Significance
The significance of this book is that it teaches you college life and the way things go reallying on what you do. The subject being brought up is mostly is the classes you take and the sport of basketball being played. Through both of those things it comes down to how you react and go along with the environment or the outside shot at things. It's important because the book tells you how things go and how things will go and this is important because it gives you a heads up and a chance to think about college and what you want to do or pursue, and how are you going to do it with a successful manor. This book gives you something to look forward to and let alone think about. The total essence is that if you stay on the right track and keep your mind clear, go for things, and take the time to break before you react to things or people you will be successful at the college level and things will go more fluently for you.
Perspective
My perspective of this book is that it was an okay book. I think it could have relayed the message a little bit better for a more general understanding. In the book you could read on and on and not find the message if you didn't dig into. I found what it was and it was a great message. The author defiantly showed the authentic view of college life. As I told it was hard in the beginning to pull it out but as the book went along you would find the truly inspired sports writing the author put into the book. Which zoomed me in or gave me a better view of the electrifying action. The characters in the story where good providing better perspective of the story and about the life of college young adults. This book would affects kids in High School and college to get you an understanding and a better understanding of the components that tie into this wonderful sports story. That's what I received and my view or opinion of this fast-paced plot.
Evidence
The evidence I received while reading this book was that if you want to make it to the professional level you need to keep your head straight and your plate clean. Another argument being made was if the main character (Lonnie) could make it as a college man, with distraction on his outside shot a a bright future. The facts or showings I received to support my comments was that Lonnie throughout the book made bad decision and didn't be very successful as he wanted to be. For example, getting side money from a bet on the way he played the game or how the team played the game. This made him side track on his way to pursue his goal in college. Many things happened on the road to make it big but after a matter of time he pulled himself together in some ways in others kept doing. These are things you can think about. I would say these thoughts are very much true in many ways in a slight way it can be shown as opinions. In my mind it is very factual information.
Connection
This books shows a strong connection to the world in all eras. The connection that comes from this text is the relationship to sports in the professional level and how many people get caught for things that are illegal to that sport and things that you should do. For example: taking a performance enhancing drugs like steroids to boost them up. The example showed in this book was players betting on there game which is a criminal thing at the professional level. This book has been influenced from the past because many players that have played have done certain things to get something taken away from them. Coming in thinking there would make it and do something stupid to mess up their opportunity at something they have gained. The connection to the world right know is worst than the past many players have used or did something that shouldn't have done. For example: Barry Bonds a great baseball player who has the most home runs in MLB history is on trail for using steroids, something that can mess up his whole career. Another example that has happened is Michael Vick one of the best players in the NFL is in federal prison for fighting dogs another stupid thing. These are things that have occurred in my time. This book will affect the future by people understanding that it's more important to succeed with no risk than fail with many. That's the connection this book can bring to the world outside.
Suppostion
As I wrap up my thoughts of this book I shall remember that to succeed you need to have faith and play the game right not allowing nothing come in your way. Life would be different if this book never happened. If your receive the true meaning and understand that, " Life's battles don't always go to the faster or stronger man, but in the end the one who wins is the man who thinks he can." If you keep that quote in your mind you will be a successful person to go after anything you want grab with nothing in your tracks to receive it. That's what I received from this book that was a very positive thing that I have read.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Charlie's Raven, Jean Craighead George
Significance
The significance of this book is that it teaches you about natural history, myth, and a family narrative about life and death. In this book you receive lots of information about birds and more importantly the Raven. You receive the natural backgrounds of this bird what they do, how they grow, and how they live life with such instinct reactions to certain things. The main character Blue Sky (baby raven), gave an great example of how a raven would live. This was also important because, it showed you as how a family would react toward the thought of life vs death. Making sure they used the things they needed to pursue the goal of staying a live. So, you see lots of family incorporated in this story. The story had lots of importance and was a great book to read for nature and it was a very mysterious book.
Perspective
My perspective of this book is that the author was trying to connect with the readers through a character which was a raven. So the author used different tools to get the readers hooked into the characters. That followed with great education you could have learned. You could learn about religious nature, animal nature, and human nature. It compares three types of nature and how the react and relate to certain things. For example, the ravens knew about Mr. Spinder and gave a call which meant to stay away or danger. That shows animal nature to human nature. My opinion is that this book was great and that the author reached out to all but mostly children. By using compelling animal characters like Blue Sky a raven to show the book.
Evidence
The evidence I received to state my perspective was clearly written in the book. The argument being made was if ravens were good or bad and eventual what mystery did they have. The factual information I received to support this argument was that ravens are good birds but they also a very mysterious at times. These statements in my mind are not facts but opinions because people or other things can have a different opinion of the stuff being stated. For example, in the book Charlie wrote that ravens were good because they know death also for bad and mysterious. Others could have a different perspective or columns that they would have said about the topic. That's why they are opinions vs facts.
Connection
The book connected to lots of things. This book relates to reality because, it shows a bird and many other birds doing things that they would normally do. You found out more here than you would find out in the real world. They use raven talk to show the way the communicate which also ties into the reality aspect. It's been influenced by the past becuase they recieved early information about what ravens did and how they lived by researching prior to writing the book. This book can affect the futre by giving them information about ravens by opinion to see if the are freindly or not and it is a good book to read just to find out key elements you can learn about nature and the background of the bird raven.
Supposition
As I conculed this book I would say it was an excellent book and one of the best animal stories I have ever read. I think life would be the same with this book or without it. This book just made it a little bit eaiser and less complicated to stutied a terrific bird like the raven. If any big part of the book had changed it would have changed my view of the book and made it less interesting. This was a great book, Charlie's Raven and I learned lots of life stories from it.
The significance of this book is that it teaches you about natural history, myth, and a family narrative about life and death. In this book you receive lots of information about birds and more importantly the Raven. You receive the natural backgrounds of this bird what they do, how they grow, and how they live life with such instinct reactions to certain things. The main character Blue Sky (baby raven), gave an great example of how a raven would live. This was also important because, it showed you as how a family would react toward the thought of life vs death. Making sure they used the things they needed to pursue the goal of staying a live. So, you see lots of family incorporated in this story. The story had lots of importance and was a great book to read for nature and it was a very mysterious book.
Perspective
My perspective of this book is that the author was trying to connect with the readers through a character which was a raven. So the author used different tools to get the readers hooked into the characters. That followed with great education you could have learned. You could learn about religious nature, animal nature, and human nature. It compares three types of nature and how the react and relate to certain things. For example, the ravens knew about Mr. Spinder and gave a call which meant to stay away or danger. That shows animal nature to human nature. My opinion is that this book was great and that the author reached out to all but mostly children. By using compelling animal characters like Blue Sky a raven to show the book.
Evidence
The evidence I received to state my perspective was clearly written in the book. The argument being made was if ravens were good or bad and eventual what mystery did they have. The factual information I received to support this argument was that ravens are good birds but they also a very mysterious at times. These statements in my mind are not facts but opinions because people or other things can have a different opinion of the stuff being stated. For example, in the book Charlie wrote that ravens were good because they know death also for bad and mysterious. Others could have a different perspective or columns that they would have said about the topic. That's why they are opinions vs facts.
Connection
The book connected to lots of things. This book relates to reality because, it shows a bird and many other birds doing things that they would normally do. You found out more here than you would find out in the real world. They use raven talk to show the way the communicate which also ties into the reality aspect. It's been influenced by the past becuase they recieved early information about what ravens did and how they lived by researching prior to writing the book. This book can affect the futre by giving them information about ravens by opinion to see if the are freindly or not and it is a good book to read just to find out key elements you can learn about nature and the background of the bird raven.
Supposition
As I conculed this book I would say it was an excellent book and one of the best animal stories I have ever read. I think life would be the same with this book or without it. This book just made it a little bit eaiser and less complicated to stutied a terrific bird like the raven. If any big part of the book had changed it would have changed my view of the book and made it less interesting. This was a great book, Charlie's Raven and I learned lots of life stories from it.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Dough Boy, Peter Marino
Significance
The significance of this book is that it teaches you a lesson. In this book their was a boy named (Tristan), who was obsessed. A lot of things were going wrong in his life, with his parents getting divorced, struggling in high school to gain respect, and is helped and talked about with his weight control. The importance of this book is that it teaches you to control your weight and stay fit and for others that people who are obsessed can have something going on in their life or that they don't care about there weight. It doesn't help when others talk about or don't accept people that are not fit or are weird. It makes it hard on them to find the guts to make their own way. You should care about this because; you don’t ever know what can happen as a result.
Perspective
My perspective of this book is that the author was trying to relay a message to all people. Saying that if you are obsessed take control of your body and don't let people influence what you are doing, but if it is good you can take the idea or get help. Also, if you are talking or not accept somebody for how they look encourage not doubt them on the problem and don't let others influence you about other people. On the characters part they showed a lot of stuff that I am talking about in the book. I don't think the author's experiences had anything to do with him writing the book, but I think he wrote it for a reason that he thought was good.
Evidence
The evidence I received while reading this book to say my perspective was that their was an argument being made. The argument was that Tristan the main character was overweight and was doing fine the Kelly moved in with his step dad and she was a nutritional person who judged overweight people and thought Tristan was overweight. She put him on a diet and exercise program. Tristan wasn't pleased with that idea he thought he was fine, and then conflict was going on in the house. To support this argument there is not really facts about it is an opinion in the stand point of who the person. An opinion that Kelly had was that Tristan needed to lose weight and that he was obsessed. The opinion that Tristan had was he thought he was doing fine and didn't think he needed to go on a diet. So, there are facts but little in the perspective of how people think of others. A fact to support would be that Tristan is overweight and Kelly is a nutritional person.
Connection
The connection to the world is a good example of this issue. The present example of this issue is that a lot Americans eat fast food most of the time. They name us the big or fat country because of our intake. This book can show you that it is not good to eat junk food all the time but some of the time and eat nutritional food like fruit or food with proteins. In the future this book can resolve two problems. One to teach people to watch their diet. Secondly that you shouldn't judge others by how they look in appearance. This relates to the past because the American obsessed population increased over the years. It relates to reality because you see people who are obsessed and don't seem to get around easily so you should help them not harm them.
Suppostion
As I draw conclusion for this book. I just want to tell you that keep your body on a good diet and you wouldn't have to be on the track of overweight problems. For the people that see people that are overweight encourage them to do better for themselves don't bring them down.
The significance of this book is that it teaches you a lesson. In this book their was a boy named (Tristan), who was obsessed. A lot of things were going wrong in his life, with his parents getting divorced, struggling in high school to gain respect, and is helped and talked about with his weight control. The importance of this book is that it teaches you to control your weight and stay fit and for others that people who are obsessed can have something going on in their life or that they don't care about there weight. It doesn't help when others talk about or don't accept people that are not fit or are weird. It makes it hard on them to find the guts to make their own way. You should care about this because; you don’t ever know what can happen as a result.
Perspective
My perspective of this book is that the author was trying to relay a message to all people. Saying that if you are obsessed take control of your body and don't let people influence what you are doing, but if it is good you can take the idea or get help. Also, if you are talking or not accept somebody for how they look encourage not doubt them on the problem and don't let others influence you about other people. On the characters part they showed a lot of stuff that I am talking about in the book. I don't think the author's experiences had anything to do with him writing the book, but I think he wrote it for a reason that he thought was good.
Evidence
The evidence I received while reading this book to say my perspective was that their was an argument being made. The argument was that Tristan the main character was overweight and was doing fine the Kelly moved in with his step dad and she was a nutritional person who judged overweight people and thought Tristan was overweight. She put him on a diet and exercise program. Tristan wasn't pleased with that idea he thought he was fine, and then conflict was going on in the house. To support this argument there is not really facts about it is an opinion in the stand point of who the person. An opinion that Kelly had was that Tristan needed to lose weight and that he was obsessed. The opinion that Tristan had was he thought he was doing fine and didn't think he needed to go on a diet. So, there are facts but little in the perspective of how people think of others. A fact to support would be that Tristan is overweight and Kelly is a nutritional person.
Connection
The connection to the world is a good example of this issue. The present example of this issue is that a lot Americans eat fast food most of the time. They name us the big or fat country because of our intake. This book can show you that it is not good to eat junk food all the time but some of the time and eat nutritional food like fruit or food with proteins. In the future this book can resolve two problems. One to teach people to watch their diet. Secondly that you shouldn't judge others by how they look in appearance. This relates to the past because the American obsessed population increased over the years. It relates to reality because you see people who are obsessed and don't seem to get around easily so you should help them not harm them.
Suppostion
As I draw conclusion for this book. I just want to tell you that keep your body on a good diet and you wouldn't have to be on the track of overweight problems. For the people that see people that are overweight encourage them to do better for themselves don't bring them down.
Friday, October 5, 2007
The Gawgon and The Boy, Lloyd Alexander
Significance
The significance of this book is that the author is trying to tell the reader in a point of the story that, if you are challenged to your potential you will succeed to excellence and thing will open up with all possibilities in your life. Throughout this story the boy (David) who's the main character is taught and his true potential comes out and he becomes a wiser person. In this book the author is trying to relate to the kids and it has an effect on our future in life by showing this boy getting wiser by being taught at a succeeding level. What you should take from this is that it's not if you think you know or don't know it is a matter of how you take a perspective of things, which I will discuss next.
Perspective
My perspective of this book is that if you believe in yourself things will come behind. Some points in this book may not be comprehensive to people of younger age say in the 3rd grade. So it can be made a little bit understandable but, I think the author was making this book for children of older age and maybe adults to teach them something. It teaches you that if you work hard things will come into place. In the book the Gawgon (Aunt Annie) died. She was David's teacher at home. When she died he got more focused on his work and became wiser. So what I am trying to say is if you have somebody to push you, you will succeed. That's my perspective of this book others might have different perspectives but that's what I got from this book.
Evidence
The information to state this opinion was right in the book clearly. It said it throughout the book not in words that clearly state it but it showed by the actions of the book and saying. In the beginning of the book he was just a boy growing up with his family living life ordinary. He became sick and couldn't get taught at school anymore. So, they brought Aunt Annie down to teach him and he life took a sudden holt and changed around and it became extraordinary. At the end he became wiser and got through life better. It doesn't really state facts but I believe it is true. I know for a fact these are just opinion you can have but in the long run they are true in some way.
Connections
In this book there was one big connection that occurs in peoples life so many times.The real world connection is that people as they progress throughout their school years they fall of track doing something that they got caught up in. In this book the main character David, didn't fall of track but by being challenged he stayed on track and followed through he school work. That's is a connection with everybody can fall under. It's been influenced by the past by many people doing something that gets them caught up. It can be girls, drugs or anything else that get you off track. I know somebody who had every thing going on grades and was great at sports, but he got involved with girls and all of the game plan changed. He could have been doing something good for himself but things got turned around. It affects our future because, if kids read this book or understand they can forget about those barriers that get in their way and go forth with their journey that to success. It affects both sides past, present, and future to learn by it.
Supposition
As a draw conclusion for this book. I would say life would be the same with or without this book. You just have to know that you shouldn't get caught up but challenge yourself to do better. With this book people can read it and understand what the boy did in the book and help them a little bit better. If I changed this problem a little bit I think the world would produce more people with potential to do something. Although others might still mess up but it will change it.
As I close my review I would say the book, " The Gawgon and The Boy," teaches you some valuable lessons. This is what I got out of it.
The significance of this book is that the author is trying to tell the reader in a point of the story that, if you are challenged to your potential you will succeed to excellence and thing will open up with all possibilities in your life. Throughout this story the boy (David) who's the main character is taught and his true potential comes out and he becomes a wiser person. In this book the author is trying to relate to the kids and it has an effect on our future in life by showing this boy getting wiser by being taught at a succeeding level. What you should take from this is that it's not if you think you know or don't know it is a matter of how you take a perspective of things, which I will discuss next.
Perspective
My perspective of this book is that if you believe in yourself things will come behind. Some points in this book may not be comprehensive to people of younger age say in the 3rd grade. So it can be made a little bit understandable but, I think the author was making this book for children of older age and maybe adults to teach them something. It teaches you that if you work hard things will come into place. In the book the Gawgon (Aunt Annie) died. She was David's teacher at home. When she died he got more focused on his work and became wiser. So what I am trying to say is if you have somebody to push you, you will succeed. That's my perspective of this book others might have different perspectives but that's what I got from this book.
Evidence
The information to state this opinion was right in the book clearly. It said it throughout the book not in words that clearly state it but it showed by the actions of the book and saying. In the beginning of the book he was just a boy growing up with his family living life ordinary. He became sick and couldn't get taught at school anymore. So, they brought Aunt Annie down to teach him and he life took a sudden holt and changed around and it became extraordinary. At the end he became wiser and got through life better. It doesn't really state facts but I believe it is true. I know for a fact these are just opinion you can have but in the long run they are true in some way.
Connections
In this book there was one big connection that occurs in peoples life so many times.The real world connection is that people as they progress throughout their school years they fall of track doing something that they got caught up in. In this book the main character David, didn't fall of track but by being challenged he stayed on track and followed through he school work. That's is a connection with everybody can fall under. It's been influenced by the past by many people doing something that gets them caught up. It can be girls, drugs or anything else that get you off track. I know somebody who had every thing going on grades and was great at sports, but he got involved with girls and all of the game plan changed. He could have been doing something good for himself but things got turned around. It affects our future because, if kids read this book or understand they can forget about those barriers that get in their way and go forth with their journey that to success. It affects both sides past, present, and future to learn by it.
Supposition
As a draw conclusion for this book. I would say life would be the same with or without this book. You just have to know that you shouldn't get caught up but challenge yourself to do better. With this book people can read it and understand what the boy did in the book and help them a little bit better. If I changed this problem a little bit I think the world would produce more people with potential to do something. Although others might still mess up but it will change it.
As I close my review I would say the book, " The Gawgon and The Boy," teaches you some valuable lessons. This is what I got out of it.
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