Thursday, May 10, 2012
4th Quarter into- Ship Breaker
This time around I was searching the "read for a lifetime" shelf at my
school and I saw an attractive cover that got my attention. I picked up
the book and read the few reviews that were on the back and I decided to
get it. This book's name is "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi. The
reason i picked this book was because the way it was described it seemed
to be a futuristic survival after the earth has turned for the worse
with the crash of the economy and ecosystem. Nailer is the name of the
main character of this book. Nailer must face one of the hardest
decisions of his life when a clipper ship crashes on the shore after a
hurricane, he has to decide to whether to scrap the ship or saves its
passenger.
Follow and Respond
- These pictures make the book seem like the main characters had hard lives. This and the fact that I love monkeys have interested me in your book. A family that has a rough life and a monkey can't be uninteresting. No wonder someone wrote a book about it. My only criticism is the small amount of pictures. There are enough monkeys on here to interest me, but someone without the same obsession of monkeys and a bigger attention span than me would probably not be as interested. However, nice choice of monkey pictures. The last one really captures the stress in their faces.. ha
- Hey Richard, nice job with the video. The mood of The Great Gatsby is really dramatic and you portrayed that well in this video. I read the book as well and I think you did a great job mixing in the plot with your comedy. My only criticism is that you could have actually cried in the end. It seemed to be a painful enough memory to bring the tears out. I hope you find your Caroline, no matter her relation to Michael.
- Well guys, you did an alright job. The entire concept of adapting a monkey into a human lifestyle interested me in this book. Michael, you did a decent job at explaining things and trying to keep everything in order. Walker, you added the comic effect to the video that made me want to keep watching. To be perfectly honest, I was laughing the whole time this was being made. I think I will be reading this book next quarter, so this vlog was not at all a failure to sell the book to the audience. You know what they say, everything's better with a monkey.
Link Up
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7942534-half-brother
This is simply a short summary of Half Brother. It tells how Ben has to chooose betweeen obeying his father and his moral beliefs. This will effect the rest of his "brother's" life.
This is simply a short summary of Half Brother. It tells how Ben has to chooose betweeen obeying his father and his moral beliefs. This will effect the rest of his "brother's" life.
This writer examines the parrallel between
Ben's teenage growth of character and maturity and Zan's mental and
physical growth. This opened my eyes to a new outlook of the book.
This gives a readers view of the novel. It
gives a different take on the story. This insight slightly changed my
view on the book.
This is a great essay on the connection of
the book to real life. It also compares the book to movies and other
books. One of these examples is "Planet of the Apes".
This essay, by Kenneth Oppel himself,
realtes Half Brother to some of his other stories. He talks about how in
the past he wrote from the animals perspective. However, he wasnted to
stay away from that in Half Brother.
This woman tells how Half Brother is an
emotional journey of the adolensent Ben. She talks about how his views
changed from cold and jealous of the monkey into a loving relationship.
It changed her treatment of her animal companions as well.
This is simply a general summary of the
book. This would be good for someone who is interested in reading the
novel.
The writer examines the pet/owner relationship in modern
day house holds. He talks about how these relationships would change if
there was communication. If this was possible, things would be more like
the novel.
This is another summary of Half Brother. However, this one
has more emphasis on Ben's love affairs than the others did. Project
Jennifer is a log kept in a scientific log book that he uses to try to
impress his crush, Jennifer.
This is a summary followed with a personal critique of the
book. The critique is not as positive as I expected, but i still
understand it. It explains how the author should have done a better job
with connecting the character with the reader.
This is a summary with pieces of personal thoughts of Half
Brother throughout. The writer reflects on Ben's emotions and how
well Oppel shows them. He also talks about the book cover and has a
short reflection at the end.
This page is yet another summary of the book with personal
feelings on it sprinkled about. The writer talks about how parts of the
book have to do with dominance.
This is a summary of the movie "Planet of the Apes", which
relates to the book alot. In the movie, apes are capable of all human
skills, including reading, language, government, as well as war. They
have taken over the humans. Is this the fate people who don't support
Project Zan afraid of?
This is a summary of the movie "Rise of the Planet of the
Apes", which also relates to the book very much. This is a story of how
experiments with monkeys turn into an uprise of mentally excelled
monkeys. The evolution of monkeys to humans is far fetched, but have you
ever thought of it to be possible?
This is another summary of "Rise of the Planet of the
Apes". In the movie, many monkeys are capable of sign language, and one
of them even talks. This is a lot like in Half Brother when they try to
teach Zan sign language.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
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