F.A.I.T.H A Dorm. A Delinquent. A Girl.

          Imagine growing up with a bodyguard and never seeing your parents. So what you do to get their attention is leave at random times of the day to get drunk and get high and get arrested so that they will be forced to know that you exist.  At one point you lose your motive and suddenly you want them to regret all the time they didn't give to you. What you desire most is for them to look at you in the eye and see the pain and the anger and all the things that you've been through that they don't know  about an think to themselves ,"What did i create ?". Suddenly you're shipped away to a disciplinary school  where you have go hide your identity and you're enrolled in a program called F.A.I.T.H where the Nation's newest criminals reside. You meet a person who can actually stand looking at your eyes without flinching from all the emotion that flows through them and the only reason because their eyes flow the same way. For you life is like a chess game that you play against life and you're always meditating on your next move making sure that you won't get hurt again. But life has been around for centuries and knows the game far better. How will it end ? Read the book...
          In the beginning of the book all we know is that there is a girl named Faith who will be attending a new school , we know that she has done some pretty bad things but there is one big thing that keeps bothering her conscious and murder seems to be a touchy subject for her. Throughout the book a specific scene is repeated over and over where she is at a birthday party and and she gets into a car with her pregnant mother and they drive and they're arguing in the car and then it just stops. In the end we find out that she got into a car accident and her pregnant mother died.

A & D

          Two best friends have faced the labels of high school every day, since the first day of high school. The athletic one and nerd one are never supposed to come in contact seeing as how they are either ends of the popularity scale. But in this case they are joined at the hip, for their entire lives no one has payed much attention at their friendship but in the last year of high school , new problems arise and new students transfer in taking their attention away from each other. What they call 'friendly over-protectiveness" ,we call jealousy. What they call a " long-lasting friendship" , we call being in love. But the question is will they notice in time or will it be to late? Will they have fallen in love with another ? Read it for yourself!
          In the beginning of the book , Dakota tries her hardest to disregard her feelings for Aaron, her best friend.When a handsome new guys transfers in, it gets even easier and Aaron's over-bearing girlfriend makes its piece of cake, but Aaron is not so willing to back off but we all have breaking points and when Aaron is on the verge of his,his Mother offers some advice, she says ,"Don't be an idiot, because if you don't take a risk now, while you can ,while you still have the opportunity. One morning you'll wake up and wonder ' why didn't i tell her' and you'll be filled with what if's ? Now is the time to take what is rightfully yours."
         

Bad girls don't die

          Alexis Warren is a typical teenager with a negative attitude about everything , pink hair. But like every teenager she is misunderstood and has the usual dysfunctional family. However she still cares so when she notice doors opening and closing on their own and her sisters eyes are changing colors and she randomly attacks people. She starts to wonder what Kasey (her little sister) really does with her dolls. It comes to the point of Kasey being accused for murder , when this happens Alexis deciders to step in because lives are at cost and her most importantly her sisters sanity.
          When Alex starts snooping around her younger sisters life to find out about her sudden , angry behavior she comes up with a number of suspicions ranging from the people she hangs out with to the  things she does at night. The A-ha moment comes when she figures out that an old demon who resides in the house is possessing her sister and commanding her to these crimes in order to carry out her own revenge.

The Fault In Our Stars

          Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen year old diagnosed with thyroid cancer , was forced to go to a support meeting along with other teenagers who are going through different types of terminal cancer. During that support meeting she meets an extraordinary soul that goes by the name of The first time that they meet they agree to read one of each others favorite books. Hazel's favorite book is An Imperial Affliction written by Peter Van Houten,while Augustus Waters offers The Price Of Dawn that is based on a video game . The two seem to be frustrated at the fact that author Peter Van Houten did not finish his conclusion of said book.After a number of dates and emotional bonding between Hazel and Augustus they embark on a journey to Amsterdam to meet Van Houten to get the final conclusion of the book seeing as how he never finished it. Unexpectedly,Van Houten is extremely rude to Hazel and Augustus, he even dared to mock their lifestyles because of the fact that they have cancer. Implying that they seek attention and extra perks. Disappointed at the fact they did not get the ending they were expecting they headed back home.The final ending will not be told in this summary if you want to know , you must read the book yourself.
          After reading the book more than three times , i can see the book from a different perspective. In a literal sense Hazel Grace is a hypocritical character because she spends so much time telling everyone to live their life and stop taking care of her , so that they won't be hurt when she dies. She spends her emotional energy telling everyone including Augustus to leave and find someone else to love because according to her she will only be in this world temporarily. In an emotional sense , she is a very caring and a mature character because she speaks about the end of the human race as if she was discussing the weather. The way that she pushes everyone away is because she doesn't want them to get hurt when she dies or in different view she doesn't want them to notice that at she died. Her character does not want her death to affect many people , because she can see it in the way that her mother quit her job to take care of her.

Lies we tell ourselves By:Robin Talley

    Imagine walking to school on a bright, sunny day  and all of a sudden you hear a certain chant and as you get closer and closer to the school it gets a louder and it's like someone threw a bucket full of ice cold water at you. They're chanting, "N*****! N*****!N*****!". In the distance you can the police standing at the side but you know that no matter what happens they won't defend you. If it wasn't for the shiny badge sitting smugly on their chest they would be right there joining the chant with the other white kids. Imagine being in class , saying the pledge, but having someone digging a pencil into your lower back the whole time and whispering threats as you say that you are all one nation under god yet the nation seems to live for the segregation of whites and blacks. Imagine having to survive violence everyday just to get an education. But Sarah, Ennis , and Chuck  can't imagine. Why? because they know exactly what it's like. They go endure this pain everyday.

    On page 15 it states," -but Ennis is faster. He dodges through a gap between the boys-he doesn't shove them; we're not allowed to touch any of them, no matter what they do to us." This text states shows that Ennis is intelligent  and he knows his limits , he knows that his job as the eldest is to defend them but he knows his "place" as well. On the same page it also states," Ennis is back in front, pushing through the crowd with Chuck." He knows that since he is tall and broad that he can push through the crowd and the people behind him won't have to get hit as much.

 

Tolerance

Tolerance: the ability or willingness to allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of something in particular the existence of  opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.


     From my perspective , tolerance means to put up with something, to be in control, because you are the only person who controls your own emotions. Tolerance means to recognize. Recognize, because not everyone has the same beliefs that we do. We have to recognize that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. A fact that everyone should have engraved in their mind is that no matter how many times they tell someone to repeat contrary to their beliefs, in their heart they will always have their own opinion and beliefs.

I AM NUMBER FOUR By: Pittacus Lore

          I am currently reading "I AM NUMBER FOUR" by Pittacus Lore. This major motion picture is about a group of 9 kids that come from the extraterrestrial world named Lorien that was wiped out by the Mogadorians. The 9 children came to earth to seek safety and they each came to Earth with what they call a "Cêpan" , the  Cêpan's are basically teachers who are supposed to make sure that the Garde's (the nine kids) know what to do when their legacies appear. Legacies are the powers that they are able to obtain because they are made to defend their race. There are only two types of races in Lorien, there are the Cêpan's and the Garde's. The Mogadorians have moved to Earth to be able to hunt down the nine kids, before the nine kids left Lorien however, an elder put a charm on these nine kids , you can only kill them in order otherwise you will die the same way that you are trying to kill them. Their original names are Numbers one , two , three , three , four , five , six , seven ,eight , nine. Each time one of them dies they get a scar on their right ankle telling them that one more has died. The story begins with Number four whose Cêpan is named Henri , currently they are traveling through America and they are residing in Ohio. But what they didn't count on is the humans knowing that the Mogadorians even exist as more and more secrets unravel and more scars appear every body is on edge wondering when the Mogodarians are going to attack.

        Words of the wiser is shown throughout the book Henri is always warning Number four about the things he needs to do in case of an emergency and always giving him advice on how to survive in case he was alone. Above any other advice though he always says ,"Be prepared, always on guard." Lorien was attacked when Lorien dropped their guard so to Henri it is very important for Number four to abide by his rules.