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AshFall Review

Overall, I thought that AshFall was defiantly one of my most favorite books in a long time. The plot is just superb. There was a little bit of everything, like fighting, love, and survival. I am going to go into detail and tell you why it was such an amazing book.

I gotta tell you, the plot line is phenomenal. It is all about a boy named Alex who is home alone while his family is out and away in a town called Warren. But of all the days for him to stay alone, the Yellowstone Park Volcano erupts, causing ash to descend upon most of the western states. He must now set out to find the Family that might not even be there. I think this is amazing just due to the fact that nobody has ever done a story involving something like this. People visit this park and never stop to think about what is lying in wait beneath them. But of course there are some things that could be changed. Like when the volcano erupts, it would have been awesome if the lava had reached all the way to where he was.  It would get a lot more intense as he would have to deal with intense heat and not being able to breath.

But one of the main things that I absolutely enjoyed was have the characters were developed. The Characters kept how they were perceived as, and still was doing crazy stuff. Like how Alex showed his true colors while he helped everyone that he could. But at the same time, he was doing stuff like breaking into a car to start a fire to try and save a little girl from dying of hypothermia. And how Darla (met later in the story) is a hard-working girl that is willing to do almost anything to survive. I can totally see myself talking and interacting with them just because I know how their personalities are.

This is written in the voice of Alex (first person) and that also helps with the understanding of the character. The writing style of it is also great. Mike Mullin makes it so vivid in your mind of how it is going down in the story that it will stick into your head. Like in the part when he is describing when Alex is walking down his street and all he sees is death and ash, not to mention when he is telling us that Alex is being crushed underneath his dresser when his house is collapsing. If you were to read this, you would see that he shows us a world in which we have never seen.

But the whole main theme to this story is that sometimes, doing things alone is too hard for someone to do. He of course got through a lot of ground coverage by himself, but when he meets up with Darla, he survives a lot of the horrors that he encounters. Like when he is cut by Target in the hip, he would have bled out if it hadn’t been for Darla and her mother nursing him back to health. And he also needed the mental help because if you are alone long enough, you can start to go crazy.

In conclusion, this book was so good that it absolutely made its way into my top 5 books. All in all, it was a crazy book that showed a lot of courage in the characters and in the readers also, because you feel like you are going through the adventure right along with them.  

 

book blog 6.........OF AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!

Honestly, I think that it mostly has to be true because non-fiction is all about the truth. If any part of the story is not true, it would have to be a fiction book because it is not entirely true. Like if I were to write about the time that I was in High School, and I said that I was beat up by bullies all the time but in reality I was never beaten up and I was friends with all the people I said, it would be a completely different story that was not true (i.e. Fiction).

But it doesn’t matter how much of the truth was in the book, because it all comes down to how good the book really was. The truth only really matters to the person, who experienced it, but to give people a book that is good and fun to read is never a bad thing.  

I think that it doesn’t matter what we label the books because what does it matter if it is Non-Fiction/Fiction? All that matters is that you picked up the book and liked it. The truth will never always be the same as long as there are people around to change it, so just enjoy all the different versions there is of it.

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I believe that we should add it to the curriculum because not everybody wants to have to read the book that the school says you have to read. Like for example, all of the freshmen had to read the book, The Color of Water, By James McBride. Personally, I didn’t like the book because I thought that it was boring. There are a lot of people that would agree with this statement because of them not being entertained while they were reading it. But then there were of coarse the people who thought it was a very good book because it was touching and showed a lot of self-esteem from the main character. But as long as there is a majority of the people that do not like it, there will of course be problems with the reading comprehension because the people were not interested enough to get into the details of the book. But if we were able to get some Genre Fiction into the school curriculum, we would have a better time understanding all of what the book is trying to tell us because we would be interested in the book and would be willing to learn the details because it would help know the storyline.  But the school should consider what kids are reading these days, like the Hunger Games or The Inheritance series. If we were to change this, the kids would be totally into the book and would understand the comprehension because they would start to compare themselves to the book. Like they would put themselves into the book by using their imagination and seeing if they would be able to survive what the character had been dealing with.

The blog of awsomeness.....about things

My book is The Da Vinci Code. There are a couple things that would be difficult, like how they need to be able get the right actors to get the personality right of the characters. Also they have to make sure they get the most important details into the movie and not skip over important plot areas. Like for example, they need to keep the scene were Langdon is walking in and sees the mangled body of Saniere in the circle. Another one they can't leave out is the part when Silas is in the church and is looking for the keystone under an obilisk and it turns out its not there. One more part that needs to stay in there is the part when Sophie is having the flashback to when her grandpa is telling her that the key will one day belong to you because it is special. If there was a part I could get rid of, it would be the intro because later on we can still learn that Silas did it. Another part I would get rid of is where the key was hidden, i would have put it behind the mona lisa so they didnt start running out of time. One last thing I would get rid of would be where the gaurd is threating to shoot them and never does, I found that it was pointless      

Book project #1

The Game

My Idea is to create a miniature version of the hunger games and make it like by creating a laser tag game in memory of the Games. Everybody gets to wield a bow and when you pull back the string, it makes an invisible laser arrow and the objective is to shoot at the other people’s armor vests with target lights. The last one standing wins.

This is related to the book in many ways. For one, you have to use a bow and arrow (the laser) which is what the main character, Katness, uses. Not only are you put into this area by yourself, you will have to think about if you want to team up and trust someone or totally go alone and try to survive.

This would probably relate to anyone who wants to have fun and play a simply game. The age limit would probably be between the ages of 12-18. We will build the bows so that they fit everybody to use. We would make so that we can travel to people’s houses and bring the hunger games game to peoples parties. The house would have to have an area that is big enough for it though.

The Video Game

My next idea is to create a video game in which you have to play as one of the 24 people from the Hunger games and you have to survive against everybody else. Your character can level up and learn new survival tricks like traps and new moves. The game could last for a while however. You have to start out as Katniss though because you have to complete the main storyline to continue onto everybody else’s story. There could be hidden characters as well that we could put into it.

This relates to the book by the player getting to play as a character from the book and learning the story behind that character. Also, you can team up in the game but it’s a risky thing to do in the game considering they could kill you in your sleep and you would lose. 

This would relate to anyone who loves strategy games and wants to see if they are able to survive in the games. But with how the killing and scary images, it would have to put the age restriction to about a Teen rating.

The Action Figures

This is the idea for those kids that are spoiled and are allowed to read/watch The Hunger Games at a young age. This will make them want to buy it because as kids, all of us had that one doll/action figure we always played with. We would make the characters and also the arena so the kids can play and have fun with it. Of course, we would have to build the arena large enough to put the figures into it.

This relates to the book because the size of the action figures compared to the size of the arena will show how massive and dangerous it would look like. Also, we will have the characters holding the weapon that they were trained in using in the book.

I would say that this would be for the kids mostly or it could be for the people that love The Hunger Games and just want to collect the figures and be able to say that they were able to get all the figures. It’s not really for the adults due to the fact that I have not heard of an adult who sits down and starts playing with action figure that were meant for the kids.

What is a book

A book is an adventure. There are many different types of adventures, like fighting the bad guy or climbing a gigantic mountain. Inside of a book we can do any of these amazing feats using the one thing we have had since about 3 or 4...our imagonation. Like for example, I am reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. With the way that she writes the book, I feel like I am right next to Katniss (the main character). In fact, I am writing a book right now that makes you feel like you are next to the main person. But the thing is about books is, they come in many forms. From movies to music to even real life, books can become these things. You really can just take anything a make it into a book as long as you still add detail. So in reality, anywhere you go you are always going to be on an adventure, weither if its good or bad.