Between a Rock and a Hard Place

I didn't finish Between a Rock and a Hard Place. I'm almost done; I did watch the movie though. Many of the events were the same. The movie was very silent because it was mainly him stuck in the crevice, thinking about freedom, and events that happened in his life. He was told multiple times in the movie that he would die alone, that stament hit him hard after Aron realized he couldn't get out. He thought back to his previous girlfriend and how she left him at a basketball game and told him he would be alone for the rest of his life.
Around day three he started losing his mind, he had a video camera and was pretending he was on a talk show, there were multiple callers (all named Aron) they would comment on Aron's situation, and there was a crowd in the background cheering and laughing at his pain. I think that he stayed really strong throughout the five days. He had a few incidents where he was pretty much insane, the talk show and he was half asleep at one point and he dreamt about getting free. A storm was passing through and it flash flooded the crevice and he got his arm free and swam to the surface. He was only dreaming and when he awoke he basically cried.
Day four was interesting; Aron finally decided he had no other options but to cut off his arm. He fashioned a tourniquet just below his elbow. He then realized that his blade just wasn’t going to cut through the bone in his arm. He managed to break his arm before cutting it. After he broke the arm I could barely watch, he stabbed into his arm and cut.
He got out of the crack and found water, it was really dirty, and he drank a lot of it. He managed to walk a long ways and there was a family walking and he yelled out and they saved him. They called someone and a helicopter came and he was saved. In the book it talks about his recovery, he got a lot of infection from the water and the wound, but he lived through all of it.
Three years after the accident Aron found his soul mate and married her they then had a son. So he wasn’t going to die alone after all. I enjoyed the movie and the book, and I will finish it.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

This story is going by so very slowly... i read whenever i can because it's so interesting though. Aron has been trapped long enough that he thinks he's going to die so he has been making a video diary in hopes that someone will find it when he is gone. He has basically given up hope in surviving and is thinking about all of the things he did wrong when he was hiking those few days before. How Kristi and Megan were sent as his guardian angels. And all of his mistakes.
He goes back into his life before his arm was gone, and talks about all of the climbing and work he has done. Right now he is climbing at Mount Holy Cross. He almost died climbing this one too. He went up to the summit, and the nest day when he was coming back down he slipped into a hole and the snow made a cracking sound and the ground started to give way. He realized that the previous day he had climbed right over that very spot and nothing had happened, but as he looked down at the damage he saw that if he hadn't jumped over onto the rocks that were next to where he was standing he would have fallen about 500 feet. His body would have been smashed against the rocks below. He then talks about how we look over the small things that we survive every day,but when it comes to the huge things we notice.

When Aron goes back to the "present" time he is still talking about the video diary and he edventually has to turn it off after explaining most of what has happened so far and how he got into that mess. He has to turn the camera off for a second or two because he starts to get choked up and he cries. He turns the camera back on and says i love you and goodbyes to his family.

I find myself feeling so sorry for him because of all the things he's been through, but then i think, he's made so many mistakes he should have learned from them by now but obviously hasn't because he's still making them. All of these incidents have only made him stronger as a person and a hiker i think.

The last time I posted on the book, The Tender Years, I had given you the full story of Victoria's life with Jenny and their love interest, Jamison Curtis. Actually in this story, there were two main plot lines going on at the same time. When Victoria wasn't worrying about Jenny, annoyed about her parents, or talking with Jamison, she was thinking about Rett Marshall. Rett was a man who never really talked much, spent his days roaming the woods, and only cared about injured animals. When the raft tipped over that night with Victoria's friends on it, he was the first to arrive to help the kids out. He stayed in that freezing water so long, but he refused to stop looking for the last boy. When He finally did find him, Rett took him to town where the doctors tried to save him, all to no avail. After the boy died, his family and the rest of the gullible members in town tried to blame Rett that he must have tipped the raft over. They even went as far as framing him for a theft crime he didn't commit. In the end however, the person who really framed him came out and announced Rett innocence at he trial, and all ended well.

I really liked this side of the plot because it gave me a break from Victoria and her problems and let me focus on another big picture at hand. I thought, along with Victoria, that Rett was simply not capable of doing the things he was accused of. He was not that type at all if you really knew who the man was. However, he was not the kind of man to stand up for himself. He just sat there at his trial and said nothing. Maybe unspoken words are sometimes the best said...

I was so glad that in the end, Rett was able to be free to roam again, helping all the animals in his path along the way. I just hope that no one will ever take advantage of Rett Marshall again. For now, I know I will follow Jannete Oke further in her series.

Perfect Match

I read Perfect Match. by Jodi Picoult.
its about a young boy whos sexually abused by a priest. What happens is that everyone falsely accuses a priest of doing it, when it was actually a visiting priest. The real molester had a bone marrow transplant from the falsely accused priests, show they shared DNA.
The mother of the boy, who's a DA, actually ended up killing the falsely accused priest. The jury couldnt reach a verdict so she wasnt charged with murder, just manslaughter, but her sentence was suspended.

Week 7: The Secret Life of Bees

When I last posted about the Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, I explained how Lily Owen's mother died. Lily, the main character, is now a 14 year old girl who lost her mother due to a tragic accident. She lives with her ever so cruel father, T-Ray, and Rosaleen, a black worker in T-Ray's orchard. As you know, the story was set in a time of racial discrimination. One day, Rosaleen comes into Lily's room and tells her to tell her father that she wouldn't be coming to the house tomorrow morning because she's going to her church to register to vote for the fourth of July. Lily, with it being her birthday tomorrow, wants to get out of the house, so she asks Rosaleen if she could accompany her. Rosaleen agrees and comes early in the morning to pick her up. They had to walk all the way to town. Because it was so hot outside, they stopped inside the church that T-Ray and Lily go to to rest. The deacon there is racist and doesn't welcome Rosaleen with much heart. They left the church after a while and finally got to Sylvan, which is the worst part of town. They walked past, or tried to anyways, a small group of men who started saying things like "Where're you going to nigger?" Lily, attempting to get Rosaleen to not turn around failed and Rosaleen couldn't help but wave the fact that she was going to get registered to vote in there faces. The men kept on throwing slanderous things and words at Rosaleen, so she spit on their shoes. The men called the police on her and she was arrested for assault, theft, and distubing the peace.

Week 7- The Tender Years

Since I have last blogged, I have finished the book, The Tender Years.I can't exactly blog about it all at once, beings that so many main things have happened in the plot. As the story goes on, Virginia wrestles with herself whether she should be the Christian and help and pray for Jenny to turn her toward her faith, or the firm friend who stands her ground and doesn't take Jenny's harsh ultimatums. As she decides which side of the fence she should be on, her family, church, and other friends are aiding her in staying on the side with God. One such friend doing this is Jamison Curtis, who is the boy Jenny is infatuated with. Even after all of the help Virginia had given Jenny, she still grew angry when Virginia so much as spoke to Jamison. She thought that Virginia shouldn't have any business with him, for she had her eyes on him from the very beginning she had started to go to church, Jamison being the only reason she went to church or Youth Group at all. After all of the flirting and extra time Jenny put into her appearance, Virginia had enought and decided that she didn't care that Jenny saw Jamison in that way first. She put her foot down, just like I hoped she would.

This story to me was ultimately very entertaining. I loved the spin to the melodramatics of today's teens. I liked how the time was set back into the approximate 20's or so, making the experiences they took part in much different, like dating, or courting, for example. Everything had to be approved by parents and there was only certain ways it could be deemed appropriate. In the topic of dating, I thoughbt it was funny to see Virginia's changing feelings toward Jamison and how she thought she was wrong for having the feelings. She almost seemed confused, making it all the more funny. Another thing-slightly off topic- I really liked was how the Simpson family always made sure that everyone was always included and felt like they were needed and were important as the next kid. The way Virginia developed as a person to actually see that they cared just as much about her as Clara was very interesting, for I knew the family did all along. There are many more details of this book, but I will be sure to touch on them in the upcoming blog. Stay tuned!

The story starts at an outdoor wedding. Orrin is going to be marrying Mary Tripp. While the wedding is going on Higginses walks up the road towards the wedding with a gun in hand. Orrin does nothing about it because he is caring more about marring the beautiful young lady in front of him. One of Orrin’s brothers meets Higginses on the road and tells him to stop but Higginses doesn’t stop. Orrin pulls his gun and tells him to stop but he didn’t so Orrin finally shot him. People started screaming and running for their lives. When Tye go home his mom asked him what had happened. Tye told her and she said that he should take the old hoarse and head west. He left with specific instructions to find a place to settle down and send for the rest of the family. On the way he spots a cattle drive and he approaches them and asks if they need any more ranch hands. The ranch hand in charge said yes and one of the other ranch hands thought that he was going to shot Tye but Orrin showed up behind Tye and told the hand to try it. On the drive the other ranch hands get to know Tye and Orrin and began to like them for who they are. On one part of the trail some men road up to Tye and said we are going to be splitting your heard. Tye pulled his gun told them his name and they went around and left them alone for the rest of the day. The foramen asked Tye what went on and Tye said they were going to split the heard but I told them my name and they left. After that the foramen had a lot of respect for Tye and his brother. They would save them a lot of trouble. That’s all that I have read so far and from what I have read this is a very good book. I would recommend it for anybody that likes to read.