Fat Boy Chronicles

             I just finished reading Fat Boy Chronicles. It was a good book overall that taught that if you keep trying and dont give up you will succeed, in this case it was an obese boy that was being teased and he was very determined to lose weight after he went to his doctor and he said that if he doesnt lose weight or get healthier then he will be obese for the rest of his life. throughout the book Jimmy kept on losing weight and journaling for his class. the journalhelped jimmy overall by helping nto show him what he needs to do and all of the progress that he made throughout the year. Jimmys goal was to lose 60lbs and by the end of the book he had reached his goal and was very proud of himself.

Fat Boy Chronicles

       My book is Fat Boy Chronicles. It is about a boy at high school who gets teased about his weight and has other problems in school. The book is based on a real person and this persons name was Doug, but is Jimmy in the story, and he went to Mason which is my same school so I can relate with some of his experiences here and understand him better than if it was someone from a different school. In the story he describes different places around the school and I can tell where these places are and it helps me see it better.

        Jimmy describes himself going to his friends house and his friend wanted to go to a party that Jimmy didn't want to go to. Eventually Jimmy was convinced by his friend to go to the party. when Jimmy get to the party there is alot of drinking and drugs at the party. When he starts to walk around he sees a girl at the party that he liked and she was drinking. After the party he didn't view her as attractive as he did before.
   

Fat Boy Chronicles

          I am reading Fat Boy Chronicles. In my book the setting is in a high school with a fat boy named Jimmy, the entire book is journal entries in Jimmies journal that he has to write in for his English class. So far his journals are about his problems in school with bullying and situations with other people. The boy that the book is based on is from the Mason High school so I can relate because we are students of the same high school. The author was a co-author with the boy from Mason that is using this as way to stop bullying by sharing what he had experienced in high school. I can see some of the things that jimmy sees going on that he writes in his journal going on around me and the book really makes it stand out more for me.

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           Click here to view my best blog post.  In my best blog post I did the character catagory. I picked the two main feuding characters to concentrate on in my post. These two characters were complex and they changed alot because of eachother in the book. They started out disliking one another but eventually it changes them and their personalities. throughout the book Ralph maintains the leadership position better than Jack but in the book Jack thinks of Ralph as unworthy and they never agree with one another. In my post I used a quote from Jack that shows how he was mean to the kids on the island and how he was changing the tides of him and Jack as leaders through the entire book.
            The goals I have for next trimester is that I want to work on my reading habits to try and get better at reading more often and not have it be such a hassle. With writing I want to be able to think faster and write whats on my mind on the paper faster instead of having to reword it when I go to write it down. This year I didn't read many times but when I did i would read alot because I had to do my blog, so next trimester i want to start reading more often. With writing I want to get better at making my sentences better and not repeating words and sounding unintelligent.

Lord of the Flies: Analysis

     The setting of Lord of the Flies is on an island that they crashed on. "We're on an island. We've been on the mountaintop and seen water all round,"(Golding 32). I can conclude that the character Jack in the story is someone who thinks of themselves as much better than everyone else because of the way he marches up at the beginning of the book and automatically thinks he is in charge of everyone, but he eventually sees that he isn't and begins to want to be in charge and he gets mad at Ralph,"'Choir! Stand still!' Wearily obedient, the choir huddled into line and stood there swaying in the sun."(Golding 20).

Lord of the Flies: Characters

     

          Over the course of my book the characters haven't changed a lot personality wise but with their relations with each other. There is a group of choir students that follow a person named Jack, he wants to hunt for the group and he thinks he is in charge but the rest of the people want Ralph in charge. When Jack catches his first pig on page 70 but he left the signal fire and stopped them from getting rescued to go hunt. After that he thought that because of that he controlled everyone and he used it as a way to bully the other kids "'You would, would you? Fatty!' Ralph made a step forward and Jack smacked Piggy's head." This Picture is from the scene in the movie with Jack and Ralph.

Lord of the Flies

         I like this book so far, it has a good plot and reminds me of a lot of movies and other books, but the plot is more unique like how all of the characters are children and they are trying to survive with little knowledge of survival. I really am enjoying this book partially because of how odd the author made it and I like the theme of the book.

Lord of the Flies book recommendation

       In my opinion this is a very good book but you would have to like this theme. The author has very good characterization and word choices, they describe everything in good detail that needs description but they use just the right amount and don't use detail obsessively. The book is about a group of kids that crash on an island in a plane and have little experience in the wild so they have to try and survive on their own without the help of adults.

Lord of the Flies

      This book is very good so far, I heard about it from my sister and she said she read it when she was my age so I decided to read it too. So far the main people in the book have had a lot of trouble keeping everything organized. The main struggle is surviving on the island with multiple people wanting to be in charge.

Lord of the Flies Tone

     The tone of my book is happy at the beginning and gets somewhat distressed later in the book. The people speak in a happy way at the beginning when they think that they will have fun on the island without any adults, however, they realize after about thirty pages that without adults everything is harder because of their limited knowledge and have to take care of young kids. After they start to want adults the tone switches to distressed and they are struggling with the life on the island and want to be saved

Lord of the Flies: Analysis

      The setting of Lord of the Flies is on an island that they crashed on. "We're on an island. We've been on the mountaintop and seen water all round,"(Golding 32). I can conclude that the character Jack in the story is someone who thinks of themselves as much better than everyone else because of the way he marches up at the beginning of the book and automatically thinks he is in charge of everyone, but he eventually sees that he isn't and begins to want to be in charge and he gets mad at Ralph,"'Choir! Stand still!' Wearily obedient, the choir huddled into line and stood there swaying in the sun."(Golding 20).

Lord of the Flies

          This is a somewhat complicated book so far. Judging on what has happened so far in the book, I am guessing that eventually the conflict will be something about a struggle for power because of a person who thinks he should be in charge and is better than everyone and another who wants to lead because he started as leader at the beginning. The book is somewhat similar to the TV show Lost, because of its setting being on an island that they crashed on and then had to try to make everything less chaotic. I can relate to this because is like when people in groups compete or work together, everyone wants to be a leader. This can be related to the world because there is problems all around the world, like the civil war in Syria but the situation isn't exactly the same because there wasn't a power to start with like in Syria. 

Lord of the Flies Theme

          Lord of the Flies has a very good theme. There is many different books with a similar setting, people stranded on an island, but in this book it is very unique. On the island, there was a plane that crashed, the pilot died and all of the passengers were children. "In the middle of the scar he stood on his head and grinned at the reversal fat boy. 'No grownups!'" (Golding 8). at first the children are excited about not having any adults and think they can have fun and are free from rules, but a group of children will have trouble surviving without any adults.

Lord of the Flies Setting

           In Lord of the Flies the setting is on an island during or after World War II. "Didn't you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb?" (Golding 14). this quote hints toward World War II when it mentions an atom bomb and on the back of the book it mentions the second World War. The book takes place on an island, or what they know of so far of an island. Ralph climbed on a rock to get a good look and he thought it was an island, and they made it to a lagoon on a beach that was full of fish and shells. "'I climbed a rock,' said Ralph slowly, 'and I think this is an island'" (Golding 14).

In the first chapter of my summer reading book it describes all of the men who were sent to Iwo Jima and how they thought that they weren't ever going to become heels and how they were drafted to the war. But this group ended up making one of the most famous pictures of WWII . However the surviving group members didn't view themselves as heros and the told everyone that the ones who died were the heroes. But today we see theses men in this famous picture as a symbol of america winning world war II and the battle of Iwo Jima.