Reading Reflection #5

The House of the Scorpion #4

 

Book: The House of The Scorpion

 

Author: Nancy Farmer

 

Pages Read: 40-62

 

The House of The Scorpion

 

 A lot has happened. I went on a little bit of a reading rampage back at the beginning of the month, and since we haven’t really had time to do any book reflections I’ll try to do the best I can with this one. With everything that’s going on in the book we learn a word, this word is brought several times by younger kids in the book, and each time its in the worst contexts ever, “Ejit”. I predicted this word was obviously bad, my first thought was that it could be some kind of swear word, but then I realized they were referring to something, someone. The next few pages in we have an answer to our prediction. An “ejit” is a dirty word for a clone. With this now in the front of my mind I make a text to text connection. In Harry Potter, they have a dirt word for a none magical person (mudblood), to me this is a connection that helps me understand the significance of the word.

 Much like I predicted before, Matts getting into trouble. The boy learns he loves music, he discovers this by spying on a woman who is playing piano. While spying he hides in a closet, one day Matt was listening to the mesmerizing music and discovers there is a back door to the closet. This leads Matt to a secret passage way that takes him all around the house. As soon as I read the words in front of me warning signals go off in my brain. What kind of trouble is matt going to get into?

 In this novel, there are a lot of names and family connections, for example. A while back we met a character called Mr. Alacran (for now lets just call him Mr. A). Mr. A is married to the woman I mentioned above, the musically gifted one, her name is Felicia. For the past few years Felicia has been very ill, she is always tired and very unsatisfied with her life. Another family connection to Mr. A is his father who is called “El Viejo”. When we are first introduced to this man we learn that he has cancer, knowing this it leads me to a prediction and a question. I believe El Viejo will play a huge part in this book, even though he might not live for very much longer, I have a feeling he will set off an event that will either hurt or help Matt. My question is how?

 

 

Till Next Time. C

Weekly Reflection. #6

Weekly Reflection #6

 

 Question 1- We talk about how so many of us have a digital footprint. Well I hope that my blog will be a good way for me to put some positive stuff out there on the web about myself. I plan on using this blog to enlighten whoever it may concern about me. After this course I hope to pick it up and start putting more personal things up on my blog. Such as personal pictures, information on what my plans are after high school, information on where I work, what I want to do with myself in life, and what I am doing with myself. This all, I hope, will reflect positively on the person I am, and the person I hope to become. I want to use my blog almost like a journal as well. As I’ve mentioned before I do write quite a bit on my spare time, to showcase this I’ll be posting some of my own poems and such on a regular basses, keeping up with this blog could really help my further in life.

 

Question 2-    The first comment I posted was on Miranda's blog. The reason why I posted a comment is because, her Rambling Autobiography was touching and deep. It reminded me a lot of mine and that’s what sparked my interest. What she wrote I thought was brave and insightful, to post something like that on the world wide web is no easy feat. My comment was encouraging and I hope it instilled a feeling of pride in her work. The second comment I posted was on Elijah's. His digital foot print doodle was very cool to look at, the color he used was creative and showed the effort he put into his work. I also liked how he used the world as the main idea in the doodle. It leads my brain to start really thinking globally about our digital foot prints and the impact it could have around us because the web is worldwide... and I think sometimes we forget that to easily. Last but not least my third comment I posted happened to be on Sam's blog. I chose another six word memoir to comment on because I can really relate to them. Especially one of Sam’s. Lately with the pressures of graduating it's hard to have a feeling of belonging and you almost crave a sense of security that you know will have to be left behind in a matter of months. It's hard to know where you're going in life, and I think there's already so many different ways life could take you, good or bad. This would create a feeling of being lost which Sam talks about, I relate to this feeling to a T.

 

 

Comment#1-  http://mirandatamikohouston.blogspot.ca/2012/09/rambling-autobiography.html?showComment=1350914937560

 

Comment#2-  http://elijahtomas.blogspot.ca/2012/09/this-is-of-my-digital-foot-print.html?showComment=1350916085357

 

Comment#3- http://samscreativethoughts.blogspot.ca/2012/10/normal-0-false-false-false-en-ca-x-none.html?showComment=1351088148561

 

 

 

Question 3-  I left comments on my friends blogs, my comments consist of positive constructive, motivational comments. I believe all of these are characteristics of a good comment. When people comment on a blog saying "good job" or "this is nice". I truly think this is a comment that moves the readers and writers backwards and not forwards. I like commenting on other peoples blogs! It’s fun to surf through other people’s pictures and posts and sharing compliments and thoughts, I love these projects!



 

Six word memoir #6

I love this picture I took it in Italy this year (2012), the colosseum has been around for centuries and still stands tall and beautiful. I was in awh when I saw it. It's been around forever, yet it can be so new to so many people. That's a truly beautiful thing.

Six word memoir #5

In high school all we do is talk. Talk about our feelings, other peoples problems, other peoples flaws, we talk about love as if we know it. We talk so much that when it's silent we feel obligated to talk some more. This to me seems like a falss way of life. Sometimes we all need to learn to be quiet.

Six word memoir #4

This picture represents temptation, and for me I beleive a kiss can make or break you, so to speak. It holds the power to fulfill a need of belonging or crush a persons heart. A kiss can set you free or keep you in a steal cage. Aside from our words, a kiss is the strongest action we can make.

Six word memoir. #3

The true story of this photo is in the words. My whole life growing up I was concerned about portraying a look of perfection. I won't even fully admit it to myself let alone others but, it truly is one of my biggest fears.

Six word memoir. #2

This one is personal. I speak about it because it was a struggle I went through as a younger girl. I truly feel society has a way of breaking down even the strongest person, and being skinny is obviously one of the biggest struggles for a girl. The words in this picture represent the lies I told myself and the feelings I couldn't keep in.

Six word memoir. #1

This one is probably my favorite. I love this picture because its my biggest fear, going nowhere in life and not willing to admit it. I edited this picture so that the words were blurred, and the photo, as a whole was faded. This is symbolic for my feelings and I think it adds true depth to the photo.

The House of The Scorpion #3

Reading Reflection #3

 

 

Book: The House of The Scorpion

Author: Nancy Farmer

Pages Read: 40-62

 

The House of The Scorpion

 

Continuing on, we meet and learn about so many new characters, but one scene make me curious and want to make a comment, people seem to turn on each other so fast around the “big white house”, which is what we've found out is where a powerful man named El Patron lives and runs the opium fields. id also like to answer this comment. I beleive from what iv read that everyone is scared of this old man. He's in charge and no one would ever diobay him. This would cause people to be intimidated and throw fellow servents, workers, and family members under the bus when trouble comes around.

As I early predicted Matt has gotten into a world of trouble, on his adventure into the new and unfamiliar he manages to get injured and kidnapped. A few pages after this all happens he learn an important piece of information, Matt has been locked up for six months. When he is finally released (I won’t get into details) he is taken to see an old man called El Patron. The depth on which Matt describes him and talks about a weird familiarity he feels around this man leads me to a prediction, El Patron is  somehow related to Matt. The old man and little boy are going to have a deep meaningful relationship in the book.
Continuing on I find an answer to my earlier prediction, Matt does have a strong purpose. He is El Patrons clone! The little boy Matt is also put in charge of El Patrons estate, even though most servents and family around the house ignore him, some are even openly disgused by the little boy (AKA clone). This makes me curious to why everyone has a problem with clones?

The story continues.

 

Till Next Time.  C