Week 3: The Raging Quiet

The Raging Quiet is getting really good. I'm on page 143 and the plots finally falling into place. Marnie and Raven are still getting progressively closer. When I started off again at page 97, Marnie goes into town to find Father Brannan. Instead of finding him, she finds out how much the people of Torcurra hate her. "Get out! Get out of our village! Get out afore we hang you!" (97) they yell at her, and throw stones. She runs straight back to her cottage without a second glance. She is so afraid when she gets home, that she doesn't go to sleep that night. She barricaded the door with a chest and passed out on her table with a knife in her hand. In the morning she heard a wagon rumbling and freaked out because she thought that it was the villagers coming to take her to her hanging. It was only Father Brannan with thatching to fix the beaten down, little roof on the cottage. After they fix the roof, they go through Isake's stuff. Marnie gave all of Isake's old clothing to Raven, who needed them desperately.
On page 120, Raven and Marnie are out fishing when a man arrives at the cottage. He is Isake's brother Pierce. When Marnie and Raven get back to land, they find Pierce in the cottage going through Isake's things and claiming that this is his families house and that Marnie and Raven are tresspassing. Marnie "signs" to Raven using their hand words to go get Father Brannan. While waiting for Father Brannan to show up, Marnie tries to keep her cool, but its very difficult. Pierce keeps threatening to take this issue to court and that he knows people in high places. When Father Brannan comes to defend Marnie at last, Pierce takes off with two very important things: The letter in Isake's chest and the last of the money Marnie had.
On page 134, Marnie asks Father Brannan to write down a few things for her. Her name, Raven's name, and the words father, mother, sister, brother. She wants this because: she can't write, and she wants to teach Raven names of people. While she's teaching him, Father Brannan notices "It was an undrestanding that went far beyound the finite language of their hands ; a soul unity, sacred and rare and beautiful.

Week three

I’m on page 131 in my book that I’m reading My Side Of The Mountain. I have began to notice more and more that as the story goes on Sam learns new things and that living off the land is getting that much easier. I also noticed that Sam has started to use everything on his food that he gets. He has gotten bigger and needs new clothes so he makes some using deer hides.
Sam knows that winter is coming by noticing the change in the weasel’s fur that lives next to Sam’s tree and also that the birds start to migrate south. He begins to prepare for winter. I noticed that he gathered more food and learned more ways to store his food for winter. I also noticed how he needed to store wood.
This part of the story reminds me how the weather changes and so does almost everything in fall to winter. For example the leaves on the tree change color and fall off. Then when the cold sets in it reminds me of going outside and then needing a jacket of some sort. When it finally snows it reminds and Sam begins to go outside and play and dig tunnels, it reminds me of when I was little and going and playing in it. This part also reminds me of going deer hunting just at the end when there is 2 to 3 ft of snow on the ground and walking for miles in it.
I felt worried like Sam did when he knew that winter was coming while reading this story. I was also felt lonely when Sam does when reading. I also feel pretty excited when reading just after it snows and pretty happy.
I have a few Questions for this story, they are will Sam stay out there in the mountains forever? Will he enough supplies for the rest of winter.

A Time to Kill- John Grisham

I finished A Time to Kill early last week. In the end Carl Lee Hailey was found innocent by means of insanity. I thought the end of this book was good I thought he would be found guilty, but one juror made the others picture their own little girl being raped and almost killed by those to boys. The jurors all changed their minds. The ending of the book wasn't entirely unexpected, most stories like this one the guilty are found innocent even if they shouldn't have been. I also watched the movie, not nearly as good.

The movie started out right and progressively got worse as it went along. Near the begging of the book right after Tonya was raped and Carl Lee decided he had to kill the two "red necks" a man by the name of Cat supplied Carl Lee with the gun that he shot the two boys with. In the movie they skipped that they actually skipped Cat entirely. The KKK also burned a cross in Jake's yard but in the book his family was asleep and it was 3 a.m. but in the movie it was later night and his daughter saw the cross first. They also missed many details like when Jake is shot at and Ellen (the law clerk) was kidnapped and tied to a post and beaten badly. They also skipped Tonya and her nightmares and the effect on the family. And one of the most important ones, well to me at lest, was when Cat hired a big shot, never loses, lawyer for Carl Lee and he fires Jake. But than Carl Lee's brother Lester convinced Carl Lee to fire the big shot lawyer and rehire Jake. That was a very smart move on Carl Lee's part because Jake won. But other than all of that the movie was really good if I hadn't read the book first I think I would have enjoyed the movie much more.

I just started Fletch. So far I've only gotten far enough to where I found out that Fletch is a reporter and is under cover at a beach. He's hanging out with the "washed out Druggies". A guys had been following him around for awhile and aproched him at a point and took him to his house and asked Fletch to murder him. He said yes and the man told him all the details. He has cancer and if he killed himseld his 3 million wouldn't be given to his wife and daughter so he needs to be murdered. So he planned it all out Fletch gets 50,000 for killing him and has to go to a south American country for a few years so they never find him. And that's about as far as i've gotten it's not one of the best books i've read so far but it's getting there.

I AM MORDRED

I have just finished the book "I Am Mordred."It's the story of king Arthur from his perspective.It was quite absorbing(and a little sad.)If you are familiar with the legend,then I completely recommend reading this book.

week 2 Dear John

Somethings new about the book, are mostly talking about him and Savanna. Savanna has been becoming his hole life going out to the beach telling each other about there pasts,mostly him telling her but it still counts.
John ends up taking her out a shack place that's has a bar for one of there dates. She hopes that it is nicer inside, finding out not by much she is still such a nice person and stays there without complaining. Even though they both don't have much to say that night they both ended up loving how it worked out so well.
Now that savanna is a big part of his life he starts spending all of his time with her realizing that the only time he spends with his dad is when they eat together. Knowing that he wants to make a barbecue with his dad one so they have one right, OK but then he starts talking about savanna and how great she is and how much his dad would love her. Well when they are done eating john walks inside and here's his dad say (I would love to meet her) in a sad and soft voice. So the next time savanna and john are together he talks about his dad a lot that day and that night she ends up wanting to go over there and have supper. His dad ends up loving it because they talk about coins, hes showing them to her and shes asking tons of questions. That next day john asks how she felt about yesterday she just said that (your dad has a very warm and caring heart).

I am on page 143 of The Gunslinger. So far, Jake, the boy from New York, and Roland, the gunslinger, have finally made it across the vast desert and into a large oasis at the basis of the mountains, behind which lies their goal. Roland still relentlessly pursues the man in black for whatever reason. There is another flashback, revealing the days when Roland and a friend of his were being trained as gunslingers and were forced to witness the hanging of a criminal the boys single-handedly discovered attempting to poison all of the children at their acedemy. I am slowly finding out what this book is about, and hopefully by the end of it I will know for sure. as of right now, i still know very little about the main character, and the setting is only partially "uncovered".

Week 2- 9-12-11

I am now on page 213 of my book, Homecoming, by Cynthia Voigt. A lot has happened since my last blog a week ago. So far, Dicey and the gang have met up with two kids who are also runaways in a park where the kids had stayed and fished for a week. When they moved on and finally reached the city where they could no longer keep moving forward, they felt like giving up until they were kindly taken into the hands of two college grads nearby that helped them on their journey by taking them to their aunts. There, they found out that their Aunt Cilla was dead, and her uptight daughter lived at the house now. This cousin “takes them in on account of her good heart”, where the kids lived and went to school for about two weeks until they finally couldn't take it anymore there. Now, they are on a journey to find their long lost grandmother once again, now knowing that there mother, who is in a mental hospital, will never be able to take care of them.

One thing that I have noticed when reading this portion of the story is how Dicey has changed throughout this short time. Now, she seems as if she is almost in a way excepting the fact that she can't do this on her own, and that it is okay to accept help from people. Prior to the many weeks that the kids had added onto their trek, Dicey was very head strong in the sense that any help given to her was declined because she felt that she could do what her mom left for her to do by herself. Another thing that grabbed my attention is that their cousin wants them to feel especially grateful to her for letting them stay in her house. This isn't really the way I would have expected a woman wanting to go into the convent to act.

As I read this story, many things have come to my mind. One little detail was when Sammy got into a fight at school, and he didn't even know the reason he was fighting. This greatly reminded me of Huckleberry Fin who occasionally did that in The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin. Another small remembrance I had in this book was when Dicey got a job as a window washer in grocery stores to make money for when the kids planned to leave their cousin's house. This reminded me of all the times I have used a squeegee as well to clean windows and the weird sort of thrill it is!

In the story, I began to feel sorry for Sammy especially because he is always being told to be more like his brother, who he knows is better than him. He is just a young boy that needs guidance, but instead gets reprimanded and told that he could be given to a foster home. I also felt a sense of happiness when Dicey said the only way they were going to get anywhere was, “together, because that is the only way the Tillerman's travel.” That made me feel good knowing that even though they have been through so much bad together, they still see the good in everything just knowing that they will be doing it together as a family. I do have some questions, however. I want to know more about the men that helped them, how their cousin reacted when she found out the kids had left, and what will be awaiting them at their grandmother's. I guess I'll just have to find out.