Harry Potter. ~

I started reading the last Harry Potter over agian because i always really intrigued after Wilson's presentation. I haven't read it in a long time so I didn't exactly remember everything. This time I know what to look for though: Elements of religion and politics and such in the story. During the first chapter they are at voldemort's Lair or whatever you want to call it. They sit at a very long table with one head and no chair on the other side. It is very clear that he controls everybody, he is the one in command. The next chapter you get to see Harry and his friends sit at a circular table. I happen to think this is a clear contrast on how the characters react with each other. A round table for instance allows everyone to be "equal", everyone can see everybody else and your voice can be heard all over. As for a long table, Voldemort is at the head. There is no equality, in fact they don't even talk without him giving permission. I think the tables are a clear representation of the "Open-ness" of the protagonist and the antagonist towards their followers or friends.

The Lost Boy pt 2

The second chapter is all about david's journey after he leaves his mom. He gives a short summary about what happened at the school and how the nurse saw his cuts and bruises and then the cop comes and take him away(which is where the first story ended;but in reality he started the first story off by telling us this first) So the cop brings david to this foster home to someone called aunt mary, who I am assuming is like a Nun or something because thats what I always see in the movies and I can't help but think that. I also think the children call the nuns aunts instead of sisters right? or maybe she just likes being called aunt mary. So He is alittle shy at first but he opens up really quickly and starts to really feel happy for the first time in a long time. He meets his social worker ms. gold who has flowing blonde hair. At first he doesn't really trust her but he starts to after she shows him that he can. So he spills everything to her and he lives his life to the fullest until one day. His mom pulls up in her station wagon to the foster home and comes to bring clothes for david for the upcoming trial in which ms. gold will use the evidence gave her to convict his mom. The forces collide when his mother and aunt mary meet because they are both very strong women and it's like an arm wrestling match with strong forceful attitudes and language and you can really tell that one is trying to display a greater greaterness than the other. So a phone rings and aunt mary has to walk out and david is left behind and his mom practically threatens him and tells him he can't escape her and david becomes horribly scared. So because of this the next time he see's ms.gold he tells her that all the stuff he told her was a lie and it's not to be used in court and she leaves crying after being unable to persuade david to tell the truth. This is where this chapter ends and the next one is about the trial. I really want to see what he is going to do, whether he confesses and sends his mom to jail for all of the horrible things she did and lives his life for what it is, or admit to the court that his mother did nothing and that it was he who had ran into doors and accidentaly stabbed himself and probobly end up going back with his mother if he did that. I geuss I'll have to wait and see. This also really reminds me of The Series of Unfortunate Books, because they are always going around with foster parents and like them, david has an evil relative(mother) intent on making his life a living hell. I mean they are really differant but when i first knew that he was going to a foster home I thought about that series for some reason.

The Lost Boy pt 1

I read the first chapter in Dave Pelzer's sequal to A Child Called It. It doesn't take place right after the events in first book. It's really interesting because he started the first book off with the end of it, and now he starts the second one with someone from the past at the beginning. So he was going about his usual routine ( which of course is completly insane) of getting beaten; he is sitting at the bottom of the stairs and his mom and dad get into an arguement which eventually leads up to a conflict about him. This time there is a twist though, his mom gives him a chance to leave or stay. He leaves and wanders the streets searching for the river his family went to in the past. He wanders into a pizza place and finds a dude who gives him a pizza but the guy called the cops and they took him away. His mom even sent his dad to go get him from the police station who played it off completly and took him home, the very person he had hoped to save him. I really look forward to seeing what actually happened after the cop let him out of his car in the first book.

Stereotypes pt 2

I think it is also interesting how you few other people. For example if you see someone on the street with ragged clothes and an unkempt beard what are you going to think? your going to think that person is dirt poor and homeless. Which alienates them from an already alienated society. We do it too eachother all the time. I think it manifest itself in young children because as we get older we seperate ourselves into cliques, sadly they are often based on color which even our parents and their parents, have fought to eliminate is still present even though we "stand together" as the "United" states of America. Before we spread peace to other countries we should learn how to fix our own problems.

Stereotypes pt 1

I've read alot about stereotypes in the past 5 hours or so and I have alot to share. I think it is very interesting how people can view someone basicly on how they look. I know alot of people who look a certain way and then others that look completly a differant way and they do not associate with eachother what so ever. They don't know them like I do, I like to think that I can look past stereotypes of people because it really is something that hinders us from achieving our true potential. I don't think I've really been stereotyped and I don't know what I would fit under. I am not a jock really because I don't like to go to parties I rather sit at home and watch tv or just hang out with one girl not alot. But I do play sports, I like history alot and I play computer games that many would consider "nerdy" So I don't know what I am.

Child Called it. pt 4

After awhile his mom let him sleep in his dads room. He really loved his dad but he was disappointed because he wasn't doing anything about what was going on. But somehow he new one morning when he woke up and saw his dad leave that it was going to be the last time he ever saw him. Towards the end of the book it puts us right before the events in the opening chapter. He is just going into his fifth grade year and life is worse and horrible and there is no hope, it's just utterly depressing. I really liked the book, and It's almost what we did in creative writing, like writing as the kid in the story. Thats what he did, like first person and stuff. I want to go buy the next book in the trilogy in the book which deals with him growing up. I want to see the part where he confronts his mother which has to happen at some point, right?

Child Called it. pt 3

It's really a shame to read about the slow deterioration of hope, especially of a child. Truly he seems to be a very strong individual but eventually for everyone there is a limit. He just stopped caring and he wished for death; and the punishments just keep getting worse and worse. His mother would trap him in the bathroom with a bucket of clorox and ammonia which would set off a chain reaction which caused a gas to seep throughout the small bathroom almost suffocating him. Later he ended up coughing up blood. At that point in time I had seen it had gotten to one of the worst parts in the story where no hope was left but I was wrong.