Being Famous: Good? or very very Bad? (Highlight to see)

     I am currently reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling, and I started to think (since I read this before) I  wonder what would happen if Ron and Harry switched bodies for a day or so. Would Ron then still like popularity? 

     Many people in this city would love to have fame and fortune, but i've seen what happens. Once your famous you have a bigger chance of someone wanting to murder you, you can't get any privacy because people always want your autograph or news reporters wanting to have an interview at 2:30 in the morning when you're trying to get a good nights sleep after everyone smothering you with their bodies. 

     Speaking of news reporters, Harry can't get away from one who always seems to zoom in on just Harry and not the other champions. Even if Harry is an underage champion and is the first fourth champion, I don't think that the others shouldn't get there part of the game. The reporter Rita Skeeter always makes up these untruthful lies about Harry based on what he told her during the interviews, which really caused Harry a lot of stress from other Hogwarts students. 

     The Triwizard tournament is very much like our Olympic games except that not many people die during the Olympics. The Triwizard tournament is between 3 different schools competing for the glory of holding the Triwizard cup. Three champions are selected, one from each school to participate in these games. Just like in the olympics only that many olympians are chosen from each country in the world. Each olympian tries to earn the glory of holding a gold medal that shows outstanding skill in that specific event.

 
      

HUMANS ARE ANIMALS TOO!

     I picked up Dr. Dolittle just recently and I started to read it, but as i was reading about this extraordinary doctor who could talk to animals, I started to think. Why can't humans talk to animals as most animals can communicate with each other. I don't think of humans as a highbred species, and that in many ways what we call animals are smarter than us. I mean think about it, at birth they have the skills needed to survive when we don't adapt and learn without someone or something guiding us in the right direction. Most humans have to live with guidance until they're at least 16, but "animals" sometimes have to live on their own within the first 6 weeks of their life. But then again what is 6 weeks for us could be 16 years for them. Anyway I'm starting to get off topic.

     The reason I'm wondering this is that we are just animals sharing the Earth with other Species, why can't we communicate to everyone on this planet of ours. And even if all species can't understand everyone, They all can somehow communicate with each other and they all know different signs or ways of communication that can signal if it's an enemy or if they're going to help. "Animals" have this ability that Humans cannot do very well. Of course we have some national signals like SOS but this is different.

     Animals can understand they're own species. But Humans aren't born with the ability to understand every single language in the world but birds are. Why are we so different then every other animal on this planet. I think that we sometimes forget that we are animals too and we don't think about these things but it's amazing how a simple book can really start an argument in someone's head.





(This is all based on a wild theory No body knows if all animals can talk to everyone.)

     The blog post before this was when I literally just started reading the book so I'm writing another one about the same book Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz. Currently in this book Alex Rider (the main character) was just caught for sneaking around the campus of the organization Scorpia (a group of people that are supposedly evil)
and was shoved into a room that was going to be flooded. Alex cleverly found a way out with the help of some adrenaline that gives him a boost of strength.

     When I was reading this I started thinking, is every one capable of doing these things that this kid can do? Can everyone pry open metal bars if they are in a life or death situation? Or... does everybody posses the amount of strength to do all of this if they really try?

     I know that adrenaline is supposed to give you something like 3 times your normal strength. But does adrenaline give enough strength to save you from almost any situation. I'm pretty sure that it all depends on what kind of shape you are in, but is every human being able to do so much more than they think if they were in the same shape as Alex and had the same kind of training as Alex? I know that he's only a fictional character but still.

     I think that we all posses the same power as everybody else in the world. But some people can "unlock" that power better than others. If we all train the same than we all can access this power that some people like Alex posses.

The Next Generation

     In the book I am currently reading called Scorpia  by Anthony Horowitz there is a small boy who is a spy for a secret agency in London. The reason they recruited a 14 year old boy for extremely dangerous missions is to surprise all the evil people that they are fighting against. Nobody would suspect a boy to destroy all of their plans right? Well that's exactly the thing,  no one would think a boy would be skilled enough to do stuff like this. But that's what really makes me think.

     It's not only in these books where a boy is not thought to be able to accomplish much but kids are always treated worse than adults, It's something that we all just got used to. Kids are capable of doing so much more than they are thought to be able to. People think that kids are incapable of doing specific things that actually are challenging. This is both a advantage for some people but a disadvantage for some people. Specifically for the book the advantage for the agency is that they have the element of stealth and surprise and a disadvantage for "Scorpia" the evil group of assassins, since they are clueless.

     But in real life too it could be an advantage for some kids if they do something that kids aren't thought to do they could get fame and fortune but a disadvantage for others since they could be intimidated by all their peers since no one thinks that they could do it. If no one believes in you, you probably give up easier than if you had support when things start going bad.

     These things that people think about kids or... teens can really keep this nation back if we don't allow these teens to actually attempt things that they aren't necessarily supposed to be able to do.
    
    

Dang nab those Rotten kids!!!!!!!!!!

      In my book Nicholas Again by Goscinny. There are subtle vibes trying to get us to live the "proper" way that people think is right. Just by the way all the teachers act and punish kids for goofing around is secretly trying to tell us the "right" way to live.

     Nicholas and his friends don't try to get in trouble but they just can't help it. THEY'RE JUST SMALL KIDS that like to mess with each other and roughhouse. This way of living has been put upon us by all the adults that run our lives. Teachers, parents, government people. They all have been told that it's proper and the right thing to chew with your mouth closed, or to not put your elbows on the table. And they pass it down to us. This way of living hasn't been around forever, it was created by a group of people at some time in history. Think about it cavemen sure didn't live like this. Native americans didn't live like this. It somehow formed over time and has made it's way all around the world to many families.

     But if we didn't have these kids or people that break these rules than there wouldn't be any creativity in the world and today wouldn't be today at all if people like Albert Einstein or Galileo didn't disobey what was said and found all of these scientific facts. We would still think the Earth was flat and that you would fall off if you reach the end. Or we wouldn't know that there was actually a universe of millions of stars and hundreds if not thousands of planets.

     Without these people disobeying what was right we wouldn't be nearly as advanced as we are today and everybody would probably being wearing a suit and a tie with no expression on their face and their tear ducts dry. Who knows?

The Old France

                 In my book Nicholas and the Gang by Goscinny and Sempre, There is a huge social norm about young kids and their life style. How they talk, what the do, how they act. This book is taking those things and putting them into the characters of Nicholas's gang and school.
    
                  Nicholas is an average school boy that has a nice family and a troublesome gang. They are always getting into trouble whether it is Old spuds their teacher, or the doctors that went to their school. Nicholas has the traits that you would find in any eight year old but the way that him and his gang acts in funny but can be offensive. They always get in trouble and act in a specific way that i guess the author thought young boys should act like back then. Everyone of them act so aggresive that they cant help threatening others that they are going to puch them in the nose, or actually punching them in the nose.
    
                 This actually also made me think about all these stupid social norms that have developed over the years. Like this social norm of glasses and how some people think that if you wear glasses than your a nerd, but in this book people actually were admiring the child who got glasses. They wouldn't leave him alone and they all wanted to try on his glasses. It really makes someone think about how stupid we humans are in letting what people think about us control are lives. People back then didn't care as much, and I don't think we should today either. If we let these people control our lives we wont be able to get anywhere in life and no one would be able to be their own unique self. No one would be able to express themselves and their wouldn't be any creativity in this bland world controlled by a non-existent object

life and It's fables.

   
     I am currently reading Aesop's fables. This book is not a actual one story book. There are 284 stories jammed into one, 243 page book. Each story is made to make us think deeply about life. In one very interesting story, Mercury and the woodsman. This story is what really made me love this book. This is where I first started to see what this book is actually wanting me to see. When i read each story I am seeing many morals that should make my life better. When I read each story I am seeing different morals that can prevent you from causing harm or suffering to yourself.
   
     "Honesty is the best policy", "Rude shocks await those who take themselves credit that is due to others", "Never count you chickens before they hatch". These are all morals in the book that they either made clear or I found out myself. I believe that Aesop is trying to give us a feeling of what the world would be like if we all followed these morals. He isn't telling us this but if we look deeper and think about all of these stories as one and not 284 separate ones, it shows a story about a bad life and what may happen to everyone who does not follow each of these morals.

     It is hard to believe that 284 stories can fit on 243 pages but I don't believe we are supposed to look at it as separate short stories. It;s true that each can give you a lesson and that's what each is designed to do. However if you can read these stories as one 243 page story, the morals seem to come closer together and show us a life that has been forced to go through all of these stories and that one person is telling his life story,but with different characters in each story.

     These stories fit together like a puzzle and show us a life story. Each of these read separately you learn. But if you read them together you see. This book shows us an allegory of what our life would look like if we did the opposite of all the morals  in the book. Instead of  being honest we lie, instead of give credit, we take it for ourselves. This is Aesop's Fables.