Wednesday, October 24, 2012

The benefits of failure

     
Failure is something that every one experiences in life. its a natural occurrence and is something that we can not avoid. i personally have experienced failure in my life. when i think about failure i always think about my high school years. i had failed classes and was almost not going to be able to graduate with my class. i was able to retake the classes and pass with extra credits. since then i always look back and try to better myself so that i dont go trough that again. i see failure as a good and bad thing. how can you learn if you havent made any mistakes?

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Sherman Alexie Novel

Humor, Motivation, risk, bullying, love. these 5 words are significant in Sherman Alexies novel of the absolutely true diary of a part time Indian. Throughout the novel Alexie uses a lot of humor. i see his humor and see that he is trying to cover up pain. he was bullied a lot throughout his life from people of all size and age. he never got a break until he got motivated to change schools. changing school was a giant risk for him since he was changing to an all white school. but since he changed schools he was able to fidn love, not only from his girlfriend Penelope, but from the whole school.

Six word memoir

                         You Can Never Be Too Silly 
       

Novel

when I found out about what we were going to be reading in my english class, I didn't think much of  it. i just thought it was going to ba another boring book that we had to read. but i was actually wrong. this book, The absolutely true diary of a part time indian by Sherman Alexie, was actually entertaining to read. Reading the novel, i couldn't help but feel what the main character, Junior, was feeling. you can feel his sadness, humility, love, and joy throughout the book. this novel also contains a lot of imagery, and i was able to picture everything. I enjoyed reading this novel.