Reading

I feel like throughout this year I have grown a lot as a reader. I feel like one of the reasons why I have developed to be a good reader is because of the 120 minutes of reading each week which forces me to become a good reader. I have read many good books this year that I enjoyed but there was one in particular, this was, All the Light We Cannot See. This was a book that took place during World War II.  The reason that I loved reading this book was the amount of suspension throughout each chapter. I also liked how throughout the book the narrator switched between two main characters and connected them at the end. Throughout the year I feel like I have grown not only in my abilities to read but also in the quantity of books I have read. This year I have read more books than I ever have before. I feel like this has allowed me to improve greatly in my ability to read faster and more fluently. In all I feel like I have grown greatly in the section of reflecting on what I have read and making inferences. I hope through my years at Episcopal I can improve my skills of reading throughout the years.

These are the list of books

Legends Of The Fall

Absolutly True Diary of a Part Time Idean

Lord of The Flies

A Land More Kind Than Home

Water Dog

      All The Light We Cannot See
      Macbeth


2 Writing Responses:
Analyze one of the cartoons or images.  What purpose does it serve in the novel?  What message does it communicate to us as readers and how?

There are many instances in the novel Absolutely True Diary by Ellen Forney where the author uses images to describe what he is talking or to put a picture in your head of what something is supposed to look like. There is one example that I have looked at which is found on page five of the book. This image is used to describe what he thought of himself and what others thought he looked like. He also adds in quotation for himself which enables you to see how bad of a studder he really has the exact quotation is, “Th-th-the RAIN in THPAIN.” Which shows his studder more exaggerated than most people would think it was.

            Another thing that the author does is he gives himself physical features that are very exaggerated such as his enlarged head from having hygrophilous, and also having massive thick black framed glasses due to his eye site being so bad. He is also shown being very skinny and scrawny which shows how and why he got bullied and was stereotyped a nerd.

Reading Response to Lord Of The Flies

  Lord of the Flies has been strange so far, to say the least. There is not much background given, although some is revealed through dialogue and interactions between characters. It seems that main characters are starting to distinguish themselves. I would say so far that these are Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and maybe Simon. The setting has been made clear- they are on an island.
       As of right now I kind of understand that there are many thing in the book that symbolize for something else such as there being a snake like creature that everyone is creeped out about this may symbolize that everything is going to chaos and also the snake being the mark of Saten symbolizes that there may be something bad that is foreshadowed here.