5.08 The Hunger Games

The book I chose to read this week was “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. The first chapter is mainly about the author introducing the story to the reader.  The first chapter explains the characters to the reader like Prim, who is Katniss’ little sister, Also, Katniss who hunts outside District with Gale, who is her best friend and her hunting partner.  The story starts off with Gale and Katniss hunting outside of district and also talking about each other’s lives.

My personal reaction to this story is that the author did a very good job in setting the mood of the story and also introducing the story to the reader. Like when the author starts the conversation of Gale and Katniss about how they are the only hope for their family and how Gale wants to leave the District with Katniss and start a family, but Katniss strongly declines even though deep inside she has feelings for him.

I think that the author’s intent in this chapter was obviously introducing the theme and the story to the reader but to not make it so boring. The author wants the reader to keep reading and that’s why she doesn’t cram everything up in the first chapter, she spaces everything out throughout the story so the reader doesn’t get bored in the middle of it.

George Saint-Pierre

The article “George St-Pierre” is a biography on GSP's website about his life. He was born May 18, 1981 in Saint-Isidore, Quebec.  He had a rough childhood; kids would always steal his clothes and money. He began to learn Karate at the age of 7 from his father and wrestling and Jiu-Jitsu after his karate teacher died. Today, George St-Pierre better known as GSP or George “Rush” St-Pierre is a professional Welterweight UFC fighter and holds the Welterweight championship belt of the world with 24 wins and only TWO losses! George St-Pierre is a huge inspiration to many people around the world.

                What I think about this article is that it’s very interesting to hear about all these positive things about George St-Pierre.  This is of great interest to me because I myself am training to be a professional MMA and eventually a top UFC fighter. George St-Pierre can motivate me to train harder and also that when you work hard good things can come out of it. He has exceptional conditioning and discipline in martial arts. For me he’s a very inspirational figure and he motivates me to do my best in martial arts.

                What I thought the authors intent of this article was to not only to give a brief bibliography of George St-Pierre but also to give a positive opinion about him in a way that can make people watch more of his fights or even buy a ticket and go watch the fight first hand. The patterns of organization that I observed in this article was that the author first started the article off with putting events in chronological order starting with his birth and ending with what’s going on in the present day. Also, he added important events that happened in his life like winning and losing the championship title towards the end of the passage.

Story Summary 3.7

The story I read this week is “The Hound of The Baskervilles,” and this story is mainly about a huge, monstrous, supernatural dog that has been killing the Baskerville family. The first Baskerville family member that died that got Sherlock Holmes involved in the case was Sir Charles. Next on the list to die was Sir Henry. Dr. Mortimer became worried and decided to fly in Sir Charles to keep him safe and also hire a consultant detective to help him figure out the situation, which was Sherlock Holmes. When Sherlock Holmes got involved in the case, he used his techniques of deduction to figure out the case. With Sir Henry safe and sound, Sherlock Holmes and his trusty assistant Dr. Watson find out that the Baskerville’s neighbor was the one behind everything!

                My Reaction to this ending was very, very, VERY surprised because the neighbor was always the nice one trying to help the Baskerville family. Throughout the whole story, I was thinking the butler might be up to something that is causing these mysterious deaths to happen. The person that ended up being behind everything was the Neighbor, he was the family’s friend for many years. At the end of the story it turns out the neighbor was a Baskerville himself, whose father was banished and he came to avenge his father’s banishment.

2.07 DBA Free Choice Blog

Camilo Restrepo   February 7

The section of the story I read, “The Bet,” was about how a lawyer was tempted into a bet with a rich banker that he could not last fifteen years imprisoned. The lawyer accepted the challenge and was kept in the banker’s garden. He was allowed to have a musical instrument and books, and was allowed to write letters, to drink wine, and to smoke. The lawyer was to be freed on November 14^th, 1885 at 12 o’clock. The first year was very hard for the lawyer, he suffered depression and loneliness. After the tenth year the lawyer sat motionless on the table and read nothing but the gospel. The last two years of his imprisonment the prisoner read a variety amount of books. One day before the full fifteen years have passed the banker knew that if the lawyer one this bet, he would go bankrupt and loose everything. The banker’s only way of not going bankrupt would be killing the lawyer. The prisoner gave a letter to the banker saying, he renounces the two million dollars and will leave five hours before the scheduled time of his release.

          My reaction to this story was shocking because after fifteen years of his life he still decides to leave five hours early and not take the two million dollars that got him into that mess.

          The style of notes I would use for this story would be list because there are many important events in this story that really get pointed out.

1.03 blog

According to the quiz, the kind of reader I am is a nonfiction reader because I like to read information based on reality. Also, when I read I like to have a clearly defined purpose for reading it. The second one was that I enjoyed comedy, because I like to laugh, and I like to read something that will make me happy. A silly or happy ending is my game. I believe that this quiz was not completely accurate because my first choice in reading would not be a nonfiction story. My first choice in a book genre would be a fiction story because I can go into my own world and visit places I would never be able to go. Also, the second part is accurate because a comedy story would be my second book genre choice.

The last book I enjoyed reading was entitled, "Things Not Seen" because it was a mystery story about how a boy, named Dave became invisible and he went around looking for how he can make himself visible again. I liked this book because it had mysterious sequences and it also kept leaving me guessing. Things Not Seen always had exciting scenes from trying to get away from the antagonist of the story to finding out the secret of turning invisible, and that’s why I found this my last book I enjoyed reading.