Martine's prompt: What is a book that has made you think or changed your mind.

       The best book and the most influential upon my life has been The Fault in our Stars. The characters are young victims of cancer and its negative effects on the lives of others, however it's a book more about what can happen if you go and live your life, what happens when you go out into the world and make mistakes, learn lessons, etc.
       While there are some very inspirational and sincere moments about what it means when you try to live and be lively in a condition where you know eventually your body is going to give up, there is reality, and the book is fairly sad. But this too influences me and teaches me that no matter what sad happens, life does go on, and you have to go find more things to be happy about. Overall, this book really has told me about life. I would recommend it to anybody.

Writing Center

       My experience at the writing center went very well. I went during tutorial and by the end of the period, I had a better idea of what I wanted to do in my literary analysis, and I figured out what I needed to change in my paper. Before, I had been suffering from severe writer's block throughout the beginning of the paper and formation of paragraphs, I arrived to the writer's center with about half of a paper and not the best idea of what I needed to do. During my appointment, I actually was pointed out to other things I needed to fix.
      Another thing that made the writing center a great experience is that I got in and they were very nice right off the bat. They made sure that I knew who they were, they told me positives and negatives and then they made sure I knew how to fix the negatives and focus on the positives. If I have problems with another paper, I would go back to the writing center regardless of the class requirements.

Lord of the Flies, William Golding
12/2- 1 hour and 25 minutes, pages 140-154
12/3- 1 hour, pages 154-164
12/4- 1 hour and 40 minutes, pages 164-182
12/7- 2 hours and 5 minutes, pages 182-202
Total- 6 hours and 10 minutes, 62 pages

Reading Times

Lord of the Flies, William Goldberg
11/19- 2 hours, pages 66 - 94
11/20- 1 hour and 45 minutes, pages 94-114
11/21- 1 hour, pages 114-123
11/25- 10 minutes, pages 124-126
12/1- 1 hour and 45 minutes, pages 127-140
Total- 6 hours and 40 minutes, 74 pages

Free Post: my school somewhat survival guide.

   A lot going on is an understatement. Yes, I'm an overachiever, I want to be successful in everything I do. No, I do not want to choke under all the work I've been given. There are four things in my life that I don't want to get behind on. The first is AP world History. If you get behind in that class, you have to work your behind off to catch up. You also have to keep track of every assignment and pace yourself or you no longer have a weekend, like me. The second is Honors Bio. Honors Biology isn't as bad, but when you get an assignment, you better do it, because the class doesn't have that many assignments and each one is critical to achieving a good grade. He also assigns things at the worst possible time. Third, Band is the most time-consuming enrichment I've ever done. Once, I finish my credits for enrichment, I'm out of that class. I seriously can't imagine another three semesters of Band. Just, no. Fourth, English is the single most hard class to catch up on. Dr. D is great at pacing, so when she says do something, do it on that day.
   The other classes are jokes according to assignments, Foreign Language is mostly memorization, so if you got the vocabulary, you get five minutes to do homework each night. Math is a different story though. Math assignments add up. Mrs. Sabotke has plenty of assignments unlike Science. So, you can miss one or two, but if you start missing three or four, you start getting in trouble. Another thing is that, you have to try hard on the homework. Math practice is crucial to learning the subject, with her sporadic daily quizzes, homework is the only time you can ask questions about the lesson "learned," even if you don't pay attention in class, there are plenty of ways you can teach yourself.
   The worst day of the week is wednesday. Thursday just sounds good to teachers, they like to say that word a lot for some reason. Maybe so they can grade on Friday and over the weekend, I don't know. But, don't ever schedule anything on wednesday night. That's homework night!

Reading:
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
11/13- pages 32-48, 1 hour and 45 minutes
11/14- pages 48-58, 1 hour
11/16- pages 58-66, 50 minutes
Total- 32 pages, 3 hours and 35 minutes

What are things you've forgotten in the past?

    So, last week I had a run-in with forgetfulness, and it may or may not have been involved with my mom's birthday. Her birthday was on Wednesday, and I had been extremely busy for a whole day and a half before she had to tell me it was her birthday. On Tuesday, I was loaded shoulder high with work during the day, and after school, I had basketball practice which was a little bit less fun, because it was centered more on set plays. Then I had to go home and prepare to go SCUBA diving. If you've ever gone, then you know just how much equipment you have to keep track of. I had to do some homework while my mom was working to get us over to the pool. Then we headed off and were at the LSU pools that can go deep enough for us to practice diving. We eventually got home at around 8:30 and my load of homework could only be half way done.
    Wednesday, I had another full day of work, not to mention even more homework. I had a basketball Jamboree after school and that didn't take that long, but, then I had a band concert, which takes long. We did great, and my feet were hurting so bad from standing up in heels, that I couldn't feel my big-toes, but then I got home around 9:00. With another big night of homework up ahead, I started and wasn't going to stop for a while, until my mom stopped me and told me that it was her birthday. She also said I had the best excuse out of everybody, but I still felt really bad. Don't forget your mom's birthday, your dad's ok with it. But your mom is really important to remember.

Coffee, anyone?

I woke up extra early to get to work this morning, put on my Starbucks apron, arranged the headset to fit perfectly on my head. But, this wasn't what I'm interested in, I just want the coffee. Pumpkin Spice, Chai Tea Latte, all of them. It's winter and all I want is a warm drink to accompany my morning endeavors. Especially this morning, it was snowing.
I drove to the biggest Starbucks in town where I occupy the manager spot and nobody's here. I turn on the news and find out the day is stay-at-home because all the roads are blocked. Maybe my day could be stay-at-starbuck's. Then, another car drove up, it was my best friend Jordan. She always comes to this Starbucks in the morning so she can tell me what to do, and I have to obey willingly.
The first thing that pops out of her mouth is, "I'll have a grande moccassippi please."
"That's it?"
"oh, decaf, one shot of milk, cream on top, and mix it all together well for me, love."
"Haha, not today Jordan, didn't you hear, Starbucks isn't open."
"So, you're saying that there's a bunch of coffee laying around that you know how to make, and we're now stuck in this store together, AND it's snowing outside. Did I mention you know how to make coffee?"
Then, I knew, today was going to be a nice day off.
Jordan and I drank all the coffee we could, paying each time. Eventually we ran out of money and we went outside to have a snow fight, then we heard the bulldozer. It rolled past us and we could've stopped right there, but we decided to invite more people instead. By the end of the snowball war, my body was numb and I drove back home. I went straight to my bed and slept, dreaming of a snowball avalanche falling onto Jordan.

Written for all the coffee lovers who need a shot of cocoa beans in the morning.

Class activity

My class was very organized, and very straight forward, but I'm not sure if our class was being thoughtful about doing more than surviving. Yes, we got the first three steps. Water, shelter, and food are always great. But, past that we started going into amazing detail on groups and it was almost too much detail. By doing more than surviving, you have to try to get off the island, establish a settlement and begin growing crops, things like that.

Also, by doing more than surviving, you have to work together, and I noticed some people were just denied a say, if their idea wasn't applicable to finding specific numbers on the groups that would go hunting, make a fire, etc. It just seemed like we were treating the survival like a math lesson, not something that could take a person's life at any time. I think there's a group of people that would agree with me, we didn't take the right approach in class.

Reading times
Allegiant, Veronica Roth
11/7- 2 hours, pages 278-367
11/8- 4 hours, 367-526
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
11/9- 1 hour, pages 8-32
Total - 7 hours, 272 pages.

Almost as happy as a camel on wednesday.

I walk into a not so normal day of school when I realize it is so normal. All the boys around me are screaming, "Sarah, sarah, what day is it? Huuuummmmmpppp Day!" Then they turn to each other and chest bump. Of course it's not a normal day of school, it's wednesday.
I walked over to my locker which is right next to my best friend Lacie's locker. We say hey, and nothing else. Does anybody know what day it actually is? I walk with Lacie to the library for our free study, and on our way, a guy I know named John stops and is about to say something, but Lacie gives him a cold as stone look, and when he tries to talk she loudly says, "Move along, we're trying to get to our free study." What in the world? Maybe he wanted to say hi or something in particular, what was up with her?
Lacie started moving faster than we were before and I have to almost jog to catch up with her. We walked across campus past the cafeteria and when we get close to the library, I see it. I thought they forgot, but they didn't. In front of the library, they hung a huge banner saying, "Happy Birthday Sarah."

What does Veronica Roth do that makes it so interesting?

    So, I'm reading Allegiant and just like Divergent and Insurgent, I'm completely hooked. I'll try not to reveal any super special secrets or anything. But, in most series, the author comes up with a brilliant idea in the first book and then the last two books aren't quite as great. When it comes to the Divergent series, that tradition doesn't apply with Veronica Roth. There's also another tradition about stories that just get old, and your readers get tired of hearing these stories. Once again, Roth somehow finds a way to break down these barriers.
    My theory is that she has many different stories within the same main idea of the series, Tris, a teenage girl is put in several situations that decide the outcome of her life. That's pretty general, I see. But, each of these different stories are so developed, and transitioned so well that it sounds like a complete masterpiece. But, then Roth adds in plot twists and cliff hangers that take the story to that next level and to a complete masterpiece. All this completely and totally compels me to read more!
   

Reading Log

Allegiant , Veronica Roth
11/1- 3 hours and 30 minutes, pages 11-163
11/3- 3 hours, pages 163-278
Total- 6 hours, 267 pages

Confusion is Key

    I read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Sucker, and A Worn Path. These three stories are all very different, and confusing at times. Sometimes, people think of confusion in a bad way, but in my case it brought curiosity as to why did the author leave this variable in the story to confuse the audience. The confusion kind of made me look at the story in a different way and helped me with the literary analysis thesis.
   In An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, I was confused about why the author mixed up the plot sequence. I was confused about the mood of the story. I was confused about the ending of the story. In Sucker, I found myself asking, why is this relevant.? What point is he/she getting to? The characters in the story didn't mix to form one idea and it just seemed like a bunch of jumbled parts spread across the page in form of text. Then, A Worn Path was the single most confusing short story I may have ever read. The author tells us about an older woman who hates walking on this path, but still goes through with walking this path, multiple times. So, this story was another, why is it relevant situation? So far, I've asked a bunch of questions and hopefully I'll come up with some good answers.
   Allegiant, Veronica Roth
10/24- 15 minutes, 11 pages
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce
10/26- 45 minutes,  7 pages
Sucker, Carson McCullers
10/27- 1 hour and 5 minutes, 13 pages
A Worn Path, Eudora Welty
10/27- 1 hour and 20 minutes, 8 pages
Total- 3 hours and 25 minutes, 39 pages.

Work comes in waves

    This week is officially homecoming week! Finally! That's how I should be reacting, right? Isn't it supposed to be super fun? I guess it is for some people. Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people. For me, I see this week as a chance to catch up. Lately, I've had tons of assignments due. Looks like I'll be working mostly on those assignments rather than shopping for super hero day.

   Also, basketball is starting up and it's my first year. I'm excited, but I'm also frustrated. I can only handle so many things at the same time. Kind of like a waitress in a restaurant that has four cups of water and picks them all up, it's possible, but it's also worrisome. What I need is a platter to put under the water. It's more effective, easy, and stress free. I guess the real question is where can I get one of these platters.

Reading Log

Hunger, Michael Grant
10/16- 1 hour 15 minutes, 32 pages
The Edumaction of Jay Baker, Jay Clark
10/16- 5 hours 45 minutes, 209 pages
Total- 7 hours, 241 pages

Reading Log

Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

10/6-1 hour, 29 pages

Hunger, Michael Grant

10/3- 1 hour and 30 minutes, 44 pages

The Return, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

10/7-30 minutes, 4 pages

Total- 3 hours, 77 pages

Setting for short story

I really think my short story will turn out well, I'll start right into action, my character is going to be exposed by his friends and in front of his friends. His friends see that he has unusual wounds that can't be caused by regular sports. The rising action will feature his friends following him after school, and they see him go to a construction working job that they've never heard of, then he drops his perfect car off in a field and rides a bike to his house, which is in a whole different place than where he says it's been. He goes inside and runs to his room, works on hw for the next three hours, until midnight, when his dad wakes up. His dad starts drinking and slams the bottle down on the ground, and eventually ends up in the hospital. The climax, his friends find out about what my character has lived like for the past three years since his mom passed, and they take action. Falling action, the friends cut my main character off as he drops his car off in the field, and when he refuses to go with them back to their houses, they "leave," and actually follow him. This time his dad is awake, and delirious from the medicine doctors gave him, and he hurts my main character, knocks out his own son. The friends take action, subduing the dad and rushing my main character to the hospital... where the resolution will take place, but I don't want to spoil it so that's all on the plot.
I haven't decided on any names yet, but the main character is supposed to be this guy with a "perfect life. " But truly he has the most problems of all, and as his friends find this out, they find the more deep personality rather than the light hearted personality everybody sees at school. It will be written in the perspective of the main character's best friend, and the best friend will stick with the main character the whole time he suffers through this story.

short story patterns

In our english class, we've read many short stories. As assigned, my classmates and I read through the story making annotations over plot, point of view, etc. While some have been pretty weird, some have been really sad, some of them show relief at the end, or any sort of feeling, they all seem to personal stories. No story tells of an event of some type, the story shows connections between the characters and the event being told.
For example, one may tell the story of the trojan war, but they don't tell the story based on the point of view of one of the soldiers. The narrator isn't biased towards a side and explains what's happening, "And the spartans surrendered, giving a giant horse to the trojans, triggering a celebration that would leave the city rowdy and drunk." But, to make the story have tension and suspense, "the spartans gathered with an idea, they had to get past the trojan's walls, and knew just how to do it, but first they surrendered. Not knowing what comes next, the spartans prepared for a plan that required perfect timing and a common goal, destroy the city of Troy." Both examples would tell a story, but which one would tell it better? I like the second one, and it must be popular among other people.

Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
9/29-45 minutes, 33 pages

Hunger, Michael Grant
9/29-1 hour and 35 minutes, 55 pages

As Da-Duh

I've loved those trees and canes as long as I can remember, yet that child seems to tell me things about a more majestic place, New York. New York? I heard it's full of a bunch of snotty, rude white kids. Who wants that life? And that child still talks about the city as if it were the most amazing thing you'd ever seen. All she talks about is, "it's way bigger, it's way better, it's way cooler." Nonsense, I won't believe a word. 
But, she also said she would take a picture of that Empire State Building and send it to me. She was pretty confident.... I guess you have to see it to believe it, nothing else will change my mind. I'm the only land owning colored person practically on this island, and all I hear is New York, New York, New York. Nothing could be half as good as the home I grew up in. Nothing?

What elements of a civilization are incorporated into this book?

     Right now, I'm reading the second book of the gone series, Hunger. In this series, the main characters are trying to survive in an isolated community, with immature children running around and playing rather than working to provide a decent amount of food to help feed every one. Outside of the story, I'm taking World History AP, which involves characteristics of civilizations, and much more information about the workings of a civilization. So, I feel a little obligated to critique the works of the children as they build their own civilization.
       The characters in my book have the structure of a civilization in their midst, however, the structure is more communist with certain job positions where less people work than not, and everybody gets the same amount of food. This becomes a growing problem as kids have a lot of free time where they go and burn things down. There's also a lack of control. The teenager in charge of the city is very stressed and deals with as much possible, but these kids are used to being under control and think they can do whatever they want whenever they're aren't being as closely watched. Although, I can see a future for this city as the kids try to work things out, and become a better community.

Hunger, Michael Grant
9/17-45 minutes, 9/19-20 minutes, 9/22-2 hours
total- 3 hours and 5 minutes, 113 pages

E-book factors

I really wouldn't change any thing about my article when it comes to going public, but in matters of improving it with pictures and such, I would do many things. I would add in some excerpts from my mythological story from sixth grade right before the last paragraph. Another thing I would do is I would probably add in a couple bold and colorful letters in the title to make it more attractive even before reading the title. I'm not sure past that, I'll think of some more though, I'm sure of it.

Response to last weeks predictions.

     I finished my book Gone, and found the answer to some of the predictions I made last week. Although, one of my predictions wasn't answered at the end of the book. As it turns out Gone is a part of a six book series, and the prediction about "the darkness" wasn't answered as the first book came to a close.
     Now, I found that my other prediction was half true and half false. The brother's began their fight, and many more factors from the book are added into the fight, like supernatural coyotes, some of the younger fallout alley children, and more kids that hold supernatural abilities useful in the fight against Caine. One of the brothers did win, but neither of the brothers died, and I don't want to spoil the book, so I can't specify on who. Although, it was truly a big fight scene as buildings fall, people die, and there's a damsel in distress.

Gone, Michael Grant
9/10-2 hours 30 minutes
total-2:30, pgs 296-372

Dialogue: two different characters from two different stories

    Hannah Baker, one of the main characters from 13 reason's why. She killed herself and left video tapes behind to tell the story of why she committed suicide. So, Hannah's dead and this is what she might have said in the tape.
   Craig Gilner, the main character of It's Kind of a Funny Story. He's deeply depressed and decides to call 991 when he almost kills himself. Craig's thinking in his mind of how he would reply to her as he plays the tape recording.

    Hannah said, "I didn't know what was going on, every time I got close to somebody they turned away and left me. I tried to trust them, I really did."
   I always had friends who never turned on me, but my friends never respected how I felt.....and eventually I just wanted some company...
    "Then, Clay, the only person I would truly trust, I turned away from him, I couldn't get hurt again, no, not this time. And when he left, I hoped he would come back..."
     Wow, my friends knew I had it, but they always found it better to concentrate on other things, then I helped myself by going to a mental hospital, and I found people that really did help. Not only people, but I found things that helped, too.
     "Why did this happen to me, everything could've been better off if the rumors and hot lists went away. All I had to do was fly under the radar...and eventually I had enough of this world."
     Why did I have to put so much pressure on myself to succeed, I'm glad I called the suicide hotline when I did.

What are some predictions I can make based on background information?

      Gone is set in a city called fallout alley. Fallout Alley was once hit by a meteorite containing uranium, and after, the children of Fallout Alley start getting these odd powers, which is very rare like the occurrence of the meteorite. Also, Lana, one of the main characters experiences a substance underground in a mine, and this substance is supernatural, it can talk to animals, glow, and most likely has many more powers. Based on these experiences, I feel as if the characters will find that the meteorite is the cause of these unnatural things. After the characters realize this, they can find how to subdue the supernatural powers, destroy the wall surrounding fallout alley, and save themselves from their imminent faith, death.
      But, first, these supernatural powers are about to collide as Caine and Sam, two brothers, fight for leadership, and rights. My prediction is that neither of the brothers will win, the both of them have valuable resources needed for the children of fallout alley's survival. And since these powers are so strong, I'm afraid that if one wins, the loser will die. If a loser dies, valuable information dies with the brother, and Fallout Alley may never return to prior conditions. I will soon find out whether my predictions are true as Gone continues to catch my attention in the ever so twisting and winding plot.

Gone, Michael Grant
9/3-1:15 minutes, 9/4-45 minutes, 9/6-30 minutes
Total- 2:30 minutes, pgs. 146-296

How did the author make me feel as a reader?

I read the literacy narrative, Always Living in Spanish, and I personally thought the author was great, and my favorite thing about her narrative was that her story connecting everything in her life to literacy and she truly cared about the subject of writing, but to her it was much more than writing. Whenever she wrote in Spanish there was a different feel, another one of those connections, except, this connection was a visit back to her home, where she didn’t feel like an outcast for once.

All of it seemed more personal than just a narrative, but it was still a narrative. The author made me feel like I wasn’t reading about her; I was her, and all of a sudden I was in the hallways struggling with English, not her. But, I’ve never struggled with English so how could I relate, and the truth is I couldn’t relate to many of the things she said, but I could relive the situation with the author by reading and gain experience for the next time I read, see, hear about being uncomfortable in English.

            

How do the characters and plot affect each other?

Gone, Michael Grant

8/28- 30 minutes, 8/29- 30 minutes, 3/31- 2 hours

Total-3 hours, 127 pages

            Yes, everybody’s different, but how many people are different compared to others. Gone’s characters are full of bullies who are forcing rule. Nobody can beat the bullies, so they’re in charge. Struggle is another abundant characteristic, all of the kids struggle with the loss of their parents because of the disappearances, but for some, it’s also an eating disorder, a little brother with disabilities, maybe even some of the responsibilities the characters took on as natural leaders. It can be hard to handle a nursing job when the bully’s beating every child in the city.

            In a city full of caged children, these characteristics are probably natural. Imagine the school hierarchy on a bigger scale, bullies would be taking leadership over others and some people would be struggling, but these characteristics are often found to be opposite in the adult world. For example, there are many stories of old high school classmates stating that bullies and popular girls become workers at McDonalds, janitors, etc. but the bullies and populars don’t become presidents and congressmen. What this may imply about the setting of the book Gone is that things will overall be a struggle for everyone due to bad leadership, and unnatural occurrences.

            

Believe what comes next

Recently I had one of the most coincidental and interesting moments of my life. My best friend Caroline invited me to a cotillion dance, which is new for me, but as I got to the party I began to get more and more confident. So, in that confidence I was walking around a lot in my athletic shoes. The dress was tailgating attire so I was wearing LSU and athletic clothes. Another friend of mine and I decided we were tired of walking around, screaming, and trying to hear others while they were screaming, so we took a break in the bathroom, and on our way there I had a little discomfort on the bottom of my foot. We were then in the bathroom standing in front of the mirrors when I lifted up my foot and checked on the bottom sole of my shoe. Stuck inside the sole was a pinky ring, and first of all my friend and I had a hard time really grasping that this object had gotten into my shoe, and so, we start to kind of laugh, "OMG, I stole a ring with my shoe!" So we're just kind of messing around and we tried it on, by the way, the ring didn't even fit, but anyways, a group of girls come into the bathroom and one of them was drying her hands and screams, "OMG, my pinky ring is gone!!" This is when my friend and I look at each other and just are in complete disbelief. Then, we ask the girl if the ring was hers and what do you know, "OMG, YES, where did you find it, I've had it for like three years." Now my friend and I are like, "No way," "What just happened?"And even though I'd probably been walking on it for half an hour, the girl got her ring back,  and I'm guessing she made sure that she thanked god that night that the ring got stuck in my shoe.

The Tragedy Paper, Elizabeth Laban
8/20-90 minutes, 8/21- 60 minutes
Total- 150 minutes, 90-212


This past week I finished the book, The Tragedy Paper, and as the book says in the title, it includes tragic features, and these tragic features help the main character write the inevitable "Tragedy Paper." The "Tragedy Paper" is a yearlong 15 page paper on tragedy that is assigned to all seniors. To help the main character with the paper, an albino outcast gives him a gift, multiple voice recording telling the albino's own journey with tragedy. As the albino takes the main character through the voice recording, meaningful features become revealed about "magnitude," and "purpose." Words that can define real tragedy, the albino's tragedy.

So, what's the purpose? Why write a book on an awful tragedy that led to a man's blindness? First, it's mind captivating, but it's also the author's own kind of tragedy paper, kind of like a picture that's taken with two mirrors and the reflection continues on and on. It shows the effect of tragedy in every way, relationships, personal struggles, happiness, etc. But it also shows the after, the struggle to overcome the tragedy, and the author Elizabeth Laban did fantastic and she put a tremendous amount of meaning within each page. Overall, this book may have changed aspects of my life positively, even though the book is fiction.

The Tragedy Paper, Elizabeth LaBan

8/18, 145 minutes, pgs. 1-90

Personal Zine,

8/12, 10 minutes

            The tragedy paper is a book that includes voice recordings to tell a story including the main character, a lot like the book 13 Reasons Why, which is also a great book. Both of the books have characters that aren’t included into the book by presence, but those characters are included in the book by items, the voice recordings. Usually, the main character played a part in the voice-recorded stories, and the character on the voice recorder had to tell the story from their own point of view to show why they did something.

            There are also many differences; the main character’s part in each of the voice-recorded stories is very different. In 13 Reason’s Why, the main character was part of the voice-recorded story in a positive way, and in The Tragedy Paper, apparently the character telling the story tried to kill the main character. Another difference was that the end of the story in 13 Reason’s Why was already decided because the girl committed suicide and left all of the voice recordings. The end to the story in The Tragedy Story still goes on and develops. 

The Knife of Never Letting Go

The Knife of Never Letting Go

The Knife of Never Letting Go was full of surprising features. I liked how the book was not just a copy of the hunger games; it was full of new interesting features. Some of those features included how the characters had noise. The author’s way of putting the noise into the book was really weird and odd at first. I mean, the men of Prentisstown were thinking a bunch of really gory, kind of insane things. But it’s also a factor that set the book apart.

This book also has some similar aspects compared to other books. The main character was too pure, or too coward to kill a person, and that’s a feature that is very popular with books. Although it’s a characteristic I’ve experienced in other novels, it’s a characteristic that I personally love to read about. Another thing was that the dog died, if this was not a schoolbook, I would’ve stopped reading right then and there. The animal companion always dies! I don’t want to read about a talented and awesome pet dying anymore! So all in all there were aspects of Knife of Never Letting Go that I liked, and there were some that I didn’t like.