Friday, April 24, 2009
Jolynn's last blog
When you look back at reading the book and looking up why she wrote the book the way she did, you realize that most of the things she writes truly happened in her life. It made me wonder if that could ever happen to you, it made me feel thankful for everything i have i charish everything I have, I have learnded that you might feel like you are starting to have everything that you could ever ask for but in a blink of an eye it can be gone, you can lose everything in a hear beat. I think that this has to be the saddest book i have ever read. I believe everyone should read the book Burned just to realize how good their life truly is, and to see how bad other people have it.
Friday, April 3, 2009
More from the author ellen hopkin
Some other books that Ellen Hopkins has also wrote:
-Crank
-Glass
-Impuls
-Identical
-Tricks
-Flirtin with a monster
-Freshwater Fishing
-The It's Okay If You Sit on My Quilt Book
-Orcas: High Seas Supermen,United States Air Force
-U.S. Air Force Fighting Vehicles
-Fly Fishing
-U.S. Special Operations Forces
-Countdown to Yesterday: Earth's Prehistoric Past
-Breaking up is hare to do
...More
-Crank
-Glass
-Impuls
-Identical
-Tricks
-Flirtin with a monster
-Freshwater Fishing
-The It's Okay If You Sit on My Quilt Book
-Orcas: High Seas Supermen,United States Air Force
-U.S. Air Force Fighting Vehicles
-Fly Fishing
-U.S. Special Operations Forces
-Countdown to Yesterday: Earth's Prehistoric Past
-Breaking up is hare to do
...More
Blog # 2 3/2
**How did you feel about the whole no letters or contact from the family?**(before the sister came back from camp)....At first I was a little upset, but then I realized that her family didn't really show very much affection when she was home so what was I to think they would when she was gone. She was used; a normal teenager should not have to raise her brothers and sisters. I teenager should be able to enjoy her life, not taking on the role of being an adult. I think that it is better that way only because of the fact that she wouldn’t have to explain the things that where happening. It was really better that way..
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Blog # 3 4/3
***How could love so right, die so wrong?***
I was very hard to read the ending, I was very upset. Their love was SO right for one another. They loved each other very much, their was a spacial reason for them meeting! Just when her life was looking up for her (in a way) it all come crashing down in the blink of an eye. Makes me think about how much time is so precious, One minute you can be laughing, and the next laying in the hospital bed. To many take things/ people for granted in this book an example was her father, Always making her take care of the kids, Although she was a Mormon i believe she should have had right to do things to. their are many people today who have religion yet are allowed to live their life's, as a teenager not an adult.
I can understand what she is going threw in the end of the book for the reason that, One of my best friends was in a car accident and i remember calling her cell phone to talk to her, not knowing that the voice on the other end would be telling me she was in a car accident. I broke down and cry ed harder then i have ever cry ed in my life time. She told me that she had 4 broken ribs, brain damage, she was very badly burned from head to toe, they didn't know if they where going to have to remove her legs or if she was even going to make it. She did, 9 months in the hospital but she survived. Her cousin was killed immediately on impact. Now she has a blood clot in her lung, that could kill her.
This is a song that reminds me of their love.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3967223622321591861&ei=fBXVSa7CBo6ErQLlscTyDw&q=Love+of+My+Life+-+The+Wedding+Song&hl=en
I was very hard to read the ending, I was very upset. Their love was SO right for one another. They loved each other very much, their was a spacial reason for them meeting! Just when her life was looking up for her (in a way) it all come crashing down in the blink of an eye. Makes me think about how much time is so precious, One minute you can be laughing, and the next laying in the hospital bed. To many take things/ people for granted in this book an example was her father, Always making her take care of the kids, Although she was a Mormon i believe she should have had right to do things to. their are many people today who have religion yet are allowed to live their life's, as a teenager not an adult.
I can understand what she is going threw in the end of the book for the reason that, One of my best friends was in a car accident and i remember calling her cell phone to talk to her, not knowing that the voice on the other end would be telling me she was in a car accident. I broke down and cry ed harder then i have ever cry ed in my life time. She told me that she had 4 broken ribs, brain damage, she was very badly burned from head to toe, they didn't know if they where going to have to remove her legs or if she was even going to make it. She did, 9 months in the hospital but she survived. Her cousin was killed immediately on impact. Now she has a blood clot in her lung, that could kill her.
This is a song that reminds me of their love.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3967223622321591861&ei=fBXVSa7CBo6ErQLlscTyDw&q=Love+of+My+Life+-+The+Wedding+Song&hl=en
connections to nows life(courtney)
· The most popular one that was the most connected to our life now is the abuse like throughout the first few pages the mother always got abused till she found out she was pregnant, then after awhile the second to oldest kid started to get abused and after Pattyn moved back from her aunts she started to get abused too. And this is what happens all threw life anymore with just young kids and also with the relationships.
· Another is when she didn’t feel fit in with her family, society, and friends because she always got treated differently like her family she had to take care of all her siblings when her parents just sat around doing nothing or either just complaining. And to society because everyone either always had their little groups and she never fit into them and then she never got new close every year like they did and it never dawned on her. And then she wasn’t really a people person so she never really had friends.
· Another is when she didn’t feel fit in with her family, society, and friends because she always got treated differently like her family she had to take care of all her siblings when her parents just sat around doing nothing or either just complaining. And to society because everyone either always had their little groups and she never fit into them and then she never got new close every year like they did and it never dawned on her. And then she wasn’t really a people person so she never really had friends.
Blog # 1 4/2
**How do you feel when her dad sent her to her aunts?Did you think it would change anything**
...I was happy but scared at the same time, knowing how her dad acted I was afraid her aunt was going to be the same way. After understanding her aunt a little and knowing that her aunt had actually gone through almost the same thing I was glad that she could be able to talk to someone that knew what she was feeling. I then felt happy. I knew nothing would change, everything was turning for the good, by sending her to her aunts, but in the end of the book her life took a turn for the worst loosing the two most important loves in her life. I think that she should have stood up for herself like her sister said to stay at her aunt’s house, but without knowing what would happen, with a father like hers I guess it would have been good for her to go back home.
...I was happy but scared at the same time, knowing how her dad acted I was afraid her aunt was going to be the same way. After understanding her aunt a little and knowing that her aunt had actually gone through almost the same thing I was glad that she could be able to talk to someone that knew what she was feeling. I then felt happy. I knew nothing would change, everything was turning for the good, by sending her to her aunts, but in the end of the book her life took a turn for the worst loosing the two most important loves in her life. I think that she should have stood up for herself like her sister said to stay at her aunt’s house, but without knowing what would happen, with a father like hers I guess it would have been good for her to go back home.
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