Blog 2 : "Thirteen Reasons Why"

I am still currently reading the book "Thirteen Reasons Why". This book is really good! So far in the book Clay still hasn't gotten the chance the listen to his part, about why Hannah killed herself because of him. He is really anxious to hear it! Clay is still listening to the voice recording of other people. He is going to the places that Hannah is talking about, and every time he goes to one I sorta think that he gets sad. I think he gets sad because he liked her and I guess he misses her. Also whenever he goes to a new place he finds something or someone that connects to Hannah's stories. Okay, so in the book Hannah is having a really hard time with friends. And yes, she's dead but she's telling her life story about her friends and why they ended up making her kill herself. So she's having a hard time with them because she thinks that they are just using her for their own selfish things. Courtney is an example of her taking advantage of Hannah. Courtney told Hannah if she wanted to go to a party with her, but she only wanted to go with her because Hannah had a car and so Courtney needed a ride there. When they got to the party Courtney separated from Hannah and left her alone, that's why I know that she was just using her.

I think that basically all her voice recordings are memories. They're memories because she died already and that's something that those thirteen people would remember her by. Also the voice recordings are from the past and she's telling them what had happened back then that made her kill herself. These voice recording are important in the progression of the story because then the people hearing them would actually know what was really happening to Hannah during those times. Also the people would now know that all the rumors that people have been saying about her aren't true, because she would clear everything up about what was true and what wasn't true on the tapes.

Blog 1 : "Thirteen Reasons Why"

I have started reading a book called "Thirteen Reasons Why". The book is about a girl named Hannah. She committed suicide. She recorded tapes, about the reasons why she did what she did. There are thirteen people that made her kill herself. Hence the title! She made 7 different tapes that have recordings on both sides except for the one it only has one recording on it, and on the tapes are recordings of her voice telling them about what really happened; Because there were a lot of rumors about her. While she's telling the story she's giving the listeners a place to visit so they can go and kinda be living in the place she previously visited. Oh, and the only listeners she sent the tapes to are the thirteen people that caused her to kill herself. The tapes are all continuously sent to one another; when one has already finished hearing them they send them to the next person in Hannah's "story". 

There are two different people telling the story. But the point of view in this book is still first person. The first person telling the story is Clay. I think he's like the main person telling us the story. He uses the word "I" which means that the book is first person point of view. The second person telling the story is obviously Hannah. She also uses the word "I", and so it's still stay the same point of view. The book goes from Clay's head, and then directly to Hannah telling her stories. I can tell that it's Clay and Hannah talking because when Hannah is talking her words are in italics. Clay's words are just in normal font.

Blog 8 : Summary , What I Like About Italy

From the last time I have blogged I was writing about the book called "Cultures Of The World; Italy". I'm going to blog about it in this blog also. It's about how Italy is, what people are like, where is located and other stuff. It talks about almost everything that relates to Italy. 

What I like most about Italy is how the 'roads' are there. In some places like Venice, Italy the streets there are all water. Instead of people driving cars to get to places, they get to places by sailing with boats. It looks really beautiful. I think it's really fascinating that the streets are all water. People need boats to get around in their towns. 

Blog 7 : Summary , Culture

I have recently started reading a non-fiction book about Italy. It's called "Cultures Of The World; Italy". In the book it says that the authors are Jane Kohen Winter and Leslie Jermyn. This book goes into great details about the different things that occur in Italy. It talks about a lot of things like the history of Italy, the government, the economy, environment, religions, languages that people there speak, festivals, and food that comes from Italy and much more. In the book it gives good information about every topic.

In this blog I'm going to talk about the culture. The population in Italy is more than 57.5 million people. Italy is a really crowded nation in Europe. The ethnic groups in Italy are not only Italians there are also other people with a different heritage, but they might have all had Italian ancestors. German and French people live there for example. Italians do every different things than we do. They have a different lifestyle, and other things. They usually live in villas, which are buildings built from brick or stone with a tiled roof. Also Italian parents encourage their children to have a lot of creativity. Unlike parents here who just tell their kids to focus on academics.

Blog 6 : Summary , Something I've Noticed

From the last time I have blogged a lot has happened in the book, "Flipped". So first Juli has a physical and mentally disabled uncle named David. He is her father, Robert's, brother. One day Robert was going to visit David, and Juli didn't have anything to do so she decided to go with him and see him for the first time ever in her life. Juli has never met David before, but David did know her from pictures that Robert would show him. When they got to Greenhaven where David lives at, Juli and her dad went to his room. He had a lot of puzzles taped on his wall, he really loved puzzles! Since it was David's birthday them 3 decided to go for ice cream. When they got there they all got their ice cream, but David's ice cream fell to the floor and he got mad. He started to make a ruckus; he kicked the table and chairs and knocked the to the floor and started screaming. He tried picking up the ice cream with his cone, but he just made a bigger mess. Everyone at the ice cream shop was staring at him. Juli went to get another ice cream for him because her father told her to, so David could calm down. When David got his new ice cream, he then acted like nothing had ever happened. When Juli and her dad went back home he apologized to her about what had happened with David, and she was confused about why he was apologizing, cause she knows that some people are different than others. Then a couple days from when that happened the Loski family invited the Baker family over to eat dinner with them and to try to get to know each other better. When the Bakers got there Juli didn't talk to Bryce. She was mad at him because her was being such a fool to her. She overheard him and Garret, Bryce's best friend, talking about her uncle David and how he had a mental disorder. She didn't talk to Bryce much for the whole night that they were having dinner together.

Something that I've noticed happening in the book is that Bryce is changing. He's changing his mood or emotions towards what he feels about Juli. In the beginning of the book he really hated her and was annoyed by her every time she talked to him. But know he's starting to feel different about how he feels about her. Now he wants to talk to her more. He is feeling really sad, because she's mad at him. He wants her to forgive him about him talking about her uncle behind her back and not telling Garret to shut up because he was saying mean things about David. He is also sad because she's hasn't been talking to him all the time like she used to, and he misses her bugging him.