Twilight is an amazing book about teen love and vampires. The main character, Bella, moves to Forks, Washington to be with her father after living with her mother in Arizona. It's a huge culture shock for her coming to small town where it rains constantly after living in the sunshine city. She becomes curious about the Cullens' kids, who always sit together at lunch, not touching their food, and looking like gods. More specifically, she becomes intrigued with Edward Cullen.
This novel connects to our theme of Heroes because it shows two different types of heroes. There is the typical hero, the one who saves the day and saves damsels in distress. There is also the everyday hero. The person that is hero solely on the thought process of their mind. This type of hero puts others before themselves, even if it is a life or death situation. It makes readers understand that they don't have to be really strong or an innate sense of who needs help.
This novel is really good read. The only thing is that in some parts it seems like there is a little too much description and I found my self skimming through sections. However, her descriptions are very vivid and precise. Before I even looked at pictures of Forks, I pretty much had my mental picture of it close to what it looks like. I'd recommend this to probably teen girls, or even adult women, because it is a love story told in a teen girl's pov. However, it'd be an interesting read if you want to learn a different view on vampires show more and/or the traditional vampire love novel. show less
This novel connects to our theme of Heroes because it shows two different types of heroes. There is the typical hero, the one who saves the day and saves damsels in distress. There is also the everyday hero. The person that is hero solely on the thought process of their mind. This type of hero puts others before themselves, even if it is a life or death situation. It makes readers understand that they don't have to be really strong or an innate sense of who needs help.
This novel is really good read. The only thing is that in some parts it seems like there is a little too much description and I found my self skimming through sections. However, her descriptions are very vivid and precise. Before I even looked at pictures of Forks, I pretty much had my mental picture of it close to what it looks like. I'd recommend this to probably teen girls, or even adult women, because it is a love story told in a teen girl's pov. However, it'd be an interesting read if you want to learn a different view on vampires show more and/or the traditional vampire love novel. show less
This is a pretty slow moving book, but I can see why others would like it. This book takes place in Louisiana in the 1900's and the main character is on vacation with her family. She falls for a young man who follows her around and neglects the normal social graces of her time and class.
I think that this applies to our theme because the main character, Edna, deals with finding the true desires of her heart. She wants to find a way to love passionately, since she feels that her current marriage is lacking in that. This book also deals with women's rights and breaking away from what is socially acceptable.
I think that this applies to our theme because the main character, Edna, deals with finding the true desires of her heart. She wants to find a way to love passionately, since she feels that her current marriage is lacking in that. This book also deals with women's rights and breaking away from what is socially acceptable.
The novel, “A Clockwork Orange,” follows the life of Alex, a gang member, who considers the crimes that he commits to be his own artwork. Alex and his droogs (friends) have their own made up language, called nadsat. They use common Russian words and mix them with Gypsy and Cockney, to create words like “vesch” (thing) and “viddy” (to see). At first the language is hard to understand, but then you get used it and you don’t have to keep looking up the meaning of words. Alex is set up by his friends one night and is sent off to prison, with a sentence of 14 years. Alex one day hears of an experimental program that inmates can get involved with and after two weeks of being in this facility, you are released and will never commit a crime again.
The world Alex lives in is not at the point of being a utopia, but it is still very controlled by the government. The program that Alex gets put into is actually where the government tested out conditioning on him. They injected him with nausea inducing medication and then made him watch movies about violence, with classical music playing as the background music. Alex is obsessed with classical music and loved to listen to it at night, with his great stereo set, but after the conditioning, listening to classical music made him sick.
This novel is pretty good, but I found that after I read it, I wasn’t able to piece everything together and that’s when it came in handy to research the book and the title of the book. show more There is an old Cockney expression that says, “As queer as a clockwork orange.” When I understood what the title meant, I could truly understand the full meaning of the book. This is a really good book and you would miss out on a great experience if you didn’t read it. show less
The world Alex lives in is not at the point of being a utopia, but it is still very controlled by the government. The program that Alex gets put into is actually where the government tested out conditioning on him. They injected him with nausea inducing medication and then made him watch movies about violence, with classical music playing as the background music. Alex is obsessed with classical music and loved to listen to it at night, with his great stereo set, but after the conditioning, listening to classical music made him sick.
This novel is pretty good, but I found that after I read it, I wasn’t able to piece everything together and that’s when it came in handy to research the book and the title of the book. show more There is an old Cockney expression that says, “As queer as a clockwork orange.” When I understood what the title meant, I could truly understand the full meaning of the book. This is a really good book and you would miss out on a great experience if you didn’t read it. show less