jamoree reading blog
Thursday, February 6, 2014
The Tommorow People-describe characters
The tommorow people involes a lot of strange and unknown characters.Like Jamie who is a normal person to his knowing but to others he is a person that has special talents,like teleporting large distances at a time. And other amazing powers.
Amigo Brothers-Author's Purpose
The author's purpose for writing the amigo brother was to tell the story of two people that had the same goal in mind and had a friendship that one day would get in the of a dream. The author's purpose for this story is to show that the friendship of two strong minded teens would always come first before a win in anything.
Friday, January 31, 2014
Amigo Brothers-Describe/relate to characters
I relate to these characters because I have a friend who i also call my brother.
Friday, November 22, 2013
Ever Lost
Ever Lost is a book about three children who are between life and death. And how they spent their nine months on earth before they die. The three children are named Nick, Ally, Leah. Nick and Ally are brother and sister, but leaf is a lost child who had died already. In the book it says that you are stuck between life and death for nine months. So for nine months the children will have to find out how they died. I like this story because it really envolves family and friends all trying to reach one goal.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Walt Disney
Walt Disney is a prominent example of the American Dream. Walt Disney started off the Walt Disney Company with no money, no big-shot connections around Hollywood, absolutely nothing but his creativity and a simple idea. That idea was to create animation and cartoons for the world to love. Walt Disney didn’t care if he made a lot of money off his cartoons, he just wanted to keep doing what he loved: to make animation. Disney once said, "You reach a point where you don't work for money" (JustDisney.com). Even when it came to funding the construction of his theme parks, he gave up all of his money just so his animations would carry over to be loved by the next several generations for years to come. As Disney once commented about the construction of Disneyland, "It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment” (JustDisney.com). Walt Disney represents the hard-working, perseverant American, and a lot can be learned from studying his life. “Through his work, he brought joy, happiness and a universal means of communication to the people of every nation.
Rat key
Overall, this is a pretty good book. I like the idea of the plot. I do not like the dialogue, though. It is rather choppy and unrealistic in some places. However, you have a well developed world and characters. I like that you can immediately imagine what Rat is like. I do not think that the way you deliver his thoughts are very good. This is a pretty good detailed book.The only problems that I really saw was the fact that the story changed from scene to scene almost instantly, and the scenes did not seem to last very long.
Art
Just because the beginning captured my attention, I, as a reader, feel no obligation to continue the piece if it begins to bore me. Feelings are very nice, yes, everyone has feelings and emotions to talk about - but it is only a bit of constructive criticism in saying that by cutting down your piece to a palatable length, you will capture that many more people's attention, and that many more people will read it through to the end. As opposed, to, say, reading the first paragraph, predicting how the entire piece will go, and barely skimming over the last part. Many people, when they're angry, they'll start ranting, spout off a million extraneous details concerning the event - and how many people are listening to them? Maybe it's interesting to the person ranting, maybe it's their entire world at that moment- but no one is obligated to listen because it's that person's passion, or because it contains that person's feelings. They'd stick around because the rant (some objective comparison needed here) is honestly interesting, or they'll zone out and maybe console with a few empty words.
Obviously the person who wrote this meant it to be seen by others, so refining their writing with a twice-over and some smart self-editing won't ruin their "passionate voice", or anything like that.
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