I'm sorry for the bottom half of my post there is something wrong with how my computer sets up the font. JUST HIGHLIGHT AGAIN

     I just started reading Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz. I have been determined to finish this series of books and throughout this series I have been thinking a lot about heroes.  In this series there is a 14 year old spy named Alex who, in every book, saves millions of lives around the world. This doesn't need much of a retell since that is basically all you need to know. But anyway, what exactly are heros? In this fictional world that many of us read about we have super heros with super powers, such as super strength, speed, or the ability to read minds. And then there are these heros in our real life that do so much for this world.We take these heros to be selfless and all good.

      But why do we call them heros?I mean what would happen if we did have these all good super heros?Soon the human race would become so used to having these people watch out for them that they would start to rely way to much on them. We would be calling them every 5 minutes to help us open a pickle jar or something crazy like that. We call these people heros because of all the help. but remember, everyone has a dark side. Take alex for example. He saves millions of lives every book, but for what cost? Every book he kills someone, maybe not directly, but he always has something to do with someone else's death. Every hero has a selfish and dark side to them.  

     But if people actually knew about this whether it was a superhero or just someone on the street, would we still think of them as the kind completely good person that they could possibly be, or would we think twice about giving our lives and hopes to this person.

     I know everyone can make mistakes, but it's unacceptable with the high stakes that come with being a "hero'

DO NOT READ THIS IF YOUR GOING TO READ ARK ANGEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     So I have about 5 more pages in my book Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz so this will be my last blog about it.
     So I am actually go to talk more about my last blog post idea about the "Going to extremes to get  what you want". So at the end of the book (SPOILER) it turns out that Force Three (read last blog for retell) was actually hired by the millionaire Nikolei Drevin to take the blame for (HUGE SPOILER ALERT) the space hotel Ark Angel come crashing down from space to Washington D.C killing thousands. So it turns out that Drevin was actually the evil person in the book.

     Now, not only does this make me think about what these people would do even more but now I'm starting to think about how some people have this ability to hide in the shadows while somebody else takes the blame for something you actually did. And I despise these people that do that. To me when someone just sits there and watches another innocent person get punished it's just upsetting. How can someone live with this guilt lingerig over them.s

     I'm not saying that Force Three was innocent but they didn't know what they were actually doing for Drevin until Drevin turned on them and shot them all. He would lie to everyone and say they were going to kill Drevin but he had to defend himself so he killed them. I was wrong in my last blog to write about hem going to extremities I should have wrote about Drevin because this is an even bigger example. this guy was just getting fame for doing bad and he allowed his bad deeds to reflect off of someone else. Kinda like when a kid at school gets in trouble for hurting someone else when that other person was instigating it.

     What I'm really trying to say is that people shouldn't just sit back and get harmed just because of the promise of money fame or power.

    It's time everyone stands up for themselves...

SAVE THE PENGUINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     So.... at the moment I am reading Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz, basically what I'm using in that book to base my blog about is that in the book, there is a multimillionaire that wants to build a hotel in space but in order for the hotel to actually get up past the Earth's atmosphere, an entire ecosystem must be destroyed and all the organisms there will all get killed since the rockets have to blast fire to get up into the atmosphere.And there is this group of people called Force Three that will stop at nothing to stop the take off. Even if that means kidnapping his son and chopping off his sons finger, or just killing that millionaire.
  
     I do realize that that was a really long retell but anyway to get to the point this book really makes me think about what some people in this world would do to get everything their way. I'm not talking only about saving ecosystems but almost anything in this world. Don't get me wrong I would hate to see all these innocent animals get slaughtered there but i do think that there are other solutions to many problems in this world.

     I find it really weird how some people get their way in this world. Babies cry and scream to get  something, little kids do almost the same except mostly just the crying part, and then there's these people who will kill or hire people to kill if they lose an argument about something they think is important. Throughout history there are these  people who way to far for these things that they want. The assassination of Lincoln, the assassination of Martin Luther Kings Jr. And those are only 2 examples but what these people do is just too unbelievable.

     Getting back to the book this group called Force Three killed hundreds of people just because they were doing their job. Fore example, they shot a receptionist in the head because he wasn't allowed to tell them what hospital room a patient was in. And even when he told them out of fear they still shot him. I say that yes you have to go to some extremities to get something done right and for the right cause but this group didn't realize that while attempting to do something good for the Earth they are just harming more then they are actually trying to save.

     Sometimes you just have to know when to stop...

To think, or not to think, that is the question.

     Well as all of Ms. Rears classes know. We are reading Romeo and Juliet, and I don't think that I need to give much of a retell, but to keep it short the main part to remember and thin about is the theme of Love. And how some children's love life is controlled completely by the parents. Juliet's mother and father both want her to marry someone that they like and someone that Juliet hadn't met before.

     This made me think about today and how much has changed since then. In the present most of the kids today in the world (I know it's illegal to marry at this age in the U.S) don't get married at age 14, and most kids don't get into any serious relationships at that time of their life. When I think about this I always ask myself. What has changed so much that we look back and say "wow" to the old customs of the 15-16 hundreds. Now I'm not only talking about love but everything they did at that time period. Just the way they live and what they live in will surprise some people.

     When we were watching the Bob Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet, almost everybody in the class was probably thinking "Wait they just met each other and they're kissing and telling one another how much they love  each other?" But I'm guessing that's what actually happened back then. You have to keep in mind that nobody lived very long back then and at 13 your basically an adult.

     All of this centered around the question. "What happened that everything changed so much" but ask yourself what you think. You already heard some stuff from me...

Response to a response,

     As I was searching through other students blogs I came across Eamon's blog Story Endings. I was reading it and I found it really interesting to think about why I re-read books, since Eamon talks about why he reads books over. He gives several examples of books he has re-read and explains what happens and how that affects whether he reads the book again.
     
     During his response he asks many questions that get me thinking past this blog and into my own reading life. Even though he's not asking us directly, the way he writes about why he thinks the way he thinks it gets whoever is reading this to ask themselves, "Ya, why do I read books over again?" It turns out that I actually sometimes read books over again for the same reason that Eamon does. He says it's because of acceptance, and sometimes   you can't accept the way a book ends, and you hope to find something else in the end that you missed before that would allow you to accept the end the way it is because it would have changed after you have found that thing that you were missing before. Eamon doesn't actually explain what he's looking for, or what exactly he want's to change, but it made me think, and I found out that I normally want a character to be brought back to life. Books have this power to make you bond with the characters and actually feel sympathy for them, even though if you just go back to the first page they would be alive again.


     I really like how he then relates this theory of why people re-read to why people watch movies or T.V shows over again. And I really liked how he though about Video Games. He thinks that people play video games because they give you the ability to control so much more then you can in real life, but you stay safe. I found this very interesting to think about but I personally don't think that that is true for anybody.


     Eamon's past blogs have been well... slightly boring (Sorry Eamon) But I really like how this one was easy to relate to because it was not about one book but books in general that I'm sure everybody in 51 has read at least one book in their life. And the more you read the more interesting you find this blog. So this all depends on how you chose your books and which books you like the most. Without being able to think about these things the less people would enjoy reading this blog and only would because they had to for ELA.


     

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.)