So recently i have picked up the book Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and although it is a very well written book it is not very appealing to me. However it is rather easy to come up with things to write about.
I am only about 20 pages in the book so far and let me tell you, it is, as Ms. Rear said, a very dense book. In the book one of the characters Marlow goes into this long story (Please don't get angry if I'm wrong about this fact I wasn't exactly quite sure about this, and I kind of lost myself somewhere in the book.) about himself as a captain sailing up the congo. ( a river in Africa) later he was sent to a African Village to recover a man named Fresleven's bones, only to find that he was killed by the native tribe their when he tried to attack the village chief.
Later in the book I found out that, the village had been deserted because the natives were superstitious that because they killed a white man, a curse or something would be placed on them and this just made me think a lot about race and discrimination in the world today. Today not many people I know believe that a certain race or color is dominate or more educated or something than others. But years and years ago black and white people couldn't use the same, well, anything. They ere separated in almost every(if not all) public places. I started to question myself about how the discrimination actually started. I know the basics but why did people back hundreds of years ago think that blacks were a lesser race.
I think that they all had some kind of fear of change, and they were afraid to allow this other race into their ordinary lives. People thought that they were lesser and wanted white protestants to be the main race in much if not all of europe and many other places as well.
Anyway now I have to start that prep sheet so I think I'm going to end this blog post here.
Sometimes you gotta do homework earlier in the week....
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Escaping the law
So now since I finished the Alex Rider series I have started reading the book. On The Run. A Mafia Childhood by Gregg and Gina Hill. This book is basically a autobiography written by the two children of a mafia member named "Wise Guy" Henry Hill. In the book the two children talk about their life and what it was like being raised by a person in the Mafia.
In the book i found out that the two kids were only around the age of 5 when their father got arrested for a couple of years. This wasn't as big a shock to the two kids because whenever their father got arrested (Which was several times before this) their mother would only say that "Daddy's going away for a little while" Leaving the kids completely oblivious of what has actually happened. This really surprised me because I never thought a mother would lie like that. I know that their father got arrested but since it's already happened a few times and the children didn't know. When they get old enough to understand what prison is, it will scar them more than if they were told the truth at an earlier age.
I would hate to be the son of a man who is doing illegal things almost every day and Gregg and Gina despise it so much. In the book they speak a lot about how it was really hard being away from their father so much, and when he wasn't in prison he was normally out getting drunk at his bar until 3 am.
Although i am not very far into the book I can already feel the pain that these kids probably went through later on in life. And using what I know about the mafia and what my Grandfather told me about when he was a detective against them. I can see that these poor children have or had a long and terrible childhood ahead.
In the book i found out that the two kids were only around the age of 5 when their father got arrested for a couple of years. This wasn't as big a shock to the two kids because whenever their father got arrested (Which was several times before this) their mother would only say that "Daddy's going away for a little while" Leaving the kids completely oblivious of what has actually happened. This really surprised me because I never thought a mother would lie like that. I know that their father got arrested but since it's already happened a few times and the children didn't know. When they get old enough to understand what prison is, it will scar them more than if they were told the truth at an earlier age.
I would hate to be the son of a man who is doing illegal things almost every day and Gregg and Gina despise it so much. In the book they speak a lot about how it was really hard being away from their father so much, and when he wasn't in prison he was normally out getting drunk at his bar until 3 am.
Although i am not very far into the book I can already feel the pain that these kids probably went through later on in life. And using what I know about the mafia and what my Grandfather told me about when he was a detective against them. I can see that these poor children have or had a long and terrible childhood ahead.
I...AM...DONE!!!
So i few days ago i finished reading the last book in the Alex Rider series Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz and let me just say I really liked it. Having spent a couple of months (I think) on the series from scorpia to this book I really started to connect with some of the characters and it made me very upset when... well... never mind I won't ruin the book for everyone who hasn't reads it. But when this certain event occurred near the end of the book it was hard for me to actually believe and I had to read it over and over again to make sure i didn't miss anything.
In the book many unexpected things happened and they shocked me very much but what I was thinking about most was how bad all the people in this series behaved. I thought a lot about how this would effect me if I came across any person who would want my organs or actually start a war. I don't know what I would do. I would fight back but not as cleverly as the main character Alex Rider would. This series taught me to observe my surroundings and use anything that I could as something to defend myself, kind of like when Alex used a fire extinguisher to... well... again won't ruin it. (yep I'm doing this on purpose).
Anyway the villains in these books have similar goals and now that i have finished the series I can compare every one of them. In all of these books they all wanted to do something illegal for their own personal gain. Not necessarily for money, but for joy. Many of these villains wanted to do something either to Alex or some other person/thing because that other thing, person or Alex did something to the villain that made him upset or angry.
These villains in these books all have somewhat of a certain goal and I wish there was a little more variety in the books but overall, it was a very good series to read.
In the book many unexpected things happened and they shocked me very much but what I was thinking about most was how bad all the people in this series behaved. I thought a lot about how this would effect me if I came across any person who would want my organs or actually start a war. I don't know what I would do. I would fight back but not as cleverly as the main character Alex Rider would. This series taught me to observe my surroundings and use anything that I could as something to defend myself, kind of like when Alex used a fire extinguisher to... well... again won't ruin it. (yep I'm doing this on purpose).
Anyway the villains in these books have similar goals and now that i have finished the series I can compare every one of them. In all of these books they all wanted to do something illegal for their own personal gain. Not necessarily for money, but for joy. Many of these villains wanted to do something either to Alex or some other person/thing because that other thing, person or Alex did something to the villain that made him upset or angry.
These villains in these books all have somewhat of a certain goal and I wish there was a little more variety in the books but overall, it was a very good series to read.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Finally I am on the last....um... oh. Book!
Alright so as you can see unless of course you cannot read english that I am on the last book of the series of Alex Rider. I just started reading the last book Scorpia Rising By Anthony Horowitz and I must say that so far it isn't very promising, but then again I just started.
Anyway In my book so far there has been a huge battle in the Museum of London and about 17 out of 50 soldiers have died a rather weird way in war. Many of these soldiers were injected with the tip of a very expensive cane. So during this battle the museum was destroyed and many innocent people were killed in cross fire. This just made me think a lot about how in some cases during war casualties are allowed and many important places are allowed to be destroyed.
And when are these things allowed in war? What do the circumstances have to be in order for this to be allowed? In the recent killing of Osama Bin Laden casualties were not allowed and the U.S navy seals made sure that they wouldn't be any. And the United States government decided not to bomb the compound so many important pieces of information was not destroyed.
So... When are these protocols allowed? As I said before do the circumstances have to be too high? Do the circumstances have to be save the world or allow the world to be destroyed (Which seems to be a lot of the cases in this book), and why is this person in the book so important that this was allowed to be taken, and a wonderful museum allowed to be destroyed.
Anyway In my book so far there has been a huge battle in the Museum of London and about 17 out of 50 soldiers have died a rather weird way in war. Many of these soldiers were injected with the tip of a very expensive cane. So during this battle the museum was destroyed and many innocent people were killed in cross fire. This just made me think a lot about how in some cases during war casualties are allowed and many important places are allowed to be destroyed.
And when are these things allowed in war? What do the circumstances have to be in order for this to be allowed? In the recent killing of Osama Bin Laden casualties were not allowed and the U.S navy seals made sure that they wouldn't be any. And the United States government decided not to bomb the compound so many important pieces of information was not destroyed.
So... When are these protocols allowed? As I said before do the circumstances have to be too high? Do the circumstances have to be save the world or allow the world to be destroyed (Which seems to be a lot of the cases in this book), and why is this person in the book so important that this was allowed to be taken, and a wonderful museum allowed to be destroyed.
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