Hey guys, it's Gabby and I'm back with my reading journal. Last week I had to compare my choice reading book with Night. I went in depth and talked about the difference between Night and my choice reading book. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT I figured out the name of my choice reading book. It is The Dark Hills Divide, I can't believe I forgot the name of the book lol. Well today I will be talking about my choice reading book, and to be honest it's not the most interesting book that I have read. I think this book is not interesting at all. I don't like the genre of the book because it bores me. I've never enjoyed reading books about fantasy because it's not real. It makes me think about Harry Potter and I don’t like those. Everytime I try to read the book, I can't focus. I mean when I was younger I like those type of books, but as you get older your mind doesn’t put much effort into reading books about fantasy. Even thought I didn't want to read about it, I did learn some things about the author. I learned that he is a mysterious writer and likes to add suspense to what happens with the characters. The books starts out with Alexa going on a walk through the streets of Bridewell with her adventurer friend Thomas Warvold. During the stroll, Warvold tells Alexa a fable that he heard on one of his far-off journeys. When the fable is finished, Alexa finds that Warvold is dead. The next chapter turns to an event that happened before Warvold's death. Alexa and her father, James Daley, are on the road to Bridewell from their hometown of Lathbury. During the ride, Alexa insists that the story of the walls that surround Bridewell and the cities around it be told to her. The story is of an orphan named Thomas Warvold who wandered off from his hometown on his thirteenth birthday. For years, no one knew or cared where he'd gone. After twenty years, he eventually persuaded others to join him in a place most everyone believed was haunted, dark and dangerous. But, after some time, more and more people became convinced that the place was safe to live in. The valley where Warvold settled, which is now called Lunenburg, filled up to capacity and provided no room for growth. One end of the valley was the already established town of Ainsworth. Because of the problem, Warvold decided to expand. He would build a walled road out into the unknown, and at the end of it, he would build a new town. Only, who would build the wall? People of Lunenburg were afraid of the dangers outside. So Warvold decided to borrow convicts from Ainsworth, branded with a C for criminal, to do the hard labor. There was but one condition: After ten years, Warvold could return the convicts to Ainsworth, no questions asked. In three years, the convicts built the wall to what is now Bridewell and two more walled roads were started. Over the next several years the walled roads to Turlock and Lathbury were finished, completing the kingdom. In the middle of the story, Alexa and her father have a race with a mailman named Silas Hardy whom they meet on the road. That part of the book caught my eyes because I didn’t really know what was going on when I first read the book.
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Hey readers, it's Gabby. I haven't been on here for a while as this school is coming to an end. There is so much stuff that needs to be done, and not enough time to complete it. With projects and tests, it can really add stress to your day. But I am making it through and aiming to finish strong, even though coming to school is becoming much harder than it used to be. I am excited to be graduating from school in less than 3 weeks I believe. That’s when I begin my time as a real adult, and make real adult decisions. Enough about an update on my life, let's talk about this blog post. Today I was assigned to compare the book that we are currently reading in class, Night, and the book that I am reading as my choice reading book. I don’t honestly remember the name of the book, but I do know what it is about. Night is a book that talks about the holocaust that happened in Europe. The author is a holocaust survivor that was able to live to tell the tale. Though no one knows why he was chosen to be saved, it is great that he is able to talk his experiences. They weren't happy experiences but it did help his readers understand what he went through. There are a lot of differences between these two books. The book that I am reading as my choice reading book, we'll call it Unknown, is about a tale of fantasy. This book is not compared to Night, as Night is based on real life events and Unknown is pure imagination. To be honest, I prefer reading Night over Unknown because I am not such a big fan of fantasy books. I have read the book Night my freshman year of high school when I used to go to Grand River Preparatory High School, new fact about me I didn’t like the school at all so that’s why I am here. But I am glad that I am re-reading the book because I do not remember what I had read as it was years ago. I do remember that it was a good book and if you are like me, you like the scenes that the authors talk about because it is hard to not remember them. I like the scene when Moishe was trying to warn the people about the camps that they had and no one wanted to listen to him. I think they didn’t because they were afraid that he may have been right, even though later on in the book he was. This is most memorable because there are moments like that in our time today that people do not want to listen to the things that they need to hear.
Hey it's Gabby! It's been a while since I last posted on this blog, but that didn’t stop me from reading. I have currently finished the book Half the Sky but there is so much that I have learned. As you know by now, Half the Sky is a book that describes the life of women living in less developed countries. These women go through so much because they are not treated equally compared to men. In these countries, women do not have the right to almost anything and men are seen as the superior gender. This causes many problems for women, like being the target in brothels and many child birthing problems. Women are not seen as a human but just an object that reproduces children. They do not receive the proper medical attention when they are sick since parents in these countries don’t believe in providing medical attention to girls. Since they do that, their husbands do the same thing when it comes to paying for the proper childbirth. In this book, they talk about the dangers of childbirth in less developed countries. Many women die from childbirth since their family don’t have the money to save her. Or if they did, then they wouldn’t use the money to save her. If they are not treated in time, they could die or develop a very dangerous infection in the birth carriage called fistula. This causes a bowel infection for women who were not treated during pregnancy and can cause their feces and other bowel systems to leak. When this happens to women they are usually kicked out of their homes because the smell is too much for everyone in the home to handle. Sometimes the people in the village will believe that this happened to women if they were cursed. They will leave them out of the house to get eaten by animals. This happens to women all over the world, but especially in Africa where it is hard to earn money to obtain medical attention. There are many effective ways to address these problems. One way would be finding ways to get more help for women to get money to be able to go to the hospital during child birthing. This would reduce the number of women who die from childbirth or obtaining fatal infections. Many hospitals have tried to help this rate by letting some people receive treatment for free, thinking that they will get paid later but that never happened. This caused the hospitals to not give out free services and letting people die if they did not have the money for the treatment. Though this seems like a selfless act on the hospital's part, I could understand why they would have to do that. Treatments are expensive and costs the hospital a lot of money to perform. If they are not being repaid, this can cause the hospital money and then it would be bad for everyone. Another way would be donating money to organizations that help women educate themselves so they wouldn't be in that situation in the first point. The main people who are being affected by labor issues are teenagers who were raped and stuck with the baby, and also teenagers who are married young. Since their pelvis is not completely developed yet, it makes it difficult for them to have a baby without help from medical assistance. If they were educated, they wouldn't want to marry so young and lower the rate of young pregnancies. They would learn the dangers of having a child young and what would happen if they have problems during childbirth. Thankfully there are a lot of organizations with a goal to help with girls think twice about getting married young. Also some that help provide medical help for women who suffer from problems in childbirth. I could help by spreading the word about the concern of women dying from childbirth and how they are not able to get money to help them survive. By this, I could earn money from my campaign and send it to organizations that are dedicated in helping women not go through maternal mortality. This could help hundreds of women around less developed countries get the help that they need.
1. Graphic novels is a story that is written using multiple pictures per page to help tell the story. In these pictures, it includes dialogue or sometimes it gives a quick glimpse of what will happen in the page. I have seen a couple of those novels from people in my class who enjoy reading superheroes.
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