Books/Texts I've Read: Hardest to Easiest
* Murder on The Orient Express: Agatha Christie
* Genome: Matt Ridley
* The Last Ship (or something) - A Star Wars Story: Unknown
* Modelland: Tyra Banks
* Ready Player One: Ernest Cline
* Here Lies Daniel Tate: Christine Terrill
* Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare
* The Light Between Oceans: M.L. Stedman
* The Divergent Series: Veronica Roth
* Four: Veronica Roth
* Monsters Of Men: Patrick Ness (Oct. 15th 2018)
* The Ask and The Answer: Patrick Ness (Oct. 2018)
* The Knife of Never Letting Go: Patrick Ness
* The Hunger Games Series: Suzanne Collins
* Daughters of the Lake: Wendy Webb (Dec 12th 2018)
* The Maze Runner: James Dashner
* The X Files - Devils Advocate: Jonathan Mayberry
* The Giver: Lois Lowry
* The Fault in Our Stars: John Green
* An Abundance of Katherine's: John Green (Oct. 2018)
* Turtles All the Way Down: John Green
* The Leaving: Tara Alterbrando
* Everything Everything: Nicola Yoon
* We Were Liars: Emily Jenkins
* The X Files - Agent of Chaos: Kami Garcia
* Tuesdays with Morrie: Mitch Albom
* We Are All Made of Molecules: Susin Nielsen
* Genome: Matt Ridley
* The Last Ship (or something) - A Star Wars Story: Unknown
* Modelland: Tyra Banks
* Ready Player One: Ernest Cline
* Here Lies Daniel Tate: Christine Terrill
* Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare
* The Light Between Oceans: M.L. Stedman
* The Divergent Series: Veronica Roth
* Four: Veronica Roth
* Monsters Of Men: Patrick Ness (Oct. 15th 2018)
* The Ask and The Answer: Patrick Ness (Oct. 2018)
* The Knife of Never Letting Go: Patrick Ness
* The Hunger Games Series: Suzanne Collins
* Daughters of the Lake: Wendy Webb (Dec 12th 2018)
* The Maze Runner: James Dashner
* The X Files - Devils Advocate: Jonathan Mayberry
* The Giver: Lois Lowry
* The Fault in Our Stars: John Green
* An Abundance of Katherine's: John Green (Oct. 2018)
* Turtles All the Way Down: John Green
* The Leaving: Tara Alterbrando
* Everything Everything: Nicola Yoon
* We Were Liars: Emily Jenkins
* The X Files - Agent of Chaos: Kami Garcia
* Tuesdays with Morrie: Mitch Albom
* We Are All Made of Molecules: Susin Nielsen
Analysis of "Tuesdays with Morrie"
Part 1: Rhetorical Triangle --> Author: Mitch Albom/ The book was actually written in order to raise money to pay for Morrie's medical bills. No one expected it to be as big of a success as it is today. Audience: The audience could be pretty much anyone. It's really written for anyone to read. It's for people searching for answers in life, It's for people who want to learn more about Morrie and his life, It's for people who just want to read a good book. The audience actually covers a pretty wide range of people but I think it is mainly geared towards young people (around Mitch's age at the time and younger) so they can learn these lessons that Morrie did at a younger age rather than older so they can carry these lessons with them throughout their life. Subject: The subject is basically sharing the things that Morrie has learned in his life and showing how Mitch has grown as a person throughout the book because of his old professor. Purpose: The purpose of this book is to share Morrie's lessons with the world so that people can experience his knowledge and learn something from him and his experiences.
Part 2: In the chapter titled The Sixth Tuesday: We Talk About Emotions the argument is stated that we need to learn how to fully feel emotions. In the book, Morrie refers to this as "detaching" from emotions, as a way to fully experience them. He explains that, "If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails." Albom then advances the argument by talking about how much we need this in our everyday life. He mentions how we often don't know how to deal with our emotions. We let them overwhelm us and control us and allow them to make us do irrational things or not take the chances that we would like too, but if we learn to better experience them and, "wash yourself with the emotion," we can better learn how to deal with these intense emotions and truly experience them and get the most out of them in the time we have. When we can better identify our emotions we learn to deal with them in a fitter manner we can better ourselves as people as well as better our lives.
Part 3: I decided to write a fictional narrative...
How did I get roped into this, I think to myself as I walk up the steps to the old nursing home. Out of all of the summer internship options I had to get this one. As I walked in I was greeted with exactly what I was expecting. Mind you this was no top of the line type of place. The lobby was a dimly lit room with a dingy receptionist counter, a dusty, plastic plant placed on either side. The receptionist had obviously noticed my presence because she had started to speak up. "Hi," she said much too enthusiastically. "You must be Maya!" It took me a moment to respond. If you haven't figured it out yet, I don't really like talking to people. "Uh yeah, Y-yes I am...Maya." "Great! Now I see here," she says glancing at her computer, "that your mother has already sent us all of the information we need so we can get right too it!" With that she began leading me down the strangely intertwining hallways of the nursing home. "So," she began, "we're going to have you working primarily with one of our newer patients. Her name is Mrs. Baker and she's...," she paused, "She's definitely something else." Great, I thought, not an hour into my first day and I'm already hating this. We finally made it to a room labeled 21B. The receptionist woman opened the door and I was less than shocked. The room was exactly how I had expected them. Small room with a small bed and a small window next to the bed, and looking out the small window was an older woman in a wheelchair. "Mrs. Baker, This is Maya she's here to give you some company." Mrs. Baker then turned around to look at me."Go on now, Don't be shy," the receptionist said quietly to me and just like that, she's gone. I walk slowly into the room. "Sit," Mrs. Baker says, motioning for me to sit on the edge of the small bed taking up most of her small room. I sit and awkwardly and wait. "First of all," she says breaking the silence, "there will be no need to call me Mrs. Baker. I've been called that my whole life. My name is Harriet. At this point in my life you might as well use it as much as you can." "Secondly, around here, you don't need to be a great talker, but you do have to be a pretty good listener. Although it would be better if you're both," she finishes. "If you don't mind me asking," I say, "Why is it such a big deal to be a talker? I don't understand why that's such an amazing quality." "Well," she states, "being a talker reveals a lot about yourself. It shows you're open, it shows you're communicative. But in my opinion it's better to be a good listener." "How so," I ask. "Being a good listener you notice things. You notice details other might miss. It's very easy to be a good talker but much harder to be a good listener." And that was the first of many lessons I would learn that summer from Harriet Baker, The woman from 21B
Part 2: In the chapter titled The Sixth Tuesday: We Talk About Emotions the argument is stated that we need to learn how to fully feel emotions. In the book, Morrie refers to this as "detaching" from emotions, as a way to fully experience them. He explains that, "If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails." Albom then advances the argument by talking about how much we need this in our everyday life. He mentions how we often don't know how to deal with our emotions. We let them overwhelm us and control us and allow them to make us do irrational things or not take the chances that we would like too, but if we learn to better experience them and, "wash yourself with the emotion," we can better learn how to deal with these intense emotions and truly experience them and get the most out of them in the time we have. When we can better identify our emotions we learn to deal with them in a fitter manner we can better ourselves as people as well as better our lives.
Part 3: I decided to write a fictional narrative...
How did I get roped into this, I think to myself as I walk up the steps to the old nursing home. Out of all of the summer internship options I had to get this one. As I walked in I was greeted with exactly what I was expecting. Mind you this was no top of the line type of place. The lobby was a dimly lit room with a dingy receptionist counter, a dusty, plastic plant placed on either side. The receptionist had obviously noticed my presence because she had started to speak up. "Hi," she said much too enthusiastically. "You must be Maya!" It took me a moment to respond. If you haven't figured it out yet, I don't really like talking to people. "Uh yeah, Y-yes I am...Maya." "Great! Now I see here," she says glancing at her computer, "that your mother has already sent us all of the information we need so we can get right too it!" With that she began leading me down the strangely intertwining hallways of the nursing home. "So," she began, "we're going to have you working primarily with one of our newer patients. Her name is Mrs. Baker and she's...," she paused, "She's definitely something else." Great, I thought, not an hour into my first day and I'm already hating this. We finally made it to a room labeled 21B. The receptionist woman opened the door and I was less than shocked. The room was exactly how I had expected them. Small room with a small bed and a small window next to the bed, and looking out the small window was an older woman in a wheelchair. "Mrs. Baker, This is Maya she's here to give you some company." Mrs. Baker then turned around to look at me."Go on now, Don't be shy," the receptionist said quietly to me and just like that, she's gone. I walk slowly into the room. "Sit," Mrs. Baker says, motioning for me to sit on the edge of the small bed taking up most of her small room. I sit and awkwardly and wait. "First of all," she says breaking the silence, "there will be no need to call me Mrs. Baker. I've been called that my whole life. My name is Harriet. At this point in my life you might as well use it as much as you can." "Secondly, around here, you don't need to be a great talker, but you do have to be a pretty good listener. Although it would be better if you're both," she finishes. "If you don't mind me asking," I say, "Why is it such a big deal to be a talker? I don't understand why that's such an amazing quality." "Well," she states, "being a talker reveals a lot about yourself. It shows you're open, it shows you're communicative. But in my opinion it's better to be a good listener." "How so," I ask. "Being a good listener you notice things. You notice details other might miss. It's very easy to be a good talker but much harder to be a good listener." And that was the first of many lessons I would learn that summer from Harriet Baker, The woman from 21B
Soapstone "To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This"
Speaker: Mandy Len Catron
Author of the book How To Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir of Essays
Writes about love and love stories at The Love Story Project
Teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of British Colombia
Native of Vancouver, British Colombia
Book has 4.5 stars on Amazon
One of the top 5 New York Times most popular pieces of 2015
Occasion:
Written in 2015
While talking to a colleague, the author and said colleague decided to try Arthur Aron's test to fall in love with anyone
She then shares their results and expands on what she learned from the study
Audience:
People who are looking for love
People that want to become better acquainted with their close friends/ people around them by using the questions from this study
Purpose:
Love is easier than we make it out to be.
What it means to know and to be known
Subject:
Love
Arthur Aron's study to fall in love with anyone/ What she learned from it
Tone/Mood:
Laid-back, Casual
Author of the book How To Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir of Essays
Writes about love and love stories at The Love Story Project
Teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of British Colombia
Native of Vancouver, British Colombia
Book has 4.5 stars on Amazon
One of the top 5 New York Times most popular pieces of 2015
Occasion:
Written in 2015
While talking to a colleague, the author and said colleague decided to try Arthur Aron's test to fall in love with anyone
She then shares their results and expands on what she learned from the study
Audience:
People who are looking for love
People that want to become better acquainted with their close friends/ people around them by using the questions from this study
Purpose:
Love is easier than we make it out to be.
What it means to know and to be known
Subject:
Love
Arthur Aron's study to fall in love with anyone/ What she learned from it
Tone/Mood:
Laid-back, Casual
Language Demo
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For my presentation I discussed how Patrick Ness used "The Power of Pathos" in his book The Ask and The Answer. I used the idea of pathos because in this book Ness appeals to it very often because since this is the second book in a series, you've already established a connection with the characters in the story. In this book Ness uses that previous connection to toy with your emotions and uses it to allow the reader to experience another half of these characters emotions that they may not have seen in the first book. This strategy really allows you to become more connected with the story and the characters in it.
Book Review for The Knife of Never Letting Go
In the book The Knife of Never Letting Go (2009), Patrick Ness takes the reader on an epic adventure full of questions, suspense, and unexpected events. He follows the story of 13 year old Todd Hewitt, in a world on the brink of civil war. His purpose is to entertain the audience as well as communicate universal themes about the struggle between right and wrong. Ness writes in a __ tone, frequently appealing to Pathos, for readers in search of
One of the main points from the book is considering what it would be like if others could hear your every thought. All of the men and animals on this planet called New World contracted a germ they call Noise when they first landed. The germ causes someones every thought to be projected to others. It's unceasing and contains lies, truth, and everything in between. I thought this was a very interesting concept. It added a really cool dynamic to the story and made it easy to see the inner thoughts of different characters, regardless of it's credibility. This idea is displayed throughout the book and is most evident in areas where a lot of people are present, such as in town, where a whole two pages are covered in bold, black letters written in an odd font, which is the indication that Noise is present. You can tell a lot about a character by what is (or isn't) in his noise.
Another one of the points from this book was the issue the problem of gender issues. Many of the people on New World are very negative towards women. One of the major examples of this is when Todd and Viola were in a town called Carbonel Downs. All of the men there are very rude to Viola and expect Todd to speak for her. This added a sadly realistic example to this story and in this face of adversity allowed Todd to display his respect for Viola and granted her the ability to become a very powerful, standout female character.
A final point from this book, that I mentioned previously, is the struggle between right and wrong. The world around our young characters is on the brink of ruin. This brings them face to face with some very tough decisions. Todd is constantly called "the boy who can't kill." This obstical has stops him from becoming a man, by the town's standards. So he must wrestle with the decision between falling to their standards or living up to who he is. Within this decision he has to question the truth as well as if what he has to do is truly right.
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this book as well as the rest of the series and I would definitely give it a 5 star rating. It has to be one of the best books I've ever read! It was so interesting and it kept you on the edge of your seat. The twists and turns were so engaging and I really loved it. I think people who enjoy a good adventure with an unexpected love story or people who love getting attached to characters would enjoy this book. You definitely shouldn't read this book if you don't want your heart broken and put back together a million times while you're reading. That being said it's still a great book, and I guarantee you'll be hooked from the first word to the last.
One of the main points from the book is considering what it would be like if others could hear your every thought. All of the men and animals on this planet called New World contracted a germ they call Noise when they first landed. The germ causes someones every thought to be projected to others. It's unceasing and contains lies, truth, and everything in between. I thought this was a very interesting concept. It added a really cool dynamic to the story and made it easy to see the inner thoughts of different characters, regardless of it's credibility. This idea is displayed throughout the book and is most evident in areas where a lot of people are present, such as in town, where a whole two pages are covered in bold, black letters written in an odd font, which is the indication that Noise is present. You can tell a lot about a character by what is (or isn't) in his noise.
Another one of the points from this book was the issue the problem of gender issues. Many of the people on New World are very negative towards women. One of the major examples of this is when Todd and Viola were in a town called Carbonel Downs. All of the men there are very rude to Viola and expect Todd to speak for her. This added a sadly realistic example to this story and in this face of adversity allowed Todd to display his respect for Viola and granted her the ability to become a very powerful, standout female character.
A final point from this book, that I mentioned previously, is the struggle between right and wrong. The world around our young characters is on the brink of ruin. This brings them face to face with some very tough decisions. Todd is constantly called "the boy who can't kill." This obstical has stops him from becoming a man, by the town's standards. So he must wrestle with the decision between falling to their standards or living up to who he is. Within this decision he has to question the truth as well as if what he has to do is truly right.
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this book as well as the rest of the series and I would definitely give it a 5 star rating. It has to be one of the best books I've ever read! It was so interesting and it kept you on the edge of your seat. The twists and turns were so engaging and I really loved it. I think people who enjoy a good adventure with an unexpected love story or people who love getting attached to characters would enjoy this book. You definitely shouldn't read this book if you don't want your heart broken and put back together a million times while you're reading. That being said it's still a great book, and I guarantee you'll be hooked from the first word to the last.
Books I've Read This Semester
1. The Knife of Never Letting Go: Patrick Ness
2. The Ask and the Answer: Patrick Ness
3. Monsters of Men: Patrick Ness
4. An Abundance of Katherines: John Green
5. The X Files Origins - Devils Advocate: Jonathan Mayberry
6. Daughters of the Lake: Wendy Webb
7. Dear Evan Hansen: Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Steven Levenson, and Val Emmich
2. The Ask and the Answer: Patrick Ness
3. Monsters of Men: Patrick Ness
4. An Abundance of Katherines: John Green
5. The X Files Origins - Devils Advocate: Jonathan Mayberry
6. Daughters of the Lake: Wendy Webb
7. Dear Evan Hansen: Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Steven Levenson, and Val Emmich