DBoS Post #4

DBoS Reading Response Post #3

(Why doesn't Tab key work here?) In the story Drummer Boy of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury, Joby is about to experience what may well be the most important day of his life. While most of us won't have to run into battle when their fourteen, Joby does. That doesn't make his life any harder than any of ours. His battle experience may be equal to the SATs for a high schooler or The MCATS in college. Everyone will have to do something life-shaping. Everyone will get to prepare for them.

        (substituted for eight spaces) Exams, Interviews, games (sports) etc. Without studying and practicing you can and will fall through the crack. This could mean no job, no scholarship, no future.
Joby's losing could cause in death. That doesn't mean your problem is smaller than Joby's. (though it could be) You're in different situations. You should never compare yourself to the character in a story that can die, you can't die. But what happens to you can be a close equivalent (I feel like I said this twice...) However if you have a general, a teacher, a friend, a parent. Just someone to set you straight and keep you in the big picture, encourage you. Without encouragement you might be as good as dead on that test.

        So in the end Joby does forge himself a fine shield of his own despair and his current understanding of the situation. And hopefully you shall also build yourself a shield riveted with hope and dreams. Maybe that shield will save your life.

                    Thanks For Reading!(Its amazing you could follow that!(if you could)
                                                   
                                                      -drat

Reading Post (?) #2

Reading Response #2 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    So far in my book, nothing controversial has happened since forty pages ago. This book is known by everyone. Dr Jekyll and the mysterious chemical that turns him into his alter-persona Mr Hyde. I'm what I guess is close to the end of the book, and they still haven't figured out that Jekyll is Hyde. It seems so obvious. I have gotten to the point that the main character has a drawer full of dusts and serums to give to a messenger, to give to Jekyll. I put Cannery Row on hold for this book, because alter-ego's and alter-persona's where always hard to think about. That in: terrible, horrible people there is the "make-up" to a good-natured, thoughtful person. It never really made sense to me. However, maybe Rambo worked at a soup kitchen on the side, or I could become a sensible person. (cue rimshot)

   Okay, now for the tough part, how this relates to my life...
It doesn't. (for now)

    I probably would be able to come with an semi-correct way that these characters play into my life but most don't exactly. No. No, actually Jekyll would have a situation closest to one I'm going to at some-point have. Let me explain. Jekyll's life is in shambles as two people fight for his spot in life. That won't happen to me (for now) other than when I'm stuck between two things and have to pick one. I'm not talking about which sandwich to buy, but the bigger decisions I will have to make in high school and college. The stuff that will morph my life. None of the other characters have anything remotely close. For Example: I probably will never have a friend that leaves every once in awhile, until someone attempts to murder him and, alright I'm nitpicking. But the example I have above is pretty good. (kinda obvious though) maybe this'll be easier to write after I finish the book. In which case I'll update it.

                      Thanks For Reading! (It's amazing you could follow that (if you could)

                                                            -Chase/or drat, I kinda like that now

Reading Response #1 To Kill A Mocking Bird

Reading Response #1
"To Kill A Mockingbird"
By Harper Lee

     Over the summer I read the classic book: "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. Though I had seen the movie before (when I was around seven) I found a lot of story that I either:
- Didn't understand at the time
                      or
- Was cut out of the movie.
  
     Other than the basic characters and the ending, most of this book was new to me. Reading about this small town that was so different from the lifestyle I grew up with, was refreshing. The Book I'm currently reading: "Cannery Row" also gives me an older persons perspective of the same(ish) type of lifestyle. But there's so much to that book that even though I read it months ago, The engaging characters and conflict still run at the back of my head and every once an a while I'll just suddenly make a connection I didn't realize when I read it. Stuff I sort of sped through because, I thought it wasn't real plot, probably would have made all these other, parts I thought was filler, click in with the rest of the story. When Jem read to Ms.Dubose after he pulled up her garden, didn't seem to effect the main plot about the Radleys and the court case. Though some parts tied into that, It seemed like another story.

    Overall a fantastic book. Definitely the second best book I read this summer miles above "The Great Gatsby," which was hard to follow, repetitive and had, (I can't stress this enough) TOO MANY CHARACTERS!!!!!! I'm going to stop myself there about Gatsby and get back to To Kill A Mockingbird.
  
    So the few problems I had with this book was mainly how much book time it took for stuff to happen. Plenty of interesting, important, stuff happened, but the book kinda sped up and slowed down. I noticed it do this mostly when the time of year changed. Most of the main story happened during summer. Now this makes sense  because kids have so much freedom during the summer, but was sometimes strange because it was halfway through the book we learn who Mr. Finch is defending or why. I felt that the court case got pelted at me but, that's just my opinion. (that's all your reading, my opinion). The last quarter of the book seems to be pure action, broken up by other things I personally had figure out over time. Sorry this ends abruptly but I feel I have enough ideas on paper for now so,

  
 Thanks For Reading! (It's amazing you could follow that! (if you could))
         - Chase     

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Sorry 'bout that.