The word which will not die, should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory.
The sacred word:
EGO
Ayn Rand's ANTHEM encourages the alone to seek and find what knowledge is needed in the society and bring back the "future."
Living in the dark, alone, and loveless world Equality 7-2521 dared to be different. Lessons learned throughout the book include, be different, love someone even if you are alone, and try new things without being afraid. The writing style Ayn Rand used was unique. When a character talked about oneself the character said we. For example, the Council of the Home is questioning one person and asks, Where have you been?" we thought of our glass box and of our light, and we forgot all else. And we answered: "We will not tell you." Reading this book at first may be challenging to get the people straight but a whole new look on people will change the attitude of readers.
Living in a society, a perfect world, the dark ages leaves Equality 7-2521, Union 5-3992, and International 4-8818 wanting more out of life. These three are a brigade of street sweepers. Against the law, these three characters prayed and prayed to become a member of the Home of the Scholars. Thinking about the job desired before the Council is to pick the job is breaking the law. Breaking this law usually results in a job far away from the one desired, but these three characters never lost hope to invent something new, to help the society. Ayn Rand does an excellent job of keeping faith alive for the characters that have been mistreated and abused for wanting to think outside the box and help with not just the job the council has given them, but one of the Home of the Scholars.
Living in the world today, one nation, all for one and one for all, and everyone helping with ideas makes the 21 century an united place to live. In ANTHEM just like the world today there are still parts undiscovered that have once been a civilization or not kept secret as they are today. Ayn Rand's scene keeps readers questioning what will happen next and where the tunnel will lead the curious ones.
Living held back, living beaten, living always curious creates tension and controversy in this book. "But this is not the only sin upon us. We have committed a greater crime, and for this crime there is no name. What punishment awaits us if it be discovered we know not, for no such crime has come in the memory of men and there are no laws to provide for it." ANTHEM is similar to The Giver in many ways but does not have the same plot or ending so if the quote before from ANTHEM leaves curiosity and mystery read ANTHEM to find out just as I did the road ahead may lead somewhere else rather than where expected.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Outside Book #3
As Joan Crawford said "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." Anna knows she should act with her head, but she is on a mission to start acting with her heart. The question is: If she does forgive Ben, will she get the Hollywood ending she is hoping for? Zoey Dean's Girls On Film creates a whole new vibe to Hollywood and the guys inside.
The A-List novel is exciting and keeps the reader wondering about what will happen next. Will Anna and Ben get back together after Ben's disappearing act? Anna does not know if she can handle having Ben in her life even though she may love him. The book keeps people on their toes and reading all night to finish the book to see what happens.
Girls On Film includes the same characters as before in The A-List novel. The drama is caught up between Anna and Ben, Cammie and Ben, Sam and Anna, and Dee and Anna. Sometimes the girls try to help Anna, but like Cammie trying to win his hear over.
The setting stays the same as most of the other books where the scene is in LA. Samantha Sharpe and Anna do travel to Veronique's which is the tony desert spa to work on a film. After Ben's disappearing act he finds Anna and wants to explain what happened the night she thought he abandoned her all alone.
Journey through the lifestyle of the rich and famous and become caught up in the drama and watch if the characters stay on the good or bad side of one another. I recommend reading Girls On Film and stay reading for the third in the novel Blonde Ambition.
The A-List novel is exciting and keeps the reader wondering about what will happen next. Will Anna and Ben get back together after Ben's disappearing act? Anna does not know if she can handle having Ben in her life even though she may love him. The book keeps people on their toes and reading all night to finish the book to see what happens.
Girls On Film includes the same characters as before in The A-List novel. The drama is caught up between Anna and Ben, Cammie and Ben, Sam and Anna, and Dee and Anna. Sometimes the girls try to help Anna, but like Cammie trying to win his hear over.
The setting stays the same as most of the other books where the scene is in LA. Samantha Sharpe and Anna do travel to Veronique's which is the tony desert spa to work on a film. After Ben's disappearing act he finds Anna and wants to explain what happened the night she thought he abandoned her all alone.
Journey through the lifestyle of the rich and famous and become caught up in the drama and watch if the characters stay on the good or bad side of one another. I recommend reading Girls On Film and stay reading for the third in the novel Blonde Ambition.
Outside Book #2
The moment Cynthia Baltres peed all over an eight thousand dollar Herme's Kelly handbag was the moment that Anna Cabot Percy decided to make Cynthia her best friend. Zoey Dean's The A-List captures teens bringing the glamorous life and drama out on paper.
Money, boys, and drama fill the Los Angles lifestyle. The theme of the book is set as cold yet loving at times. In the first ten pages the book can teach that first impression goes a very long way. Anna Percy meets an older man and from the very beginning knows he is bad news. On this same day, same plane ride, Anna realizes that her knight in shining armour, Ben, may be sitting in the next isle a few seats back in his Princeton tee. Their first impressions leads to love and heartbreak that alters the future that lies ahead for Miss Percy.
As Zoey Dean draws the readers into the book, the characters seem to either fall into the like or dislike category. Many opinions change scene by scene that make you root or boo a character. If reading this book creates a strong feeling towards a character then Zoey Dean has drawn the book around and created a world everyone can fit inside. Even though the setting is not made up,
Dean creates tons of new imagery not possible to see through the imagination.
Anna and Ben have a connection upon their first meeting on the plane, but little does Anna know Ben's ex-girlfriend Cammy has a little something coming for Cammie. Cammie's friends Sam, and Dee enter the scene and set the bar high when meeting Anna for the first time. This book gives Anna her fair share of ups and downs while still keeping hope alive to find true love.
If the question is asked to be on the a-list no one will ever get invited. I enjoyed the juicy drama and rich and famous lifestyle from the first book The A-List. I would consider jumping into the next book to see what happens with the "friends forever" called Girls On Film.
Money, boys, and drama fill the Los Angles lifestyle. The theme of the book is set as cold yet loving at times. In the first ten pages the book can teach that first impression goes a very long way. Anna Percy meets an older man and from the very beginning knows he is bad news. On this same day, same plane ride, Anna realizes that her knight in shining armour, Ben, may be sitting in the next isle a few seats back in his Princeton tee. Their first impressions leads to love and heartbreak that alters the future that lies ahead for Miss Percy.
As Zoey Dean draws the readers into the book, the characters seem to either fall into the like or dislike category. Many opinions change scene by scene that make you root or boo a character. If reading this book creates a strong feeling towards a character then Zoey Dean has drawn the book around and created a world everyone can fit inside. Even though the setting is not made up,
Dean creates tons of new imagery not possible to see through the imagination.
Anna and Ben have a connection upon their first meeting on the plane, but little does Anna know Ben's ex-girlfriend Cammy has a little something coming for Cammie. Cammie's friends Sam, and Dee enter the scene and set the bar high when meeting Anna for the first time. This book gives Anna her fair share of ups and downs while still keeping hope alive to find true love.
If the question is asked to be on the a-list no one will ever get invited. I enjoyed the juicy drama and rich and famous lifestyle from the first book The A-List. I would consider jumping into the next book to see what happens with the "friends forever" called Girls On Film.
Outside Book #1
"The paper said he died on impat. The bike was a total loss. It wasn't his fault. Michael Sherwood was only sixteen years old." Halley's best friend, Scarlett, has lost one of her best friends, her boyfriend, and has just found out she is carrying his baby. Sarah Dessen's Someone Like You acentuates the high qualities of a good friend.
Lessons in life are learned from others actions. Someone Like You illustartes qualities in a friend that every person wishes to have. Styles in a book that are the same with a fairytale ending become overused. Not every story is perfect where ever dreams come true and the under dog team always has a victorious comeback. Sarah Dessen's Someone Like You is considered heartbreaking and warmth to the soul.
Having tragedy and comfort in the same setting shows Dessen's creativity. The characters come alive trying to hlep one another in their own ways. When a friend is down and in mourning "Life is an ugly awful place not to have a best friend." At school, to the doctor, and traveling to one anothers home sets the scene for the characters. At all times Halley and Scarlett are dealing with their own problems and helping one another overcome each others.
Lessons in life are learned from others actions. Someone Like You illustartes qualities in a friend that every person wishes to have. Styles in a book that are the same with a fairytale ending become overused. Not every story is perfect where ever dreams come true and the under dog team always has a victorious comeback. Sarah Dessen's Someone Like You is considered heartbreaking and warmth to the soul.
Having tragedy and comfort in the same setting shows Dessen's creativity. The characters come alive trying to hlep one another in their own ways. When a friend is down and in mourning "Life is an ugly awful place not to have a best friend." At school, to the doctor, and traveling to one anothers home sets the scene for the characters. At all times Halley and Scarlett are dealing with their own problems and helping one another overcome each others.
Knowing that she can not let Scarlett down, Hally gets ready for the difficult journey ahead. Because a true friend is a promise you keep forever. After reading Someone Like You the qualities in Halley make me want to strive to become more like her to help a friend just as she. I do recommend Sarah Dessen's book Someone Like You for anyone who enjoys the laughter and tears of friendship.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Taking a Stand-Antigone Review
"Unwept, friendless, with no marriage hymn, unfortuante, I am taken down the prepared road. It is no longer right for unhapy me to see this holy eye of light, but no friend groans over my unwept fate." Antigone brings character and tragedy from the men and women of Thebes into the every day life of Sophocles's Antigone brodens the view of a woman and her duties.
Sophocles brings character's relationships with their famillys in tie with the personal duties needing to be carried through with, which makes the theme a controversey. Women's duty during the time is having the responsibility of burying the men that die. When Antigone's responsibility is denied for her to finish the task of burying her brother Polynices, Antigone breaks rules and shows her stubbornness to finish the task.
Agreeing with rules is usually the right choice to make always, but sometimes going against the set rules may be better. A dynasty, a tradition, a civic responsibility to live up too. Creon on the other hand is stubborn and strives for everyone to obey his word. He says,
...my country is safety itself, and only when she is upright can our sailing find friends. With laws like these I will make our city grow. By his words, Creon declares Eteocles to be buried and Polynices to stay unburried. Clashing with Creon, Antigone knows her obligations to her family and brothers and demands her say in the decision. Ismene, Antigone's sister, argues with Creon and trys to explain Antigone's words further. Unable to convince Creon, Ismene realizes Antigone may die but upon her own fate.
Most of the story takes place at the palace of Thebes. Thebes is located in the norhtern part of mainnland Greece. Thebes is known to have many myths taken place there, and was a rival to Athens.
Deaths, drama, and betrayal all happens because of the duty to burry a dead person. In my case, I would rather stay living than possibly having an outcome of death to bury my brother. The choice is all in ones opinion in what they want to follow through with. Does Antigone leave her brother Polynices unburried and live or will she try to bury him and unwillingly die?
"Knowledge truly is by far the most important part of happiness, but one must neglect nothing that the gods demand. Great words of the over-proud balanced by great falls taught us knowledge in our old age." Says the old men of Thebes. Antigone is a classic at one point everyone should read to see the everyday challenges people faced earlier in history. Will you read and see if the old men of Thebes are correct about more knowledge coming as you age?
Sophocles brings character's relationships with their famillys in tie with the personal duties needing to be carried through with, which makes the theme a controversey. Women's duty during the time is having the responsibility of burying the men that die. When Antigone's responsibility is denied for her to finish the task of burying her brother Polynices, Antigone breaks rules and shows her stubbornness to finish the task.
Agreeing with rules is usually the right choice to make always, but sometimes going against the set rules may be better. A dynasty, a tradition, a civic responsibility to live up too. Creon on the other hand is stubborn and strives for everyone to obey his word. He says,
...my country is safety itself, and only when she is upright can our sailing find friends. With laws like these I will make our city grow. By his words, Creon declares Eteocles to be buried and Polynices to stay unburried. Clashing with Creon, Antigone knows her obligations to her family and brothers and demands her say in the decision. Ismene, Antigone's sister, argues with Creon and trys to explain Antigone's words further. Unable to convince Creon, Ismene realizes Antigone may die but upon her own fate.
Most of the story takes place at the palace of Thebes. Thebes is located in the norhtern part of mainnland Greece. Thebes is known to have many myths taken place there, and was a rival to Athens.
Deaths, drama, and betrayal all happens because of the duty to burry a dead person. In my case, I would rather stay living than possibly having an outcome of death to bury my brother. The choice is all in ones opinion in what they want to follow through with. Does Antigone leave her brother Polynices unburried and live or will she try to bury him and unwillingly die?
"Knowledge truly is by far the most important part of happiness, but one must neglect nothing that the gods demand. Great words of the over-proud balanced by great falls taught us knowledge in our old age." Says the old men of Thebes. Antigone is a classic at one point everyone should read to see the everyday challenges people faced earlier in history. Will you read and see if the old men of Thebes are correct about more knowledge coming as you age?
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Taking a Stand-The Call of the Wild Review
Leadership. "Buck wanted it. He wanted it because it was his nature, because he had been gripped tight by that nameless, incomprehensible pride of the trial and trace-that pride which holds dogs in the toil to the last gasp, which lures them to die joyfully in the harness, and breaks their hearts if they are cut out of the harness." Jack London's Call of The Wild accentuates the real essence of nature's calling.
Jack London uses a very vivid theme for the book. He highlights the harsh, bitter, and cruel moments through Buck's life. London's voice does not succumb to the feeble bodies reading the story. His voice is unique creating pictures as if the screen is right in front playing the scenes out.
The pain endured as he traveled back to camp was written with great intensity that made the realization everyone had been killed a superior situation for Buck. Jack London creates the characters with such great detail, everyone mentioned strives to find the leadership and courage inside of them throughout the story. Being a like able person is the same as being a like able character. If the character has a good sense of humor at times, sorrow, and leadership the character is well rounded. London's characters in the book are thought out to fit their part exactly the way they need to effect the book. Buck is a great example of a well rounded character. He exerts the effort to prove his spot in the wild. Killing the leaders of other packs and showing he is strong and can lead a pack. Buck also shows grief when he comes to find his family after the Indians have attacked the base camp. The man in the red sweater shows no mercy. He gives outs the punishments wanting to finish the task not to stop and smell the roses and waste all of his time.
Jack London creates a place with harsh environments. Not out of the imagination but of a place he visited before writing the story. He traveled to Alaska and the Canadian Yukon searching for the prized possession gold. With high hopes to bring back gold, London returns with a harsh beauty of the wild to write about in Call of the Wild, published in 1903. Since London has traveled to a place worthy of writing about, he is now able to recall from his experiences and give Buck the same feelings he knows best.
The dominant one. The Leader, Buck, having many problems of his own starting out adapts to new survival techniques needed to survive in the bitter world. Fighting viciously with moose, Indians, and Spitz Buck finds ways to survive and make the time rush by quick. Determined to get back in time to help his family fight off the attackers, Buck sprints through the wild destroying any moving object that gets in his way. Other head chiefs and leaders battle out the top spot with Buck to see who "owns" everything around them. Catch yourself falling for Buck remembering a time in life when nothing seemed to go right and no one was there to support and realize the situation could always be worse, just like in Buck's case.
"But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack." I do recommend to cut free and imagine the troubles Buck and his fellow dog packs encounter as the story travels through the vicious, the wild, the calls, for the call of the wild is coming!
Jack London uses a very vivid theme for the book. He highlights the harsh, bitter, and cruel moments through Buck's life. London's voice does not succumb to the feeble bodies reading the story. His voice is unique creating pictures as if the screen is right in front playing the scenes out.
The pain endured as he traveled back to camp was written with great intensity that made the realization everyone had been killed a superior situation for Buck. Jack London creates the characters with such great detail, everyone mentioned strives to find the leadership and courage inside of them throughout the story. Being a like able person is the same as being a like able character. If the character has a good sense of humor at times, sorrow, and leadership the character is well rounded. London's characters in the book are thought out to fit their part exactly the way they need to effect the book. Buck is a great example of a well rounded character. He exerts the effort to prove his spot in the wild. Killing the leaders of other packs and showing he is strong and can lead a pack. Buck also shows grief when he comes to find his family after the Indians have attacked the base camp. The man in the red sweater shows no mercy. He gives outs the punishments wanting to finish the task not to stop and smell the roses and waste all of his time.
Jack London creates a place with harsh environments. Not out of the imagination but of a place he visited before writing the story. He traveled to Alaska and the Canadian Yukon searching for the prized possession gold. With high hopes to bring back gold, London returns with a harsh beauty of the wild to write about in Call of the Wild, published in 1903. Since London has traveled to a place worthy of writing about, he is now able to recall from his experiences and give Buck the same feelings he knows best.
The dominant one. The Leader, Buck, having many problems of his own starting out adapts to new survival techniques needed to survive in the bitter world. Fighting viciously with moose, Indians, and Spitz Buck finds ways to survive and make the time rush by quick. Determined to get back in time to help his family fight off the attackers, Buck sprints through the wild destroying any moving object that gets in his way. Other head chiefs and leaders battle out the top spot with Buck to see who "owns" everything around them. Catch yourself falling for Buck remembering a time in life when nothing seemed to go right and no one was there to support and realize the situation could always be worse, just like in Buck's case.
"But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack." I do recommend to cut free and imagine the troubles Buck and his fellow dog packs encounter as the story travels through the vicious, the wild, the calls, for the call of the wild is coming!
Taking a Stand
“NO! I will not be apart of this.” Exclaimed the girl as all of her friends abandoned her at the gas station on the way to the party. Those screaming words are very few of which teenagers choose to say. The task is simple; stand up for yourself and good will come out of the situation. I have had many encounters where the answer needed to be no or leave me alone. Standing up is what I do. When a girl has make up smeared all over her face and tears rushing out like a waterfall, I need to take care of the instance immediately. Taking care of the job is my duty. I finish the task. In Antigone, many of the characters stand up for their pride and culture. Do they put out their case in the right moment? Well, that is where some stories lead to tragedy and heartbreak. Antigone was not a hero. She simply knew where she came from and believed when no one thought the task could be done. Since women always prepared the burials of men, Antigone stood up for the women when Creon challenged to not allow them to carry on with such work. Being a woman, Antigone sets her mind to the task ahead and never looks back. A true heroic figure will not only stand up for themselves but for all those in need. I always remember the hero who died in battle, who did not give up, and the one who does an act of kindness out of the heart and soul. I want to be remembered as the person who stands up and defends. Do you?
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