I chose this book because one of my friends suggested it to me, and since we were Co-Presidents of our book club in high school I trusted her judgement. I'm glad I did.
This book maybe be about a boy going threw the trials of teen angst, with a neglectful family, but the story touched me deeply because his friends were a lot like mine in high school and they had the same love for The Rocky Horror Picture Show I still have.
The book is a series of letters written by the main character, "Charlie". He doesn't want whoever he is writing to to know who he really is, or who is friends are. All names are changed for that reason.
He befriends two people named Sam and Patrick. Threw them he gets into the world of sex, drugs, and amazing musicals.
One of their favorite activities is to get high off of pot, get into the bed of a pick up truck, and go threwa tunnel. They calling it being infinite.
This is a book that should either be given to teens or avoided at any cost. If the kid is going threw a hard time and needs someone or thing to relate to, then this is the book.
If the kid is in to drugs and is just an all around trouble maker, I doubt they would read any book, but this book should be avoided. On the grounds that Charlie was doing it out of presser and wanting to escape from his troubles and world, most teens now just do it because it's illegal and will not relate
This book is about going threw the teen emotional hell that is the freshmen year of high school, and coming out better and stronger because of it.
This is the book for people who need to relate to a character and who wants to reminise about how hard your frist year of high school was and realize how much stronger you are because of it.
In our own way we all get to feel infinite.
Monday, February 27, 2012
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Summary
Set in Pittsburgh, PA in August of 1991 a young boy starts to write to untold stranger under the name Charlie. He hears about this friend from a conversation he heard in school. Charlie writes to express himself because he heard this stranger didn't try to sleep with a drunk girl at a party, even though he had the chance.
The stories kick off point is Charlies best friend commits suicide, while they were just about to start high school. Threw the letters we hear Charlie talk about his favorite person on the world, his late Aunt Helen who had something terrible happen to her, but dose not talk about it because it takes him to a dark place.
Soon after the start of school Charlie meets and has an instant crush on a high school senior named Sam, as well as becoming friends with her flamboyant gay step brother Patrick.
Threw his new friends Charlie gets into the underground seen where it the three things you need are drugs, sex, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. When they are all high off of pot they go into a truck and stand in the bed while going threw a tunnel. They call it being infinite.
Charlie starts to date a girl, and threw a game of truth a dare, Charlies world beings to unravel. He's dared to kiss the girl he finds the most beautiful in the room. He walks past his girlfriend and across the room and kisses Sam. This upsets his girlfriend and makes everyone mad at Charlie.
After a few days of being alone, Charlies family walks in to see him sitting naked on the couch, staring at the TV. He was in a coma like state.
The doctors found out that he had been doing that every Saturday since his aunt passed away, but everyone was to busy to notice. The reason why it was only on Saturday is that Saturdays were the days he spent with his Aunt Helen.
Sam and Patrick come back and they become friends once more.
The book ends with Charlie going threw a tunnel to fell infinite, and not scared anymore of the world and knowing when things go wrong that they do work out.
The stories kick off point is Charlies best friend commits suicide, while they were just about to start high school. Threw the letters we hear Charlie talk about his favorite person on the world, his late Aunt Helen who had something terrible happen to her, but dose not talk about it because it takes him to a dark place.
Soon after the start of school Charlie meets and has an instant crush on a high school senior named Sam, as well as becoming friends with her flamboyant gay step brother Patrick.
Threw his new friends Charlie gets into the underground seen where it the three things you need are drugs, sex, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. When they are all high off of pot they go into a truck and stand in the bed while going threw a tunnel. They call it being infinite.
Charlie starts to date a girl, and threw a game of truth a dare, Charlies world beings to unravel. He's dared to kiss the girl he finds the most beautiful in the room. He walks past his girlfriend and across the room and kisses Sam. This upsets his girlfriend and makes everyone mad at Charlie.
After a few days of being alone, Charlies family walks in to see him sitting naked on the couch, staring at the TV. He was in a coma like state.
The doctors found out that he had been doing that every Saturday since his aunt passed away, but everyone was to busy to notice. The reason why it was only on Saturday is that Saturdays were the days he spent with his Aunt Helen.
Sam and Patrick come back and they become friends once more.
The book ends with Charlie going threw a tunnel to fell infinite, and not scared anymore of the world and knowing when things go wrong that they do work out.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Beauty and the Beast Review
I thought that Beauty and the Beast would be the average length of a book. I was wrong. This book was written many years ago, but the author is unknown. This is a story that has stood the test of time, but has some mixed messages.
It was a short bed time story, where Beauty is actually the youngest of three girls who is very obviously favored by her father. The way the beast catches Beauty's father, the Merchant, is when the Merchant takes a a single flower for Beauty from Beast's garden (Unknown).
His three eldest daughters daughters are very jealous of Beauty,I believe not only for her beauty but for the affection she receives from their father.
This favoritism is not totally unwarranted though. When Beast tells the Merchant one of his daughters can willingly trade places with him, Beauty steps forward and takes his place (Unknown).
Beast gives Beauty nothing but respect and love the moment she walks in. He even made a portrait of her that said under it "Beauty is Queen here; all things will obey her." (Unknown)
The typical response to the question, what is the moral of Beauty and the Beast is it's what's the inside that counts.
But Beauty does not fall totally and madly in love with him until he turns back into human. She even turned his marriage proposal (Unknown). Even though he is nothing but kind and loving to her. She does not agree to marry him until he is dying in a pool of his own blood. The even says that after he turned back into a handsome prince that she fell tenfold more in love with him.
The true moral of the story is, what's on the inside does count, but what's on the outside is still important.
Work Cited
Unknown. Beauty and The Beast kindle edition.
It was a short bed time story, where Beauty is actually the youngest of three girls who is very obviously favored by her father. The way the beast catches Beauty's father, the Merchant, is when the Merchant takes a a single flower for Beauty from Beast's garden (Unknown).
His three eldest daughters daughters are very jealous of Beauty,I believe not only for her beauty but for the affection she receives from their father.
This favoritism is not totally unwarranted though. When Beast tells the Merchant one of his daughters can willingly trade places with him, Beauty steps forward and takes his place (Unknown).
Beast gives Beauty nothing but respect and love the moment she walks in. He even made a portrait of her that said under it "Beauty is Queen here; all things will obey her." (Unknown)
The typical response to the question, what is the moral of Beauty and the Beast is it's what's the inside that counts.
But Beauty does not fall totally and madly in love with him until he turns back into human. She even turned his marriage proposal (Unknown). Even though he is nothing but kind and loving to her. She does not agree to marry him until he is dying in a pool of his own blood. The even says that after he turned back into a handsome prince that she fell tenfold more in love with him.
The true moral of the story is, what's on the inside does count, but what's on the outside is still important.
Work Cited
Unknown. Beauty and The Beast kindle edition.
The Beauty and The Beast Summery
The story revolves around a girl who refers to herself only as Beauty, who is held very dearly to her father and has jealous sisters because she is so beautiful. When her father is captured and Beauty trades places with him, the Beast is nothing but a kind gentleman. He makes her the Queen of his castle and has his animal servants do anything she wants. He even lets her leave for two months to see her family.
The beast has set her family up for life, in a big gorgeous house and a monthly income to keep them in comfort. She eventully goes back to the beast to find him dying and brigs him back from the brink when she says, "and Beauty shall be your wife."
This turns the beast back into a prince and the animals back into servants, who go right back to work. Beauty falls more in love with the beast when he goes back to being his true self.
They all live happily ever after
The beast has set her family up for life, in a big gorgeous house and a monthly income to keep them in comfort. She eventully goes back to the beast to find him dying and brigs him back from the brink when she says, "and Beauty shall be your wife."
This turns the beast back into a prince and the animals back into servants, who go right back to work. Beauty falls more in love with the beast when he goes back to being his true self.
They all live happily ever after
Monday, February 6, 2012
W.O. movie vs book
For the most part the movie and book are very similar. The movie did it's best to include every detail it could for the time limit. The order of the foster homes, who the foster parents were are very on point.
The only really differences are these:
> Ingrid is an artist in the movie, a poet in the book
>Her Second foster home is skipped
> Ingrid is sent to jail for life, in the book she's freed
For a movie it's as on point as it's get. The casting was perfection and the story was true to the book. This will make fans of the book very happy.
White Oleanders
This is the book that inspired one of my favorite movies, White Oleanders.
The story is about a girl, Astrid, who lives with her mother,Ingrid, whom she puts on a goddess like pedestal. Her mother thinks that Astrid belongs to her, body and soul, and exposes Astrid in her public poetry readings. Ingrid is a solid femanist who falls for a man named Barry. When Barry leaves Ingrid, she loses her mind. She takes oleanders and takes the nectar, a deadly poison, and puts it on almost ever surface in his house. She even soaks flowers in his milk. It eventually leads to his death.
Ingrid is taken to jail for his murder, which makes Astrid go into the foster care system. There she lives with an extremely religious former stripper and alcoholic, a racist who uses Astrid for free labor, an emotionally unstable actress, and someone who Astrid picks because she doesn't want to be a part of a nuclear family.
This book has some of the most vivid and poetic language. When Astrid lives with the rasicst, Marvel, Astrid finds refuge in her next door neightbor, Olivia, who happens to be a hooker. Olivaia once told Astrid
"...a magician doesn't buy magic. Admire the skill of a fellow magician, but never fall under his spell." (Fitch)
Another quote is from a letter from Ingrid to Astrid.
"...Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential..." (Finch)
This book is not for the faint of heart. It has a very adult theme. I recommend this for a mature peson who wants to see someone go threw hell and come out stronger. Watch a young girl finally see who her mother really is. Astrid grows up very fast, having two affirs with her foster moms boyfriends.
Astrid dose get her happly ever after by moving to Berlin, Germany with her boyfriend. There she takes suitcases and makes art out of them to depict the events from the time her mom gets arrested, to when she's out of the system.
This is not a happy story, but it will make you take anther look at your life. IT will make you see things for what they really are. Both the good and the bad.
Work Cited
Fitch, Janet. Kindle fire edition. Location 2205 & 1965.
The story is about a girl, Astrid, who lives with her mother,Ingrid, whom she puts on a goddess like pedestal. Her mother thinks that Astrid belongs to her, body and soul, and exposes Astrid in her public poetry readings. Ingrid is a solid femanist who falls for a man named Barry. When Barry leaves Ingrid, she loses her mind. She takes oleanders and takes the nectar, a deadly poison, and puts it on almost ever surface in his house. She even soaks flowers in his milk. It eventually leads to his death.
Ingrid is taken to jail for his murder, which makes Astrid go into the foster care system. There she lives with an extremely religious former stripper and alcoholic, a racist who uses Astrid for free labor, an emotionally unstable actress, and someone who Astrid picks because she doesn't want to be a part of a nuclear family.
This book has some of the most vivid and poetic language. When Astrid lives with the rasicst, Marvel, Astrid finds refuge in her next door neightbor, Olivia, who happens to be a hooker. Olivaia once told Astrid
"...a magician doesn't buy magic. Admire the skill of a fellow magician, but never fall under his spell." (Fitch)
Another quote is from a letter from Ingrid to Astrid.
"...Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential..." (Finch)
This book is not for the faint of heart. It has a very adult theme. I recommend this for a mature peson who wants to see someone go threw hell and come out stronger. Watch a young girl finally see who her mother really is. Astrid grows up very fast, having two affirs with her foster moms boyfriends.
Astrid dose get her happly ever after by moving to Berlin, Germany with her boyfriend. There she takes suitcases and makes art out of them to depict the events from the time her mom gets arrested, to when she's out of the system.
This is not a happy story, but it will make you take anther look at your life. IT will make you see things for what they really are. Both the good and the bad.
Work Cited
Fitch, Janet. Kindle fire edition. Location 2205 & 1965.
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