becomes stillborn Vaughn tries to lie by wording his way thru the arguments to get Cecily and linden to come with him to the mansion. though she do at some point believe in what Vaughn says but quickly tries to dismiss it.

Blog post #5

I think that when a story would be considered non fiction would be that when you can relate to the story so well that you can even have a story of your own of what would happen because when you can relate to it that easily you could possibly think of yourself being in the story and living it out and if its so relatable be able to predict what could happen next or be shocked what could happen next.

Yes have truths are okay , because Laila Lalami a writer quotes "When your writing non fiction to me its based on fact, naturally in the process of writing there are going to be things you remember differently than other people" and she talks about when people write about a personal experience they are going to remember it by their memory and personal experience, and when James Frey does talk about the accident that occurred between the 2 students he did lie on that he caused it but he most likely wrote on how he felt when it happened

No, mostly because though when we read a novel we don't really care what genre it would be if we loved the story so much we would pretty much ignore the genre altogether and try to just continue reading the story and even if it were non fiction or fiction a majority of people would put their place in the main characters to want to get a glimpse of what it would be like

Blog post 4

The specific challenge a filmmaker would have in developing this film would be the abilities shown to the main character Alex as the effect caused her to have the ability to read the actions of others with her sense of smell which allows her to have the actions though of ahead which moves the book forward also in the book her sense of smell starts to enhanced and she's able to tread the enemies movements but she starts to worry that shell become like them in the near future so what I would change is that she starts to instead be able to read thru there actions instead

the connection towards Alex and the town of rule especially its citizens specifically Sarah and tori which are a side plot but there actions start to affect the main plot

the previous group Alex was with who were tom and Ellie, because in the previous book Ellie was taken by a group for her being young and unchanged and tom was injured and told Alex to go and in the book , some parts are told to what happened to tom and what he is going to do to try and find Alex while Ellie is still missing and is unheard of but still mentioned throughout the book

The plot event I would most definitely take out would be the section were Alex has to provide health care to the changed when she learned from Kincaid in rule and when she had to go to there base there was pretty much an orgy like literally she described what was happening in detail and it was just uncomforting seeing how they are wild now

another part would be when a scene plays out of tom trying to help someone that was drowning the reason for this is because in the book the only light source tom describers in the book is the moon and he says it gives off a pale green color and because of that tom pretty much sees complete blackness and I think that should be taken out of at least changed as there would be nothing to see thru toms or the viewers perspective